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Olympians Reception Parliament House

4 August 1996

The Lord Mayor of Darwin the Right Honourable George Brown presenting Nova Peris with the Keys to the City of Darwin during the Olympians Reception at Parliament House Darwin hosted by the Chief Minister the Honourable Shane L Stone. Nova Peris was a representative in the Australian Women’s Hockey team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Aboriginal to win an Olympic gold medal. In 1997, she switched sports and a year later she became a double gold medallist in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia winning the 200m sprint and sharing in Australia's 4 × 100 metres relay win. Peris was named Young Australian of the Year in 1997. Nova Peris 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 4 × 400 metres relay team, which made the final, finishing fifth.

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