The Gold Coast Bulletin

MEMORABLE MOMENTS: 11 TO 30

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11. TIM HORAN

Horan (see No.10) helps Australia to victory in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, his second.

12. RACHAEL TILLY

American Tilly (class of 2018, studying Bachelor of Sport Management) wins the 2015 world longboard title at 17, becoming the youngest ever surfer to win a world championsh­ips.

13. ALEX GRAHAM

Graham (class of 2015, Bachelor of Sports Management) wins a world championsh­ip as part of the Australian men’s 4x200m freestyle team in 2019.

14. HARRIET BROWN

Brown (class of 2009, Bachelor of Exercise Science) claims world ironwoman championsh­ip in 2016.

15. HARRIET BROWN

Brown becomes the first woman to break the five-hour barrier in Molokai 2 Oahu endurance paddle race.

16. ANNABELLE WILLIAMS

Williams (class of 2007, Bachelor of Laws) wins gold in the 4x100m medley relay at 2012 London Paralympic­s.

17. SHANNON ECKSTEIN

Eckstein (class of 2018, Graduate Certificat­e of Valuation and Property Developmen­t) wins his sixth world ironman title in 2016. He won the Australian ironman championsh­ip eight times in a 20-year career.

18. MADELINE GROVES

Groves (class of 2015, Bachelor of Laws) wins silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics, missing gold by just .03sec in the women’s 200m butterfly.

19. MINNA ATHERTON

Atherton (class of 2018, studying Bachelor of Biomedical Science) breaks the shortcours­e world record in 100m backstroke in 2019, becoming the first woman to breach the 55-second barrier.

20. KY HURST

Hurst (class of 2006, Bachelor of Property and Sustainabl­e Developmen­t) wins national ironman championsh­ip.

21. ANDREW BAILDON

Baildon (class of 1989, Bachelor of Communicat­ion – Business) becomes the first Commonweal­th athlete to break the 50-second barrier in the 100m freestyle on his way to gold at the 1990 Auckland Commonweal­th Games.

22. MICHAEL MURPHY

Murphy (class of 1997, Bachelor of Commerce) claims gold in the 10m platform, the 3m springboar­d and wins a silver in the 1m springboar­d at the 1994 Commonweal­th Games.

23 ELIJAH WINNINGTON

Winnington (class of 2018, studying Bachelor of Business) helps Australia to gold alongside Bond teammate Alex Graham in the men’s 4x200m freestyle at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonweal­th Games.

24. DANIEL KOWALSKI

Kowalski (class of 1994, Bachelor of Health Sciences — Sports Management) wins silver at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the 1500m freestyle.

25. DANIEL BELCHER

Belcher (class of 1999, Bachelor of Laws) wins sailing 470 men’s class world title with brother Mat in 2000.

26. GEORGIA INGLIS

Inglis (class of 2019, studying Master of Occupation­al Therapy) wins the 2019 US national wheelchair basketball championsh­ip with Uni of Alabama.

27. CHRIS ATKINSON

Atkinson (class of 1998, Bachelor of Commerce) wins the 2012 Asia-Pacific Rally Championsh­ip.

28. SOLOMON WRIGHT

Wright (class of 2015, Bachelor of Laws) breaks a 70-year record on the way to his prestigiou­s Rottnest Challenge swimming victory in 2018.

29. JENNA STRAUCH

Strauch (class of 2017, Bachelor of Biomedical Science) breaks three consecutiv­e national breaststro­ke records at Uni Championsh­ips in 2019.

30. DRAGONBOAT

Bond University developed a reputation in the mid-1990s as a dragonboat juggernaut, claiming three consecutiv­e mixed national titles.

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