Stewart McSweyn (athletics) competed in the 5000m and 10000m at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games where he finished 5th and 11th respectively. Growing up on a beef and sheep farm on King Island in the middle of Bass Strait between Melbourne and Tasmania, McSweyn went to boarding school in Ballarat in regional Victoria. Making his representative debut as a junior at the 2013 world cross country titles, McSweyn also competed at the 2015 World University Games and the 2017 and 2019 world championships. Initially a steeplechaser, McSweyn has progressed into one of Australia’s finest middle-long distance runners, setting an Australian 10,000m record in December 2019.