Commonwealth Games Team: 28 NSW athletes will compete in Glasgow
Published Mon 22 Jun 2026
27 June 2026
Commonwealth Games Team: 28 NSW athletes will compete in Glasgow
The final members of the Australian Athletics team for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games team were announced in Melbourne today. NSW have supplied 28 athletes to the 86-member team, or 33% of the team. The composition is six Para-athletes and 22 able-bodied.
Selection on this team enables two athletes, Jessica Hull and Nicola Olyslagers, to continue their incredible recent record over the last few years in the green and gold.
Jessica Hull - this is her 15th senior Australian team, 13 of those teams in the last four years – a staggering achievement. Event better is this is her third team in 2026, following the World XC and World indoors where she raced three times for three global medals. At her last six global meets, she has won a medal on five occasions.
Olyslagers – this is her 15th senior Australian team. She has won a medal in her last six global meets, remarkable consistency.
Both Hull and Olyslagers have now won in their careers seven global medals and they are now the equal most successful women in Australian history alongside Shirley Strickland and Sally Pearson.
However, the 2022 Commonwealth Games were the last major championships where both didn’t reach their usual standards. In Birmingham, Olyslagers injured herself in the high jump qualifying round and did not start in the final, while Hull was hampered by a bout of COVID that hindered her at the world championships and 10 days later at the Commonwealth Games.
Desleigh Owusu becomes the first Australian athlete in 12 years to be selected for the women’s triple jump, while Isaac Beacroft is the youngest male race walker to be selected in Australian Commonwealth Games history. High jumper Eleanor Patterson is named on her third Commonwealth Games team, the first way back in 2014 – 12-years ago when as an 18-year-old she won gold. One of the great moments of the 2022 Birmingham Games was the 1500m win by Ollie Hoare. He will start again in this event, albeit it over the classics distance of the mile in Glasgow.
NSW athletes named on the 2026 Commonwealth Games team:
WOMEN (11 + 6 = 17)
100m T47Lexie Brown NSW
400m T54Aimee Fisher NSW
MileJessica Hull NSW
5000mRose Davies NSW, Jessica Hull
10,000mRose Davies
400m HurdlesSarah Carli NSW
10,000m WalkElizabeth McMillen NSW
4x400m Relay Mixed Jemma Pollard NSW
High JumpNicola Olyslagers NSW, Eleanor Patterson NSW
Long Jump T38Ayla Kowalczyk NSW, Sienna Newton NSW, Layla Sharp NSW
Triple JumpDesleigh Owusu NSW
Shot Put F57Julie Charlton NSW
Javelin ThrowLianna Davidson NSW, Mackenzie Little NSW
MEN (11)
100mRohan Browning NSW
800mLuke Boyes NSW
MileOllie Hoare NSW
5000mJackson Sharp NSW
400m HurdlesMatthew Hunt NSW
10,000m WalkIsaac Beacroft NSW
4x100m RelayJosha Azzopardi NSW, Rohan Browning, Chris Ius NSW
4x400m Relay (mixed) Luke van Ratingen NSW
Long JumpLiam Adcock NSW
Javelin ThrowCameron McEntyre NSW
David Tarbotton for Athletics NSW
Image: Jessica Hull competed in the 1500m at Birmingham 2022 (image courtesy of Steve Christo)
