Australia has two athletes in contention for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games – Darcie Morton and Jillian Colebourn. Both girls required other countries to not take their full quota of athletes, allowing them to be the recipient of an “unallocated quota” ie; a place not allocated to an athlete by another country.

Unfortunately for Darice and Jill, this wasn’t the case in 2022 and both girls will not be able to attend Beijing 2022. We wish them all the best for the remainder of their seasons and hope to seem them back on the trails and the Range in the future and targeting 2026!

Photos of Darcie and Jill in competition during their quest for Olympic selection and qualification.

Australia has a proud history of competing at the Olympic Games in biathlon, dating back to Sarajevo in 1984 with Andrew Paul who also competed in the Calgary games in 1988. 

Australian Olympic Biathlon representation has continued since 1984 with Sandra Paintin-Paul competing in both Albertville in 1992 and Lillehammer in 1994. Alongside Sandra was our most successful Olympic Biathlete Kerryn Rim who competed in Albertville, Lillehammer and Nagano in 1998.

After an interlude of 6 years, we were next represented by Cameron Morton at the Torino 2006 Games. Morton had also featured previously in the Winter Olympic Biathlon world as he had coached Kerryn Rim at Nagano in 1998. In 2010 at Vancouver, Australia was represented by Alex Almoukouv who represented Australia again in 2014 at Sochi, where he was joined by our youngest biathlon competitor Lucy Glanville who was only 19 years old when she competed.

Whilst for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Australia is not sending a representative, training has already begun to continue our goal of biathlon Olympic representation in Milano, Cortina in 2026.

History of Australian Olympic Biathlon Representation