Tokyo 2020: Australian Olympic team athletes, sports, events
To date only 74 athletes have booked a ticket to the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 for Australia. News and profiles on the sports and athletes selected and their events.
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It’s the biggest show in sport and Australian athletes will be front and centre stage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics now postponed until next year.
As they are named in upcoming months, we will list every athlete heading to the Games, along with their event and sport.
The Australian Olympic Committee is expecting to boast a team numbering 480 athletes.
We will delve into their pasts and update you with all the latest news as the countdown to the Olympic Games ticks on.
We look at the athletes making their debuts, the events they will contest and who the stars will be in Tokyo.
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ARCHERY
Father-of-two David Barnes is making his Olympic return 16 years after debuting at the Athens Games in 2004.
Archery consists of teams and individual events for men and women with a mixed teams event making its Olympic debut.
Team: David Barnes (Team & Individual), Ryan Tyack (Team & Individual), Taylor Worth (Team & Individual).
CANOE SLALOM
A sport Jessica Fox has helped put on the map in recent years courtesy of a silver in London and a bronze in Rio in the K1 event.
Lucien Delfour, a neighbour of Fox’s at Penrith in Sydney’s west, is competing in his second games with Tasmanian Dan Watkins making has debut.
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Team: Jess Fox (C1 and K1), Lucien Delfour (K1), Daniel Watkins (C1).
CANOE SPRINT
Fourteen canoe sprint paddlers have been officially selected to the
Australian Olympic Team, becoming the first athletes selected since
confirmation of the Games postponement until 2021.
Seven athletes will make their Olympic debut, a further six selected
for their second Games, and London 2012 gold medallist Murray Stewart
making his third Olympic Team.
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Team: Jo Brigden-Jones, Alyssa Bull, Catherine McArthur, Shannon
Reynolds, Jaime Roberts and Alyce Wood (nee Burnett) will contest the
women’s kayak events (K4 500m, K2 500m, K1 500m, K1 200m), Riley
Fitzsimmons, Thomas Green, Murray Stewart, Lachlan Tame, Jean van der
Westhuyzen and Jordan Wood will take on the men’s kayak (K4 500m, K2
1 000m, K1 1000m, K1 200m) .
Josephine Bulmer and Bernadette Wallace (C2 500m, C1 200m).
CYCLING
Fifteen track cyclists have been announced on the Australian Olympic
Team for Tokyo 2020, including six Olympic debutants, seven riders
making their second Olympic Team and Annette Edmondson and Matthew
Glaetzer returning for their third Games.
Team: Matthew Glaetzer, Nathan Hart, Matthew Richardson, Kaarle
McCulloch and Stephanie Morton will compete in the sprint events, with
Ashlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker, Amy Cure, Annette Edmondson, Maeve
Plouffe, Leigh Howard, Kelland O’Brien, Lucas Plapp, Alex Porter and
Sam Welsford selected for the endurance events.
SAILING
A big hit of the last two Games with more medals on the minds of Australian sailors in Tokyo.
Queenslander Mat Belcher is the most experienced with a gold in London and a silver in Rio with Newcastle teammate Will Ryan. Ryan’s sister Jaime is also competing.
The Phillips brothers and Tess Lloyd are making their debut along with Perth’s Matt Wearn and Queenslander Mara Stransky while northern beaches cousins Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin are out for gold in their second appearance.
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Team: Mathew Belcher, Will Ryan (470), Matt Wearn (Laser), Tess Lloyd and Jamie Ryan (49er FX), Sam Phillips and Will Phillips (49er skiff), Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (Nacra 17), Mara Stransky (Laser Radial)
SHOOTING
Dan Repacholim, heading to his fifth Games, is the most experienced in a 15 strong team named in April for the Olympic Games.
Dina Aspandiyarova is heading to her fourth and Dane Sampson his third while seven athletes will debut.
