Barwon Coast Who's Who
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Distinguished and Famous people from Barwon Coast
The Barwon Coast's connections with notable people include Barwon Heads as a cyclist's home base and the beginnings of a wildlife sanctuary. These are documented residential and working links with the coast.
🚴 Cadel Evans
Cadel Evans made Barwon Heads his Australian home base, training on roads that later became familiar to spectators of the race bearing his name. He won the Tour de France in 2011 after earlier success in mountain biking and road racing. The inaugural Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in 2015 marked his final professional race. His coastal connection is therefore a home and training environment as well as a public event that brought elite racing onto local roads.
🌿 Tehree Gordon
Tehree Gordon founded a wildlife refuge near Barwon Heads in the 1970s, developing Jirrahlinga as a place to care for injured native animals. Its work also welcomed people facing disadvantage and provided opportunities to interact with wildlife. She was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2004. The sanctuary later moved to Chewton, so the coastal story is its founding and long local operation, rather than a claim that the former Barwon Heads facility remains open.
