[2] At the 2017 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy he won the gold medal in the men's Super Combined Standing.

He plays a variety of sports including cricket, Australian rules football, basketball, road cycling and rock-climbing.

[8][9] Gourley became involved in high level Paralympic skiing as a result of Australian talent identification efforts,[10] taking up the sport competitively in 2002 as an eleven-year-old.

[3] He was classified as LW6/8-2,[11] the classification for athletes with an impairment to one arm,[12] and made his Australian national team début in 2006, as a fifteen-year-old.

[15] A ceremony was held in Canberra with Australian Paralympic Committee president Greg Hartung and Minister for Sport Kate Ellis making the announcement.

[27] He won a gold medal in the giant slalom with a combined run time of 2:03.15, 0.43 seconds faster than the silver medallists.

[28][29] At the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Panorama, Canada, Gourley competed in five Men's Standing events.

[31] Gourley won the gold medal in the men's Super Combined Standing at the 2017 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy.