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2020 Olympics Australia Roster

Archery

David Barnes (Adelaide)

Ryan Tyack (Nambour)

Taylor Worth (Busselton)

Alice Ingley (Belconnen)

Swimming

Kyle Chalmers (Adelaide)

Isaac Cooper (Brisbane)

Kai Edwards (Gold Coast)

Tristan Hollard (Southport)

Mitch Larkin (Buderim)

Lee Se-Bom (Sydney)

Cameron McEvoy (Benowa)

Jacky McLoughlin (Brisbane)

David Morgan (Gold Coast)

Thomas Neill (Brisbane)

Brendon Smith (Melbourne)

Zaac Stubblety-Cook (Brisbane)

Matthew Temple (Forest Hill)

Matthew Wilson (Sydney)

Elijah Winnington (Gold Coast)

Alexander Graham (Auchenflower)

Zac Incerti (Broome)

Mack Horton (Melbourne)

Hannah Burkhill (Perth)

Kiera Gazzard (Randwick)

Kirsten Kinash (Bonogin)

Rachel Presser (Banora Point)

Alessandra Ho (Canberra)

Emily Rogers (Auchenflower)

Amie Thompson (Como)

Hannah Cross (Attadale)

Kareena Lee (Noosa)

Carolyn Buckle (Sydney)

Cate Campbell (Brisbane)

Tamsin Cook (Perth)

Maddy Gough (Coffs Harbour)

Jessica Hansen (Brisbane)

Abbey Harkin (Brisbane)

Chelsea Hodges (Southport)

Emma McKeon (Wollongong)

Kaylee McKeown (Sunshine Coast)

Kiah Melverton (Southport)

Emily Seebohm (Adelaide)

Jenna Strauch (Bendigo)

Brianna Throssell (Subiaco)

Ariarne Titmus (Indooroopily)

Madison Wilson (Yeppoon)

Bronte Campbell (Brisbane)

Meg Harris (Brisbane)

Mollie O’Callaghan (Brisbane)

Leah Neale (Ipswich)

Athletics

Dane Bird-Smith (Brisbane)

Stewart McSweyn (Launceston)

Rohan Browning (Crows Nest)

Alexander Beck (Benowa)

Steven Solomon (East Lindfield)

Nagmeldin Bol (Perth)

Charlie Hunter (Gosford)

Jeff Riseley (Dandenong)

Jye Edwards (Barrack Heights)

Ollie Hoare (Sydney)

Morgan McDonald (Sydney)

David McNeil (Melbourne)

Patrick Tiernan (Toowoomba)

Nicholas Hough (Sydney)

Ben Buckingham (Melbourne)

Matthew Clarke (Adelaide)

Edward Trippas (Sydney)

Liam Adams (Melbourne)

Jack Rayner (Melbourne)

Brett Robinson (Canberra)

Kyle Swan (Melbourne)

Declan Tingay (Perth)

Rhydian Cowley (Glen Waverley)

Henry Frayne (Adelaide)

Brandon Starc (Sydney)

Kurtis Marschall (Adelaide)

Matty Denny (Toowoomba)

Cedric Dubler (Brisbane)

Ash Moloney (Logan City)

Jessica Hull (Albion Park)

Jemima Montag (Melbourne)

Kelsey-Lee Barber (Canberra)

Hana Basic (Melbourne)

Riley Day (Beaudesert)

Bendere Oboya (Pendle Hill)

Catriona Bisset (Canberra)

Morgan Mitchell (Carlton)

Georgia Griffith (Canberra)

Linden Hall (Sunbury)

Isobel Batt-Doyle (Adelaide)

Jenny Blundell (Sydney)

Rose Davies (Newcastle)

Liz Clay (Southport)

Sarah Carli (Wollongong)

Amy Cashin (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Genevieve Gregson (Benowa)

Georgia Winkcup (Cherrybrook)

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Anneliese Rubie (Canberra)

Sinead Diver (Melbourne)

Ellie Pashley (Torquay)

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Katie Hayward (Gold Coast)

Rebecca Henderson (Melbourne)

Brooke Stratton (Melbourne)

Nicola McDermott (North Gosford)

Eleanor Patterson (Leongatha)

Nina Kennedy (Perth)

Liz Parnov (Perth)

Danielle Stevens (Merrylands)

Mackenzie Little (Sydney)

Kathryn Mitchell (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Boxing

Alex Winwood (Mandurah)

