Darcie Morton

Sport: Biathlon
Events: Women's 7.5km, 10km, 12.5km, 15km (all tbc)
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: Making the World Cup pursuit (top 60)
Year Born: 1999

About Darcie

Darcie Morton becomes only 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. They are the first father-daughter duo to represent Australia at the Winter Olympics. 

She is coached by her brother, who also raced internationally, and her younger sister also represents Australia in the juniors. Although Darcie first represented Australia in table tennis as a junior, she was destined to be a biathlete with this family pedigree.      

Born and raised in the coastal community of Marlo in Far East Gippsland, Darcie’s route to high‑performance winter sport began in an unexpected place: the table tennis hall. As a junior, she represented Victoria, Australia and Oceania at the 2012 World Cadet Championships in Slovenia before, in her mid‑teens, she followed older brother Damon onto narrow skis and towards biathlon and cross‑country skiing. 

Darcie’s first Olympic experience came at 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 at the Birkebeineren Ski Stadium. Around the same time Darcie attended an Italian biathlon school where she was able to take the sport as one of her classes.  

Darcie broadened her abilities in cross‑country racing, winning the Australian Open Junior Female titles in 2017 and 2018 and the Birkebeiner 21km at Falls Creek in those years. She was among the first Australians to compete at the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games, entered for the women’s pursuit. In 2019, she represented Australia at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Lahti, placing 76th in the 5km free and 62nd in the 15km mass‑start classic.

Transitioning to senior biathlon, Darcie 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. Darcie represented Australia at three consecutive IBU World Championships: Oberhof 2023, Nové Město na Moravě 2024 and Lenzerheide 2025. In 2024 at Nové Město she placed 72nd in the individual, 71st in the sprint, and, with Noah Bradford, 27th in the single mixed relay. During the 2024/25 season she received an IBU World Cup Wild Card for the final trimester and competed through the Olympic test event at Antholz‑Anterselva before again earning World Championship selection for Lenzerheide. 

A marker of the sport’s growth in Australia came at the 2025 Open European Championships when Darcie anchored Australia’s first women’s 4 × 6km relay team to 16th, ahead of the United States, after delivering a flawless day on the range in her two legs. She closed the 2024/25 cycle as Australia’s top woman on the IBU qualification list with 99.22 points and helped the team to 26th on the Women’s Nations Cup, milestones that kept the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic dream firmly in view.  

Darcie’s 2025-26 international season was impacted by sickness and a ‘few nerves on the range.’ Yet she has remained focused and pushed on to secure a quota for Australia at the Games. She began the season with 95th in the individual at the World Cup in Oestersund, before not starting the sprint event. She competed in the sprint at the Hochfilzen World Cup, finishing 92nd, and was 99th in the sprint at the Annecy and Ruhpolding World Cups. Her best finish in IBU Cup events was 50th in the short individual event in Arber. 

Darcie’s pathway has been intertwined with family and Australian biathlon history. Her father, Cameron, represented Australia at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Italy. Her brother, Damon, has raced internationally and now coaches within the national system; younger sister, Damika, is among Australia’s leading juniors and joined Darcie in the 2025 Open European Championships relay. Earlier in their careers, Darcie and Damon also became the first Australian pair to contest a single mixed relay at an International Biathlon Union Cup event. 

Committed to building performance at home as well as in Europe, Darcie 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, Latvia and others.  

Off the snow, she has studied Medical Science at the Australian National University with ambitions of a postgraduate veterinary degree, an interest in animal care that complements the patience and precision of her sport.