Tasmania’s team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast revealed

AT least 15 Tasmanians are now known to be participating in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Queensland’s Gold Coast from April 4-15.

Commonwealth Games logo for Gold Coast

AT least 15 Tasmanians are now known to be participating in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Queensland’s Gold Coast next week.

Sport and Recreation Minister Jacquie Petrusma said the contingent of Tasmanians for the 21st Commonwealth Games was the biggest yet.

“I am very proud to support the largest Tasmanian contingent ever for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in their bid to represent their state and country on the Gold Coast,” Ms Petrusma said.

Of the Tasmanian athletes selected into the Australian team for 2018, about 10 will be competing at their first Commonwealth Games although there are also several Olympians among them.

Ms Petrusma said the State Government had contributed $40,000 towards the cost of their participation as well as providing support via the Tasmanian Institute of Sport.

The known Tasmanians in the 2018 Australian Commonwealth Games team are:

Olympic cyclist Georgia Baker will make her Commonwealth Games debut. Picture: TAIT SCHMAAL

GEORGIA BAKER — CYCLING

Former Australian junior champion runner Jake Birtwhistle is aiming for the 2020 Olympic champion triathlete. Picture: JERAD WILLIAMS

JAKE BIRTWHISTLE — TRIATHLON

Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and Olympic cyclist Amy Cure during the Queen’s Baton Relay in Launceston. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD

AMY CURE — CYCLING

Kookaburras hockey player Jeremy Edwards will make his Commonwealth Games debut on the Gold Coast.

JEREMY EDWARDS — HOCKEY

National champion weightlifter Kaitlyn Fassina. Picture: RICHARD JUPE

KAITLYN FASSINA — WEIGHTLIFTING

Olympic basketballer Chris Goulding. Picture: SCOTT BARBOUR/GETTY IMAGES

CHRIS GOULDING — BASKETBALL

Sprinter Jack Hale, now 19, was the fastest Under-17 athlete in the world. Picture: ADAM HEAD

JACK HALE — ATHLETICS

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Danni McConnell will return from the US for the Commonwealth Games.

DANIELLE MCCONNELL — ATHLETICS

King Islander Stewart McSweyn will compete in the athletics. Picture: SCOTT BARBOUR/GETTY IMAGES

STEWART McSWEYN — ATHLETICS

Triple-Olympian Eddie Ockenden, pictured with the Queen's Baton in Hobart earlier this year, will play hockey at his third Commonwealth Games.

EDDIE OCKENDEN — HOCKEY

Olympian Hamish Peacock will be contesting the javelin events in his second Commonwealth Games. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

HAMISH PEACOCK — ATHLETICS

Like his brother Hamish, hammer-thrower Huw Peacock, above, has been selected for his second Commonwealth Games. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

HUW PEACOCK — ATHLETICS

Swimmer Ariarne Titmus, 17, is set for the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Picture: ADAM HEAD

ARIARNE TITMUS — SWIMMING

Three-time world champion lawn bowler Rebecca Van Asch. Picture: BRADLEY KANARIS/GETTY IMAGES

REBECCA VAN ASCH — LAWN BOWLS

Fifteen-year-old Sam Walker will be Australia’s youngest male competitor for athletics. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

SAM WALKER — PARA-ATHLETICS

“Congratulations and best wishes to our Tasmanian contingent at the 2018 Commonwealth Games,” Ms Petrusma said.

Seventy-one nations are participating in the Commonwealth Games next week, from Anguilla to Zambia. Some 275 events will be contested across 19 sports.

The games run from April 4-15 and the opening ceremony will be broadcast on Southern Cross Television at 7pm this Wednesday.