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* [[Rohanee Cox]]
* [[Rohanee Cox]]
* [[Nathan Jawai]] — first Indigenous Australian to play in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]
* [[Nathan Jawai]], first Indigenous Australian to play in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]
* [[Patty Mills]]
* [[Patty Mills]]
* [[Danny Morseu]]
* [[Danny Morseu]]

Revision as of 22:33, 10 June 2021

Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866

This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.

American football

Jesse Williams

Association football (Soccer)

See also: Category:Indigenous Australian soccer players
Lydia Williams

Athletics (track and field)

See also: Category:Indigenous Australian track and field athletes
Cathy Freeman

Australian rules football

See also: List of VFL/AFL and AFL Women's players of Indigenous Australian descent
See also: Category:Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football

  • Basketball

    Nathan Jawai
    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian basketball players

    Boxing

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian boxers
    • Anthony Mundine, holds WBC Silver Super Welterweight title, & former Interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion, 2 time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, IBO Middleweight Champion.
    • Daniel Geale, former IBF, IBO and WBA Super Middleweight Champion.
    • Lionel Rose, held WBC & WBA World bantamweight titles. The first Koori "Indigenous Australian" to win a World title.
    • Robbie Peden, former IBF Super Featherweight Champion.
    • Dave Sands, held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight titles and won the Commonwealth middleweight title, world boxing hall of famer.
    • Wally Carr, held the Australasian Light Middleweight title, Australian Junior Middleweight, Middleweight, Super Middleweight, Light Heavyweight Title, Commonwealth Middleweight title and Oriental Middleweight title.
    • Tony Mundine, held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight titles, Commonwealth middleweight and light heavyweight titles.
    • Ron Richards, held the Australian heavyweight, middleweight, light heavyweight title, Commonwealth middleweight title.
    • Jerry Jerome, first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title, Australian Middleweight Champion.
    • Joe Williams
    • Neville "Chappy" Williams
    • Elley Bennett
    • Hector Thompson
    • Frank Roberts, Australia's first Indigenous Olympic boxer.
    • Lawrence Austin
    • Damien Hooper
    • Cameron Hammond
    • Renold Quinlan
    • Paul Fleming
    • Keith Saunders
    • Bradley Hore

    Cricket

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian cricketers and Imparja Cup
    Eddie Gilbert

    Darts

    Field hockey

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian field hockey players

    Horse racing

    Motorsport

    Rugby league

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian rugby league players

    Rugby union

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian rugby union players

    Rugby Sevens

    Swimming

    Tennis

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian tennis players
    Evonne Goolagong

    See also

    References

    1. ^ https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017/12/20/10-legendary-aboriginal-cricketers-who-bowled-us-over
    2. ^ "Ashleigh Gardner stands on the cusp of history". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
    3. ^ a b c "Significant Aboriginal People in Sydney". City of Sydney. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    4. ^ "Gary Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    5. ^ "Glen Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    6. ^ "Mark Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    7. ^ https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/07/06/10/13/wallabies-beale-indigenous
    8. ^ "Issue 34, April 2009". Hearsay, The Journal of the Bar Association of Queensland. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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