Athletics' Olympic gold medal winner Glynis Nunn 20th Legend of Queensland Sport
Published Tue 24 Nov 2020
The only Australian to win a multi-discipline track and field event at the Olympics is the latest Legend of Queensland Sport, elevated from member to Legend status at this year's Queensland Sport Hall of Fame induction and installation function at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in front of a COVID restricted audience of 100 selected guests.
Glynis Nunn OAM won the gold medal in the women's heptathlon at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, having two years earlier won their first Commonwealth Games heptathlon gold in Brisbane.
Beating US star and hot favourite Jackie Joyner in the LA coliseum in the gruelling seven discipline event was the highlight of an outstanding career for the Toowoomba raised Nunn as an athlete, coach, selector, administrator and commentator in which she competed in four Commonwealth Games and was prevented by injuery from defending her Olympic crown in Seoul in 1988.
These days, Nunn is the Executive Director of the Gold Coast Academy of Sport and was accompanied by her parents down from Toowoomba for this evening's function that also saw six new members inducted into the State's Sport Hall of Fame, established in 2009, in Barry Dancer (hockey), the late Roy "Chook" Fowler (Paralympics/multi-sport), Robbie McEwen (cycling), Dick Marks (rugby uniont), Pam O'Neill (horse racing) and Brooke Wilkins (softball)
The new additions bring the total members to 200, with 20 elevated to Legend status since 2011. The list of inductees can be found HERE.
With no annual Queensland Sport Awards due to COVID impact on 2020 sporting comeptitions near and far, the Hall of Fame function continues the tradition of recognising outstanding Queensland sporting achievers of yesteryear, coordinated by QSport as the industry peak body for sport in the State, supported by the State Government and other major function supporters in The Courier Mail, Channel 7, and the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
For further information, contact QSport CEO and Hall of Fame Secretary Peter Cummiskey on 0418 185 008 or admin@qsport.org.au
