Nova Peris-Kneebone

Nova Peris-Kneebone
Medal record
Competitor for  Australia
Women's Field Hockey
Olympic Games
Gold 1996 Atlanta Team Competition
World Cup
Gold 1994 Dublin Team Competition
Champions Trophy
Gold 1993 Amstelveen Team Competition
Gold 1995 Mar del Plata Team Competition
Women's Athletics
Commonwealth Games
Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur 200 metres
Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur 4x100m relay

Nova Maree Peris, AO, (born 25 February 1971 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is an Australian athlete. She was a representative in the Australian Women's Hockey team at the 1996 Summer Olympics becoming the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.

In 1997, she switched sports to athletics and a year later she became a double gold medalist in the 1998 Commonwealth Games (Kuala Lumpur) winning the 200m sprint with a time of 22.77 seconds and sharing in Australia's 4x100 metres relay win.

She continued to represent Australia on the athletics track, running over 200 metres at the 1999 World Athletics Championships and 400 metres at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. She made the Olympic semi-finals in her individual event and ran in the Australian 4x400 metres relay team, which finished fifth.

In the Olympic year of 2000, a portrait of her was hung in the Sporting Archibald Prize, painted by Glenda Jones.

Nova divorced Sean Kneebone and now uses her maiden name Peris.

In 2005, she sold her Olympic memorabilia to the National Museum of Australia for $140,000. It included her gold medal, hockey stick, Sydney Olympic torch and the running shoes she wore in the Sydney Olympics.

She has three children: Jessica, Destiny and Jack.

She is now a grandmother at age 40.

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Preceded by
Rebecca Chambers
Young Australian of the Year
1997
Succeeded by
Tan Le




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