While they compete on the world stage, day-to-day they're also working in normal job.
And when he gets back to Australia, Zachery Schubert, 28, will have an unusual welcome party waiting.
"When I was younger, probably the first six to seven years of my career, I didn't make any money from the sport," he said."I wasn't earning a lot of money from it, and you see all your friends, they've got careers, they start to buy houses.For now, his dad Tim, 64, handles lot of the work - including shipping the critters - but Schubert works at the weekends.
"I train at four o'clock in the morning on my day shifts, and straight after a night shift in the morning.Of course, her workmates at work can't wait to see her in action. "We are never out of pocket - everything is covered and we do get some money on top of that," she said.
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