Most influential women in Australian sport: 10-1

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We've reached the apical 10 of our 50 astir influential women successful athletics bid to people International Women's Day with 50-41 40-31 30-21 and 20-11 having already been unveiled.

This database isn't astir the top athletes, though determination are plentifulness of superstars among the apical 50. To marque this list, it wasn't capable to beryllium a champion sportswoman, though galore are. From athletes to administrators, journalists to sports agents and sponsors, these women person made a difference.

Some person taken a basal connected issues that transcend sport, immoderate made the decisions that find wherever the wealth goes oregon what sports we spot connected TV, and others enactment successful the inheritance to support the large codes rolling along.

Here's who made the database from 10-1:

Debuted for Australia successful 2010 and has go 1 of the nation's highest-profile cricketers. A aggregate satellite cupful victor (Twenty20 and ODI), the wicketkeeper is simply a destructive batter astatine the apical of the bid and a chirpy beingness down the stumps successful the powerhouse Australian women's team.

She was named the ICC T20 subordinate of the twelvemonth successful 2018, and subordinate of the lucifer successful Australia's T20 World Cup last triumph successful Melbourne successful 2020. As her crippled evolved, truthful excessively did her enactment connected and disconnected the field.

She is an insightful cricket commentator and a salient dependable for the maturation of women's cricket, having pushed for much collaboration betwixt the men's and women's teams, and for the instauration of a Women's Indian Premier League, which has travel to fruition. Last twelvemonth she was appointed vice-captain. Melissa Coulter Ryan

Wilson is simply a Walkley award-winning writer who has been a trailblazer successful her sum of Australian rules shot since the aboriginal 1980s.

She is the erstwhile main shot writer of The Age, and though she stepped down successful 2017 aft astir 2 decades successful that role, she continues to interruption immoderate of the biggest stories successful the AFL, successful print, connected tv and connected radio.

Her sum of shot is agenda-setting and her enactment holds sway with radical successful powerfulness and fans alike.

When Wilson speaks, the AFL satellite listens. Claire Siracusa

As seat of the Australian Sports Commission, Sukkar holds 1 of the 2 astir almighty positions successful Olympic sports, starring the authorities bureau liable for backing and investing successful each athletics crossed Australia.

While her understated enactment benignant has repaired the fractured narration that existed betwixt the ASC and the Australian Olympic Committee nether the erstwhile presidents John Wylie and John Coates, Sukkar is besides not acrophobic to marque pugnacious calls.

She is besides the president of Australian women's rugby and, done the operation institution she co-founded, has been a large sponsor of grassroots and women's rugby for astir 30 years. Georgina Robinson

Daisy Pearce volition everlastingly beryllium known arsenic 1 of the astir influential names successful women's sport, blazing the way for pistillate athletes and boosting the illustration of the AFLW.

She was drafted arsenic the archetypal subordinate for the Melbourne Demons up of the AFLW's inaugural play successful 2017, playing a full of 55 games and captaining six seasons.

She won champion and fairest 3 times and was voted the AFLW's champion skipper 4 times by her peers.

Pearce is 1 of the astir respected commentators of the game, but she is besides a sustainability campaigner, midwife and mother, proving to each aspiring pistillate athletes that thing is possible.

In January, Pearce announced her status from playing.

But it's not implicit yet - she joins the coaching squad of AFL premiers Geelong from adjacent season. Her influence, it appears, is acold from over. Zoe Samios

Lauren Jackson has changed the look of Australian basketball.

With a resume boasting 4 Olympic medals, a satellite title golden medal, 2 WNBA titles, 3 WNBA MVP awards and an induction into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, Jackson has forged a league of her own.

After closing the doorway connected a distinguished 20-year vocation successful 2016, the parent of 2 inspired a caller procreation of sports fans with her singular comeback from chronic wounded past year.

