Gary Ablett, Australian Rules and Geelong football star, was born in Melbourne on 1st October 1961. He commenced his football career with Gippsland before joining Hawthorn in 1982. After six games he moved to Myrtleford and then Geelong in 1985. He stood down from football in the first half of 1991 and returned in time to feature in the 1992 grand final. A born-again Christian, he was nicknamed God by the fans. He also played in the defeated 1994 grand final and in mid-1996 had a career goal tally of 1,030 from 248 games.
Since switching to full forward in 1993, he has kicked over 100 goals each season. In that time, he has kicked 422 goals in 73 matches at an average of 5.78. In mid-1996, he became only the fifth player in the history of the game to top 1,000 career goals. He also won the Norm Smith medal for best on the ground in the 1989 grand final, despite being in the losing side. He played only one game in 1997 before being sidelined with a knee injury. In September 1997, Gary announced his retirement from AFL.
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"Akhurst, Daphne",2,"0","g","0"
Australia's most successful female tennis player prior to the Second World War, Daphne Akhurst was born in Sydney in 1903 and dominated women's tennis in the 1920s. She won the Australian singles title every year from 1925-1930 except 1927, the national doubles in 1924, 1925, 1928 and 1929, and the mixed doubles in 1924 and 1925. On the international stage she got to the Wimbledon singles quarter-finals in 1925 and the semi-finals in 1928 and made the French singles quarter-finals in 1928. Her five Australian singles titles was a record not surpassed until 1951, by Nancye Bolton.
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"Alexander, John",3,"d\10\jalex.jpg","c","0"
In recent times John Alexander became well-known as the man who blew the whistle in the hugely popular TV show \IGladiators.\i Younger viewers probably don't realise that Alexander, born in 1951, was a tennis star in his youth, playing Davis Cup for Australia from 1968, winning the Australian Boys Singles in 1969 and, with Phil Dent, being runner-up to the doubles champions at the Australian Open in 1970 and 1973. Alexander never fully reached his potential. He was ranked 21 in the world in the late 1970s and reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1971 but his early promise would have suggested a more brilliant career.
\BDescription:\b John Alexander \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Allenby, Robert",4,0,g,0
Robert Allenby, Australian golfer, was born in Melbourne on 12th July 1971. In 1991, at the age of 20, he won the Victorian Open as an amateur and in 1996 the British Masters. He suffered a broken breast bone after a car accident in Spain in 1996.
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"Alley, Bill",5,0,g,0
Bill Alley, Australian cricketer, was born William Edward Alley in Sydney on 3rd February 1919. He suffered a couple of personal disasters with the loss of his wife during childbirth and being overlooked for Bradman's 1948 touring team. After starting out as a professional boxer with 28 wins, he made his mark after he turned 42, when playing for Somerset in England he scored 11 centuries.
He sailed into cricketing history by becoming the last batsman to amass more than 3,000 runs in an English first class season. His aggregate in first class cricket stands at 19,612 runs at an average of 31.88, and 768 wickets at 22.68.
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"Anderson, Paul",6,0,g,0
Paul Anderson, Australian weightlifter known as the Mighty Apollo, was born into a circus family, the son of a lion tamer, in Melbourne on 22nd September 1910. At the age of ten, he pulled a fire hose carrier up a hill with his teeth; at 12, he bent a 15 cm thick steel bar with his bare hands; and by 15, he carried a draughthorse up a 9.6 metre ladder. His main feats during his adult life include pulling a loaded tram with his teeth 150 metres up Melbourne's Bourke Street hill.
He pulled a semi-trailer with two elephants and 24 Tivoli showgirls uphill in Russell Street, Melbourne with a rope tied around his neck, and had a car roll over him while he lay on a bed of nails. He had a narrow escape when, in a delicate position below an elephant, a woman screamed and frightened the elephant, which reared in fright and caused Anderson some internal injuries.
He called himself the world's strongest man after a sensational performance at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. After suffering an illness, he lifted an incredible 187.5 kilograms in his third and final lift. At the age of 60, he set a world record by having 22 cars drive over him. At the age of 73, he broke the record by allowing 25 cars to drive over him to raise money for a young girl in a coma in hospital. He fathered three sons and became a devout Christian; he opened his home to delinquent and orphaned children in the later years of his life. He underwent a kidney transplant operation in 1983 and died in a Melbourne nursing home on 8th February 1995, aged 84.
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"Andrew, Bruce",7,mandrews.jpg,g,0
Bruce Andrew, Australian Rules and Collingwood football player and administrator, was born in Melbourne on 28th February 1908. He played on the wing for Collingwood, and was also a keen lawn bowls player and chairman of the Royal Australian Lawn Bowls Association. He played his first game for the Magpies in round 13 of the 1928 season under coach Jock McHale, and won the club's best first year player award.
He played in both the 1928 and 1930 premiership teams. During WW2, he served in the RAAF as a war correspondent and later worked behind the scenes of the game as an administrator. A medal in his honour is awarded each year to the best player in the under 17 Teal Cup competition. In the 1960s, he was a regular on HSV-7's \IWorld of Sport.\i He died in Melbourne on 6th June 1996, aged 88, and is survived by his wife Marjorie and daughter Fran.
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"Andrews, Michelle",8,"d\10\mandrews.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Michelle was first selected in the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team in 1991 to play in a three match Test Series against Great Britain in Melbourne, and was also one of the 1992 Australian Junior World Cup Team.
She plays the position of striker with the team and was a member of the NSW Balsam Arrows, who were the 1993 Telstra Stix Series Champions.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Michelle has also been a team member during the 1993 Champions Trophy (Amsterdam, Holland), 1994 World Cup (Dublin, Ireland), and 1995 Champions Trophy (Mar Del Plata, Argentina) in which the Australian WomenÆs Team won gold medals.
She now resides in Western Australia and is recognised as a goal scoring machine, who shows no compassion for the defence as she drills the ball, harder than any between the posts.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Michelle Andrews \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i.
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"Annan, Alyson",9,"d\10\aannan.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Alyson was first selected in the Australian Team in 1991 to play in a Test Match Series against Korea in Hobart and Melbourne. She was a member of the NSW Balsam Arrows who won the 1993 Telstra Stix Series Champions.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the Atlanta Olympics. Alyson was also a team member for the following major tournaments: Olympic Games (Barcelona, Spainù1992), Junior World Cup (Barcelona, Spainù1993), World Cup (Dublin, Irelandù1994), and Champions Trophy (Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Alyson was born in Sydney, NSW and retains the position of midfielder with the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team. She possesses mesmerising elimination and passing skills, capable of cutting open any opposition. Sinking the ball into the net with any stroke from any position is also her forte.
In October 1997, Alyson was named women's hockey player of the year.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Alyson Annan \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i.
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"Antonie, Peter",10,0,g,0
Peter Antonie, Australian rower, was born in Melbourne on 11th May 1958. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in the double skulls with Stephen Hawkins, becoming Australia's first double scullers to win an Olympic gold medal. Aged 34, Peter was five years older and at least 20 kilograms heavier than other crews.
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"Armstrong, Warwick",11,"0","g","0"
At nearly 2 metres tall and weighing 127 kilograms, cricketing all-rounder Warwick Armstrong was a true Aussie sporting heavyweight. Born in 1879 he played his first Test series in 1901-02, averaging 53 over four matches. He took half of the 443 wickets of his career in England for an average of 16.45. He established a record by scoring 303 in 315 minutes in England in 1905. The First World War interrupted his career. However Armstrong, when aged over 40, captained the Australian side in two series against England winning them both 5-0 and 3-0. He died in 1947.
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"Arthurson, Ken",12,0,g,0
Ken Arthurson, former Australian rugby league ARL chairman, player, coach and administrator with Manly, was born in Sydney on 1st October 1929. Known as "Arko", he came to fame as Manly's half-back between 1948 and 1952, including the 1951 losing grand final. He coached Manly from 1957 until 1961 with grand final appearances in 1957 and 1959. He served as Manly Warringah club secretary from 1963 until 1983 with Manly winning four Premierships in this time: 1972, 1973, 1976 and 1978.
He served on the New South Wales Rugby League general committee from 1968 until 1982 and, when the committee was replaced by the New South Wales Rugby League Board, he became an inaugural member, and was elected chairman in 1987. He joined the Australian Rugby League Board in 1977 and became chairman in 1983. In 1985 he was elected Director General of the International Rugby League Board.
Along with the NSWRL General Manager, he fought off the News Limited Super League forces in 1995 and 1996 only to see them form their own competition in 1997. He announced in January 1997 that he was retiring from all executive positions on February 28th 1997, aged 66. His announcement came only days after his former close ally, the Nine Network, had announced that they would be screening Super League games as well as ARL games in 1997.
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"Athaldo, Don",13,"d\10\donart.jpg","c","0"
Don Athaldo was born Walter Lyons in 1898. Impressed by a circus strongman he took up bodybuilding and became famous through such feats as supporting a 1,814 kilogram steel globe on his chest, within which two men on motorcycles raced, while laying on a bed of nails. He also supported a plank with nine men seated upon it (907 kg) and 9.1 metres. He carried a 457-kilogram horse to the top of a 4.3-metre ladder, and dragged a car with six people in it 700 metres uphill. In later years he still managed to wrestle, cycle and box professionally, remaining unbeaten in seven fights. He died in 1965.
\BDescription:\b Don Athaldo \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Austen, Colin",14,0,g,0
Colin Austen, Australian Rules football player, was born on 3rd October 1920. He played 91 games with Hawthorn from 1940 until 1949, with three years serving in New Guinea during WW2. He tied for the Brownlow Medal with South Melbourne's Ron "Smokey" Clegg in 1949. However, he was not awarded a medal in his own right until 1989, when the League addressed all those who missed out. He joined Richmond in 1950, where he played 50 games until 1953. Married to Lorna, he had five children. He died on 3rd October 1995, aged 75.
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"Aylett, Allan",15,0,g,0
Allan Aylett, former North Melbourne football star, and former chairman of the Victorian Football League was born in Melbourne on 24th April 1934. A dentist by profession, he made his VFL debut as a rover for North Melbourne in 1952. In 1958 he won the Tassie medal after the National Football championships, and the same year married his wife Marjorie. He retired from playing in 1964 after setting a then club record of 220 VFL games, and joined the committee the following year.
In 1970 he was elected vice president and in his business life opened a chain of Mr. Chips fish and chip shops around Australia. In 1971, he became the youngest president of a VFL club and guided the club to its first premiership in 1975 with the purchase of players and the appointment of super coach, Ron Barassi. The club won its second premiership in 1977.
Aylett turned Australian Rules football into big business as well as running a dentist practice, owning race horses, greyhounds, a fast food chain, a travel agency, and having investments in commercial properties. He resigned as VFL President in 1984, and in 1986 served a one year term as a director of the Sydney Swans.
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"Baker, Reg 'Snowy'",16,"0","g","0"
"Snowy" Baker, born in Sydney in 1884, was an amazing human being. Outstanding in swimming (he never lost a race in international competition), riding horses, rowing, boxing, football and polo, and a very skilled wrestler, cricketer and fencer, he represented his country in Rugby Union Tests and polo, and, while he could have competed in the Olympics as a swimmer or athlete, he went to the 1908 Olympics as a boxer, only missing out on gold when the referee, his opponent's father, cast the deciding vote against him. An actor in many early Australian silent films, he moved to America where he taught the rich how to play polo.
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"Ball, Ted",17,0,g,0
Ted Ball, Australian champion golfer, was born in Sydney on 4th November 1939. At the age of 16, he put his age up so as he could join the Ryde Parramatta Golf Club. He won the 1960 Australian Amateur Championship and was runner-up to Bruce Devlin the same year in the Australian Open. He represented Australia as both an amateur and professional. He died from a brain tumour on 17th April 1995, aged 56. Twice married, he was survived by his partner Jan and a daughter from his first marriage.
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"Bannerman, Charles",18,0,g,0
Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer, was born in Kent, England, on 3rd August 1851. Playing in his first Test for Australia in 1877, he scored the first Test century with a score of 165 before retiring hurt. He was also the first Australian to score a century in England in 1878. He played in three Test matches, and scored 239 runs including one century. He died in 1930, aged 79.
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"Barassi, Ronald Dale",19,rbarras.jpg,c,0
Ron Barassi is probably the most famous Australian Rules player and coach of the past forty years. Born in 1936 he played his first senior game of ARL Football in 1953 and, when he was only 18, he played in his first Grand Final with the Melbourne club which went on to win three consecutive Grand Finals in 1955, 1956 and 1957. Barassi was awarded Best Player in the Grand Finals of 1956 and 1957. He played 203 games for Melbourne and was captain from 1960-64. In 1965 he moved to Carlton as captain-coach. He has retired a number of times but was persuaded to coach North Melbourne in the 1970s and the Sydney Swans in the 1990s.
\BDescription:\b Ron Barassi \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Barnes, Sid",20,0,g,0
Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer, was born Sidney George Barnes at Charters Towers, Queensland on 5th June 1916. He was the first Australian cricket rebel, having frequent riffs with cricket authorities. Many claim his career as a batsman ended prematurely because of his clashes with officialdom. Barnes and the Don put together a 405 run partnership at the SCG in the 46-47 series. When the Don was dismissed for 234, Sid threw his wicket away at the same score claiming the DonÆs knock was too great to be bettered.
He played in 13 Tests and scored 1,072 runs for an average of 63.05, including three centuries, and took four wickets at an average of 54.50, as well as 14 catches. His first class career spanned from 1936 to 1952 with 8,333 runs for an average of 54.11 including 26 centuries, and 57 wickets for an average of 32.21. On his retirement in 1950, he worked as a journalist, writing about the game. He died in Sydney in 1973, aged 57.
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"Barker, Trevor",21,0,g,0
Trevor Barker, champion St. Kilda AFL footballer, was born at Cheltenham in Victoria on 7th October 1956. He played 231 games for St. Kilda between 1975 and 1989, and was captain from 1983-1986. He won the Saints best and fairest award in 1975 and was club champion again in 1976 and 1981. Barker represented Victoria seven times from 1977 to 1981. He went on to coach Sandringham to premierships in 1992 and 1994 in the Victorian Football Association.
A pigeon fancier, he ran a health club in his area and was a staunch worker for children with cancer. He died at Hampton in Victoria from colon cancer on 26th April 1996, aged 39. Over 3,000 attended his funeral at the Moorabbin Town Hall.
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"Bartholomew, Wayne 'Rabbit'",22,"d\10\wbart.jpg","c","0"
Born in 1957, surfer Wayne Bartholomew came to international attention when he finished third in the 1975 World Pro-Am Championship at Waimea Bay, Hawaii. Leading the field were fellow Australians Mark Andrews and Ian Cairns. In 1978 he was acknowledged as the best surfer in the world after winning the World Surfriding Championship. Although he has missed many Australian competitions by riding overseas, he was the runner-up to \JMark Richards\j in the 1979 Bells Beach Championship. A full-time professional surfer, he became captain of the Rip Curl international team.
\BDescription:\b Wayne Bartholomew \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Bartlett, Kevin",23,kbartlet.jpg,c,0
Widely admired in AFL circles, Kevin Bartlett was a champion rover for Richmond, playing more than 300 games for the club. Born in 1947, Bartlett's golden age started in 1965 when he began his long career with the Richmond first grade. He was unlucky not to win a coveted Brownlow medal, coming fifth in the competition in 1969, third in 1974 and runner up in 1977. Some compensation came with his winning his club's best and fairest award four times, playing for Victoria for 11 times and being part of a premiership winning side in 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974.
\BDescription:\b Tom Hafey with Kevin Bartlett \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Beadman, Darren",24,0,g,0
Darren Beadman, champion Sydney jockey, was born in Canberra on 17th November 1965. He has ridden two Melbourne Cup winners and has won many other major races. On 22nd July 1995, the 29 year old Sydney jockey broke a 55-year-old record set by Billy Cooke, when he rode 126 winners in the Sydney 1994-95 jockey premiership. Cooke set the record with 124.5 winners.
Beadman won the 1990 Melbourne Cup on Kingston Rule and again in 1996 on Saintly. In the mid 1980s he suffered a bad trot and turned to Christianity, and is often heard reading lessons at church on a Sunday. On 3rd August 1997, he announced that this would be his last year as a jockey and he would ride his last race on 26th December 1997, choosing to be a Uniting Church minister from 1998. Married to Kim, they have three children: Jessica, Mitchell and Rachel.
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"Beattie, Daryl",25,0,g,0
Daryl Beattie, Australian motorcycle champion, was born at Charleville, Queensland on 26th September 1970. On the local scene, the first Grand Prix he rode in was the 1989 500cc Australian Grand Prix. His first Grand Prix win was the 1993 German Grand Prix at Hockenhelm; in 1994, he finished 13th after all five toes on his left foot were amputated following a crash at Le Mans in France. In 1995, he won the Japanese Grand Prix.
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"Beaurepaire, Sir Francis 'Frank'",26,"d\10\fbeau.jpg","c","0"
Sir Francis \JBeaurepaire,\j born in Melbourne in 1891, won his first Victorian swimming title at the age of 14. After winning three national titles, he won both silver and bronze medals at the 1908 Olympics. After forty-one consecutive wins, including four world records and six English titles, he was hailed as the world's greatest swimmer in 1910. Debarred from amateur competition for nine years, he returned to win silver and bronze medals at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. He opened the \JBeaurepaire\j Tyre Service in 1922 and entered politics in 1928, becoming Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1940-42. He was knighted in 1942 and died in 1956.
\BDescription:\b Frank Beaurepaire \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Beitzel, Harry",27,0,g,0
Harry Beitzel, former top controversial Australian football VFL umpire of the 50s, football commentator and journalist, was born at Fitzroy in Melbourne. He worked as a junior clerk at Shell prior to serving in the Australian Navy in 1944 and returned to Shell as a sales representative. After being a VFL umpire in the 50s, he called football for radio 3KZ for 11 years before joining Radio 3AW in Melbourne where he worked for 18 years, as well as host of ABC TV's \IFootball Inquest.\i
He was the first to introduce after match football interviews with players and coaches and is credited with starting the "around the grounds" score service. In December 1988, he moved to Melbourne's 3AK. He was responsible for the Australian Galahs tours of Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s. He served as VFL umpiring director for two years from 1979 until 1981 and introduced multi-field and professional umpires to the game.
In 1991, he re-joined 3AW for a short time before joining a local FM radio station broadcasting only Footscray games. He married Sydney model Karolyn Meyers, after his first wife died of cancer in the mid 80s.
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"Benaud, John",28,0,g,0
John Benaud, former Australian cricketer and Richie's younger brother, was born in Auburn, NSW on 11th May 1941. He only played three Tests for Australia, scoring one century and a total of 223 runs, to average 44.60. He later served as an Australian selector.
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"Benaud, Richie",29,"e\1\rbenaud.jpg","c","0"
One of our most famous cricketers, Richie Benaud, born in 1930, was an outstanding Australian captain winning virtually every series between 1957-64. He was one of the country's best-ever spinners, holding the record until the mid-1970s for the most Australian Test wickets - 248 in 63 matches with a best of 7-72. The first person in Test history to take 200 wickets and score 2000 runs, his highest Test score was 122. He once scored a century in 78 minutes against the West Indies. Since retiring in 1964 he has been a mainstay of Australian cricket commentary in print and on radio and television.
Darren Bennett, Australian gridiron football star, was born in Melbourne on 9th January 1965. He became only the third Australian in history to make the starting line-up in a USA National Football League side. In only his second season with the San Diego Chargers he was named top punter in the NFL, scoring the second best ever NFL punting record.
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"Bertrand, John",31,bertrand.jpg,c,0
John Bertrand was born in Melbourne in 1946. He became a legendary Aussie sports hero when his yachting team became the first in 132 years to take the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club. In fact Bertrand, who commenced sailing at the age of five, was Australian champion in the Vaucluse Junior Class almost 20 years prior to this. He won bronze at the 1976 Olympics, came second in the world championships that same year and established himself as Australian champion in the half-ton class. After three unsuccessful challenges in 1970, 1974 and 1980 he sailed to victory as captain of Alan Bond's \IAustralia II\i at Rhode Island on 27 September 1983. In 1995 he captained \IOne Australia\i in the America's Cup off San Diego, however, the boat unfortunately sank.
\BDescription:\b John Bertrand \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Bevan, Brian",32,0,g,0
Brian Bevan, Australian and English rugby league wingman and rugby league's greatest try scorer, was born in Sydney in 1924. He played for Eastern Suburbs and later scored 834 tries in his years with Warrington and Blackpool. He served in the Royal Australian Navy in 1942 and it was during his overseas service that he became attracted to England, and the Warrington Club. He was known as the "Galloping Ghost", the "Wizard of Oz", and the "Bondi Streak". He died in northern England on 3rd June 1991, aged 67.
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"Bevan, Michael",33,0,g,0
Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer, was born at Belconnen, Canberra on 8th May 1970. As of mid 1997, he had represented Australia as a left hand batsman and slow bowler in 17 Tests. In his first class career he has scored 13,045 runs at an average of 52.18, including two Test centuries and two half centuries. He married 30-year-old English girl Tracy Tuley on 19th April 1997.
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"Blight, Malcolm",34,0,g,0
Malcolm Blight, champion Australian rules footballer and coach, was born in Adelaide on 16th February 1950. He started out in the early 1970s playing with the Woodville club in Adelaide until 1973. He won the Magarey medal for the StateÆs best and fairest player in 1972. In 1974, Malcolm joined North Melbourne under coach Ron Barassi and played 178 games for the club, kicking 444 goals. He became player coach in 1982 but stepped down as coach in favour of Barry Cable halfway through the season.
He returned to Woodville as player coach in 1983 and coached them to their first finals games in 1986 and 1987. He joined Geelong as coach in 1989 and took them to unsuccessful grand finals in 1989, 1992 and 1994. He then took a two year sabbatical and worked as a commentator with the Seven Network in 1995 and 1996. In 1997, he was appointed coach of the Adelaide Crows and took them to the finals.
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"Boon, David",35,5_0013.jpg,c,0
David Boon, Tasmanian and Australian cricketing opening batsman, was born David Clarence Boon in Hobart on 29th December 1960. He made his Test debut against the West Indies in Brisbane in 1984/85. He is an expert bat-pad fielder and over the years has taken some stunning and difficult catches close to the batsman's hip. He scored his 5,000th run on 6th January 1993, with his highest score 200. Boon retired from Test cricket at the end of the 1995/96 season having amassed over 7,400 runs at an average of just over 43. He has played in 107 Tests, second to \JAllan Border\j.
\BDescription:\b David Boon \I(DFAT)\i
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"Border, Allan",36,"e\1\aborder.jpg","c","0"
Born in Sydney in 1955, Allan Border is the kind of sports hero Australians like. An unassuming man, he achieved the country's highest position in cricket. Time and time again his dogged batting saved his team from certain defeat. Border made his Sheffield Shield debut in 1976, was chosen to play for Australia in 1978-79 and was Australian captain between 1984-94. His captaincy saw him pass the 10,000 runs milestone in test cricket as well as achieve the enviable task of regaining the Ashes in England (he was only the third Australian captain to achieve such a feat). In 1995 he was part of the team which won the Sheffield Shield for Queensland for the first time. Border was appointed an AO in 1989.
\BDescription:\b Allan Border (centre) \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Bosnich, Mark",37,0,g,0
Mark Bosnich, Australian soccer goalkeeper, was born in Sydney on the 13th January 1972. He plays for Aston Villa in the English Premiership, and previously worked selling fibreglass swimming pools for his father. He is married to Lisa Jayne.
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"Botha, Wendy",38,"e\1\wendyb.jpg","c","0"
The world champion surfer, Wendy Botha, was born in South Africa in 1965 and emigrated to Australia in the 1980s. She is now a naturalised Australian citizen. In the early 1980s she won four South African amateur surfing titles. In 1985 she turned professional. That year she was placed seventh in the world championships. She won the 1987, 1989 and 1991 world surfing championships. A natural athlete, Botha excels at cycling, tennis, table tennis and horse racing. Her surfing is characterised by her strength as a swimmer as well as her natural skill on the board.
One of Australia's finest athletes, Raelene Boyle was born in Melbourne in 1951. Six-time national 100 metres champion and seven-time 200 metres champion, she was the first Australian athlete to be selected in four successive Olympics. She won silver medals in the 200 metres in 1968 and 1972 and a silver in the 1972 100 metres final. In the Commonwealth Games she won gold in 100 metres and 200 metres as well as the 4 x 100 metres relay in 1970 and 1974, a silver in the 4 x 100 and gold in the 400 metres in 1982. In 1975 she helped set a world record in the women's 4 x 200 metres.
During 1996/97 Raelene Boyle was recovering from breast cancer and in September 1997 she auctioned her 1972 Olympic silver medal for $70,000 to help pay for her cancer treatment and living costs.
Jack Brabham was born in Hurstville in 1926. An ex-RAAF flight mechanic, he began building and racing speedway midgets in 1947, winning state and national championships. Progressing to Formula One, he travelled to England where he designed a car which won him the Australian Grand Prix. World Championships followed in 1959, 1960 and 1966. Brabham's third title represented the first international victory both in a self-designed car and with a non-European engine. Further recognised with the 1966 Constructor's Championship and the British Automobile Racing Club's Gold Medal, Brabham retired in 1970 and was knighted in 1979.
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"Bradtke, Mark",41,0,g,0
Mark Bradtke, Australian basketball player, was born in Adelaide on 27th September 1968. He has starred with the Adelaide 36ers before joining the Melbourne Tigers in 1993. He married tennis star Nicole Bradtke (nee Provis) in 1995.
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"Bradtke, Nicole",42,"e\1\bradtke.jpg","c","0"
Nicole Bradtke was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1969 and plays right-handed. She turned professional in 1985. Her current highest singles ranking is 68 (as of July 8, 1996) and her doubles ranking is 33 (as of July 8, 1996).
Nicole has played singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis during her career. She represented Australia in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics winning a bronze medal in the doubles with partner Rachel McQuillan. She has won events in all three combination types.
In 1994 she took a year off the circuit to marry and support her husband, \JMark Bradtke\j on his basketball tour. Her maiden name is Provis.
"Bradman, Sir Donald",43,"e\1\bradman.jpg","c","0"
Almost certainly the greatest batsmen ever to grace the cricketing field, \JDon Bradman\j was born in Cootamundra in 1908. His achievements are awesome. In grade cricket he scored 234 in one afternoon and at 20 became the youngest batsman to score a Test century. He was in the Australian side for 20 years, captaining it from 1936-1948. He scored 6996 runs in 52 Tests at an average of 99.9, chalking up 29 centuries, including a top Test score of 334. He was also involved in innumerable partnerships including 388 in 330 minutes and 451 in 315 minutes, both with Bill Ponsford on the 1934 tour of England. His aggregate of 974 Test runs against England in 1930 at a 139.1 average, was a world record, as was his innings of 452 not out against Queensland. He retired in 1948 and was knighted the following year. Bradman served as chairman of the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket 1960-63 and 1969-72.
Sir Donald Bradman has written several books, including \IThe Art of Cricket\i (1958). His cricket playing inspired the popular song of the 1930s, \IOur Don Bradman.\i
Click on \JDon Bradman video\j to view a video on Don Bradman.
\BDescription:\b Sir Donald Bradman \I(Random House)\i.
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"Breasley, Arthur 'Scobie'",44,"e\1\breasley.jpg","c","0"
'Scobie' \JBreasley,\j born in Wagga in 1914, was one of Australia's most successful jockeys. When he retired in 1968 he had ridden 2,161 winners from 9,716 starts in Britain. As well he had ridden more than a thousand winners in Australia. \JBreasley\j won the Caulfield Cup five times between 1942 and 1945 and the English Derby in 1964 and 1966. He won the British jockeys' championship four times, in 1957 and 1961-63, with 173 winners on the first occasion. His one disappointment was that he never won the Melbourne Cup. He retired in 1968 and became a horse trainer.
Dermott Brereton, Australian Rules football star, was born in Melbourne on 19th August 1964. He made his debut in 1982, kicking five goals against North Melbourne. He played in eight grand finals in nine years winning the flag in 1983, 86, 88, 89, 91; he also represented Victoria from 1985 until 1993. In 14 seasons he kicked 464 goals.
On 15th October 1993, Dermott announced he was leaving Hawthorn after failing to come to terms with the club, and the next day married Melbourne model Antonia Player. He joined the Sydney Swans in 1994.
In February 1995, he was drafted by Collingwood to play for his old captain, Leigh Matthews. After a good season in 1995, his injuries overtook him and he announced his retirement. From 1990, he was a regular guest with Ernie Sigley on \IIn Melbourne Today\i and in 1993 became a regular on the \IFooty Show\i. In 1995, he worked in radio for Melbourne's Gold 104 with Greg Evans before swapping to MMM-FM in 1996.
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"Brock, Peter",46,"0","g","0"
The great racing driver Peter Brock was born in Melbourne in 1946. He first came to public attention when he finished third in the 1969 Bathurst classic. Brock won his first Hardie-Ferodo 1,000 km marathon at Bathurst in 1972 and his first Touring Car Championship in 1974. Leaving the Holden team to go private in 1975, he won the Bathurst classic and the Sandown and Phillip Island touring car races. Brock drove in Le Mans 24 hour race in 1976 but was hampered by mechanical difficulties.
In 1978, he won both the Hardie-Ferodo and the Australian Touring Car Championship. In 1979, he led the successful Holden Commodore team in the round-Australia Repco Trial.
Brock has won the Bathurst 1000 (formerly Hardie-Ferodo) nine times and the Sandown endurance race nine times.
In 1997 Brock announced his retirement from professional racing and he participated in his last race at the Primus 1000 at Mount Panorama on 19th October 1997.
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"Bromwich, John",47,"e\1\daviscup.jpg","c","0"
Australia's most successful tennis doubles player, John Bromwich, was born in 1918. He and \JAdrian Quist\j won the Australia doubles title every year of the competition from 1938 to 1950. He was also a winner in the men's doubles at Wimbledon in 1948 and 1950, and in the US in 1939, 1949 and 1950. He won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1947 and 1948, at the Australia Open in 1938 and at the US Open in 1947. In Davis Cup doubles competition he won all but one of his twenty-one rubbers, representing Australia in 1937-39, 1946-47, and 1949-50.
\BDescription:\b John Bromwich \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Brookes, Sir Norman",48,"e\1\tennis.jpg","c","0"
Born in St Kilda in 1877, Norman "The Wizard" Brookes became, in 1907 - only his second year at Wimbledon - the first overseas player (and the first left-hander) to win the championship. He won not only in the singles, but also in the doubles and mixed events. Brookes and his partner, Wilding, also won the Davis Cup in 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911 and 1914. The pair also won the doubles at Wimbledon in 1914, with Brookes winning the singles that same year. After he retired, he became the President of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association and was knighted in 1939. He died in 1968.
His wife, Dame Mabel Brooks (1890-1975), was a noted author, social worker and society leader.
\BDescription:\b 1907 Wimbledon (Gore/Barrett and Brookes/Wilding) \I(Mitchell Library)\i.
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"Brooks, Neil",49,0,g,0
Neil Brooks, Australian swimmer, was born in Liverpool, England, on 27th July 1962. He emigrated to Perth in 1966, studied at Hale Private Boys School and played first grade football and cricket before becoming a quarter of Australia's gold medal winning swimming sensation, The Mean Machine. They represented Australia at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, 1984 Olympics and the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, but were eliminated from the 1988 Olympics.
A qualified journalist and physical education instructor, he served a cadetship with TVW7 in Perth and was at one time a sports announcer with CTC7 Canberra in 1981. He plays five musical instruments and in 1988 played with his band, the Union. He has won one gold and one silver Olympic medals as well as four Commonwealth gold and one silver. He later worked as a sports journalist at Perth's 96-FM and in 1992 went to the Barcelona Olympics as part of the Seven NetworkÆs commentary team. In 1997, he joined ATN-7 in Sydney as a sports news reader.
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"Brownlow, Charles",50,0,g,0
Charles Brownlow's fame relies largely on the fact that each year he is remembered when AFL's most prestigious award, the Brownlow Medal, is presented to the season's best and fairest player. Born in Geelong in 1861, Brownlow joined the Geelong team in 1880. His team won the premiership twice, the second time with Brownlow as captain. In 1886 he became team coach and Geelong finished the year undefeated with five of the seven top goalkickers in the competition, thanks in part to his original tactics, which revolutionised attacking techniques. He returned as a player in 1887, serving as coach, player, secretary and committeeman.
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"Buckenara, Gary",51,0,g,0
Gary Buckenara, Australian Rules football star of the 1980s, was born in Western Australia on 3rd July 1958. He started out with Subiaco in Perth in 1981, playing 66 games, then joining Hawthorn in 1982 and playing 166 games. He retired in 1990 after round 16. He played in HawthornÆs 1983, 1986, 1988 and 1989 Premiership teams.
He was assistant senior coach with Fitzroy in 1991 and in October of the same year was appointed 1992 coach of the Sydney Swans. After 18 games, he was replaced on 20th of April 1993 by Ron Barassi.
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"Buckley, Nathan",52,0,g,0
Nathan Buckley, Australian Rules Collingwood football star, was born Nathan Charles Buckley in Adelaide on 26th July 1972. His family moved to Darwin when he was four years old. He played in the 1992 Port Adelaide Premiership team and won the StateÆs best and fairest award (the Magery Medal). In 1993 he joined Brisbane and won the Norwich Rising Star award for the best new player in the competition.
He joined Collingwood in 1994 and in 1996 signed a new three year deal. Up until the end of 1997, he had played over 100 AFL games and was a regular panellist on the Melbourne edition of the Nine Network's \IFooty Show\i.
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"Buggins, Dale",53,0,g,0
Dale Buggins, Australian champion stunt motor cyclist and showman, was born in Gosford 1961. He rode his motor bike over dozens of cars at agricultural shows around Australia. He was found dead by his sister in a Melbourne motel on 18th September 1981, aged 20. Friends blamed the pressure to succeed on his demise. He had just returned from the United States where he had signed a four year contract to do an Evil Knevil-type show.
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"Bugner, Joe",54,0,g,0
Joe Bugner, heavyweight boxing champion who twice fought Mohammed Ali, was born Jozef Bugner in Hungary on 13th March 1950. He lived in England before migrating to Australia in the 80s. He took the British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight crowns off Henry Cooper in 1971, and at his peak he fought Joe Frazier and Mohammed Ali. In 1986, he came out of retirement for three fights and fought under the name of Aussie Joe before retiring after a defeat in London in February 1988. He is the father of three children, Ami-Jane, James, and Joseph, and the grandfather of Holly. Now married to former journalist Marlene, he lives at his winery in the Hunter Valley and works as an occasional actor. He appeared in the 1990 film produced by Phil Avalon called \IThe Sher Mountain Mystery.\i Bugner's other films include \IBuddy Goes West, Delta House, Down and Under,\i and the tele-movie \IBarracuda.\i
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"Bunton, Hayden",55,0,g,0
Hayden Bunton, Australian Rules footballer rover, was born at Albury, New South Wales, on 5th July 1911. Bunton first played for the Fitzroy club in 1931 and won the Brownlow Medal that year, and again in 1932 and 1935. His best year was 1935 in which he had an average of 35 possessions per match. He played 119 games with Fitzroy between 1931 and 1937.
He moved to Western Australia in 1938 as captain coach of the Subiaco club and won three Sandover Medals. Late in his career he went to South Australia where he became an umpire and also coached North Adelaide for two seasons. He died on 5th September 1955, aged 44.
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"Burge, Peter",56,"e\1\pburge.jpg","c","0"
Remembered with affection as a powerful batsman, Peter Burge, born in Queensland in 1932, started his first class career stylishly with two much needed fifties. In his 1955 Test debut, he first touched leather while catching Sir Leonard Hutton off \JRay Lindwall\j. Although he, at first, batted erratically for Australia, he hit his stride in the early sixties with a scintillating series of aggressive innings and high averages against the West Indies and the team he thought brought out the best in him, England. In his Shield career he scored over 8000 runs at an average of 50.86 with a highest score of 283.
\BDescription:\b Peter Burge being congratulated by Flynn on his century \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Burns, Tommy",57,"e\1\tommyb.jpg","c","0"
Born Tommy Murphy at Mullumbimby, NSW, in 1922, Burns was a remarkably handsome and popular boxer. Burns started his professional career with 23 consecutive victories. He lost against the Australian lightweight and welterweight champion in 1946, but took the vacant national welterweight title the following year. His victorious bout against world-class fighter O'Neill Bell is considered one of his finest moments. After losing his title in 1949, Burns retired. He made several comebacks with varying degrees of success. He starred in a Charles Chauvel film in the late forties and was screen-tested in Hollywood. In 77 bouts he lost only eight and KO'd his opponent 43.
\BDescription:\b Tommy Burns \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Campbell, Tony",58,0,g,0
Tony Campbell, AFL Footscray football star, was born in Melbourne on 13th August 1967. He played full-back for Melbourne before transferring to Footscray. He married Helen in December 1993 and markets and promotes footballers in both the AFL and New South Wales rugby league. He is famous for the gloves he wears when playing football.
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"Campese, David",59,"e\1\campo.jpg","c","0"
Arguably the greatest winger to ever play rugby union for Australia, David Campese is legendary for his elusive running and his distinctive 'goose step'. Campese has scored more tries in international rugby tests than any other player in history. His career has been full of highlights. He dominated the 1991 World Cup and was recognised as the star of the competition, and his performance against the Barbarians in 1988 is still regarded as one of the finest attacking runs ever witnessed in rugby. In 1995 his form was indifferent but he is determined to play 100 tests for Australia before retiring. His determination paid off; he played his 100th Test in October 1996.
David Campese announced that the 14 June 1997 representative game for NSW will be his last representative game. In his 101 Tests, Campese scored 64 tries.
\BDescription:\b David Campese (left) \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Capobianco, Dean",60,0,g,0
Dean Capobianco, Australian sprinter, was born in Perth on 11th May 1970. His events include the 100, 200 and 400 metres; however he failed to compete at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, after he broke down with an ankle injury. In 1996, five days before the Atlanta Olympics began, it was revealed that he proved positive to a drug test for steroids at Hengelo in Holland on 27th May 1996. Twenty four hours earlier he had tested negative from a track meeting in Dijon.
On 18th July 1996, he was found innocent by an independent tribunal headed by former Australian Attorney General Bob Ellicott, and was allowed to run in Atlanta. However on 16th March, the International Athletic Federation in Monte Carlo overturned the Australian Athletics decision and banned him from athletics for four years to the year 2000, which would have made him ineligible for the September 2000 Olympic Games. However the IOC agreed in late 1997 to lower the penalty for first time drug offences to two years, which will free him up for the 2000 Olympic Games.
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"Capper, Warwick",61,0,g,0
Warwick Capper, Australian Rules football star, was born on 12th June 1963. He started with the Sydney Swans, and was the clubÆs leading goal kicker in mid-1987; he was the first SwansÆ player since Bob Pratt to kick 100 goals. He married Joanne on 5th November 1988. In 1988, he joined the Brisbane Bears and returned to the Swans in 1991. He played 124 league games and kicked 388 goals up until the end of 1991.
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"Carbine",62,0,g,0
Carbine, Australian racehorse regarded as the greatest horse to win the Melbourne Cup, was born at Sylvia Park, Auckland, New Zealand on 8th September 1885. He started in 43 races for 33 wins, and nine placings; he was injured in another and pulled out of the race. The 1890 Melbourne Cup attracted a record 39 runners, with Carbine winning under the greatest handicap ever of 10 stone 5 pounds (66 kilos), seven kilos over weight for age. Although 4-1 favourite, he set a record that stood for 15 years.
Carbine was lucky to be born at all as his father Musket was a failure and was ordered to be shot by his owner, the Earl of Glasgow. However, a stable boy pleaded for the horse and he was shipped to New Zealand. Musket produced a string of top class gallopers including Martini Henri which won the 1883 Melbourne Cup. Carbine's stable name was "old jack" because of his quite almost lazy manner in his pre-race days. In his first race on 16th December 1887 at Christchurch he was left at the start and went on to win by a length.
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"Carey, Wayne",63,0,g,0
Wayne Carey, champion AFL footballer and North Melbourne premiership captain, was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on 27th May 1971. He played his early football with North Adelaide, playing his first game for the North Melbourne Kangaroos in 1989. He has appeared in eight finals, played 147 games and kicked 385 goals up until the end of 1996. He won his clubÆs best and fairest award in 1992 and 1993, and was named part of the all-Australian team in 1993, 1994 and 1996. He had a below average 1997 season after suffering a serious shoulder injury earlier in the year.
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"Carlile, Forbes",64,"0","g","0"
Although an outstanding athlete in his youth, Forbes Carlile's reputation is based on his exceptional coaching skills. Born in Sydney in 1921, when he was 25 he became a lecturer in human physiology. This led to his appointment as Australia's official Olympic swimming coach in 1948, 1956 and 1960. He missed out on the 1956 Olympics because he was a competitor in the pentathlon. His greatest coaching triumph was \JShane Gould\j, who dominated world swimming in the early 1970s. In recent times he has worked for the Australian Institute of Sport. He is still regarded as one of the country's finest and most successful coaches.
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"Carlos, Max",65,0,g,0
Max Carlos, Australian lightweight boxer, was born Maxwell Carlos at Shepparton, Victoria on 1st December 1935. He took the Australian lightweight crown from Aboriginal boxer George Bracken in Melbourne on 4th July 1958. They fought a return bout which Bracken won in 1959, and the pair became lifelong friends. The downside was that Carlos suffered a perforated ear drum after their final encounter.
At one stage he and his wife Yvonne managed a motel in Wangaratta. He died in Melbourne on 12th May 1996, aged 60. He suffered from a brain tumour in 1995 and never recovered from a coma.
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"Carney, Emma",66,0,g,0
Emma Carney, Australian triathlon star, was born on 29th July 1971. She was number one in the world in 1996 despite being defeated in the 1995 world women's triathlon championship.
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"Carroll, Jack",67,"e\1\jcarroll.jpg","c","0"
Jack Carroll was an excellent boxer who deserved, but was never really given, an opportunity to test his skills against the great fighters of his day. Born in 1907 in Victoria, Carroll's boxing career lasted from 1923 to 1938, during which time he never lost a fight. He beat such notables as Van Klaveran, Leto, Jannazzo and many others. Despite this, he never made much money - earning nothing when he took the Australian welterweight title - and, although he became the primary contender for the world welterweight championship, he was never offered a fight. He lost only 14 of 109 bouts and in later life became a leading manager and trainer.
\BDescription:\b Jack Carroll \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Carruthers, Jimmy",68,"e\1\carruth.jpg","c","0"
Born in Sydney in 1929, Jimmy Carruthers won the amateur Australian bantamweight title at 18, but was denied the Gold Medal at the 1948 Olympics by a badly cut eye. Turning professional in 1950, he became a national hero when he took the world championship, knocking out his South African opponent, Vic Toweel, in the first round, after an estimated 147 punches in 139 seconds. He defended his title successfully four times, against Toweel, Henry Gault, Bobby Sinn and Chamrern Songkitrat. He retired in 1954 with 19 consecutive wins. He made a short-lived and unsuccessful comeback in 1961.
\BDescription:\b Jimmy Carruthers \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Cash, Patrick",69,patcash.jpg,c,0
Born in Melbourne in 1965, and distantly related to the Tasmanian bushranger \JMartin Cash,\j Pat Cash has been one of the few bright lights in the Australian tennis scene in the past decade. At a time when Australian tennis seemed on the wane, Cash won the 1987 Mens Singles title at Wimbledon with a potent mixture of fighting temperament, powerful serving and sharp undercut volleys. He continued to impress at Davis Cup level but, plagued by injuries, he has never recaptured the glory of his Wimbledon victory. In recent years he has made periodic comebacks but his lack of match fitness has been a major handicap.
\BDescription:\b Pat Cash \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Catchpole, Ken",70,"0","g","0"
Considered the greatest Rugby Union halfback Australia has produced, Ken Catchpole, born in 1939, turned down lucrative offers to stay in the amateur competition. He played his first international match for New South Wales when they defeated England in 1959 in a major tour upset. Making the Australian team in 1961, he captained them against South Africa later that year but became vice-captain to John Thornett thereafter. He played 23 Tests against all the major rugby countries. As late in his career as 1966, he still had no difficulty winning the New South Wales Rugby Union best player award.
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"Cavill, Frederick",71,"e\1\fredcav.jpg","c","0"
More a dynasty than a single performer, Frederick Cavill was born in England in 1839. He became a professional swimmer after leaving the Royal Navy and won the 500 yards championship in 1862. He twice swam the English Channel but stopped short, only 220 yards from shore, on the second occasion. Moving to Sydney in 1879, he became a 'professor' of swimming and opened several "baths". His first son, Ernest, won the 1,000 yards in 1883; his second, Charles, became the first person to swim San Francisco's Golden Gate; Arthur supposedly invented the Australian crawl; Sydney invented the butterfly, and Richmond was the first to use the crawl in Australian competition.
\BDescription:\b Frederick Cavill \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Cawley, Evonne",72,"e\1\evonne.jpg","c","0"
Born in Barellan, NSW in 1951, of Aboriginal descent, Evonne Goolagong became one of Australia's finest, and best loved, tennis players. By the age of 18, she had won 37 junior tennis titles and was the Under-19 Australian Girls' Singles champion. When she was 19 she won Wimbledon, defeating fellow Australian, \JMargaret Court,\j 6-4, 6-1. In the 1970s she won 92 major tennis tournaments including Wimbledon twice, the Australian Open four times and the French, Italian and New South Wales Open events. She retired to Florida with her family but returned to Australia in the early 1990s settling on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.
In September 1996, Brisbane's Griffith University awarded Evonne Cawley an honorary doctorate for her contributions to the sporting community.
The expression 'Up there, Cazaly' has entered the Australian language so convincingly that even people who have never heard of the great AFL player at least know his name. Roy Cazaly was born in Melbourne in 1893. His father, a PE teacher, was a lifelong devotee of sport and physical fitness. Cazaly played for St Kilda from 1909-1920. Transferring to South Melbourne in 1921, his extraordinary facility at the highmark led to the chant of "Up there Cazaly". He continued playing professionally until he was 48 and was a coach until 1951. He died in 1963.
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"Cerutty, Perce",74,"e\1\pcerutty.jpg","c","0"
A difficult man, but a brilliant and eccentric, Perce Cerutty was born in 1895. His health collapsed in 1939 and he was told he was unlikely to live. Determined to restore his fitness, he subjected himself to a demanding regime of diet and exercise which was so successful that he was soon setting long-distance records, once running a hundred miles in 24 hours. Cerutty became a fervent advocate of his method and a full-time coach in 1946. \JJohn Landy\j found the Cerutty creed too much and left, and, although he constantly feuded with him, \JHerb Elliott\j was his greatest success.
Greg Chappell, born in 1948, was Australia's most successful and stylish batsman in the 1970s and early 1980s. He began playing for South Australia at eighteen and, in his Test career, amassed over 7110 runs in 87 Tests at an average of over 50. He scored 24 Test centuries with a highest score of 247. Chappell scored a century on debut in 1970 and one in each innings of his first Test as Australian captain in 1975-76. In this memorable series he led his side to a 5-1 victory against the West Indies. In his final series, he passed \JDon Bradman\j's run aggregate and the world record for Test catches. He retired in 1984.
Born in Adelaide in 1943, Ian Chappell, like his younger brother Greg, first played in the Sheffield Shield for South Australia at the age of eighteen. After a season with Lancashire in England, he debuted for Australia in 1964, replacing Bill Lawry as captain from 1971 to 1975. From 1977-78 Chappell captained \JKerry Packer\j's World Series Cricket team. Since retiring, he has become a fixture on Channel 9's \IWide World of Sports\i and has written several books. He was a solid batsman, scoring 5187 Test runs at a 42.86 average, a thoughtful captain, and a sharp slip fielder, taking 103 Test catches.
\BDescription:\b Ian Chappell \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Charlesworth, Ric",77,"e\1\rcharles.jpg","c","0"
A talented sportsman and a medical practitioner, Ric Charlesworth, born in 1953, first represented Australia in the 1972 Olympic hockey team at Munich. He was vice-captain in the Montreal Olympics of 1976 when the team, beaten 1-0 by New Zealand in the final, won a silver medal. He went on to the captaincy in 1978-79. Charlesworth was also elected to the Western Australian Sheffield Shield cricket team in 1976-77 and, in the following season, made 600 runs for an average of 39. Scoring 95 against the touring Indians he was thought unfortunate not to have been picked for the national squad.
He spent ten years as the Federal Labor member for Perth from 1983û1993 and was appointed coach of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team in November, 1992.
His coaching record of the team thus far is nothing short of brilliant. In all four major tournaments played since 1992 the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team has won gold every time. In 1993 they won gold at the Champions Trophy in Amsterdam, Holland. In 1994 they won gold at the World Cup in Dublin, Ireland. In 1995 they won gold at the Champions Trophy, held at Mar Del Plata, Argentina and more recently, the team won gold at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
In 1976, 1979 and 1987, Dr Richard Charlesworth was named WA Sportsman of The Year. Other awards received by him include: Advance Australia Award (1984), Lindy Award (1986), Order of Australia (1987), and Telstra Australian coach of the year award (1997).
He is assisted in his role of National Coach by Chris Spice and the National Team Manager, Wendy Pritchard.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Richard Charlesworth \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Charlton, Andrew (Boy)",78,charlton.jpg,c,0
Andrew "Boy" Charlton, born in Sydney in 1907, earned his nickname when he shaved 19 seconds off the world 880 yards freestyle record when he was only 15. When he defeated world champion, Arne Borg, at Sydney's Domain Baths in 1924, the crowd's response was heard as far away as Martin Place. Overnight he became a national celebrity. That year he won a gold medal when he broke Olympic and world records in the 1,500 metres. He also won a bronze medal in the 400 metres and a silver in the 4 x 200 relay. In the 1928 Olympics, he won two more silver medals. He retired in 1932.
