Taniele Gofers

Taniele Gofers
Personal information
Born (1985-06-12) 12 June 1985 (age 39)
Sydney, Australia
Sport
SportWater polo
ClubSydney Uni Water Polo Club
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team competition
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Melbourne Team competition

Taniele Gofers (born 12 June 1985) is an Australian water polo player. She was a member of the Australia women's national water polo team that won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[1]

Prior to winning bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won a gold medal at the FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup in 2006[2] as well as a silver medal at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2007.

Gofers was ranked 57th in the 2013 book "Greatest Water Polo Players to Ever Play the Game: Top 100" by Alex Trost & Vadim Kravetsky.[3]

Gofers is the sister of Australian water polo player Keesja Gofers and Australian handball player Allira Hudson-Gofers.

Gofers has an accomplished second career as a key member of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Myanmar where she manages the Fund Directors Office and Communications playing a key role for the Access to Health Fund.[4] Previously, she also worked as the communications officer at the Three Millennium Development Goal Fund.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Taniele Gofers Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Taniele Gofers (2003) - MLC School". www.mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  3. ^ Trost, Alex; Kravetsky, Vadim (13 June 2014). Greatest Water Polo Players to Ever Play the Game: Top 100. ISBN 9781490588391.
  4. ^ "Going Further: Taniele Gofers - Olympic medallist to human rights advocate". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  5. ^ "By Taniele Gofers, Author at Frontier Myanmar". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 1 December 2020.


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