Hawthorn legend Jason Dunstall is among an elite group of athletes who will be among the 2025 class inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
The Fox Footy expert analyst was at the MCG on Thursday alongside World Cup-winning netballer Laura Geitz and renowned sports medicine expert Dr Peter Harcourt OAM.
Former world No.1 and dual grand slam winner Lleyton Hewitt, Melbourne Storm and Queensland icon Cameron Smith, Olympic snowboard star Torah Bright and ex-Socceroo goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer are the other inductees for this year.
Dunstall declared it was an “amazing honour and great privilege to be considered a worthy induction” into the Sport Australian Hall of Fame.
“(It is) quite humbling given the depth of Australian sport and the incredible quality of our sporting stars,” he said.
“My biggest influences were Allan Jeans and George Stone. Allan was a real father figure, disciplinarian and mentor who always encouraged, and George worked tirelessly with me doing countless extra skill and fitness sessions.”
It is 40 years since the Sport Australia Hall of Fame was launched at the MCG, with Sir Donald Bradman the inaugural inductee.
The seven will be inducted at a ceremony in November where the “Don”, an honour given to the nation’s premier athlete, will be announced.
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