Harry Garside (Canberra)

Paulo Aokuso (Gailes)

Skye Nicolson (Yatala)

Caitlin Parker (Subiaco)

Canoeing

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Lucien Delfour (Pape’ete, French Polynesia)

Tom Green (Brisbane)

Jean Van Der Westhuyzen (Varsity Lakes)

Murray Stewart (Sydney)

Riley Fitzsimmons (North Gosford)

Jordan Wood (Tugun)

Lachlan Tame (Avoca Beach)

Jess Fox (Penrith)

Cat McArthur (Melbourne)

Bernadette Wallace (West Lakes)

Josephine Bulmer (West Lakes)

Shannon Reynolds (Canberra)

Jaime Roberts (Perth)

Aly Bull (Buderim)

Jo Brigden-Jones (Mona Vale)

Alyce Wood (Buderim)

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Nathan Hart (Canberra)

Matthew Richardson (Warwick)

Leigh Howard (Waurn Ponds)

Kelland O’Brien (Melbourne)

Luke Plapp (Brunswick)

Alexander Porter (Bennelong)

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Lucas Hamilton (Ararat)

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Logan Martin (Logan City)

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Ashlee Ankudinoff (Sydney)

Georgia Baker (Launcester)

Annette Edmondson (Belair)

Maeve Plouffe (Adelaide)

Grace Brown (Camperdown)

Tiffany Cromwell (Stirling)

Sarah Gigante (Melbourne)

Amanda Spratt (Springwood)

Alexandra Manly (Kalgoorie)

Rebecca McConnell (Canberra)

Lauren Reynolds (Bunbury)

Saya Sakakibara (Gold Coast)

Natalya Diehm (Boyne Island)

Gymnastics

Tyson Bull (Melbourne)

Dominic Clarke (Sydney)

Georgia Godwin (Southport)

Emily Whitehead (Mornington)

Lidiia Iakovleva (Brisbane)

Emily Abbot (Brisbane)

Alexandra Aristoteli (Brisbane)

Alannah Mathews (Brisbane)

Himeka Onoda (Brisbane)

Felicity White (Brisbane)

Jessica Pickering (North Gosford)

Pentathlon

Ed Fernon (Darlinghurst)

Marina Carrier (Sydney)

Sailing

Matthew Wearn (Fremantle)

Sam Phillips (Sorrento)

William Phillips (Sorrento)

Mat Belcher (Southport)

William Ryan (Lake Macquarie)

Jason Waterhouse (Newport)

Jake Lilley (Brisbane)

Mara Stransky (Manly)

Monique De Vries (Fremantle)

Nia Jerwood (Fremantle)

Tess Lloyd (Geelong)

Jaime Ryan (Lake Macquarie)

Lisa Darmanin (Balgowlah Heights)

Shooting

Sergei Evglevski (Melbourne)

Thomas Grice (Cobbitty)

Paul Adams (Brisbane)

Alex Hoberg (Adelaide)

Daniel Repacholi (Carlton)

Jack Rossiter (Reynella)

Dane Sampson (Blacktown)

James Willett (Deniliquin)

Elise Collier (Langwarrin)

Katarina Kowplos (Adelaide)

Penny Smith (Elliminiyt)

Dina Babushkin (Brisbane)

Laura Coles (Perth)

Elena Galiabovitch (South Clayton)

Laetisha Scanlan (Melbourne)

Climbing

Tom O’Halloran (Blackheath)

Oceana MacKenzie (Melbourne)

Surfing

Julian Wilson (Coolum Beach)

Owen Wright (Lennox Head)

Sally Fitzgibbons (Gerroa)

Steph Gilmore (Kingscliff)

Table Tennis

David Powell (Box Hill)

Xin Yan (Melbourne)

Hu Heming (Dandenong)

Michelle Bromley (Gulgong)

Xu Sang (Melbourne)

Lay-Hóng Jiànfāng (Melbourne)

Melissa Tapper (Hamilton)

Taekwondo

Safwan Khalil (Lurnea)

Jack Marton (Canberra)

Stacey Hymer (Canberra)

Reba Stewart (Canberra)

Weightlifting

Matthew Lydement (Canberra)

Brandon Wakeling (Campbelltown)

Erika Yamasaki (Darwin)

Kiana Elliott (Sydney)

Charisma Amoe-Tarrant (Brisbane)

Badminton

Hsuan-Yu Chen (Brisbane)

