Glenn Mitchell is a former sports commentator

Sports commentator

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 and writer

Writer

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 for Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 (ABC) Radio's Grandstand program in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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He joined ABC Radio Sport in January 1990 with commentaries on Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 and cricket

Cricket

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At the 1996

1996 Summer Olympics

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 and 2000 Olympic Games, he was cycling

Cycling

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 commentator for ABC Local Radio

ABC Local Radio

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 and at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

1998 Commonwealth Games

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 in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

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, for cycling and netball. He co-hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.

Mitchell covered the 1996 Paralympic Games

Paralympic Games

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 for ABC TV

ABC Television

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, commentating cycling and track and field events, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.

He has covered Australian cricket tours overseas, in Sri Lanka in 1999 and India in 2001, where he commentated alongside Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle

Harsha Bhogle

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. Along with Jim Maxwell

Jim Maxwell (commentator)

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, he is one of the core cricket commentators for the ABC.

He has called Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 and West Australian Football League

West Australian Football League

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 Australian rules football matches. He has called National Basketball League

National Basketball League (Australia)

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 and Women's National Basketball League

Women's National Basketball League

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 basketball.

Mitchell is executive producer, sport, for ABC Western Australia.

Mitchell has been on the board of the Western Australian Sports Federation and the Coaching Federation of Western Australia. He is a director of the Western Australia Paralympic Committee. In 1998 he edited Pursuing Excellence, a biography of Western Australia's sportswomen for the Women's Sport Foundation of Western Australia.

He was awarded the Australian Sports Medal

Australian Sports Medal

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 by the Governor-General of Australia

Governor-General of Australia

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 for services to sport in November 2000.

He is married to ABC Grandstand

ABC Radio Grandstand

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and Hopman Cup

Hopman Cup

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 host, Karen Tighe

Karen Tighe

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, also of ABC.

On 26 May 2011, Mitchell resigned from the ABC.