The 2024 Olympic Games begin just days from now and the nation of Australia is primed to make some major waves in the La Défense Arena.
The 44-strong Dolphins roster revealed last month boasts such heavy hitters as Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan, Ariarne Titmus and Kyle Chalmers. However, they all don’t hail from the same home states, giving the lineup a truly Australia-wide flair.
30 of the Olympics originate from Queensland, 5 from New South Wales, 3 from West Australia, 3 from Victoria, and one each from South Australia and Tasmania. Chalmers is the sole South Aussie while Maximillian Giuliani is the sole Tasmanian athlete.
Australia experienced its most successful Olympics in history last time around in Tokyo with swimmers amassing 9 golds, 3 silvers and 8 bronze medals.
Australian Olympic Team for Paris 2024 – Swimming
| Name | Age | Suburb | State |
| Iona Anderson | 18 | Marmion | WA |
| Ben Armbruster | 22 | Robina | QLD |
| Jaclyn Barclay | 17 | Fig Tree Pocket | QLD |
| Bronte Campbell | 30 | North Bondi | NSW |
| Jack Cartwright | 25 | Kenmore | QLD |
| Kyle Chalmers | 25* | Hawthorndene | SA |
| Abbey Connor | 19 | Parrearra | QLD |
| Isaac Cooper | 20 | Mountain Creek | QLD |
| Elizabeth Dekkers | 20 | Newmarket | QLD |
| Jenna Forrester | 21 | Nundah | QLD |
| Maximillian Giuliani | 20* | Carlton | TAS |
| Chelsea Gubecka | 25 | Yeerongpilly | QLD |
| Meg Harris | 22 | Kelvin Grove | QLD |
| Zac Incerti | 27* | Sippy Downs | QLD |
| Shayna Jack | 25 | Mansfield | QLD |
| Moesha Johnson** | 26 | Main Beach | QLD |
| Kyle Lee | 22 | Australind | WA |
| Se-Bom Lee | 23 | Concord | NSW |
| Cameron McEvoy | 30 | West End | QLD |
| Emma McKeon | 30 | Labrador | QLD |
| Kaylee McKeown | 22* | Labrador | QLD |
| Thomas Neill | 22 | Red Hill | QLD |
| Mollie O’Callaghan | 20 | Augustine Heights | QLD |
| Lani Pallister | 22 | Alexandra Headland | QLD |
| Alexandria Perkins | 23* | Caloundra West | QLD |
| Jamie Perkins | 19 | Alexandra Headland | QLD |
| William Petric | 19* | Wheelers Hill | VIC |
| Ella Ramsay | 19* | Brassall | QLD |
| Samuel Short | 20 | Bunya | QLD |
| Nicholas Sloman | 26 | Peregian Beach | QLD |
| Brendon Smith | 23 | Melbourne | VIC |
| Flynn Southam | 19 | Tweed Heads | NSW |
| Jenna Strauch | 27 | Burleigh Heads | QLD |
| Zac Stubblety-Cook | 25 | Nathan | QLD |
| Kai Taylor | 20 | Norman Park | QLD |
| Matthew Temple | 24 | Vermont South | VIC |
| Brianna Throssell | 28 | Mooloolaba | QLD |
| Ariarne Titmus | 23 | Teneriffe | QLD |
| Samuel Williamson | 26 | Melbourne | QLD |
| Elijah Winnington | 24 | Chelmer | QLD |
| Bradley Woodward | 25* | Mays Hill | NSW |
| Olivia Wunsch | 18 | North Ryde | NSW |
| William Yang | 25 | Sydney | NSW |
| Joshua Yong | 22* | Claremont | WA |
Some inconsistencies here. You may as well say Max is from QLD, as he lives and trains there. He is just as Tasmanian as Ariarne is.
I think the issue as discussed below, is that some of these suburbs have only 2500 people in them like Bunya and Mamion. I couldn’t find the suburbs where they live in their bios but maybe my internet search skills are poor. Home towns are often listed but that is not where they now reside in most cases.
I totally agree that US based journalism would have very limited knowledge about the places mentioned. There are other suburbs with 1 road in and 1 road out and a bunch of “holiday homes” in a 3.2mile radius, ridiculous to have this location named if you have been a victim of family and domestic violence and you’re trying to live a private and peaceful life in that secluded location.
For me, I have safeguards in place and as a general rule these safeguards have and do work well. I can’t understand what was to gain by naming the suburbs like SS did? If SS writers and editors are not prepared to name the schools their children attend (not too dissimilar… Read more »
SwimSwam, please be careful with what is published with the information you have, some of these places named are fairly small and some of these athletes may need their locations a bit more discreet for their own protections. Some very weird and strange people out there.
