Hall of Fame
The Triathlon Australia Hall of Fame (HOF) was established in 2009 to honour those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the sport of Triathlon in Australia.
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2022 INDUCTION |
MIRINDA CARFRAE |
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From Brisbane, Queensland, Mirinda Carfrae, is one of Australia’s and the world’s greatest IRONMAN athletes, a three-time IRONMAN World Champion and IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion in 2007. After plying her trade in Short Course racing in Australia from 1999, Carfrae made the most of her endurance qualities to move into 70.3 racing, before making her Ironman debut a decade later in 2009.Carfrae has also featured on nine total IRONMAN World Championships Podiums (two IM 70.3). She finished fifth in Kona in 2018, just one year after giving birth to daughter Izzy. Carfrae represented Australia at the ITU Triathlon World Championships from 2001-2005, twice earning silver medals (2002 & 2003) before turning her attention to long distance racing. Her 2007 70.3 World Championships win secured her ticket to the Ironman World Championships in Kona. In 2009 she set a course run record and finished 2nd in her first Kona appearance. Carfrae continued her dominance and went on to win three Ironman World Championships in 2010, 2013, and 2014. Her 2013 win included the third fastest marathon of the day including the men’s field.
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2021 INDUCTION |
CRAIG ALEXANDER |
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Craig Alexander has been one of the most outstanding athletes ever to grace the stage of our sport. He was the IRONMAN World Champion in 2008, 2009 and 2011, inaugural IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion in 2006 and 2011, and consequently the first male to ever win both the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 titles in the same year in 2011. Awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2015, Alexander is not only one of Australia’s greatest triathletes, but he is also one of our sports greatest ambassadors. He gives freely of his time to the sport, to the media, to race officials and fellow athletes. As an athlete and more recently a coach, he is one of our sport’s greatest role models– and has encouraged many people to start their journey and live a healthy lifestyle through triathlon. |
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2020 INDUCTION |
EMMA MOFFATT |
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She was the country girl born in Moore who went from working in a kiosk at her local surf lifesaving club at Woolgoolga to be one of Australia’s greatest triathletes.
Known for her iron determination on the race track and infectious giggle off it, Emma Moffatt was part of one of Australian sports finest moments on the world stage. While Emma Snowsill wrote herself into the history books as the first - and to this day only - Olympic triathlon champion, her training partner Moffatt raced to a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. In her own eyes it was her greatest achievement in a stellar career which spanned over a decade and saw her win two Olympic distance world championship along with a multitude of national and World Cup wins. Moffatt, who retired after Rio in 2016, was also the first triathlete (alongside Erin Densham) to repress the Australia at three Olympic Games.In her last hurrah she was also Australia’s best performed with her sixth placing at the 2016 Olympics. These results confirm Moffatt’s place among the sport’s greats, including Snowsill, multiple world champion Greg Welch and two time world champion and Hawaii Ironman winner Michellie Jones. 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medallist |
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2019 INDUCTION |
JOANNE KING |
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Joanne King belongs to an elite club of triathletes who have won both junior and senior Olympic distance world crowns for Australia. And in a testament to her versatile in the sport she was also a national long course winner, half Ironman victor and a multiple Australian ironwoman champion in a relatively short but highly successful career. Her world title win was claimed in Lausanne in 1998 during a period when Australian women ruled the world. Other top results during her stellar career include: |
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2018 INDUCTION |
PETER ROBERTSON |
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The colourful, cheeky personality who won hearts to become a people's favourite, a multiple world champion and a two-time Australian Olympian. And the only Australian man to win three Olympic distance world crowns - and Australia's last men's world champion over the distance. Peter Robertson, known universally as Robbo, the 2001, 2003, 2005 Olympic distance world champion and the TA Hall of Fame's latest Inductee. Robertson finished his ITU career with three world titles, two world silver medals, a Commonwealth Games bronze medal, and uniforms from two Olympic Games. He will also be remembered for his quirkiness, determination and passion for racing - and winning. One of the most feared runners in his day, Robertson was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in 2015. |
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2017 INDUCTION |
EMMA SNOWSILL |
