This is what’s behind the anatomy of an Australian Olympic medallist. If you’re a Fox from Camperdown, you’re in luck. And if you like to swim in Queensland – even better.
Winning an Olympic medal is the crowning jewel of sporting achievements, requiring years of dedication. But an analysis of Australia’s Paris 2024 medallists showed that those of a certain age, sex, hometown, education, and cultural background fared better than others.This masthead broke down the demographics behind Australia’s success using data from the Australian Olympic Committee’s athlete profiles.
Elsewhere, Western Australia was the second-best state for medals added to Australia’s total. Margaret River’s Jack Robinson , Perth tennis pro Matthew Ebden and rower Annabelle McIntyre all helped. Sam Welsford, Conor Leahy, and Matthew Richardson were among a crop of Perth natives to win silverware in track cycling during the Games’ second week.to boost their medal count. A water polo team almost exclusively from Sydney’s more affluent suburbs and Queensland helped swell their result too.
Per capita, Queensland ranks as Australia’s second-best Olympic state, with one gold medal per 701,994 people and one medal of any type for every 286,631 Queenslanders. Meanwhile, the only South Australian to win gold was part of the four-strong men’s pursuit team, meaning the state only adds 0.25 to Australia’s gold tally and thus averages only one gold medal contribution per 7,539,772 people – the worst rate in Australia.It’s fair to say the Fox family has had a decent couple of weeks.
Opals medallists Cayla George, Isobel Borlase and Marianna Tolo attended both private and public high schools – hence their contributions were evenly divided between the public and private medallist tallies.Women accounted for 61.6 per cent of Australia’s 86 medallists, a share boosted by the success of the women’s water polo and basketball teams. The share of female gold medallists is slightly lower.
, became the youngest Australian medallist ever when the 14-year-old won gold in the women’s park skateboarding event. Other teen medallists include Flynn Southam and Sienna Green .The medallists who weren’t born here
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