{{Short description|Australian sprinter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Bree Rizzo | birth_name = Bree Masters | nationality = Australian | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|6|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia<ref>{{cite web |title=MASTERS Bree |url=https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/bree-masters_1939734 |work=Paris 2024 Olympics |access-date=31 August 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831031715/https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/bree-masters_1939734 |archive-date=31 August 2024}}</ref> | education = Bond University | occupation = Athlete | height = 174 cm | spouse = {{married|Matt Rizzo|2024}} | image = Women's 100m h7 at Oregon 2022 (cropped).jpg | caption = Competing in 2022 | sport = Athletics & Surf Life Saving | coach = Ryan Hoffman | pb = 11.23 s (100 m)<br>23.21 s (200 m) <br>42.48s (4 × 100 m) | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Women's athletics}} {{Medal|Country|{{flagu|Australia}}}} {{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Games}} {{Medal|Bronze|2022 Birmingham|4 × 100 m relay}} }}
'''Bree Rizzo''' (née '''Masters''', born 24 June 1995) is an Australian track sprinter and former beach sprinter.
==Career== Originally from Sydney, where she started in Little Athletics at the Sylvania Waters Athletics Track, Rizzo's primary focus was dancing. "I started dancing at age six and fell in love with it. I was selected into a performing arts high school with dreams of becoming a full time company dancer. Growing up my focus was always on dancing. I had little time to train for surf lifesaving and athletics and was always a sport I did on the side”.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bree Masters |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/2024-paris-olympics-athlete-profiles/breemasters |website=athletics.com.au}}</ref> Aged 13, Rizzo became the youngest female to win an Australian beach sprint title and was female Youth Beach Sprint and Flag champion in 2008/9. After school, for three months Bree went to a full-time dance school in Sydney. “I didn’t like it whatsoever, I just lost my passion for dancing doing the course. It was a very strange time, I had been so keen on being a full-time dancer in a company, and all of a sudden, I was like ‘no, I want to move to Queensland and follow my running career.” So, in 2013, aged 17, she moved to Queensland's Gold Coast to pursue beach sprinting professionally. She has been coached since by Ryan Hoffman. She became Open Female Beach Sporting World Champion in 2016 and Open Female Australian Beach Sprint Champion in 2019.
Rizzo took up track sprinting in 2019. She achieved second place in the 100 m at the 2021 and 2022 Australian Track and Field Championships. At the 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships, Rizzo was also runner-up in the 100 metres, and third in the 200 metres.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coppel |first=Dan |date=7 June 2022 |title=Bree Masters sprinting on track the long way for a short run - Edge of the Crowd |url=https://edgeofthecrowd.com/posts/bree-masters-sprinting-on-track-the-long-way-for-a-short-run |website=edgeofthecrowd.com |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> She qualified for the 100 m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships<ref>{{Cite web |title=64-strong team announced for Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/64-strong-team-announced-for-oregon-2022/ |website=athletics.com.au |date=6 July 2022 |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> where she ran a then personal best of 11.29s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women's 100m Results: World Athletics Championships 2022 |url=https://www.watchathletics.com/page/3329/women-s-100m-results-world-athletics-championships-2022 |website=watchathletics.com |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Chris |title=Top ten Australian performances at the 2022 World Athletics championships |url=https://www.theroar.com.au/2022/07/26/top-ten-australian-performances-at-the-2022-world-athletics-championships/ |website=The Roar |date=26 July 2022 |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> In the same year, she was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m relay team. She made the semi-finals in the Women's 100 metres.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://results.birmingham2022.com/#/athlete-details/53468 |title=Bree MASTERS |website=results.birmingham2022.com |publisher=Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games}}</ref> The relay team, which was initially fourth with what was then Australia's fourth fastest 4 × 100 m time, was eventually elevated to bronze medal status after a member of the Nigerian team which initially won the gold medal was found to have committed a rule violation.
In 2022, Rizzo also graduated from Bond University on the Gold Coast with a Bachelor of Communications (Business) degree, majoring in marketing and public relations.
In 2023, Rizzo set a new PB of 11.23 in rain in March in Auckland and, in early April, was again a silver medalist in the 100 m at the 2023 Australian Track & Field Champions. A hamstring strain delayed her 2023 European campaign but she eventually opened it with a fast 11.25 run in Belgium in July. She again represented Australia in the individual 100 m and the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2023 World Championships in Athletics in Budapest.