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Olympian and multiple world champion Emma Snowsill has rewritten the story of triathlon in Australia. She is the first and only Australian to have won a gold medal in the Olympic arena with her historic win at the Beijing Games in 2008. She was the first Australian woman to win three world Olympic distance titles and the first to win a Youth Olympic crown. Regarded as one of the best runners of her era, Snowsill showed early promise with a 16-19 age group title at the 2000 world championships. A year later she won gold at the Sydney Youth Olympic Festival Triathlon and in 2003 won the first of her three world titles in Queenstown, New Zealand, with her defeat of the legendary Michellie Jones and US star Laura Bennett. In 2004 she earned the mantle of No.1 woman in the world with her victory in the ITU World Cup championship and in 2005 won a second world title in Gamagori, Japan. During 2005 and 2006 she won big money races such as the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis before claiming the 2006 Commonwealth Games gold in Melbourne and her third world crown in Lausanne later in the year. Her greatest win came in 2008 at the Beijing Olympics where she destroyed her opposition to claim an historic gold medal. Her time of 1:58:27, one minute and seven seconds ahead of Fernandes, broke a string of Australia’s ‘’duck’’ in respect to gold medals in this sport. In 2009 Snowsill was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and in 2010 won the 2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Grand Final by one minute and 44 seconds. Snowsill battled a series of injuries and illness in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics and was a controversial omission from the Australian team. Other highlights of her career include winning the "Grand Slam" of Chicago, Los Angeles, London and New York Triathlons.
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2016 INDUCTION |
JOHN MACLEAN |
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Pioneer Australian paratriathlete John MacLean experienced triathlon as an able bodied athlete. He was training for the 1988 Nepean Triathlon when an encounter with a truck dramatically altered his life path. Suffering three breaks in his back, MacLean came out of the accident a paraplegic. In 1995, MacLean was ready to challenge the notion of disability and he headed to Hawaii to finish before the 17 hour cut off. In 1996 MacLean competed in and won the newly created category of ‘Athletes with Disabilities’ at the ITU Triathlon World Championships. Again he finished Kona under the cut off but was not official, missing the bike cut off due to a puncture. In 1997, Maclean finally became the first disabled athlete to finish Hawaii within able-bodied cut-off time, completing the race in 12 hours 21 minutes. Several weeks later he also competed at the ITU Triathlon World Championships again and retained his world title. He as the first Australian inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame in 2003 in recognition of achievement. He became the first paraplegic to swim across the English Channel in 1998. In 2000 he competed in the 1500m wheelchair race at the Sydney Olympics. His latest astounding achievement - regaining use of his legs and completing the Nepean Triathlon without a wheelchair in 2014. |
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2015 INDUCTION |
NICOLE HACKETT |
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Nicole Hackett took up triathlon at the age of 15 because for a new challenge after a childhood of surf lifesaving. In 1997, just out of high school, she won the World Junior Triathlon Championships in Perth and the following year became the only Australian to defend a Junior title. In her first full season of professional triathlon in 1999 she achieved two World Cup podiums, won the St George Formula 1 series and was runner-up in the ITU Aquathlon World Championships. Nikki became known for her strong swim/bike credentials and would often race form the front, challenging faster runners to catch her. Playing to her strengths, she went on to claim another F1 series title and an Australian Olympic Distance Championship title in 2000. In the same year, she gained selection to represent Australia onto the 2000 Sydney Olympic Triathlon team, placing 9th in the event. The following year Nikki she became triple F1 champion, retained the Australian Olympic Distance title and Goodwill Games bronze medallist. In 2002 Nicky secured another national championships winning the sprint title and in the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games triathlon she was the first Australian woman home finishing with a Bronze medal. |
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2014 INDUCTION |
STEPHEN FOSTER |
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At the age of 18, he competed in the iron-distance 1984 Triple M Triathlon. He finished third behind 1982 Ironman World Champion American Scott Tinley, and one of Australia’s top athletes, Marc Dragan. Foster peaked just as the national circuit began to take shape. Although he suffered serious injuries in a cycling accident in November 1988, and took a full year to return to his winning form, he was named Triathlon Sports Triathlete of the Year in 1987, 1988, and 1990, won the official Australian Championships in 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1991, and also claimed the Australia long course title in 1988 and 1996. He finished third at the unofficial world championships in Kelowna Canada in 1988, and won at the famous USTS Chicago Triathlon. |
