Nicky Winmar

Nicky Winmar
A famous photograph in which Winmar points proudly at his skin in a gesture of defiance at racial abuse in 1993
Personal information
Full name	Neil Elvis Winmar
Nickname(s)	"Cuz"
Date of birth	(1965-09-25) 25 September 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth	Kellerberrin, Western Australia
Original team(s)	Pingelly (UGSFL)
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Position(s)	Half-forward flank, wing
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1983–1986	South Fremantle	090 0(98)
1987–1998	St Kilda	230 (283)
1999	Western Bulldogs	021 0(34)
Total		341 (415)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1988–97	Western Australia	8 (10)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1999.
Career highlights
St Kilda leading Goalkicker 1988 2x St Kilda Best and Fairest 1989, 1995 VFL Team of the Year 1989 2x All-Australian team 1991, 1995 Mark of the Year 1992 St Kilda Pre-Season Premiership side 1996 Michael Tuck Medal 1996 Aboriginal Sportsperson of the Year 1999 St Kilda Team of the Century (named 2003) St Kilda Hall of Fame (inducted 2003) Indigenous Team of the Century (named 2005) West Australian Football Hall of Fame (inducted 2009) Australian Football Hall of Fame (inducted 2022)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar (born 25 September 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his career for St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL), as well as South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League. An Indigenous Australian man, he was the first Aboriginal footballer to play 200 games in the AFL, and was named in the Indigenous Team of the Century in 2005. He was involved in several incidents of racial vilification during his career, and a photograph of Winmar responding to one such incident during the 1993 season has been described as one of the most memorable images in Australian sporting history.

Growing up in Pingelly in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, Winmar began his career with South Fremantle, playing 58 games at the club before being recruited prior to the 1987 season by St Kilda. In a twelve-season career with St Kilda, Winmar won the club's best and fairest award, the Trevor Barker Award, in 1989 and 1995 and was also twice named in the All-Australian team. He left St Kilda at the end of the 1998 season and was drafted by the Western Bulldogs, playing one further season in the AFL before retiring at the end of the 1999 season. Having represented Western Australia in eight interstate matches, Winmar was named in St Kilda's Team of the Century in 2003 and was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2009.