Who takes out number one? Jon Anderson ranks his top 50 Australian athletes of 2023

Australia’s swimmers dominated 2023, but which of them truly stood supreme? JON ANDERSON completes his list of the best of the best, revealing his top 50 sportsmen and women of 2023.

Have our female athletes ever been so dominant as in 2023, when swimmers and football heroes took on the world and proved yet against how Australia consistently punches above its weight?

Mind you, Aussie women have been dominant in the pool since the days of Dawn Fraser in the 1950s, although to have three of the calibre of Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus at the same time is an abundance of riches.

Football on the other hand has come of age in this country when our Matildas took us on a pulsating run through to the semi-finals of the World Cup on home soil.

Originally published as Who takes out number one? Jon Anderson ranks his top 50 Australian athletes of 2023