\BDescription:\b Andrew Charlton \I(Jonathan King)\i.
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"Charlton, Eddie",79,"e\1\eddiec.jpg","c","0"
Best known as a brilliant snooker player, Eddie Charlton, born in Merewether in 1929, was a high-achieving athlete in his teens, playing nine different sports at first grade level. His love of snooker was apparent before he had reached his teens. He played billiards against the legendary \JWalter Lindrum\j at eleven and managed a century snooker break at 17. A coalminer in his youth, he turned professional in 1960. A winner of the Australian Snooker title 18 times, he took the World Open title in 1968, won Pot Black three times and was consistently rated one of the world's best three throughout the 1970s. He has published several books including \IThe Complete Book of Snooker\i (1983).
\BDescription:\b Eddie Charlton \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Churchill, Clive",80,clivec.jpg,c,0
Clive Churchill, born in Newcastle in 1927, is considered Australia's best-ever Rugby League fullback. He was dubbed 'the Little Master' for his skills in both attack and defence. Joining South Sydney in 1947, he went on to the state team in 1948 and the national squad in 1948-49. He appeared in 34 Tests and did not miss one international game between 1948 and 1955. He played brilliantly in 1949 and, by 1950, was captain of South Sydney. He led his team to Grand Final victories in 1950, 1951 and 1954. He held the national rugby league captaincy until 1955 and was vice-captain in 1956-57. Passed over for selection in 1958, he was coach of the Kangaroos against England in 1959-60.
Darren Clark, Australian athlete, was born on 6th September 1965. He ran in the 400 metres final at the Seoul and Los Angeles Olympic Games. He played reserve grade rugby league for Balmain in 1991 and at the end of the year quit football to attempt the 400 metres final at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
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"Clarke, Ron",82,"0","g","0"
The greatest distance runner of his generation, Ron Clarke, born in 1937, broke twelve national junior records, three junior world records and won the Australian junior mile championship. Considered the country's most promising athlete, he was selected to carry the Olympic flame into the MCC to commence the Melbourne Games. Clarke lost interest for some time, but decided to make a comeback in 1962 and won a silver medal at that year's Commonwealth Games. Between 1963 and 1967, he broke 17 world records (setting 25 Australian records in his career), though gold eluded him at the Olympic Games.
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"Clay, Brian Poppa",83,0,g,0
Brian Poppa Clay, Australian rugby league and St. George star, was born Brian Clay in Sydney in 1934, and grew up in Newtown. He started playing with Newtown but left in 1955 to captain-coach Griffith in the Riverina. He returned to Sydney a year later, joined St. George in 1957, and was part of the premiership side which defeated Wests 20-9 in 1958.
He was also a member of the 1959 St. George premiership team, acknowledged as the greatest team of all, which won the premiership undefeated by beating Manly 20-0 in the grand final. He played in five tests for Australia as five-eighth. He retired in 1967 after his 200th game and worked full time as a petrol company agent. He died on 2nd September 1987, aged 52.
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"Cleary, Jim",84,0,g,0
"Gentleman" Jim Cleary, former South Melbourne (now Sydney Swans) Australian Rules VFL/AFL player, was born James William Cleary in Melbourne on 30th June 1914. He played 222 games from 1934 until 1948 as full-back and won the club's best and fairest award in 1942 and 1944. He represented Victoria and was a member of two grand final sides in 1936 and 1945. He played with Port Melbourne for a short time and appeared on Channel Seven's \IWorld of Sport\i for over 20 years, covering VFA football and the amateurs. He died in Melbourne on 2nd May 1993, aged 78.
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"Cleary, Michael",85,"e\1\cleary.jpg","c","0"
Born in 1940, Michael Cleary was a highly talented athlete who managed to represent Australia in Rugby Union, athletics and Rugby League. A member of the Randwick Rugby Union Club, he played six tests in 1961 against England, Fiji and South Africa. The following year he won a bronze medal at the Perth Commonwealth Games in the 100 yards sprint. He switched from union to Rugby League, playing for South Sydney, and was chosen to tour Europe with the Kangaroos. Cleary worked as a sportscaster and then became a Labor Party Member of the NSW Legislative Council.
\BDescription:\b Michael Cleary and Bob McCarthy \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Cloke, David",86,0,g,0
David Cloke, former Australian Rules Football star of the 1970s and 1980s, was born in Melbourne on 28th January 1955. He began his VFL career with Richmond in 1974 after being recruited from Oakleigh Fourths. He played in grand finals for Richmond and Collingwood, and returned to Richmond as ruckman in 1990.
At the end of 1991, he had played 333 AFL games, playing his last and 18th season like a 20-year-old, with a number of match-winning performances, including eight goals in his last game against Carlton. His career goal total at the end of 1991 was 320. He now works as a "ruck trainer" with Collingwood.
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"Coffa, Paul",87,0,g,0
Paul Coffa, Australian weightlifting coach, was born in Italy on 25th July 1942. He coached the Australian team for the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, as well as the 1978, 1982, 1990 and 1994 Commonwealth Games. He quit the sport in 1994 to take a position as director of sport on the tiny Pacific Island of Nauru.
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"Coleman, John",88,0,g,0
John Coleman, star Essendon Australian Rules ruckman, was born at Hastings in Victoria, on 20th August 1928. He first played for his local team before joining Essendon, where he went on to kick 537 league goals in 98 games from 1949 to 1954, for an average of 5.58. He retired from football after dislocating his knee in the 8th game of the 1954 season against North Melbourne.
As a tribute to his talent, the leading goal kicker at the end of each season is presented with the Coleman Medal. He was married to Monica and had two daughters Anne and Jennifer. He died at his Dromana Hotel, south of Melbourne on 5th April 1973, aged 44.
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"Collier, Harry",89,0,g,0
Harry Collier, former Collingwood VFL football star, was born in Melbourne on 1st October 1907, one of ten children. He was a great rover, who played in six Collingwood premiership sides, four in succession from 1927-30, later captaining the 1935 and 1936 premiership sides. From 1926 until 1945, he played 235 games and kicked 299 goals. His brother Albert won the 1929 Brownlow Medal while Harry was a joint winner of the medal in 1930. He was not awarded the medal until 1989, when all those players in the league who were equal winners were given a medal as well. The Colliers are the only brothers to win Brownlow Medals; Harry won two Copeland trophies, Albert won three as the clubÆs best and fairest player. He died on 16th August 1994, aged 86.
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"Cook, Billy",90,"0","g","0"
One of Australia's greatest jockeys, Billy Cook, born in 1910, started riding horses to make deliveries for his father's butcher shop in Hornsby. His victory in the Sydney Cup in 1929 was the first of many, including the 1930 Caulfield Cup and the Melbourne Cups of 1941 and 1945. He was contracted to tour India three times, winning the Aga Khan Gold Cup and the Bombay Jockeys' Premiership on his first trip in 1932. He rode 42 winners in England in 1950, and a record-breaking 126 in the Sydney 1939-40 season. His son, Peter, became one of Sydney's top jockeys. He died after suffering a heart attack on 29th January 1985, aged 75.
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"Cooper, Andrew",91,0,g,0
Andrew Cooper, Australian rower, was born in Melbourne on 23rd December 1964. As a member of the coxless fours, Oarsome Foursome, he won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
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"Cottee, Kay",92,fp5092.jpg,c,0
It was a compelling childhood dream and an unremitting love for the sea that drove Kay Cottee towards her goal of being the first woman to sail alone, non-stop and unassisted around the world.
She was aboard her fatherÆs yacht when she was just two weeks old and ocean racing by the age of 11. When she left school at 16 she become a stenographer but within a year she was heading for a working life on the waterfront. This culminated in the building of her yacht, \IFirst Lady,\i from a bare set of fibreglass mouldings.
On June 5, 1988 at age 34, Kay Cottee wrote her name into history. She became the first woman in world history to complete a solo, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the globe.
KayÆs voyage took her across 22,000 nautical miles of the worldÆs great oceans and around the five great Capes in the Southern Hemisphere. She did not eat fresh food for six months and woke almost every hour (or less) to check her course, to scan the horizon for ships and trim sails. She faced seas up to 60 feet high, roaring winds over 80 knots and icebergs as big as islands.
KayÆs voyage was not an achievement just for herself. She wanted others to benefit and dedicated the voyage to raising funds for the Rev. Ted NoffÆs inspired Life Education Centres.
Three-and-a-half years after returning, Kay reached her goal of raising more than $1 million. She raised the money single-handedly by attending more than 500 public functions.
At the end of the voyage the accolades began. Kay was named the 1988 Bicentennial Australian of the Year. The same year she became an Officer of the Order of Australia and she is the first Australian and second-only ever recipient of the Cutty Sark Medal presented by the Duke of Edinburgh.
KayÆs homecoming brought new challenges. Her book, \IKay Cottee - First Lady,\i broke Australian publishing records and she has become one of the countryÆs most sought after corporate speakers.
Rotary International gave Kay its highest honour by making her a Paul Harris Fellow. She became an honorary international Zontian, a life member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and honorary Life Member of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club.
In 1995 Kay was appointed Chairperson of the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.
\BDescription:\b Kay Cottee
\BPic2:\b fp5091.jpg
\BDescription2:\b Kay Cottee during her historical solo trip around the world.
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"Court, Margaret",93,court.jpg,c,0
One of Australia's most successful tennis players, Margaret Court was born in Albury in 1942. Court became the first Australian woman to take the Wimbledon singles title when she defeated Billie Jean King in 1963. She won again in 1965 and, by again beating King at Wimbledon in 1970, became only the second woman to win the tennis Grand Slam. She won the mixed doubles Grand Slam with Ken Fletcher in 1963, and represented Australia in the Federation Cup teams from 1963-65 and 1968-71. Court won 85 tournaments in her career, taking the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at every major world tournament. She retired in 1976.
\BDescription:\b Margaret Court \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Coventry, Gordon",94,0,g,0
Gordon Coventry, champion Australian Rules and Collingwood player, was born in Melbourne on 25th September 1901, the younger brother of Syd. He tops the list as the all-time top goal kicker with 1,299 goals over 306 games for an average of 4.25 between 1920 and 1937. He died on 7th November 1968, aged 67.
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"Craig, Ian",95,0,g,0
Ian Craig, Australian and New South Wales cricket batsman was born Ian David Craig in Sydney on 12th June 1935. At the age of 16 years and 5 months he became the youngest player to appear in interstate cricket, and at 17 the youngest ever to represent Australia at Test cricket level. From 1954 until 1957 he stood out of cricket to resume his studies as a chemist. At 22 he became Australia's youngest Test skipper when he led Australia to an undefeated tour of South Africa in 1957/58. Craig played 11 Test matches for Australia, scoring 358 runs for an average of 19.88.
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"Crampton, Bruce",96,"e\1\crampton.jpg","c","0"
Born in 1935, Bruce Crampton was a champion schoolboy golfer and became Australia's most successful professional golfer when his earnings passed $1 million in 1973. He began playing in the USA in 1957 after winning the Australian Open in 1956, when only 21. His first US success was in the 1961 Milwaukee Open. In 1965 he set a record when he won three consecutive American tournaments. Retiring in 1977, he was the fifth-highest money earner in the game's history. Crampton also represented Australia in the World Cup in 1963, 1964 and 1967 and 1972.
\BDescription:\b Bruce Crampton \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Crapp, Lorraine",97,"0","g","0"
Born in 1938, Lorraine Crapp made world headlines in 1956 when she broke four world records in one swim in Townsville. In the process of becoming the first woman to swim the 400 metres freestyle in under five minutes, she also broke the records for the 200 metres, 220 yards and 440 yards. She later improved on all times, setting 16 individual world records and contributing to seven relay records in her career. She won two gold and two silver medals at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, and three gold, one silver and two bronze at the 1954 and 1958 Commonwealth Games. She retired in 1960.
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"Crawford, John 'Jack'",98,"0","g","0"
Born in Urangeline in 1908, John Crawford won the Australian singles tennis championships on four occasions and took the Australian men's doubles with Harry Hopman twice. From 1930 to 1935 Crawford scored major victories in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles, not only in Australia but in France and at Wimbledon. His one victory in the Wimbledon singles came in 1933 against renowned American Ellsworth Vines, known as 'The Invincible', in a final that has become legendary as possibly the greatest Wimbledon final. Crawford also played for Australia in the Davis Cup teams of 1928, 1930 and 1932-37.
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"Cronin, Mick",99,0,g,0
Mick Cronin, Australian and Parramatta rugby league football player and coach, was born in Wollongong on 28th June 1951. He started out in the southern New South Wales town of Gerringong where his family owned a hotel. In 1973, he made the Australian Kangaroo tour of England and continued to play for Australia from the bush until he finally joined Parramatta in 1977. He played 216 premiership games, scoring 1971 points from 75 tries and 865 goals, including two field goals.
He played in the 1981-82-83 and 1986 premiership teams. Cronin represented Australia in 58 games including 22 tests and 11 world series games, as well as 27 games for his state. He coached Parramatta unsuccessfully from 1990 for four years, and in 1992 coached the Country origin team in their first victory over their City counterparts.
LisaÆs involvement with swimming started in 1975, when at the age of twelve, she joined the Hibiscus Swimming Club, at Mount Gravat, Queensland.
Lisa was already one of the fastest freestyle swimmers in the world at age 12. In 1977, under the guidance of coach Joe King, Lisa entered her first international competition, the Canada Cup in Alberta. She came home with her first international medalsùtwo gold and two silver. At age 15 she was ranked number five in the world for the 100m breaststroke.
In the next five years, Lisa took out a further 24 medals in international competition, including 11 gold, six silver and seven bronze.
Lisa has competed in three Olympics Games (Moscow in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984, and Barcelona in 1992), two World Championships (Berlin in 1978, and Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1982), and three Commonwealth Games (Edmonton in 1978, Brisbane in 1982 and Auckland in 1990).
For the past ten or so years, Lisa has been the presenter for Uncle Tobys Muesli Bars, appearing in many television commercials promoting the product. She also carries out many speaking engagements and personal appearances, drawing on her vast experience as a Commonwealth Games and Olympic competitor for Australia. Lisa is married to former iron man \JGrant Kenny.\j
Lisa is the author of \ILisa CurryÆs Total Health and Fitness,\i \ILisa CurryÆs Pregnancy and Fitness\i and \ILisa CurryÆs Health and Fitness.\i Lisa has her own swim, gym and active wear label aptly named ôHot Curry.ö
\I(Text courtesy of the Curry Kenny Group Pty Ltd)\i
\BDescription:\b Lisa Curry Kenny \I(Curry Kenny Group Pty Ltd)\i
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"Cuthbert, Betty",101,runners.jpg,c,0
Born in Merrylands, NSW, in 1938, Betty Cuthbert was known to Australians as "The Golden Girl". Setting her first world record in 1956, she then took three gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics (100m, 200m and 4 x 100 m relay), establishing one world and three games records. After retiring in 1962, she returned in 1963 to set world records in the 440 yards and 400 metres. She won a gold medal in the 400 metres at the 1964 Olympics, becoming only the second woman to win four gold track medals. In her career, Cuthbert set 16 world records. She was awarded an MBE in 1965 and became the first woman member of the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. Betty Cuthbert is now suffering from multiple sclerosis and is a campaigner for funds for research into this disease.
\BDescription:\b Mathews, Cooke, Rivett and Cuthbert \I(Fairfax Photo Library).\i
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"Daicos, Peter",102,0,g,0
Peter Daicos, former Collingwood VFL Australian Rules football player, was born in Melbourne to Macedonian parents on 29th September 1961. Originally a South Melbourne supporter, he was offered a position with Collingwood in 1979. Nicknamed the "Magician" and the "Macedonian Marvel", he has the ability to change the direction of a game off his own boot. He kicked 549 goals in 250 games but underwent a number of knee operations in his final two years with the club.
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"Daley, Laurie",103,0,g,0
Laurie Daley, Australian and Canberra rugby league player, was born at Junee, New South Wales on 20th October 1969. He started out with the Junee Diesels and won the NSW \IRugby League Week\i newspaperÆs player of the year award in 1995. He played eight country origin games between 1988 and 1996, 18 games for New South Wales from 1989 until 1994 and 19 tests for Australia from 1990 until 1994. He signed a $700,000 contract with Rupert Murdoch's Super League in 1995 and was not selected for representative football as a result. Laurie was named Super League's player of the year in 1997. He has a son Andrew and daughter Jaimee.
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"Dalton, Judith",104,0,g,0
Judith Dalton, Australian tennis player, was born in 1937. She held every major women's double title in the world, and was runner up at Wimbledon in 1968. She was the first and only woman member of the Lawn Tennis Association.
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"Darcy, Les",105,"e\1\darcy.jpg","c","0"
Born of Irish stock in Stradbroke, NSW, in 1895, Les Darcy was an apprentice blacksmith when he won his first professional fight at 14. Coming to the attention of Sydney promoters in 1913, he won 22 consecutive fights from 1915. Darcy left Australia as a result of pressure to join the Army as an example to Australia's youth. Citing his desire to support his family, and influenced by Irish Catholic anti-conscription lobbying, he departed for the USA. Unable to get a major fight there, he fell back on exhibition boxing. He collapsed at training in 1917 and died from pneumonia a month later. His body was brought back to Australia where more than one million people paid their respects as it lay in state.
Click on \JLes Darcy Video\j to view a video on Les Darcy.
\BDescription:\b Les Darcy \I(Jonathan King)\i.
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"Davidson, Alan",106,"e\1\adavid.jpg","c","0"
Alan Davidson, born in 1929, was a great left-handed all-round cricketer. A powerful batsman, versatile fielder and fast bowler with the capacity to swing and cut the ball, Davidson was a consistent performer. The best bowler of the 1960-61 series against the West Indies, he took 33 wickets at 18.54. He became the first person to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in one Test. Davidson captured 186 wickets in his 44 Tests at 20.53, with a personal best of 7 for 93. He also scored 1328 runs and took 42 catches.
\BDescription:\b Alan Davidson \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Davidson, Owen",107,0,g,0
Owen Davidson, Australian international tennis star, was born on 4th October 1943. He became a protΘgΘ of famous coach Vic Edwards. In 1967, he won the Grand Slam, playing with American female champion Billie Jean King, when they won the mixed doubles championship at Wimbledon, Paris and the USA. The same year he and Billie Jean King won the South African mixed doubles and, with another partner, he also won the Australian title. After becoming an All England pro from 1967-70 and a WCT pro in 1968-69, he retired from play to become a coach in the USA.
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"Davis, Bob",108,0,g,0
Bob "Woofer" Davis, AFL/VFL Geelong football star and TV and radio commentator, was born in Geelong, Victoria on 12th June 1928. He played 189 games with the cats, kicked 149 goals between 1948 and 1958, and at his peak was one of the fastest players in the league. He coached Geelong from 1960 until 1965, including the 1963 Premiership. He was one of the longest serving football panel members with the Seven Network, where he worked for over 30 years on \IWorld of Sport\i and \ILeague Teams\i. In 1996, he released his biography titled \IWoofer.\i
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"De Castella, Robert",109,"e\1\decast.jpg","c","0"
Born in Melbourne in 1957, "Deek" became an Australian hero after his victory in the 1982 Commonwealth Games. Early highlights of his career include a victory in the 1975 Australian Junior 10,000 metres, a record time in the 1977 Sydney City to Surf, his first marathon win in 1979, and triumphs in both the Australian cross-country and Marathon championships. In 1981, De Castella set the second-fastest time in his victory at the Fukuoka Marathon. He followed this with victories in the 1983 Rotterdam Marathon and the World Marathon Championship in Helsinki. He became the first person to win the Commonwealth Games marathon twice.
\BDescription:\b Robert De Castella \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Dennis, Clare",110,0,g,0
Clare Dennis, Australian breaststroke swimmer, was born at Burwood in Sydney on 7th March 1916, where her father Alex was in charge of the local police station. She won the New South Wales breaststroke championship at 14 and then took the Australian title in the 220 yard breaststroke.
She won the gold medal for the 200 metre breast stroke at the Los Angeles Games in 1932. She married fellow Olympian and Sydney detective George Golding in 1941, who taught her how to shoot, with Clare becoming an excellent markswoman. She died, aged 55, in 1972 after suffering from cancer for five years; in 1982 she was inducted into the New South Wales Hall of Champions.
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"Devitt, John",111,"0","g","0"
John Devitt's fame, or rather infamy, rests largely upon the intense controversy that surrounded his gold-medal win in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1960 Olympics. Born in Sydney in 1937, Devitt finished in such a dead heat with Lance Larson that the judges were deeply divided over the result. When the Australian was awarded the gold, American officials protested the result for years. However, this was at the end of a successful career which saw him take a gold and a silver medal in the Melbourne Olympics, a gold and silver at Rome and two gold at the 1958 Commonwealth Games, setting four individual and ten relay world records. He also won the Australian 100 metres freestyle titles in 1957, 1958 and 1960.
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"Devlin, Bruce",112,"0","g","0"
Golfer Bruce Devlin, born in Armidale in 1937, after a start as a Goulburn plumber, became New South Wales Amateur Champion in 1958. As a result, he was selected as part of the triumphant Australian team in the first Eisenhower Cup, in which he was also the individual winner. After winning the 1959 Australian Amateur Championship and the 1960 Australian Open, he turned professional. From 1964 to 1966 Devlin set a record when he took prize money in 57 consecutive tournaments. He won major tournaments in 1966, 1969 and 1970, as well as the 1970 World Cup. Now a resident of Texas, he has turned his experience to further profit by designing golf courses.
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"Diamond, Michael",113,0,g,0
Michael Diamond, Australian trap shooter, was born in Sydney on 20th May 1972, and raised in Goulburn. He won Australia's first gold medal (Australia won nine) at the Atlanta Olympic Games on 22nd July 1996 when he scored 149 out of a possible 150 in the single trap event.
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"Dicks, David",114,0,g,0
David Dicks, youngest around the world solo sailor, was born in Perth on 6th October 1978. He set off from Fremantle Harbour on the 26th February 1996 after an eight day delay to fix radio equipment that had suffered from an earlier false start. He sailed solo around the world in 264 days in his 10 metre sloop Seaflight. He was 17 when he set out and celebrated his 18th birthday at sea.
He was forced to give up any claim to an "unassisted" solo circumnavigation when he accepted a bolt from the British Royal Navy to repair a damaged mast off Cape Horn. He arrived home in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 17th November 1996.
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"Dipierdomenico, Robert",115,0,g,0
Robert Dipierdomenico, champion Hawthorn AFL Australian rules football star, was born to Italian parents on 5th May 1958. He made his debut with Hawthorn in 1975, playing 240 games, and kicking 130 goals; he retired at the end of 1991. Following his retirement, he joined the Seven Network, commenting on each quarter from the playersÆ perspective.
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"Dittman, Mick",116,0,g,0
Mick Dittman, Australian jockey, was born in Queensland on 2nd July 1952. He has ridden over 1,700 winners, won three Sydney jockey premierships, and has a best one-day performance of five metropolitan winners on two occasions. He won the 1982 Melbourne Cup on Gurner's Lane and the 1990 Caulfield Cup on Sydeston.
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"Dobson, Louise",117,"e\1\ldobson.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Louise was a member of the 1993 Australian Junior World Cup Team that brought home a silver medal from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. She was also a member and Captain of the Australian Senior Youth Team to tour Asia in September, 1994.
Louise was first selected in the Australian Senior Team in July 1995 for the Atlanta Challenge Cup, USA and she was a part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Louise was born in Victoria and is a member of the VIS Vipers. She is recognised as a versatile player who is at home as a wing half or full back. A strong hitter of the ball, she is an asset in penalty corners and long ball distributions.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Louise Dobson \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Dodemaide, Anthony",118,0,g,0
Anthony Dodemaide, Australian and Victorian cricket all-rounder, was born in Victoria on 5th October 1963. He made his Test debut against New Zealand in Melbourne in 1987/88. After being named Sheffield Shield player of the year in 1991/92, he followed this with a tour to Sri Lanka. Up until 1992 he had played in ten Tests, scored 202 runs, at an average of 22.44, with a highest score of 50.
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"Donaldson, Jack",119,"0","g","0"
Born in Victoria in 1886, Jack Donaldson was an outstanding professional sprinter of the early twentieth century who set long-standing world records, despite having no professional training. Known as "the Blue Streak", due to his speed and choice of colours, he won a $4,000 100 yards race in Johannesburg to set a new world amateur record that was not bettered for nearly 40 years. He set six world records in all, including 130 yards in twelve seconds, another 40-year record. At the age of 32, Donaldson could still complete the 100 yards in under ten seconds. He died in 1933.
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"Doohan, Michael",120,"e\1\gpx.jpg","c","0"
In 1995, having won his second world 500cc championship, Michael Doohan became Australia's most successful motorcycle rider. His back to back wins in 1994 and 1995 had only been eclipsed by the Americans Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey. In August 1997 Doohan won his fourth successive world 500cc championship. Doohan sailed into the record books in September 1997 when he won the Catalunya 500cc Grand Prix in Spain as this win was his 12th for the season - the previous record number of wins for one season was held by Italian Giacomo Agostini who had 11 wins in 1968.
Born in Brisbane in 1965, Doohan made his motorcycle racing debut at Surfers Paradise in 1984 and entered the 500cc Grand Prix circuit in 1989. He had his first win in Hungary in 1990 and, over the next seven years, has totted up a total of 44 grand prix wins (to August 1997). As part of the Honda team, he was runner up in the world championship in 1991 and 1992.
In February 1997, Michael Doohan was named male athlete of the year at the Telstra Australian Sports awards in Melbourne.
Ralph Doubell, born in Melbourne in 1946, shot to public prominence in 1968 when he won Olympic gold in the 800 metres track race, setting a record Olympic time and equalling the world record under the difficult circumstances presented by the high altitudes of Mexico City. Prior to this, Doubell had won the Australian 800 metres title in three consecutive years from 1965-1967 and again in 1969 and 1970. He spent most of 1968 running in the USA, and was unbeaten in races up to 1,000 yards, prior to the Games. Serious leg problems prevented him defending the title in 1972.
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"Duggan, Vic",122,"0","g","0"
Born in Maitland in 1915, Vic Duggan began his motor-racing career at the Sydney Showground in the mid-1930s and went on to many NSW and Australian championships. A founder of the International Speedway Club, he helped reestablish speedway racing in Sydney after the war. In 1947, Duggan earned ú4,000 in 20 weeks in England. A crash cost him the unofficial world championship, but he won it the following year. He was also outstanding in that year's British League. After his brother died in a crash, Duggan's interest waned and he retired in 1950 with 297 wins from 348 races, only failing to make third place or better on nine occasions.
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"Dunstall, Jason",123,0,g,0
Jason Dunstall, Australian Rules football star, was born in Melbourne on 14th August 1964. He played over 256 games as full forward for Hawthorn between 1985 and 1997 and twice topped the AFL goal kicking list, with a league total of 1,179 goals for an average of 4.77, up until the end of 1996. On 2nd May 1992, he kicked a club record of 17 goals against Richmond surpassing Peter Hudson's club record of 16 goals set against Melbourne in 1969. In 1996 and 1997 he was a regular panellist on the Nine Network's Melbourne \IFooty Show\i.
His other records set on the same day include: most goals kicked at Waverley; previous record was by St.Kilda's Tony Lockett with 13 goals; equal second highest one-day record in the history of the league, equalling Collingwood's Gordon Coventry who kicked 17 against Fitzroy in 1930; the most goals in round seven, the previous record of 14 was set by Essendon's John Coleman when he kicked 14 against Fitzroy in round seven in 1954; and achieved the quickest half century in the gameÆs history, with 55 goals over 7 games.
He is the first full forward to kick 100 goals six times. On 10th May 1997, he became only the second man in the history of the game to break the 1,200 goal barrier, between 1985 and 1997. Collingwood's full forward Gordon Coventry kicked 1299 goals between 1927 and 1937.
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"Durack, Sarah",124,"0","g","0"
Swimmer 'Fanny' Durack was born in Sydney in 1889. After establishing her remarkable swimming skills in Australia, she planned to swim at the Olympics, only to find that the Ladies Amateur Swimming Association did not permit women to compete in front of men. However, she became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal, and broke the world record in the 100 metres freestyle. World swimming tours followed and, although the War ended her Olympic career, she went on to break twelve world records before retiring in 1920. At one point she held every world record in women's swimming from 50 yards to one mile.
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"Dutton, Phillip",125,"e\1\pdutten.jpg","c","0"
Equestrian Phillip Dutton was born on September 12, 1963. He is currently based in the United States of America.
Phillip finished third at the Fairhill event in 1993 which earned him a place in the Australian team for the World Equestrian Games in 1994. He was part of the three-day event team that won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
\I(Text courtesy of the Equestrian Federation of Australia Inc.)\i
\BDescription:\b Phillip Dutton \I(Equestrian Federation of Australia)\i
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"Dye, Shane",126,sdye.jpg,c,0
Shane Dye was born in New Zealand on 22nd September 1966.
Regarded as the greatest tactical jockey in the world, New Zealand born Shane Dye has been labelled racing's "golden boy". Not only has he ridden Melbourne Cup winners, he currently holds the record of winning four consecutive Golden Slippers and was the first rider in 13 years to ride 100 winners in a Sydney season.
Dye was the winner of the 1991 jockey premiership and has ridden winners totalling more than $7 million in stake money in one season. He is a key member of Channel Nine's Wide World of Sports with his "insider's view" of racing and was the first person in Australia to don the "jockey cam", a camera fixed upon the riding cap to show the viewer the revolutionary realistic view of the jockey for each race.
In the 1995 spring season, Shane rode a magnificent race on Octagonal to win the prestigious Cox Plate, went on to win the Victoria Derby on Nothin' Leica Dane and narrowly missed making history by winning all three major races when he ran second in the Melbourne Cup, again riding Nothin' Leica Dane.
\IThis information and photograph supplied courtesy Harry M. Miller & Co. Management.\i
\BDescription:\b Shane Dye \I(Harry M. Miller & Co. Management)\i.
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"Dyer, Jack (Captain Blood)",127,"0","g","0"
Named 'Captain Blood' for his powerful build, toughness, determination and skill, the talented ruckman, Jack Dyer, was born in 1913 and became an Aussie Rules legend. Joining Richmond as a teenager, Dyer went straight into first grade and never played a game for another club. From 1931 to 1949, he played 310 games with Richmond, a club record not bettered until 1979 (by \JKevin Bartlett)\j, and surpassed by few in the game. He captained the side from 1941-48, during which time they won the grand final three times. He also played for Victoria 16 times. He was also a well known media sports commentator.
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"Earl, Jack",128,0,g,0
Jack Earl, one of the founders of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, was born in 1909. He captained the Ketch, the \IKathleen Gillett,\i in the inaugural race and attended the official launch of the 50th race (set down for December 26th 1994), the day before his death. The first race took place after Jack Earl challenged his friend, Tasmanian Bert Walker, to a sprint to Hobart in 1945.
As other sailors heard of the cruise, nine yachts eventually took part in the "unofficial race", with the winner being the \IRani,\i captained by Captain John H. Illingworth of the Royal Navy. The \IRani\i disappeared for four days before turning up in Hobart, winning on corrected time of four days, nine hours, 38 mins. The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race has been jinxed by a disaster every seven years and many sailors are superstitious of the event. Jack Earl died on 13th April 1994 in Sydney, aged 85.
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"Elias, Benny",129,0,g,0
Benny Elias, Australian and Balmain rugby league hooker, was born in Lebanon on 15th November 1963. He starred as the Balmain and New South Wales hooker between 1981 and 1994, and also played for Australia. He married Kelly Crawford in 1992 and worked for a time at radio 2GB as a salesman. On 29th November, 1994 he announced his retirement to join pay-TV company Galaxy as an all-round sports commentator. He formed the mobile phone company, Lets Talk Communications, in 1993, and is currently the company's chief executive.
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"Elkington, Steve",130,e\1\markella.jpg,g,0
Champion golfer Steve Elkington joined the US PGA tour in 1987. Since then Elkington has climbed up in the world rankings. By April 1997, Elkington, after winning the Players Championship tournament by a record seven strokes, was leading the year's money list on the US PGA tour so far. His career earnings in the US up to April 1997 had almost topped $6 million.
His other career wins include the Greater Greensboro Open in 1990; the Players Championship in 1991; the Tournament of Champions in 1992 and 1995; the Southern Open in 1994; the US PGA in 1995 and the Doral Ryder Open in 1997.
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"Ella, Mark",131,"e\1\markella.jpg","c","0"
A true legend in rugby union, Mark Ella was born in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse in 1959. Along with his brothers Glen (his twin) and Gary (1960), he stunned the rugby schoolboy world when, his lowly public school, Matraville High, played and defeated the great GPS rugby champions, St Josephs in 1977. Mark went on to play for the undefeated Australian schoolboys team that year and subsequently played 25 tests for Australia, captaining the team ten times and scoring a try against England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales on the famous 1984 'Grand Slam Wallabies' tour. He currently coaches the Wallaby backs.
\BDescription:\b Mark Ella \I(Fairfax Photo Library).\i
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"Elliott, Herb",132,"0","g","0"
Australia's and perhaps the world's greatest middle-distance runner, Herb Elliott was born in Perth in 1938. Winning his first mile race when he was only 14, he set two world records in 1957 in the junior mile class and then won the Australian senior mile. In 1958, he broke the four-minute mile. He subsequently ran 17 sub-four minute miles. After two gold medals in the 1958 Commonwealth Games, he set world records for the mile and 1,500 metres, won gold with a world record time of 3 minutes 35.6 seconds at the 1960 Olympics and retired at the age of 23, after almost nine years without losing a race. Trained by the demanding coach, Percy Cerutty, Elliott was never defeated in a 1,500 metres race between 1957 and 1961. When he retired, he studied at Cambridge University.
In April 1997, Herb Elliott was announced as the new director of athlete and corporate relations with the Australian Olympic Committee.
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"Elliott, Matthew",133,0,g,0
Matthew Elliott, Australian and Victorian cricketer, was born at Chelsea in Victoria on 28th September 1971. The left hand batsman scored his first Test century at Lord's during the Test against England in 1997. He scored a magnificent 199 in the first innings of the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford, Manchester in July 1997.
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"Emerson, Roy",134,"0","g","0"
Born in Blackbutt, Queensland, in 1936, Roy Emerson's talent was obscured by Rosewall and Hoad in his early tennis career. He was a member of the Davis Cup team from 1959-67, won the Australian singles title in 1961 and each year from 1963-67, the Australian doubles three times, the US singles twice, the US doubles four times, the French singles twice and the doubles each year from 1960-65. At Wimbledon he won the doubles in 1959 and 1961 and nearly won them in 1962. Emerson turned professional in 1968.
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"Eve, Dick",135,0,g,0
Dick Eve, the only Australian to win an Olympic gold medal for diving, was born at Parramatta on 19th March 1901. Along with Boy Charlton and Nick Winter, they were the only three to win gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics. A wool classer by trade, he served as a gunner in the middle east during WW2. He later taught Olympian Murray Rose how to swim. He died on 13th March 1969, aged 68.
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"Famechon, Johnny",136,0,g,0
Born in 1945 into a French boxing family, Johnny Famechon arrived in Australia in 1950. His family had been well known in European boxing and as a youth he came to the attention of trainer and former Australian title holder, Ambrose Palmer. He boxed professionally from 1961. In three years he fought his way to the Australian featherweight title, losing only one of 20 bouts, progressed to the Commonwealth title in January 1969, and became world champion that year after defeating Jose Legra. Returning to a hero's reception in Melbourne, he successfully defended his title twice against Japan's Fighting Harada. He retired after losing the title in a bout with Vincente Saldivar in 1970. He is remembered as the only world featherweight champion never to be knocked out.
In October 1997, Famechon was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.
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"Fanning, Fred",137,0,g,0
Fred Fanning, former Australian Rules footballer and record goal kicker, was born in 1922. While playing for Melbourne against St.Kilda in 1947 he kicked 18 goals -- a record that still stands. The nearest anyone has come to this record was Hawthorn's Jason Dunstall against Richmond in 1992 with 17 goals, and previously Collingwood's Gordon Coventry against Fitzroy in 1930, also with 17 goals. Fanning played 104 games from 1940 until 1947 and kicked 411 goals for the Demons.
His 18 goals came in his final game before leaving to coach Hamilton to five premierships in seven years. He also holds the record for being the Melbourne clubÆs highest scorer in a single season when he ended up with 97 goals in 1947. He won the clubÆs best and fairest award in 1945 and was the clubÆs leading goal kicker in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1947. He died in Geelong Hospital on 24th May 1993, aged 71.
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"Farmer, Graham (Polly)",138,0,g,0
"Polly" Farmer, born in 1935 of Aboriginal descent, was awarded an MBE for his services to Australian Rules in 1971. His distinguished career saw him playing and coaching teams in both Western Australia and Victoria and playing for both state sides. His 339th senior match of 1971 was a record. He captained Geelong from 1965-1967 and was the club's best and fairest player in 1963 and 1964. While he was coaching West Perth from 1968-71, the club won two premierships. Farmer was an excellent ruckman. He never received a suspension in his career. Among his contributions to the Australian Rules game was the development of the handpass from a defensive to an attacking move.
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"Farr-Jones, Nick",139,"e\1\rugby.jpg","c","0"
Nick Farr-Jones is regarded as one of the finest captains and scrum halfs ever to play rugby union for Australia. Born in Sydney in 1962, Farr-Jones graduated from the University of Sydney and became a solicitor while continuing to play rugby union and was part of the famous 'Grand Slam Wallabies' who decimated England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on their tour of 1984. He was ferocious in cover defence and lucky to have \JMark Ella\j and \JMichael Lynagh\j in the five-eight position for most of his career. Since his retirement, Farr-Jones has become an active television commentator and writer. He became Australian captain in 1988 and, though the Wallabies lost the Bledisloe Cup to New Zealand in 1990, he led the team which triumphed in the 1991 World Cup in England.
\BDescription:\b Nick Farr-Jones \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Farrell, Renita",140,"e\1\rfarrell.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Renita was captain of the 1993 Australian Junior World Cup Team that finished with a silver medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. She was first selected in the Australian Team in February 1994 for the India and South African Tour and in 1996 was one of the co-vice captains of the team.
Renita is a midfield player and played for her home state the Queensland Scorchers in the Telstra Stix Series. She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She has also participated in the following major tournaments: Junior World Cup (Barcelona, Spainù1993), World Cup (Dublin, Irelandù1994) and Champions Trophy (Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Renita has an uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time and can play through a crowded area with skilful ease.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Renita Farrell \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Farrelly, Bernard 'Midget'",141,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1944, Midge Farrelly became a hero in the 1960s in the newly competitive sport of board surfing. Farrelly came to prominence in 1963 when, to the surprise of the Americans, he won the famous Makaha International surfing event in Hawaii. In 1964, he won the Australian championship and went on to become the first World Champion. He won the Australian championship again in 1968 but lost the World Championship four years later. Although he hasn't surfed competitively for over 20 years, Farrelly is still revered as one of Australia's greatest surf stylists. In the mid-1960s, given the right conditions, he could beat every surfer in the world.
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"Fenech, Jeff",142,"e\1\das95100.jpg","c","0"
'I love youse all' has become one of the most famous catch-cries of Australian sport over the last decade. The 'Marrickville Mauler', born in Sydney in 1964 to Maltese parents, has become one of Australia's most successful boxers. Fenech's victory in the quarter finals of the 1984 Olympics was overturned by the judges. Turning professional soon afterwards, he won the Australian super-flyweight title and NSW bantamweight title before defeating Satashi Shingaki for the IBF bantamweight world title. He won the WBC super-bantamweight title in 1987 and a year later won the WBC featherweight title. In 1991 he attempted to win a fourth title but was defeated by Azumah Nelson. His retirement has been characterised by periodic returns to the ring.
In November 1995, Jeff Fenech made another comeback and subsequently won the fight against Tito Tovar in Atlantic City.
\BDescription:\b Jeff Fenech \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Fingleton, John 'Jack'",143,"0","g","0"
Born in 1908, John 'Jack' Fingleton was a sturdy and valiant cricket batsman who opened with Bill Brown both for New South Wales and Australia. Although troubled by the English bowlers, Larwood and Voce, in the Bodyline series, he made 478 runs at a 79.66 average against South Africa in 1935-36, with centuries in three successive matches and a 233 opening partnership with Brown. Against England in the 1936-37 season he scored 136, putting on a record 346 stand with Bradman. After his retirement from first-class cricket, Fingleton became a professional journalist and published a number of books on cricket.
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"Fitzgerald, John",144,0,g,0
John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player, was born on 28th December 1960, becoming one of the world's best doubles players. On 7th July 1991, along with his partner Anders Jarryd, he won the men's Wimbledon doubles crown. They also won the French and US Open doubles with Fitzgerald entering the top 50 earning Australian sportsmen at number 17 position with a take home purse of A$818,000.
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"Fitzgerald, Kerry",145,0,g,0
Kerry Fitzgerald, one of Australia's greatest ever rugby union referees, was born in 1948. Fitzgerald was a training officer with the Commonwealth Bank. He died at work in Brisbane on 18th December 1991, aged 43, after suffering a massive heart attack. Only six weeks earlier, he refereed a World Cup semi-final. Unmarried, he was survived by two sisters.
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"Fitzsimons, Peter",146,0,g,0
Peter Fitzsimons, 6 foot 7 inch tall Australian journalist and former Rugby Union player, was born at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital at Wahroonga in Sydney on 29th June 1961. He was the longest baby (29 inches) to be born at the hospital. After playing Union for Sydney University, he decided to spend a year in Italy and another four years in France playing football and teaching English. He returned to Australia in 1990 and became a sportÆs journalist with the \ISydney Morning Herald\i. He married Lisa Wilkinson, editor of \ICleo Magazine\i, in 1993, and they have a son Jake (1994). In 1997, he released a book on Australian sporting heroes, titled \IEveryone but Phar Lap\i.
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"Flack, Edwin H.",147,0,g,0
Edwin H. Flack was born in 1874. He became Australia's first Olympic champion athlete on 6th April 1896, when he competed on the second day of the revived modern Olympic Games. Flack, a private entrant from Australia, won the 1500 metres running event, although some still claim he ran for Britain. He later won the 800 metres, in two minutes, 11 seconds, and on 9th April he won the gold medal for the 1500 metres, but failed in the marathon. It was acceptable to go as an individual entrant as national teams were not sent.
Winners did not receive a gold medal but instead were presented with a silver medal, a scrolled diploma, and an olive wreath. He had migrated to Australia from England with his family in the 1880s but went back to London in 1895 to study accountancy, where he trained with the London Athletic Club. He chose to represent Australia and ran in his old Melbourne colours. He was also the first Australian to play tennis at Olympic competition. He competed for Australia in the singles and for Britain in the doubles.
He returned to Melbourne in 1898, and his medals hung in his accountantÆs office of Flack and Flack. He died in 1935 aged 71.
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"Flavell, Les",148,0,g,0
Les Favell, Australian cricketer and opening batsman in the 1950s, was born at Arncliffe-Rockdale in Sydney on 6th October 1929. However, he played his best cricket with South Australia, who he also captained. His career aggregate is the highest by an Australian that never toured England. He played 19 Tests, scored 757 runs (27.03), including one century, and took nine catches. He captained Australia against New Zealand in 1967.
After he retired he became an administrator for South Australian cricket and a commentator with ABC radio in South Australia. He died at his home in South Australia on 14th June 1987, aged 57.
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"Flemming, Jane",149,"e\2\jfleming.jpg","c","0"
Born on the 14th of April, 1965 in Victoria, Jane became one of the leading heptathletes in the world.
JaneÆs first Commonwealth Games gold medal was for the multi-event heptathlon where she achieved an amazing 6,695 pointsùthe second highest score in the world in 1990. Her second gold medal was in the long jump where she displayed amazing courage, tenacity and strength of character to win the event on her last jump; setting a personal best and Games Record leap of 6.78 metres.
Jane was ranked No.1 in the Commonwealth from 1987 to 1993. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics Jane came seventh, but was unlucky to tear a hamstring in the first event of the heptathlon at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
In November 1990, Jane was named the Australian Institute of SportÆs Athlete of the Year. March 1993 saw Jane win the National 100m hurdles and heptathlon titles as well as the 1993 Mobil Grand Prix Series Female Athlete of the Year award.
Jane has had a successful venture into the business arena with her top-selling 1995 and 1996 Golden Girls Calendars and the production of similar calendars in the UK.
\I(Text and photograph courtesy of Markson Sparks)\i
\BDescription:\b Jane Flemming \I(Markson Sparks)\i
Born on the 20th of April 1960 in Melbourne, Debbie Flintoff-King won gold for Australia in the 400 m hurdles at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She set an Olympic record of 54.00 seconds in the semi-final and in the final improved on that mark again to run 53.17. In an inspirational run she edged the Soviet UnionÆs Tatyana Ledovskaya out by .01 of a second. It was a performance of great spirit where Flintoff-King never looked like giving up and it was the final lunge at the line that took the gold medal.
Flintoff-King is one of AustraliaÆs best ever track and field athletes. She dominated her event through the 80s and continues to hold the Australian record for the 400 m hurdles. Since her retirement she has been involved in the development of junior athletes by running a series of camps and has also been involved in coaching. She is married to Phil King, who was her coach, and they have two daughters.
Larry Foley, Australian boxer of the bare knuckle era, was born in 1847. He was one of the few boxers to help bridge the gap between bare knuckle and the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Born at Clear Creek on the Turon River in New South Wales, he was not only hard fisted but "tight fisted" as well. He became the most popular sportsman of his era in Sydney and at one stage owned the White Horse Hotel near the current Strand Arcade in Sydney. He later managed a stable of young boxers. He died from a heart attack on 12th July 1917, aged 70.
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"Forass, Judy",152,0,g,0
Judy Forass, former Olympic skier, was born Judy Dennis at Armidale, Victoria on 22nd November 1932. She was aged 32, and a mother of four, when she competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. She competed in the slalom, giant slalom, and the downhill, but finished out of the medals. She married her Hungarian instructor Ernst Forass in 1954 and together they managed the Mount Buller Ski Resort. Her family included a son and three daughters. She died on 31st August 1996, aged 63.
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"Ford, Michelle",153,0,g,0
Michelle Ford, Australian Olympic swimmer, was born in Sydney on 15th July 1960. She took her first swimming lessons at the age of four. At age 13 she represented Australia at the Montreal Olympics. She won gold for the 800 metres at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
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"Fothergill, Des",154,0,g,0
Des Fothergill, Australian Rules and Collingwood footballer, was born on 15th July 1920. He started playing for the club at 15, often against men twice his age, and by the time he was 20 he had won three Copland trophies for the clubÆs best and fairest. He broke the hearts of the clubÆs supporters when he switched to the VFA to play for Williamstown for $500 a year in 1941, and won both the VFA's awards for best player.
He joined the army and three years later returned to Collingwood, but retired in 1947 after a recurring knee injury. He died in Melbourne on 16th March 1996, aged 75. He is survived by his wife Elaine and son Des junior.
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"Fraser, Dawn",155,0,g,0
Born in Balmain in 1937, Dawn Fraser was one of the greatest female swimmers of the modern era. She became the first woman to swim the 100 metres (110 yards) freestyle in under one minute. After setting 39 world records, her remarkable career was cut short at the 1964 Olympics when she was banned from competitive swimming for ten years after she mischievously removed a flag from the Japanese Emperor's palace. In the preceding eight years she remained unbeaten in the 100 metres freestyle, becoming the first woman to swim the event in under a minute and setting a time that was not beaten for 15 years. Fraser became the only swimmer to win gold in one event in three successive Olympics. Dawn Fraser also won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympic Games for the 4 x 100 metres relay and has won several silver medals at three Games. She won more medals than any other Australian Olympic competitor.
Dawn was named Australian of the Year in 1964 and she retired in 1965. She has since been a swimming coach and represented the seat of Balmain as an Independent in the NSW Legislative Assembly. A semi-autobiography, \IGolden Girl,\i written by Dawn Fraser and Harry Gordon, was published in 1965 and revised as an autobiography titled \IDawn Fraser\i in 1979. A film of her life, \IDawn,\i was made in 1978.
While Dawn Fraser attended the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as a special guest, she was hospitalised for an angina attack.
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"Fraser, Neale",156,"0","g","0"
Neale Fraser became a national hero in 1959 when he won the US singles and doubles titles, the men's doubles at Wimbledon and the Davis Cup. The following year he again won the US singles and doubles and the Davis Cup as well as the French doubles and the Wimbledon men's singles. Ranked the world's No. 1 player in 1959 and 1960, he won the Davis Cup and the Wimbledon doubles in 1961 but retired in 1962, becoming manager of the Australian tennis team in 1965 and captain of the Davis Cup team in 1970.
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"Freedman, Lee",157,0,g,0
Lee Freedman, champion Australian racehorse trainer, was born on 12th August 1956. He has won three Melbourne Cups with Tawriffic, Subzero as well as the 1995 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup double with Doriemus. Lee Freedman is the great grandson of W. H. "Midget" McLachlan on his motherÆs side, who rode three Melbourne Cup winners. His great uncle on his fatherÆs side owned Burbon, the second place-getter in the 1938 Melbourne Cup.
