BRUCE ELLIOTT (AUS)

Professor Elliott is the Head and senior biomechanist in the School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, at the University of Western Australia. He is a state level tennis coach and has published widely, being the major author in over 200 international books, book chapters and papers on science as it applies to sports.

Furthermore, Professor Elliott is a much sought-after international speaker on the application of biomechanics to sport. He was the keynote speaker at the 1st World Congress on Racquet Sports, the 1st World Congress on Cricket and the 3rd World Congress of Medicine and Science in Tennis. He works extensively with the ITF on the biomechanics of stroke production.

He was honoured by the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports by being asked to give their Geoffrey Dyson Lecture and has been made a fellow of that organisation. In 2003 the Professional Tennis Registry awarded him the Stanley Plagenhoef Sport Science Award for “his lifetime contribution to tennis” and the Australian Government awarded him their Centenary Medal “for service to sport policy and research development for sport”.