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.
Two-time Olympic medallist Jessica Fox has joined the greats of NSW sport being named NSW Athlete of the Year for a second time at the NSW Champions of Sport Ceremony.
The inaugural NSW Champions of Sport Ceremony has showcased the best of the best in the state with the 2017 NSW Sports Awards shared amongst a wide range of sports.
November 2017 has been the busiest month yet for Activate Inclusion Sports Day with over 450 students participating across three regional days in Coffs Harbour, Tamworth and Lake Macquarie.
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.
Layne Beachley is arguably Australia’s greatest surfer of all time, having been the only surfer, male or female, to claim six consecutive world titles (1998 – 2003).
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.
On his Olympic debut at Rio in 2016, Tom Burton took the sailing world by storm when he raced to first place in the laser class to be crowned the Olympic champion.
Louise Sauvage became the first athlete to win back-to-back NSW Athlete of the Year with a Disability awards – taking home the prize in both 2000 and 2001.
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.
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.
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.