Simon Leung (Brisbane)

Setyana Mapasa (Melbourne)

Gronya Somerville (Melbourne)

Basketball

Chris Goulding (Brisbane)

Patrick Mills (Canberra)

Josh Green (Castle Hill)

Joe Ingles (Adelaide)

Matthew Dellavedova (Maryborough)

Nathan Sobey (Warrnambool)

Matisse Thybulle (Sammamish, Washington)

Dante Exum (Melbourne)

Aron Baynes (Mareeba)

Jock Landale (Corio)

Duop Reath (Perth)

Nick Kay (Sydney)

Jenna O’Hea (Traralgon)

Leilani Mitchell (Kennewick, Washington)

Stephanie Talbot (Katherine)

Tess Madgen (Barossa Valley)

Sāra Blicavs (Sunbury)

Rebecca Allen (Wangaratta)

Katie-Rae Ebzery (Waratah)

Alanna Smith (Hobart)

Tessa Lavey (Canberra)

Ezi Magbegor (Canberra)

Marianna Tolo (Mackay)

Cayla George (Mt. Barker)

Diving

Shìxīn Lǐ (Melbourne)

Sam Fricker (Sydney)

Cassiel Rousseau (Ormiston)

Nikita Hains (Adelaide)

Qín Fān (Melbourne)

Belle Smith (Melbourne)

Melissa Wu (Sydney)

Equestrian

Kevin McNab (Godalming, U.K.)

Andrew Hoy (Leicester, U.K.)

Shane Rose (Duffys Forest)

Mary Hanna (Melbourne)

Kelly Layne (Wellington, Florida)

Simone Pearce (Löningen, Germany)

Katie Laurie (Okotoks, Alberta)

Edwina Tops-Alexander (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Field Hockey

Lachlan Sharp (Lithgow)

Tom Craig (Lane Cove)

Tom Wickham (Morgan)

Matt Dawson (Killarney Vale)

Joshua Beltz (Hobart)

Eddie Ockenden (Moonah)

Jacob Whetton (Perth)

Blake Govers (Wollongong)

Dylan Martin (Sydney)

Joshua Simmonds (Ringwood)

Tim Howard (Brisbane)

Aran Zalewski (Margaret River)

Flynn Ogilvie (Wollongong)

Daniel Beale (Brisbane)

Trent Mitton (Perth)

Tim Brand (Chatswood)

Andrew Charter (Wagga Wagga)

Jeremy Hayward (Darwin)

Ambrosia Malone (Gold Coast)

Brooke Peris (Darwin)

Amy Lawton (Emerald)

Georgia Wilson (Mahogany Creek)

Madison Fitzpatrick (Cabarita Beach)

Greta Hayes (Maroubra)

Edwina Bone (Orange)

Steph Kershaw (Townsville)

Kaitlin Nobbs (Newington)

Jane-Anne Claxton (Adelaide)

Karri Somerville (Melville)

Renee Taylor (Everton Park)

Kate Jenner (Mudgee)

Mariah Williams (Parkes)

Emily Chalker (Crookwell)

Rachael Lynch (Warrandyte)

Grace Stewart (Gerringong)

Sav Fitzpatrick (Cabarita Beach)

Soccer

Tom Glover (Sydney)

Nathaniel Atkinson (Launceston)

Kye Rowles (Kiama)

Jay Rich-Bagheulou (London, U.K.)

Harry Souttar (Luthermuir, U.K.)

Keanu Baccus (Kings Langley)

Reno Piscopo (Melbourne)

Riley McGree (Gawler)

Nicholas D’Agostino (Sydney)

Denis Genreau (Melbourne)

Daniel Arzani (Melbourne)

Mitchell Duke (Liverpool)

Dylan Pierias (Melbourne)

Thomas Deng (Adelaide)

Caleb Watts (London, U.K.)

