Catriona Bisset (athletics) has been one of Australia’s most consistent women’s 800m runners since her senior debut in 2019, having represented Australia the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 where she finished 5th in a world-class field, as well as three world championships (2019, 2022, 2023), two Olympic Games (2020, 2024) and two world indoor championships (2022, 2024).

Bisset claimed the first of her four Australian 800m titles in 2019, breaking the two-minute mark a week later, the first Australian woman to do so in over a decade. Later in the year, she broke Charlene Rendina’s 43-year-old Australian record (1:58.78) and then lowered the mark again in 2021 (1:58.09) – just prior to the Tokyo Olympics where she was unable to make it through the heats – and 2023 (1:57.78). She did not advance past the repechage round at her second Olympic appearance in Paris in 2024.

Catriona started running aged 7 at West Creek Redbacks club in Canberra, showing plenty of potential as a teenager before later taking a break after battling an eating disorder. She started running again while at university and resumed racing in 2016, later moving to Melbourne to train under Peter Fortune. Bisset has a master’s degree in architecture and a Diploma of Languages (Chinese) from the University of Melbourne.