Marlo’s Darcie Morton has been selected in the Australian team for the 2026 Winter Olympics to be held in Cortina, Italy from February 6-22.
The event will see 2900 athletes from 93 nations compete at eight different venues.
Australia will send 53 competitors, participating 10 sports, with 33, including Morton attending her first Olympiad.
Morton will become the seventh Australian to compete in biathlon at the Olympic Winter Games.
Her father, Cameron, competed at the last Games held in Italy, Torino 2006, and they are the first father-daughter duo to represent Australia at the Winter Olympics.
She is coached by her brother, Damon, who also raced internationally, and her younger sister, Damika also represents Australia in the juniors.
Although Morton first represented Australia in table tennis as a junior, she was destined to be a biathlete with her family pedigree.
She was born and raised in Marlo, and in her mid–teens, she followed her older brother onto skis and towards biathlon and cross–country skiing.
She competed in the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games where she was 16th in the girls’ sprint, 26th in the pursuit, and teamed with Jethro Mahon for 27th in the single mixed relay.
Transitioning to senior biathlon, Morton made her International Biathlon Union World Cup debut in 2021 and by August 2024, had accrued more than 20 World Cup starts.
She then produced a breakthrough northern–winter finish with a career–best 12th place in the 7.5km sprint in the IBU Cup at Obertilliach during the 2023/24 season.
The step up was matched by championship selection, as Morton represented Australia at three consecutive IBU World Championships: Oberhof 2023, Nové Městona Moravě 2024 and Lenzerheide 2025.
Her 2025/26 International season has been impacted by sickness and a ‘few nerves on the range’, but she has remained focused and is set for a big performance on the biggest stage.
Committed to building performance at home as well as in Europe, Morton has spent recent off–seasons racing and winning domestic cross–country events.
She has also been training with national squads and partner federations from Finland, Poland and Latvia.