Team: James Willett, Penny Smith, Laetisha Scanlan, Laura Coles, Thomas Grice and Paul Adams (shotgun), Dane Sampson, Alex Hoberg, Jack Rossiter, Elise Collier and Katarina Kowplos (rifle) and Dan Repacholi, Dina Aspandiyarova, Elena Galiabovitch and Sergei Evglevski (pistol) events.
OPEN WATER SWIMMING
Noosa’s open water champion Kareena Lee was the first swimmer selected on the Australian 2020 Olympic team.
Team: Kareena Lee (10km Marathon).
ARTISTIC SWIMMING
The team boasts four returning Olympians from Rio in Hannah Cross, Emily Rogers, Amber Rose Stackpole and Amie Thompson from Sydney’s inner west.
Australia are one of just 10 nations qualified to contest the Team event in Tokyo with the youngest member Kiera Gazzard from Randwick.
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Team: Hannah Cross (Team) Jane Fruzynski (Team), Kiera Gazzard (Team), Kirsten Kinash (Team), Rachel Presser (Team), Emily Rogers (Team), Amber Rose Stackpole (Team and Duet), Amie Thompson (Team & Duet).
TABLE TENNIS
The Australian Olympic Committee has selected four athletes for Tokyo with two hailing from NSW and two from Melbourne.
Originally from Gulgong but now living and working in Sydney, Michelle Bromley will make her Olympic debut in her fourth attempt on a Games team
Stephanie Sang returns for her second Games after debuting in Beijing and then taking a time out to have a family, while David Powell and Hurstville’s Chris Yan both return for their second Games after competing at Rio 2016.
Team: Michelle Bromley singles, teams, David Powell, singles, teams, Stephanie Sang, singles, teams, Chris Yan, singles and teams.
MODERN PENTATHLON
Sydney’s Edward Fernon and Marina Carrier are training partners.
Modern Pentathlon will see 36 athletes per gender compete in fencing (ranking round and bonus round), swimming (200m freestyle), showjumping, and the final combined run and laser shoot (3200m and four shoots of five targets) in the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza and Tokyo Stadium.
Team: Edward Fernon, Marina Carrier.
OLYMPIC NEWS
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Boxing was a world away from Kaye Scott’s childhood playing netball, dancing and getting her hair and makeup done for eisteddfods. But as an adult it is her life. READ MORE HERE
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Kayaker Ella Beere has seen proof miracles do happen which is why she is not giving up on her Olympic dream just yet.
No one who knows her would ever question cyclist Amanda Spratt’s toughness. And it’s a trait she will need in spades over the next year to achieve an ambitious mission. READ MORE HERE
If ever Rachel Lack needs a little inspiration it is close at hand at the Sydney factory owned by her family. READ MORE HERE
He’s got his sights set on a spot at the Tokyo Olympics later this year but Rugby Sevens star Lachie Anderson has another sporting dream as well. READ MORE HERE
The funny reason this athlete left his home in France to live and train in Penrith in Sydney’s west. READ MORE HERE
Back in 2016 Ben Gibson’s sporting goal was to play Shute Shield club rugby. In 2020 it is to be competing alongside some of the best athletes in the world in Tokyo. READ MORE HERE
Australian softballer Ellen Roberts’ journey to the Olympics involves a lot of hard work and delivering on — and off — the pitch. READ MORE HERE
It was a result to forget but a race for Emma Jeffcoat to remember for the lessons she has learned ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. READ MORE HERE
Penrith teenager Sophie Wilson had dreams of representing Australia on the world stage as a gymnast but her body had different ideas. Now she’s doing it in a completely different sport. READ MORE HERE
This young speedster has her sights firmly set on representing Australia at an Olympic Games in the not to distant future. And she has the results to back up her dream. READ MORE HERE
What NSW Pride hockey player Lachlan Sharp does in the next fortnight could be the most unusual thing a potential Tokyo Olympian does during a break from international duties this year. READ MORE HERE
Nic Beveridge never wanted to be an athlete but now he is on a quest to compete in Tokyo next year thanks to a TV show about someone he had never met, living on the side of the world. READ MORE HERE