Olympics
Tennis was an original Olympic sport, played from 1896 to 1924. After a six decade absence, it returned as an official Olympic sport in 1988.
Since 1988, nine Australian players have won Olympic medals. Doubles champions Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde have been the most successful, winning Australia’s only gold medal. They are also the only dual medal winners.
Alicia Molik is the only Australian to win an Olympic medal in singles competition.
| Australia’s Olympic medal winners | ||
| Gold | 1 | Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (men’s doubles 1996) |
| Silver | 1 | Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (men’s doubles 2000) |
| Bronze | 4 | Elizabeth Smylie and Wendy Turnbull (women’s doubles 1988) Nicole Bradtke and Rachel McQuillan (women’s doubles 1992) Alicia Molik (women’s singles 2004) Ash Barty and John Peers (mixed doubles 2020) |
Since 1988, an elite group of 44 players have represented Australia at the Olympic Games. Only three players have contested more than four Olympic Games – Sam Stosur with five, while Todd Woodbridge and Rennae Stubbs have each made four Olympic appearances.
| Olympic appearances |
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| Women | Men | |
| 5 | Sam Stosur (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) | |
| 4 | Rennae Stubbs (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) | Todd Woodbridge (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004) |
| 3 | Alicia Molik (2000, 2004, 2008) | Mark Philippoussis (1996, 2000, 2004) Lleyton Hewitt (2000, 2008, 2012) |
| 2 | Nicole Bradtke (1992, 1996) Rachel McQuillan (1992, 1996) Nicole Pratt (2000, 2004) Casey Dellacqua (2008, 2012) Anastasia Rodionova (2012, 2016) |
John Fitzgerald (1988, 1992) Wally Masur (1988, 1992) Mark Woodforde (1996, 2000) Chris Guccione (2008, 2016) John Millman (2016, 2020) John Peers (2016, 2020) |
| 1 | Anne Minter (1988) Elizabeth Smylie (1988) Wendy Turnbull (1988) Jenny Byrne (1992) Jelena Dokic (2000) Jarmila Gajdosova (2012) Daria Gavrilova (2016) Arina Rodionova (2016) Ash Barty (2020) Ajla Tomljanovic (2020) Ellen Perez (2020) Storm Sanders (2020) |
Darren Cahill (1988) Richard Fromberg (1992) Jason Stoltenberg (1996) Andrew Ilie (2000) Pat Rafter (2000) Wayne Arthurs (2004) Paul Hanley (2008) Jordan Kerr (2008) Bernard Tomic (2012) Sam Groth (2016) Thanasi Kokkinakis (2016) Jordan Thompson (2016) James Duckworth (2020) Luke Saville (2020) Max Purcell (2020) |
