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Keira Buckpitt is the 2021 Australian national U18 surfing champion, #2 Australian junior pro surfer and Australia team captain at the 2023 ISA World Junior Surfing Championships. She also claimed team silver at her maiden outing at Worlds in 2022, the same year she...

Alexa Leary is making waves in para swimming, coming back from a life-changing accident only two years ago to win gold and silver at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships and be on the cusp for Paris 2024 selection. The 2019 Under-18 vice world champion in...

As Switzerland’s number 1 badminton player, Jenjira Stadelmann has now begun her Paris Olympic campaign competing in Badminton World Cup events. To qualify, she needs to rank in the Top 50 – but she has to play as many tournaments as she can to improve her 10 best...

Polish speed climber Patrycja Chudziak wants to compete at the sport’s highest level, and that means getting to the Paris Olympic Games. The junior world champion and two-time junior European champion won’t rest until she knows she’s done everything she could and...

Rejected by a youth rugby team because he was deemed too slow, Edward Faulds took that as motivation not only to become the European U20 400-metre champion and double European champion, but also to break the European indoor 400-metre record that had stood for 34...

A trailblazer in Indian sport and the best on the subcontinent, Pragyna Mohan wants to become the first Indian triathlete to compete at an Olympic Games. She treads a difficult path as a sports person from a developing country, but hopes to inspire the most populous...

Melanie Chappaz is as self-made an athlete in downhill mountain biking as possible, funding her training and racing by holding down a job and racing around the world without a team. She wants to show that a woman can make it to the top while competing in a...

Even though she’s already raked in accolades as a five-time South Africa champion, four-time national champion and the only woman representing the African continent as an elite BMX rider, Miyanda Maseti knows she can be even better. Through Pho3nix’s support, she can...

At the age of 12, Jamie Riddle began dreaming of becoming an Olympic champion in the sport of triathlon. The South Africa champion is one step closer after qualifying for Paris. He aims to show the younger generation back home that anything and everything is possible...

While he began formal training in canoe sprint in 2011, David Llorente loved slalom so much that he trained on a makeshift course he built himself. Many years later, he’s become one of Spain’s top slalom canoeists with European and world titles under his belt and...

Andre has one passion and one goal: BMX. Winning a South American championship medal last year marked him as one of the top riders on the continent who has what it takes to make his Olympic dreams come true if he only had the financial support – which Pho3nix has now...

Jacqui Kinsey is a cyclist competing nationally, regionally, and internationally for Great Britain. Entering the racing scene only four years ago, she faced competitors who had access to better nutrition, equipment, and training but still managed to score top 10...

Freddy Ovett was a promising junior middle distance runner treading in the footsteps of his father, two-time Olympic gold medalist Steve Ovett. But after sustaining injury while on a running scholarship at the University of Oregon and rehabbing on a bike, he soon...

California girl Sage Erickson discovered surfing after she moved to Oahu, Hawaii, riding her first wave all the way to shore. Back in California three years later, Sage began her competitive career at the age of 14 and dominated the NSSA and Pro junior circuits before...

Olympic gold would be the apex of any other athlete’s career, but 19-year-old park skateboarder Keegan Palmer is just getting started. Born in San Diego, California to an American father and South African mother, the young family moved to Australia’s Gold Coast where...

Despite being only 19 years old, Michael Khedoori has committed himself to a life evangelising parkour and movement. A professional traceur out of Sydney, Australia, “The Kid” specialises in speed and agility. He competes in both nationwide and international...

There’s plenty of talent bubbling up in Australia, with no better example than that of Jake Birtwhistle. The Tasmanian-born 25-year-old comes from a running background; from the age of 15 to 18 he was crowned Australian champion 11 times over middle to long distance....

Silver and bronze medals at Tokyo2020 capped off what has been a meteoric rise for America's Katie Zaferes. Selected to compete at the Rio Olympics in 2016 after just three years in the sport, the childhood swim and track star went on to completely dominate the Super...