Nina Kennedy

Put Nina Kennedy in an interview chair or on a panel, open the floor, and your audience can ask an Olympic champion whatever they like. Conversation is the format her appearances use, and the story runs from local athletics in Busselton, where she was raised, to pole vault gold at the Paris Olympics. She's a world champion too, having taken that title in Budapest. Talk tends to settle on performing under pressure, getting past setbacks and where women stand in sport. It all suits a sporting club lunch, a women's sport event or a conference session with real time set aside for questions. She's based in Perth.