Nicky Winmar

This article is about the Australian footballer from the 1980s and 1990s. For the footballer from the 2010s, see Nicholas 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 58)
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 ‹The template WAFL SF is being considered for deletion.› South Fremantle 090 0(98)
1987–1998 St Kilda 230 (283)
1999 Western Bulldogs 021 0(34)
Total 341 (451)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1988–97 Western Australia 8 (10)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1999.
Career highlights
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 ‹The template WAFL SF is being considered for deletion.› 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.