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Australia is due to host the Summer Olympics for the third time at the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane. [4] While Australia had frequently overachieved at the Summer Olympic Games, this came to a halt at the 1976 Olympic Games. After winning at least five gold medals and seventeen total medals at every Olympics since 1956, Australia won zero ...
Australia has competed in athletics in all Summer Olympics. Edwin Flack won the Men's 800 m and 1500 m at the 1896 Summer Olympics. He won Australia's first athletics and Olympics medals and was that country’s first gold medallist. [1] Athletics is the Australia's second most successful Olympic sport after swimming.
Australia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 252 competitors, 180 men and 72 women, took part in 145 events in 24 sports. [1] Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era.
Genevieve Gregson (née LaCaze; born 4 August 1989) is an Australian athletics competitor who specialized in the 3000 metre steeplechase but for the 2024 Olympics qualified for and ran for Australia in the marathon. [2] She qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and ran 9:26.11 in her Women's 3000m steeplechase heat to qualify for the final.
Australia did not medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics [8] or the 1988 Summer Olympics. [9] At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Australia earned a silver medal, losing gold to Germany. [10] At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Australia finished third, earning a bronze medal. [11] The team won their first Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE 3,000 metres Said Aouita (MAR) 7:29.45: 20 August Köln, West Germany: 10,000 metres Arturo Barrios (MEX) 27:08.23: 18 August Berlin, West Germany
17 March – First day of the Australian Track & Field Championships for the 1988–1989 season, which are held at the QEII Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland. 23 July – Bradley Camp wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:10:10 in Brisbane , while Jan Federick claims the women's title in 2:51:30.
Many students of the school have gone on to represent Australia at the Olympics and win medals. More than thirty past students have competed in the Olympics during the school's history, winning numerous bronze, silver and gold medals, some with world records, across a range of sporting disciplines.