Joel King (Figtree)

Connor Metcalfe (Newcastle)

Ash Maynard-Brewer (Joondalup)

Marco Tilio (Hurtsville)

Lachlan Wales (Terrigan)

Cameron Devlin (Sydney)

Jordan Holmes (Sydney)

Lydia Williams (Canberra)

Samantha Kerr (East Fremantle)

Kyra Cross-Cooney (Herston)

Clare Polkinghorne (Brisbane)

Aivi Luik (Perth)

Chloe Logarzo (Sydney)

Steph Catley (Melbourne)

Elise Kellond-Knight (Gold Coast)

Caitlin Foord (Shellharbour)

Emily Van Egmond (Newcastle)

Mary Fowler (Cairns)

Ellie Carpenter (Cowra)

Tameka Butt (Orange)

Alanna Kennedy (Rosemeadow)

Emily Gielnik (Melbourne)

Hayley Raso (Brisbane)

Kyah Simon (Blacktown)

Teagan Micah (Redcliffe)

Courtney Nevin (Blacktown)

Charlotte Grant (Adelaide)

Laura Brock (Templestown)

Mackenzie Arnold (Gold Coast)

Golf

Marc Leishman (Virginia Beach, Virginia)

Cameron Smith (Jacksonville, Florida)

Hannah Green (Perth)

Minjee Lee (Perth)

Judo

Nathan Katz (Melbourne)

Katharina Haecker (Hamburg, Germany)

Aoife Coughlan (Melbourne)

Karate

Tsuneari Yahiro (Dulwich Hill)

Rowing

Sam Hardy (Sydney)

Joshua Hicks (Hubiaco)

Caleb Antill (Canberra)

Jack Cleary (Sydney)

Cameron Girdlestone (Sydney)

Luke Letcher (Canberra)

Jack Hargreaves (Nyngan)

Alexander Hill (Loxton)

Alexander Purnell (St. Leonards)

Spencer Turrin (Dungog)

Josh Booth (Melbourne)

Angus Dawson (Dingabledinga)

Simon Keenan (Melbourne)

Nicholas Lavery (Melbourne)

Timothy Masters (Melbourne)

Joseph O’Brien (Dubbo)

Nicholas Purnell (St. Leonards)

Stuart Sim (Melbourne)

Angus Widdicombe (Geelong)

James Rook (Melbourne)

Annabelle McIntyre (Hamilton Hill)

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Rosemary Popa (Melbourne)

Lucy Stephan (Nhill)

Olympia Aldersey (Stonyfell)

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Molly Goodman (Adelaide)

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Genevieve Horton (Pymble)

Giorgia Patten (Perth)

Georgina Rowe (Sydney)

Katrina Werry (Melbourne)

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Matthew Hauser (Maryborough)

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Ahead of the 2017 New York City Marathon, Shalane Flanagan Isn’t Done...Yet

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Ahead of the 2017 New York City Marathon, Shalane Flanagan Isn’t Done...Yet

NEW YORK – Shalane Flanagan hasn’t thought beyond November 5th. In less than two weeks, she will return to the New York City Marathon for her 10th career marathon and first since the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

A back injury suffered after an attempting to train through a rough winter in Portland, Ore., kept Flanagan from running April’s Boston Marathon, but she returned to competition in the summer to race the 10,000 meters at the U.S. Outdoor Championships and then flashed some speed by breaking 15 minutes for the 5,000 meters at a meet in Europe. Once she was done briefly running in circles, it was back to marathon training. Flanagan spent several weeks alone in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., running 130 miles in a week, training at altitude and living at 8,500 feet to empty the tank when she crosses the finish line in Central Park.

“Over the last couple months, I’ve actually felt very good. I’m having the best training that I’ve ever had for the marathon,” Flanagan says. “I keep thinking there’s going to be a decay and that will be a natural sign to step away but I felt that after this injury, I’ve had a rejuvenation in my body and mind with that break. I feel very good and that excites me. I’m trying to win a major marathon and be like Meb [Keflezighi] and Deena [Kastor] ever since I got into the sport. That’s what I feel like I’m missing in my career.”

Flanagan has held several U.S. records on the roads but the American record for 26.2 miles has evaded her. A course like New York City, with its bridges and gradual inclines in Central Park, is not suited for record-shattering times, something Flanagan took into consideration when choosing her fall marathon. She opted to try and compete for the victory at a major marathon (something no American woman has done since Kastor won at the 2006 London Marathon) as opposed to a race against the clock.

“New York and Boston are magical to me,” Flanagan says. “I’ve chased enough fast times on the track that I’m kind of at peace with my PRs and my times. I know I could run a faster marathon for sure but it’s not as important to me as doing well and putting together an inspired race in New York.

“I’m mentally acting like as if it’s my last. I don’t want to have these contingencies that if it doesn’t go well then at least I’ve got something else. I just want to act like this is it. I like to put that type of pressure on myself. To be honest, I just don’t know.”

