Legend Elevated and Champions Honoured

Ian Thorpe, Australia’s greatest ever Olympian became the 21st NSW Hall of Champions Inductee to be elevated to Legend status at the inaugural NSW Champions of Sport Ceremony.

NSW Champions of Sport – Ian Thorpe OAM

Ian Thorpe will forever be embedded in the Australian public’s memory as an icon of swimming internationally and the only Australian Olympian, to date, to win five gold medals.

NSW Champions of Sport – Kurt Fearnley OAM

Kurt Fearnley is one of the most decorated Paralympic athletes Australia has ever produced and the winner of the NSW Athlete of the Year with a Disability four times becoming the second athlete to do so – winning the award in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009.

NSW Champions of Sport - Maddison Elliott OAM

Maddison Elliott has won the Sport NSW Athlete of the Year with a Disability award in the last two years (2015 and 2016), which remarkably follows her wins in the Young Athlete of the Year with a Disability category in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Variety Xmas Walk

Walk for kids that can't in the annual Variety Xmas Walk fundraising events in Sydney and Newcastle

NSW Champions of Sport - Michael Clarke

Since announcing himself on the international cricket stage with a century on his Test debut in October 2004 in India, Michael Clarke became one of the most successful cricket players of the modern era.

NSW Champions of Sport - David Hall OAM

David has the distinction of being the only athlete in the history of the NSW Sports Awards to be a five-time winner of the NSW Athlete of the Year award (able-bodied or with a disability) with his successes coming in 1995, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005.