In 2024, she was part to the three times record-setting Australian 4 × 100 m relay team which eventually set the year-end record of 42.48 on 20 July 2024 at the London Diamond League Athletics Meet. She represented Australia in the Women's 100 metres at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, where she made the semi-finals after running 11.26 seconds (+0.1w) to finish 3rd in her heat, as well as running in the Women's 4 × 100 m relay team (which finished fourth in its heat but did not advance to the final).
Rizzo won the 2025 120 m Women's Stawell Gift off scratch in 13.52 seconds.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pentony |first=Luke |date=21 April 2025 |title=Gout and Kennedy miss out at Stawell Gift as Evans and Rizzo win finals |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/stawell-gift-gout-gout-lachlan-kennedy/105195466 |work=ABC News |access-date=6 May 2025}}</ref>
==Personal life== Rizzo was married on 23 November 2024 at Merrimac, Queensland.<ref>{{cite news |last=Armistead |first=Jane |date=15 January 2025 |title=Olympian Bree Masters marries in glam Gold Coast wedding |url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/qweekend/olympian-bree-masters-marries-in-glam-gold-coast-wedding/news-story/06db26754b0f57858acc83254ee2f57b |work=The Courier-Mail |access-date=6 May 2025}}</ref>
== Results representing Australia == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" !Year !Competition !Venue !Position !Event !Notes |- ! colspan="6" |Representing {{AUS}} |- | rowspan="9" |2022 | rowspan="4" |Oceania Athletics Championships | rowspan="4" |Mackay, North Queensland |2nd (sf) |100 m |11.36 |- |'''2nd''' |100 m |11.34 |- |1st (sf) |200 m |23.26 |- |'''3rd''' |200 m |23.87 |- |World Athletics Championships |Eugene, Oregon |4th (h) |100 m |11.29 |- | rowspan="4" |Commonwealth Games | rowspan="4" |Birmingham, UK |2nd (h) |100 m |11.41 |- |6th (sf) |100 m |11.36 |- |3rd (sf) |4 × 100 m |43.47 |- |'''3rd''' |4 × 100 m |43.16 |- | rowspan="2" |2023 | rowspan="2" |World Athletics Championships | rowspan="2" |Budapest, Hungary | 5th (h) | 100 m | 11.43 |- | DNF (h) | 4 × 100 m | - |- | rowspan="5" |2024 | rowspan="2" |World Athletics Relays | rowspan="2"|Nassau, Bahamas | 2nd (h) |4 × 100 m |42.83 |- |'''5th''' |4 × 100 m |43.02 |- | rowspan="3" |Olympic Games | rowspan="3"|Paris, France | 3rd (h) | 100 m | 11.26 |- | 6th (sf) | 100 m | 11.34 |- | 4th (h) | 4 × 100 m | 42.75 |}
== Personal bests == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" !Event !PB !Wind !Venue !Date |- |rowspan=2|100 m |rowspan=2|11.23s | +1.3* |West Auckland |align=right | 16 March 2023 |- | +1.3* |West Auckland |align=right | 5 February 2025 |- | 100 m w | 11.09 | +3.0 |Perth |align=right | 1 March 2025 |- |200 m |23.21s | -0.7 |Nathan, Brisbane |19 February 2022 |- |4 × 100 m |42.48 s | - |London, Great Britain |align=right | 20 July 2024 |- |}
* the wind speed (and venue) are, coincidentally, the same
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.athletics.com.au/athlete/bree-masters/ Bree Rizzo] at Australian Athletics ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230326201102/https://www.athletics.com.au/olympic-athlete-profiles/breemasters/ archive]) * [https://athletics.possumbility.com/athletes/athlete7690.htm Bree Rizzo (Masters)] at Australian Athletics Historical Results * {{Australian Olympic Committee|bree-masters|Bree Rizzo (Masters)}} * {{Commonwealth Games Australia|bree-masters|Bree Masters}} * {{Olympics.com|bree-masters|Bree Masters}} * {{Olympedia|name=Bree Masters}} * {{InterSportStats|3000261696|Bree Masters}} * {{Instagram|name=Bree Rizzo}}
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