I think naming a state, capital city or even a region (like Queensland, Brisbane or the Gold Coast) is fair enough but naming a suburb with a few hundred people in it makes it way too easy for nutjobs to get up to nutjob things.
Thanks for understanding.
Swimswam does not even publish the suburb where American swimmers reside in.
I find it odd to publish the suburbs to be honest. I have lived in both countries, I know many Australian suburbs are even smaller than average American suburbs.
You’re kidding, right?
Their hometowns are literally listed on their bios in 1000 places on the internet.
https://www.olympics.com.au/games/paris-2024/team/swimming-team/
And yes Thomas, we do list the suburbs that American swimmers are from. We’ve done 16 social media posts and 8 articles about the swimmers from Carmel.
Some of y’all have gone actually off the rails.
Some of us have real first hand knowledge of what stalking, harrassment and worse can do to an individual, there is very severe physical, emotional and financial costs associated with this. I would have thought you could understand and respect this but no, you would rather go on the offensive.
Just explain to me what the benefits to these athletes you have provided by listing the suburb in which they reside?
I totally get there is a fine line for athletes needing promotion and publicity that sites like this offer but also needing their own certain amount of privacy.
Even discussing this now is bringing up really bad memories that I have paid a hell of a… Read more »
Yes – misleading to call them Queenslanders just because they are training there. A bit like describing Marchand as an American..
and bob bowman as an American Citizen!
I actually did up a more detailed spreadsheet not long after trials when I saw a similar article for the US team. It’s based off of information from AOC website and filling in the gaps with googling and looking at the results database so it may not be perfect.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRcb8FmH4eefy8m2L5dzy3l0nCx-1bTsfLKpvyFH0z1GBE05St-KSZbrbtyNcNJxO_34eRn1mXqxPRL/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
Its what club they train at currently. Chalmers is now a queenslander, training at st andrews. I find it weird to show the suburbs, where they live.
Yes, I am sure it is no fault of SS and probably just a copy and paste from an official database somewhere, but listing actual suburbs is a bit much for me also. Lots of athletes that wouldn’t like, or even need their location to be a bit more suppressed than this.
Agree.
It’s on every single one of their official bios everywhere on the internet. I’m not sure where you got the idea it’s a secret, but it isn’t.
Thanks for the heads up, are you able to provide a link to where I am able to check an athlete’s bio?
I have a very real need to check an entry. Thank you.
Don’t worry, found the link you provided in another reply. The suburbs in your list among this article do not match that in the website link provided.
Just because you can, doesnt mean its necessary or has any value
Can y’all be like 10% less Australian just for one day? Please?
Yeah nah
The vast majority of top swimmers swim in QLD but often are born elsewhere. Don’t let Shannon Rollason see this because he hates when QLD claims swimmers that weren’t born here!
Titmus was born and grew up in Tassie. Throssell is from WA but now swims in QLD. McKeon is from “The Gong” in NSW. Southam was born in WA but lives in GC/Tweed which literally spans over the border between QLD/NSW.
Just a warning you might get some salty non-QLDers mad about this article haha.
the stats are inconsistent across the board, and far too specific for comfort. chalmers trains in qld and the article has his hometown as adelaide, when he’s actually from port lincoln.
to shannon’s credit, he is correct. qld sport boasted about the “all-queensland” w4x100 free in 2021, when wilson and mckeon are queenslanders under conflicting definitions
I really don’t care about the state thing. QLD has the best facilities and weather so swimmers tend to flock here. I care about team Australia as a whole but some people do get really upset specifying where a swimmer is “from”.
McKeon moved to QLD when she was 18. She showed promise at the youth Olympics prior to that but never achieved anything at a serious level before she’d been in QLD for 2 years. I can see her being claimed either way.
But tbh I think we all know Swimming QLD are full of themselves lol.
yes, but the point was that they also claim wilson as one of their own, when she started in qld but had most of her success in sa
That’s not entirely true. Wilson’s only individual Worlds level medal came from before she moved. She was also an Olympic champion before she moved. Very different to Emma who had never been on a senior team before she moved to QLD.
Nonetheless, I don’t think it matters what state swimmers are from and who claims them.
Absolutely, an article using official media sheets does not offer real insight into the “origins” of some of the swimmers and would mean little to US readers and plenty to non-Queenslanders! Fynn is a West Aussie, and did his final schooling here in the Tweed (NSW) and travels across the border to train at Bond Uni on the Gold Coast.
I’m sure Coach and dual Olympian Ron McKeown would be very disappointed to read that Wollongong was not where his daughter Emma “hails”! Emma and Olympian brother David trained with their father until their mid-teens at the West Illawarra swim club founded by the family.
Oh yes, try telling South Aussie Kyle Chalmers he is a Queenslander 😉
its not accurate, should be counted off which club they are swimming for putting them under that state federation, chalmers and giulani are queenslanders