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"Freeman, Cathy",158,"e\2\940826cg.jpg","c","0"
Born Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman in 1973, Cathy Freeman captured the hearts and minds of Australia when, having won the 400 m at the Commonwealth Games in 1994, she grabbed an Aboriginal flag from the audience and ran a lap of the stadium. Although the act caused some controversy, Freeman was celebrating the fact that she had become the first Aboriginal woman to win an individual Commonwealth gold medal on the track. At the time she was ranked 2nd over 400 m in the world and 4th over 200 m.
Freeman, who was Young Australian of the Year in 1990, has become a symbol of achievement for young Aborigines around the country. In February 1996, Cathy became the third fastest female in the world in the 400 m, running an Australian record time of 49.85 seconds.
Cathy Freeman won a silver medal for the 400 m sprint at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. During the World Athletics Championships in Athens in August 1997, Cathy became the first Australian woman to win gold at a world championship.
Bobby Fulton, former Australian rugby league five-eighth who captained Manly and Australia, was born at Warrington, Lancashire in England on 1st December 1946. He migrated to Australia with his parents when aged four. He started his football career with Western Suburbs in the Illawarra League, was spotted by Manly administrator Ken Arthurson, and came to the Manly club in 1966.
He represented Australia in 20 Tests and four World Series, which included the two Kangaroo tours of 1973 and 1978; he captained Australia twice. He played 213 games for Manly and figured in three Manly premierships as a player in 1972, 1973 and 1976. After retiring from Manly as a player, he joined Eastern Suburbs as a player coach in 1977 and played 50 games before retiring in 1979. He captained Australia in 1978 and coached Manly from 1983 until 1988, winning the 1987 premiership. Fulton also coached the Kangaroos to victory against England in 1990.
In 1991, he coached the Kangaroos against Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, and returned to Manly as full-time coach in 1993 after the resignation of David Lowe, who retired due to ill health. In 1994, he was honoured in the QueenÆs birthday honours list. His career record as a player includes 361 games, 233 tries, 27 goals, 64 field goals and 907 points.
Melinda Gainsford is Australia's fastest woman ever. Born in 1971 in rural New South Wales, Gainsford is one of the finest products of the Australian Institute of Sport. In recent years her performances have become more and more impressive. She competed in the 1992 Olympic Games without winning a medal but, the following year, was a silver medallist over 200 m at the World Indoor Championships. She won both silver and bronze medals at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and then, in 1995, she won a gold medal for the 200 m at the World Indoor Championships. This run made her the fastest Australian woman ever.
In 1996, Melinda was married and is now known as Melinda Gainsford-Taylor.
Melinda won a bronze medal in the 200 m at the IAAF Grand Prix in Japan in September 1997.
Born in \JWollongong\j in 1959, Wayne Gardner was the first Australian to win the world championship 500cc Grand Prix. Gardner started his career in 1977 as a dirt-track minibike rider. By 1982 he was part of the Honda team on the 500cc circuit and in 1986 he was leader. That year he won three events and finished second to Eddie Lawson. In 1987, Gardner won seven events and became world champion after his emotional victory on the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria. Before retiring in 1992, he had won 18 Grand Prix races. Gardner has taken up touring car racing in recent years.
\BDescription:\b Wayne Gardner \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Gasnier, Reg",162,"0","g","0"
Considered the greatest Rugby League centre of the postwar era, Reg Gasnier was born in Sydney in 1939. An outstanding sportsman at school, he was expected to make the NSW Sheffield Shield team at 16, but decided to focus on Rugby League. In 1959, he played both for NSW and Australia. His club, St George, won the grand final that year. On the Kangaroo tour of England and France in 1959-60, he scored 20 tries in 19 games. He was appointed the youngest-ever Test captain at 23, leading Australia to a series of victories. Dogged by injuries late in his career - he fractured his leg in 1967-68 and retired.
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"Gattellari, Rocky",163,"0","g","0"
Born in Italy in 1941, Rocky Gattellari was noted as much for his showmanship as his impressive boxing record. He made the Australian Olympic team in 1960, but lost to the ultimate gold medallist. Turning professional in 1961, he took the national flyweight title and, having successfully defended it, captured the Australian bantamweight crown in 1963 in a KO victory. Despite a fine performance, he failed to win the world bantamweight title in 1965. In 1966, he lost to \JLionel Rose\j and retired. Lured back in 1979 for a reported $20,000, he refused to come out after the fourth round, causing a near riot. In 25 bouts Gattellari lost only three.
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"Gaze, Andrew",164,"0","g","0"
Australia's outstanding basketball player and the inspiration of the Melbourne Tigers since 1981, Andrew Gaze is one of the reasons why basketball has become so popular in recent years. Born in Melbourne in 1965, Gaze has played for Australia since 1983 and, in international competition, was the leading scorer at the Olympic Games in 1988. At various points in his career he has played for the Washington Bullets in the USA and Apollon in Greece. His sporting prowess in Australia has resulted in the awards of Most Valuable Player in the National League as well as five-time winner of the Alan Hughes Medal.
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"George, Emma",165,0,g,0
Emma George, Australian athletics pole vault star, was born at Beechworth in north eastern Victoria. In 1995 she became only the fifth Australian field athlete to break a world record when she set two world records for the pole vault in two days.
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"Giffen, George",166,"0","g","0"
South Australia's cricketing champion, George Giffen, was born in Adelaide in 1859. He was probably Australia's best-known cricketing all-rounder during the nineteenth century, combining off-spin bowling with a defensive batting style. Over a ten-year period, he averaged 11 wickets and 138 runs off the bat each time he played against Victoria. He toured England five times becoming the first Test cricketer to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets. His most successful season was perhaps that of 1894-95 when he captained the national side, taking 34 wickets and scoring 475 runs. He retired in 1903 and died in 1927.
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"Gilbert, Eddie",167,"0","g","0"
One of the few Aborigines to achieve success in cricket in the 1930s, Eddie Gilbert was raised under harsh conditions on a reserve. He was taken from his parents when very young and put to work as an unskilled labourer. His fast bowling brought him to the attention of the Queensland Cricketing Association. Taking six wickets in his first match for Queensland, he was promoted to the Shield side. In 1931, he took 7 for 91 against a West Indian team and, in a match against NSW that year, took a wicket first ball and bowled Bradman after only three deliveries. He retired in 1936 and returned to the reserve, dying there in 1978.
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"Glendinning, Ross",168,0,g,0
Ross Glendinning, former Australian Rules football player, was born in Perth on 17th September 1956. He played 230 games with North Melbourne and West Coast between 1978 and 1988. He won the 1983 Brownlow Medal and became the first captain of the newly formed West Coast Eagles. Following his retirement he became a commentator for the Seven Network.
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"Goodwin, Ted",169,0,g,0
Ted Goodwin, former Australian and St. George rugby league star, was born Edward John Goodwin at Crows Nest in Sydney on 4th August 1951. He started playing with Dapto while working in the mines near Wollongong. He played with St. George from 1972 until 1978 and worked as an electrician in Kogarah. Nicknamed Lord Ted, he played with Newtown under Warren Ryan in 1979 and then Wests from 1980 until 1983. He has played for New South Wales, City, and Australia. Married to Joanne, they have seven children.
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"Gould, Phil (Gus)",170,0,g,0
Phil "Gus" Gould, Australian Rugby League and Sydney City coach, was born in Sydney on the 24th January 1958. The former Penrith rugby league player and coach joined the Panthers in 1976 and in 1978 became captain at the age of 20. In 1981, he transferred to Newtown, where he played in a grand final against Parramatta. He moved to Canterbury in 1983 where he played 40 first grade games and in 1986 switched to South Sydney where he finished his playing career.
After coaching Canterbury reserve grade in 1987, he took over from Warren Ryan as first grade coach in 1988 and took the club to a premiership, the youngest coach ever to win the honours. In 1990, he returned to Penrith as coach and took them to a grand final in his first year, and backed up in 1991 to win the club's first premiership by defeating Canberra 19-12 in the grand final. From 1992-96 he was the New South Wales State of Origin coach. He is currently the coach of the Sydney City Roosters.
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"Gould, Shane",171,"e\2\sgould.jpg","c","0"
Shane Gould, born in Brisbane in 1956, began her extraordinary career in 1971 by winning the World Trophy Award for Australia. The following year she won every national freestyle championship, broke all national freestyle records and set world records in every distance. In the 1972 Olympics, she won three gold medals, a silver and a bronze, and set three world records. Twice ABC Sportsman of the Year and Australian of the Year in 1972, she shocked the sporting world in 1974 when, at 17, she opted for marriage, motherhood and social welfare work. At the time she was seen as the world's greatest-ever female freestyle swimmer.
Alfred Goulet, champion Australian cyclist, was born at Durham in the Gippsland region of Victoria on 5th April 1891. Virtually unknown in his own country, he spent over 70 years overseas and was regarded by many as the best all-round cyclist Australia has produced. In his heyday, between 1910 and 1926, he was the greatest professional bicycle rider in the world and was dubbed the King of the six day races; some of his six day records still stand.
After he retired from riding, he became an insurance salesman. At the age of 95 on December 9th 1986, he was inducted into the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame. His wife Jane Rooney died in 1973 and they had two children, a son Richard and daughter Suzan. He died in New Jersey, USA, on 11th March 1995, aged 103.
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"Graham, David",173,0,g,0
Born in 1946, David Graham decided early in his life to devote himself to golf. He left school to work at a golf club at 14, and later worked in a golf club factory while he mastered his game. He turned professional at the age of 18 and in 1970 he teamed with Bruce Devlin to win the World Cup. He won the Tasmanian Open in 1970 and went on to win 25 tournaments over the next decade, including the Australian Open in 1977 and culminating in the United States PGA in 1979. He won the US Open in 1981 and in 1988 was a member of the team that won the Dunhill Cup for Australia. Graham became one of the 25 top-grossing golfers of all time and has made his home in the United States. He is a designer of golf courses and in 1996 became eligible to play in the US seniors tour.
In 1997 David Graham won the Southwestern Bell Dominion Seniors in the United States.
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"Grant, David",174,0,g,0
David Grant, former Australian Rugby League and Canberra football star, was born at Trangie in New South Wales on 11th January 1956. He played for Souths, Easts and Balmain, and was the first captain of the Canberra Raiders when they entered the competition in 1982. He played 135 Winfield Cup games, and in 1986 moved to the north coast of New South Wales to play out his career. He was the non-playing coach of the Kyogle Turkeys when he suffered a heart attack and died on the 20th of August 1994, aged 38. He was survived by his wife Louise and five children.
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"Gray, Edgar",175,0,g,0
Edgar "Dunc" Gray, Australian cycling champion, was born Edgar Laurence Gray at Goulburn, New South Wales on 17th July 1906. He was a star of the Australian velodrome from 1928 until the outbreak of WW2, and was the first Australian to win an Olympic medal for cycling when he won bronze at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games for the 1,000 metres time trial. He won an Olympic gold medal for the time trial four years later at Los Angeles.
He was Australia's flag bearer at the 1936 Berlin Olympics but failed to win a medal. He came back in 1938 to win the 1,000 metre sprint gold medal, and the time trials silver medal at the British Empire Games in Sydney. He held 19 national championship titles and won 25 state titles, was second ten times, and third four times. A carpenter and joiner by trade, he lived in Kiama until his death on 30th August 1996, aged 90. He was survived by his wife Grace and four children.
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"Green, Nick",176,0,g,0
Nick Green, Australian rower, was born in Melbourne on 4th October 1967. As a member of the coxless fours, Oarsome Foursome, he won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
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"Gregory, David",177,"0","g","0"
Dave Gregory was born into a cricketing family in \JWollongong\j in 1845. Not only did four of his brothers play for New South Wales, but 20 Gregory descendants went on to compete in state competition. Gregory became one of Australia's earliest cricketing champions when he was selected, in 1877, to captain a combined Victoria-New South Wales team in what is now regarded as the first Test match against England. The following year he captained the first white Australian team to tour England, winning 13 of 17 matches. He became secretary of the New South Wales Cricket Association in the 1880s.
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"Gregory, Jack",178,"0","g","0"
Jack Gregory, one of Australia's best cricketing all-rounders, was born in Sydney in 1895. An excellent slip fielder, a hard striker of the ball, and a ferocious pace bowler, he immediately shone when selected for the Australian cricket team in 1921. On the tour of England that year, he formed, with E.A. McDonald, the first fast-bowling opening team of the modern era. Together they took 46 of the 71 English wickets and, for good measure, Gregory thrashed a century in 70 minutes against South Africa on the way home. Unfortunately an injury prevented him playing for the next two seasons and he never recaptured his finest form. He retired in 1928 and died in 1973.
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"Gregory, Sydney",179,"0","g","0"
A cousin of \JJack Gregory\j, Syd was born in 1870 and died in 1929. He helped to keep the New South Wales cricket team dominant in the Sheffield Shield as a sharp fielder and strong offside player, scoring over 3626 Shield runs at 43.68. He toured England eight times, playing in a then-unsurpassed 58 Tests. He captained the Australian side in 1912 against England. Gregory made 2282 runs in Tests, including 201 in the first Test played in Sydney in 1894-95. When the chips were much down at Lord's in 1896, he added 221 with Harry Trott in about 150 minutes.
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"Griffith, Albert",180,"0","g","0"
"Young Griffo" was a talented but controversial featherweight boxer with exceptional defensive capacities. His preference for alcohol and brothels over training, led to numerous drunk and disorderly incidents. Supposedly born at sea in 1871, he grew up and worked as a newsboy in Sydney. Griffith turned professional in 1886 and took the national featherweight title in 1889. His claim to have taken the world title in 1890 is hotly disputed. Nonetheless, he did not lose any of his first 114 recorded fights. Griffith went to the USA in 1893 but alcoholism ruined his career. He died in New York in 1927.
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"Grimmett, Clarence",181,"0","g","0"
Clarrie Grimmett, born in New Zealand in 1891, became Australia's best-known spin bowler prior to \JRichie Benaud\j, and was the first Test player to take over 200 wickets. Called to the Victorian team in 1923 when he was 33, he took ten wickets in his first match. With his deadly accuracy, slow leg breaks and crafty topspinners, Grimmett consistently took over 20 wickets in a series when he played against England. He took 33 wickets against the West Indies in their first tour of Australia in 1930-31, and 44 against South Africa in 1935-36 at an average of 14.59. He retired from cricket in 1941 with 216 wickets at 24.2.
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"Grout, Wally",182,"0","g","0"
A popular cricketer, wicket-keeper Wally Grout is remembered particularly for his cheerfulness, sportsmanship and leg-side dives. Grout played Shield cricket for Queensland and set a world record of eight catches in an innings against Western Australia in 1959-60. His six catches in an innings against South Africa in 1957-58 was a Test record at the time. In all, he took five in an innings on six occasions, eight in a Test twice and dismissed 23 West Indians in their 1960-61 tour. Grout finished his career with 588 dismissals to his first-class credit and 187 Test dismissals.
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"Guyatt, Billy",183,0,g,0
Billy Guyatt, former Australian track cycling champion, and retailer, was born in 1920 at Sassafras in Victoria where he started riding bikes at the age of three. He was overlooked for the 1938 Empire Games because he received a five shilling prize in a race two years earlier. He later coached Australian champion Sid Patterson for the London Olympic Games. Guyatt won a large number of Australian titles and was regarded as the ultimate professional. He is best remembered for his 1954 win in the Melbourne to Warrnambool road race.
He retired to become a full time electrical salesman, and after completing a sales course with Electrolux, sold 90 vacuum cleaners in 90 days. He set up a chain of electrical stores in Victoria. He died at Surfers Paradise on 9th May 1989, aged 68.
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"Hamilton, Jack",184,0,g,0
Jack Hamilton, former champion Victorian Football League (VFL) player and general manager of the Victorian Football League, was born John Clifford Hamilton in Melbourne in 1929. He was educated at Northcote High School, and started his football career with Ivanhoe before transferring to Collingwood where he played 158 games as full-back from 1946-56. He served as assistant secretary of the VFL from 1949-76 and later as a VFL commissioner. One of the original VFL commissioners, he stood down on grand final day, 1986.
In 1984 he was awarded the Order of Australia. He died on 30th May 1990, aged 61, when his car rolled over four times on the Whittlesea Road, north of Melbourne. His wife Joan suffered slight injuries in the accident. They have three children, Fiona, John and Robert.
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"Hansford, Gregg",185,0,g,0
Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcyclist and racing car driver, was born in Brisbane on 8th April 1952. The former motor cycle ace won ten Grand Prix's including the Tooheys 1000, the Sandown 500 and the Easter 12-hour race, and was runner up in the world 250cc title twice. In 1993, his biggest thrill came when he and Larry Perkins shared the Bathurst 1000 win. In the same year he and Neil Crompton won the Easter 12-hour race in a Mazda RX-7.
Only months before his death, he had established a defensive driver academy in Brisbane. He was survived by his de facto Carolyn and nine-month-old son Harrison, and two sons from his first marriage, Ryan (1983) and Rhys (1986). He died when his Ford Mondeo sedan spun out of control at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria on 5th March 1995, aged 42.
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"Harding, Jeff",186,"0","g","0"
Known to the fans as 'The Hitman', Jeff Harding has assumed the mantle of most popular Australian boxer from \JJeff Fenech\j. Born in Sydney in 1965, Harding began boxing in 1982 and won the silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. He leapt to prominence when he defeated Dennis Andries at Atlantic City in 1989 to claim the world light-heavyweight competition. This was the beginning of a long rivalry with Andries, winning the title back in 1990, and Harding defeating the 38-year old Andries in 1991 in a fight recognised as one of the classic battles of modern boxing.
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"Harvey, Neil",187,"e\2\nharvey.jpg","c","0"
The outstanding cricket career of Neil Harvey began with centuries in his first club match, his first game for Victoria, his second Test, and, while still the youngest in the side, his first Test innings against England. For years, he was second only to Bradman in Test runs (6149), averages (48.42) and centuries (21). He scored 2040 runs on the tour of England in 1953 at a 65.8 average. Against South Africa he twice made four Test centuries in a series, averaged 76.3 on the 1949-50 tour and made his highest Test score of 205 (one of seven first-class double centuries) in 1952-53. In his first-class career, Harvey made over 21,000 runs at an average of 50.9.
\BDescription:\b Neil Harvey \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Haslam, Juliet",188,"e\2\jhaslam.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Juliet is one of the current Telstra HockeyrooÆs co-vice captains (in 1996) and was the first selected in the Australian Team in June 1989. She lead the SA Diet Coke Suns to victory in the 1995 Telstra Stix Series, ending South AustraliaÆs 25 year absence as National League Champions.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Her personal achievements include: two Olympic Games (Barcelona, Spainù1992 and 1996 Atlanta), one World Cup (Dublin, Irelandù1994) and four Champions Trophy (Frankfurt, Germanyù1989, Berlin, Germanyù1991, Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Born in South Australia, Juliet has been a regular member of the Telstra Hockeyroos since her debut. She is a versatile midfielder who combines excellent ball control with good vision to set up some top attacking moves.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Juliet Haslam \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Hassett, Lindsay",189,"0","g","0"
Born in 1913, the immensely talented batsman, Lindsay Hassett, would have been a much greater hero had he not had to live in the shadow of \JDon Bradman\j for most of his career. He played for Australia for 15 years, although his career was disrupted by the Second World War. In the final years of his career - from 1949-53, he was Australian captain. Hassett played in a total of 43 test matches. He scored 3073 runs, including ten centuries, for an average of 46.56. The highlight of his career came in 1946-47 when he shared a 276 run third-wicket partnership with \JDon Bradman\j.
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"Hawkes, Rechelle",190,"e\2\rhawkes.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Rechelle is the current (1996) Telstra HockeyrooÆs Captain and was first in the Australian Team in 1985 for a five series Test Match against England in Australia. Her first couple of years in the Australian Team were plagued by injury, but her dedication has seen her overcome these early set-backs.
She recently captained the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team, winning gold at the Atlanta Olympics. Her personal list of achievements in hockey is extensive to say the least: three Olympic Games (Seoul, Koreaù1988 (gold medal), Barcelona, Spainù1992 and Atlanta, USAù1996 (gold medal)), three World Cups (Amsterdam, Hollandù1986, Sydney, Australiaù1990 and Dublin, Irelandù1994), and five Champions Trophies (Amsterdam, Hollandù1986, Frankfurt, Germanyù1989, Berlin, Germanyù1991, Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Rechelle captained the team during the 1994 World Cup, 1995 Champions Trophy and the 1996 Olympic Games at Atlanta.
Born in Western Australia, Rechelle also captained the WAIS Diamonds to their victory in the 1994 Telstra Stix Series. With her speed, elimination skills and vision, few can set up play as well as her.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Rechelle Hawkes \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Hawkins, Doug",191,0,g,0
Doug Hawkins, champion Australian Rules Footscray football star, was born in Melbourne on 5th May 1960. He made his debut with Footscray in 1978, and up until the end of 1991 had played 329 games. In 1995, he played 21 games with Fitzroy and played in five state of origin matches. In the mid 1990s, he was a regular team member of the GTV-9 Thursday and Sunday \IFootball Show\i.
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"Hawthorne, Phil",192,0,g,0
Phil Hawthorne, Australian international rugby league and rugby union footballer was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on 24th October 1943. He started out playing Union with the Newcastle Wanderers and then Randwick. He then switched to league in 1968 to play for St. George and Easts. He represented Australia in 24 Rugby Union tests and scored a record 28 points in four test match appearances. He captained Australia in rugby league for the third test of the 1970 series against a touring British side. He worked in real estate before he died from leukemia. Divorced from his first wife, he was survived by his de facto Sue Prater and four children from his first marriage. He died in Newcastle's Mater Hospital on 18th September 1994, aged 50.
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"Hayes, John",193,0,g,0
John Hayes, champion Australian rugby league player, was born at Marrickville in Sydney on 25th May 1939. He worked as a panel beater before joining the police force in 1960. He played for Western Suburbs from 1958 until 1970 and represented City and NSW in 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964. He is married to Margaret and has three children.
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"Heal, Shane",194,0,g,0
Shane Heal, Australian basketball star with the Melbourne Kings, was born in Melbourne on 6th September 1970. He started out with the Nunawading Juniors, represented Victoria, and won an Australian Sports Institute Scholarship. He won the NBL Rookie of the Year award in 1988 and in 1990 was the most improved player, as well as winning the NBL good hands award. He played for Australia at the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics scoring 28 points against the US Dream Team, the most scored against the Dream Team for 1996. The same year he joined the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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"Healy, Gerard",195,0,g,0
Gerard Healy, Australian Rules football star was born on 1st March 1961. He played 211 games and kicked 273 goals with South Melbourne (later known as the Sydney Swans) from 1979 until 1990. He won the 1988 Brownlow Medal but after suffering an injury in 1990 he was drafted to Collingwood, where he sat out the 1991 season to recover from his injury by becoming a football commentator with the Seven Network.
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"Hendricks, Jon",196,"0","g","0"
A great Australian swimmer, Jon Hendricks won two gold medals at the 1956 Olympics. In both races he broke world records. His greatness was never fully realised, as he often was struck down by illness prior to major swimming meets. He suffered from an ear infection prior to the 1952 Olympics and at the 1960 Olympics he suffered from a stomach ailment and couldn't swim in the final. In 1956, he held the world record for the 100 metres freestyle, and during his career he was part of teams which broke the world records for the 4 x 110 yards, 4 x 200 metres and 4 x 220 yards relays.
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"Hendy, Trevor",197,"e\2\34500030.jpg","c","0"
Trevor Hendy is unchallenged as the greatest ironman in the world. Competing for the Surfers Paradise Club on QueenslandÆs Gold Coast, Hendy has won six Australian open Ironman titles. His string of Queensland titles stretches back to the mid 1980s and in 1994 Trevor claimed his fourth consecutive World Ironman title in the United Kingdom.
As four-times winner of the $500,000 Uncle Tobys Super Series, he is the man everybody wants to beat. Hendy won the series in its first year in 1989/90 and backed this up with outstanding performances during the 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons.
Perhaps his most memorable Uncle Tobys Super Series win was in the 1993/94 season. Hendy achieved a near perfect point-score of five 1st placings and two 2nd placings out of seven racesùa score never before achieved in the history of the Series and one which will probably take many years to surpass.
\I (Text and photograph courtesy of International Quarterback Pty Ltd)\i
Fred Henneberry, a famous middleweight boxer, was born in Port Pirie in 1911. In a professional career spanning the years 1930-41, he won 60 and drew six of his bouts. In 1932, he knocked out welterweight champion Jack Carroll to win the Australian middleweight title. In 1933, he fought the first three of ten bouts with Ron Richards, drawing, losing and regaining his title against Richards that year. After drawing with world-ranking George Abrahams at Madison Square Gardens, Henneberry found that the Americans were not interested in giving little-known Australians a crack at the world title. He retired in 1941. Fred Henneberry died in September 1997.
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"Higgins, Roy",199,"0","g","0"
Born in Victoria in 1938, Roy Higgins is one of Australia's most successful jockeys of the postwar period, riding 2,150 winners by the end of 1978. His first major win was the Sydney Cup in 1962, and he went on to win the Melbourne Cup twice, in 1965 and 1967. Higgins won races on all major Australian racecourses and took the Victorian Jockeys' Premiership a record eleven times. Highlights include riding Gunsynd to victory in the 1972 Doncaster Handicap, the Caulfield Cup in 1969, three Victoria Derbys and two W.S. Cox Plates. He retired in 1984. Long-time associate of \JBart Cummings,\j he is a talented and popular after-dinner speaker.
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"Hilditch, Ron",200,0,g,0
Ron Hilditch, Australian and Parramatta rugby league second row prop, was born in Sydney on 30th August 1952. He was known as Ron "Hitman" Hilditch and started his playing career with Parramatta in 1970, retiring in 1983. He works as a floor and wall tiler, is married to Lynne, and has three children: Tait, Chad, and Drew. He played in two losing grand finals with the Eels, and was denied a place in a premiership team through injury. In 1994, he replaced Mick Cronin as coach of Parramatta and he himself stood down after the 1996 season.
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"Hill, Sinclair",201,"0","g","0"
For more than 20 years, John Sinclair Leslie Hill was considered Australia's finest polo player. By the age of 19, Hill was playing polo with skill, courage and exceptional horsemanship. Over the years, Hill has competed in England, France, Argentina, India, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, and he is one of only two Australian polo players to have been rated a 10-goal handicap - which is regarded as polo's highest accolade. He became captain of the NSW polo team in 1960, and captained Australia in 1974 and 1975. Although he went into semi-retirement, he was still the highest ranked player in Australia when he was 42.
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"Hird, James",202,0,g,0
James Hird, Essendon AFL football star and 1996 Brownlow medallist, was born in Canberra. He starred with Essendon in the mid 1990s and at the age of 23 was involved in an historic three-way tie with Brisbane's Michael Voss and North Melbourne's Corey McKernan for the Centenary 1996 Brownlow Medal, with 21 votes. However, only Hird and Voss collected their medals as McKernan had been suspended during the season. In 1996 and 1997, he was a regular panellist on the Nine Network's Melbourne \IFooty Show.\i He only played a third of the 1997 season after suffering a leg injury.
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"Hiscoe, Ken",203,"0","g","0"
Like \JHeather McKay\j, Ken Hiscoe, born in 1938, did not take up squash until he was 18, preferring football and surfing. He was runner-up in the national junior titles that year and was Australian champion in his fifth year. He held the title from 1960-64 and 1966-1967, being runner-up in 1965 and 1968. He became Australia's first internationally known squash player when he won the British championship in 1962 and the Scottish and South African titles the following year. Although troubled by a back injury after 1963, he stayed in the world top ten for seven more years.
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"Hoad, Lew",204,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1934, Lew Hoad became a national hero when he and \JKen Rosewall\j won the 1952 Davis Cup final. The following year, Hoad was a winner in the French, Australian and Wimbledon doubles. Again a victor in the Wimbledon doubles in 1955 and 1956, he also took the US and Australian doubles and the French, Australian and Wimbledon singles titles in 1956. In 1957, after again taking the Wimbledon crown and the Australian singles title, he turned professional for a guaranteed ú280,000, the largest sum that had then been paid to an amateur sportsperson. He retired from competition in 1967 because of a back injury and he became a well known coach, running a tennis centre in Spain. He died in 1994.
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"Hogan, Hec",205,"0","g","0"
In his career, track sprinter Hec Hogan, born in Queensland in 1931, won seven consecutive Australian 100 yards championships, two in the 220 yards, the long jump title in 1954 and two 4 x 110 yards titles. After setting the Australian and equalling the world record for the 100 yards in 1954 (he also unofficially clocked a world record time in the 100 metres), he competed in a thrilling final for the 100 metres at Melbourne in 1956, taking bronze 0.1 second behind the winner and becoming the first Australian to win an Olympic medal in the event.
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"Hogg, Rodney",206,0,g,0
Rodney Hogg, former Australian, Victorian and South Australian cricketer, was born in Thornbury, Victoria, on 5th March 1951. After representing Victoria, he moved to South Australia to become a topline fast bowler and gained Test selection against England. In his first Test series, 1978-79, he took 41 wickets, bettering the record of 36 wickets by an Australian player set by Arthur Mailey on 1st March 1921. Hogg was one of the rebel players who toured South Africa in 1985.
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"Holland, Stephen",207,"0","g","0"
Born in Brisbane in 1958, Stephen Holland won every event he contested in three international swimming meets over 1973-74. Between 1973 and 1976 he broke eleven world records, including the incredible feat of slicing ten seconds off the world 1,500 metres record in 1976. In total, he won eight national titles over the 400, 800 and 1,500 metres. At the Montreal Olympics, he managed only a bronze. He turned professional and focused on surf races. He also attempted \JDes Renford\j's record swim across Moreton Bay but collapsed eight kilometres short. In 1973, Holland was nominated ABC Sportsman of the Year and won the World Trophy.
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"Holman, Keith",208,0,g,0
Keith Holman, Australian and Western Suburbs rugby league player, was born in Sydney on 11th September 1927. He was regarded by many as Australia's greatest post-war half-back. He bluffed his way into the RAAF for WW2 and played football for Ipswich. He was signed by Sydney's Western Suburbs club in 1948, and by 1950 the tiny half-back was established in the Australian test team after making his debut at the SCG on 12th June 1950.
He retired at the end of the 1961 season, having played a record 14 tests against the English and a total of 35 tests against all countries. He later became a referee and in 1972 was appointed to handle the 1972 Australia versus New Zealand tests. He was awarded an MBE and helped coach Wests to a night premiership in the Amco Cup competition.
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"Hookes, David",209,0,g,0
David Hookes, South Australian cricketer and batsman, was born at Mile End in Adelaide on 3rd May 1955. He burst onto the international cricket scene in the Centenary Test against England in Melbourne when he scored five fours from five balls from Tony Greig. He played 178 first class games scoring 12,671 runs; 120 Sheffield Shield games with 9,364 shield runs; and 23 Test matches scoring 1,306 runs for a test average of 34.36. His highest Test score was 143. His biography \IHooksey\i was published in 1993.
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"Hopman, Henry",210,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1906, Henry Hopman was a successful doubles competitor (a winner in the Australian doubles championship twice and the Australian mixed doubles four times) but his greatest contribution was in the Davis Cup, as player, captain and coach. In his 22 years with the team, they won on 16 occasions. He was a player in the victorious side three times, captain-player in 1938 and 1939, and coach from 1950-59. He then became a selector and president of the Victorian Lawn Tennis Association. Hopman moved to the USA in 1969 and set up a coaching camp. He died in 1985.
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"Housman, Glen",211,0,g,0
Glen Housman, Australian Olympic and Commonwealth freestyle swimming champion, was born at Rockhampton, Queensland on 3rd September 1971. On 12th December 1989 he became the second person in history to break the 15 minute barrier for the 1,500 metres (14:53:59) at the Adelaide trials for the Auckland Commonwealth Games. However it was never ratified by FINA, the world swimming body, because of an electronic timing malfunction. He won silver at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for the 1500 metres freestyle.
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"Howard, Ken",212,0,g,0
Ken Howard, former Australian race-caller, was born on 2nd December 1913. He was, for many years, Australia's number one race-caller, networked out of Sydney from 2GB and the Macquarie Network. He was renowned for his accuracy and his catch phrase of "London To A Brick". He died in Sydney on 21st October 1976, aged 62.
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"Hoy, Andrew",213,"e\2\ahay.jpg","c","0"
Equestrian Andrew Hoy was born on February 8, 1959. He is currently based in the United Kingdom.
Andrew has represented Australia at four Olympic Gamesù1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996ùand is considered the most experienced rider in the Australian team. He was a member of the team which resulted in gold medals at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and also the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He has also competed at World Championships and European Championships. In August 1997, Andrew Hoy became the first Australian winner of the Equestrian British Open.
Andrew's interests include snowskiing, waterskiing and tennis.
\I(Text courtesy of the Equestrian Federation of Australia Inc.)\i
\BDescription:\b Andrew Hoy \I(Equestrian Federation of Australia)\i.
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"Hoyt, Ken",214,0,g,0
Ken Hoyt, former Australian wrestling champion, was born in Melbourne on 13th July 1954. Standing only 155 centimetres tall and weighing only 52 kilograms, he was, at his peak, one of the strongest men in Australia. He took up wrestling in 1969 when he attended the East Preston Technical School. He won several Australian championships in the mid 1970s and won two bronze medals in the 52 kg wrestling division, one at the Edmonton Commonwealth Games in 1978 and the other at Brisbane in 1982.
He died in a car accident at Wagga Wagga in NSW on 30th March 1995 while attending the wedding of a niece. He was survived by his wife Pauline and two daughters.
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"Hughes, Kim",215,0,g,0
Kim Hughes, unlucky Australian cricket captain, was born Kimberley John Hughes at Margaret River in Western Australia on 26th January 1954. He became Australian captain in 1979; however after being dropped by the Australian selectors in 1984, he led a rebel tour to South Africa and finally announced his retirement in South Africa in 1991. He became only one of five batsmen ever to bat every day of a five day Test match. In the 1980 Centenary Test at LordÆs, he scored 117 in the first innings and 84 in the second.
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"Hughes, Merv",216,"e\2\asm95101.jpg","c","0"
Born in Euroa, Victoria, in 1961, Merv Hughes may not be the greatest fast bowler ever to play for Australia but he certainly makes up for his modest talent by his larger-than-life on-field personality and his fierce competitiveness. He first played for Australia in 1985-86, and his determination and stamina resulted in the remarkable figures of 13 wickets for 217 runs off 73.1 overs at Perth in the 1988-89 season. At the time, this was an Australian record against the West Indies and the best test result ever recorded in Perth. In the 1993 Ashes tour, Hughes took 31 wickets and passed his 200th Test wicket. Merv Hughes has also taken a hat trick in his career.
Australia's most successful male squash player, Geoff Hunt, born in 1948, was junior champion from 1962-65 and state senior champion from 1963 to 1971. In 1965, he beat Ken Hiscoe to become, at 17, the youngest man to win the Australian championship. Winning the first world amateur championship in 1967 and retaking the title in 1969, he turned professional in 1971. He went on to win the Australian championship four times, the British Open five times, the World Open twice (including its inaugural round in 1976) and the Irish Open four times. He retired from championship competition in 1982.
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"Hunt, Rex",218,0,g,0
Rex Hunt, Australian radio football broadcaster and television fishing show host was born in Melbourne. Educated at Mordialloc, he joined the police force as a cadet from 1968 until 1974. He played VFL football for Richmond from 1968-74, St. Kilda from 1976-78,and Sandringham from 1980-81. In 1980, Hunt hosted his first TV show on fishing called \IAngling Action,\i and in 1983 became a football commentator with 3AW.
In 1991, he hosted a Seven Network fishing program called \IRex HuntÆs Fishing World and World of Sport.\i He is married to Lynne and they have two children, Matthew (1975) and Rachael (1978). He owns and produces his own shows for Channel 7 and his reported 1997 earnings are $2.5 million, which includes 140 in-store K-Mart Rex Hunt outlets.
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"Hyde, Frank",219,0,g,0
Frank Hyde, former Australian rugby league player and broadcaster, was born at Millers Point in Sydney on 7th February 1916. He played rugby league for Newtown, Balmain and North Sydney. After he retired, he became a commentator of the game with his broadcasts on radio 2SM for over 30 years, where he continually rated number one. After his retirement in the 1980s, he became a special comments football commentator for 2UE.
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"Irvine, Ken",220,"0","g","0"
A first-class Rugby League winger who once equalled the world record over 100 yards, Ken Irvine scored 33 tries and kicked four goals in 31 Test matches, achieved a record-breaking 12 tries in Tests against England, and scored 28 tries for NSW. Starting in first-grade in 1958, he managed a record 23 tries in the 1959 season. He played in the 1961 World Cup and was a member of the first Australian side to retrieve the Ashes from England (1963-64), scoring three tries in a memorable 50-12 second Test win. Changing to Manly-Warringah, he helped the club win a premiership title in 1973.
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"Jackson, Marjorie",221,0,g,0
Born in Coffs Harbour in 1931, she moved to Lithgow with her family as a child. Known as the 'Lithgow Flash,' she caught the public imagination in 1949 when, still a schoolgirl, she travelled to Sydney to compete against Blankers-Koen, four-time gold medallist at the 1948 Olympics and world-record holder over 100 yards. Jackson won in both the 100 yards and 100 metres events. The following year she set the first of ten world records and won four gold medals at the Auckland Empire Games. She took a further two gold medals at the 1952 Olympics and three more at the 1954 Commonwealth Games. When her husband died of leukaemia in 1977, Jackson worked hard to raise funds for research into the disease.
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"Jackson, Mark (Jacko)",222,0,g,0
Mark "Jacko" Jackson, former Australian Rules footballer, was born in Melbourne on 30th August 1959. He was a St. Kilda, Melbourne, and Geelong player before moving from Victoria to Western Australia. In 1988, he starred in the American TV series \IThe Highwayman.\i He married 30-year-old Bernadette Spacal on Hayman Island on 24th August 1996, and has a son Rourke George (1997).
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"Jackson, Peter (Jacko)",223,0,g,0
Peter "Jacko" Jackson, North Sydney rugby league player, was born in Queensland on 19th April 1965. He has represented his home state in seven State of Origin series from 1985-1992. After his retirement, he worked as a part-time commentator with the 2UE \ISports Today Show\i as well as an expert football commentator at games with the \IContinuous Call Football Team.\i Peter died on 7th November 1997.
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"Johnson, Craig",224,cjonston.jpg,c,0
Born in 1960, Craig Johnson was one of the first Australians to leave a mark on the international soccer world. A hugely talented midfielder, Johnson left Australia in 1975, and in the next decade became one of the most successful players in the English First Division. He made his debut for Middlesborough in 1978 when he was still only 17. By 1981, he was so highly regarded, that Liverpool paid a $1.3 million transfer fee (the highest that season), and three times he helped Liverpool to win at Wembley. In 1984 he won the European Cup Winner's Medal.
\BDescription:\b Craig Johnson \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Johnson, Malcolm",225,0,g,0
Malcolm Johnson, former leading Australian jockey, was born in Sydney on 15th October 1956, and raised in Forbes. He came to fame as the jockey of the famous Kingston Town. On 29th October 1990, Johnson claimed he was ruined financially following a court decision over a damages claim that cost him over $250,000. Johnson had lost an appeal order to pay $121,490 to apprentice jockey Glenn William Frazzer who was hurt in a race fall in 1978. The court rejected Johnson's claim that he was not negligent over the fall. The landmark decision was expected to have dramatic ramifications for the racing industry.
He retired as a jockey and became a turf tipster in September 1993. He came out of retirement for a few months in 1997 before giving it away for good following a shoulder injury.
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"Jones, Alan (sportsman)",226,0,g,0
Born in Melbourne in 1947, Alan Jones steadily worked his way up the motor racing ladder throughout the 1970s. In 1975 he won the Spanish Grand Prix, becoming the first Australian to win a major international race since Jack Brabham. In 1977, he won the Australian Grand Prix and the Rothmans International Series. 1978 brought him the Can Am sports-car series in America and, although mechanical faults got him off to a bad start in 1979, he won in Australia, Holland and Germany. The apex of Jones' career came in 1980 when he became the first Australian since \JJack Brabham\j to win the world championship. He then retired, complaining that over-regulation had reduced the challenge, but returned in 1983, without, however, the success of earlier days.
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"Jones, Dean",227,0,g,0
Dean Jones, Australian and Victorian cricketer, was born in Coburg, Victoria, on 24th March 1961. The brilliant outfielder made his test debut against the West Indies at Port of Spain in Trinidad in 1983/84. His highest first class score is 248 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 1989. Up until 1993 he had played in 52 Tests, scored 3,631 at an average of 46.55, with a highest test score of 216.
He became captain of Victoria for the 1993-95 Sheffield Sheild seasons and was named Sheffield Shield cricketer of the year for 1994/95. He later moved to England to captain Derbyshire, taking the club to number two in the 1996 county championship, the highest finish for the club since 1936.
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"Jones, Fred",228,0,g,0
Fred Jones, Australian and Manly rugby league star, was born Frederick Roy Jones at Guildford, Sydney on 12th September 1941. Jones represented Sydney, New South Wales and Australia, and played for Manly for 15 years from 1961-75. He worked most of his life as a waterside dock worker and married Lynette in 1960; they have two children, Danielle and Shane.
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"Jones, Linda",229,0,g,0
Linda Jones, Australia's first registered female jockey, was born in 1952. At the age of 27, on 31st March 1979, she became the first woman to ride with male jockeys in Australia when she rode Northfleet into third position at Rosehill races. On 7th May the same year, Linda became the first woman jockey to win a horse race on an Australian metropolitan course when she rode Pay the Purple into first place at Doomben in Brisbane, after a three-way photo finish.
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"Jones, Nina",230,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1882, Nina Jones became a legend for her motoring activities in the 1920s. She began racing cars around the family property at Lithgow, toured Queensland and New South Wales in 1923, and in 1925-26 held the Weekender Trophy by averaging 125 km/h around Maroubra Speedway. After a trip to Europe, she returned with a supercharged Alfa Romeo, won two hill climb competitions and, in 1930, managed the fastest time for the quarter mile (18.4 seconds) against 66 male drivers. Much encouraged by her husband throughout her career, she went into retirement after his death in 1933 and passed away herself in 1966.
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"Kearns, Cyril",231,0,g,0
Cyril Kearns, Australian racehorse trainer, was born in Sydney on 5th May 1926. His career reached its peak in the 1970s when he trained at Rosehill. His star performer was record breaker Zephyr Bay, a striking black horse, who set the 1,000 metre record of 56.22 seconds at Randwick on 25th January 1975. He died on 4th February 1996, aged 69.
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"Kellerman, Annette",232,"0","g","0"
Taking up swimming as therapy for semi-crippled legs, Annette Kellerman, born in Sydney in 1886, was a lifelong promoter of women's health through exercise, and a spokesperson for more practical female swimwear styles. Transferring her campaign to England in 1905, she made three unsuccessful attempts to swim the Channel, although she did set a 17-year record of 10.5 hours in the water. In 1906, she came third in an otherwise all-male swim down the Seine. She then went on to a highly successful showbusiness career in America, appearing in several films and adding highdiving, tightrope-walking, ballet and acrobatics to her swimming displays. She died in Southport in 1975.
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"Kelly, Paul (sportsman)",233,0,g,0
Paul Kelly, Sydney Swans Australian Rules footballer and Brownlow medal winner, was born at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on 28th July 1969. In 1995, he became the third Sydney Swans player in 10 years to win the Brownlow Medal. He made his AFL debut in 1990, played 112 senior games up until the end of 1995, and kicked 65 goals. Married to Lynette, he was the clubÆs best and fairest player in 1992 and 1993 and captain from 1993-96.
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"Kelly, Shane",234,0,g,0
Shane Kelly, Australian world champion cyclist, was born at Ararat in Victoria on 7th January 1972. He won the world championship in the one kilometre time trial in 1995, breaking the world record and was subsequently named Young Australian Sportsman of the year. He won the Olympic silver medal for the 1 km time trial at Barcelona in 1992.
However, disaster struck at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta where he was a short-priced red-hot favourite to win gold in the 1 km time trial. His left foot slipped from the straps around the pedal and he lost his momentum. He pulled up failing to ride even half a lap, the biggest disappointment of his life.
In August 1997, at the World Track Championships in Perth, Shane won the world championship in the 1 km time trial for the third consecutive year. He was also part of the three member team who won bronze in the Olympic sprint at the same championships.
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"Kenny, Grant",235,"e\2\34500039.jpg","c","0"
If any name is synonymous with the term ôIronmanö, that name must surely be Grant Kenny. It was Grant who led the way for the rebirth of the sport in the 1980s and he remains very much in the public mind as the image of an ôIronmanö.
Grant was born in 1963 on QueenslandÆs Sunshine Coast. His phenomenal sporting ability was apparent to all and in 1979 he took out the Junior Ironman event at the National Titles.
In 1980 he achieved an unprecedented double victoryùNational Junior and Senior Ironman Champion. For the next four years Grant dominated the sport, taking out National Senior Titles in 1981, 1982 and 1983, as well as numerous other events.
Thanks largely to GrantÆs sporting efforts the sport was gaining increasing public recognition. This reached new heights in 1984 when Grant starred in the Australian film, \IThe Coolangatta Gold.\i
At the same time Grant was becoming more involved in another sport, kayak racing. His efforts were rewarded when he won a bronze medal with his K2 partner Barry Kelly at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
With his kayak commitments, as well as his budding career as a commercial pilot, Grant was no longer able to devote as much of his time to the Ironman sport. A new wave of Ironmen were on the rise, and the sport itself changing with the development of longer courses. Through all this Grant remained a force in the sport, though others now took the lead.
With the Uncle Tobys Super Series, Grant has made a significant comeback to the sport. He was a leading figure in the creation of the series and is seen by many as the senior man on the circuit.
Grant Kenny is married to former swimming champion \JLisa Curry-Kenny\j.
\I(Text and photograph courtesy of the Curry Kenny Group Pty Ltd)\i
\BDescription:\b Grant Kenny \I(Curry Kenny Group Pty Ltd)\i
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"Kernahan, Stephen",236,0,g,0
Stephen Kernahan, Carlton Australian Rules footballer, was born in Adelaide on 1st September 1963. He was recruited to Carlton from Glenelg in 1986 and has played in over 165 games, kicking over 460 goals. He played in two Carlton grand finals and one Carlton premiership team. He has represented South Australia in ten State of Origin games. Kernahan played in the 1985 Glenelg premiership team and won the clubÆs best and fairest award in 1983, 1984, and 1985 and has been Carlton captain since 1987. He was CarltonÆs best and fairest player in 1987, 1989, and 1992, and the clubÆs leading goalkicker from 1986-92.
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"Keogh, Damien",237,0,g,0
Damien Keogh, champion Australian basketball star was born Damien Thomas Keogh in Melbourne on 1st February 1962. As a Victorian state player, he played in six winning championships for Victoria, winning on three occasions before he joined Nunawading Spectres in the NBL in 1980. In 1997, he ranked third on the all-time games list played in the NFL with 406. He is the all-time leader in assists (1959) and fourth in steals (629).
He joined the Sydney Kings in 1988 and was awarded the KingsÆ most valuable player award in 1990, the only Australian-born player to win the KingsÆ award. He has been named the KingsÆ most defensive player of the year on four occasions, and represented Australia in the Olympic Games in 1984 (7th), 1988 (6th) and 1992 (4th). Married to Maree White, they have three children: Maddison, Sam and Isabella. Damien works in sports promotion management as well as having part-time TV commitments.
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"Kickett, Derek",238,0,g,0
Derek Kickett, Aboriginal Australian Rules football star, was born at Tammin, Western Australia on 6th October 1962. He played for West Perth from 1985-88, made his AFL debut with North Melbourne in 1989, and then switched to Essendon from 1990 until 1993. He played every game for two years, but was dropped from the grand final in which Essendon won, because coach Kevin Sheedy believed he was not suitable to the ground conditions. As a result, he went into seclusion and was about to play for Tatura in the Goulburn Valley league when he was persuaded to come to Sydney.
In 1994, he was the SwansÆ third top goal scorer and in 1995 the second leading goal scorer. In July 1996, he was chosen as the national winner of the NAIDOC award as the Aboriginal Sports Star of the Year. He retired from football at the end of 1996 and returned to Western Australia.
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"Kieran, Bernard",239,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1886, Bernard Kieran achieved remarkable international success in the swimming world, and all in two short years. When only 17, he raced and beat Dick Cavill by ten yards, slicing 20.6 seconds off Cavill's world record. After winning all Australian titles from 220 yards to a mile, Kieran set eight world records over the same distances in England. With all but the 220 yards world record under his belt by December 1905, he went for a clean sweep by challenging record holder, Fred Lane, bettering the latter's record by four seconds. Unfortunately Kieran contracted peritonitis that same month and died a few days later.
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"Kingston Town",240,0,g,0
Kingston Town, champion Australian racehorse, was born in 1975. During its career, Kingston Town had 41 starts, won 30 races, and was placed on seven occasions, winning $1,605,790. It won such races as the 1980 Rosehill Guineas, the AJC Derby, the Sydney Cup as well as the WS Cox Plate on three occasions, 1980/81/82. Kingston Town was put down at owner David Haines stud farm at Mornington in Victoria at the age of 15 on 2nd May 1991.
It had suffered a severe leg injury three months earlier, further aggravating the injury in the previous seven days and then failing to respond to treatment. At its peak, Kingston Town was ridden exclusively by Sydney jockey Malcolm Johnson.
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"Kippax, Alan",241,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1897, Alan Kippax was a batsman of great repute in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1922-23, he headed the national averages with 98 and, in the 1925-26 Sheffield Shield competition, he averaged 112 for the season. Despite this, he did not become a regular in the Australian side until 1928, amassing 1192 runs in 22 Tests. In Shield competition, he scored 6096 runs at an impressive average of 70. Kippax opened a sports store in Martin Place which he continued to operate into the 1960s. He died in 1972.
