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Huge Chunk Of Australian Olympic Roster Hails From Queensland

The 2024 Olympic Games begin just days from now and the nation of Australia is primed to make some major waves in the La Défense Arena.

The 44-strong Dolphins roster revealed last month boasts such heavy hitters as Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan, Ariarne Titmus and Kyle Chalmers. However, they all don’t hail from the same home states, giving the lineup a truly Australia-wide flair.

30 of the Olympics originate from Queensland, 5 from New South Wales, 3 from West Australia, 3 from Victoria, and one each from South Australia and Tasmania. Chalmers is the sole South Aussie while Maximillian Giuliani is the sole Tasmanian athlete.

Australia experienced its most successful Olympics in history last time around in Tokyo with swimmers amassing 9 golds, 3 silvers and 8 bronze medals.

Australian Olympic Team for Paris 2024 – Swimming

Name Age Suburb State
Iona Anderson 18 Marmion WA
Ben Armbruster 22 Robina QLD
Jaclyn Barclay 17 Fig Tree Pocket QLD
Bronte Campbell 30 North Bondi NSW
Jack Cartwright 25 Kenmore QLD
Kyle Chalmers 25* Hawthorndene SA
Abbey Connor 19 Parrearra QLD
Isaac Cooper 20 Mountain Creek QLD
Elizabeth Dekkers 20 Newmarket QLD
Jenna Forrester 21 Nundah QLD
Maximillian Giuliani 20* Carlton TAS
Chelsea Gubecka 25 Yeerongpilly QLD
Meg Harris 22 Kelvin Grove QLD
Zac Incerti 27* Sippy Downs QLD
Shayna Jack 25 Mansfield QLD
Moesha Johnson** 26 Main Beach QLD
Kyle Lee 22 Australind WA
Se-Bom Lee 23 Concord NSW
Cameron McEvoy 30 West End QLD
Emma McKeon 30 Labrador QLD
Kaylee McKeown 22* Labrador QLD
Thomas Neill 22 Red Hill QLD
Mollie O’Callaghan 20 Augustine Heights QLD
Lani Pallister 22 Alexandra Headland QLD
Alexandria Perkins 23* Caloundra West QLD
Jamie Perkins 19 Alexandra Headland QLD
William Petric 19* Wheelers Hill VIC
Ella Ramsay 19* Brassall QLD
Samuel Short 20 Bunya QLD
Nicholas Sloman 26 Peregian Beach QLD
Brendon Smith 23 Melbourne VIC
Flynn Southam 19 Tweed Heads NSW
Jenna Strauch 27 Burleigh Heads QLD
Zac Stubblety-Cook 25 Nathan QLD
Kai Taylor 20 Norman Park QLD
Matthew Temple 24 Vermont South VIC
Brianna Throssell 28 Mooloolaba QLD
Ariarne Titmus 23 Teneriffe QLD
Samuel Williamson 26 Melbourne QLD
Elijah Winnington 24 Chelmer QLD
Bradley Woodward 25* Mays Hill NSW
Olivia Wunsch 18 North Ryde NSW
William Yang 25 Sydney NSW
Joshua Yong 22* Claremont WA

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Jumb0tron
3 months ago

Some inconsistencies here. You may as well say Max is from QLD, as he lives and trains there. He is just as Tasmanian as Ariarne is.

Joel
3 months ago

I think the issue as discussed below, is that some of these suburbs have only 2500 people in them like Bunya and Mamion. I couldn’t find the suburbs where they live in their bios but maybe my internet search skills are poor. Home towns are often listed but that is not where they now reside in most cases.

SHRKB8
Reply to  Joel
3 months ago

I totally agree that US based journalism would have very limited knowledge about the places mentioned. There are other suburbs with 1 road in and 1 road out and a bunch of “holiday homes” in a 3.2mile radius, ridiculous to have this location named if you have been a victim of family and domestic violence and you’re trying to live a private and peaceful life in that secluded location.

For me, I have safeguards in place and as a general rule these safeguards have and do work well. I can’t understand what was to gain by naming the suburbs like SS did? If SS writers and editors are not prepared to name the schools their children attend (not too dissimilar… Read more »

SHRKB8
3 months ago

SwimSwam, please be careful with what is published with the information you have, some of these places named are fairly small and some of these athletes may need their locations a bit more discreet for their own protections. Some very weird and strange people out there.

I think naming a state, capital city or even a region (like Queensland, Brisbane or the Gold Coast) is fair enough but naming a suburb with a few hundred people in it makes it way too easy for nutjobs to get up to nutjob things.

Thanks for understanding.

Thomas The Tank Engine
Reply to  SHRKB8
3 months ago

Swimswam does not even publish the suburb where American swimmers reside in.

I find it odd to publish the suburbs to be honest. I have lived in both countries, I know many Australian suburbs are even smaller than average American suburbs.

