Hall of Fame 

Australian athletics has a rich history of success dating back over 100 years. In 2000, the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame was established to recognise the outstanding achievements of Australia's truly great athletes.

At the discretion of Athletics Australia's Special Awards Committee, an induction into the Hall of Fame takes place to recognise the greats of the sport.

Currently, the following athletes have been inducted as members of the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame:

Edwin Flack (2000)

Shirley Strickland (2000)

Marjorie Jackson (2000)

Betty Cuthbert (2000)

Herb Elliott (2000)

Ron Clarke (2000)

Anthony 'Nick' Winter (2004)

John Landy (2004)

Raelene Boyle (2004)

Ralph Doubell (2004)

A large portion of the Hall of Fame profiles have been collated by Harry Gordon CMG AGM, the official historian of the Australian Olympic Committee.

As a journalist, editor and author (of 13 books), he has won many awards, including the National Book Council first prize for Australian literature. As well as being editor-in-chief of two of Australia’s major newspaper groups, he was chairman of Australian Associated Press. He has served on the council of the Australian War Memorial, the Australia-China Council and the Australia-Japan Foundation. His introduction to the Olympics came in 1952, when he covered the Games in Helsinki, fresh from serving as a young war correspondent in Korea (1950-51). He has been involved with the Games ever since.

Harry helped plan media facilities for the Melbourne 1956 Olympics Games. He was a member of the organising committee for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, and chairman of the media division. He played a significant role in the planning of the 2000 Olympic torch relay, and had the task of naming streets and boulevards around the main Olympic areas, throughout the Olympic Village and at all venues used in the Sydney Games. He was awarded the Australian Olympic Committee’s highest award, the Order of Merit, in 1999 and the IOC’s Olympic Order in 2001. In 2006 the International Society of Olympic Historians honoured him with its Lifetime Achievement Award - only the second such award ever given. He is a member of the selection committees of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, the Australian Football Hall of Fame and the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame - www.olympics.com.au