Daily Telegraph Power 100: Sydney’s most powerful athletes, sport stars in 2022
Forget Anthony Albanese’s call Melbourne is the nation’s sporting top dog, you only need to look at this year’s Power 100 list to see the big guns are all here in Sydney.
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You only need to look at the newcomers on the Power 100 list in Sydney to see why the Harbour City is the true sporting capital of Australia.
Forget opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s call that Melbourne is the nation’s sporting top dog, the big guns are here in Sydney.
And they don’t come much bigger than the man making his debut on the list, the Penrith boy fresh from leading Australia to a 4-0 Ashes series win over the Poms, Pat Cummins.
The skipper has fans falling in love with the Australian cricket team again with his combination of hard-nosed leadership, tenacious fast bowling and charm.
Joining Cummins as a newbie on the Power 100 is Manly NRL superstar Tom Trbojevic who is coming off an incredible individual season when he won so many trophies he couldn’t find a cabinet big enough to fit them in. Turbo and Cummins are the highest-ranked sporting debutants, but which of these two champions will outrank the other?
Never mind the race that stops a nation, he won that, the other debutant on the list that stops a nation is Sydney-based Kiwi jockey James McDonald.
One of the world’s best jockeys, McDonald rocketed his way onto the list on the back of riding The Everest and Melbourne Cup-winning double.
While J-Mac is a fresh face on the list, mainstay Peter V’landys has jumped up one spot to remain the most influential figure in sports after another year of rolling with the punches from Covid and keeping the NRL and racing in NSW thriving under difficult circumstances.
Out the exit door goes veteran NRL coach Wayne Bennett who is the highest-ranked sporting figure to drop off the list after packing his bags and leaving Redfern for Redcliffe where he will coach the Dolphins from the 2023 season.
As we say goodbye to Bennett, going from strength to strength is champion racehorse trainer Chris Waller, who jumped nine spots while Roosters NRL chairman and car dealing billionaire Nick Politis climbed three spots to remain one of Sydney’s heavyweight operators in sport and business.
Find out who else joined — or left — this year’s list.
The Daily Telegraph’s Power 100 list is published on February 11 in print and online.
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