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"Knights, Peter",242,0,g,0
Peter Knights, former Hawthorn VFL football star and AFL coach, was born in Melbourne. He spent 18 years as a Hawthorn player with 267 games. He coached Brisbane from 1987 until halfway through the 1989 season. In 1993, he left as coach of Devonport in Tasmania after four years, but within days was appointed coach of his old club Hawthorn, replacing Alan Joyce. He subsequently left Hawthorn in 1995.
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"Konrads, Ilsa",243,0,g,0
Younger sister of \JJohn Konrads\j and a swimmer like he, Ilsa was born in 1944 and was coached by Don Talbot from the age of nine. Five years later, she had set six world records, finishing her career with 12 individual world records in freestyle and three in relays. She regularly won state and national championships, but suffered badly from nerves in international competition, clocking well below her best times. Nonetheless, she won a gold and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games and, in her only Olympics, Rome 1960, she earned one silver. She became a national magazine editor after her retirement from swimming.
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"Konrads, John",244,"0","g","0"
Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1942, John Konrads was the darling of Australian swimming from the late 1950s until the early 1960s. In a career which lasted for a decade from 1954-64, he set 26 individual world records and was part of the Australian teams which set six relay world records. Konrads Olympic and Commonwealth Games medals do not reflect his record breaking abilities. When he retired in 1964, he had only won one Olympic gold medal and three Commonwealth gold medals. His greatest achievement was at the 1960 Rome Olympics when he beat \JMurray Rose\j in the 1,500 metres event.
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"Kosmala, Libby",245,"0","g","0"
A victim of spina bifida at birth, Libby Kosmala has achieved one of the most enviable records of any sports person in any sport - she has a record which can never be broken. At the 1976 Paralympics, this hugely talented shooter won a gold medal for the small bore rifle. In the process of winning, she set world records for shooting in the standing, prone and kneeling position for both men and women. Competition between men and women in shooting has since been abandoned, so Libby Kosmala's records will stand forever. Between 1976 and 1984, Kosmala has won no fewer than 11 gold medals at the Paralympics and the World Championships.
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"Kowalski, Daniel",246,0,g,0
Daniel Kowalski, Australian swimming star, was born in Singapore on 2nd July 1975. He won gold in the 400 and 800 metres freestyle at the 1995 Pan Pac games in Atlanta, and back to back 400 and 1500 metre titles at the World Shortcourse Championships in Rio. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he won bronze medals in the 200 and 400 metres freestyle and silver in the 1500 metres freestyle.
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"Lahiff, Tommy",247,0,g,0
Tommy Lahiff, AFL footballer, cricketer, and radio commentator, was born Thomas Francis Lahiff at Richmond, Melbourne in 1910. A nippy rover, he played football for Port Melbourne, Essendon, South Melbourne and Hawthorn before returning to Port Melbourne and coaching them to successive premierships in 1940 and 1941. He also represented St. Kilda and Port Melbourne at cricket, scoring over 6,000 career runs.
He started out as a radio commentator in the mid 1950s, calling VFA matches for 3AK. From 1967 to 1970, his laconic laid-back style was heard with Harry Bietzel on 3KZ and for another 19 years the pair worked together on 3AW. In 1989, he was the oldest radio commentator at the age of 80 when he and Bietzel teamed up on 3AK. He married Freda in 1937 and they had one son Graham. He died at Box Hill in Melbourne on 8th December 1996, aged 86.
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"Laidlaw, Aub",248,0,g,0
Aub Laidlaw, famous Bondi Beach inspector, was born in Balmain, Sydney in 1909 and swam from an early age at Drummoyne baths. At the age of 13, he was New South Wales Public School's champion and later became the StateÆs 100 yards swimming champion. In 1928, he was selected for the Olympic Games but due to lack of funds the Australian team did not compete that year. At 15, he joined the North Bondi Surf lifesaving club and at 25 became the youngest ever life member.
He joined the Waverley Council as beach inspector in 1929 until he was sacked in 1969, aged 60, because of a heart condition. During his 40-year reign over the beach, he rescued more than 6,000 people from the surf. He was more famous, however, for his traditional values and his ordering off the beach of hundreds of bikini-clad women.
On Black Sunday, 6th February 1938, the 32nd anniversary of the surf clubÆs foundation, three big waves hit the beach drowning five people. Approximately 250 were rescued by Aub Laidlaw and 19-year-old Alf Vockler, including Lady Mary Fairfax, who later took swimming lessons from Laidlaw. The two lifesavers received British Empire Medals in 1974 for their services to the community through life saving. He died on 10th January 1992, aged 82.
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"Lamb, Terry",249,0,g,0
Terry Lamb, former Australian and Canterbury rugby league five-eighth, was born at Bankstown Hospital, Sydney on 15th September 1961. He started his league career with Western Suburbs in 1980 and played four seasons for a total of 88 games before switching to Canterbury in 1984. Lamb has career total of 357 matches, including 155 tries, 386 goals and 41 field goals, for a total of 1,403 points.
He first toured as a Kangaroo in 1986 and has played in State of Origin games in 1981-84-86-88 and 1989. He won the Rothmans Medal for best and fairest player in 1984 and was the 1983 Dally M player of the year. He announced his retirement after winning the 1995 premiership, but after the development of Super League came out of retirement. He played the 1996 season out with the Bulldogs and "retired again" at the end of that year.
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"Landy, John",250,"0","g","0"
John Landy was born in Melbourne in 1930, and was the country's outstanding middle-distance runner prior to his retirement from athletics and \JHerb Elliott\j's emergence in 1957. The second man to break the four-minute mile, 46 days after Roger Bannister, he ran more for pleasure than fame. Landy, like Elliott, was coached by \JPerce Cerutty,\j famous for sending Elliott running up steep sand dunes as part of his training. After being eliminated in the heats in the 1952 Olympics, Landy came in second to Roger Bannister at the Vancouver Commonwealth Games in 1954 and came out of initial retirement to run in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, taking a bronze in the 1,500 metres.
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"Lane, Frederick",251,"0","g","0"
Australia's first Olympic gold medallist, Frederick Lane was born in Sydney in 1880 and accumulated a massive 350 trophies and a hundred medals before his retirement from swimming in his early twenties. Lane captured the one-mile championship and all but one State freestyle title in 1898-99. In 1899, he set records in the 220 and 440 yards while in England. The following year he was part of the first Australian swimming team to compete in the Olympics, where he took gold in the 200 metres freestyle. In 1902, he broke the one-minute barrier for the 100 yards freestyle. A friend to \JNorman Lindsay\j, he established a printing business in Sydney and was honoured by the International Swimming Hall in 1969, the year of his death.
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"Langer, Justin",252,0,g,0
Justin Langer, Australian cricketer, was born in Perth, Western Australia on 21st November 1970. The left-handed batsman and right-hand medium-paced bowler has played in ten Tests with a first class career of 7,905 runs for an average of 43.67.
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"Laver, Rodney",253,laver.jpg,c,0
Rod Laver was born in Queensland in 1938. Indisputably one of tennis' greatest ever figures, "Rocket Rod" Laver was self-taught until discovered by Charlie Hollis in the early 1950s. By 1959 he was ranked No. 9 in the world. He won the Australian Open in 1960 and the first of four Wimbledon singles titles in 1961. The following year he was victorious in 12 major tournaments and became only the second player to win the Grand Slam. Although lured by the professional circuit for five years from 1963 to 1968, he returned to take Wimbledon in 1968 and his second Grand Slam in 1969. He retired from competition in 1975 and now lives in the United States.
\BDescription:\b Rod Laver \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Lawler, Darcy",254,0,g,0
Darcy Lawler, former controversial Australia Rugby League referee was born in Sydney on 8th March 1918. His career spanned 1948 to 1963, and he refereed 16 Tests, three world cup matches, and seven grand finals from 1956-63, including the premiership deciding final of 1953. He worked as a milkman and a bottle shop owner, and for 26 years was the secretary manager of South's Juniors club. He died on 27th February 1994, aged 75.
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"Lawry, Bill",255,"0","g","0"
Born in 1937, Bill Lawry, dubbed "The Phantom", due to his love of the comic strip, was a patient and focused batsman, making him very difficult to dismiss. In his first Test series (the 1961 tour of England), he scored 2019 runs at 61.18 with nine centuries and 420 Test runs at 52.5. He captained his state upon return and took the helm of the national side from 1968-1971. Lawry made his highest Test score of 210 against the West Indies in a 382 stand with his captain, Bobby Simpson, the highest opening stand in Australian history. The same match saw them the first opening pair to score double centuries in the same innings. In 67 Tests, he made 13 centuries and scored 5234 runs at 47.15.
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"Lawson, Geoff",256,0,g,0
Geoff Lawson, Australian Test cricketer nicknamed "Henry", was born Geoffrey Francis Henry Lawson at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on 7th December 1957. An optometrist by profession, he came to prominence in a New South Wales versus England game in 1979 when he dismissed England's Geoff Boycott, after unleashing a series of bouncers which earned him a reprimand from the umpire.
His first Test was against New Zealand in 1980-81 and up until 1991 he had taken 180 Test wickets in 46 Tests for an a average of 30.56. A highlight of his career was leading New South Wales to a Sheffield Shield victory in 1990-91, the same year he was appointed to the board of the New South Wales National Roads and MotoristsÆ Association (NRMA).
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"Lewis, Bobby",257,0,g,0
Bobby Lewis, champion Australian jockey who rode four Melbourne Cup winners, was born in the Victorian gold mining town of Clunes, near Ballarat, on 30th November 1878. He rode in his first race at the age of ten at Clunes, winning on a horse named Pretty Bobby. Lewis was criticised when he came third on Phar Lap in the 1929 Melbourne Cup. He had only got the mount when the horseÆs regular rider, Jim Pike, failed to make the weight.
Lewis won the 1902 Melbourne Cup on The Victory, Patrobas (1915), Artillieryman (1919) and Trivalve (1927). Lewis's tally also includes eight Victorian Derby wins, four AJC Derby's, eight Victorian St. Legers, five Randwick St. Legers, and seven Victorian Oaks. He rode his last winner, Lilirene, in July 1936. He retired in 1938 and died on 31st March 1947, aged 69.
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"Lewis, Hayley",258,"e\2\6_0013.jpg","c","0"
Born in Brisbane in 1974, Hayley Lewis was one of the few true Aussie swimming heroes in the early 1990s. When she was only ten, she swam 100 metres in 64 seconds - the fastest junior time ever recorded - and by the age of 14 she had qualified for the Seoul Olympics. She did not compete because she was considered too young. She won five gold medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and won the 200 m freestyle at the world championships in 1991. At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, she won a silver medal in the 800 m freestyle and a bronze in the 400 m.
Hayley Lewis married Greg Taylor on September 27, 1997.
\BDescription:\b Hayley Lewis \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Lewis, Wally",259,"0","g","0"
Born in Brisbane in 1959, Wally Lewis received his first Rugby League education from his father, Jim Lewis, who had played for the Brisbane first grade teams Wests and Souths, and later coached Wynnum. Known to Rugby League fans, particularly those in Queensland, as 'King Wally', Walter James Lewis dominated Queensland Rugby League in the 1980s. Lewis' talents were recognised early when he was chosen in the Australian schoolboys rugby union side in 1976-77. Changing to Rugby League, his prowess became legendary. He captained Australia (1984-89), was captain of the Queensland State of Origin team for an unprecedented decade (1980-1991), played more State of Origins games (33) than anyone else and was honoured when a bronze statue was erected at Lang Park in 1992. He coached both the Gold Coast Seagulls (1992-3) and the Queensland State of Origin teams (1993-4).
His nickname, 'King Wally,' is the title of a book on his career by Adrian McGregor, published in 1987. A naturally brilliant player, his name became synonymous with Rugby League success in Queensland where schoolboy players refer to a 'Wally Lewis pass'. He has also joined those few Australians (such as \JDame Nellie Melba\j and Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen) who have a food dish named after them - Chicken Wally Lewis.
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"Lexcen, Ben",260,0,g,0
(1936-88)
Ben Lexcen, Australian marine architect, was born Robert Clyde Miller in Newcastle on 19th March 1936 and was educated at Newcastle High School. He designed the controversial "winged keel" yacht \IAustralia II\i, which won the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club in 1983. He married Yvonne on 2nd April 1974, and was stepfather to her two children Christopher and Robyn.
He died at the Manly Hospital in Sydney on 1st May 1988, aged 52, after collapsing from a heart attack. Lexcen had only the week previously launched a "winged" skateboard, saying he was now spending more time on his pet projects. Toyota named the LEXCEN motor car after him.
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"Libertore, Tony",261,0,g,0
Tony Libertore, champion Australian Rules football star, was born to Italian parents in Melbourne on 11th February 1966. He made his debut with Footscray in 1986 and won the Brownlow Medal in 1990. He has played 88 games and kicked 33 goals up until the early part of 1993. He is the only AFL player to ever win the AFL "best and fairest awards" in three grades: Under 19s, Reserves and Seniors.
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"Lillee, Dennis",262,"e\2\scz95092.jpg","c","0"
A legend and national hero due to his skill, speed and character, and undoubtedly one of the world's greatest-ever fast bowlers, Dennis Lillee was born in Perth in 1949. As an opening pair, he and \JJeff Thomson\j terrified the world's batsman for a time. Major back problems tempered his speed but prodded him to masterful usage of swing-bowling, the off-cut and the bouncer, which left him a better bowler. He took 355 wickets (then a world record) in 70 Tests at an excellent average, and would have taken many more but for his two seasons spent with World Series Cricket, where he took 67 "Test" wickets. Lillee's best Test figures were 7-83. He took 800 first-class wickets with a personal best of 8-29 against the Rest of the World in 1971-72.
\BDescription:\b Dennis Lillee \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Lindrum, Horace",263,"0","g","0"
Horace Lindrum was born in 1912. Like his more famous brother Walter, he was regarded as a sporting freak. His prowess in both snooker and billiards was such that in 1931 he became Australia's snooker champion and three years later he became the country's billiards champion. In 1941, he scored a maximum 147 snooker break in Sydney and five years later he was runner-up to Joe Davis in the world snooker championship. He became world champion in 1952.
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"Lindrum, Walter",264,"0","g","0"
If ever there was an Aussie sporting legend it has to be Walter Lindrum. Widely regarded as the finest billiard player in the history of the game, Walter was so gifted that eventually the rules of the game had to be changed to reduce his prowess. Born in Kalgoorlie in 1898, he had an excellent pedigree. His father and grandfather both owned billiards-saloons and laid claims to being champions. During his tour of England at the end of the 1920s, Lindrum scored 67 breaks of 1,000 and, in 1932, shot an extraordinary break of 4,137. Even after the rules of the game were changed, he still managed four breaks of 3,000. Competition became futile and Walter turned to charity and fund-raising exhibitions in the 1940s. He died in 1960.
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"Lindwall, Ray",265,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1921, Ray Lindwall, a master of the late out-swinger, was one of Australia's greatest pace men. As a genuine and talented fast bowler he was a favourite with the English crowds during the 1948 tour, taking 27 wickets at 19.6, including 6 for 20 when England was dismissed for 52. He also hit the first of two Test centuries when England were regaining ground, putting on 154 in 88 minutes for the eighth wicket with Don Tallon. With a personal best of 7-38, he took 228 Test wickets in all at 23.03 and 794 wickets in his first-class career at 21.3. He captained Queensland from 1955-60 and once led Australia in 1956-57. He was later awarded an MBE for his services to the game. Ray Lindwall died in June 1996, aged 74.
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"Lockett, Tony",266,0,g,0
Tony Lockett, Australian Rules and Sydney Swans football champion and 1987 Brownlow medallist, was born at Ballarat in Victoria on 9th March 1966. After starting out with North Ballarat, he made his debut with the St. Kilda football club as full forward in 1983. The often controversial star is shy and prefers to spend time with his champion greyhounds than the public life.
Up until the end of 1996 he played 224 games (183 St. Kilda) and kicked 1083 goals (896 St. Kilda), and in 1991 he kicked 127 goals after missing the first six games. Lockett was the leading AFL goal kicker in 1987 and 1991, and leading St. Kilda goal kicker for nine years from 1984 until 1993 inclusive, kicking 100 goals in 1987, 1991, 1992, 1995 and 1996. At the end of the 1994 season, he announced that he was turning out for Richmond in 1995; however he signed a million dollar contract with the Sydney Swans instead.
On Sunday 13th August 1995, he kicked a personal best 16 goals against Fitzroy at Western Oval in Melbourne and beat the club record by one goal, but failed to eclipse Fred Fanning's 1947 league record of 18 goals. He has kicked a career goal total of 1122 at an average of 5.05.
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"Longmire, John",267,0,g,0
John Longmire Australian Rules North Melbourne footballer, was born at Corowa in New South Wales on 31st December 1970. In 1991, he kicked his NSW side to victory over Victoria in the State's first victory over the Big V. He has suffered a number of knee injuries and was put out for most of 1993 and again at the beginning of the 1996 season, after he fell awkwardly during a pre-season game. Up until the end of 1996, he had kicked 494 goals in 155 games.
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"Lukin, Dean",268,0,g,0
Dean Lukin, former Australian Olympic gold weightlifter, was born Dinko Lukin at King George Hospital in Sydney on 26th May 1960. His family moved to Port Lincoln in South Australia in 1965 where they became successful Tuna fishers. He won gold medals at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the 1984 Olympic Games. He nearly died on 1st December 1991 when he and five colleagues were rescued after his boat, \INorthern L,\i sank near the Philippines, en route from Singapore.
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"Lynagh, Michael",269,"0","g","0"
When Michael Lynagh retired as captain of the Wallabies, the Australian rugby union team, in 1995, he was the world's leading points scorer with a tally of over 700 points in test level rugby. Born in 1963, Lynagh was an outstanding five-eight and an ideal foil for \JNick Farr-Jones\j. His kicking game was superb and his combination of superb ball skills and excellent cover defence was instrumental in Australia winning the World Cup in 1991 in England. Lynagh's greatest moment occurred when he scored the match-winning try against Ireland only moments before the final whistle in the World Cup semi-final.
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"Lyons, Cliff",270,0,g,0
Cliff Lyons, Manly and Australian rugby league football star, was born at Narrandera in New South Wales on 19th October 1961. He has played for the Gundagai Tigers, North Sydney, Leeds, Sheffield Eagles and Manly. His representative career includes City Seconds 1985, City Origin 1988-1991, and City Firsts 1992. He played in the rest of the World team against Great Britain in 1988. He represented NSW in six State of Origin games between 1987 and 1991 and played for Australia in six tests in 1990-91. Married to Karen, he is a development officer with three children: Shane, Matthew and Courtney.
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"Macartney, Charles",271,"0","g","0"
A punishing and confident batsman, Charles Macartney was born in 1886. Early in his Test career he was used mostly as a bowler, taking 71 wickets at 17.46, including a Test-match-winning 11 for 85, on the 1909 tour of England. It was in the 1910-11 series against South Africa that he came to batting prominence, hitting a century in each innings for NSW against the tourists. He scored a century in his first Test innings as opening bat that season. In England in 1921, he hit eight centuries, four in consecutive innings, including 345 in less than four hours against Nottinghamshire. In his final tour of England (1926), he scored 473 in the Tests at 94.6, including centuries in three successive innings. He died in 1958.
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"Macartney-Snape, Tim",272,0,g,0
Tim Macartney-Snape, international mountain climber, was born Timothy Macartney-Snape in Tanzania, East Africa on 5th January 1956. His Australian father moved to Tanzania with his Irish-born mother after WW1, but his family returned to north-eastern Victoria in 1967 where he attended Geelong Grammar School. He became the first person to complete solo the 8,840 metres sea to summit climb of Mt. Everest.
He had started out on his epic journey on February 5th 1990 from the Bay of Bengal. He then completed a 1,000 kilometre walk across the Indian plains to the foothills of the Himalayas. On the 3rd of October 1984, he conquered the famous 7,937 metre Mount Annapurna 2. He married Doctor Ann Ward in late 1989 and lived at Meekatharra in Western Australia in 1990, where his wife Ann was a flying doctor, before moving to Mittagong in New South Wales in 1992. Some say that because he was was born 2,000 metres above sea level, he is accustomed to using less oxygen.
Although he failed English at school he wrote a book about his exploits, titled \IEverest Sea to Summit,\i published in 1992. In September 1993, his car was stolen with his many photos and slides and these were only returned after he contacted the thieves on his stolen pager and offered them a reward.
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"Mackay, Ken",273,0,g,0
Ken "Slasher" Mackay, Australia's most famous post-war "stonewall" batsman and Test cricketer, was born in Queensland on 24th October 1925. He was nicknamed "Slasher" by his team mates and fans alike. He played in 37 Tests, scored 1,507 runs and as a handy spin bowler took 50 Test wickets. He died of a heart attack on 13th June 1982, aged 58; he had lost his wife Jean just two weeks previously.
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"Madden, Justin",274,0,g,0
Justin "Harry" Madden, Carlton Australian Rules football star, was born on 31st May 1961. He started his career at Airport West before joining Essendon in 1980 with his brother Simon. However, after 45 games, both ended up competing for the same on-field position. Justin then moved to Carlton in 1983 where he played 287 league games for a league total of 332 games, kicking 190 goals and playing in 23 finals and two premierships (1987 and 1995).
He won the Carlton club's best and fairest award in 1985 and 1991, was an all Australian in 1987 and 1995, and was runner-up for the Brownlow medal in 1985. After failing to play in the 1997 season, he retired on 16th July the same year to make way for Mark Porter to play with the club. He had been the playersÆ union representative to the league for a number of years.
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"Madden, Simon",275,0,g,0
Simon Madden, Australian Rules football player, was born in 1957. He made his debut with Essendon in 1974, and played 378 games with the bombers, kicking 567 goals before he retired in 1992. He has played in two Essendon premiership teams, captained Victoria, and won the Norm Smith medal for best on the ground in a grand final.
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"Mailey, Arthur",276,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1886, Alfred Mailey was an effective spin bowler who did not play international cricket until he was 34. Between 1920 and 1926, he took 99 wickets, including 36 against England in his first series at an average of 26.3. An established cartoonist for Australian and English newspapers, he became a staff sports writer and cartoonist with the Sydney \ISun\i and, later, with the \IDaily Telegraph.\i He reported on the Bodyline series, wrote a book about it, then opened a grocery shop at Port Hacking, publishing an autobiography in 1958. He died in 1967.
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"Maitland, Clover",277,"e\2\cmaitlnd.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Clover was first selected in the Australian Team in 1994 for the European tour to Spain, Germany and England. She was an integral part of the silver medal Junior World Cup Team in 1993 and has had an excellent year in goals for her home side the Queensland Scorchers.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the Atlanta Olympics and her other achievements in hockey include the 1993 Junior World Cup held in Barcelona, Spain.
Her sharp reflexes and cool, calculated approach results in safe and sound work.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Clover Maitland \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Mallett, Ashley",278,0,g,0
Ashley "Rowdy" Mallett, Australian cricketer Test off-spinner, was born Ashley Alexander Mallett at Chatswood, New South Wales, on 13th July 1945. He began his first class cricket career in Western Australia and then moved to South Australia. He was known as "Rowdy" because he was a silent type who kept his thoughts to himself. His first class career spanned from 1967 until 1981 in which he scored 2,326 runs, and took 693 wickets and 105 catches.
He played in 38 Tests as well as Sheffield Shield cricket as a spin bowler, with his best being 8/59 against Pakistan. His Test career results were 430 runs at an average of 11.62; he took 132 wickets for an average of 29.85 and 30 catches.
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"Maroney, Susie",279,fairfax8.jpg,c,0
One of Australia's greatest marathon swimmers, Susie Maroney was born in 1974 in southern Sydney. Susie's greatest claim to fame is that in 1991 she became the youngest and fastest Australian ever to swim the English channel. She completed the swim from France to England in 8 hours 15 minutes. She also holds the record as the only Australian to swim across the channel and back, a feat she achieved in the world record time of 17 hours and 15 minutes. So committed was she to breaking records, that subsequently her whole family swam the channel, the only family ever to achieve such a feat.
In June 1996, Susie attempted to be the first person to swim unassisted from Cuba to the United States, but unfortunately had to stop after 39 hours of swimming due to severe sea sickness. However in May 1997, Susie successfully completed the Cuba to United States swim in a time of 24 and a half hours. Susie was instantly hailed a hero, although some critics accused her of cheating.
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Karen was first selected in the Australian Team in October 1991 for the three Test Match series against Great Britain in Melbourne. She has proved to be a tough competitor for both the Telstra Hockeyroos and her home state the WAIS Diamonds.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the Atlanta Olympics. Other achievements for Karen include: one World Cup (Dublin, Irelandù1994) and two Champions Trophy (Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
KarenÆs height advantage with good anticipation and technique make her a formidable figure for opposition forwards and effective in the defense of penalty corners and strokes.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Karen Marsden \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Marsh, Geoffrey",281,0,g,0
Geoffrey Marsh, former Australian cricketer, was born in Northam, Western Australia on 31st December 1958. In 1996 he was named Australian cricket coach, replacing Bob Simpson who had held the position for ten years.
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"Marsh, Graham",282,"0","g","0"
Brother of Australian wicket-keeper Rodney Marsh, Graham Marsh was born in 1944. Learning golf from his father, he took up the sport seriously at eight and spent six years as an amateur competitor from the age of 18, winning the State Amateur Championship in 1967. He turned professional in 1968 and won the Western Australian Open that year. Joining the overseas circuit, he won the Spalding Masters and the Indian, Swiss and German Opens in 1971 and four more Opens the following year. By 1976, he was ready for the United States, winning the 1977 US Heritage Classic eleven under par. In 1997 Graham Marsh won the US Senior Open at Olympia Fields in Illinois.
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"Marsh, Rod",283,"0","g","0"
Born in Armadale, Western Australia in 1947, Rod Marsh played in 96 Test matches before his 1984 retirement, then an Australian record. He was not dropped from the side once between 1970 and his entry into World Series Cricket in 1977. In his Test career he took a remarkable 200 catches from the bowling of \JDennis Lillee\j alone. In all, he captured 355 wickets, including 28 in a Test series. Also a very useful batsman, he scored a century for his state against the West Indies when only 19 and became the first Australian wicket-keeper to score a Test century. He once knocked 50 off the West Indies in eleven balls and contributed greatly to the Centenary Test victory with 110 not out.
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"Marshall, Kirstie",284,0,g,0
Kirstie Marshall, Victorian and Australian skiing champion and television presenter, was born in Melbourne on 21st April 1969. Her top placings in the World Cup Aerial champions include 3rd in 1990, 2nd in 1991, 1st in 1992, 2nd in 1995, 5th in 1996, and 3rd in 1997. She represented Australia at the Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games in 1994. She won a bronze medal at the 1995 World Championships at La Clusaz in 1995. In 1997, Kirstie won the world skiing championship in the aerial event at the World Freestyle Championships in Nagano, Japan.
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"Martin, Johnny",285,0,g,0
Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer known as the "Little Favourite", was born at Wingham, near Taree in NSW, on 28th July 1931. He made his Test debut at the age of 29 and played eight Tests for his country, scoring 214 runs at 17.83 and taking 17 wickets at 48.94. He once took three wickets in four balls against the West Indies.
Martin hit an incredible number of sixes: 150 in first class matches, 166 in first grade club games, and more than 200 in country games in the Taree district. In Adelaide in 1958, he hit a ball from his nemesis Lindsay Kline which bounced down the street and ended up over a mile from the ground. In 1961, he played for Lancashire and continually broke windows in nearby houses. He died from a heart attack at his home near Taree on 16th July 1992, aged 60.
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"Martin, Michelle",286,0,g,0
Michelle Martin, Australian squash champion, was born in Sydney on 29th April 1967. One of six children, she started playing at three when her family built a squash court at Engadine in Sydney's south. Her talent blossomed at age eight when she was runner-up in the New South Wales under 13's Championship. She won her first national title in 1979 at the Australian Cheezel's under 13's competition. Between 1985 and 1989, Michelle was a member of the Australian Institute of Sport and her world ranking rose steadily from 12 to six. In 1997, she was ranked number two in the world, and number two in Australia.
She had previously been ranked number one in the world for 195 weeks from 1st February 1993 until 31st October 1996 and has won three consecutive world titles. At the end of 1996, she was the most awarded female athlete in Australia, having won the Caltex Sports Star of the Year, ABC Sports Australia, award for best female athlete, Australian Sportswoman of the year, New South Wales Sportswoman of the Year and Young Achiever of the Year, plus many more.
She will represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games in 1998, when squash will be included as a sport for the first time.
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"Matthews, Greg",287,0,g,0
Greg Matthews, Australian and New South Wales batsman and off spin bowler, was born in Newcastle, New South Wales on 15th December 1959. In the mid 80s, he was dropped from the Australian team for his unorthodox behaviour, and was given a role on the Nine NetworkÆs \ILive At Five\i, and \IEye On Australia\i. On 13th January 1992, while playing against Queensland, he made his way into the Sheffield Shield history books when he became the first New South Welshman and only the second Shield player in history to score two half centuries and take two five wicket hauls in a match. His rare "double-double" included 85 not out and 67 and then he took six wickets for 63, and then five for 70. It was only the seventh time a Shield player had taken ten wickets and scored 100 runs in a match.
On 6th February 1993, when playing in a Shield match against Western Australia at the SCG, he took a career bowling best of eight for 52. Up until 1994, he had played in 33 Tests, making his debut against Pakistan in Melbourne in 1983/84; he has scored 1,849 Test runs at an average of 41.09, with his highest Test score being 130, including four centuries. He has taken 61 Test wickets at an average of 48.23, with his best being 5/103 against India in Madras in 1986/87.
On 9th December 1993, he was bashed and left unconscious outside the Hip-E nightclub in Perth. He spent ten days in hospital and was forced to withdraw from the Sheffield Shield team that was defeated two days later. In August 1996, he was awarded $140,000 compensation. In October 1994, he was dropped from the NSW team; however on 16th July 1996 he was appointed captain of New South Wales.
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"Matthews, Herb",288,"0","g","0"
Born in 1913, Herb Matthews played 188 games for South Melbourne in the VFL from 1932-1945. The team won the premiership in 1933, but just lost the Grand Final in the next three years. He captained the side from 1938-45 and shared the Brownlow Medal in the only-ever split decision in the game's history (1940), coming second twice and third on another occasion. In 1945, after the most bloody Grand Final in memory, Matthews, largely because he was captain, was made an example of and severely reprimanded. As five-time winner of the best and fairest award, he was outraged at the excess, and promptly retired. He went on to coach the first-grade from 1954-57.
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"Matthews, Leigh",289,0,g,0
Leigh Matthews, champion Australian Rules footballer, was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 1st March 1952. He is the eighth all time great goal kicker. He played all his career with Hawthorn before switching to Collingwood as coach in 1986, taking them to the 1990 premiership. In his playing days, he played 332 games and kicked 915 goals for an average of 2.76. He was stood down by the Magpies at the end of the 1995 season and he then worked full time for radio with 3AW, the \IHerald-Sun\i and \ITalking Football\i on HSV Channel 7 Melbourne.
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"Matthews, Marlene",290,"0","g","0"
An extremely unfortunate sprinter, Marlene Matthews-Willard came within 0.2 seconds of the then-world record for the 100 yards when only 16. Certified a place in the 1952 Olympics and 1954 Empire Games, she was forced out through injury on both occasions. Although she finished behind \JBetty Cuthbert\j at the 1956 Olympics, winning two bronze medals, she beat her in the national titles, running 100 yards in world-record time, only to have it disallowed on the grounds of wind assistance. Over the next two years, she broke four world records at different distances, including the elusive 100 yards and won both sprint medals at the 1958 Empire Games.
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"Mattioli, Rocky",291,"0","g","0"
Born in Chata, Italy, in 1953, boxer Rocky Mattioli came to prominence in 1977 when he defeated Echkardt Dagge to take the World Junior Middleweight championship. At the time, he joined an exclusive band of Australians - \JJimmy Carruthers\j, \JLionel Rose\j and \JJohnny Famechon\j. In 1979, after he broke his wrist during a championship bout, he lost the title. It was the end to a brief, but spectacular career which had started in 1970 when, in his first year of professional competition, Mattioli won 18 of his 19 fights. During his 59 fight career, Mattioli only lost 5 fights and he won 38 of his 59 bouts with a knockout.
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"May, Tim",292,0,g,0
Tim May, Australian cricketer, was born in Adelaide on 26th January 1962. He had a spotted career and has had a dozen knee operations between 1978 and 1993. A day before his 31st birthday on the 25th January 1993, he captured an amazing 5 wickets for 9 runs off only 41 balls, turning the fourth Test against the West Indies on its head.
He backed up the next day on his birthday as eighth wicket batsman and held his crease, only to see his team lose by one run to the West Indies. He played in 24 Tests and 27 one-day games before he retired at the end of the 1995/96 season. He captured 75 wickets at an average of 34.75 with a best of 5 for 9. His highest test batting score was 42 not out.
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"McCabe, Stanley",293,"0","g","0"
Stan McCabe, a stylish batsman and handy all-rounder, was born in Grenfell in 1910 and, with the exception of \JDon Bradman\j, was perhaps Australia's finest batter of the interwar period. McCabe started his Test career against England when he was only 19. He played 39 Tests before World War II halted his international career, scoring 2748 runs at a 48 average. He made 187 not out in the Bodyline series, 189 not out in 195 minutes against South Africa in 1935, amassing 2094 runs at 67.54 in first-class matches the previous year, and chalked up 232 in 230 minutes against England in 1938, in what Bradman described as the finest innings he had seen played.
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"McDermott, Craig",294,0,g,0
Craig McDermott, Australian cricketer and fast bowler, was born at Ipswich in Queensland on 14th April 1965 and was nicknamed Billy. He made his Test debut at the age of 19 against the West Indies in Melbourne in 1984/85 but faded from the scene until the summer of 1990/91, when he destroyed England in his comeback Tests. He played in 71 Tests, scored 940 runs at an average of 12.21, with his highest score 42.
He took 291 test wickets at an average of 28.63, with his best being 8/97 against England in Perth in 1990/91. In his first class career, he took 677 wickets including 303 in Sheffield Shield. He is the second leading wicket taker behind Dennis Lillee, who took 355 wickets over 70 Tests. McDermott announced his retirement on 30th January 1997 because of a recurring knee injury.
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"McGill, Linda",295,0,g,0
Born in Sydney, 1945, Linda McGill was Australian 440 yards individual medley champion 1961-64, and both 220 yards individual medley and breaststroke champion in 1964. She won gold at the 1962 Commonwealth Games but then turned to distance swimming where she became the first Australian to cross the English Channel (three times), and first person to swim across Port Phillip Bay, around Hong Kong (30 miles) and from Townsville to Magnetic Island and return. She also broke the women's record across Sydney Harbour and received $40,000 for crossing the straits from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain.
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"McGrath, Glenn",296,0,g,0
Glenn McGrath, Australian right arm fast bowler and batsman, was born at Narromine in New South Wales on 9th February 1970. He has played in over 30 Tests, and on 21st June 1997, during the third day of the second Test against England, he re-wrote the record books when he took 8 wickets for 38 at Lord's; England were all out for 77. The figures were the best in Ashes history at Lord's and the sixth best in Australian versus England clashes since Test cricket started in 1877. Only England's Ian Botham has done better at Lord's, with his 8 for 34 against Pakistan in 1978.
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"McKay, Heather",297,"0","g","0"
Australia's greatest female squash player, Heather McKay was born Heather Blundell in Queanbeyan in 1941. She took up squash at 18 and, within a few months, was State Country champion at both junior and senior levels. Her only two career losses were in the State championship later that year and in the final of the Scottish Championship in 1960. She won the Australian Amateur Squash Championship every year from 1960-1973 and the British Amateur Squash Championship every year from 1962-1977. She took nine minutes to win the British Open in 1976, and retired in 1978 after losing a set for the first time in five years, during the 1977 British Open final. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1979.
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"McKenna, Peter",298,0,g,0
Peter McKenna, former AFL Collingwood and Carlton full forward, was born in Melbourne on 27th August 1946. He played 192 games between 1965 and 1977 and kicked 874 goals for an average of 4.58. He won the league's goal kicking trophy on two occasions and the clubÆs goal kicking eight times. In the 1980s, he became a regular commentator with the Seven Network.
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"McKenzie, Graham",299,"0","g","0"
Born in 1941, Graham "Garth" McKenzie was an excellent pace bowler with a late out-swinger. He became the youngest Australian Test player to take not only 100 wickets (at 23) - and that in record time (three years and 165 days) - but also 150 (at 25) and 200 (at 27). Capturing 246 wickets in 60 Tests at 29.78, he was only two short of \JRichie Benaud\j's record, and that because the selectors rested him for two tests after he took 10 for 151 in the third Test against India in 1967-68. He also made some dogged contributions with the bat at vital moments. McKenzie moved to England in 1969 and played for Leicestershire until retiring in 1975. In his first-class career he took 1218 wickets at 26.98 and 200 catches.
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"McKenzie, Stuart",300,"0","g","0"
A controversial figure, full of bravado, and a man who delighted in upsetting the establishment (addressing the English aristocracy with "G'day mate" in exclusive rowing clubs), Stuart McKenzie, one-time chicken sexer, was possibly Australia's finest sculler. Born in 1937, McKenzie, at 19, announced he would "whip the old man" (meaning the venerated national champion), did so, showing no graciousness over his win, and hence took his place in Melbourne, where he won silver, then announced he was off to England, "because there's no competition here". He set a new record by winning the Diamond Sculls in five consecutive years, won two European Championships, took the gold at the 1958 Empire Games and won the double sculls in 1959. After a perforated ulcer in 1959, he never performed quite as powerfully again.
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"McKernan, Corey",301,0,g,0
Corey McKernan, North Melbourne footballer, was born in Melbourne on 19th December 1973. The ruckman missed out on the 1994 Norwich Rising Star award when he was suspended for one game during the season. In 1996, history repeated itself when he drew with Essendon's James Hird and Brisbane's Michael Voss for the Brownlow Medal. However, as he had been suspended for one game in 1996, he was ineligible for the award.
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"McNamee, Paul",302,0,g,0
Paul McNamee, Australian champion tennis player, was born in Melbourne on 12th November 1954. He was one of Australia's great singles and doubles players and, together with Peter McNamara, won the Wimbledon doubles title in 1980 and 1982.
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"McPaul, Louise",303,"e\2\louisemc.jpg","c","0"
Louise McPaul was born on the 24th of January, 1969, and began her athletic career as a heptathlete representing Australia at the 1986 World Junior Championships. She then chose to concentrate on the javelin and it has brought her great success. The 1994 Commonwealth Games gold medallist reached the finals of the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo and placed twelfth at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. McPaul has had a battle with injury which has at times left her wondering if she should continue in the sport. Her determination paid off for her when she won the silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and consequently became the first Australian woman ever to win an Olympic medal in the javelin.
\I(Text courtesy of Athletics Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Louise McPaul \I(Roger Gould)\i
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"Meckiff, Ian",304,0,g,0
Ian Meckiff, former Australian and Victorian cricketer, was born in Mentone, Victoria on 6th January 1935. He became one of Australia's great fast bowlers. He was called by umpire Colin Edgar for throwing in the first over against South Africa in Brisbane during the 1963-64 season. He never played first class cricket again, virtually thrown out of the game. He played in 18 test for 154 runs, 45 wickets, an average of 31.62 and 9 catches.
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"Meissner, Joe",305,"0","g","0"
The first non-Japanese person to win a world karate championship, Joe Meissner, a Sydney accountant of all things, was born in Hungary in 1950. Meissner caused a consternation when he defeated opponents from three countries in the 1972 Karate championship at Osaka, then quickly triumphed in the final over defending champion Mitsunori Saitoh. Although his title has always been accepted in the United States, Japanese officials disputed it, claiming that it was not a legitimate world championship.
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"Meninga, Mal",306,"e\2\meninga.jpg","c","0"
Mal Meninga is one of the greatest Rugby League players of the past decade. Born in Bundaberg in 1960, he is descended from the South Sea islanders who were brought to Australia to work on the Queensland cane fields. Built like a forward (he actually played in the second row for a while), his speed and strength gave him unrivalled success as a centre. He has captained Brisbane Souths (1985), the \JCanberra\j Raiders (1989-90), the Australian team (19 times) and the Queensland State of Origin team. He retired in 1994 after a career which resulted in him being one of the most admired and loved players ever to step on a Rugby League field.
\BDescription:\b Mal Meninga \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
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"Merrett, Roger",307,0,g,0
Roger Merrett, Australian Rules star, was born at Nhill in western Victoria on 19th April 1960. He made his debut with Essendon as centre half forward in 1978. He played 149 games for Essendon and 151 with the Brisbane Bears for a career total of 300 before retiring at the end of the 1996 season. He won the Gardiner medal for the best reserves player in 1982, was leading Brisbane goal kicker in 1993-94-95, and is the all-time Brisbane game record holder and goal kicker. He was Brisbane captain from 1990 until 1996, and assistant coach in 1995-96.
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"Messenger, 'Dally'",308,"0","g","0"
"Dally" \JMessenger,\j born Herbert Henry Messenger in Sydney in 1883, is generally considered the most famous Rugby League player in the Australian history of the game. Initially, Messenger was an excellent Union player and he quickly worked his way up to the NSW team. League arrived in 1907, and cricketing great, \JVictor Trumper,\j encouraged Messenger to change codes. After initial matches against New Zealand drew huge crowds, he joined the Kiwis on a tour of England. He was then made vice-captain, and later captain of the Pioneers, the first Australian League team to tour England. Whether it be for the Eastern Suburbs, whom he led to the premiership, NSW, Queensland, Australia or New Zealand, Messenger was a consistent try-scorer and goalkicker.
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"Michael, Barry",309,0,g,0
Barry Michael, Australian boxer, was born at Swettenham in London on 2nd June 1955. He won the Australian lightweight title on 12th August 1978, and on 6th May 1981 won the Commonwealth lightweight title.
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"Middleton, Graham",310,0,g,0
Graham Middleton, champion Australian swimmer and fundraiser, was born at Deniliquin, New South Wales, on 20th August 1935. At the age of 56, he undertook one of Australia's greatest sporting feats and swam the entire length of the Murray River, a total of 2,368 kilometres, to raise $150,000 for children with cancer. He was known as Mighty Murray the Marathon Man. He started out working in a dairy, then sold cars before opening his own dealership in Corryong. He died while on a business trip representing the local shire on 27th October 1995, aged 60. He is survived by his wife Kay and three children.
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"Millane, Darren",311,0,g,0
Darren Millane, champion Australian Rules Collingwood football star, was born in Melbourne on 9th August 1965. He started out at 16 with VFA club Dandenong, before being snapped up by Hawthorn. Millane was unhappy at the Hawks and returned to Dandenong before finally joining Collingwood in 1984. He was a member of Collingwood's 1990 Premiership side; in fact he was the player holding the ball when the siren sounded. He won the club's coveted best and fairest award, the Copeland trophy in 1987 and was runner-up in the clubÆs premiership year. He represented Victoria on three occasions.
Millane died on 7th October 1991, aged only 26, when has car overturned in Queens Road, South Melbourne at 3.00 am. He had played 147 games with Collingwood and kicked 79 goals. The death notices by friends and supporters in the \IMelbourne Herald-Sun\i in the week prior to his funeral amounted to over 1,300 -- the most ever recorded for one person in the paperÆs 120-year history.
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"Miller, Keith",312,"0","g","0"
Born in Melbourne in 1919, Keith Miller was a dominant figure in the Australian cricketing team from 1945-56, and a popular and genuine all-rounder. In his first Test against England he scored 79 and took his best Test figures of 7-60. He finished the series second in the batting and bowling behind Bradman and Lindwall respectively. He topped the batting lists in the 1950-51 series and, in the 1955 series against the West Indies, scored three centuries, finishing the series with 439 runs at 73.16. In Tests, Miller amassed 2958 runs at 36.97 and 170 wickets at 22.97.
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"Mockridge, Russell",313,"0","g","0"
Cyclist Russell Mockridge, born in 1928, swept to prominence by winning the Australian Road Championship within a year of his first race. Although punctures ruined his chances at the 1948 Olympics, he won two gold medals at the 1950 Empire Games. Initially banned from the 1952 Olympics for not posting the standard amateur bond, he thrice beat the world amateur champion and won the Open Grand Prix, the first amateur to do so. When the people of Geelong paid his bond, he joined the team and won gold. After turning professional, his team won the Paris Six-Day classic and Mockridge did well in the 4,466 kilometre Tour de France, despite racing solo. Back in Australia he won numerous tours, set a record in the Melbourne to Warrnambool, and won the Australian road titles of 1956 and 1957. He died in 1958 after colliding with a bus.
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"Moffat, Allan",314,"0","g","0"
Canadian-born Moffat began racing in Australia in the early 1960s but decided to go the United States to further his career. After making his way into Trans-Am racing, he returned to Australia with his signature red Ford Mustang Trans-Am. He drove in conjunction with Ford Australia when they were predominant in touring-car racing. Moffat won the Hardie-Ferodo in 1970, 1971, 1973 and, in a Ford first and second finish, in 1976. He also won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1973, 1976 and 1977. When he was victorious in the 1976 national Sports Sedan event, he became the first "tin top" driver to win two national titles in one year.
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"Moneghetti, Steve",315,"e\2\finish.jpg","c","0"
Born in 1962, Steve Moneghetti seems to be the natural heir to the long-distance running throne vacated by \JRobert De Castella.\j While he has never captured the public imagination as 'Deek' did, his list of achievements is impressive. He was won Sydney's City to Surf three times, won the Berlin marathon in 2 hours 8 minutes and 16 seconds, making him the 13th fastest marathon runner in history and, in 1990, \IAthletics Today\i declared he was that year's 'top road runner'. He was placed fifth at the Seoul Olympics, equalling the best place De Castella ever achieved in an Olympic marathon. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Steve placed seventh.
Steve Moneghetti won a bronze medal in the marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Athens in August 1997.
\BDescription:\b Steve Moneghetti \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Moore, George",316,0,g,0
George Moore was born in Brisbane in 1923 and was one of the true legends of Australian horse racing. He was an apprentice jockey in Brisbane in 1938 and then moved to Sydney and began his connection with trainer Tommy Smith. He rode his first winner at Eagle Farm on New Year's Day, 1940, and by the time he retired 31 years later, he had ridden 2,278 winners in Australia, France and England. Moore's achievements were remarkable. He won the prestigious English Derby, rode 15 winners in four days at the 1969 Easter Carnival in Sydney, and won ten Sydney Jockey's Premierships, eight of which he won in consecutive years. In spite of all these successes, Moore never rode a Melbourne Cup winner although he competed 19 times.
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"Morris, Arthur",317,0,g,0
Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and opening batsman for more than a decade, was born in New South Wales on 19th January 1922. He was one of the prime movers in Bradman's 1948 touring team when he scored three centuries, including his 182 at Headingly. In this match, he put on 301 runs with Don Bradman in the second innings. In 24 Tests against England between 1946 and 1955, he made 2,080 runs including seven centuries at an average of 50.73. He played in 46 tests, scored 3,533 runs for an average of 46.48, including 12 centuries.
His first class career included 12,614 runs at an average of 53.67 and 46 centuries. He also captained New South Wales and was captain of Australia in two Tests against the West Indies and England. Morris retired in 1955 after scoring 153 in the first Test against England in Brisbane. His first wife Valerie Hudson died from cancer in 1956 and he later remarried.
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"Morris, Jenny",318,"e\2\jmorris.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Jenny is one of the co-vice captains of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (1996) and was first selected in the Australian Team in March 1992 for the European tour. In 1995 she had the additional honour of captaining her home side the Queensland Scorchers in the Telstra Stix Series.
She was a co-vice captain for the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the Atlanta Olympics. JennyÆs other major hockey achievements include: one Junior World Cup (Barcelona, Spainù1993), one World Cup (Dublin, Irelandù1994) and two Champions Trophies (Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Her precise passing and dynamic short corner strike make her a dominant and dangerous opponent.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Jenny Morris \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Mortimer, Steve",319,0,g,0
Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league half-back, was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, on 15th July 1956. He and his brothers played for Canterbury-Bankstown and he represented Australia in eight Tests and 267 first grade games. He retired in 1987 and briefly became a commentator for Channel Seven and 2KY.
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"Moss, Graham",320,"0","g","0"
Born in Perth in 1951, Graham Moss caused a considerable stir when he moved from his Western Australian club, Claremont, to Essendon. At 195 centimetres and 101 kilograms, Moss was a natural ruckman and an outstanding handball passer and mark. Twenty-two when he joined Essendon, he stayed three years, played 88 games, kicked 67 goals, was club captain in 1976, their best and fairest winner from 1974-76, was runner-up in the Brownlow Medal in 1973 and outright winner in 1976. In 1977, he returned to Western Australia and won the Simpson Medal as best and fairest in a state match against Victoria.
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"Mossop, Rex",321,0,g,0
Rex Mossop, former Australian television football commentator and former rugby league international, was born in Sydney on the 18th February 1928. He played rugby league football for Manly and represented Australia. After playing with the Manly club for a number of seasons he worked as a commentator for Channel 7 for many years and compered the Saturday night \IClub Show.\i He was transferred to the Ten Network in 1987, and then worked as a commentator with 2GB during the 1991 football season. In 1993, he joined Channel 9 as a panellist on the Sunday \IFooty Show,\i and in 1996 he worked for Radio 2GB for six months.
