Misplaced Pages

Taniele Gofers

Personal information
Born	(1985-06-12) 12 June 1985 (age 39) Sydney, Australia
Sport
Sport	Water polo
Club	Sydney Uni Water Polo Club
Medal record Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team competition World Championships 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.

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 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.

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. Previously, she also worked as the communications officer at the Three Millennium Development Goal Fund.

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in water polo (women)
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

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.

External links

• Taniele Gofers at World Aquatics
• Taniele Gofers at Olympics.com
• Taniele Gofers at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Taniele Gofers at Olympedia

v t e Australia women's water polo squad – 2008 Summer Olympics – Bronze medal
1 E. Knox (GK) 2 Beadsworth 3 Cuffe 4 R. Rippon 5 Fraser 6 B. Knox 7 Gofers 8 Gynther 9 J. Santoromito 10 M. Santoromito 11 M. Rippon (C) 12 Hetzel 13 McCormack (GK) Coach: McFadden

This article about an Australian Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This biographical article relating to an Australian water polo figure is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1985 births
• Living people
• Australian female water polo players
• Olympic bronze medalists for Australia in water polo
• Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
• People educated at MLC School
• 21st-century Australian sportswomen
• Water polo players from Sydney
• Sportswomen from New South Wales
• Australian expatriates in Myanmar
• University of Sydney alumni
• Australian Olympic medalist stubs
• Australian water polo biography stubs