Just a month ago, Flanagan woke up early to watch a live stream of the Chicago Marathon. She considers herself a student of the sport and tries to watch the major marathons live as often as possible. Her two Bowerman Track Club teammates, Chris Derrick and Andrew Bumbalough, were in the men’s race and she was closely tracking their progress. Up until Oct. 8, she had been the second-fastest American woman to run the marathon. Her personal best of 2:21:14 from the 2014 Berlin Marathon is less than two minutes behind Deena Kastor’s American record of 2:19:36.

Flanagan watched intently as Jordan Hasay, a promising 26-year-old, followed the East Africans on a blistering pace in the first half that led her to more than a three-minute personal best and inserted her name ahead of Flanagan on the all-time U.S. list. The next great American marathoner had arrived but there was not much celebration on social media from other U.S. marathoners including Flanagan and her contemporaries like Kara Goucher or Desiree Linden.

Hasay has a bright future but she trains under coach Alberto Salazar, who remains under investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for possible rule violations. On a conference call with reporters just says later, a question was posed to Flanagan and Olympic teammate Keflezighi on how they were processing the results from Chicago.

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Flanagan responded by saying: “As a fan of my own sport, it’s hard to have full excitement and faith when you don’t know all the facts yet. There’s still an investigation going on so it’s hard to truly and genuinely get excited about the performances that I’m watching. And I think it’s really important to consider who you associate with. We don’t get to choose our parents, but we certainly get to choose our friends and our coaches and who we want to include in our circle and put our faith and our trust in. I think it’s really important to think about who you include in your professional circle in this sport, and I think that who you choose to allow in says a lot about you.”

Less than a week later, Flanagan still describes the race as exciting but says she “doesn’t know what to make of it in the end concerning a few athletes.”

“I don’t know,” Flanagan says. “Time will tell. I can be very excited in a few months based on the results of the investigation or I can be really bummed out about it. I don’t know what to think.”

Flanagan knows all too well about the feeling of uneasiness that comes from being quick to believe results. She won a bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing but the Turkish athlete who finished ahead of her tested positive for a banned substance in the re-testing of drug samples, prompting Flanagan to receive her silver medal in August. Flanagan finished fourth at the 2013 Boston Marathon only to later learn that winner Rita Jeptoo tested positive for EPO and took away a chance for Flanagan to stand on a podium on Boylston Street. The news that Olympic gold medalist Jemima Sumgong of Kenya barely came as a surprise to Flanagan after Sumgong told her Olympic teammates shortly after crossing the finish line that she believes their respective positions on the results could be mobile within a year.

“I’ve had bad luck in racing in major marathons that have had a lot of doping going on,” Flanagan says. “That’s not just me saying that with hypotheticals. It’s a fact. I’ve just unfortunately trained really hard and tried to perform in big races but the cards were just stacked against me and I didn't have a chance when I stepped to the starting line.”

Flanagan doesn’t expect winning to come easy in New York either. She holds the fourth-fastest personal best in the field but the three other women ahead of her have broken 2:20, including three-time defending champion Mary Keitany of Kenya.

Edge Breaking the Wall: Mental Hacks for the Marathon

“I’m not going to show and save it for another day. I’m completely and 100% all-in for New York,” Flanagan says. “My goal is to try and run with the best in the world. It can be a tall order and risky but I’ve got nothing holding me back. I’m not saving anything for a later date. If Mary decides to run aggressive and wild, I’ll see how aggressive I can be and push my upper limit of what I’m capable of.”

No American woman has won the New York City Marathon since Miki Gorman in 1977. In a sport like running, which can be unforgiving on the body, there are a variety of endings to a career. There are runners who exhaust their legs until the times slow or they no longer win races. There are runners who craft their own farewell tour around a round number like 26 marathons as a tribute to the distance, such as 42-year old Keflezighi. There are runners who say they’ll stop, never do and still push it at 60 years of age, such as Joan Benoit Samuelson.

Flanagan says that’s just Joanie being Joanie and Meb being Meb. Although it’s hard to imagine the Marblehead, Mass., native not finishing her career in Boston, Flanagan winning in New York would certainly be monumental and a fitting curtain call for her career.

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“Winning the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals or World Series and walking away is the dream,” Flanagan says. “To me that would be the perfect ending to be honest. I’m wired a little bit different. I can be 100% all-in and there will be a time when I want to go run just for me.”

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