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"Mulley, Athol George",322,0,g,0
Athol George Mulley, champion Sydney jockey, was born at south Grafton in New South Wales on 24th April 1923. He was one of Australia's most colourful post-war jockeys. His name is automatically linked with the horse Bernborough on which he won 15 consecutive races, better than Phar LapÆs 14 and equal to CarbineÆs 15. However, Mulley failed to win a Melbourne Cup.
He won the 1945 and 1946 Sydney jockey's premiership. He was forced to retire at the age of 56 after undergoing surgery on his left eye in June 1979, which had been hit many times by flying clods of dirt; he eventually went blind in this eye.
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"Mundine, Tony",323,"0","g","0"
Born near Grafton in 1951, Mundine started his boxing career in 1969, winning 21 of his first 22 fights, 17 by KO, taking the national middleweight title in 1970. After being knocked out in the first round by Luis Rodriguez, he won 19 consecutive fights on KO, gaining the Commonwealth middleweight and Australian heavyweight titles. In 1973, he outscored world champion Emile Griffith but, looking like a chance at a world title, was stopped by another contender. From this point, the pattern of Mundine's career was clear, only becoming more pronounced over time - strings of impressive victories, terminated at crucial moments. Nonetheless, he won the Australian and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles, recording his 55th KO win in 1979.
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"Munro, David 'Darby'",324,"0","g","0"
Famous jockey "Darby" Munro, or the "Demon Darb" as he was known to ambivalent punters, was born in Melbourne in 1913. Winning his first race at 14, he progressed to victories in the AJC Challenge Stakes and the Doncaster Handicap when 17. His reputation was established with a victory on Peter Pan in the 1934 Melbourne Cup and, by the end of the decade he was regarded as the country's finest jockey. In 1940, Munro rode nine winners at the AJC Easter Carnival, but was temporarily debarred from racing in 1941. He joined the Army in 1942 and, discharged in 1944, won the Melbourne Cup that year on Sirius and in 1946 on Russia. He retired and became a trainer in 1955 and died in 1966.
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"Murdoch, William Lloyd",325,0,g,0
William Lloyd Murdoch, Australian cricket captain, was born in 1855 and was a great batsman. He was the first player from any country to score a double century in Test cricket, by notching 221 at the Oval, on his third tour of England, in 1884. As well as being Australia's first captain to ever play in England, he also scored the first Test century in England with 153 not out in 1880 at the Oval. In 1891 he moved to England and played county cricket for Sussex for eight years. He played 18 Tests and captained Australia in 16, scoring 896 runs for an average of 32.00, which included two centuries.
In 1892, he played his last Test for England when he toured South Africa, becoming one of only five players who have represented Australia and England in Tests. He died suddenly in Melbourne on 18th February 1911, aged 56.
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"Murray, Iain",326,"0","g","0"
Iain Murray is arguably the greatest sailor Australia has ever produced. He won the world 18-footer sailing titles six years in a row from 1977-1982. Murray took up sailing in 1971 when he was only 12. The following year he became the youngest ever winner of the Australian Cherub title and by 1977 (he was 18 at the time), he had designed his own 18-footer, \IColor 7,\i and won the world championships in Auckland, New Zealand. He was the youngest ever champion. He retired from 18-footers in 1982 and became the youngest person ever to skipper an America's Cup yacht when he sailed \IAdvance\i in the 1983 competition.
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"Murray, Jack",327,"0","g","0"
"Gelignite" Jack Murray was born in Melbourne in 1910. An all-round sportsman, Jack Murray, born in Melbourne in 1910, won five consecutive Australian amateur wrestling championships from 1930-34, pioneered waterskiing in Sydney in 1946 with Bill McLachlan and won numerous championship events up to 1951, then turned increasingly to motor racing. He came fourth in the 1952 Australian Grand Prix, won the 1954 Redex Round-Australia Trial in his Ford sedan without losing a point, and entered many international marathon rallies, such as the inaugural London-Sydney race. At 69, he entered the round-Australia Repco Trial with his son.
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"Nagle, Kel",328,"0","g","0"
An Australian golfing institution, Kel Nagle, born in 1920, became a professional golfer in 1938. Within 40 years, he had won over 55 tournaments, including the Centenary British Open at St Andrews in 1960, with exceptional rounds of 69, 67, 71 and 71, the Australian PGA six times from 1948, the World Cup in 1954 and 1959 (with \JPeter Thomson\j), the New Zealand Open and the New Zealand PGA nine times each, the Australian Open in 1959, the French, Swiss and Hong Kong Opens in 1961, the 1964 Canadian Open, the NSW Open, British Seniors and World Seniors twice each, the Wills Masters in 1966 and the Victorian Open in 1967.
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"Nancarrow, Cam",329,"0","g","0"
Along with \JGeoff Hunt\j and Ken Hiscoe, with whom he toured the world as a professional in the 1970s, Cam Nancarrow was one of Australia's finest male squash players. Born in 1945, he was runner-up to Hunt in the first (amateur) World Cup in 1967 and again in 1971. He won the title in 1973, took the Australian amateur title in 1972, and has accumulated about 15 other championships. His wife was also ranked fourth in the world from 1970-72 and his son, Tristan, has also met with success as a squash player.
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"Newcombe, John",330,"0","g","0"
John Newcombe, born in Sydney in 1944, was sent on an official world tour by the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia at the age of 16. Australian junior champion in 1961 and 1963, he was elevated to the Davis Cup team between 1963 and 1967. Newcombe won the Wimbledon singles championship in 1967, 1970 (against \JKen Rosewall),\j and 1971. He was declared the world's number one amateur in 1967, and 1970 and number one player in 1973 when he went professional. He also accumulated a host of other singles and doubles titles in his career in Australia, Germany, Italy, France, the United States and at Wimbledon. "Newk" established tennis coaching camps and other business interests after his retirement; he has been a tennis coach and commentator and held public offices such as president of the National Australia Day Council. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 1989.
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"Newman, John (Sammy)",331,0,g,0
John "Sammy" Newman, Australian television personality and former champion Geelong football star, was born John Noel William Newman in Geelong on 22nd December 1945. A graduate from Geelong Grammar School, he joined the Geelong club in 1964 and played 300 games for the Cats. He had part of a kidney removed after he was seriously injured in the 1967 first semi-final, but came back even stronger in 1968 to win the clubÆs best and fairest award.
In 1996, he hosted an edition of the \IMidday Show.\i He worked in the 1980s as a columnist with the \IMelbourne Sun\i and has been co-host of the Nine Network's \IFooty Show\i since 1995, as well as a football commentator on radio 3AW. Married three times; first to Barbara from 1968 until 1972, and then Marilyn from 1973 to 1975, and Daisey from 1976 until 1983, to whom he had two sons, Jack and Gordon.
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"Noble, M. A.",332,0,g,0
M. A. Noble, famous Australian cricketer, was born Montague Alfred Noble in Sydney on 28th January 1873. Often referred to as Monty, Alf, or Boots, because of his big feet, some unkind supporters called him "Mary Ann", a name that stuck until his death. In 245 first class games, he scored 14,245 runs including 37 centuries, at an average of more than 40. In his 42 Tests (15 of which he was Australia's captain) he scored 1,997 runs at an average of 30.25.
As a bowler, he finished his career with the figures of 625 wickets for 23.11, while in tests his figures were 121 at 25 a piece. When he retired at nearly 50, Noble had taken 600 wickets for Paddington. He served on the SCG trust and was a pioneer cricket broadcaster. The M. A. Noble stand at the SCG is named after him. He died from a heart attack on 22nd June 1940 while playing a social game of cricket, aged 67.
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"Norman, Decima",333,"0","g","0"
Decima Norman, born in Western Australia in 1916, established her name internationally when she became, in 1938, the only woman to win five gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games. These were in the long jump, the 100 and 220-yard sprints and two relays. She set four games records in the process. A state schoolgirl sprint champion as early as 1925, her speed was also noticed when she was playing hockey in 1934. Although a champion sprinter before the 1936 Olympics, Western Australia did not have an official association through which she could establish her credentials. When the 1940 Olympics were cancelled, Norman retired and focused on a business career.
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"Norman, Greg",334,6_0017.jpg,c,0
Born in Mt Isa in 1955, Greg Norman was a fervent golfer from the time he first caddied for his mother. He won the Queensland schoolboy championship in 1973, turned professional in 1975 and, the following year, was victorious in the West Lakes Classic. He became a full member of the PGA in 1977, winning the Kuzoh International in Japan and the Martini International in Britain that year. Over the next decade, he was victorious in about 40 tournaments, taking titles in every major golfing event. By 1986, the "Great White Shark" was well-established as one of the key figures in international golf, and was a record holder for earnings on the US golf circuit.
Norman's best year was 1986 when he won the British Open (also in 1993), the European Open and the World Match Play Championship. His other major wins include the World Match Play in 1980 and 1983, the Australian Open in 1980, 1985, 1987 and 1995, the French Open in 1980, the Italian Open in 1988, the Australian PGA in 1984, 1985, 1988 and 1989 and the Australian Masters in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989 and 1990, Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational in 1986, Kemper Open (USA) in 1986, Suntory World Match Play in 1986, Dunhill World Cup Team in 1986, Stefan Queensland Open in 1986, West End Jubilee South Australian Open in 1986, National Panasonic Western Australia Open in 1986, National Panasonic NSW Open in 1986 and 1988, Palm Meadows Cup in 1988, E.S.P. Open in 1988, PGA National Tournament Players Championship in 1988 and 1989, MCI Hertiage Classic (US) in 1988, Chunichi Crowns (Japan) in 1989, The International (US Tour) in 1989, Greater Milwaukee Open (US Tour) in 1989, Doral Ryder Open (US) in 1990, 1993 and 1996, Memorial Tournament (US) in 1990, Canadian Open in 1992, Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Club Masters (Japan) in 1993, Johnnie Walker Asian Classic in 1994, The Players Championship (USA) in 1994, US PGA Memorial Tournament in 1995, Greater Hartford Open in 1995, NEC World Series of Golf (USA) in 1995, the SA Ford Open in 1996 and the World Series in Ohio (1997). In 1997 Greg Norman and US player, Brad Faxon, won the Fred Meyer Challenge title at the Oregon Golf Club. Norman is now based in the United States.
Towards the end of April 1997 Norman had held the world No. 1 position for a record 96 weeks. However, during 1997 his No. 1 title was taken a couple of times by players such as Tiger Woods and Tom Lehman.
\BDescription:\b Greg Norman \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Northam, Sir William",335,"0","g","0"
At 59, the oldest person at the time ever to win an Olympic gold medal, Bill Northam, born in England in 1905, was interested in athletics in his childhood. He turned to motor racing in his early twenties and was an early trailblazer on the gravel and dirt circuit at Phillip Island. After taking an interest in sailing at 46, he went on to win the Sayonara Cup in 1955 and 1956 and many subsequent races. After commissioning the \IBarrenjoey\i in 1963 to compete at the Tokyo Olympics, he won the Australian championship and then skippered the craft and crew to what was a very popular victory and gold medal. Awarded the CBE in 1966, he was knighted in 1976 and died in 1988.
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"Norton, Michael",336,0,g,0
Michael Norton, Australian paraplegic gold medal Olympic skier, was born at Leongatha, Victoria on 24th April 1964. He started out as an apprentice electrician with the Victorian State Electricity Commission; however in 1984 on his way home from work he was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him a paraplegic.
After taking up wheelchair basketball he became known as Australia's fastest man on wheels in 1986. He won a bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Paralympics, and in 1994 won gold in the Super G and slalom events. He travelled Australia educating students on road safety for the Transport Accident Commission. In 1996 he pushed his wheelchair from Melbourne to Mount Buller to raise money for the Mount Buller Ski school. He died on 22nd August 1996, aged 32.
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"Nunn, Glynis",337,"e\2\gnunn.jpg","c","0"
Born in 1960 in the Queensland town of Toowoomba, Glynis Saunders Nunn went on to become the success story of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. She broke a sixteen year gold medal drought for Australian track and field with her gold medal in the heptathlon.
Nunn managed to defeat the American favourite Jackie Joyner by a narrow five point margin to claim the gold over the local with 6390 points to JoynerÆs 6385 points. Jackie Joyner lead the competition before the final event, the 800 m, but with a thrilling personal best performance over the distance, Nunn secured her victory and a place in the hearts of all Australians. The image of her on the victory dais waving her koala is one of the most enduring images of the 1984 Olympic Games.
\I(Text courtesy of Athletics Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Glynis Nunn \I(Roger Gould)\i
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"O'Donnell, Simon",338,0,g,0
Simon O'Donnell, former Australian cricketer and Victorian captain, was born at Deniliquin, in New South Wales on 26th January 1963, and was educated at Kilmore's Assumption College. The cricketing all-rounder started out playing 24 games and kicking 18 goals with VFL football club St. Kilda, before representing his state and Australia in Tests and World Series Cricket. He dropped out of cricket for 12 months in 1988, after it was discovered he was suffering from cancer.
After chemotherapy treatment, he resumed his first class career at the MCG in January 1989 in an Australian Test side against the West Indies. In the summer of 1990-91, he worked as a radio commentator with Melbourne's 3AW, hosting the drive time program. Although he missed out on the Australian tour of the West Indies in March of 1991, he was named International Cricketer of the Year on the 11th of February the same year, and awarded a $60,000 four wheel drive Range Rover as his prize.
He has played six Tests for Australia, making his debut against England at Leeds in 1985. He has scored 206 Test runs at an average of 29.42 and has played in 87 one-day internationals.
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"O'Neill, Norm",339,"0","g","0"
Proclaimed the new Bradman in his day, Norman O'Neill was born in 1937. Early in his career, he became only the third player to score 1000 Sheffield Shield runs in one season. Joining the Test side the following season, he averaged 56.4 against England. On the return tour of the UK, he scored 1981 runs at an average of 60, including seven centuries. He struck centuries against Pakistan, India, and made 181 in the famous tied Test against the West Indies. His career best was 284 against the Indian President's XI. O'Neill retired in 1967 with 13,805 first-class runs at a 51 average with 45 centuries. In the Shield competition, he made 4749 runs at 50.5 and, in 42 Tests, scored 2779 runs at 45.5.
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"O'Neill, Susan",340,0,g,0
Susie O'Neill, Australian 100 and 200 metre freestyle swimmer, was born at McKay in Queensland on the 2nd August 1973, the daughter of an ophthalmologist. She represented Australia at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where she won Australia's first gold medal in the women's 200 metres butterfly. She was named the 1995 Telstra swimmer of the year. She also won gold in the 200 metres butterfly at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Japan.
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"O'Reilly, Bill",341,"0","g","0"
Deadly leg-spinner "Tiger" O'Reilly, born in 1905, was regarded by Bradman as the best bowler of his day. Becoming a primary element of the Australian team in 1932, he took 27 wickets in the crushing Bodyline series, including match figures of 10-129. On the return tour of England, he snared 28 wickets, with match figures of 11-129 and, in the context of England's mammoth 9 for 627, O'Reilly took three wickets in four balls and ended with 7-189 off 59 overs. In both tours of England, he ended with over 100 wickets and the best average, and also faired excellently against South Africa. After competing in the first postwar Test, taking 5-14 and 3-19, he retired and turned to journalism. In 27 Tests, O'Reilly took 144 wickets at 22.59 and 774 in his first-class career at 16.6. He died in 1992.
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"Ogle, Brett",342,0,g,0
Brett Ogle, Australian golfer, was born at the Royal Women's Hospital in Sydney on 14th July 1964. At the age of six weeks he was adopted out to Mr and Mrs Ogle of Goulburn. His first earnings from golf came from sweeping the club house floor at Tully Park, where he learned the game under his mentor David Merriman. He won the Tasmanian Open in 1988, the 1990 Australian PGA, the World Cup individual event in 1992, and the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February 1993.
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"Oldfield, Bert",343,"0","g","0"
A classy wicket-keeper, Bert Oldfield, born in 1894, was noticed while playing for the AIF team after serving in World War I. He quickly progressed to the Test side, taking five victims (four stumped) in one innings during the 1924-25 series against England. In five tours of England, he caught 155 batsmen and stumped an amazing 111. Oldfield was at the centre of the Bodyline controversy when he was knocked unconscious by a ball from Harold Larwood and had to be carried from the field. True to form, he defused the tension by blaming himself for ducking into the delivery. "The Gentleman in Gloves" accomplished 661 dismissals in his first-class career, including 130 in 54 Tests.
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"Oliver, Damien",344,0,g,0
Damien Oliver, Victorian jockey, was born in Perth on 22nd June 1972. He won the 1995 Melbourne Cup double on Doriemus as well as the Caulfield and the McKinnon stakes. A few days later he fell and dislocated his shoulder. He had a tumultuous 18 months in Hong Kong from 1996 until May 1997, after which he returned to Australia.
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"Ondieki, Lisa",345,"e\2\lisond.jpg","c","0"
Born Lisa OÆDea on the 12th of May 1960, in Gawler, South Australia, she began her career as a 400 m hurdler before switching to distance running in 1981. It was to be a wise decision for this brilliant runner. Formerly married to the US steeplechaser/marathoner, Kenny Martin, she married Yobes Ondieki, the Kenyan 5,000 m and 10 km runner in 1990. Along with Rob \JDe Castella\j, Lisa Ondieki brought success to Australian marathon running. Ondieki won a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and a gold medal at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games. She holds the Australian Open record for the 10,000 m and has the Australian best on record performances for both the half marathon and the marathon. After a disappointing Atlanta Olympics where she did not finish, Ondieki has decided to retire from marathon racing to spend more time with her daughter Emma. She remains one of the greatest champions the sport has produced.
\I(Text courtesy of Athletics Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Lisa Ondieki \I(Roger Gould)\i
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"Opperman, Sir Hubert (Oppy)",346,0,g,0
Hubert Opperman was born at Rochester, Victoria in 1904 and gained early cycling experience as a telegraph boy for the PMG. National road champion in 1924, 1926, 1927 and 1929 he took the French Bol d'Or in 1928, the Paris-Brest-Paris race in 1931, captained the Australian Tour de France team from 1928-1931 and won the Bidlake Memorial Prize in 1934. He also held the world unpaced track record of 489 miles in 24 hours. In 1949, he won the seat of Corio in Victoria for the Liberal Party holding it until 1967. After resigning from parliament, he was appointed Australian High Commissioner to Malta from 1967-72 and was knighted in 1968.
Hubert Opperman died from a heart attack in April 1996.
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"Palmer, Ambrose",347,0,g,0
Ambrose Palmer, former champion Australian boxer and trainer, was born at Footscray in Victoria on 19th September 1911. He fought as a middleweight and light heavyweight boxer, and played Australian Rules football with Footscray. He trained world featherweight champion Johnny Famechon.
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"Pannam, Alby",348,0,g,0
Alby Pannam, former AFL and Collingwood star, was born Albert Constantine Pannam in 1915. He formed part of Collingwood Football ClubÆs early history and his father was a member of the original Collingwood team that first played for the VFA in 1892. Pannam's nephews are the famous brothers Lou and Ron Richards. He played 181 games, kicked 550 goals between 1933 and 1943, and was a member of the 1936 and 1937 premiership teams.
He represented Victoria on four occasions and after he finished playing he coached Richmond reserves and Oakleigh reserves. He coached the Richmond seniors from 1953 until 1955. He died on 16th March 1993, aged 78.
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"Parkin, David",349,0,g,0
David Parkin, Australian Rules footballer and successful coach of Hawthorn and Carlton, was born in 1942. He coached Carlton to a record 23 from 25 victories in 1995, including the Premiership. The AFL club won the Premiership doing what no side has ever done before, by winning 20 of the 22 home and away games. No side had ever before won 16 consecutive games to win a Premiership, and no side had ever won 23 games in a season. They defeated Geelong 21-15-141 to 11-14-80. In 1997, they failed to make the finals after Richmond defeated them by two points in the final round.
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"Patching, Judy",350,0,g,0
Mr Judy Patching, Olympic official, team manager and past president of the Victorian Olympic Council, was born Julius Lockington Patching on the 4th January 1917. He served in the Royal Australian Navy for 13 years before becoming a retail sales manager and manager of the Melbourne Sports Depot. He has been actively involved with the Olympic Games since the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 when he was the chief athletics starter. He married his wife Betty on the 27th of July 1940 and has two sons.
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"Patrick, Vic",351,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1920, Vic Patrick began his career with knockouts in 18 of his first 19 fights. He won the Australian lightweight title and the national welterweight title which he took from a far heavier opponent. Patrick then lost against Les Sloane due to an arm injury, but ten successive KOs followed. He gave up the welterweight to concentrate on the lightweight and, in 1947, fought the world's number two, Freddie Dawson, but was knocked out. After returning to defend his lightweight title, Patrick retired, becoming a publican and referee. In all he lost only four of his 55 bouts and won 43 with knockouts.
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"Payne, Alan",352,0,g,0
Alan Payne, Australian yacht designer, was born in England on 11th December 1921, the son of a merchant seaman. He came to Australia at the age of seven and settled in Brisbane. Payne designed the steel cutter \ISolo\i winner of the 1958 and 1959 Sydney-Hobart race, and handicap winner in 1956 and 1962. He was the man responsible for Australia's first America's Cup challenge in 1962 when he designed \IGretel\i and \IGretel II\i for Sir Frank Packer. He died in Sydney on 20th June 1995, aged 73 and was survived by his wife Wendy and two daughters, Rozetta and Sarah.
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"Pearce, Henry Robert",353,0,g,0
"Bobby" Pearce, champion Australian rower, was born on 26th September 1904. He won Australia's first medal for rowing at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. During the second round heat in Amsterdam, he stopped rowing to let a duck and her ducklings cross his path and then went on to win the final by 9.8 seconds against an American. At the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, Pearce again won but was accused of taking it too easy when he won the final by half a length. He became the first person to win the single skulls in successive Olympic Games.
His father was Australian professional skulls champion and he also trained boxer Les Darcy. His Uncle Sandy Pearce toured England with the first Kangaroo rugby league side. After leaving school, Bobby became an apprentice carpenter. In 1923, he joined the Australian Army, rising to rank of master sergeant, honing his boxing skills to the extent he became the service's heavyweight champion. He died from heart disease on 20th May 1976, aged 71.
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"Peck, John",354,0,g,0
John Peck, former Hawthorn and AFL champion full-forward, was born in 1937. He was the last AFL player to top the goal kicking list in three successive seasons: 1963, 1964, and 1965. He joined Hawthorn in 1954 and played 213 senior games with the Hawkes, including their first premiership in 1961. He kicked 475 career goals and headed the clubÆs goal kicking eight times in 13 seasons to the end of 1966. John Peck died at Euroa in Victoria on the 2nd February 1993, aged 55.
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"Pepper, Cecil",355,0,g,0
Cecil Pepper, former Australian cricketer, was born at Forbes in New South Wales in 1918. He left Australia in 1946 following a dispute over his colourful language, when he refused to apologise to Don Bradman for swearing when his appeal for a dismissal was turned down. Colin Cowdery once said "Pepper was the greatest cricketer never to be capped by Australia". He played for the English Rochdale Club in the Central Lancashire League and scored 842 runs and took 89 wickets during a rainy first season.
In 1947, he became only the second player in the league to score over 1000 runs and take 102 wickets, and in 1949 he became the first to record the same feat in the Burnley League. Despite many approaches from county sides, he never made the step up, and later spent 15 years as a first class umpire. He died in England on 22nd March 1993, aged 74.
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"Pereira, Jackie",356,"e\2\jpereira.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Jackie was first selected in the Australian Senior Team in April 1986 for the Esanda Six Nation Tournament in Sydney. She plays for her home state WAIS Diamonds in the Telstra Stix Series, and was a member of the Olympic gold medal team in both Seoul (1988) and Atlanta (1996).
Her other achievements include: three Olympic Games (Seoul, Koreaù1988, Barcelona, Spainù1992 and Atlanta, USAù1996), three World Cups (Amsterdam, Hollandù1986, Sydney, Australiaù1990 and Dublin, Irelandù1994), and five Champions Trophies (Amsterdam, Hollandù1987, Frankfurt, Germanyù1989, Berlin, Germanyù1991, Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Jackie is AustraliaÆs highest goal scorer and treats goalkeepers with contempt through her uncanny timing, clever placements and diving deflections.
Jackie retired from State hockey at the end of 1997.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Jackie Pereira \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i.
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Nova was first selected in the Australian Senior Team in June 1993 for the four National Tournament Series in Osaka, Japan.
Nova was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She also possess three additional gold medals for hockey from the following major tournaments: Champions Trophy (Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995) and the 1994 World Cup held in Dublin, Ireland.
She was born in the Northern Territory, but did not play for her home state in the 1995 Telstra Stix Series. NovaÆs natural athleticism often sees her pitched against the oppositions fastest player. With her great speed, no opposition striker can outrun her. She loves to carry the ball forward, and is often seen creating play in the circle.
In January 1997 Nova was named Young Australian of the Year and in March 1997 she was named as one of four Aboriginal athletes for the Australian team to compete in the Athens world track and field championships in August, following five months of serious training. Nova's next goal is to win an Olympic medal for athletics at Sydney 2000.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Nova Peris-Kneebone \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Perkins, Kieren",358,"e\2\perkins.jpg","c","0"
Arguably the greatest Australian male swimmer of the past decade, Kieren Perkins has held the 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m freestyle world records, as well as the world records for the 800 m and 1,500 m short course freestyle events. Born in Brisbane in 1973, he won the gold medal for the 1,500 m freestyle and the silver medal for the 400 m freestyle at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. He was subsequently awarded Australian Swimmer of the Year (1992-4), Young Australian of the Year (1992), ABC Individual Sports Star of the Year (1992) and his name was added to the Australian Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Kieren Perkins won the gold medal for the 1,500 m freestyle, despite qualifying slowest in the heats.
In early April 1997, Kieren married his pregnant girlfriend Symantha Liu and on September 24 the couple became parents to a baby girl.
Phar Lap, the Australian champion race horse, was born at Timaru in New Zealand in 1926. Phar Lap was bought for 160 pounds as a yearling in 1928 by Melbourne trainer Harry Telford, and won the 1930 Melbourne Cup. His name means lightning. He died on 5th April 1932 from suspected colic at Menlo Park in California, aged six years, only 16 days after winning the Agua Caliente Handicap in New Mexico.
He was believed to have been poisoned with weed killer by members of the Syndicate in America who wanted to put an end to his winning run. His heart, which is preserved at the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra weighed 14 pounds and was twice the size of a normal horseÆs heart. His stuffed carcass is at the Melbourne Museum.
Mark Philippoussis was born in Melbourne on the 7th of November, 1976 and began playing tennis with his father, Nick, a former soccer goalkeeper, who has coached and travelled with Mark during his years on the international circuit.
Mark enjoyed an outstanding junior career, finishing No. 3 in singles in the 1994 world junior rankings. Mark has reached the Wimbeldon juniors and Japan Open juniors finals and quarter finals at the Ford Australian Open juniors.
In the 1994 doubles he and Ben Ellwood finished as the No. 1 team in the world, winning the Ford Australian Open, Wimbeldon and Italian junior double titles.
MarkÆs current singles ranking is No. 21 (as at September 1997).
During the Arizona Classic tournament in March 1997, Philippoussis hit the fastest serve in tennis history - the radar recorded the serve at 228.5 km/h.
In May 1997, Philippoussis won the BMW Open in Munich, beating Spain's Alex Corretja.
Philippoussis was seeded at No. 7 for the 1997 Wimbledon tournament.
\I(Text courtesy of McDonalds Tennis Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Mark Philippoussis \I(Roger Gould)\i.
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"Pickworth, Ossie",361,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1917, Ossie Pickworth was a very popular Australian golfer. He became the first to win the Australian Open in three consecutive years, from 1946-48. He won the Ampol Tournament every year but one from 1947-53, the Queensland Open (1951 and 1952), the Australian PGA (1953 and 1955), and the 1957 Victorian Open. Pickworth came third in the inaugural 1953 World Cup, and, in a brief excursion overseas in 1950, took the Irish Open and tied with Bobby Locke, but lost the playoff in the Daily Mail Open. Winning the lottery in 1957, he bought a hotel and retired.
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"Pike, Jim",362,0,g,0
Jim Pike, Australian jockey who rode Phar Lap in many of his wins, was born in 1892. Pike was acclaimed by many as Australia's greatest horseman. After leaving school at 12, he worked as a stable boy in Newcastle and was riding winners in the Hunter Region of New South Wales at 13. His riding career spanned from 1907 to 1936.
Pike rode Phar Lap to his 1930 Melbourne Cup win and again in 1931 when the horse was handicapped out of the cup coming in 8th under a weight of 68 kilograms. Pike rode Phar Lap in 30 races and won 27. He died on 7th October 1969, aged 77.
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"Platten, John",363,0,g,0
John Platten, Australian Rules and Hawthorn football star, was born at Elizabeth, near Adelaide, on 17th March 1963. He was one of nine children and the son of a bottle shop storeman. His father died from cancer before John achieved fame as a star footballer. He started out playing with Centrals in Adelaide. He then came to Hawthorn in 1986 and became a star rover playing over 145 games with Hawthorn, where he was the clubÆs leading kick getter; in 1991 alone he scored 390 kicks in 23 games. He had kicked 145 goals up until 1991.
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"Poidevin, Simon",364,0,g,0
Simon Poidevin, former Randwick and Australian rugby union test player, was born in Sydney on 31st October 1958. He has captained the Wallabies and in 1988 was awarded the Order of Australia medal.
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"Ponsford, Bill",365,"0","g","0"
Bill Ponsford, born in 1900, was one of Australia's finest opening batsmen. In 1924, he scored a century in each of his first two Test matches. In his final series in 1934, Ponsford headed the Test averages against England with 94.83, second in run tally to Bradman. He scored 181 at Headingly, making 388 in 330 minutes with the Don and, in his last Test match, added 266, making a record-breaking stand of 451 with Bradman in only 315 minutes. On the same tour, he broke two records when he made 281 not out and was involved in a stand of 389 with Stan McCabe in a match against the MCC. He was also involved in the highest Australian first-class opening stand of 456 against Queensland, and once held the record for the world's highest first-class score of 429, against Tasmania in 1922-23, surpassing it with 437 against Queensland in 1927-28. In 29 Tests, he scored 2122 runs at 48.22. Ponsford died in 1991.
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"Postle, Arthur",366,"0","g","0"
Born in Pittsworth, Queensland, in 1881, Postle was, with Jack Donaldson, the predominant Australian sprinter of the early twentieth century. Becoming a professional runner in 1903, he was known as the "Crimson Flash", due to his choice of colours. Postle beat English champion Bernard Day in two out of three races before a 20,000 crowd in \JKalgoorlie\j and, at the end of his career, pushed Donaldson to a world record over 100 yards, surpassing the old record himself in the process. Postle was the holder of five world records himself - in the 50, 60, 75, 80 and 200 yards. He died in 1965.
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"Powell, Katrina",367,"e\2\kpowell.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Katrina was a member of the 1993 silver medal Junior World Cup Team and joined her sister when she was first selected in the Australian Senior Team in February 1994 for the India and South African tour.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She was also part of the team that won silver at the Junior World Cup in Barcelona, Spain.
She was born in the Australian Capitol Territory and plays an important role for her home side, the Canberra Strikers in the Telstra Stix Series. Katrina is an elusive, very speedy striker who always makes things happen! A constant worry to any opposition.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Katrina Powell \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Powell, Lisa",368,"e\2\lpowell.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Lisa was first selected in the Australian Senior Team in June 1989 for the five Test Series against New Zealand.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Other major achievements for Lisa include: two Olympic Games (Barcelona, Spainù1992 and Atlanta, USAù1996), two World Cups (Sydney, Australiaù1990 and Dublin, Irelandù1994) and four Champions Trophies (Frankfurt, Germanyù1989, Berlin, Germanyù1991, Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Lisa was born in the Australian Capitol Territory and captains her homeside the Canberra Strikers in the Telstra Stix Series. Lisa plays at one pace, fast. She is unstoppable at the "round the back" right side circle play and is a powerful striker of the ball when on the move.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Lisa Powell \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Price, Ray",369,"0","g","0"
An Australian representative in both Rugby League and Rugby Union, Ray Price was born in Sydney on 4th March 1953. He played seven Union Tests in 1974-75, then accepted a generous offer to play League for Parramatta, commencing in 1976. He scored between ten and 12 tries in his first three seasons. Parramatta made the grand final in both 1976 and 1977. In 1978, he was made club captain, won the best and fairest award, and over the ensuing years, regularly represented NSW and Australia. In 1979, he won the Rugby League Week and \ISun\i newspaper medals as best and fairest and the ultimate award, the Rothman's Medal, making it four-in-a-row for Parramatta.
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"Provan, Norm",370,"0","g","0"
Norm Provan is known to Rugby League fans around the world as the tall 'gladiator' on the Winfield Cup. In fact, this remarkable second rower still can claim the have played in more grand finals (10) than any other player, and to have been involved in more grand final wins (10). Born in 1932, he started playing first grade for the St George Rugby League team in 1951 and played in ten consecutive premiership sides between 1956 and 1965. In 1962, he became captain-coach of the team. He retired in 1965, but subsequently coached both the Parramatta and Cronulla-Sutherland teams.
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"Purtell, Jack",371,0,g,0
Jack Purtell, champion Australian jockey, was born at Carlton in Melbourne. He began riding in 1936 at the age of 15 and served a five year apprenticeship with trainer Ted Temby. He rode his first winner, Bonus, at Mentone on 24th April 1937. Purtell retired aged 45 in 1966 and became a steward with the Victorian Racing Club until 1970, when he retired to Queensland's Sunshine Coast. He rode over 2,000 winners and won the Victorian Jockey's Premiership on seven occasions, the first in the 1947-48 season.
He won three Melbourne Cups in 1947 on Hiraji; in 1953 on Wondalla; and in 1954 on Rising Fast. Purtell's third win came from luck when Rising FastÆs regular jockey, Bill Williamson, was injured and the man who rode Rising Fast to a win in the Caulfield Cup, Arthur Ward, was already engaged for another mount. Purtell won the English Oaks in 1954 on Long Look and the Irish Oaks on Ancasta. He is married to Norma and they have two sons Gary and Mark.
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"Quinlan, Bernie",372,0,g,0
Bernie Quinlan, former Australian Rules football star, was born in Melbourne on 21st July 1951. He played 367 games with Footscray and Fitzroy between 1969 and 1986, kicking 815 goals for an average of 2.23. He won the 1981 Brownlow Medal, topped 100 goals twice, and after he retired he joined the Channel Seven commentary team.
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"Quist, Adrian",373,"0","g","0"
Adrian Quist was born in South Australia in 1913. He chose to play tennis rather than the cricket for which his father was well known as a state representative player. His reputation as Australia's finest doubles player rests on the fact that he not only won ten consecutive men's doubles titles, but that he did so in spite of a four-year hiatus caused by the Second World War, the only player to win major titles both before and after the War. Quist played in 54 Davis Cup matches between 1933 and 1948 and went on to win three Australian singles championships in 1936, 1940 and 1948, the French doubles championship in 1939 and the Wimbledon men's doubles in 1935 and 1950. He retired that year and subsequently held prominent positions with Dunlop Australia.
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"Rafter, Patrick",374,"e\2\rafter2.jpg","c","0"
Patrick Rafter was born in Brisbane on the 28th of December 1972 and began playing tennis at the age of five with his father and three older brothers.
He is a right-handed player who turned professional in 1991. In 1993 Patrick reached his first tour semi-final in Indianapolis, including the defeat of the No. 1 ranked player, Pete Sampras. This marked PatrickÆs first top ten win in his career. In that same year his ranking jumped from No. 301 to an astonishing No. 57.
At Wimbeldon 1997 Patrick was seeded at No. 12 and was ranked No. 17 in the world.
In September 1997 Pat became the first Australian since 1973 to win the US Open. This win took his world ranking to No. 3.
\I(Text courtesy of McDonalds Tennis Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Patrick Rafter \I(Roger Gould)\i.
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"Rail, Vic",375,0,g,0
Vic Rail, Queensland horse trainer, was born in Townsville, Queensland, on 15th August 1945, so named after the allied victory in WW2 on this day. By the age of 12, he was working with race horses, and later turned to boxing but handed in his crown after only one defeat in 19 bouts. He came to Melbourne as a jumps jockey in the 1960s and later became a strapper for Tommy Woodcock, who passed on many of his secrets to Vic. He joked that Victorians loved him so much they put his name on all their trains.
Rail was the successful trainer of champion racehorse, and dual Australian Cup winner, Vo Rogue, who won over $3 million in prize money. He died on 27th September 1994, aged 49, in the Brisbane Mater Hospital, after contracting a mystery virus believed later said to be contracted from bats. This disease was similar to the virus which claimed the lives of 14 of his horses over seven days. A 14-day ban on horse racing had been in place in Queensland from September 23rd until early October, 1994.
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"Raper, John",376,0,g,0
Johnny Raper, St. George and Australian rugby league captain, was born on 12th April 1939. He made his debut with Newtown in 1957 and played 19 games before joining St. George as lock in 1959. Nicknamed Chook by his team-mates, he played 180 games and figured in eight successive St. George premiership teams. He represented Australia in 33 tests, and wound up his international career in 1968 by leading Australia to victory in the World Cup at the SCG. Raper played in 33 tests, four as captain, and made three Kangaroo tours of Great Britain.
His career record stands at 340 games, 90 tries, five field goals, and 280 points. He was feted to a full media "testimonial" in 1989 by the Australian media, with all proceeds to the "Chook Roast" going to the Variety Club of Australia. He is a New South Wales and Sydney selector and the father of three sons, including Aaron, who has played for Cronulla, Parramatta, State of Origin and Australia. In 1997, he released his autobiography \IThe Man in the Bowler Hat.\i
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"Raudonikis, Tom",377,0,g,0
Tom Raudonikis, rugby league football coach and former Australian and Sydney Western Suburbs rugby league star, was born at Bathurst, New South Wales, on 13th April 1950. He started his rugby league career with Wagga Wagga while working in the RAAF as an air fitter, joined Western Suburbs in Sydney in 1969 until 1979, and from 1980 played three years with the ill-fated Newtown Jets.
He ran a sports store at Blacktown prior to moving to Queensland. In 1994 he coached Logan City and worked in the fruit industry at Rocklea markets. He has represented Australia on many occasions as well as City firsts and NSW. In 1995, he was appointed coach of Sydney's Western Suburbs. In 1996 he coached the Country team against City and in 1997 he was appointed coach of the NSW State of Origin team.
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"Redpath, Ian",378,"0","g","0"
Ian Redpath was born in 1941. An opening batsman to Bill Lawry in the Victorian side and, after Bobby Simpson's initial retirement, in the Australian side, his reputation is based largely upon his dogged concentration and defensive batting style, which made him a very difficult batsman to dismiss. Not a stylist, Redpath nonetheless was consistent, scoring 4737 Test runs at 43.45 in 66 matches. His highest score was 171 against England. Redpath played briefly in World Series Cricket but severely injured himself leaping wildly in the air after taking a rare wicket bowling. Modest, amusing and an excellent fielder, he became an antique dealer in retirement and was active in politics.
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"Reiffel, Paul",379,0,g,0
Paul Reiffel, Australian cricketer, was born in Victoria on 19th April 1966. He was an important cog in the 1995 victory over the West Indies in the Caribbean, taking 15 wickets at an average of 17.53. In 1997, he was flown in as a last minute replacement for the second Ashes Test against England at LordÆs.
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"Renford, Des",380,"0","g","0"
Born in 1927, Des Renford was 40 when he first started competing in long-distance swimming, but went on to become Australia's most famous representative in the category. The third Australian to cross the English Channel, he held the world record of 14 crossings in 1979 and made near-successful attempts at a double crossing. Renford was also the first person to complete Australia's longest swimming race - the 40-kilometre Derwent River marathon, set a new world record by swimming 50 lengths of Bondi Beach (about 45 km), swam 90 km from Sydney to \JWollongong\j in 1974, and beat \JLinda McGill\j in a 37-kilometre race across Moreton Bay in 1973.
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"Rhys-Jones, David",381,0,g,0
David Rhys-Jones, Australian Rules football star, was born on 16th June 1962. He started his career with the Sydney Swans in 1980, joined Carlton in the mid 1980s, and had played 176 league games and kicked 107 goals up until the end of 1991. He retired at the end of the 1992 season.
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"Richards, Lou",382,0,g,0
Lou Richards, former Collingwood Australian Rules football captain and TV commentator, was born in Melbourne on 15th March 1923. He played 250 games with the Magpies and kicked 424 goals between 1941 and 1955. He captained the 1953 premiership team and is possibly the only genuine AFL star to become a bigger media star than he was a player.
He worked with HSV-7's \IWorld of Sport\i for over 20 years before joining GTV-9 in the late 1980s following the Seven Network's decision to drop football for a period of time. In 1997 he hosted the \ISunday Football ShowÆs\i handball segment.
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"Richards, Mark",383,mrichard.jpg,c,0
Born in Newcastle in 1957, Mark Richards started board riding at the age of six, and by the age of 16 he was the Australian Junior Men's Surfriding Champion. Mark Richards won his first surfing title as a 12-year-old with the State schoolboys' competition. At his peak in the 1970s and 1980s, Mark Richards was the greatest surfer in the world. Certainly by the mid-1980s he was the most successful professional the sport had ever produced, notching up the World Cup title in 1975 and 1979 and being recognised as the World professional surfing champion in 1980-81, 1981-82 and 1982-83. In fact, between 1979 and 1984, Richards held the world professional surfing title.
\BDescription:\b Mark Richards \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Richardson, Victor",384,0,g,0
Victor Richardson, Australian sportsman, was born at Unley, South Australia on 7th September 1894. He was an exceptional footballer and cricketer who captained his state at cricket, and also captained Australia in cricket and baseball. He was the grandfather of the cricketing Chappell brothers. He died in Adelaide on 29th October 1969, aged 75.
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"Riley, Samantha",385,"e\2\34500029.jpg","c","0"
Queenslander Samantha Riley is indisputably one of AustraliaÆs and the worldÆs greatest female swimmers. She first entered swimming at the age of seven as a way of overcoming her fight with asthma. Since that day, Samantha has gone on to win her battle over asthma and also gain the respect and admiration of fellow athletes.
Her professional attitude and enthusiasm has afforded Samantha international success since 1991, peaking in 1994/95 when she took home three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Canada, two gold medals at the World Championships in Rome, two gold medals at the Pan Pacific Games in Atlanta and two gold medals and two world records at the World Short Course Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
During the Atlanta Olympic Games, Samantha won two more medals. They were a silver medal in the Medley Relay and a bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke.
While SamanthaÆs success has already etched her name in Australian swimming history, her enthusiasm, commitment and strong desire to win means she will continue to succeed.
\I(Text and photograph courtesy of International Quarterback Pty Ltd)\i
Maurice Rioli, former Aboriginal Australian Rules footballer and Northern Territory politician was born on Melville Island on 1st September 1957. He first played football with South Fremantle before joining Richmond in the VFL. He won the Norm Smith medal in his first year at Richmond and was runner-up in the Brownlow Medal. He played with the club until 1987 when he returned to Darwin to coach. He later became a politician in the Northern Territory Government.
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"Robinson, Clint",387,"0","g","0"
Kayaker Clint Robinson was born in Brisbane on July 27, 1972. Apart from taking the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for the K1 1,000 m race, he has won many other tournaments. These include: K1 1,000 m at the 1996 National Championships, Sydney; K1 1,000 m 1995 National Championships, Victoria; K1 1,000 m 1994 National Championships, Sydney; K1 1,000 m 1993 National Championships, Adelaide; K1 500 m 1993 National Championships, Adelaide; K1 1,000 m 1992 World Championships; and the K1 1,000 m 1991 National Championships. He won the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Clint Robinson trains on the Sunshine Coast and at the Australian Institute of Sport. His interests include motor racing, surf life saving, surfing, music, spending time with his family and movies.
He hopes to compete in the Sydney 2000 Games and future world and Australian championships.
\I(Text courtesy of the Australian Canoe Federation)\i
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"Roche, Danni",388,"e\2\droche.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Danni was first selected as a member of the Australian Team in June 1989, as a 19 year old, for the Five Test Series against New Zealand. She represents her home state the VIS Vipers in the Telstra Stix Series and her determination to overcome injury has seen her develop into a skilful, hard working midfielder. Danni can sink a rebound goal from any position and deliver the ball with real purpose.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Danni Roche \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Roche, Tony",389,0,g,0
Tony Roche, Australian tennis star, was born Anthony Dalton Roche at Tarcutta near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales on 17th May 1945. He was a great doubles player, teaming up with John Newcombe. Together they won five Wimbledon doubles titles, two Australian, two French, two Italian and one USA Open in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He suffered from recurring injuries, and coached Czech star Ivan Lendl in the 1980s from his tennis clinic in the USA.
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"Rolton, Gillian",390,"e\2\grolten.jpg","c","0"
Equestrian Gillian Rolton was born on May 5, 1956. She lives in South Australia and her interests include surfing, sailboarding, swimming and music.
Gillian was part of the three-day event team in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics to win gold medals. She made the Australian team for Barcelona by beating her male team mates in the final selection trial in England. Gillian holds a scholarship at the South Australian Institute of Sport.
During the three-day event at the Atlanta Olympics, Gillian fell off her horse and broke her collar-bone but still managed to finish and help the team win gold.
\I(Text courtesy of the Equestrian Federation of Australia Inc.)\i
\BDescription:\b Gillian Rolton \I(Equestrian Federation of Australia)\i
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"Roos, Paul",391,0,g,0
Paul Roos, Australian Rules football star, was born in Melbourne on 27th June 1963. He made his debut with Fitzroy in 1982 and, up until the end of 1991, had played 209 games with the club, kicking 230 goals. In 1994, he joined the Sydney Swans and went on to play over 333 league games until the end of 1997.
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"Rose, Lionel",392,"0","g","0"
Born in Victoria in 1948 of Aboriginal descent, boxer Lionel Rose was raised on an Aboriginal camp near Melbourne. He won the Australian amateur flyweight championship when only 15. After turning professional in 1964, he went on to take the national bantamweight title in 1966. On 29 February 1968, Rose defeated world champion, Japan's Fighting Harada, to become the first indigenous Australian to win a world sporting title. He returned to a crowd of 250,000 in Melbourne and became ABC Sportsman of the Year. Rose defended his title twice in 1968 and 1969, but was knocked out on the third occasion by Ruben Olivares. In 1986, he was appointed as National Consultant to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in 1986.
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"Rose, Murray",393,"0","g","0"
Murray Rose was born in 1983 in England and migrated to Australia with his parents during World War II. Coached by Sam Herford in Sydney, he became known as a top-class swimmer at the 1954 Australian championships when he was fifteen. Nine world records and four Olympic gold medals, Murray Rose was a truly great Australian swimming hero. No wonder that in 1983, a panel of former Olympic champions voted him Australia's greatest-ever Olympic competitor. Rose, nicknamed 'The Seaweed Streak', because of his vegetarian diet, was unbeatable at his peak. In the Melbourne Olympics of 1956, he won three gold medals - 400 m freestyle, 1,500 metres freestyle and the 4 x 200 metres relay. At the time, he was the youngest swimmer ever to win three gold medals at an Olympic competition.
He then took up a scholarship in the United States and returned to represent Australia in the 1960 Olympics, where he won the gold medal for the 400 metres and the silver medal for the 1,500 metres. Though not included in the 1964 Olympic team, he broke \JJohn Konrads\j' world record for the 880 yards distance in that year. He has since worked as a sports commentator in Australia and the United States.
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"Rosewall, Ken",394,"0","g","0"
Cited as a potential tennis genius from the age of ten, Ken Rosewall, born in Sydney in 1934, defeated \JLew Hoad\j to take the NSW Under 13 championship when eleven. By the age of 19 he was a victor with Hoad in both the Wimbledon and French doubles championships. That same year (1953), he won the French and Australian singles titles and defeated American Vic Seixas in the deciding match of the Davis Cup. Over the next three years he won the singles and doubles titles at all major tournaments except the Wimbledon singles, which eluded him, despite being a finalist on three occasions between 1954 and 1970. He turned professional in 1956 and retired in 1971.
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"Roycroft, Bill",395,"0","g","0"
Probably the greatest horseman this side of 'The Man From Snowy River', Bill Roycroft competed in a record five Olympics, starting with the Rome Olympics in 1960 when, at the age of 45 he won a gold medal in the three-day team event. Roycroft was born in 1915 on a dairy farm near the Victorian town of Flowerdale. He learnt to ride as a child, but it was not until he was middle-aged that he decided to test his skills against the best in the world. At the Mexico Olympics in 1968, Roycroft was the Australian flag bearer - a recognition of his great talents.
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"Roycroft, Vicki",396,"e\2\vroycrft.jpg","c","0"
Equestrian Vicki Roycroft was born on April 17, 1953. She spends some of her time in Australia and the rest in Belgium.
Vicki specialises in the showjumping event and competed in the 1984, 1988 and 1996 Olympic Games. She has been one of Australia's most outstanding showjumping riders for more than a decade.
Her interests include reading and snowskiing.
\I(Text courtesy of the Equestrian Federation of Australia Inc.)\i
\BDescription:\b Vicki Roycroft \I(Equestrian Federation of Australia)\i
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"Ruckle, Tani",397,0,g,0
Tani Ruckle, Australian marathon runner, was born at Quesnel in British Columbia, Canada, on 20th June 1962. She won a silver medal for the marathon in Auckland in 1990. She migrated to Australia in 1992 and represented Australia in the marathon at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in her old home at Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. However she became distressed during the race, after suffering from influenza, and struggled the last 20 kilometres to finish before her old home crowd.