Last edited 3 months ago by Thomas The Tank Engine
SHRKB8
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 months ago

Some of us have real first hand knowledge of what stalking, harrassment and worse can do to an individual, there is very severe physical, emotional and financial costs associated with this. I would have thought you could understand and respect this but no, you would rather go on the offensive.

Just explain to me what the benefits to these athletes you have provided by listing the suburb in which they reside?

I totally get there is a fine line for athletes needing promotion and publicity that sites like this offer but also needing their own certain amount of privacy.

Even discussing this now is bringing up really bad memories that I have paid a hell of a… Read more »

Oceanian
3 months ago

Yes – misleading to call them Queenslanders just because they are training there. A bit like describing Marchand as an American..

Guantanamo Bay
Reply to  Oceanian
3 months ago

and bob bowman as an American Citizen!

Troyy
3 months ago

I actually did up a more detailed spreadsheet not long after trials when I saw a similar article for the US team. It’s based off of information from AOC website and filling in the gaps with googling and looking at the results database so it may not be perfect.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRcb8FmH4eefy8m2L5dzy3l0nCx-1bTsfLKpvyFH0z1GBE05St-KSZbrbtyNcNJxO_34eRn1mXqxPRL/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

Skip
3 months ago

Its what club they train at currently. Chalmers is now a queenslander, training at st andrews. I find it weird to show the suburbs, where they live.

SHRKB8
Reply to  Skip
3 months ago

Yes, I am sure it is no fault of SS and probably just a copy and paste from an official database somewhere, but listing actual suburbs is a bit much for me also. Lots of athletes that wouldn’t like, or even need their location to be a bit more suppressed than this.

Joel
Reply to  SHRKB8
3 months ago

Agree.

SHRKB8
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 months ago

Thanks for the heads up, are you able to provide a link to where I am able to check an athlete’s bio?

I have a very real need to check an entry. Thank you.

SHRKB8
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 months ago

Don’t worry, found the link you provided in another reply. The suburbs in your list among this article do not match that in the website link provided.

Skip
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 months ago

Just because you can, doesnt mean its necessary or has any value

swimapologist
Reply to  Skip
3 months ago

Can y’all be like 10% less Australian just for one day? Please?

Skip
Reply to  swimapologist
3 months ago

Yeah nah

Barty’s Bakery
3 months ago

The vast majority of top swimmers swim in QLD but often are born elsewhere. Don’t let Shannon Rollason see this because he hates when QLD claims swimmers that weren’t born here!

Titmus was born and grew up in Tassie. Throssell is from WA but now swims in QLD. McKeon is from “The Gong” in NSW. Southam was born in WA but lives in GC/Tweed which literally spans over the border between QLD/NSW.

Just a warning you might get some salty non-QLDers mad about this article haha.

Emily Se-Bom Lee
Reply to  Barty’s Bakery
3 months ago

the stats are inconsistent across the board, and far too specific for comfort. chalmers trains in qld and the article has his hometown as adelaide, when he’s actually from port lincoln.

to shannon’s credit, he is correct. qld sport boasted about the “all-queensland” w4x100 free in 2021, when wilson and mckeon are queenslanders under conflicting definitions

Barty’s Bakery
Reply to  Emily Se-Bom Lee
3 months ago

I really don’t care about the state thing. QLD has the best facilities and weather so swimmers tend to flock here. I care about team Australia as a whole but some people do get really upset specifying where a swimmer is “from”.

McKeon moved to QLD when she was 18. She showed promise at the youth Olympics prior to that but never achieved anything at a serious level before she’d been in QLD for 2 years. I can see her being claimed either way.

But tbh I think we all know Swimming QLD are full of themselves lol.

Emily Se-Bom Lee
Reply to  Barty’s Bakery
3 months ago

yes, but the point was that they also claim wilson as one of their own, when she started in qld but had most of her success in sa

Barty’s Bakery
Reply to  Emily Se-Bom Lee
3 months ago

That’s not entirely true. Wilson’s only individual Worlds level medal came from before she moved. She was also an Olympic champion before she moved. Very different to Emma who had never been on a senior team before she moved to QLD.

Nonetheless, I don’t think it matters what state swimmers are from and who claims them.

Stephen J Thomas
Reply to  Barty’s Bakery
3 months ago

Absolutely, an article using official media sheets does not offer real insight into the “origins” of some of the swimmers and would mean little to US readers and plenty to non-Queenslanders! Fynn is a West Aussie, and did his final schooling here in the Tweed (NSW) and travels across the border to train at Bond Uni on the Gold Coast.

I’m sure Coach and dual Olympian Ron McKeown would be very disappointed to read that Wollongong was not where his daughter Emma “hails”! Emma and Olympian brother David trained with their father until their mid-teens at the West Illawarra swim club founded by the family.

Oh yes, try telling South Aussie Kyle Chalmers he is a Queenslander 😉

hay
3 months ago

its not accurate, should be counted off which club they are swimming for putting them under that state federation, chalmers and giulani are queenslanders

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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