There was nothing cold about our Aussie winter athletes who were on fire this weekend, with  'Bobsled Bree' Walker taking out World Cup Monobob gold on Saturday, Brodie Summers winning Moguls silver and Matt Graham winning Dual Moguls gold on Sunday.

Walker kicked off her season in the best way possible, when she topped the podium at the World Series event in Innsbruck, Austria.

After her win, the six-time first-place getter told the OWIA that her success comes from the training she does off the track, especially throughout COVID-19. 

"The edge I believe has come from all the work I have done off the track this summer," she said.

"This year hasn’t been easy. I wasn’t able to go back to Australia because of COVID, but I have been able to spend the summer training in Germany with my push coach and some of the best bobsleigh athletes in the business.

"This time allowed me to solely focusing on becoming the best athlete I can be so I have made huge improvements physically and mentally.

"It’s an unbelievable sight, seeing the '1' next to your name, but honestly, it didn’t really hit me until I saw my bobsleigh teammate, Sarah, run up to me and give me a huge hug. Even though this is more of an individual event I honestly couldn’t have done it without my team."

Walker has her sights set on making her debut at Beijing 2022, after missing out on PyeongChang 2018.

"My goal is to continue to progress my pushing and driving skills in both the monobob and twoman events and this time actually make it to the big dance," she said.

"Unfortunately last time I missed out on the 2018 Winter Olympics, so now my team and I have full focus on doing everything it takes to qualify for the 2022 Winter Olympics. From there anything is possible."

Walker then teamed up with Sarah Blizzard for the twoman event, where the duo placed eighth.

Meanwhile, in Idre Fjall, Sweden, Sochi 2014 Olympian Brodie Summers also found the podium, claiming Moguls silver. 

The 27-year-old qualified for finals in 11th place but after scoring an impressive 80.77 in the first run of the finals, he advanced to the super final medal round in fourth before claiming silver with a score of 81.84.

“It feels incredible to be back on the podium again”, Summers told the OWIA after the race.

“There was plenty of great skiing out there today so to do it amongst the world’s best is a phenomenal feeling.

“I’m really happy with how I’ve started this season. The main thing is that my skiing and jumping feels like it’s returning to the level that it was at prior to injuring myself pre-Olympics. 

“I’m really grateful to have such a supportive team around me and together we are all building our capacity to perform well on the global stage.”

Summer's performance is his third World Cup medal (2 silver, 1 bronze), and first podium since February 2017 and after his injury suffered before PyeongChang 2018.

Summers now sits in second place in the Men's World Cup standings with 120 points after two competitions.

Joining Summers in the final in the men’s event was Matt Graham in 11th, Cooper Woods-Topalovic 15th, James Matheson 16th and in the women’s event, Jakara Anthony finished in eighth and Britt Cox 15th. 

The winter silverware kept coming on Sunday when PyeongChang silver medalist, Matt Graham, claimed gold in Dual Moguls at the FIS World Cup event in Idre Fjall, Sweden.

Graham tied with hometown hero Ludvig Fjallstrom, with the pair both being awarded first place when heavy fog forced the event to be cancelled.

After the joint win, the 26-year-old told the OWIA he enjoyed the battles against Aussie teammate, Brodie Summers.

"In duals, you just have to let your hair down and go for it. I had some very challenging duals today, including coming up against my teammate, Brodie Summers in the first round," he said.

"He skied really well this week which gave him a well-deserved silver medals in yesterday's event. 

“My tactics today was to push hard out of the gate and go as big as possible on the top jump. This course is quite fast and easy compared to most World Cup courses, so you just had to land the top jump and charge the middle section as fast as possible.”

Graham said that although he would've preferred to have finished the event, he was happy to share the top of the podium with Fjallstrom.

“It would have been fun to be able to finish the event and see how things would have turned out, but you can't control the weather. I was happy to share the top step of the podium with Ludvig. It is his first World Cup win, and he is a good mate of mine as we have been competing on the World Cup tour together for 10 years now.”

His most recent result is his 16th major medal  (3 gold, 6 silver, 7 bronze) and his first World Cup win since January 2017 and after three events, Graham now sits in third place on the World Cup standings, with teammate Brodie Summers in fifth. 

The mogul skiing athletes will now return to Ruka, Finland, site of the first World Cup event of the season as their training base before competition resumes in late January. 

Out of the snow and into the pool, Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Champion, Kaylee McKeown continued her record-breaking form, when she posted the second-fastest time in history in the 100m Backstroke setting a new Commonwealth and Australian record of 57.93.

The 19-year-old is only the second swimmer to break the 58 second-barrier, after USA world record holder, Regan Smith's time of 57.57 set at last year's FINA World Championship in Gwanju.

McKeown took 0.17 seconds off Canadian Kyle Masse's Commonwealth record time of 58.10 which she set in 2017, and also took 0.18 off her own Australian record time which she set only a month ago, but McKeown's assault on the records did not end there.

After her 100m Backstroke victory, she competed 30 minutes later in the 400m Individual Medley, winning it in the second-fastest time ever by an Australian swimmer. Her time of 4:32.73 only bettered by Beijing 2008 Olympic Champion, Stephanie Rice who swam it in 4:29.45.

The star power continued in the pool, when music superstar and AOC's Wellbeing Week guest, Cody Simpson, announced that he had qualified for the Olympic Trials in a time of 54.9, bettering the qualifying time of 56.87 in the 100m Butterfly.

Simpson, who was a competitive swimmer for most of his young life, shared that over the last five months he had put his music career on hold, to return to his 'first love' and was training for an Olympic debut.

The 23-year-old shared his excitement on his Instagram and said he looked forward to showing the world what he is able to achieve.

The Olympic Trials will take place from June 12-17 in Adelaide.

On the water, Aussie sailors Will and Sam Phillips (49er), Tess Lloyd and Jaime Ryan (49er FX), Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (Nacra 17) and Matt Wearn (Laser Radial) all took our gold in their respective classes, while Tokyo 2020 hopeful Jake Lilley won every race to take the Finn class crown.

At the BMX Freestyle National Titles, Australia's riders laid down some impressive performances ahead of the event making its debut at Tokyo 2020.

Logan Martin claimed the Men's Elite Final, ahead of Jaie Toohey and Jack Borthwick.

Martin led the group into finals with a score of 84, then scored a huge 94 points in the final to finish in top spot.

“I was happy with my first run, producing a 720-bar spin on the box but I still had more to give which I managed to do in my second run with two bar spins and a 720," Martin said.

"My first run I held back to get a solid run on the board, so in the second run I got it done early which boosted my confidence a lot.”

Natalya Diem then backed up her 2019 National title, for a back-to-back victory when she won the Women's Elite Final.

Some of Australia's track and field athletes took part in the Launceston Running Festival, with Jack Raynor taking out the 10km event in 28:48 with Jordan Williamsz in second at 28:57 and Liam Adams in third with a time of 29:01.

In the women's race, it was two-time Olympian Genevieve Gregson who took out the win in a time of 32:00, her fourth consecutive win in the event. Twenty-year-old Rose Davies came in second at 32:02 and Isobel Batt-Doyle in third with a time of 32:10.