The first Winter Olympic gold medal won by any athlete from the Southern Hemisphere.
The final
Salt Lake City, 16 February 2002, men's 1000 metres short track speed skating.
Bradbury was last from the start and remained last for the entire race.
On the final corner Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States, Li Jiajun of China, Mathieu Turcotte of Canada and Ahn Hyun-soo of South Korea collided and all four fell.
Bradbury, several metres behind, passed the fallen skaters and crossed the line first.
How he got there
In the quarter final he finished third but advanced after Marc Gagnon was disqualified.
In the semi final three of the five skaters fell, and he finished second.
The tactic in the final, to skate at the back and stay clear of contact, was decided in advance with his coach on the reasoning that he could not match the field for speed.
1994
At a World Cup event in Montreal another competitor's skate blade cut his right thigh. He lost a large volume of blood and received one hundred and eleven stitches.
2000
In training in September 2000 he struck a barrier and fractured two vertebrae in his neck, spending six weeks in a halo brace.
The Salt Lake City Games were his fourth Olympics.
The phrase
Doing a Bradbury entered Australian English to describe winning because those ahead have fallen.
Bradbury has consistently said he accepts the description, while pointing out that the medal was the result of twelve years of work rather than ninety seconds of fortune.
The other medal
He had already won bronze in the 5000 metres relay at Lillehammer in 1994, Australia's first Winter Olympic medal of any colour.
Why it goes on a wall
Because the photograph is funny and the biography is not, and both are true at once. He chose the only tactic available to him and it worked, and everything that made it necessary happened years before the race.
He was still upright.