Team Australia · Road to Brisbane 2032
The Australians to watch at a home Games
Who’s competing in what, event by event. Eight athletes to follow through LA 2028 to Brisbane, and five of them are Queenslanders.
Sprints
Athletics · 100m and 200m
Gout Gout
100m · 200m · Ipswich, QLDPhoto: Erik van Leeuwen, CC BY-SA 4.0
The teenager rewriting Australian junior sprint records, tipped as the face of Brisbane 2032 athletics.
Freestyle swimming
AquaticsMollie O’Callaghan
Freestyle · Brisbane, QLDLicensed photo requested from Swimming Australia
A Brisbane local leading Australia’s freestyle charge, with three golds at the 2025 Worlds including the 200m.
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Cam McEvoy
50m freestyle · Townsville, QLDPhoto: Oleg Bkhambri (Voltmetro), CC BY-SA 4.0
The science-driven sprinter who rebuilt his training and won the splash-and-dash in Paris.
Backstroke
Aquatics
Kaylee McKeown
100m · 200m backstroke · Sunshine Coast, QLDPhoto: crop by User:Leonprimer, CC BY-SA 4.0
The world’s premier backstroker, winner of both the 100m and 200m at the 2025 Worlds.
Field events
Athletics · pole vault and discus
Nina Kennedy
Pole vault · Perth, WAPhoto: alainalele1, CC BY 2.0
Olympic champion and back-to-back world indoor champion. Australia’s most consistent field-event force.
Matt Denny
Discus · Allora, QLDPhoto: Griffith University, CC BY 3.0
A country-Queensland thrower in career-best Diamond League form, chasing a first global gold.
Middle distance
Athletics · 1500m
Jessica Hull
1500m · 5000m · NSWPhoto: Ssu, CC BY-SA 4.0
A fixture at the front of world middle-distance racing and Australia’s best distance medal hope.
Canoe slalom
Paddling
Jess Fox
Canoe slalom · Penrith, NSWPhoto: Antoine Lamielle, CC BY-SA 4.0
Australia’s most successful individual Olympian, rebuilding after 2025 surgery.
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Independent coverage, not affiliated with the athletes, their federations, the AOC, Paralympics Australia or Brisbane 2032. Ages are worked out from published birth dates for the Games, 23 July to 8 August 2032.