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"Russell, Ken",398,0,g,0
Ken Russell, Australian jockey, was born in 1951. His first winner was Banana in 1972, and his greatest victory was winning the 1989 Doncaster Handicap on Merimbula Bay. He started riding for his father at Monto when he was aged 20, and was a star on Queensland's Gold Coast where he won five Gold Coast Premierships between 1980 and 1986. He won seven Gold Coast Nuggets, including The Prime MinisterÆs Cup.
In 1994, the Ken Russell Classic was named in his honour. He died on 9th October 1951, aged 42, at Rosehill, Sydney when his horse Tuig, collapsed from under him. He left a wife Carol, and three children.
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"Ryan, Matthew",399,"e\2\mryan.jpg","c","0"
Equestrian and dual gold-medallist Matthew Ryan was born on June 3, 1964 and is currently based in the United Kingdom.
Ryan has competed in the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. He was part of the three-day event team that won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Ryan also took gold in the individual event at Barcelona. After Barcelona, Ryan improved his world ranking from 11th to 3rd. He trains in Oxfordshire, England and rides regularly at events throughout Europe.
Ryan's interests include archery, bird watching and stamp collecting.
\I(Text courtesy of the Equestrian Federation of Australia Inc)\i
\BDescription:\b Matthew Ryan \I(Equestrian Federation of Australia)\i
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"Sands, Dave",400,"0","g","0"
Born David Ritchie in New South Wales in 1926, Dave Sands was one of six part-Aboriginal brothers all noted for boxing and a true boxing champion of the early postwar era. After a first-round knockout in his first fight, he went on to win the NSW middleweight championship in 1945, taking the national middleweight and light-heavyweight championships in 1946 - two of the three titles by knockout. Sands followed this with the Empire middleweight title in a first-round knockout in 1948, and became triple Australian champion, winning the national heavyweight title in 1950. After pursuing a world title in a number of fights, he was finally contracted to face Randolph Turpin for the vacant world middleweight title in 1952, but died in a truck accident while training for the fight in 1952.
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"Sauvage, Louise",401,0,g,0
Louise Sauvage, Australian paralympian, was born in Perth on 18th September 1973. She has been in a wheelchair most of her life due to a congenital defect, myclodisplasia, which causes some paralysis in the legs. She took up wheelchair racing at the end of 1989 and won three gold medals and a silver at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. At the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, she won the 400m, 800m, 1,500m, and 5,000m events. She has broken every world record in track racing at some time during her career.
In 1996, she held the world records for the 200m, 800m, 1,500m, and 5,000m, as well as the paralympic record for 400m. In 1997, she won the OZ Day 10km, the Newcastle 15km Bicentennial and followed up with the Los Angeles and Boston Marathons, and the same year moved to Sydney to train for the 2000 Paralympics.
In November 1997, Louise won her third Paralympian of the Year award.
Born on the 2nd of June 1961, Kerry Saxby-Junna is one of AustraliaÆs most successful athletes. She holds the world record for the 5 km track walk and was the 1989 World Indoor Champion over the 3 km walk. Saxby-Junna was second in the inaugural womenÆs 10 km walk at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, fifth in the 1991 World Championships and ninth in the 1995 World Championships. She is a dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist with wins in both 1990 in Auckland and 1994 in Victoria, Canada. Saxby-Junna had a good preparation going into the Atlanta Olympics but became ill days before she was due to compete. In spite of not feeling her best she went on to place twelfth.
Elizabeth Sayers-Smylie, Australian tennis player, was born Elizabeth Sayers in Perth on 11th April 1963. She has played in England since 1981, and together with American Kathy Jordan, won the women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1985, ending Martina Navratalova's and Pam Shriver's two year 109 games winning streak. At her peak, Liz was ranked 20th in the world as a singles player and 7th in doubles. She has had considerable success with her long time mixed doubles partner John Fitzgerald.
She married fellow tennis star and coach Peter Smylie on 10th November 1984 and is best known in Australia for presenting the Wrigley's Extra chewing gum TV commercial. In 1991 she was a director of the Women's Tennis Association board and chairperson of the players committee.
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"Schaeffer, Wendy",404,"e\3\wshaefer.jpg","c","0"
Equestrian Wendy Schaeffer was born on September 16, 1974. Her home is in South Australia but she spends some of her time in England.
Wendy is a particularly strong performer in the cross country phase and has been Australia's most consistent performer in recent team events, including World Equestrian Games, European Championships and Badminton. She holds a scholarship at the South Australian Institute of Sport along with fellow equestrian \JGillian Rolton\j.
Wendy was part of the three-day event team that won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
\I(Text courtesy of the Equestrian Federation of Australia Inc.)\i
\BDescription:\b Wendy Schaeffer \I(Equestrian Federation of Australia)\i
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"Schumacher, Mel",405,"0","g","0"
The favourite son of Queensland racing early in his career, Schumacher, born in 1937, was set for glory when he progressed from the Newcastle Cup of 1957 to ride Baystone to victory in the 1958 Melbourne Cup. Although more major successes followed, disaster struck when Schumacher reached out to grasp another jockey's leg in the 1961 AJC Derby. The stewards banned him for life. This was reduced to ten years on appeal, and Schumacher sold up his house and worked as a labourer to maintain his riding weight. His licence was renewed after 5.5 years, and he returned to racing in 1967. Although suspended on numerous occasions thereafter, like most major jockeys, he also rode some first-class winners.
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"Schwab, Alan",406,0,g,0
Alan Schwab, Australian football league administrator, was born in 1941. He started out as an administrator with his beloved Richmond club from 1968 until 1976. He then became the VFL's general manager from 1985-86 before being appointed the AFL's executive commissioner in 1986. On 18th June 1993, Schwab was found dead on the 24th floor of Sydney's Boulevard Hotel, aged 52. Only weeks earlier Schwab had been appointed to the Sydney post to help lift the ill-fated Sydney Swans who had lost their last 26 games.
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"Scimmelbusch, Wayne",407,0,g,0
Wayne Scimmelbusch, North Melbourne Australian Rules footballer and former coach was born in Brunswick, Victoria on 19th January 1953. He played 306 games, a club record between 1975 and 1987, and featured in the 1975 and 1977 premiership teams. He captained the club from 1979 until 1987, and from 1990 until 1992, and coached the team to 31 wins and 35 losses.
He stood down as coach during the pre-season build-up in 1993 when the team suffered heavy losses, the most by 147 points. He represented Victoria 11 times and captained the state side four times. On 9th August 1997 he was admitted to the AFL "Hall of Fame".
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"Sedgeman, Frank",408,"0","g","0"
Born in 1927, Frank Sedgeman entered sporting history when he became one of the very few players to achieve the "maximum" at Wimbledon, taking the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles in 1952. He nearly won the Grand Slam that year after taking Wimbledon and repeating his 1951 singles victory in the US, the first Australian to win that title, but lost in the finals in Australia and France. He won the Australian singles in 1949 and 1950. An excellent doubles player, he was a victor at Wimbledon three times, twice in the US, twice in Australia and never lost a Davis Cup doubles match, representing Australia 1949-52. He went professional in 1953.
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"Sellwood, Neville",409,0,g,0
Neville Sellwood, champion Australian jockey, was born Neville Francis Sellwood at Ascot, Brisbane on 2nd December 1922. He won an English Derby, two Melbourne Cups (1951 and 1955), three Caulfield Cups, two Sydney Cups and four Epsoms. He rode a total of 1,860 winners in his career, and won the Sydney jockey's premiership on six occasions.
He died on 7th November 1962, aged 39, when his mount, Lucky Seven, suddenly crossed her legs and fell, crushing Sellwood beneath her at the Maison-Lafitte track outside of Paris. He had only a few days earlier refused a ride in the 1962 Melbourne Cup, allowing him to stay in Paris.
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"Senior, Peter",410,"0","g","0"
An unlikely sports hero, the short, stubby figure of Peter Senior with his distinctive broom-handle putter, has become part of Australia's golfing history. Born in Queensland in 1959, Senior won his first professional golf tournament in 1979 when he outplayed the field in the South Australian Open. Since then, his wins have included the 1989 Australian Open (which he won by 7 strokes), the 1989 Johnny Walker Classic (he won by 5 strokes), the 1990 European Open and Australian Masters. He is only the third local player to have earned more than $1 million on the Australasian golf circuit.
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"Shaw, Tony",411,0,g,0
Tony Shaw, Australian Rules VFL/AFL football star and Collingwood captain, was born in Melbourne on 23rd July 1960. He started out with the Reservoir Lakeside club and made his debut with Collingwood in 1978, playing all his AFL 313 league games with the Magpies, setting a club record. He captained the club from 1987-93, including the 1990 Collingwood Premiership side, which defeated Essendon.
He had kicked over 150 goals up until the end of 1994, and passed Gordon Coventry's club record of 300 games on 23rd July 1994. He was the clubÆs best and fairest player in 1984 and 1990, and was appointed coach at the end of the 1995 season.
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"Sheedy, Kevin",412,0,g,0
Kevin Sheedy, former Richmond Australian Rules player and Essendon coach, was born in Melbourne on 24th December 1947. He played over 250 games with Richmond, kicking 130 goals; he also coached Essendon in 400 games in 17 years up until the end of 1997. He has coached the Bombers to four grand finals, winning the premiership on three occasions: 1984, 1985, and 1993, with defeats in 1983, and 1990. Sheedy is the most successful coach in night games or pre-season competition winning five night premierships in 1981, 1984, 1990, 1993 and 1994.
As a player, he played in Richmond's premiership team in 1969, 1973, and 1974 winning the clubÆs best and fairest award in 1976. In 1996, he signed a three-year contract with Essendon, taking his total years with the club to 18, becoming the fifth longest serving coach in the history of the game.
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"Shehadie, Sir Nicholas",413,0,g,0
Sir Nicholas Shehadie, former politician and Australian rugby union player, was born Nicholas Michael Shehadie in Sydney on 15th November 1926. He captained the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team between 1947 and 1958, and was Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1973-75. After the sacking of the then Lord Mayor in 1986, he was appointed one of the three administrators to take over the running of the city.
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"Silvagni, Stephen",414,0,g,0
Stephen Silvagni, Australian Rules football star of the 1980s, was born in Melbourne on 31st May 1967, the son of former Carlton champion Sergio Silvagni. The Carlton full-back made his debut in 1985 and had played 106 games at the end of 1991, kicking a career total of 62 goals. In the leagueÆs centenary year he was named full-back of the year and full-back of the century. He married top Melbourne model and \ISale of the Century\i TV hostess, Jo Bailey, on 28th January 1996.
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"Simmons, Royce",415,0,g,0
Royce Simmons, Penrith former ARL star player, was born in Cowra, New South Wales, on 2nd May 1959. He married his childhood sweetheart Liane Farrar in 1980, and they have one son and two daughters: Kirk (1982), Carly (1983) and Britt (1989). In the 1991 grand final, his last game for the club, Royce scored Penrith's first and last try against Canberra, making him a hero in his final game.
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"Simpson, Bobby",416,"0","g","0"
Born in 1936, Bobby Simpson made his first-class cricket debut for NSW when only 16. His 359 against Queensland is the highest score in Australia since World War II and his 311 against England is the third-highest Australian score in Test cricket. He also holds the record with Bill Lawry for the highest opening stand in Australian history (382 against the West Indies, Simpson making 201). He captained the national side from 1963/4-1967/8 and, at 40, came out of retirement to lead the side after the World Series Cricket defections. Probably the finest slip fielder the country has had, his 110 Test catches was a long-standing record and he was a useful spin bowler, taking 71 Test wickets. Simpson made 4869 runs in 62 Tests at 46.81.
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"Skilton, Bobby",417,0,g,0
Bobby Skilton, Australian Rules footballer, was born in Melbourne on 8th November 1938. He played as a rover for South Melbourne and is one of a few to win three Brownlow Medals. The other triple winners were Hayden Bunton senior, Dick Reynolds and Ian Stewart.
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"Slater, Michael",418,0,g,0
Michael Slater, right-handed Australian cricketer, was born at Wagga Wagga in New South Wales on 21st February 1970 and had played in 55 Tests up until mid-1997. On 17th June 1993, Slater and Mark Taylor put on the best Australian double act in 116 years of Ashes cricket at LordÆs when they both hit centuries for a record partnership.
The 260 run opening stand from the two Wagga Wagga players was the third highest opening stand in Australian Test history and the highest ever Ashes stand at Lords, eclipsing the second wicket partnership of 231 between Bill Woodfull and Don Bradman in 1930. Slater's 152 was his maiden Test century, whereas Taylor's 111 was his 10th century in 41 Tests. Slater has scored 9,199 first class runs with an average of 40.52.
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"Smith, Thomas John (Tommy)",419,0,g,0
T.J. Smith was born near Braidwood, New South Wales in 1918, and moved around outback towns with his family, breaking in horses and running bets for SP bookmakers. At the age of thirteen he left home and went to the stables of Melbourne, hoping to become a jockey. A riding accident prevented him from continuing with this plan and he turned to training horses. He first became widely known as a trainer with a win in the AJC Derby in 1949.
Since then his huge number of wins has included nine AJC Derbies, five Australian Derbies, seven Epsom Handicaps, six Golden Slipper Stakes, four Caulfield Cups and two Melbourne Cups. Among his best known horses were Tulloch, Kingston Town and Gunsynd. He was premier Sydney trainer for 33 years, from 1952 to 1985, and at the time of his fiftieth year in horse training in 1991 he had had 4,162 Sydney metropolitan wins. He is rated as Sydney's leading trainer from the 1952-53 season to the 1984-85 season.
His "horse trainer" daughter Gai, was was born on 2nd of September 1954, and is married to bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse.
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"Spears, Bob",420,"0","g","0"
Born in Dubbo in 1893, Bob Spears is arguably Australia's most successful track cyclist. Moving to the USA in 1913, he captured the country's major title in 1916 and also won that year's six-day cycling event. The only Australian to be victorious in the Grand Prix du Paris three times, "Long Bob" took the world professional sprint title in 1920 and was runner-up in the 1921 and 1922 professional sprint championships. Thought to have accumulated ú30,000 pounds in prize money, he is the only Australian sportsman to have a statue erected in his honour in France. He died there in 1950.
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"Spofforth, Frederick",421,"e\3\fred.jpg","c","0"
Australia's most famous cricketer of the nineteenth century, "The Demon" Spofforth, born in Sydney in 1853, was a fast-medium bowler and a careful student of both bowlers' techniques and batsmen's weaknesses. He demonstrated his early prowess when he took 11 for 20 against the MCC, ending the game in one day. Match figures of 14 for 90 in the first Ashes Test in 1882 were indicative of his achievements against England, consistently taking 100 and even 200 wickets on tour in the UK at averages below 13. In his first-class career, he snared 853 wickets at 14.95 and, in 18 Tests, took 94 wickets at 18.41. Legend has it that he once rode 400 miles to play in a minor match and then took all 20 wickets, all bowled.
\BDescription:\b Fred Spofforth \I(Jonathan King)\i.
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"Stackpole, Keith",422,0,g,0
Keith Stackpole, hard hitting Australian cricket test opening batsman, was born Keith Raymond Stackpole in Collingwood, Victoria, on 10th July 1940. He made his first class debut in 1963 with 83 runs, playing Sheffield Shield cricket for Victoria. He made his Test debut in 1965, retiring a decade later with 2,807 runs from 43 Tests and an average of (37.42) including seven centuries and 15 wickets. On his retirement, he became a commentator for the Nine Network.
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"Starre, Kate",423,"e\3\kstarre.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Kate was first selected in the Australian Senior Team in October 1990 for the Four Nation Tournament in New Zealand.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Other major tournaments for Kate include: two Olympic Gamesù1994), and three Champions Trophies (Berlin, Germanyù1991, Amsterdam, Hollandù1993 and Mar Del Plata, Argentinaù1995).
Kate plays for her home side and 1994 National League Champions, the WAIS Diamonds. She is an athletic, versatile midfielder. As a tough competitor with a streak of gambling in her game, she plays a specialist role as the attacking short corner pusher.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Kate Starre \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Stephenson, Jan",424,"0","g","0"
While Australia has produced many great male golfers, the number of female golfers has been much smaller. There is little argument that Jan Stephenson is the finest female golfer ever to emerge from Australia. Her career started in 1964 when she won the first of six consecutive NSW Schoolgirls' Championships. Two years later, while still only 15, she won the Australian foursomes and when, in 1973, she turned professional, she won the Australian LGPA. The following year she travelled to the USA where she became Rookie of the Year. She has won most of the major golf championships including the Australian Open (1977), the US LPGA (1982) and the US Women's Open (1983).
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"Sterling, Peter",425,paul-pet.jpg,c,0
Peter Sterling joined the Nine Network's \IWide World of Sports\i Rugby League commentary team in 1992 when he was forced to retire from Rugby League with a chronic shoulder problem.
The man they refer to as "Sterlo", started his professional career in Rugby League in 1978 when he left the New South Wales country town of Wagga for a crack at the big time. He was seventeen and he had just signed a three year deal with Parramatta worth only $9000.
"Sterlo" went on to become one of the most dynamic players of the1980s and he was regarded by many as Rugby League's greatest halfback.
When he retired in 1992, Peter had played more than 200 first grade games, won four premierships, played 18 Tests, 12 State of Origin games, and won the Rothman's Medal.
In 1992, Peter renegotiated his contract with the Nine Network, taking on a much bigger role with the network which included a commentary on \IFriday Night Football, Sunday Night Football, State of Origin\i and \I Commonwealth Bank Cup,\i along with regular appearances on all three \IWide World of Sports\i programs.
Since then, Peter has added the Sunday and Thursday night football shows and a regular appearance on \INine News\i to his busy schedule.
\IThis information and photograph supplied courtesy of TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd.\i
\BDescription:\b \IFooty Show\i hosts - Peter Sterling is first on the left \I(TCN Channel Nine)\i
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"Stolle, Fred",426,0,g,0
Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player, was born at Hornsby, Sydney on 8th October 1938. From 1964 to 1966 he was rated world number one, and won 13 of his 16 Davis Cup rubbers, but lost three Wimbledon finals between 1963 and 1965. In 1991, his son Sandon played in the semi-finals at Wimbledon.
Jason Stoltenberg was born in Narrabri, NSW in 1970 and began playing tennis at the age of ten on an ant-bed court when his father owned a cotton farm in New South Wales. He was the top-ranked junior in the world in singles and doubles tennis in 1987.
Jason is a right-handed player and is currently ranked No. 24 (as of Sept 3, 1996) in singles tennis. He turned professional in 1987 and in 1988 he jumped into the Top 100 at No. 70 and in the same year he posted his first Top 10 win over Yannek Noah at the US Open. In 1990 Jason won doubles titles in Singapore and Manchester with Mark Kratzmann and in Brisbane with \JTodd Woodbridge\j.
In Wimbledon 1994 Jason finished as the No. 1 ranked Australian and the first one to finish in the Top 20 since \JPat Cash\j. In 1995 he married former tennis player, Andrea Strnadova, from Prague.
\I(Text courtesy of McDonalds Tennis Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Jason Stoltenberg \I(Roger Gould)\i
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"Strickland, Shirley",428,"0","g","0"
Born in Western Australia in 1925, Shirley Strickland studied nuclear physics at university and became a science teacher. She was the first Australian woman to win a medal in an athletics event at the Olympics and, with seven Olympic medals, has more than any other Australian woman. In the 80 metres hurdles she won Olympic bronze in 1948 and Olympic gold in 1952 and 1956; Olympic bronze in the 100 metres sprint in both 1948 and 1952, and, in the 4 x 100 metres relay, she won Olympic silver in 1948 and Olympic gold in 1956. She also held the world records in all three events. She retired after the Melbourne Olympics and became a lecturer in statistics and mathematics at a teachers' college in Perth.
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"Sturrock, Alexander 'Jock'",429,"0","g","0"
A popular figure, Jock Sturrock, born in Melbourne in 1915, dominated Australian yachting from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. Winning his first yachting championship at 12, he finished his career with victories in over 400 championship races and 20 Australian yachting titles to his name. From 1935-1947, he won the first eight national championships in three Star-class yachts. He represented Australia at the 1948, '52 and '56 Olympics, winning a bronze at the latter. Deemed Australian Yachtsman of the Year in 1962 and Australian of the Year in 1993, he skippered two challenges to the America's Cup in 1962 and 1967. He also managed the Australian Little America's Cup teams of 1970, 1972, 1974 and 1976. Jock Sturrock died in July 1997.
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"Stynes, Jim",430,0,g,0
Jim Stynes, Australian Rules football champion, was born in Ireland on 23rd April 1966. He came to Australia and became a ruckman for Melbourne in 1987. In 1991, he became the first non Australian born player to win the coveted Brownlow Medal, with 25 votes. Stynes had not even heard of Australian Rules football seven years earlier.
He played a record 234 continuous games for Melbourne up until July 1997, passing the previous record of 144 set by another Melbourne Brownlow medallist, Dennis Cordner, four years earlier. He has kicked more than 100 goals. On the 25th May 1996 he broke the league record of Richmond's Jack Titus of 204 continuous games. Styles started his unbroken run in round 17, in July 1987.
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"Summons, Arthur",431,0,g,0
Arthur Summons, Australian rugby union and rugby league great was born in Paddington, Sydney on 13th December 1935. He came to fame as a rugby union player with Gordon from 1954-59 before switching codes and playing with Western Suburbs from 1960-64 and Wagga from 1965-69. He has represented Australia in both codes. He married his wife Pam in 1956 and had five children: David, Gillian, Catherine, Janine and Kellie.
In 1993, he owned the Tolland Hotel in Wagga and has been Secretary Manager of the Wagga Leagues Club since 1980. He is featured with St. George's Norm Provan on the Winfield Cup trophy. The photo depicted was taken after the mud bath grand final on 24th August 1963, which was won by St. George 8-3. It shows the two mud-splattered players embracing in the spirit of the game.
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"Takahashi, Kasumi",432,0,g,0
Kasumi Takahashi, Australian Commonwealth Games champion gymnast, was born in Tokyo on 6th May 1980 to an Australian mother and Japanese father (Mitsuhiko Takahashi). Her parents met when her father was posted to Melbourne in the 1970s and the family later lived in Los Angeles. In early 1994, she won five gold medals in Korea at the Four Continents Competition. She was the highest points scorer at the world trials at Frankston in October 1993.
At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, as the youngest member of the Australian squad, she won a record five gold medals becoming Australia's youngest ever gold medal winner. She won four golds for apparatus events as well as the all round title helping the Australian team to win a silver. She equalled the 1938 record for gold medals set by sprinter Decima Norman and the 1990 record of swimmer Hayley Lewis.
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"Tapp, Johnny",433,0,g,0
Johnny Tapp, Australian race-caller, was born John Frederick Tapp at the Astra Private Hospital at Ramsgate, Sydney on 22nd October 1941. The famous Sydney race-caller worked for eight years as a clerk with the Department of Main Roads before being apprenticed to the late Ken Howard at 2GB, where he took over the reins after Howard retired. He left 2GB in 1976 when the station dropped racing and joined 2UE and the Nine Network.
He still calls races and is telecast all over Australia on a Saturday through the Sky Channel Network. Married to his second wife Ann Merchant in the late 70s, he is a father of two. He had a hit called \ILittle Hondo\i in 1974 which was a song dedicated to the great trotting horse Hondo Gratten. One of his most memorable and exciting calls was the 1980 Sydney Cup won by Kingston Town and ridden by Malcolm Johnston.
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"Taylor, Mark",434,"0","g","0"
Mark Taylor, Australian cricket captain and left-handed opening batsman, was born at Leeton near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales on 27th October 1964. He was vice-captain of the 1992 tour of Sri Lanka before replacing Allan Border on 19th May 1994. He made his Test debut against the West Indies in Sydney in 1988/89.
Taylor is a very competent captain and player and has scored many Test centuries, his highest score being 219 against England in 1989. Some say he is the best opening batsman in the world. As at end 1996, Mark Taylor's Test average was 45.85.
After playing almost 100 one-day internationals, Taylor scored his first limited-overs century in October 1996 during a match against India.
Married to Judi they have two sons Jack (1992) and William (1995).
During the summer/autumn tours of 1997, Taylor suffered a fairly long form slump. There was much controversy during the 1997 Ashes tour in England over whether Taylor should be dropped from the team or not. However, Taylor silenced his critics when he scored a century in the first Test match. Australia won the series and retained the Ashes.
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"Thomas, Petria",435,0,g,0
Petria Thomas, Australian Olympic silver medallist swimmer, was born in Lismore, New South Wales, on 25th August 1975. She now lives at Belconnen in the ACT. Petria won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games for the womenÆs 100 metre butterfly.
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"Thomson, Jeff",436,"0","g","0"
Jeff Thomson, officially the fastest bowler in the world at one stage of his career, was born in Sydney in 1950. Starting Shield cricket in 1972-73, his first Test match, played against England in 1974-75, inaugurated the famous and life-threatening Lillee-Thomson opening partnership. He took 6-46 in the second innings and 33 at 17.93 for the tour. After further success against England and the West Indies, "Thommo" was involved in an on-field collision which severely injured his shoulder, causing him to slow down a little and to miss numerous matches. He finished his Test career in 1981-82 with 172 wickets in 42 Tests at 26.86.
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"Thomson, Peter",437,"0","g","0"
Many of the experts consider Peter Thomson to be the best golfer ever to come out of Australia. This remarkable claim is based not only on his great gift but his remarkable ability to win major tournaments. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick in 1929, Thomson turned professional in 1949, and over the next 30 years won a total of 57 major tournaments, including the British Open five times (he won it three times in a row in 1954, 1955 and 1956), the Australian Open twice, the New Zealand Open nine times and scored a record breaking 63 for 18 holes during the British Open. Thomson retired from tournament golf in 1979.
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"Titus, Jack (Skinny)",438,0,g,0
Jack "Skinny" Titus, Australian Rules and Richmond football star, was born in Melbourne on 3rd March 1908. He was the fifth all-time greatest goal kicker when he kicked 970 goals for an average of 3.30 over 294 games, between 1926 and 1943. He held the record of 204 continuous games played from round one 1933, until round 15, 1943, until passed by Melbourne's Jim Stynes on 25th May 1996. Titus later bought a hotel in North Melbourne, and died on 20th April 1978 following a heart attack.
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"Tomkins, James",439,0,g,0
James Tomkins, Australian rower, was born in Melbourne on 19th August 1965. As a member of the coxless fours Oarsome Foursome, he won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
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"Tooth, Liane",440,"e\3\ltooth.jpg","c","0"
\IMember of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team (Hockyroos) who won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games\i
Liane was first selected in the 1984 Australian Olympic Team as a replacement for the injured Elspeth Clement.
She was part of the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team who won gold at the 1992 Seoul Olympics and also 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Liane has also participated in the following major tournaments representing the Australian WomenÆs Hockey Team: four Olympic Games (Los Angeles, USAù1984, Seoul, Koreaù1988, Barcelona, Spainù1992 and Atlanta, USAù1996), two World Cups (Amsterdam, Hollandù1986 and Sydney, Australiaù1990), and four Champions Trophies (Amsterdam, Hollandù1987, Frankfurt, Germanyù1989, Berlin, Germanyù1991 and Amsterdamù1993). During the 1993 Champions Trophy tournament Liane was co-captain of the team.
Although Liane has lived in Western Australia since 1984, she represents her home state and 1993 National League Champions, NSW Balsam Arrows in the Telstra Stix Series. She is a supreme anticipator and controller of play who will put her body "on the line" for the team.
\I(Text courtesy of WomenÆs Hockey Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Liane Tooth \I(Women's Hockey Australia)\i
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"Trumper, Victor",441,"e\3\king0132.jpg","c","0"
Perhaps Australia's best batsman before Bradman, Victor Trumper, born in Sydney in 1877, was considered one of the country's great stylists. His first century was 292 not out for NSW against Tasmania in 1898-99. He toured England the next season, making a century in his second Test and 300 not out in 380 minutes against Sussex. In 1902, he made 2570 runs (nearly a thousand more than his nearest competitor) at 48.49, including eleven centuries. He headed the averages again in the 1903-04 series (63.77) and made his highest score of 214 not out against South Africa in 1910-11, scoring 661 at 94.42 for the tour. He made 3672 at 47.7 in Shield competition and 3163 at 39.0 in 48 Tests. He died of Bright's disease aged only 37.
\BDescription:\b Victor Trumper \I(Jonathan King)\i.
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"Tuck, Michael",442,0,g,0
Michael Tuck, Australian Rules footballer, was born on 24th June 1953. A plumber by trade, he began his career with Hawthorn in 1972 after transferring from Berwick. He captained the team from 1985-91. He played in a record 11 grand finals following the 1991 Premiership. The previous record holders were Collingwood's Gordon Coventry, Albert Collier, and Essendon's Dick Reynolds and Bill Hutchison, who all played in ten grand finals. Michael Tuck set a record of playing in seven premiership sides after Hawthorn won the 1991 flag.
Others to have previously played in six premiership teams include Albert and Harry Collier of Collingwood, and Ron Barassi and Frank 'Bluey' Adams from Melbourne. Tuck played a record 426 games for his club and achieved a career goal tally of 320 up until his retirement at the end of 1991, when he was the oldest player in the AFL, aged 38. He is also the first player to play 16 consecutive seasons with Hawthorn.
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"Tunstall, Arthur",443,0,g,0
Arthur Tunstall, former Australian boxer, boxing coach and a member of the Australian Commonwealth Games delegation, was born in Newcastle, New South Wales on 22nd February 1922. He coached boxing at the 1960, 1968, 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games. He served as assistant manager of the Commonwealth Games in 1962 and 1966, and was Australian Commonwealth Games team general manager in 1970. In 1990-94, he was the Chef-de-Mission to the Commonwealth Games.
In August 1994 at Victoria in British Columbia, he came in for criticism when he reprimanded runner Cathy Freeman for carrying the Aboriginal Flag during her victory lap.
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"Turner, Robert",444,0,g,0
Robert Turner, former Sydney Kings basketball coach, was born Robert Barton Turner at Oakland, California on 25th September 1953. He came to Australia in June 1976 and played with Shoalhaven until 1978. In 1979, he was player-coach of the Newcastle Falcons and retired from playing at the end of 1980. In 1981, he coached Newcastle into 6th position and in 1982 finished 5th. From 1983, he coached Canberra to 1st, 4th and 2nd and retired from coaching for two years. He joined the Sydney Kings in 1989 and coached them to 5th, 6th, 7th, 2nd, 11th, 7th and 10th, before stepping down in 1995. He is married to Alison.
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"Twomey, Bill",445,0,g,0
Bill Twomey, former Australian Rules footballer, was born William Joseph Twomey at Ballarat in Victoria on 28th September 1927, the son of 1924 Stawell Gift winner Bill Twomey senior. His family settled in Heidelberg in 1937 and he was educated at St. Thomas's in Clifton Hill. He joined the Collingwood club as a forward at the age of 17, along with his brothers Mick and Pat. He played 189 games and kicked 152 goals over 13 years, including the 1953 Premiership team. He won the clubÆs best and fairest award in 1956 and captained Collingwood in 1957.
After he retired from football in 1959 he worked at Stillwell motors and part-time as a commentator for Channel Seven's \IFootball Inquest\i, as well as writing for the \ISporting Globe\i newspaper. A keen churchgoer, he did much for charity and was the president of the Balwyn branch of St. Vincent de Paul Society. He married his wife Beryl in 1950 and had a daughter Janette; their son Peter played 63 games with the Magpies from 1979 until 1985. Bill died on 1st October 1996, aged 69.
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"Van Wirdum, Karin",446,0,g,0
Karin Van Wirdum, Australian Olympic swimmer, was born in Brisbane on 9th April 1971. She competed in three Olympic Games, Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta, and has won three Commonwealth Games gold medals. She also won a silver medal at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games and repeated the performance at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada. She proposed to security guard Robert Dunne on live television after completing her 100 metre freestyle event at the 1994 Games. The pair later married but parted in November 1996.
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"Vander Kuyp, Kyle",447,"e\3\vanderk.jpg","c","0"
Born on the 30th of May, 1971, Kyle Vander Kuyp is one of the great success stories of Australian athletics. In 1990 Vander Kuyp won a bronze medal at the World Junior Championships and continued to be an excellent athlete as he progressed to the senior ranks. The 110 m hurdler has been dominant in Australia for some years since he first broke the Australian record in 1993. In this same year he went to the World Championships in Stuttgart where he was a semi-finalist and again broke his own Australian record.
In 1995 at the Gothenburg World Championships, Vander Kuyp went one better, setting a new Australian record of 13.29 seconds in the second round and placing fifth in the final. Vander Kuyp has become a role model for young Aborigines through the great successes he has achieved.
Whether it was representing his beloved Queensland on the football field or clowning around on the \IFooty Show,\i Paul Vautin has always been one of Rugby League's great characters.
The man they refer to as "Fatty", started his professional career in Rugby League in 1979 when he arrived at Manly, training as a fresh-faced twenty year old from Brisbane.
Ten years later, Vautin had become one of Rugby League's great players and he had achieved many of Rugby League's highest accolades.
Vautin captained Manly to a grand final victory in 1987, played in the Queensland State Of Origin "glory years" from 1982 to 1990 and represented Australia in thirteen Test matches from 1982-1989.
Fatty retired from Rugby League in 1991, ending his career with Eastern Suburbs, but his association with the game was just beginning.
Fatty's larrikin nature and ability to tell it like it is, saw him quickly establish himself as a Rugby League commentator and a public speaker.
His success in the commentary box attracted the attention of executives of the television show \IMidday With Ray Martin,\i and in 1991 he became a regular guest on the show, forming a highly successful double act with Australian cricketer Simon O'Donnell.
His media career continued to flourish with the announcement in 1993 that Fatty would host his own \IFooty Show,\i every Sunday at noon during the Winfield Cup season.
With Fatty's larrikin approach to hosting the show and a panel of Rugby League experts who were prepared to argue the issues, the \IFooty Show\i proved to be a runaway ratings success since 1993.
Although 1994 was a difficult year for Fatty with a recurring injury, his media career hit an all time high with his debut in prime time.
\IFooty Show\i aired on Thursday evenings, was an instant ratings winner and the show continues to be successful with Peter Sterling and Steve "Blocker" Roach as his accomplices on the panel.
Paul Vautin was appointed coach of the Queensland State of Origin team in 1997.
\IThis information and photograph supplied courtesy of TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd.\i
\BDescription:\b Paul Vautin (second from left) \I(TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd)\i.
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"Vinnicombe, Martin",449,0,g,0
Martin Vinnicombe, Australian Olympic cyclist, was born in Sydney in 1965. On 14th June 1991, aged 26, he was disqualified from Olympic and amateur competition for two years after being found guilty of taking steroids. He had earlier announced he was turning professional and confirmed he was marrying American cyclist Lucy Tyler. Originally from Peakhurst in Sydney's south, he had become a well-known face after appearing in a series of TV commercials for Lucozade. He rose to international prominence in 1985 when he won bronze medals at the world titles. He was second in 1986 and won in 1987.
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"Vockler, Alf",450,0,g,0
Alf Vockler, Sydney swimming identity, was born in Sydney in 1919. He became a swimming instructor and taught over 30,000 children how to swim, as well as patrol Bondi Beach. He was a wrestler in the 50s when he won the Australian light heavyweight title. Aged 19, and in company with fellow lifesaver Aub Laidlaw, he helped rescue many people from the beach on 6th February 1938, the 32nd anniversary of the surf clubÆs foundation. The day became known as Black Sunday after three big waves hit the beach drowning five people. But 250 bathers were rescued by the pair, who each received British Empire Medals in 1974 for their services to the community through life saving. He died on the 18th January 1982, aged 63.
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"Von Nida, Norman",451,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1914, Norman Von Nida began caddying at nine and turned professional at 16 after winning the 1930 Queensland amateur championship. A regular fixture of the world circuit into the early 1970s, Von Nida, noted for his outbursts against anyone who disturbed his concentration, won more than 30 major titles. Although his best at the British Open was a third place (1946 and 1958), he won numerous British tournaments and took the Queensland Open seven times, the New South Wales Open six times, the ACT Open four times and the Australian Open on three occasions. He also set a record when he won the Dunlop Masters by scoring 63 on the Sunningdale course.
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"Voss, Michael",452,0,g,0
Michael Voss, Brisbane football star and 1996 Brownlow medallist, was born on 7th July 1975. He starred with Brisbane in the mid 1990s and, at the age of 21, drew in an historic three-way tie with Essendon's James Hird and North Melbourne's Corey McKernan for the Centenary 1996 Brownlow Medal with 21 votes. However, only Hird and Voss collected their medals as McKernan had been suspended during the 1996 season. In the same year, he became the first Brisbane player to win back-to-back club champion awards.
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"Wade, Doug",453,0,g,0
Doug Wade, former Australian Rules football star, was born in Melbourne on 16th October 1941. He came to fame as Geelong's full-forward and later North Melbourne from 1961 until 1975. He is third in the AFL/VFL all time great goalkickers list, with 1,057 goals kicked in 267 games for an average of 3.96.
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"Walker, Max",454,mwalker.jpg,c,0
Max Walker was born in Tasmania and educated at the Friends' School in Hobart. He matriculated in 1967 and moved to Victoria after being signed to play football with the Melbourne Football Club at the age of 18.
He studied at the Royal Institute of Technology graduating in 1973 with a Fellowship Diploma of Architecture. In that same year he first represented Australia in cricket. He went on to successfully practise architecture, until recently when his media and speaking activities curtailed his architectural consulting.
Max played 94 senior games as a ruckman with the Melbourne Football Club between 1967 and 1972 before his promising VFL career was cut short by his success in cricket.
In 1973, Max toured the West Indies with the Australian team and broke records with his 26 wickets - more than any other Australian in the past. During his time as an Australian cricketer, Max took 138 wickets in 34 Test matches with an average of 27 runs.
He retired from first class cricket on December 28, 1981 - the same day his third son Sheldon was born. Max has two other sons, Tristan and Keegan, and a three year old daughter, Alexandra.
He was initially invited to do some radio and television work with the ABC and ever since, his involvement with the media has escalated. He juggled his work with the ABC and appearances on HSV 7's \IWorld of Sport\i before joining the Nine Network.
Max presents six hours of national television each week, currently co-hosting Nine's Saturday magazine sports program \IWide World of Sports\i with Ken Sutcliffe, and presenting an hour of \IJack High\i for 23 weeks each year.
On 5 May, 1995, Max notched up his ten years as co-host of \IWide World of Sports\i and according to Max, spending Saturday and Sunday talking and watching the best sport in the world has got to be one of the best jobs in the business!
As one of Australia's most in demand after dinner and motivational speakers, Max has travelled most of Australia as well as overseas destinations, London and New York.
He is one of the country's most popular authors, having written numerous books and sold in excess of half a million copies.
In 1994, Max released a board game called \ITake It Too The Max - from Dancing with Dingoes to Swimming with Sharks\i which was both educational and fun to play.
Max is also well-known for some of the memorable commercials he has made, including the classic Aeroguard "avagoodweekend Mr Walker", Toohey's 2.2 beer and Victorian Tourism.
\IThis information and photograph supplied courtesy TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd.\i
\BDescription:\b Max Walker \I(TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd)\i
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"Walls, Robert",455,0,g,0
Robert Walls, Australian Rules player and coach, was born on 21st July 1950. He first played at the age of 16 and overall played 259 league games, 218 with Carlton and 41 with Fitzroy. He played in three Carlton Premiership winning teams: 1968, 1970 and 1972. He coached Fitzroy for 115 games from 1981 until 1985, Carlton for 84 games from 1986 until 1989, Brisbane for 109 games from 1991 until 1995, and Richmond for 39 games from 1996 until 1997.
Overall, he coached 347 games for 162 wins, 183 losses, and two draws. His best success was with Carlton which he coached to 55 wins and 29 losses. A prolific writer, he wrote a column for the \IAge\i newspaper in 1995.
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"Walters, Doug",456,"0","g","0"
Born in 1945, Doug Walters was an outstanding all-round cricketer and a true matchwinner. He scored centuries in each of his first two Tests, against England in 1965-66, and finished the series with 410 at 68.33. His aggregate of 699 runs in four Tests against the West Indies in 1968-69 included a demoralising 242. In an equally successful series in 1973, he hit a century between lunch and tea at Port of Spain. Altogether, Walters made 4960 runs in 68 Tests at 47.69, scoring 13 Test centuries, with a highest score of 250. He also took 49 Test wickets at 28.12. His well-recognised talents as a raconteur and "character" have been used to his profit in more recent times.
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"Warby, Ken",457,"0","g","0"
Although hardly a household name, Ken Warby was the first person to ever race a motor boat at speeds in excess of 500 km/hour. In 1978, on Blowering Dam at the edge of the Snowy Mountains, he pushed his homebuilt boat, \ISpirit of Australia,\i to 510.452 km/hour. It was an amazing achievement which went virtually unnoticed in Australia. During his career, this Aussie hero has held three world speed records - two on water and one in drag racing. After twice breaking the water speed records in the 1970s, he reached 431 km/hour in a quarter-mile drag racing sprint from a standing start in New Hampshire, USA in 1983.
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"Warne, Shane",458,"e\3\warne.jpg","c","0"
Australia's most recent sporting hero and a role model for thousands of young kids eager to learn how to bowl a 'flipper' and a 'wrong 'un', Shane Keith Warne was born in Ferntree Gully, Victoria in 1969. Single-handedly Warne has changed the modern game of test cricket, challenging the long-held supremacy of the fast bowler. Warne's results have been awesome. He took 17 wickets against New Zealand in the 1992/3 season including 7 wickets in the first test. The moment he will be remembered for occurred when the first ball Warne bowled in the 1993 Ashes series seemed to go at right angles behind Mike Gatting to dismiss the English batsman. Warne has also taken a hat trick during his career.
John Warren, former Australian Socceroo coach, was born at Randwick, Sydney on 17th May 1943. He became one of the truly great Australian soccer players of the post-war years and was selected to play for Canterbury when he was only 15. In his last game for St. George in 1974, he scored the final goal which gave his team the Premiership. During his career as a player he represented Australia on 44 occasions. After undertaking a coaching course in Kuala Lumpur, he was appointed the coach of Canberra in the Phillips National League.
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"Waterhouse, Gai",460,0,g,0
Gai Waterhouse, Australian female horse trainer, was born at St. Margaret's Hospital in Sydney on 2nd September 1952, the daughter of famous racehorse trainer, Tommy Smith. She grew up around horses and married bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse on 14th December 1980. In 1989, Gai began two years of fighting in the courts to obtain her trainerÆs licence.
She has a son Tom (1982) and a daughter Kate (1984). Operating from her fatherÆs Tulloch Lodge stables at Randwick, she came into her own as a trainer during the 1995 Spring Carnival in Australia and has trained many group one winners including three Metropolitan winners in three years. In 1996 Kevin Perkins wrote her biography titled \IAgainst All Odds\i.
On 28th June 1997, she became the first woman and only the third trainer in Sydney racing history to win 100 races in a season, when Shane Dye rode home favourite, Niagara. The only other two people to train 100 winners in a season are her father Tommy Smith and Brian Mayfield Smith. Gai's father, T. J. Smith, trained 100 winners on 20 occasions. On 31st July 1997, she won the Sydney trainersÆ premiership, becoming the first woman in the world to win a major metropolitan track premiership.
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"Waters, Cec",461,0,g,0
Cec Waters, Australian boxing trainer and father of the famous three Waters boxing champions, died in Sydney aged 70. He was born Cecil Waters in Manchester, England, on 20th December 1926. After a life of tragedy and violence, he arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in May 1972. His sons Troy, Dean and Guy were all Australian boxing champions. He married Doreen and had a son Arnold, and then married his third wife Gloria, who gave birth to his daughter Tracey. He became a driving instructor and his wife gave birth to their famous sons. Gloria left him for another man and he married his fourth wife, 17-year-old Christine, and settled at Terrey Hills in Sydney where they trained horses. After moving to the Central Coast of New South Wales, Christine left him for fellow horse trainer Allan Hall.
In 1988, Hall was murdered and Cec and Dean were charged with his murder, but the charges were thrown out at a committal hearing due to lack of evidence. In 1996, Dean and Cec were again charged with Hall's murder; however Cec died in Sydney on 4th April 1997 before he could be brought to trial. Dean went to trial where he admitted shooting Hall but pleaded not guilty. A jury heard that he had been brainwashed by his father and was acting on his fatherÆs will. A jury acquitted him of both murder and manslaughter on 31st July 1997.
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"Watson, Tim",462,0,g,0
Tim Watson, Essendon and AFL football star, was born in Melbourne on 13th July 1961. He was recruited from Dimboola and first turned out for Essendon in 1977, playing 298 games up until 1993. A club legend, he retired at the beginning of the 1992 season and became a football commentator with the Seven Network. He was re-drafted by Essendon in March 1993 and resumed his football career, going on to feature in the 1993 premiership team.
He won the club's best and fairest in 1980, 1985 and 1989, was captain from 1989-1991, kicked 337 goals, played 307 games, and featured in three premierships:1984, 1985 and 1993. After he retired at the end of 1994, he re-joined the Seven Network as nightly sports reporter for the Melbourne news.
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"Watt, Kathy",463,0,g,0
Kathy Watt, Australian cyclist, was born at Warragul, Victoria on 11th September 1964. She lost her father when she was five after he perished in the snow while training for a marathon. She won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 1990 and a gold medal, in 34 degree Celsius heat, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for the 81 kilometre women's road race and backed up to win a silver medal in the women's pursuit. In 1994, she won two Commonwealth Games gold medals in Victoria, Canada for the women's 50 kilometre time trial and the women's 96 kilometre road race.
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"Waugh, Mark",464,"0","g","0"
Born in Sydney in 1965, Mark is the twin brother to \JSteve Waugh.\j Although born only four minutes after his brother, it took Mark Waugh an extra five years to make the Australian test cricket side. In spite of this slower arrival, he made a century on his test debut against England in 1991. His position in the Australian team has not been as secure as his older brother's. When he is playing well, he is an impressive performer. He scored 112 against the West Indies and a combination of 137 and 62 not out in the fifth test on the 1993 Ashes tour won him the Man of the Match award.
Towards the end of 1997, Mark released a book titled \IA Year to Remember, Mark Waugh on Tour With the Australian Cricket Team.\i
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"Waugh, Steve",465,"e\3\asm9510a.jpg","c","0"
Born in Sydney in 1965, Steve is the twin brother to \JMark Waugh.\j He is a truly great batsman and a very useful bowler who had to play 27 tests before he scored his first century (in fairness he scored 71, 79 not out and 73 against England in 1986-87). He began to play to his potential on the 1989 tour of England when he scored 177 not out and 152 not out. The following year, in the match between NSW and Western Australia, he combined with his brother to score 464 runs - a world record for a fifth wicket partnership.
Towards the end of 1997, Steve released a book titled \ISteve Waugh's 1997 Ashes Diary.\i
\BDescription:\b Steve Waugh \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Webb, Karrie",466,0,g,0
Karrie Webb, international women's golf champion, was born at Ayr in far North Queensland on 21st December 1974. She won 18 amateur titles before turning professional in November 1994, and became the youngest ever British Women's Open winner at Woburn on 20th August 1995. Karrie also won the 1997 British Open. She is coached by long time friend and paraplegic Kelvin Haller, who has coached her since she was 12 years old.
On 24th November 1996, she became the first woman golfer to earn more than a million dollars in a single season, taking her 1996 earnings to $1,233,963. She topped the women's money title by beating Britain's Laura Davies. In September 1997, Karrie won her second successive Safeco Classic event in Washington, her third victory for the year and her seventh in less than two years on the US LPGA Tour.
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"Wenden, Mike",467,"0","g","0"
A champion swimmer, Mike Wenden, born in 1949, won two gold, one silver and one bronze at the 1968 Olympics, setting a world record in the 100 metres and an Olympic record in the 200 metres. In three Commonwealth Games (1966, 1970, 1974), he won a record-breaking nine gold medals and one silver. In all, he set two individual world records and shared in four world relay records. After breaking his leg in 1963, Wenden, with his coach Vic Arneil, became the first world-class swimmer to take up land exercises to supplement marine training, developing isometric exercises which caused the swimming world to follow suit.
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"Wessels, Kepler",468,0,g,0
Kepler Wessels, left-handed South African and Australian cricketer, was born in South Africa on 14th September 1957, the son of a rugby referee. In 1973, Kepler ranked number one in South African tennis in the under-17 group. He once defeated Johan Kreik, the man who became the two-time Australian open champion. World Series Cricket had a large affect on his life. He married Sally Denning, a member of the WSC public relations team in 1979, and has a daughter Rebecca (1988) and a son Riki (1985).
He stood out of cricket for 12 months while he waited the required time to join Queensland and later Australia, and was selected for the Australian team in 1981 after serving his two yearÆs residential qualification. He made his debut in a Brisbane Test, scoring 162 and played 24 Tests for Australia until 1985. He returned to South Africa in 1988 and guided Eastern Province to their first cup success. In 1992, his international career was revived with the abolishment of apartheid and he captained South Africa during an excellent showing in the World Cup Series held in Australia.
At the age of 36, he captained South Africa on a Test tour of Australia in 1993-94. Kepler, who has a degree in psychology, works as a public relations and development officer at the University of Port Elizabeth.
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"Whitfield, Beverley",469,0,g,0
Beverley Whitfield, Australian Olympic swimming gold medallist, was born at Shellharbour in New South Wales in 1954. She won the Olympic gold medal, set a new Olympic record time for the 200 metre breaststroke, and won the bronze medal for the 100 metre breaststroke at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Beverley never married and in her later years worked with juvenile offenders. She died in Wollongong on 20th August 1996, aged 42.
