Australian surf life saving titles 2024 top athletes, most medals and standout results

In a massive show of strength five different athletes won seven medals each at the Australian surf life saving championships but one stood out from the pack. Aussies 2024 top guns.

Some of the champions of the 2024 Aussies.

Five different athletes at the 2024 Aussies championships snared an extraordinary seven medals each at the nine-day extravaganza contested by 8000 plus athletes.

And just like a year ago, it was a rising star of the sport who stole the limelight and in a coincidence, an old teammate of 2023 champion Connor Maggs.

Mitch Morris’ six golds and one silver for a total of seven medals was the best performance of any athlete at the 2024 Aussies on the Sunshine Coast.

Morris, the under 19 ironman winner formerly from Newport on Sydney‘s Northern Beaches, is now racing for Northcliffe on the Gold Coast and was the best performed athlete of the 8100 who competed at the event.

In an family show of strength his twin brother Jake was second on the best athlete list with five gold and two bronze medals while his brother was later named in the Australian team for the upcoming. world titles. AUSSIES TEAM FOR WORLDS

Northcliffe trio Ryley Harland, Jake and Mitch Morris. Picture: SLSA

Interestingly, all athletes in the competition top 10 medallists in the opens, U19s and U17s competitions hail from just three famous surf lifesaving clubs in Northcliffe and Burleigh Heads Mowbray Park on the Gold Coast and Newport in Sydney.

Also winning seven medals was Newport’s Pippi Di Penia who came home with three gold, three silver and bronze.

The Northcliffe team of Danielle McKenzie and Georgia Miller on their way to victory in the double ski. Picture: SLSA.

This young talent is also a track and field athlete and competed in the under 17 division.

The best known of the seven medallists is Georgia Miller from Northcliffe who like the Morris twins was born and grew up on Sydney‘s northern beaches before relocating to the Gold Coast to live and train.

Another under 17 athlete in Burleigh’s Ethan Callaghan was the fifth athlete to race off with seven medals with his haul of one gold, three silver and three bronze.

Northcliffe Naomi Scott, the 2023 Australian iron woman champion who shook the field with her win in the single ski race, was another outstanding performer with three gold medals, two silver and one bronze.

Newport under-17 winning swim team Oliva Clues, Dominique Melbourn, Charlie Barbour and Pipi Te Pania. Picture: SLSA.

Rising star Jasmine Rayward from Burleigh Heads Mowbray Park also won six medals with her two gold, two silver, and two bronze.

Another teen star, Olivia Clues from Newport, won four gold and one silver for her incredible haul of five.

She was the equal third most prolific gold medal winner at the event with Luke Newrick from Maroubra who also won four Aussies titles.

Bianca Rayward (left) and sister Elke Rayward last year. Image: HarvPix

Paris Olympic bound swimmer Nick Sloman had an event to remember with his two gold, one silver ands two bronzes.

Kimberley Doyle from Newport also won five with her two gold and three bronze.

Other athletes who snared five medals were Danielle McKenzie (1-2-2), Newport’s Noah Maggs (1-2-2), Burleigh’s Taj Andrewe (0-2-3) and Nutri-Grain ironwoman Lizzie Welborn from Newport (0-1-4).

Others athletes who won four medals included Redhead’s Lani Waller, Sorrento’s (WA) Amelie Rowe, Burleigh’s Ben Carberry, Northcliffe’s Harriet Brown, Swansea Belmont’s Kaitlin Rees, Newport’s Maguire Read, Northcliffe’s Zach Morris and Hannah Sculley, Newport’s Jemma Smith, Swansea Belmont’s Phoebe Doran, Newport’s Bailey Clues and Sarah Locke and Northcliffe’s Tom Norton.