UQ alum Maddison Keeney has won the silver medal in the women’s 3-metre springboard, the first Australian in history to win an individual Olympic medal in a springboard diving event.
12 August 2024UQ's Gabi Palm and Abby Andrews have helped create a powerful legacy by winning an inaugural Olympic silver medal.
12 August 2024Nine University of Queensland students and community members are packing their bags after being selected to represent Australia at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
18 June 2024Three generations of one family have now played in premiership-winning rugby sides for the University of Queensland, after the club won the inaugural Wheelchair Rugby National League.
3 June 2022Natalie Grider has kicked many personal goals since being drafted into the Brisbane Lions’ AFLW team, including one that many professional footballers never achieve – a premiership title.
10 March 2022Brisbane Lions’ AFLW grand finalist Natalie Grider and Australian middle-distance runner Callum Davies have been announced as The University of Queensland’s 2021 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year.
13 April 2021Thirty-two University of Queensland student-athletes have been recognised for their sporting achievements at the annual UQ Blues Awards Dinner.
4 November 2019Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medallist swimmer Lakeisha Patterson and Australian Touch Football representative Justin Cridland have been named UQ’s Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year.
16 April 2019An augmented reality platform that brings fans into the match has won the inaugural HYPE UQ SPIN Accelerator Global Pitch competition held during the Commonwealth Games.
11 April 2018Five University of Queensland students and five graduates will be vying for glory at next month’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (4-15 April).
28 March 2018Australian Commonwealth Games athletes are among a group of 58 University of Queensland students awarded UQ 2018 Sporting Scholarships.
16 March 2018Three University of Queensland students have recorded top five placings at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan.
30 August 2017A record 56 University of Queensland students – including five Olympic and Paralympic representatives – have received 2017 UQ Sporting Scholarships.
23 March 2017UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences has ranked 4th and 5th in the world for sport science in two highly respected global rankings systems.
27 January 2017Dr Emma Beckman was already on a high from working as a Paralympic Games athletics classifier, and then she got an extra boost of a rare Universitas 21 Teaching Excellence Award.
14 October 2016University of Queensland student Brenden Hall has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, with UQ-affiliated athletes claiming an additional three medals from the games.
19 September 2016Six University of Queensland students and five graduates are preparing to step onto the world stage at next month’s Rio Olympics (5-21 August).
21 July 2016Rio Olympic hopefuls are among a group of more than 40 University of Queensland students who have received 2016 UQ Sporting Scholarships.
17 March 2016An American rugby union hooker who has represented the US internationally is the inaugural winner of The University of Queensland’s Mark Loane Medal.
9 November 2015A finding that cardio-respiratory fitness is more important than fat loss for people suffering so-called ‘Syndrome X’ has landed a Queensland researcher a New Investigator Award.
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