by Victorian Institute of Sport | Aug 22, 2024 | All
Sam Williamson, 26, is the world 50m breaststroke champion. On his way to gold at the recent World Swimming Championships in Qatar he twice broke the Australian record and swam the fourth fastest 50m time in history. He is aiming to swim the 100m breaststroke at the...
by Stephen Rielly | Aug 21, 2024 | All
On Wednesday, September 4, Emily Petricola will push out on to the streets of north-east Paris aiming to ride with furious calm the 13.9km Paralympic individual time trial (ITT) course. It is a course considered technical, with wide roundabouts to be negotiated on...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Aug 14, 2024 | All
The VIS Performance Science department is offering exciting opportunities for Exercise and Sport Science students/graduates seeking to explore or further a career in high performance sport. Operating in partnership with National Sporting Organisations and State...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Aug 13, 2024 | All
Well, high performance might be a stretch. And competition Lets just say there was more creak than peak but on August 2 Green and Gold Day – VIS staff did their best impersonations of the many VIS athletes in Paris for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sadly,...
by Australian Olympic Committee | Aug 9, 2024 | All
In front of a boisterous crowd under the roof on the famous Philippe-Chatrier court, Caitlin gave it her all in the semi-final bout but didn’t progress to the gold medal bout. With her bronze medal, Caitlin becomes the first Australian woman to win an...
by Australian Olympic Committee | Aug 9, 2024 | All
It wiped away the pain of the broken handlebars that robbed them in Tokyo. The pain of being denied gold by just 0.7 of a second in Rio, and by 2.9 seconds in London, and of missing the medals altogether in Beijing. And who else could they beat in the final than Great...
