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  • Chris Nunn
    06 Apr 2010
    Discover how all-rounder Chris Nunn has been making a difference in Paralympic sport.
  • Graeme Carroll
    03 Mar 2010
    Ex-AIS swimmer Graeme Caroll returns to Institute to coach Paralympic program.
  • Alisa Camplin
    11 Feb 2010
    We catch up with one of Australia's greatest winter athletes.
  • Sandi Bowen and Sean Smith
    27 Jan 2010
    Update on ex-AIS volleyballer Sandi Bowen and wrestler Sean Smith.
  • Charlie Walsh, Stuart Cormack and Denise Jennings
    08 Dec 2009
    Ex-AIS coaches now playing roles in AFL clubs.
  • Shaun Creighton
    24 Nov 2009
    We catch up with one of Australia's best-ever distance runners.
  • Reunion of ex-AIS basketballers
    27 Oct 2009
    Ex-AIS basketballers gather to pay their respects to Bev Stelzer.
  • Donna Proctor
    11 Oct 2009
    Catch up with ex-AIS swimmer Donna Proctor, now coach.
  • Ann-Maree Kerry
    18 Sep 2009
    Discover how Ann-Maree Kerry went from AIS Gymnastics to a career in sports media.
  • Catching up with Jenny Evans, John Gibson, Matt Smith, Graham and Brett Cash
    08 Sep 2009
    Presenting five ex-AIS athletes in basketball, football and wrestling.  
  • Justin Norris
    25 Aug 2009
    Catch up with ex-AIS swimmer Justin Norris who has established a learn-to-swim school in the Hunter Valley.
  • Pat Flynn
    11 Aug 2009
    Read how Pat Flynn went from living on a Queensland dairy farm to playing tennis at the AIS, and now writing award-winning children’s novels.
  • Sammy and Patrick Mills
    28 Jul 2009
    Sammy Mills and nephew Patrick are members of one of the very few families that can boast two generations of AIS scholarship holders.
  • Linley Frame
    14 Jul 2009
    Find out what Linley Frame, Olympic silver medallist, has been up to since finishing her scholarship at the AIS.
  • Mark, Sue, Paul and Jenni Oberman
    19 Jun 2009
    Find out about four unique athletes who collectively achieved almost everything possible in the sports of water polo and netball, and are now part of the same extended family.
  • Simon Fairweather OAM
    09 Jun 2009
    Discover what Simon Fairweather OAM, Australia’s greatest archer, has been up to since finishing his scholarship in 2004.
  • Peta Edebone
    22 May 2009

    Find out what one of Australia’s greatest softball players has been up to since leaving the AIS.

  • Buck, Carroll, Pollock and Roberts
    11 May 2009
    Matt Buck, Chris Carroll, John Pollock and Anne Roberts (nee Watts) were all AIS scholarship holders at some stage during the 1980’s and 90’s. Find out what they’re up to now!
  • Brennon Dowrick
    28 Apr 2009
    Have you ever been to a seminar and a few days later wondered what you got out of it?
  • Robert de Castella
    09 Apr 2009
    Olympic runner Robert de Castella MBE won his first marathon in 1982 at Fukuoka, Japan in world-record time.

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Australia is one of only two nations to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games.

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700 athlete scholarships offered on average annually at the AIS.
263 current and former AIS athletes competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
143 Olympic medals have been won by athletes from the AIS since its establishment.
35 thousand kilometres were swum by Petria Thomas while at the AIS.
0.5 million people visit the AIS each year