She’s regarded by thousands as the fittest woman in the world and Tia-Clair Toomey is now trying to harness her power to earn another tilt at the Olympics.

The Weipa product has already represented Australia on the biggest sporting stage, having donned the green and gold in Rio de Janeiro at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Now she’s hoping to add a Winter Olympics to her already stacked resume, which includes a Commonwealth Games gold medal for weight lifting and five CrossFit Games titles.

Toomey, who is coached by her husband Shane Orr, who also grew up in Weipa, has been training for the Australian bobsleigh team for more than a year.

In recent months she has been travelling between Europe and North America to practice her skills on the bobsleigh circuit in a bid to win a coveted spot on the Australian team for Beijing.

Those hopes were lifted in Austria on the weekend when Toomey, paired up with Ashleigh Warner, finished fourth in the Europe Cup series event in Innsbruck.

Cape York Weekly has attempted to contact Bobsleigh & Skeleton Australia to understand the qualification process.

As it stands, Australia has two spots in the two-woman bobsleigh event at the Beijing Games, which would allow four athletes to represent their nation.

In an interview with her sponsor PVRN Fitness, Toomey said she still had to do everything right to get a plane ticket to China.

“This season has been incredible. It’s going to be a fight until the end but only two more races until we find out if we have done enough to qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics,” she said.

“We are currently in a position to qualify for the Olympics but anything can happen – we have to keep the foot on the pedal.”

The Beijing Winter Olympics begin on February 4.

This article appeared in Cape York Weekly, 11 January 2022.