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"Whitney, Michael",470,0,g,0
Michael Whitney, television presenter and former New South Wales and Australian cricketer, was born in Sydney on 24th January 1959. An accomplished left arm bowler for his State team, he was always on the fringe of the Test team, having made his debut against England at Manchester in 1981. He retired on 8th February 1994, having played in 12 Tests, and scored 1,325 runs at an average of 6.18, with his highest score 13. He has taken 39 Test wickets at an average of 33.97 and played in 32 one-day international events. In all, he played 117 first class matches, taking 411 wickets at an average of 26.81. He joined the Seven Network in 1993 and in 1995 was involved in the television show \IGladiators\i and is currently hosting \IWho Dares Wins.\i He married Debbie in 1985 and is the father of triplets Fergus, Juliet and Madeline.
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"Whitten, Ted",471,"0","g","0"
Affectionately known to AFL fans as 'Mr Football', Ted Whitten played his club debut for Footscray in 1951 when he was only 17. Three years later he was part of the team which won Footscray's first premiership. He also won the club's best and fairest award that year. In 1955 he played for Victoria and by the age of 24 he was Footscray's captain coach. In total, he played 321 games for Footscray, winning the club's best and fairest award five times. He died from cancer in 1995 and received a very emotional farewell by the football code he had devoted his life to.
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"Wickham, Alick",472,"0","g","0"
Born in Micronesia in 1886, Alick Wickham came to Australia in 1897 with a swimming style adopted by the Cavill family, and later named the Australian crawl. He became Australian 100 yards freestyle champion in 1904 and was a member of the famous "Flying Squadron" relay team which set and maintained the 500 yards freestyle record for five years. He also set a world record for the 50 yards in 1910. After a spell as a first-rate amateur boxer and Rugby player with Eastern Suburbs, he turned to performance diving. For 100 pounds he dived a world-record 62.7 metres before a crowd of 60,000 in 1918 at Dight's Falls outside Melbourne. After his father died in 1926, he returned to the Solomon Islands and obscurity.
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"Wickham, Tracey",473,"0","g","0"
In 1978, Tracey Wickham was Australia's top sporting heroine. In that year she won two gold medals at the World Championships, broke the world records for both the 400 metres and 800 metres freestyle swimming events, picked up two gold medals and one silver at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, was nominated ABC Sportsman of the Year and awarded an MBE in the New Year's honours list. Born in Queensland in 1962, Wickham dominated Australian and world distance swimming from 1976 until her retirement after the 1982 Commonwealth Games. During that time she set five world records over 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 metres.
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"Williams, Greg",474,0,g,0
Greg Williams, Carlton Australian Rules football player, was born at Golden Square, Bendigo, Victoria on 30th September 1963. The former Geelong and Sydney Swans star is a duel Brownlow medallist, in 1986 with 22 votes and in 1994 with 30 votes. Nicknamed Diesel, he became the first player in the AFL to be refused registration on 12th February 1992. Williams was fined $25,000, and his former club Sydney was fined $50,000 for failing to disclose to the AFL all of WilliamsÆ payments for 1990. The AFL also refused to register Williams to his new club Carlton until he had served six weeks on the bench.
Williams is reported to have made over $1 million through football, $750,000 with the Sydney Swans alone. He won his first AFL Premiership with Carlton on his 32nd birthday in 1995 when they defeated Geelong. In March 1997, he was charged when video evidence saw him push an umpire and he was suspended for nine weeks. However, Williams claimed the umpire invaded his space and he thought he was another player. He subsequently went to the Supreme Court and, on 29th May 1997, became the first player to have a tribunal decision overturned.
The judge was scathing on the AFL and its handling of the issue, and the AFL immediately announced that they would review their methods of adjudication. However, the AFL appealed and won, and Williams was ordered to serve his suspension from 26th July 1997, which effectively ended his career. Greg Williams announced his retirement from AFL at the end of September 1997.
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"Wills, Thomas",475,"0","g","0"
The creator of Australian Rules football, Thomas Wills, born in New South Wales in 1835, excelled at cricket and football while attending Rugby School in England. An all-rounder, he played for Victoria between 1857 and 1876. While attempting to take up land in western Queensland, he almost lost his life in an Aboriginal attack that killed most of his party. He coached the first Aboriginal cricketing squad to tour England in 1867 and it was his belief that cricketers needed a winter sport that led to the invention of Aussie Rules. A heavy drinker, he died in 1880 when he stabbed himself with a pair of scissors while in a state of intoxication.
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"Winter, Anthony",476,0,g,0
Anthony "Nick" Winter, Australian Olympic athlete, was born Anthony William Winter on 25th August 1894 near Corowa in New South Wales, the son of a snooker hall owner. He was known as "Nick" and served with the AIF in the 7th lighthorse brigade in Egypt and France in 1915, and returned to civilian life in 1919, where he became a fireman at Manly. At the 1924 Paris Olympics, he became the first Australian to win an Olympic field event when he won the gold medal for the Hop Step and Jump.
Winter was a master at billiards and also excelled at lawn bowls. In the 1940s, he managed a pool room in Pitt Street, Sydney and was a clerk at the time of his death on 7th May 1955, aged 60. He died from carbon monoxide poisoning after falling in the bathroom and hitting his head on a gas pipe, which opened.
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"Wood, Graham",477,0,g,0
Graham Wood, Australian cricketer, was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 6th November 1956. He began his representative career in 1976 and was one of the stars of the 1978 West Indies tour with a Test best of 126 runs. He twice top scored in the 1978-79 Ashes series.
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"Woodbridge, Todd",478,"e\3\woodb.jpg","c","0"
Todd Woodbridge was born on the 2nd of April, 1971 in Sydney, Australia. He is a right-handed player who is ranked No. 1 in the world in doubles tennis with partner \JMark Woodforde\j (as at mid-1997) and ranked No. 29 in the world in singles tennis (as at September 1997).
Todd turned professional in 1986 and since then he has attained two ATP tour singles titles and over 40 ATP tour doubles titles. At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won a gold medal for Australia in the tennis doubles. In 1997 Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge became the first doubles team to win the Wimbledon doubles title five years in a row.
From 1995 in doubles tennis, Todd Woodbridge has won the following tournaments with partner Mark Woodforde: 1997 Australian Open, 1996 US Open, 1996 Australian MenÆs Hardcourt Championships, 1996 Philadelphia, 1996 Indian Wells, 1996 The Lipton Championships, 1996 Japan Open, 1996 Corel Springs (Florida), 1996 QueenÆs Club Championships, five consecutive Wimbledon titles, 1995 Sydney, 1995 Key Biscyane, 1995 Pinehurst, 1995 Cincinnati, and the 1995 US Open.
In March 1997, Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge won the doubles team of the year award at the ATP Tour and Corel WTA Tour awards in the US.
Tommy Woodcock, strapper of champion race horse Phar Lap, was born Aaron Treve Woodcock in New South Wales on 8th October 1905. He was with Phar Lap when it died from suspected colic at Menlo Park in California, on 5th April 1932, aged six years, and only 16 days after winning the Agua Caliente Handicap in New Mexico. Phar Lap was believed to have been poisoned with weed killer by members of the Syndicate in America, who wanted to put an end to his winning run.
His heart, which is preserved at the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra, weighed 14 pounds and was twice the size of a normal horseÆs heart. His stuffed carcass is at the Melbourne Museum. Tommy Woodcock is portrayed in the film Phar Lap by Tom Burlinson. Tommy Woodcock also trained the famous Reckless, who won the Brisbane and Sydney cups in 1977. He died on 27th April 1985, aged 80.
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"Woodforde, Mark",480,"e\3\woodfo.jpg","c","0"
Mark Woodforde was born on the 23rd of September, 1965 in Adelaide, South Australia. He started playing tennis at the age of five and has had a highly successful doubles career with fellow Australian partner, \JTodd Woodbridge.\j
Mark is a left-handed player who turned professional in 1985. His current singles ranking (as of May 13, 1996) is No. 30 and his current doubles ranking is No. 1 (as at mid-1997).
With four ATP singles titles and over 40 ATP tour doubles titles he is one of the most successful tennis players Australia has seen in recent years. The doubles team of Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge would have to be one of the most successful tennis partnerships in the sport. In 1996 they celebrated their fourth straight Wimbledon title.
From 1995 in doubles tennis, Mark Woodforde has won the following tournaments with partner Todd Woodbridge: 1997 Australian Open, 1996 US Open, 1996 Australian MenÆs Hardcourt Championships, 1996 Philadelphia, 1996 Indian Wells, 1996 The Lipton Championships, 1996 Japan Open, 1996 Corel Springs (Florida), 1996 QueenÆs Club Championships, five consecutive Wimbledon titles, 1995 Sydney, 1995 Key Biscyane, 1995 Pinehurst, 1995 Cincinnati, and the 1995 US Open.
Along with the many titles Mark has won with Todd Woodbridge, including Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996 for the menÆs doubles, he has also been successful in mixed doubles tennis with the following record: 1992 mixed doubles champion (with \JNicole Bradtke\j (nee Provis)) and 1995 French Open mixed doubles champion (with Neiland).
In March 1997, Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge won the doubles team of the year award at the ATP Tour and Corel WTA Tour awards in the US.
In 1997 Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge became the first doubles team to win the Wimbledon doubles title five years in a row.
\I(Text courtesy of McDonalds Tennis Australia)\i
\BDescription:\b Mark Woodforde \I(Roger Gould)\i.
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"Woodfull, Bill",481,0,g,0
Bill Woodfull was a talented and patient batsman who captained Australia from 1930-34, winning back the Ashes twice. An outspoken critic of Bodyline, in 1932-33 he was famously quoted as saying "there's two teams out there, and only one of them's playing cricket". The outstanding batsman of the 1926 tour of England, he scored eight centuries, including 201 in his initial first-class match in the country, one of seven double-centuries in his first-class career. Opening bat with Bill Ponsford both for Victoria and Australia, they once made 375 together against NSW. Retiring in 1934 with 2300 runs in 35 Tests at 46.00, he made 49 first-class centuries. The headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School, he received an OBE and died of a heart attack while playing golf in 1965.
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"Young, Cliff",482,0,g,0
Cliff Young, Australian marathon runner, was born in south west Victoria on 8th February 1922. He won the Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Marathon in 1983 in five days and 15 hours. He married his wife Mary Howells, 39 years his junior, at the Melbourne Airport West Shopping Centre in 1984. They separated over religious differences in 1989. In April 1997, aged 75, he commenced an eight month run around Australia, including Tasmania.
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"Young, Nat",483,0,g,0
Nat Young, champion Australian surfer, was born Robert Young in Sydney on 14th November 1950. In 1968, he won the World Surfing title in the USA, becoming the first person to win the title who wasn't a resident of the host country. In 1968, he won the World Champion surfing title in San Diego, and in 1969, the Australian surfing title. Married to Ti, he has two children: daughter Nava (1984) and son Bryce (1990). In September 1990, he retired from competitive surfing and set up a resort near Yamba in New South Wales. On 29th March 1992, he and his family escaped serious injuries after his car ran off the road near their Queensland home.
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"Overview - Athletics",1,"e\3\5_0039.jpg","c","0"
Professional athletics contests were first held in the 1820s, well before the first amateur athletics clubs were established in the 1870s. The first recorded professional footrace took place early in the 1830s and the first fully documented races in 1868, when Victorian Tom Cusack of Wangaratta clashed with Irish-born star Mat Higgins, at a number of different venues in and around Melbourne.
Australia's first international stars were Arthur Postle and Jack Donaldson who dominated professional athletics in Australia in the early 1900s and later competed with success in South Africa, England and Scotland. Donaldson, who later became an athletics coach in the United States, set six world records and his record for the 130 yards stood from 1911 until 1951.
The first amateur championships in Australia were staged in Melbourne in 1893 and known as the "Australasian Championships" like many other sports at the time.
The Amateur Athletics Association of Australasia was formed in 1897, which became the Australian Amateur Athletic Union after the withdrawal of New Zealand in 1927.
\BDescription:\b Athletics stadium \I(DFAT)\i.
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"World Records by Australians",2,"e\3\5_0039.jpg","c","0"
The first Australian to hold a world record was Nigel Barker (1883-1948), who clocked 48.5 seconds for the 440 yards at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 11 November, 1905. The time was universally accepted and stood as the world record until 1916 and as the Australian record until 1930.
\JJohn Landy\j was the first Australian to break four minutes for the mile when he set a new world record of 3 mins 57.9 secs on 21 June, 1954 in Turku Finland. This was 46 days after Roger Bannister became the first man to break the barrier.
\BDescription:\b Athletics stadium \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australia at the Olympics",3,"e\3\3_0017.jpg","c","0"
Although Australia did not enter an official team at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Melbourne athlete Edwin Flack (1874-1935), who was studying in London at the time, won two gold medals in the 800 metre (2 minutes 11.0 seconds) and the 1,500 metre (4 minutes 33.2 seconds) events.
Nick Winter won the first of Australia's only two field gold medals in 1924 in the hop, step and jump which was later renamed the triple jump. Australia's other field gold medallist was John Winter who won the high jump in 1948.
In 1928 in Amsterdam, Edie Robinson became the first Australian woman to compete in track events at the Olympic Games. Robinson finished third behind Elizabeth Robinson (USA) in the semi-finals of the 100 metres and just missed qualifying for the final.
Australia's golden era was between 1952-68 when \JMarjorie Jackson,\j \JShirley Strickland,\j \JBetty Cuthbert\j and Maureen Caird won eight individual gold medals and the 4 x 100 relay in 1956.
Australia has won only four other gold medals in track and field. Herb Elliot won the men's 1,500 metres in Rome in 1960, Ralph Doubell won the men's 800 metres at Mexico City in 1968, Glynis Nunn won the women's heptathlon in Los Angeles in 1984, and Debbie Flintoff-King won the women's 400 metres in Seoul in 1988.
Historically, the Olympic Games have served as the world championships for track and field. In 1983 the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) instituted a separate World Championships originally to be held every four years, between Olympic Games, but now held every two years. The first World Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland in 1983 where Robert \Jde Castella\j won a gold medal in the men's marathon.
Subsequent championships have been held in Rome, Italy (1987) where Kerry Saxby (10 kilometre walk) and Debbie Flintoff-King (400 metre hurdles) won silver medals; Tokyo, Japan (1991); Stuttgart, Germany (1993) where Daniela Costian won a silver medal in the women's discus; Gothenburg, Sweden (1995) where Australia won bronze in the women's 4 x 400 m relay and silver in the men's 4 x 100 m relay; and Athens, Greece (1997) where Cathy Freeman won a gold medal in the 400 m, Steve Moneghetti won a bronze medal in the men's marathon, Tim Forsyth won a bronze medal in the men's high jump and Joanna Stone won a silver medal in the women's javelin.
Australian Football had its beginnings in \JBallarat,\j Victoria, in the 1840s, when Irish miners in the goldfields played Gaelic football in their spare time. Evidence suggests that by 1853 the miners had streamlined the Gaelic rules and placed more accent on passing skills. Matches were played on a social basis, but news of the 'new' football game trickled into Sydney and Melbourne and began to arouse interest.
Thomas Wills and cousin Henry Harrison staged the first recorded match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School at Yarra Park on August 7, 1858.
Spurred on by this apparent success, Wills, Harrison, W.J. Hammersley and J.N. Thompson formed the Melbourne Football Club later the same year. Geelong Football Club was formed in 1859, followed by South Yarra and Richmond in 1860. Wills and Harrison christened the new football code "Victorian Football", a title which was to seriously slow the progress of the game in other colonies.
The first intercolonial matches were played in 1877 when Carlton visited Waratah (NSW) in June. The first match between players representing their respective colonies was in July 1879 when Victoria played South Australia in Melbourne.
This table shows the AFL winners from 1897 to 1997.
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"AFL Leading Goalkickers",2,"spread046.spr","c","0"
This table shows the leading goalkickers from 1897 to 1997.
(The total includes the Final matches.)
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"Victorian Football League (VFL)",3,"e\3\3_0010.jpg","c","footy10"
In 1897, eight clubs broke away from the VFA and formed the Victorian Football League. The first VFL games were played on Saturday 8 May, 1897 and the system of scoring by points (six for a goal and one for a behind) rather than by number of goals was introduced. Essendon won the first VFL premiership.
In 1982, the financially troubled South Melbourne Club played all their home games in Sydney and in 1983 became the Sydney Swans. The Swans also became the first privately owned club in 1985. Teams from Perth and Brisbane joined the League in 1987 and when the Adelaide Crows entered the premiership in 1991, the VFL changed its name to the Australian Football League.
\BDescription:\b Aussie Rules match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Brownlow Medal",4,"spread047.spr","c","!"
The Brownlow Medal is awarded to the best and fairest player in the AFL season minor round matches and is decided on votes from the field umpires. The medal perpetuates the memory of \JCharles Brownlow\j (1861-1924), a Geelong player and administrator, and founding father of the VFL.
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"Overview of Baseball in Australia",1,"spread178.spr","f","0"
Although played by gold miners in \JBallarat\j in the 1850s, baseball in Australia had its beginnings in the visit of two professional American teams which played exhibition games in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and \JBallarat\j between 15 December, 1888 and 5 January 1889.
The enthusiam that surrounded the tour led to team competitions forming in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. The first intercolonial games were held on 20 and 22 April, 1889 between Victoria and South Australia in Melbourne. Regular winter competitions were conducted throughout the 1890s and in February 1897 an Australian team was selected to tour the US.
In 1900 the first of what became an annual series of games was held between Victoria and New South Wales. In 1908 the visit of the American Pacific Fleet helped consolidate the game and in January, 1914 there was a well attended series of exhibition matches between the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox in Sydney and Melbourne. During the 1920s several American professional, university and visiting ships teams played in Australia.
In 1934 Norrie Claxton, the first President of the South Australian Baseball League, donated a shield for the interstate baseball competition and over the next 54 years it became the most prized trophy in the sport.
In 1988 a major split occurred in the ABF and a number of State associations broke away to form a national league, the Australian Baseball League (ABL). The ABL competition commenced in the summer of 1989/90 with eight teams.
This table shows the ABL champions.
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"Overview of Basketball in Australia",1,"e\3\3_0014.jpg","c","bball20"
Basketball in Australia dates back to 1905, but remained an obscure amateur pastime until after World War II. The first Australian championship was staged in 1946 when New South Wales defeated Victoria 50-44 in the final. Australia's first international basketball games were at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. As host nation, Australia did not have to qualify and finished 12th of 15 competing nations.
Australia has competed at all subsequent Olympic Games with a best result of third place for the women's team at the Atlanta Games in 1996. The Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers, are currently ranked fourth in the world and the Australian women's team, the Opals, are ranked third (after winning the bronze medal at Atlanta 1996). The men's youth team are ranked fifth in the world and the women's youth team are ranked first.
Australian basketball went professional in 1979 with the establishment of the National Basketball League (NBL). Ten basketball clubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, \JCanberra,\j \JWollongong\j and Newcastle played the inaugural season.
Women's basketball was played under rules adapted from the men's game until 1970 when it became known as Netball. In the same year women's basketball began using the same rules as the men.
\BDescription:\b Women's basketball match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"WNBL Champions (Coast to Coast Cup)",6,"spread182.spr","c","0"
This table shows the Women's National Basketball (WNBL) Championship results from 1981 to 1996.
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"Women's National Basketball League",7,"e\3\3_0012.jpg","c","0"
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) started in 1981, two years after the men's league. In 1996, 10 teams made up the League: Melbourne Tigers, Dandenong Rangers, Bulleen Melbourne, Adelaide Lightning, Brisbane Blazers, Hobart Islanders, Perth Breakers, Sydney Flames, \JCanberra\j Capitals and the Australian Institute of Sport.
\BDescription:\b Women's basketball match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Overview of Boxing in Australia",1,"0","g","0"
Boxing was popular in ancient Greece and Rome but the sport's modern revival began in the mid 18th Century in London when prize fighting bare-knuckle combats gained a popular following. The rules were modified in 1743 by English champion John Broughton.
The first recorded prize fight in Australia was on 7 January 1814, when Australian-born John Bellinger knocked out Englishman Charles Sefton in the 56th round after a two hour battle.
Bushranger \JNed Kelly\j was one of Australia's most famous bare knuckle fighters and had at least a dozen fights including one outstanding win over 20 rounds against Wild Wright at Beechworth, Victoria, on 8 August 1871.
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"Rules of Boxing are Rewritten",2,"0","g","0"
Gloves were first used in November 1834 when pupils of Abraham (Dalby) Davis boxed exhibition matches at the Dolphin Inn in Elizabeth Street, Sydney. The first official fight with gloves took place on 25 July 1849, when William Thompson knocked out Bill Sparkes in five rounds at the Tennis Court Inn in Sussex St., Sydney.
The rules of boxing were rewritten in 1867 by John Douglas, the 8th Marquis of Queensberry, after whom they are named. The rules introduced the mandatory use of gloves and the prohibition of kicking, holding and gouging, all of which were tricks of the prize fighter's trade. The first world championship fight using the Queensberry rules took place on 30 July, 1884 when Jack Dempsey beat George Fulljames for the world middleweight title.
This table shows the Australian Commonwealth Champions from 1892 to 1996.
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"Australia's World Champions",4,"spread184.spr","f","0"
\B\JJimmy Carruthers\j:\b World bantamweight title won against Vic Toweel in Johannesburg, November, 1952.
\B\JLionel Rose\j:\b World bantamweight title won against Fighting Harada in Tokyo, February, 1968.
\B\JJohnny Famechon\j:\b WBC featherweight title won against Jose Legra in London, January, 1969.
\B\JRocky Mattioli\j:\b WBC junior middleweight title won against Eckhard Dagge in Berlin, August 1977.
\BLester Ellis:\b IBF junior lightweight title won in February, 1985. Also won WBF welterweight title against Rocky Berg in February, 1993.
\B\JJeff Fenech\j:\b World IBF bantamweight title won against Satoshi Shingaki in Japan, October, 1984. Also won world WBC super-bantamweight crown against Samart Payakarun in Sydney, May, 1987. Fenech then won a third world title, the WBC featherweight crown, against Victor Callejas in Sydney, March, 1988.
\BBarry Michael:\b World IBF junior lightweight title won against fellow Australian Lester Ellis in July 1985.
\B\JJeff Harding\j:\b World WBC light heavyweight title won against Dennis Andries in June 1989.
\BKostya Tszyu:\b Junior welterweight title won against Jack Rod Roduzekers in January 1995, in Las Vegas. Also won the junior welterweight title against South African Jan Bergman in September 1996.
This table shows the current Australian Champions as at October 1996.
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"Commonwealth Games",1,"0","g","0"
The first Commonwealth Games (known then as the British Empire Games) were staged in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1930. A succession of name changes has seen it called the current name since 1978.
Ten sports are contested at the Commonwealth Games: athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, lawn bowls, swimming, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling.
Australian has attended all 14 celebrations and has hosted the Games three times: Sydney 1938, Perth 1962 and Brisbane 1982. Adelaide unsuccessfully bid for the 1998 Games which were awarded to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
On the following pages, you will see the results of Australia throughout the history of the Commonwealth Games.
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"Commonwealth Games",2,"spread028.spr","e","0"
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1994",3,"chart191.cht","e","0"
This chart shows the results of the 1994 Commonwealth Games, held in Victoria, Canada.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1990",4,"chart018.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1990 Commonwealth Games, held in Auckland, New Zealand.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1986",5,"chart019.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1986 Commonwealth Games, held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1982",6,"chart020.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, held in Brisbane, Australia.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1978",7,"chart021.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1978 Commonwealth Games, held in Edmonton, Canada.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1974",8,"chart022.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1974 Commonwealth Games, held in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1970",9,"chart023.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1970 Commonwealth Games, held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1966",10,"chart024.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1966 Commonwealth Games, held in Kingston, Jamaica.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1962",11,"chart025.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1962 Commonwealth Games, held in Perth, Western Australia.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1958",12,"chart026.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1958 Commonwealth Games, held in Cardiff, Wales.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1954",13,"chart027.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1954 Commonwealth Games, held in Vancouver, Canada.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1950",14,"chart028.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1950 Commonwealth Games, held in Auckland, New Zealand.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1938",15,"chart029.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1938 Commonwealth Games, held in Sydney, Australia.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1934",16,"chart030.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1934 Commonwealth Games, held in London, England.
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"Commonwealth Games Results - 1930",17,"chart031.cht","e","0"
This charts shows the results of the 1930 Commonwealth Games, held in Hamilton, Canada.
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"1994 Commonwealth Games Team Results",18,"chart032.cht","e","0"
This chart shows Australia's total medals in team sports for the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
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"1994 Commonwealth Games Individual Results",19,"chart033.cht","e","0"
This chart shows Australia's total individual medals for the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
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"History of Cricket",1,5_0013.jpg,c,0
The history of cricket is a little uncertain but definite evidence from 1598 exists of pupils of the Royal Grammar School at Guildford, UK, playing a game referred to as creckett. By 1677 creckett was played in many parts of England and the first set of known creckett laws was drawn up in 1744.
The first recorded cricket match was played in Sydney in December 1803 in what is now Hyde Park, and the first club "Military Club" was formed in Sydney in 1826. Cricket was introduced in Tasmania in the 1820s and more clubs were formed there and in other colonies in the 1830s.
\BDescription:\b Australia's David Boon batting \I(DFAT)\i.
The first intercolonial game was between Tasmania and Victoria at \JLaunceston\j on 11-12 February, 1851 and this is generally regarded as the earliest first class match, though it was not until 1856 that intercolonial matches became an annual event. In 1861/62 Melbourne hoteliers Felix Spiers and Christopher Pond brought Heathfield Harman Stephenson's English team to Australia.
The English team played 14 matches on tour, winning six, losing three and ending five in a draw. Eleven of the games were against teams of 22 Australian players.
A second team of English professionals captained by George Parr toured in 1863/64, and in 1873/74. W.G. Grace captained a tour side sponsored by a group of Melbourne enthusiasts.
\BDescription:\b The first intercolonial cricket match \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i
The first Australians to tour England were an Aboriginal side from northern Victoria in 1868 organised by the only white player, Charles Lawrence. They played 47 matches, winning 14 and losing 14. A second Aboriginal team toured England in Australia's bicentennial year, 1988, and played 28 one-day games.
In 1876/77, Australia won the first Test match against the fourth English team to tour Australia. The winning margin was 45 runs which, coincidentally, was also Australia's winning margin in the 1977 Australia versus England Centenary Test in Melbourne.
Dave Gregory led the next Australian team to England in 1878. The tour was sponsored by the English captain of the 1876/77 team in Australia, James Lillywhite Jnr. In a total of 37 matches played on tour, Australia won 18 and only lost 7.
\BDescription:\b Australia batting \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Sheffield Shield",4,"spread066.spr","f","0"
Domestic competition in Australia was enhanced with the introduction of the Sheffield Shield in 1892/93 between New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The Australasian Cricket Council was formed in 1892 to administer cricket but proved ineffectual and only lasted until 1901.
The Australian Cricket Board of Control, which later became the Australian Cricket Board, was formed in 1905 and is responsible for the national administration of the game.
This table shows the Sheffield Shield winners to 1996/97.
Following the Australian Cricket Board's refusal to give his Nine Network exclusive television rights, Sydney media magnate \JKerry Packer\j announced in May 1977 he had contracted 36 of the world's best players to play what became known as World Series Cricket. WSC split the cricket world and generated heated public debate for two seasons.
A series of six five day Supertests and 13 one-day matches were played between the West Indies, WSC Australia and a World XI during the first season. Sixteen one-day matches were also played in country centres around Australia.
WSC also produced Australia's first cricket match under lights at the VFL Park in Melbourne that season. The second season, 1978/79, was a similar format and the first game under lights at the Sydney Cricket Ground was played on 28 November, 1978.
There were also two WSC overseas tours. In November 1978, an Australian XI and a World XI played a series of nine matches in New Zealand and an Australian XI toured the West Indies, playing five Supertests, in February-April, 1979.
After a series of protracted court battles, WSC and the Australian Cricket Board signed a 10 year agreement in May 1979, giving the Nine Network the television rights it wanted. World Series Cricket matches are not recognised as first class cricket or Test match statistics.
\BDescription:\b Day-night cricket match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Batting Records",7,"e\3\5_0041.jpg","c","0"
\BHighest individual Test innings by an Australian\b
334 by Donald Bradman against England at Headingley in July 1930. He scored 309 on the first day (105 before lunch, 115 between lunch and tea, and 89 in the final session), his first 50 took 49 minutes, his century 99 minutes and his 200 was the fastest double century in Test cricket, scored in 214 minutes. The total innings time was 378 minutes and included 46 boundaries. On the next tour of England in 1934 Bradman scored 304 at the same ground.
The only other Australians who have scored triple centuries in Test cricket are Bob Simpson (311 vs England at Old Trafford in 1964) and Bob Cowper (307 vs England at Melbourne in 1965/66).
\BDescription:\b Australia vs. West Indies \I(DFAT)\i .
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"Australian Test Partnership Records",8,"e\3\3_0008.jpg","c","0"
\B1st:\b 382 W.M. Lawry (210), R.B. Simpson (201) v West Indies, Bridgetown, 1964/65.
\B2nd:\b 451 W.H. Ponsford (266) D.G. Bradman (244) v England, The Oval, 1934.
\B3rd:\b 295 C.C. McDonald (127) R.N. Harvey (204) v West Indies, Kingston, 1954/55.
\B10th:\b 127 J.M. Taylor (108) A.A. Mailey (46*) v England, Sydney 1924/25.
\BDescription:\b One day cricket match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Bowling Records",9,"e\3\5_0043.jpg","c","0"
\BMost wickets in an innings of a Test\b
9/121 by Arthur Mailey vs England, Melbourne in February 1921, the only occasion that an Australian bowler has taken 9 wickets in an innings at Test level.
\BMost wickets in a match\b
16/137 by Bob Massie (8/84 and 8/53) against England at Lord's in June 1972 on his Test debut.
\BDescription:\b International one-day match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Fielding Records (Non Wicket-keepers)",10,"e\3\3_0009.jpg","c","0"
\BMost catches in an innings\b
Australian captain Victor Richardson took five catches in South Africa's second innings at Durban in 1935/36, the most in a single Test innings by any player. This record has also been equalled by three Indian players.
\BMost catches in a match\b
Seven by \JGreg Chappell\j against England in Perth in December 1974. He took three in the first innings and four in the second innings. Indian player Yajurvindra Singh also took seven catches vs England at Bangalore in 1976/77.
\BMost catches in a career\b
Retired Australian captain \JAllan Border\j has taken 156 catches in 156 Tests, the most catches of any player in Test matches.
\BDescription:\b International one-day cricket match \I(DFAT)\i.
Six, all caught, by Wally Grout against South Africa in the second innings of the first Test at Johannesburg, December 1957. This record was equalled by Rodney Marsh against England in the second innings of the second Test at Brisbane, November 1982, again all caught.
\BMost dismissals in a match\b
Nine, eight caught and one stumped, by Gil Langley vs England in the second Test at Lord's, June 1956. He dismissed four batsman in the first innings and five in the second innings. This record was also equalled by Rodney Marsh who took nine catches against England in the second Test at Brisbane, November 1982, three in the first innings and six in the second innings. Ian Healey also took nine catches against England in the 1st Test at Brisbane, November 1994 - five in the first innings and four in the second.
\BMost dismissals in a Test career\b
355, 343 caught and 12 stumped, by Rodney Marsh in 97 Tests, the same number of Test wickets as his great compatriot, fast bowler \JDennis Lillee.\j
\BDescription:\b International one day cricket match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Centuries on Test Debut by Australians",12,"spread185.spr","e","0"
This table shows centuries on Test Debut by Australians from season 1876-77 to 1990-91.
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"Test Match Hat Tricks by Australian Bowlers",13,"spread186.spr","c","0"
This table shows Test Match hat tricks by Australian bowlers from the seasons 1878/79 to 1996/97.
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"Leading Run Scorers - Test Cricket",14,"spread401.spr","c","0"
The accompanying table lists the Australian leading run scorers in Test cricket as at 1996/97.
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"Leading Wicket Takers - Test Cricket",15,"spread402.spr","c","0"
The accompanying table lists the Australian leading wicket takers in Test cricket as at 1996/97.
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"Test Match Attendance Records",16,"e\3\6_0002.jpg","c","0"
\BSydney Cricket Ground:\b 58,446 on the second day of the second Test, Australia vs England, 15 December 1928.
\BMelbourne Cricket Ground:\b 90,800 on the second day of the fifth Test, Australia vs West Indies, 11 February 1961. Melbourne also has the highest aggregate attendance for a Test match: 350,534 for the third Test vs England, 1-7 January 1937. On the third day of the Test, a then world record crowd of 87,798 attended the ground.
\BAdelaide Oval:\b 50,962 on the second day of the third Test, Australia vs England, 14 January 1933.
\BWACA (Perth):\b 24,151 for the third day of the second Test, Australia vs England, 15 December 1974.
\BWoolloongabba (Brisbane):\b 30,598 for the second day of the first Test, Australia vs England, 5 December 1936.
\BBellerive Oval (Hobart):\b 9,015 for the first day of the second Test, Australia vs Sri Lanka, 16 December 1989.
\BDescription:\b One-day cricket matches attract thousands of spectators \I(DFAT)\i.
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"World Cup",17,"spread439.spr","c","0"
Cricket's World Cup is played between Test nations every four years. Prior to 1987, leading non Test playing nations were added to make up eight teams (1975: East Africa and Sri Lanka, 1979: Canada and Sri Lanka and in 1983: Zimbabwe).
In 1991/92, only the nine Test nations played and in 1995 the competition was expanded to 12 teams. Future World Cups have been awarded to England (1999) and South Africa (2003/04).
World Cup winners are listed in the accompanying table.
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"Australian Test Cricket Results",18,"spread067.spr","e","0"
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"International Test Cricket Results",19,"spread068.spr","e","0"
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"Limited-overs International Cricket",20,spread062.spr.jpg,c,0
The first limited overs international match in Australia took place merely by chance. It was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 January, 1971, between Australia and England as a result of the third Test being abandoned due to rain. The format was 40 eight ball overs a side and more than 46,000 people turned up to watch Bill Lawry lead Australia to victory over England.
The first recorded women's cricket match took place back in 1745 in England. Christina Willes is credited with introducing the overarm bowling action to the game, later adopted by the men's game in 1835.
Although unconfirmed matches are thought to have taken place as early as 1815, the first recorded women's cricket match in Australia took place in \JBendigo\j during an Easter Fair in \JBendigo\j in April, 1874. The "Reds" played the "Blues" to raise money for the Hospital and Benevolent Asylum.
By the 1880s, women's cricket clubs had sprung up in Sydney and Melbourne and the first club game was played at the Association Ground (later Sydney Cricket Ground) on 8 March, 1886, before a crowd of more than 1,000 people.
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"Formation of the Australian Women's Cricket Council",24,"spread188.spr","f","0"
Women's cricket was largely disbanded because of the war effort but was revived in the 1920s and the game became better organised. State Associations were formed in Victoria (1923), NSW (1927), Queensland (1929), South Australia and Western Australia (1930). During the first national championships, staged in 1931, the Australian Women's Cricket Council was formed.
The 1930s proved to be a boom decade for the sport and in the summer of 1934-35 the first women's cricket Test series took place between Australia and England. England won the first two Tests before Australia managed a draw in the third and final match. It was a highly successful tour and the Australians were sufficiently encouraged to organise a tour to England in 1937.
In 1973, the first World Cup was played, two years before the men's. The tournament involved seven teams: the three founding Test nations, Australia, England and New Zealand were joined by Jamaica, Trinidad/Tobago as well as a Young England XI and an International XI.
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"Brief History of Cycling",1,"e\3\5_0096.jpg","c","bike10"
Cycling as a sport almost dates to the invention of the bicycle; the predecessor to today's modern bicycle was a velocipede, which consisted of two wheels of equal size with a crank and pedals attached to the front wheel. The first recorded velocipede race was over 2 km at the Parc de St Cloud in Paris in May, 1868.
Cycling became a national recreational passion following the appearance of the first velocipedes in Australia earlier the following year. The earliest known race in Australia was on grass at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 10 July 1869 and drew an estimated 12,000 spectators.
\BDescription:\b Cycling race \I(DFAT)\i.
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"History of Australian State and National Championships",2,"e\3\5_0096.jpg","c","0"
The NSW Championships were first contested on the Association Cricket Ground (now the Sydney Cricket Ground) at Moore Park, Sydney, on 26 August 1882 and were organised by the Sydney Bicycle Club which had been formed in 1879. The club is still in existence today.
The first Australian championships were held in Adelaide in 1888 and won by a South Australian, Dick Davis riding a penny farthing. The first interstate distance record was set by A. Edwards in May 1884 when he rode a penny farthing from Sydney to Melbourne. Edwards took eight and a half days to cover the 856 km.
\BDescription:\b Bicycle race \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australian Achievements in Cycling",3,"spread189.spr","f","0"
A tricycle event held in Adelaide by the South Australian Bicycle Club in 1885 was the first event for women in Australia. The first 'conventional' race for women was held in Sydney in 1888 over a two mile distance at Ashfield, and won by Dot Morell.
By the turn of the century, cycling was one of the biggest spectator sports in Australia. The first Australian to win a world championship was Bob Spears of Dubbo, New South Wales, who won the World Professional Sprint title in Paris in 1920. Sid Patterson was the first Australian to win a world amateur title when he won the 1,000 metre sprint at the World Championship held in Copenhagen in 1949.
Today, championship cycling consists of velodrome (track) events and road racing.
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"Australia at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games",4,"e\3\6_0015.jpg","c","0"
Australians have won just about every cycling event at the Commonwealth Games since cycling was introduced as a sport in 1938, as well as six gold medals in Olympic Games. Our first Olympic gold medallist was Edgar "Dunc" Gray who won the 1,000 m time trial at the 1932 Olympics and the 1,000 m sprint in the 1938 Empire Games in Sydney.
Russell Mockridge was Australia's most successful competitor, winning two gold medals at both the 1950 Commonwealth Games and the 1952 Olympic Games. Ian Browne and Tony Marchant won the 2,000 m tandem in 1956 (an event that has since been discontinued) and in 1984 Australia won the 4,000 m teams pursuit.
In 1992 in Barcelona, Kathy Watt became Australia's first female Olympic Games gold medallist, winning the women's 73 km road race.
Australia won three gold medals at the inaugural World Track Cycling Championships, held in Hamar, Norway, in 1993, the first world championship where amateurs and professionals competed together. Gary Neiwand won the men's 1,000 m sprint and the keirin (motor paced) sprint, and the Australian team won the men's 4,000 m pursuit.
At the 1994 championships in Palmermo, Italy, Australia won one silver and two bronze medals; at the 1995 championships in Bogota, Colombia, Australia won three gold and two bronze medals; and in 1996 in Manchester, England, Australia won two gold, three silver and two bronze medals.
At the 1997 World Track Cycling Championships held in Perth, Shane Kelly won gold in the 1,000 m time trial; Michelle Ferris won silver in the sprint and silver in the 500 m time trial; and the men's team, consisting of cyclists Danny Day, Sean Eadie and Shane Kelly, won a bronze medal in the Olympic sprint.
\BDescription:\b Cycling race \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Brief History of Equestrian Sports",1,"e\3\3_0019.jpg","c","gallop10"
Equestrian is one of the few sports where men and women compete with each other. The origin of the partnership between man and horse goes back to pre-history, and there is evidence of this in the art and literature of ancient Greece, Persia, Egypt and China. Equestrian sports as we know them probably started on 15 April, 1864 when the Royal Dublin Society in Ireland ran the first modern "Horse Show". Two jumping events were on the program.
In 1865 the Societe Hippique Francaise was founded and a year later it organised its first Concours Hippique. Similar organisations conducted competitions in Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Holland during the 1870s and 1880s.
\BDescription:\b Equestrian event \I(DFAT)\i.
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"History of Equestrian Events in Australia",2,"e\3\3_0019.jpg","c","gallop10"
In Australia, equestrian events were largely confined to the military, who dominated the sport up until World War II. In 1949 the Federation Equestrian Internationale (FEI) was formed and the sport began to flourish. Australia affiliated with the FEI in 1951 and in 1955 was represented in international competition for the first time.
Today there are seven equestrian disciplines: Three Day Event, Dressage, Jumping, Driving, Endurance Riding, Vaulting and Tent-Pegging. Three of these disciplines are conducted at Olympic Games: Three Day Event, Dressage and Jumping.
\BDescription:\b Equestrian event \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australia's Equestrian Success at the Olympic Games",3,"e\3\5_0022.jpg","c","crowd0"
Australia first participated in Olympic events in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1956, where equestrian events were held because Australia's quarantine laws prohibited the importation of horses for short periods for the Games in Melbourne. Australia finished fourth in the teams Three Day Event.
In 1960 Australia won both the teams Three Day Event and Laurie Morgan on his horse \ISalad Days\i won the individual gold medal. Australia won a bronze medal in the Three Day Event in Mexico in 1968 and in Montreal in 1976.
Australia did not win another medal until 1992 in Barcelona when the Three Day Event team of Matthew Ryan on Kibah Tic Toc, Andrew Hoy on Kiwi and Gillian Rolton on Peppermint Grove won the gold medal. Matthew Ryan also won the individual gold medal.
In Atlanta 1996, Andrew Hoy, Phillip Dutton, Wendy Schaeffer and Gillian Rolton won Olympic gold in the equestrian 3-day event.
The first World Equestrian Games were conducted in Stockholm in 1990 and are held every four years between Olympic Games. Six disciplines are represented; Three Day Event, Dressage, Showjumping, Endurance riding, Vaulting and Four-in-hand Carriage Driving.
The second World Equestrian Games were held in The Hague, Netherlands in July/August 1994.
Australia's best performancs were by June Peterson who won a bronze medal in the Endurance event in 1990 and the Endurance Team with a bronze medal in 1994.
Before 1990 there were separate World Championships for the individual disciplines. The sixth World Three Day Event Championships were held in Gawler, South Australia in 1986.
\BDescription:\b Equestrian event \I(DFAT)\i.
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11#
12,0
"History of Golf",1,"e\2\6_0014.jpg","c","0"
According to ancient paintings, a version of golf was played by the Romans and a similar game is known to have been played in England during the reign of Edward III in the 1300s.
Later it was played in Holland and by the middle of the 15th Century, golf was the national game of Scotland. The earliest official mention of the game was a prohibiting law passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1457.
\BDescription:\b Golfing champion Greg Norman (right) \I(DFAT)\i.
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"History of Golf in Australia",2,"e\2\6_0014.jpg","c","golf0"
A Scotsman, Alexander Reid, was the first man to play golf in Australia on a surveyed course. Reid pegged out a short course on his property, Ratho, at Bothwell in Tasmania in the 1820s playing with friends who shared his small supply of clubs and feathery (sewn leather) balls. Reid's rough course is now part of the Bothwell Golf Club, 75 km from Hobart.
The father of the game in Australia could be said to be another Scotsman, the Hon. James Graham, who was instrumental in the formation of a club in Melbourne in 1847 on a course laid out at Flagstaff Hill, the site of the present Flagstaff Gardens.
The Melbourne Golf Club (later Royal Melbourne), now located on part of this site, was founded in 1891 and was the first club in Australia to boast membership, a properly constituted committee and a clubhouse.
The first Australian championship was the Australian Ladies' Championship, played at Geelong on 29-30 August 1894. The event was officially the Victorian Ladies' Championships however the result was recorded as the "Australian Championship" until 1900. The first mens' amateur Australian championship was played in November the same year at Melbourne Golf Club.
The first open national championship, where amateurs competed against professionals, was held at the Australian Golf Club at Botany, near Sydney on 3-4 September 1904. Entrants from every state, and England, Scotland and New Zealand all played 36 holes for two successive days, and the Hon. Michael Scott of England won with an aggregate of 315 (77-74-80-84).
Scott was runner-up the following year and won the Open again in 1907. He also won the Australian Amateur Championship in 1905, 1907, 1909 and 1910 before returning to England where he became Britain's captain. He then won the French Amateur Championship in 1912 and 1922.
\BDescription:\b Australian golfing champion Greg Norman \I(DFAT)\i.
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"The Australian Open",4,"spread113.spr","f","0"
The Australian Open is the most prestigious golf tournament in Australia. It dates back to 1904 and rates the highest in the world behind the four majors. Many of the world's greatest golfers have played and won the event, including Gene Sarazen, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Sam Snead, Bill Rogers, Tom Watson, Bobby Locke, Gary Player and Greg Norman.
This table shows the winners from 1904 to 1996.
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"The Australian Masters",5,"spread101.spr","c","0"
Although a number of tournaments bearing the same name had been previously staged at courses around Australia, the Australian Masters was permanently sited at Huntingdale in Melbourne in 1979.
The Australian Masters is now recognised as the second most important golf tournament in Australia behind the Australian Open.
The first Professional Golfer's Association Championship was held as a match-play event in 1906 when the top four professionals in the Australian Open qualified to play over 36 holes for a purse provided by the Australian Golf Union. The first event was won by Dan Soutar at Royal Sydney.
In 1924 the format was changed to allow the PGA Championship to become a separate golf tournament alternating between the States. The Championship was changed to a 72-hold stroke-play competition in 1964 and reverted to match play over 18 holes in 1973.
The Australasian PGA Tour is set to receive an increase in prize money for the 1996-97 circuit, from $7 million to $8.5 million.
This table shows the winners from 1906 to 1996. There was no tournament held in 1995.
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"Air New Zealand/Shell Open Golf",7,"spread092.spr","e","0"
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"Queensland Open Championship Golf",8,"spread109.spr","e","0"
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"New South Wales Open Championship Golf",9,"spread108.spr","e","0"
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"South Australian Open Championship Golf",10,"spread110.spr","e","0"
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"Victorian Open Championship Golf",11,"spread112.spr","e","0"
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"Women's Golf",12,"e\3\wgolf.jpg","c","golf0"
Golf has always been a popular sport for women and one of the few sports that women have been involved in since its early days. The first Australian championship was held in 1894, at Geelong, Victoria and won by Miss C.B. McKenzie of Victoria.
The title has been contested annually ever since, with the exception of the war years. McKenzie, Mona MacLeod (Vic), Pat Borthwick (NSW) and Sandra McCaw (Vic) have all won a record four Australian championships.
Due to lack of sponsorship support, a regular professional women's golf circuit has never succeeded in Australia. The first Australian Women's Open Championship was held in 1974 at the Victoria Golf Club and Australia's Penny Pulz finished runner-up to Japan's Chako Higuchi.
Jan Stephenson won the event in 1977 and the tournament ceased after the 1978 event won by Debbie Austin (USA).
In August 1995, Karrie Webb became the 3rd Australian female to win the British open. Karrie was only 20 years old at the time and had only been playing professionally for under one year. In 1996 up until September, Karrie won 3 more international tournaments and became the first Australian woman to win over $1 million in prize money in under a year.
"Brief History of Hockey",1,"e\3\5_0098.jpg","c","soccer0"
The modern game of hockey evolved in England in the 1860s after the first club was founded in London in 1861. Hockey was introduced to Australia by British Naval officers in the early 1900s and the first men's association, the SA Hockey Association, was founded in Adelaide in 1903.
The steady growth of the sport in the early years of the 20th century was reflected in the formation in 1925 of the Australian Hockey Association. The international governing body, the Federation Internationale de Hockey, was formed a year earlier which today governs both men's and women's hockey.
\BDescription:\b Women's hockey match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"History of International Competition in Australia",2,"spread191.spr","c","0"
Before 1956, international competition for the Australian men's team was limited to Test series against New Zealand and the occasional visiting Indian team, however the team now competes regularly at international level.
The Australian men's hockey teams have won three silver medals and two bronze medals at Olympic Games, a medal in almost every Champions Trophy tournament since the event began in 1978, and the 1986 World Cup in London.
The Australian women's hockey team won Olympic gold in 1988 and again in 1996.
This table shows the winning men's teams from 1971 to 1994.
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"National Hockey League",3,5_0097.jpg,g,0
Australian hockey followed the lead of many other sports in 1991 when the National Hockey League (NHL) was formed with six teams.
Eight teams now comprise the men's NHL: Brisbane Blades, Perth Thundersticks, Adelaide Hotshots, NSW Warriors, Melbourne Redbacks, Canberra Lakers, Tassie Tigers and the North Queensland Barras.
\BNational Hockey League Champions\b
\I1991:\i Brisbane Blades
\I1992:\i Perth Thundersticks
\I1993:\i Perth Thundersticks
\I1994: \iDid not play
\I1995:\i Perth Thundersticks
\I1996:\i Melbourne Redbacks
\I1997:\i NSW Warriors
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Men's Champions Trophy",4,"spread192.spr","c","0"
The Champions Trophy is contested annually by the top six hockey nations in the world.
This table shows the winning teams from 1978 to 1997.
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"Women's Hockey",5,wohock.jpg,c,0
The Australian Women's Hockey Association (AWHA) was formed in 1910 with NSW, Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia as the founding states. Western Australia joined in 1921 followed by Queensland in 1925, ACT in 1976 and the Northern Territory in 1980.
In 1927 Australia was one of eight foundation members of the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA) and an English team played matches in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide the same year. In 1930 the first Australian women's team travelled abroad and played matches in South Africa, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), and England as well as four other countries in Europe.
In 1956 the AWHA gained international recognition when it hosted an IFWHA Tournament in Sydney with 10 nations competing. The AWHA joined the Federation Internationale de Hockey in 1980.
Women's hockey has developed from a handful of clubs to more than 30,000 registered players and an estimated further 160,000 women and girls playing the sport from veterans to modified hockey.
