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List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople

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List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople

This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which native Australians have been able to break through in some degree.

Contents

American football

  • Jesse Williams (American football)

    • Association football (Soccer)

  • Fred Agius
  • Gordon Briscoe
  • Morgan Cawley
  • Travis Dodd
  • Jamara Maza
  • Tahj Minniecon
  • John Moriarty
  • Bondi Neal
  • Jade North - first Indigenous association footballer to captain Socceroos and captain national league championship
  • Tanya Oxtoby
  • Charles N. Perkins
  • Tashina Roma
  • Kyah Simon
  • Kasey Wehrman
  • David Williams
  • Harry Williams
  • Lydia Williams

    • Athletics (track and field)

  • Cathy Freeman
  • Benn Harradine
  • Percy Hobson
  • Patrick Johnson
  • Nova Peris-Kneebone
  • Josh Ross
  • Kyle Vander Kuyp
  • Robert Crowther

    • Basketball

  • Rohanee Cox
  • Nathan Jawai — the first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA
  • Patty Mills
  • Danny Morseu
  • Matthew Dellavedova
  • Andrew Bogut
  • Kyrie Irving

    • Boxing

  • Anthony Mundine Holds WBC Silver Super Welterweight title, & former Interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion, 2 time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, IBO Middleweight Champion.
  • Daniel Geale Former IBF, IBO and WBA Super Middleweight Champion.
  • Lionel Rose Held WBC & WBA World bantamweight titles. The first Koori "Indigenous Australian" to win a World title.
  • Robbie Peden Former IBF Super Featherweight Champion.
  • Dave Sands Held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight titles and won the Commonwealth middleweight title, world boxing hall of famer.
  • Wally Carr Held the Australasian Light Middleweight title, Australian Junior Middleweight, Middleweight, Super Middleweight, Light Heavyweight Title, Commonwealth Middleweight title and Oriental Middleweight title.
  • Tony Mundine Held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight titles, Commonwealth middleweight and light heavyweight titles.
  • Ron Richards Held the Australian heavyweight, middleweight, light heavyweight title, Commonwealth middleweight title.
  • Jerry Jerome first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title, Australian Middleweight Champion.
  • Joe Williams
  • Neville "Chappy" Williams
  • Elley Bennett
  • Hector Thompson
  • Frank Roberts Australia's first Indigenous Olympic boxer.
  • Jeff Dynevor is the first Aboriginal athlete to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1962.
  • Lawrence Austin
  • Damien Hooper
  • Cameron Hammond
  • Renold Quinlan
  • Paul Fleming
  • Keith Saunders

    • Cricket

  • Dan Christian
  • Eddie Gilbert 1930s Queensland cricketer
  • Jason Gillespie
  • Jack Marsh
  • John McGuire, captain of an Aboriginal XI that toured England in 1988
  • Johnny Mullagh, 1860s cricketer, one of the first eleven
  • Edna Newfong (Crouch) and Mabel Crouch (Campbell) were members of the Queensland XI women's cricket team that played England in 1934-35. They were the first indigenous women to represent Australia in any sport.

    • Darts

  • Kyle Anderson
  • Beau Anderson

    • Field hockey

  • Des Abbott
  • Joel Carroll
  • Baeden Choppy
  • Lorelle Morrissey
  • Nova Peris-Kneebone

    • Horse racing

  • Darby McCarthy, jockey
  • Frank Reys, jockey

    • Ice Hockey

  • Jarrad Chester, The first Indigenous Australian ice hockey player to represent Australia in the IIHF World Junior U20 Championships playing defence and ranked 96th overall out of 290 players in pool D.

    • In-Line Hockey

  • Emily Conley

    • Motorsport

  • Brendon Cook, car racing
  • Darren McDonald - Auscar

    • Rugby Sevens

  • Shannon Walker
  • Bo Dela Cruz
  • Taleena Simon
  • Taniesha Stanton

    • Swimming

  • Ben Austin
  • Samantha Riley

    • Tennis

  • Evonne Goolagong - She won 7 Grand Slam Singles titles. They were all in the open era.

    • References

    List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople Wikipedia
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