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List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople facts for kids

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Aboriginal cricket team at MCG in 1867
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 of the Alabama Crimson Tide
Jesse Williams

Association football (Soccer)

Lydia Williams
Lydia Williams

Athletics (track and field)

Cathy Freeman 2000 olympics
Cathy Freeman

Australian rules football

Basketball

Nathan Jawai
Nathan Jawai

Boxing

  • 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
  • Eugene Eades
  • Austin Eades
  • Renold Quinlan
  • Paul Fleming
  • Keith Saunders
  • Bradley Hore

Cricket

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Eddie Gilbert

Darts

Field hockey

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Motorsport

  • Jeff Leisk, Motocross
  • Craig Anderson, Motocross
  • Chad Reed, Motocross
  • Brendon Cook, car racing
  • Darren McDonald, Auscar

Rugby league

See also (related category): Indigenous Australian rugby league players

Rugby union

See also (related category): Indigenous Australian rugby union players

Rugby Sevens

Swimming

Tennis

See also

  • Indigenous Australian Olympians
  • Indigenous Australian Paralympians
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