Madison Wilson

Did You Know?

• Wilson was born in Roma, a town in South West Queensland, and grew up in Yeppoon on the Capricorn Coast.
• She attended Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and swam with the Yeppoon Sharks club, where she was selected for her first Queensland team.
• She is married to Australian cricketer Matthew Short, and the couple have a son named Austin Wilson Short.

Swimming career

At the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, Qatar, Wilson earned a silver in the women's 4×100-metre medley relay and a bronze in the women's 4×200-metre freestyle relay. The following year at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, she won three medals: gold in the women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay, silver in the women's 100-metre backstroke, and bronze in the women's 4×100-metre medley relay. For her Olympic success, she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in July 2021, Wilson swam in the heats of the women's 4x100metre freestyle event alongside Mollie O'Callaghan, Bronte Campbell, and Meg Harris, posting the fastest qualifying time of 03:31:73. Wilson and O'Callaghan did not swim in the final, where Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell competed and won; as heat swimmers, both are still Olympic gold medal recipients.