Chris's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Basketball
Event: Men's Basketball
Olympic History: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1988
State Born: TAS
About Chris
Chris Goulding was born in Tasmania and started playing Aussie rules football before moving with his family to Queensland when he was eight-years-old. Once in Queensland, basketball took over as his main focus.
Having spent the majority of his career in the National Basketball League, Chris got his first chance to play overseas following a stellar 2014 season with the Melbourne Tigers/United which saw him lead the Australian league in scoring.
Chris also experienced the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the USA with summer league exposure in 2013 at the Cleveland Cavaliers and then with the Dallas Mavericks in 2014. He then headed to Spain before helping Australia qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics by winning the 2015 Oceania Championships.
Chris returned to the NBL and Melbourne United in 2015 and won the championship with them in 2018 and 2021, which included NBL Grand Final MVP honours in 2018.
He made his Olympic debut at the Rio 2016 Games where Australia would go on to just miss out on a historic first Olympic men’s basketball medal.
In the bronze medal match, Australia missed a medal by the barest of margins as the Spanish scored two free throws with just over five seconds remaining to take the final position on the Rio podium. Chris played limited minutes in Rio but showed his potential against Venezuela, scoring 22 points in 25 minutes.
In December 2019 he played his 300th NBL game and his 350th in June 2021.
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (in 2021) Chris and the Boomers lifted Australia to the bronze medal, defeating Slovenia in the bronze medal match 107-93.
The dual Olympian helped achieved our nation's first men's basketball Olympic medal since Australia made its men's basketball Olympic debut in 1956.
Chris played in all six matches for the Boomers, averaging 11.9 minutes off the bench.
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