List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople explained
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
Association football (Soccer)
– first Indigenous
association footballer to captain
Socceroos and captain national league championship
Athletics (track and field)
Australian rules football
See also: List of Indigenous Australian VFL/AFL and AFL Women's players.
Basketball
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.
- Elley Bennett
- Hector Thompson
- Frank Roberts, Australia's first Indigenous Olympic boxer.
- Lawrence Austin
- Damien Hooper
- Cameron Hammond
- Paul Fleming
- Keith Saunders
- Bradley Hore
Cricket
See also: Imparja Cup.
- Scott Boland, only the second male Indigenous Australian as of 2021 to play Test Cricket for Australia.[1]
- Dan Christian
- Ashleigh Gardner, first Indigenous Australian woman to play in a cricket World Cup.[2]
- Eddie Gilbert, 1930s Queensland cricketer
- Jason Gillespie, first male indigenous Australian to play cricket for Australia, and until Scott Boland's debut in 2021, the only one to play Test Cricket for Australia.[3]
- Jack Marsh
- John McGuire, captain of an Aboriginal XI that toured England in 1988
- Johnny Mullagh, 1860s cricketer, who was a member of the Aboriginal cricket team that toured England in 1868
- Edna Newfong (Crouch) and Mabel Crouch (Campbell), were members of the Queensland XI women's cricket team that played England in 1934
–35. They were the first indigenous women to represent Australia in any sport.
Darts
Field hockey
Horse racing
Motorsport
Rugby league
Rugby union
Rugby Sevens
Swimming
Tennis
See also
- Indigenous Australian Olympians
- Indigenous Australian Paralympians
Notes and References
- News: Scott Boland to become fourth Indigenous Australian to play Test cricket. Independent.co.uk. 25 December 2021.
- Web site: Ashleigh Gardner stands on the cusp of history. 26 June 2017. ESPN Cricinfo.
- Web site: 10 legendary Aboriginal cricketers who bowled us over. 20 December 2017.
- Web site: Significant Aboriginal People in Sydney . City of Sydney . 12 January 2012.
- Web site: Gary Ella . ESPN . . 12 January 2012.
- Web site: Glen Ella . ESPN . ESPN Scrum . 12 January 2012.
- Web site: Mark Ella . ESPN . ESPN Scrum . 12 January 2012.
- Web site: Beale reveals Indigenous jersey | Latest Rugby News . RUGBY.com.au . 2017-07-06 . 2022-09-05.
- Web site: Issue 34, April 2009. Hearsay, The Journal of the Bar Association of Queensland. 4 March 2017.