Benefiting from a therapeutic-use exemption to instrumentality medicinal cannabis, Jackson has go an advocator for the treatment, joining the sports advisory committee for Australian sports subject institution Levin Health. Emily Patterson

Perry was conscionable 16 erstwhile she played her archetypal one-day planetary for Australia successful 2007, the youngest subordinate ever to bash so. It would beryllium a feat successful itself had she not besides debuted for the Matildas conscionable 13 days later.

Her shot vocation - the unforgettable item of which remains a left-footed extremity against Sweden successful the 2011 World Cup quarter-final - coiled up astir 2015 with the advent of the Big Bash and the acceleration of professionalism successful some sports.

As the world's premier cricket all-rounder, she was the archetypal subordinate to amass the operation of 1000 runs and 100 wickets successful T20 internationals. Sixteen years later, with a swag of awards excessively immense to list, the unfailingly humble Perry continues to predominate cricket. Kathryn Wicks

Cate Campbell doesn't request an introduction.

She's a four-time Olympian, a satellite grounds holder, a four-time golden medallist, and a sporting fig who has agelong advocated for the practice of women successful sport.

In 2022, the 30-year-old took connected a caller relation arsenic seat of the Australian Olympics Committee Athlete's Commission aft 9 years connected the board.

Leading the radical that oversees the presumption of athletes volition beryllium precise important, peculiarly successful the leadup to the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.

Campbell has already spoken astir the relation she wants to play - speaking specifically astir the AOC's sustainability ambitions and its relation successful Indigenous reconciliation erstwhile elected. Zoe Samios

Retired from tennis astatine 25 erstwhile she was astatine the highest of her powers arsenic the satellite No.1 and arguably Australia's best-known athlete.

Yet adjacent successful retirement, Barty has a almighty voice. She was coaxed backmost to the country of her last expansive slam triumph earlier this twelvemonth to, on with her leader Evonne Goolagong Cawley, beryllium the look of the Australian Open's inaugural Indigenous day.

She is fiercely arrogant of her Indigenous practice and uses her level to make pathways for Indigenous kids to unrecorded their dreams.

Barty is besides a sought-after firm talker and has been appointed by Optus arsenic the "chief of inspiration" successful further grounds of her standing. Brooke Boney

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest idiosyncratic with a worth of $43.5 cardinal done Hancock Prospecting, has agelong been progressive successful Australian sport.

She provides millions successful backing for Olympic athletes successful swimming, rowing, creator swimming and formation volleyball, and arsenic a spouse of the Australian Olympic Committee.

Despite her influence, Rinehart's stance connected assorted issues, specified arsenic clime alteration and successful effect to Australia's netballers azygous boycott successful enactment of Indigenous teammate Donnell Wallam, has resulted successful clashes with immoderate of the athletes she sponsors.

Her presumption "that it is unnecessary for sports organisations to beryllium utilized arsenic the conveyance for societal oregon governmental causes" firmly illustrates the good enactment that exists betwixt sponsorship, work and influence. Melissa Coulter Ryan

Sam Kerr's achievements are staggering, connected and disconnected the field.

The Matildas skipper is the country's all-time starring extremity scorer (62 goals), scored Australia's archetypal World Cup hat-trick and is the archetypal pistillate to triumph the Golden Boot successful 3 leagues connected antithetic continents.

Off the field, the Chelsea striker became the archetypal pistillate to diagnostic connected the screen of the FIFA bid of video games past year, posing adjacent to French superstar Kylian Mbappe. She was named the 2018 Young Australian of the Year and was past twelvemonth awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Kerr is simply a planetary superstar, and her ranking connected this database reflects it. Yet she's built her marque connected authenticity.

The shot megastar is herself connected and disconnected the field, and connected societal media. Her Instagram is afloat of football, friends, household and loved-up selfies with her partner, American nonrecreational subordinate Kristie Mewis. The advertisements that bash marque it to Kerr's "grid" see partnerships with Nike, EA Sports, Tourism WA and CommBank.

Her illustration volition highest successful Australia this year. If determination are inactive immoderate Australian homes that person not heard of Sam Kerr, a World Cup successful Australia volition span that gap. Georgina Robinson (read the afloat Sam Kerr illustration by clicking HERE).

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