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2014 Induction |
LOUISE MACKINLAY (BONHAM) |
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Once referred to as ‘The Lady of Iron’, Louise was one of Australia’s key female triathletes of the period when the national circuit began to consolidate, and Australian triathletes began to assert their presence as a collective on the international stage. By the end of 1988/1989, Louise was selected to compete in the first official Triathlon World Championships at Avignon as part of the national team. During the European trip Bonham ‘blitzed the women’s field’, and became one of the first woman known to have finished to finish an Olympic distance race course in less under than two hours. Demonstrating her versatility, Louise followed up on her 1986 Hawaiian Ironman success with wins at IRONMAN Australia in 1987, 1988 and 1989. |
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2013 INDUCTION |
BRAD BEVEN |
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Brad became a legend in the sport after winning four consecutive World Cup Series titles between 1992 and 1995 and three silver medals in the ITU World Championships in the 90s – amongst a host of amazing achievements at home and abroad. The 1990 ITU World Championships in Orlando Florida was very much Australia’s day with Greg Welch taking the gold medal, Beven with silver and Stephen Foster taking the bronze in only the second ever World Championship. Brad also claimed a silver medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland when triathlon was included as a demonstration sport. Brad is a four time World Cup champion, 5 x Australian Champion and 7 x Australian Grand Prix Champion. |
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2012 INDUCTION |
EMMA CARNEY |
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Emma Carney had an extraordinary career, chalking up an amazing 12 consecutive World Cup victories between June 1995 and April 1997 in a reign that made her one of the most feared triathletes in the world. She was the world ranked number one woman for three years in succession in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and all in all achieved 19 World Cup victories. Emma only got serious about triathlon 18 months before winning her first ITU World title in Wellington in 1994 to launch a spectacular career. Her performances through 1995 and 1997 will go down in triathlon history as one of the great individual performances in the sport. |
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2012 Induction |
JACKIE FAIRWEATHER (NEE GALLAGHER) |
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Jackie began competing in triathlon in 1992 and won the elite Australian National Series in her first season. She spent eight years as a professional triathlete. In 1996 she became the world triathlon champion, setting a championship record time of 1 hour 50 minutes 52 seconds in Cleveland, Ohio. She also won the World Duathlon Championships in 1996 to become the only person ever to win both world titles in the same year. She won the bronze medal in the marathon in the 2002 Commonwealth Games,[1] after finishing 11th in her first ever marathon in Boston.[2] In 2005 she won the Gold Coast Marathon. |
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2012 Induction |
LORETTA HARROP |
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Loretta joined Michellie Jones and Nicole Hackett on the start line for triathlon's Olympic debut in Sydney in 2000 finishing fifth. She then went on to claim Australia's second Olympic silver in Athens in 2004. She had been crowned overall ITU World Cup champion in 1999 and in her Olympic year in 2004 also won silver in the World Championships in Madeira. |
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2009 INDUCTION |
MICHELLIE JONES |
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Michellie Jones is widely considered as the sports of triathlons most decorates athletes, one of the top 10 female triathletes of all time. With over 175 career victories at all distances, she dominated the sport for over 20 years. Michellie competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics winning a silver medal for Australia. Shortly after in 2004 she became an Ironman Champion in Florida and then went on to become the first Australian woman to win an Ironman World Championships in 2006. |
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2009 Induction |
MILES STEWART |
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Originally a speedskater from Wollongong, Miles rose to the elite ranks of the emerging sport of triathlon in the early '90s whilst living on Queensland's Gold Coast. He represented Australia at 16 ITU World Championships and went on to win a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Miles competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics, taking sixth place. |
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2009 Induction |
GREG WELCH |
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Greg is acknowledged as one of the greatest triathletes due to his remarkable dominance in winning the "The Grand Slam" which includes the ITU Triathlon World Championships (1990), The Ironman World Championship (1994), the ITU Duathlon World Championships (1993) and the Long Course Triathlon World Championship (1994).
Greg became the first Australian triathlete to be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2011. |
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