The Australian women's hockey team has won Olympic gold twice: in 1988 at Seoul, Korea, beating South Korea; and in 1996 at Atlanta, USA, beating South Korea again.
\BDescription:\b 1996 Atlanta gold medal winning women's hockey team \I(Roger Gould)\i.
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"World Cup (Women's)",6,"spread193.spr","c","0"
Australia was represented at IFWHA tournaments held every four years between 1953 and 1979, however when Australia affiliated with the Federation Internationale de Hockey in 1981, it became eligible to send a team to the World Cup which had begun in 1974. Australia finished fourth in 1981, third in 1983 and sixth in 1986.
Twelve nations took part in the seventh Women's Hockey World Cup held in Sydney in 1990 where Australia won the silver medal. In 1994 Australia won the gold medal.
This table shows the winning teams from 1974 to 1994.
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"Women's Champions Trophy",7,"spread194.spr","c","0"
The Champions Trophy is played every two years between the top six hockey nations in the world.
This table shows the winning teams from 1987 to 1997.
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13#
15,0
"Overview of Horseracing",1,0328.jpg,g,0
Horsemanship was an important part of the Hittite culture of Anatolia in Turkey dating from 1400 BC and featured in the ancient Olympic Games in 648 BC. The earliest races were recorded in England in about 200 AD and racing has enjoyed the title of the "Sport of Kings" since the Prince of Wales rode in a match race in 1377.
A stallion, three mares and three yearlings arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in January 1788, and by 1798 horses were being regularly imported from the Cape of Good Hope. From 1803 a great many Arabian horses were also imported, among them a government-owned stallion named Satellite. This mixed bunch set Australia's 'thoroughbred' breeding industry off to a tottering start.
The earliest racing of any significance was probably held in 1805 at a racecourse on Ham Common, near the present-day Hawkesbury Racecourse, near Windsor in NSW.
\BDescription:\b Early racehorses (Film Australia)
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"First Races Held in Australia",2,"a\4\2_0096.jpg","c","crowd0"
The first officially recorded horserace took place in April 1810, when the celebrated horse Parramatta defeated a bay stallion called Belfast in a match race at Parramatta, NSW. The first recognised race meeting was held on 15-18 October 1810, in Sydney's Hyde Park. The meeting was organised by officers of the 73rd Regiment on a clockwise course which had the finishing straight running north along the present line of Elizabeth Street.
Racing continued at Hyde Park until November 1821 when the Governor, Sir \JThomas Brisbane,\j acting on reports that some meetings "had degenerated into a system of low gambling and dissipation, subversive of order and good morals", implemented restrictions that made racing impossible for the next three years.
\BDescription:\b Horseracing \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australian Racing Committee is Formed",3,"e\3\5_0026.jpg","c","crowd0"
After some picnic-style racing in the Hawkesbury district, racing returned to Sydney on 3 March 1825 at a course known variously as the Woollahra Course, the Bellevue Course or Captain Piper's Racecourse named after Captain John Piper, one of the organisers. It incorporated the land on which the Bondi Bowling Club and Barracluff Park now stand.
At a meeting held on 18 March 1825, Australia's first racing club was formed, the Sydney Turf Club. The STC began staging race meetings at the Woollahra Course on 25 April 1825 and was finally incorporated into the AJC in 1842.
In 1840 a body known as the Australian Race Committee was established in Sydney. On 5 January 1841 it was renamed the Australian Jockey Club and staged its first meeting at a track at Homebush on 29 March, 1841. Racing continued at Homebush until 1859 when a fire severely damaged the course, and in 1860 the first meeting was held at Randwick, which became the club's home in 1864. The AJC is now Australia's oldest continuing racing club.
\BDescription:\b Horseracing \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Melbourne Cup",4,"spread114.spr","f","0"
Australia's most famous horse race is held on the first Tuesday in November by the Victorian Racing Club at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. The Melbourne Cup was first held in 1861 over a distance of two miles; in 1972 the metric system was introduced and it was converted to the marginally shorter 3,200 m.
The Melbourne Cup literally stops the nation and Victoria is the only place in the world to celebrate a public holiday because of a horse race.
The first Melbourne Cup was held on Thursday, 7 November 1861 and won by the Sydney horse Archer, owned by Mr Etienne De Mestre and ridden by John Cutts. Archer started at 6/1 in a field of 17 and won easily in 3 mins 52 secs to earn a prize of 1420 pounds and a gold watch. Archer also won the Melbourne Cup the following year, but his nomination for the third race in 1863 was refused because it arrived late.
This table shows the Melbourne Cup winners from 1861 to 1997.
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"W.S. Cox Plate",5,"spread116.spr","c","0"
The W.S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, named in honour of the founder of the track, is Australia's weight-for-age championship. Run over 2,040 m, the race was first staged in 1922 and there have been many famous winners of the race.
In 1930 and 1931 it was won by the immortal Phar Lap, Tulloch (1960), Kingston Town won a record three in succession (1980, 1981, 1982) and Bonecrusher (1986).
This table shows the winners for each year from 1922 to 1997.
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"Caulfield Cup",6,"spread117.spr","c","0"
A open handicap event over 2,400 m, the VATC Caulfield Cup is widely regarded as Australia's toughest race to win. It was first run in 1879 in autumn and has been held at Caulfield in spring since 1881.
Scobie \JBreasley\j rode a record five Caulfield Cup winners: Tranquil Star, Skipton, Counsel, St Fairy and Peshwar. Rising Fast (1954 and 1955) and Ming Dynasty (1977 and 1980) are the only horses to win the race twice in recent years.
This table shows the winners for each year from 1879 to 1997. The 1997 winner, Might and Power, set a new record time for the race of 2:26.2 minutes.
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"Victoria Derby",7,"e\3\5_0032.jpg","f","0"
The VRC Victoria Derby, held at Flemington, is run for three-year-olds over 2,500 m in the spring. It was first held in 1855, six years before the Melbourne Cup.
The STC Golden Slipper Stakes is the premier event of the Sydney Turf Club and is generally acknowledged as second to the Melbourne Cup in prestige and publicity. First run in 1957, it is a set weight for two-year-olds held over 1,200 m at Rosehill.
This table gives the results from 1957 to 1997.
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"Sydney Cup",9,"0","g","0"
The AJC Sydney Cup is run at Randwick during the Easter Carnival over 3,200 m, the same distance as the Melbourne Cup. It is a handicap event open to three-year-olds and over, and has been won by several big hearted stayers over the last 20 years including Battle Heights (1974), Reckless (1977) (who also won the Brisbane and Adelaide Cups that year), and Kingston Town (1980).
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"AJC St Leger and Derby",10,"spread118.spr","f","0"
The AJC St Leger is Australia's oldest classic race. Held at Homebush from 1841 to 1859, it resumed at Randwick in 1861 and has been held every year since.
The AJC Derby at Randwick is a set weight event open to three-year-olds. It was first run in 1861 and has gone through a number of changes in name and distance, now being over 2,400 m in the autumn.
The 1996 winner, Octagonal, set a race record of 2 m 28.41 seconds.
This table gives the winners for all years from 1861 to 1997.
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"Doncaster Handicap",11,"spread119.spr","f","0"
First run in 1866, the Doncaster Handicap is part of the AJC Randwick Easter Carnival. Open to horses three years and older, this race is run over 1,600 m. It was won in 1984 by 55 year old jockey Kevin Mitchell on Vite Cheval, the oldest jockey to win a Group One race in Australia.
This table provides the results for all years from 1866 to 1997.
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"The Stradbroke Handicap and the Queensland Derby",12,"0","g","0"
The Stradbroke Handicap, run over 1,400 m in June, is open to two-year-olds and over, at Eagle Farm in Brisbane. Named after Henry Rous who was the son of the Earl of Stradbroke, he introduced the weight for age scale in Australia. It was first held in 1927 and was known as the Elders Handicap between 1981- 89.
Queensland's major race for three-year-olds is the Queensland Derby, a set weight race run over 2,400 m and held at Eagle Farm since 1871.
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"Australian Cup",13,"spread115.spr","c","0"
The Australian Cup was first run at Flemington in 1863 over a distance of two and a quarter miles. It is now run over 2000 m.
This table shows the winners from 1863 to 1997.
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"Other Major Races in Australian Capital Cities",14,"e\4\2_0095.jpg","f","0"
Like the Sydney and Melbourne Cups, the Brisbane Cup is a marathon in the racing world, run over 3,200 m at Eagle Farm in June. First won by Forrester in 1866, the race is the third of Queensland's most important Group One races.
First staged in 1864, the Adelaide Cup is South Australia's most important race and is run for three-year-olds over 3,200 m at Morphetville in May. Maree Lyndon won the race on Lord Reims in 1987, the only female jockey to win the event. Lord Reims went on to win again in 1988 and 1989.
Initially called the Metropolitan Handicap when it was first staged in 1879, the WATC Perth Cup is run over 3,200 m at Ascot on New Year's Day. The race is the premier event in Western Australia.
\BDescription:\b Horseracing \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australian Derby",15,"e\4\5_0030.jpg","c","!"
A relative newcomer to Australian racing, the Australian Derby was inaugurated in 1972 and is held on Boxing Day. The race, over 2,400 m, is for invited three-year-olds and was one of the first races in Australia to attract commercial sponsorship.
\BDescription:\b Horseracing \I(DFAT)\i.
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14#
7,0
"History of Bowls in Australia",1,"e\4\bowls2.jpg","c","0"
A game similar to bowls was played for many hundreds of years in England before it became popular in the 17th and 18th Century when publicans established greens outside their hotels.
In Australia the first game was reportedly played in January 1845, when English migrant Fred Lipscombe played another Englishman, T. Burgess, on a green that Lipscombe had laid down at his Beach Tavern hotel in Sandy Bay Road, Hobart.
However, almost certainly the game was played before that date because Lipscombe had advertised the availability of his green the previous year. In August 1845, Thomas Shaw also opened a green at the Woolpack Inn on Parramatta Road at Petersham, near Sydney.
The first official club was opened on 28 October 1846 at William Turner's Bowling Green Hotel in Fitzroy Place, Hobart. Instead of players paying a few pence for a game, Turner charged enthusiasts an annual subscription of 10 shillings.
The first club competition was held in 1867 when Melbourne, Fitzroy, Prahran, St Kilda, \JBallarat\j and West Melbourne Clubs played under a new set of laws governing team competitions. NSW and Victoria played the first intercolonial game, won by Victoria, at Annandale in Sydney in April 1880.
"NSW Bowls Association is Formed",2,"e\4\bowls.jpg","c","0"
The NSW Bowling Association was formed on 22 May 1880 and was the first organisation anywhere in the world to control the game on an area basis.
The Victorian Bowling Association was formed in Melbourne two months later and a national governing body, the Australian Bowls Council (ABC), formed in 1911, led to the standardisation of most of the game's rules such as the size of the greens, mats and ditches.
The period 1900-20 saw the rapid development of the game. The inaugural Australian championships were played in 1900 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. J.H. Sheedy of the Richmond Club in Melbourne won the first singles title however the championship is not officially recognised by the Australian Bowling Council.
The first official Australian titles were held in 1912-13 in Melbourne. William Sayers of \JBallarat\j in Victoria, won the singles title and at the age of 38, Sayers remained the youngest winner of the title until Ellis Crew won in 1961, also at the age of 38.
"Australian Bowls in the International Arena",3,bowls.jpg,g,0
In 1901 a team representing Australasia toured Great Britain and Ireland. Thirty Australians and 12 New Zealanders made the trip and after a token number of appearances as a combined side, split into separate teams. Australia won 11 matches and lost 10 with one tied, and New Zealand won nine and lost 10.
The way was opened for professionals on 21 January 1981 when the Australian Bowls Council agreed to abolish the strict concept of amateurism and adopt the infrastructure of a new organisation to include both professionals and amateurs. All affiliated Australian clubs became free to stage professional events and offer cash prizes.
Today there are more than 2,225 greens in Australia with membership of about 450,000 men and women. The sport has an enormous following, primarily in Commonwealth countries, and Australia accounts for some 43 per cent of the world's bowling population.
\BDescription:\b \I(Carol Arnaudo)\i
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"World Bowls",4,"spread196.spr","c","0"
World Bowls, held every four years, is the most prestigious international bowls tournament and involves over 28 countries. Australia hosted the inaugural event in October 1966 at the NSW Leagues Club Bowling Club at Kyeemagh, Sydney. Eighty bowlers from 16 countries competed and Australia won the pairs and the triples, as well as the Leonard Trophy as the world champion nation.
Australia finished ninth in the 1972 World Bowls in England and ninth again in 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1980, the championships were held in Melbourne at the City of Frankston Bowling Club and Australia won another gold medal in the pairs.
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"Jack High Bowls",5,"spread195.spr","c","0"
ABC TV made bowls history in 1980 by producing \IJack High,\i a weekly program which loosely followed the lines of televised snooker.
The tournament winners are shown in this table.
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"Women's Lawn Bowls",6,"e\4\bowls3.jpg","c","0"
Although women have been playing bowls in most countries for almost as long as men, the participation of Australian women in the game was first recorded in a tournament at Stawell, Victoria in October 1881.
On 16 December 1898 the first ladies' bowling club in Australia, the Rainsford Bowling Club, was formed at the home of Mr. J. Rainsford Needham of Glenferrie, Melbourne.
The next year the South Melbourne Cricket Club Ladies' Bowling Club was formed, the oldest continuous women's bowling club in Australia until it disbanded a few years ago.
In 1907 the Victorian Ladies' Bowling Association (VLBA) was formed and is the oldest women's bowling association in the world. Other women's associations were formed around Australia in NSW (1929), Queensland (1930), South Australia (1930), Western Australia (1935), Tasmania (1936), and Northern Territory (1983).
In 1949 the Australian Women's Bowling Council (AWBC) was formed and the first carnival was held in Sydney the same year. Since 1947 the AWBC has become one of the strongest women's bowls organisation in the world.
The Council staged World Championships in Sydney in 1969 which also led to the formation of the International Women's Bowling Board.
There are more than 2,000 women's bowling clubs around Australia with a total membership approaching 160,000, many of which are owned and operated solely by women. The Elizabethan Club at Rockdale in Sydney is one such club, the biggest women's bowls club in the world.
\BDescription:\b \I(Carol Arnaudo)\i
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"Overview of Australian Motorcycle Racing",1,"e\4\2_0092.jpg","c","mbike30"
Early motorcycle races were usually held over a period of hours, sometimes days, and tended to be races from one city to another. Although there are conflicting claims, the world's first recorded motorcycle race is widely accepted to have been held in Paris in 1894.
The first recorded race in Australia was a three-heat competition for motorised de Dion tricycles on New Year's Day in 1901 around the concrete cycling track which once ringed the Sydney Cricket Ground. Jack Green won all three races with a fastest race average of 37.7 km/h.
\BDescription:\b Motorcycle racing \I(DFAT)\i.
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"First Australian Motorcycle Club",2,"e\4\2_0092.jpg","f","0"
The first Australian club, the Pioneer Motorcycle Club, was established in Sydney in 1903 and the Victorian Motorcycle Club and the Perth Motorcycle Club were formed later the same year. The Tasmanian Club, established in 1905 and based in \JLaunceston,\j is the oldest club still in existence and is the second oldest motorcycle club in the Commonwealth.
There are nine different championship categories for motorcycle racing in Australia. These are Speedway, Long Track, Dirt Track, Observed Trials, Road Racing, Motorcross, Supercross, Junior Motorcross and Enduro.
Each category is divided into different classes based on the capacity size of the bike. Road Racing is regarded as the premier championship category and classes are held for 125cc, 250cc, 250cc Production, Superbikes and Sidecars. Different classes, influenced by changes in motorcycle development, have been used for the Australian Championships. Today the Australian Champion is regarded as the winner of the sport's premier class, the Australian Superbike Championship.
Between 1948 and 1972 the Australian Championships were decided at one meeting, the Australian Tourist Trophy, which was rotated annually between the States. Since 1973 the championship has been determined over a number of race meetings, one round usually being held in each State.
Five Australians have won motorcycle world championships. Keith Campbell won the 1957 350cc championship, Tom Phillis won the 1961 125cc championship, Kel Carruthers won the 1969 250cc championship, \JWayne Gardner\j won the 500cc World Championship in 1987 and \JMichael Doohan\j won the 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 500cc World Championships. Doohan sailed into the record books in September 1997 when he won the Catalunya 500cc Grand Prix in Spain as this win was his 12th for the season - the previous record number of wins for one season was held by Italian Giacomo Agostini who had 11 wins in 1968.
Seven Australians have won 500cc races: Jack Ahearn, Jack Findlay, Ken Kavanagh, \JWayne Gardner,\j Kevin Magee, \JMichael Doohan\j and \JDaryl Beattie.\j
\BDescription:\b Motorcycle racing \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australian 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix",5,"spread197.spr","c","0"
A round of the FIM World Motorcycle Championship, awarded to Australia in 1988, was first held at Phillip Island, Victoria, on 6-9 April, 1989. The event moved to the new Eastern Creek circuit in Sydney in 1991 and in 1997 it moved permanently back to Phillip Island, Victoria.
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10,0
"History of Motor Racing in Australia",1,"e\4\2_0094.jpg","c","form10"
The world's first official motor race was staged in France in July 1895, from Paris to Bordeaux and return. Grand Prix, the predecessor of today's Formula 1 races, were held annually between 1906 and 1914 in France, and it was not until 1921 that another Grand Prix, the Italian, was established.
Races for four-wheeled vehicles were held at Aspendale Racecourse in Victoria on 31st January, 1904, when 20 cars, driven by members of the Automobile Club of Victoria, toured from Melbourne to Aspendale and took part in "speed demonstrations".
The earliest official event was held on 12 March, 1904, at the Sandown Park Racecourse in Melbourne. Professional motor racing began at Aspendale in 1906, followed by events at Maribyrnong Racecourse (Victoria) and Victoria Park Racecourse in Sydney, both in 1908.
\BDescription:\b Motor racing \I(DFAT)\i.
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"History of Australian Circuits",2,"e\4\5_0044.jpg","c","0"
A one-mile dirt oval track at Penrith, Sydney, opened in 1923 and operated until just before World War II when it was closed after an accident which killed a number of spectators. Two high-speed concrete oval tracks were also built in the mid 1920s - one at Olympia Park in Melbourne and the other at Maroubra in Sydney.
The Maroubra Speedway opened in December, 1925 and attracted large crowds. However the track was extremely dangerous and racing only lasted until early 1927, when it closed after several competitors were killed.
Mount Panorama at Bathurst, first used in 1938 as a dirt track, is Australia's oldest surviving road course. It was sealed in 1939 and has hosted Australia's premier touring car race, the Bathurst 1000, since 1963.
\BDescription:\b Motor racing at Bathurst \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Racing Circuits",3,"e\4\5_0009.jpg","c","form10"
Until 1951 there were no purpose-built circuits in Australia. Racing depended on the availability of public roads closed for the occasion. That year a 3.6 km circuit opened at Mt. Druitt. The first and only 24-hour race was held there in February 1954 and was won by Geordie Anderson, Bill Pitt and Charlie Swinburne of Queensland, covering the 2,028 kms in a Jaguar XK120.
Following the establishment of a principal governing body for motor racing in 1953, the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS), there was a boom in circuits, clubs, and race meetings.
The Victorian Sporting Car Club opened a track at Altona, west of Melbourne in 1954 and other new tar-sealed circuits opened at Phillip Island, Vic (1956), Baskerville (1958), Symmons Plains, Tas (1959), Warwick Farm, NSW (1960), Catalina and Lakeside, Qld, Mallala, SA and Winton, Vic (1961), Calder and Sandown, Vic, Towac Park and Oran Park, NSW (1962). Eastern Creek Raceway, Sydney opened in 1991.
\BDescription:\b Indycar race in Queensland \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Bathurst - The Great Race",4,"spread198.spr","c","0"
Australia's premier touring car endurance race was originally known as the Armstrong 500 and first held in 1960 at Phillip Island. In 1963 the race moved to the 6.3 km (3.9 mile) circuit at Mt Panorama, Bathurst, NSW. It was conducted over 130 laps/503.75 miles then went metric in 1973 and the distance was increased to 1,006.03 kms/163 laps. In 1987 a chicane was added to Conrod Straight and the race was reduced to 161 laps/1,000.29 kms.
The race has gone through a succession of name changes over the years. It was originally known as the Armstrong 500 between 1960-1965, then the Gallaher 500 in 1966 and 1967, and the Hardie-Ferodo 500 between 1968 and 1972. The race went metric in 1973 as the Hardie Ferodo 1000, then became the James Hardie 1000 between 1981 and 1987. It was then called the Tooheys 1000 and is currently known as the Bathurst 1000.
This table lists the Bathurst winners from 1960 to 1997. The 1996 winners, Lowndes and Murphy, were the youngest winners for this race to date.
In 1997 there were two races at Bathurst. One was for the international super touring cars and the other, held two weeks later, and called the Primus 1000 Classic, was for the V8s.
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"Twelve-hour Production Car Race",5,"e\4\dfat62.jpg","c","0"
The 12-hour Production Car Race (formerly called the James Hardie 12-hour) is Australia's major production car race and has been held at Bathurst over Easter since 1991. In 1995 the race was held on 27th August at Eastern Creek. This event was not held in 1996 or 1997.
\BThe winners:\b
\B1991:\b Peter Fitzgerald/Allan Grice/Nigel Arkel (NZ), Toyota Supra
"Australian Touring Car Championship",6,"spread199.spr","f","0"
The Australian Touring Car Championship is Australia's premier motor racing series. The championship commenced in 1960 and was a single annual race until 1969 when a national series was introduced with rounds in each State. Dick Johnson has won a record five championships.
This table shows the championship winners from 1980 to 1997.
The Australian Driver's Championship is a national series conducted since 1957. During that time it has been run under a number of different formulas. Between 1957 and 1970 it was conducted for 2.5 litre engines and known as Australia National Formula 1, 1970-81 the 5 litre V8 Formula 5000, 1982-86 Formula Pacific, 1987-88 Formula 2, 1989-90 Formula Holden and since 1991 it has been Formula Brabham. The race is now known as the Formula Holden.
This table shows the Championship winners from 1980 to 1997.
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"Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix",8,"spread201.spr","c","0"
Since 1985 Australia has hosted the final round of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in Adelaide. The 3.78 km circuit, along with Monaco is one of only two-street circuits in the 16-round series. The event is held over four days and includes support races for Group A, Formula Holden, Formula Ford, and Super Karts categories, as well as a celebrity race. From 1996 the Formula 1 venue moved to Melbourne.
Alan Jones, who drove a Lola Ford in 1985 and 1986, and David Brabham, who drove with the Brabham team in 1991 are the only Australians to drive in the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
This table shows the Grand Prix winners from 1985 to 1997.
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"Rally Australia",9,"spread202.spr","f","0"
Held in and around Perth in September every year, Rally Australia started in 1988 as a round of the FIA Pacific Asian Championship and has been a round of the FIA World Rally Championship and Manufacturer's Championship since 1989.
This table shows the winners from 1988 to 1997.
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"Indycar Racing",10,"spread203.spr","c","0"
Indycar racing is the premier class of motor racing in the USA. The cars look similar to Formula 1 cars, however they are heavier, have narrower wheels and their 3.5 litre turbo engines run on methanol rather than petrol.
The first round of the 16 race series takes place on a street circuit at Surfer's Paradise on Queensland's Gold Coast in March. Other rounds are conducted on both street and banked oval circuits in the USA and Canada, including the famous Indianapolis 500 in May.
Gary Brabham has driven a number of Indycar races in the USA and in 1993 became the first Australian to drive in the Australian Indycar Grand Prix. Jack Brabham, Geoff Brabham, Vern Schuppan and Dennis Firestone have also driven IndyCar races in the USA.
This table shows the Grand Prix winners in Australia from 1991 to 1997.
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"Evolution of Netball",1,"e\4\3_0018.jpg","c","bball10"
Netball, previously known as women's basketball, is a women's seven-a-side game and is one of the fastest growing international sports.
Records reveal the game was invented in 1891 in the USA, developing from men's basketball. It was first played in England in 1892 because women in the Victorian era found it difficult to play basketball in their long skirts.
The game was brought to Australia in the early 1900s. An inter-school seven-a-side competition was conducted at Parramatta Superior School in 1904 and a similar competition was conducted in Victorian primary schools as early as 1913. In 1926, an interstate tournament was established and Prouds Jewellers in Sydney donated the original Cup.
The tournament has been held every year since, apart from 1937 and during the war. The following year the All Australia Women's Basketball Association was formed.
In 1970 the name of the game was changed to Netball and the association became the All Australia Netball Association. By 1977, all states and territories of Australia had become affiliated.
\BDescription:\b Netball is one of women's most popular sports \I(DFAT)\i.
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"International Netball",2,"spread205.spr","c","0"
Netball was a demonstration sport at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, when Australia won the tournament. The sport is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) but it is not yet played at the Olympic Games.
Today the game is predominantly played in the Commonwealth countries and is the most popular women's sport in Australia with more than 340,000 registered players.
Australia is ranked number 1 in the world having won the World Netball Championship in 1991 and 1995 and the World Games in 1993.
The Commonwealth Trophy (formerly Mobil SuperLeague) is Australian Netball's premier national event. The trophy is contested by the top club based team from each state, as well as a team from the Australian Institute of Sport in \JCanberra.\j
This tables shows the winners from 1986 to 1997.
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"World Youth Cup",4,"e\4\3_0018.jpg","f","0"
World Youth Cup (Under 21s) winners since 1988 are: \B1988\b - Australia playing in \JCanberra,\j Australia; \B1992\b - New Zealand playing in Suva, Fiji; and \B1996\b - Australia playing New Zealand in Toronto, Canada.
\BDescription:\b Netball competition \I(DFAT)\i.
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18#
23,0
"History of the Olympics",1,"e\4\3_0005.jpg","c","0"
The earliest recorded Olympic Games, which are held every four years, were in 776 B.C., in Olympia, Greece, although there is evidence of their occasional celebration up to six centuries earlier. Women and slaves were forbidden to attend these Games and they were banned in 393 A.D.
Largely through the work of a Frenchman, Baron de Coubertin, the modern Olympics began in Athens on April 6-15th, 1896.
\BDescription:\b Displaying country flags at the Olympics \I(DFAT)\i.
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"The Olympics Today",2,"e\4\5_0038.jpg","c","clap10"
Today the Olympic Games are the most popular international sporting event in the world. At the most recent Olympic Games in Atlanta, America, in 1996, over 10,000 athletes from 197 nations competed in 29 sports. Australia sent 430 athletes - a record number - and came home with a record 41 medals.
The five rings logo linked together symbolise the sporting friendship of all nations as well as the five continents. At least one of the ring's five colours, black, red, blue, green and yellow are represented on each nation's flag.
\BDescription:\b Artist's view of Olympic Games \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australia's Team Olympic Medals",3,"chart034.cht","c","0"
This graph shows the gold, silver and bronze team medals Australia has won from 1956 to 1996.
Prior to 1956, Australian Olympic teams have won a gold medal in each of the years 1900, 1908, 1912 and 1952; a silver medal in 1920 and also in 1924; and a bronze medal in 1952.
Australia, along with Greece, Great Britain, France and Switzerland is one of only five countries to be represented in every summer Olympic Games, although Switzerland only contested the Equestrian events in Stockholm in 1956. (Due to Australian quarantine restrictions, the equestrian events in 1956 were not held in the host city of Melbourne.) Of these countries, only Great Britain has been present at every Winter Olympics as well.
Australia did not send an official team to the first Games of the modern era but was represented by Edwin Flack (1874-1936), then resident in London, who won gold medals in the 800 m and 1,500 m track events. He also played in the singles tennis and at one stage led the marathon, before retiring from the race.
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"Australia's Individual Olympic Medals to 1952",4,"chart035.cht","c","0"
This graph shows the gold, silver and bronze individual medals Australia has won from 1896 to 1952.
In Paris in 1900, the Australian team consisted of only two athletes, Stanley Rowley and Freddy Lane. Lane won gold medals in the 200 m freestyle and the 200 m obstacle race, and Rowley won three bronze medals. Under the highly elastic rules then in force, Rowley competed for Great Britain in a cross-country teams event and won a gold medal.
In 1904, Australia's sole representative was Melbourne athlete Corrie Gardner, who competed without success in the 110 m hurdles. In 1908 and 1912 the team included New Zealand competitors and entered as Australasia.
This graph shows the total Australian individual Olympic medals from 1952-96.
The 1996 Atlanta Olympics was Australia's most successful in terms of the number of medals won. In total, Australia got 9 gold, 9 silver and 23 bronze medals, a total of 41.
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"Australia Hosts the Olympics",6,"spread400.spr","c","0"
Click on \JMelbourne Olympics 1956\j to view a video on the 1956 Games.
This table shows the total number of medals Australia has won from 1896 to 1996.
Australia hosted the Olympic Games in 1956 in Melbourne. The Games were held between 22 November and 8 December with the Melbourne Cricket Ground the main venue. Nineteen-year-old Ron Clarke was the final torch bearer and lit the Olympic flame. \JJohn Landy\j took the Olympic oath on behalf of the athletes and HRH Duke of Edinburgh opened the Games.
The Melbourne Olympics were Australia's most successful for gold medals; a team of 314 competitors won 13 gold, 8 silver and 14 bronze medals. However, Atlanta 1996 saw Australia bring home a total of 41 medals.
Brisbane bid unsuccessfully to host the 1992 Olympic Games, finishing third in the ballot behind Barcelona and Paris. Melbourne bid unsuccessfully for the 1996 Games, finishing fourth behind Atlanta, Athens and Toronto. On 23 September, 1993 Sydney won the bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games, edging out Beijing by one vote.
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"1996 Atlanta Olympic Games - Gold Medal Winners",7,"e\4\woodies.jpg","c","0"
\BGold - 9\b
\IIndividual Medal Winners:\i
Michael Diamond - Shooting - Men's single trap
Russell Mark - Shooting - Men's double trap
\JKieren Perkins\j - Swimming - 1,500m freestyle
Susie O'Neill - Swimming - 200m butterfly
\ITeam Medal Winners:\i
\JAndrew Hoy\j, \JPhillip Dutton\j, \JWendy Schaeffer\j and \JGillian Rolton\j - Equestrian - 3-day team event
Women's Hockey Team
Megan Still, Kate Slatter - Rowing - coxless pairs
James Tomkins, Drew Ginn, Michael McKay and Nicholas Green - Rowing - coxless fours
An artists impression of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Athlete's Village.
\BDescription:\b An artists impression of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Athlete's Village \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Winter Olympic Games",19,1_0006.jpg,g,wind0
After skating and ice hockey events were held in 1908 and 1920 as a part of the Summer Olympic Games, it was decided to hold a separate Winter Festival. Sixteen countries took part in the International Winter Sports Week held in Chamonix, France in 1924 and in 1926 it was accorded the title of the Winter Olympic Games retrospectively.
The Winter Olympic Games cater for seven sports; Alpine and Nordic Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Bobsledding, Tobogganing (Luge) Ice Hockey, Biathlon (cross country skiing and shooting) and Ski Jump.
From 1994, Winter Olympic Games have, and will be held in even numbered years between the Summer Olympic Games.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Australia at the Winter Olympics",20,"0","g","0"
Australia was first represented at the Winter Olympics when Sydney speed skater Kenneth Kennedy competed in 1936 in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. Australian born F.J. McEvoy also competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics, but represented Great Britain and won a bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh event. Although Australia has been represented at every Winter Olympics since 1952, we have only won 1 medal - a bronze for speed skating at Lilyhammer, Norway in 1994.
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"Paralympic Games",21,"e\4\5_0040.jpg","c","0"
In 1944, the British government established a spinal injuries centre for ex-servicemen at Stroke Mandeville Hospital in England and was headed by Sir Ludwig Guttman. As part of Guttman's rehabilitation procedures, patients were introduced to a number of sports, and in July 1948 a competition was organised at Stroke Mandeville between groups of veterans from Holland and Great Britain. The Stroke Mandeville Games for wheelchair disabled people have been held annually ever since.
Inspired by the success of Stroke Mandeville, the first Paralympic Games took place in Rome immediately after the Summer Olympic Games in 1960. In 1976 the first Winter Paralympic Games were held in Innsbruck, Austria and the Paralympic Games have followed on from both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games at the same locations ever since.
\BDescription:\b Paralympian competing at the Paralympic Games \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Paralympic Games - (2)",22,"e\4\5_0042.jpg","c","0"
Participants at the Paralympic Games include paraplegics, tetraplegics, amputees, blind and cerebral palsied athletes, as well as athletes with intellectual disabilities. Eighteen sports are recognised by the IPC with boccia, similar to bowls, played by cerebral palsied athletes and goalball played by the blind, the only sport unique to the Paralympics. The rules of the other sports are the same as for the able-bodied athletes, with minor modifications where necessary. In 1989 participating countries established the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) with its secretariat in Brussels, Belgium.
Australia is one of the world's leading competitors in disabled sports. In 1996 in Atlanta, Australia won 106 medals; 42 gold, 37 silver and 27 bronze. In the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Albertville, Australia's team of five skiers took home 1 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze medals.
The Paralympic Games in Sydney 2000 are expected to be held from October 14 to 24, with most of the events conducted at the Olympic Stadium.
\BDescription:\b Competing at the Paralympic Games \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Paralympic Games - Medal Winners 1996",23,"spread423.spr","c","0"
This table lists all the medal winners from the 1996 Paralympic Games held in Atlanta.
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"Rugby League's History in Australia",1,"e\4\5_0029.jpg","c","footy10"
Rugby League began in Australia for the same reasons that professional Rugby football was established in England. In 1893, several Yorkshire clubs asked the Rugby Football Union to consider compensating players for loss of wages as a result of being injured in games. The union opposed the motion and some clubs which began paying their players for the lost time at work were suspended.
A similar incident occurred in Australia in 1907. Some notable Sydney sportsmen and businessmen, including Australian Test cricketer \JVictor Trumper,\j then met to discuss the possibilities of establishing professional Rugby. Such a team, the Australian Pioneers, played three games against a breakaway New Zealand side (New Zealand All Golds) in August, 1907. The champion Australian amateur player, Dally \JMessenger,\j was part of the original Australian breakaway team.
\BDescription:\b Rugby League - Manly vs. Canberra \I(DFAT)\i.
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"New South Wales Rugby League Established",2,5_0016.jpg,g,footy10
The New South Wales Rugby League was established in August 1907 at Bateman's Crystal Hotel in Sydney. Harry Hoyle was elected President, \JVictor Trumper\j was Treasurer and James Giltinan, Secretary. Despite their efforts to get the code started, all three were sacked by the start of the second season, their opponents citing gross financial mismanagement as the reason.
Nine clubs contested the first season: Glebe (the first club formed on 9 January 1908), Newtown, South Sydney, Balmain, Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs, North Sydney, Cumberland and Newcastle. The first premiership games were held on Easter Monday, 21 April, 1908. Two double-headers at separate venues were scheduled to showcase the new code.
At Wentworth Park, Easts beat Newtown 32-16 and Glebe beat Newcastle 8-5, and at Birchgrove Oval Souths beat Norths 11-7 and Balmain beat Wests 24-0. Initially, the breakaway was not popular, with the press and general public openly hostile, but it was to no avail and South Sydney won the first premiership.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Rugby League Grand Final Winners",3,"spread211.spr","c","0"
Every year in September the Rugby League grand final is played.
This table shows the winners from 1908 to 1997.
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"Australia's International Matches",4,"e\4\5_0016.jpg","c","crowd0"
Australia's first international matches were against New Zealand. The first Test was played in Sydney on 9 May, 1908 and New Zealand won 11-10. New Zealand also won the second Test 24-12 in Brisbane and Australia won the third Test 14-9 in Sydney. A. Hennessy captained Australia in the first two Tests.
At the end of the first premiership season, the League threw all caution to the wind and sent a touring side of 36 players to Great Britain. The first Test match was against England at Park Royal in London on 12 December, 1908, and ended in a 22- all draw. England won the second Test 15-5 and the third Test 6-5. The Australian team played a total of 46 matches on the tour, won 18, lost 22 and drew 6, scoring 513 points against 474. Australia's second tour of Great Britain in 1911-12 was the only side until 1963-64 to bring back the Ashes.
Rugby League was first played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Coronation Day, 20 June 1911, when NSW defeated New Zealand 35-10. This game was an important milestone for Rugby League because the code had finally broken the Rugby Union stranglehold on Sydney's premier ground.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"State of Origin",5,"spread212.spr","f","0"
After New South Wales defeated Queensland in 15 successive interstate matches between 1975 and 1980 (and Queensland had failed to score a single point in the 1973 series), it was agreed to change the format for the last match of the 1980 series.
Each team was selected on the basis of a player's birthplace or "state of origin", a concept borrowed from the AFL, and Queensland defeated New South Wales 20-10 before a crowd of more than 33,000 at Lang Park, Brisbane on 8 July, 1980.
This table lists the State of Origin winners from 1980 to 1997.
This medal has been awarded since 1968 to the best and fairest Sydney first grade player, selected on votes from the referees.
This graph shows the winners from 1968 to 1997.
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"Australia's Rugby League Test Results",7,"e\4\3_0015.jpg","c","crowd0"
\BAustralia vs New Zealand 1993\b
\B1st Test:\b Australia drew with New Zealand 14-14 in Auckland, 19 June, 1993.
\B2nd Test:\b Australia defeated New Zealand 16-8 in Palmerston Nth, 25 June, 1993
\B3rd Test:\b Australia defeated New Zealand 16-4 in Brisbane, 30 June, 1993.
\BAustralia vs Great Britain 1994\b
\B1st Test:\b Great Britain defeated Australia 8-4 in Wembley, 22 October, 1994.
\B2nd Test:\b Australia defeated Great Britain 38-8, Old Trafford, 5 November, 1994.
\B3rd Test:\b Australia defeated Great Britain 23-4, Elland Rd, 20 November, 1994.
\BAustralia vs New Zealand 1995\b
\B1st Test:\b Australia defeated New Zealand 26-8, Brisbane, 23 June 1995.
\B2nd Test:\b Australia defeated New Zealand 20-10, Sydney, 7 July 1995.
\B3rd Test:\b Australia defeated New Zealand 46-10, Brisbane, 14 July 1995.
\BAustralia vs Fiji and PNG 1996
Test:\b Australia defeated Fiji 84-14, Newcastle, 12 July 1996.
\BTest:\b Australia defeated Papua New Guinea 52-6, Port Moresby, 6 October 1996.
\BAustralia vs The Rest of the World 1997
Test:\b Australia defeated The Rest of the World 28-8, Brisbane, 11 July 1997.
\BDescription:\b Manly Warringah vs \JCanberra\j \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Rugby League World Cup",8,spread206.spr.jpg,c,0
The Rugby League World Cup, contested by the world's Test playing nations, was inaugurated in 1954. It has been held at irregular intervals and had various changes to its format over the years.
In 1957 and 1960 in the associated table, no final was played because the leading team had an unbeaten record.
In 1972 the final was still drawn after 20 minutes of extra time; Great Britain was declared the winner because of its superior preliminary record.
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"Rugby League Super League",9,fairfax6.jpg,c,0
The rugby league Super League competition started in 1997.
Their presentation night was held in September 1997 at the Brisbane Convention Centre. Canberra's five-eighth, Laurie Daley, was named Super League player of the year and Brisbane coach, Wayne Bennett was named Super League coach of the year.
The Super League Grand Final was held at the ANZ Stadium, Brisbane on September 20. Brisbane beat Cronulla 26-8.
The Super League World Club Challenge grand final, played in New Zealand in October between Brisbane and Hunter, was won by Brisbane 36-12.
\BDescription:\b Super League's first match - Alfie Langer from Brisbane \I(Fairfax Photo Library)\i.
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"Overview of Rugby Union in Australia",1,"e\4\5_0033.jpg","c","clap10"
Rugby reportedly started in 1823 when William Webb Ellis (1807-72) breached the rules of a soccer match and allegedly picked up the ball and ran with it at Rugby School, England.
A sort of rugby was played in Sydney not long afterwards. In June, 1874 the first governing body of rugby was formed in Australia, the Southern Rugby Football Union, (renamed in 1892 to the New South Wales Rugby Union) which controlled organised matches between Wallaroo, The King's School, Newington College, Goulburn, Waratah, Balmain, North Shore, Sydney University and Camden College.
Rugby commenced in Queensland in 1880 and the Northern Rugby Football Union was formed in 1882, at a time when Sydney boasted more than 100 clubs.
In 1882, Queensland, captained by Jim Brodie, played New South Wales, captained by A.J. Hickson, at the Association Ground (now the Sydney Cricket Ground). This first interstate match was won by New South Wales 28-4. A second match was played shortly after and NSW won 18-0.
\BDescription:\b Rugby Union in Australia started in the late 1800s \I(DFAT)\i.
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"AAMI Cup - Premiership Winners - First Grade",2,"spread052.spr","c","0"
This table shows the first grade winners from 1900 to 1997.
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"AAMI Cup - Premiership Winners - Reserve Grade",3,"spread051.spr","c","0"
This table shows the reserve grade winners from 1921 to 1997.
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"AAMI Cup - Premiership Winners - Third Grade",4,"spread050.spr","c","0"
This table shows third grade winners from 1929 to 1997.
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"AAMI Cup - Premiership Winners - Fourth Grade",5,"spread049.spr","c","0"
This table shows the fourth grade winners from 1932 to 1997.
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"Australia's First International Tours",6,"e\4\5_0033.jpg","f","0"
In 1882, a NSW side led by Ted Raper of Sydney University made a short tour of New Zealand. NSW won four matches and lost three. In 1884 a New Zealand side was the first international team to tour Australia, winning all eight matches.
An unofficial British team toured Australia in 1888 ending up playing more matches of Australian Rules than Rugby. The side won 14 out of 16 Rugby matches but, remarkably, could not defeat two school teams, Kings and Sydney Grammar.
The International Rugby Board, the world governing body for Rugby Union, was founded in 1886 and by 1905 most of the present day rules and scoring methods had been established. Today the IRB has more than 60 member countries.
The first Test Match played by Australia was on 24 June, 1899; the British Isles played Australia in a four Test series. Australia won the first Test 13-3 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
In 1908-09 the first Australian side, captained by Dr Paddy Moran, toured Great Britain, winning 25 out of 31 matches.
\BDescription:\b Rugby Union match about to proceed \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Rugby World Cup",7,"e\4\5_0023.jpg","c","footy10"
The Rugby World Cup, played for the William Webb Ellis Trophy, was inaugurated in 1987 when 16 nations competed in Australia and New Zealand. Australia was beaten in the semi finals by New Zealand, but won the second World Cup in England in 1991 after a narrow win, 19-18, against Ireland in the quarter finals. The third World Cup was staged in South Africa in May/June 1995. The winner was South Africa, who defeated New Zealand only after going into extra time.
\BWorld Cup Winners\b
\B1987:\b New Zealand d. France 29-9
\B1991:\b Australia d. England 12-6
\B1995:\b South Africa d. New Zealand 15-12
\BDescription:\b Rugby Union match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"World Cup and Hong Kong Sevens",8,5_0023.jpg,g,0
The first World Cup Sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield in Scotland in April, 1993; England defeated Australia in the final 21-17. The competition will be conducted every four years between the Rugby World Cup.
The Hong Kong Sevens, held every year since 1976, is regarded as the world's most prestigious international tournament for seven-a-side. Australia first competed in 1977 and has won the tournament in 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1988. Subsequent winners have been New Zealand (1989, 1994, 1995 and 1996); Fiji (1990, 1991 and 1992); and Western Samoa (1993).
The 1997 Sevens tournament was held between 24 nations from March 21-23. Following two days of matches, new divisions were set for the finals. The teams with the best record played for the Melrose Cup where Fiji defeated South Africa 24-21. The teams with the second-best record played for the Plate Championship, where Tonga defeated Hong Kong 40-19. The teams with the third-best record played for the Bowl Championship, where USA defeated Japan 40-28.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Overview of Soccer in Australia",1,"e\4\5_0015.jpg","c","soccer0"
Soccer emerged as the minor code of Football in Australia, second to Rugby in Sydney and Australian Rules in Melbourne, not only because of its later establishment, but because it was largely British dominated in an era of growing nationalism.
Historians have never been able to establish accurately when soccer was first played in Australia. The game was widely played in England in the mid 1850s and in 1863 the first formal rules were drawn up following the formation of the Football Association.
The first club in Australia was formed in 1880 at Parramatta, New South Wales, through the efforts of an English migrant and schoolteacher J.W. Fletcher, who had arrived in Australia in 1878.
\BDescription:\b Soccer is a popular sport in Australia \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Football Association of Australia is Formed",2,"e\4\5_0015.jpg","f","0"
The Football Association (Australia) was formed on 12 October 1923, based in Sydney with all states affiliated. In 1929 the English Football Association donated a lavish trophy for interstate competition, and in 1931 made a large cash grant to assist in the development of the game in New South Wales and Queensland.
The catalyst for the growth of the game after World War II was the massive population changes due to immigration. The greater part of post-war population growth was made up of migrants who traditionally followed soccer and had no inherited loyalty to the local codes.
In 1957, dissatisfied clubs began a breakaway movement from the controlling body, the Australian Soccer Association. By 1961 the Association had lost complete control and was superseded by the Australian Soccer Federation (ASF). The breakaway hindered the progress of Australian soccer because all state amateur associations lost affiliation with the various State Olympic bodies and Australia was prevented from entering teams in the Olympic Games.
\BDescription:\b The Football Association (Australia) was formed on 12 October 1923 \I(DFAT)\i.
In 1959, FIFA, the world controlling body, suspended Australia for illegally poaching players from European clubs. The Australian Soccer Federation was forced to pay FIFA a $A50,000 fine and wait until 1963 before being reinstated as an affiliated body.
It took until 1977 before the Australian Olympic Federation agreed to re-admit soccer as a member. Today the ASF is the national governing body of soccer and has four national teams:
\BThe Socceroos\b
The Socceroos play international matches including the World Cup every four years.
\BThe Olympic Team\b
This is the Under 23 team that plays in the Olympic Games, known as the Olyroos.
\BThe National Youth Team\b
This is the Under 20 team which plays in the FIFA World Youth Championship every two years.
\BThe Joeys\b
The Joeys play in the FIFA World Youth Championship (Under 17) each year.
\BDescription:\b Soccer match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australia's Record in International Matches",4,"e\4\5_0019.jpg","f","0"
The first international matches were played in 1904 when a NSW team toured New Zealand and played a 3-3 draw with a New Zealand side. In 1922, an Australian team toured New Zealand, losing the first Test 1-3, drawing the second 1-1 and losing the third 1-3. Australian XIs also began to play test matches against visiting teams such as Canada, China and India.
In 1925 the first English side came to Australia. The tourists played and won all 26 matches. England won the inaugural Test at Brisbane 5-1; the second Test at Sydney 2-1; and the next three 8-2 at Maitland NSW, 5-0 at Sydney and 2-0 at Melbourne.
\BDescription:\b Soccer match \I(DFAT)\i.
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"England and Australia's Matches and the Bicentennial Cup",5,"e\4\5_0095.jpg","f","0"
In 1937, the Australian Association invited an English amateur side to play an eight-match tour, including three Tests. Australia won the first Test 5-4 before a crowd of 37,295 at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 10 July. Australia also won the third Test.
During an Australian tour in 1951, an English professional team defeated Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground 17-0 before a crowd of 14,146. The score still stands as the biggest winning margin recorded in international soccer.
Australia's Bicentennial Gold Cup in 1988 included matches against the then reigning World Cup champions Argentina, as well as Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Australia's surprise win over Argentina 4-1, took the team to the final against Brazil. Brazil won 2-0 after a scoreless first half before a near-capacity crowd at the Sydney Football Stadium.
\BDescription:\b Professional soccer match \I(DFAT)\i.
Australian sport's first fully national league was established in April 1977 when the Australian Soccer Federation launched the National Soccer League. Fourteen clubs played in the inaugural season. In 1988, the National Soccer League decided to switch the competition to summer months, November to May, from 1989 onwards.
When all state associations decided to continue their traditional winter club competitions, Australia became the only major soccer nation in the world to run a 12-month season.
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"Overview of Australian Surfing Origins",1,"e\4\5_0017.jpg","c","beach0"
Surfboard riding did not become a popular sport in Australia until after World War II, but it was well known to keen beach swimmers and surf lifesavers during the early part of this century.
The first recorded attempt to ride a surfboard in Australia was by Alick Wickham, a Pacific Islander, in 1908. Wickham built a rough surfboard and tackled the waves at Curl Curl in Sydney. Some other swimmers made similar attempts later that year but had little luck.
\BDescription:\b Surfboard riding is a popular sport in Australia \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Duke Paoa Kahanamoku",2,5_0017.jpg,g,beach0
While several Australians had seen and made surfboards, it was not until the Hawaiian, Duke Paoa Kahanamoku visited Sydney in 1915 that they discovered how to use the boards correctly. Kahanamoku, surf hero and Olympic swimming gold medallist in the 100m freestyle in 1912 and 1920, was invited here by a swimming club for a series of demonstrations.
Asked to display his surfing skills, Duke made a surfboard from a lump of sugar-pine and rode good two metre waves at Freshwater (Harbord) Beach in Sydney. Later he took Isobel Letham, aged 15, of Manly for a tandem ride, the first woman ever to ride a surfboard in Australia.
Duke Kahanamoku gave his board to 15 year old Claude West, who had befriended him while in Australia. West went on to become Australia's first surfboard champion and helped pioneer the sport all over the New South Wales coast. He eventually handed the board over to Freshwater Surf Club, where it still stands today. Another great surfer who learned from West was "Snowy" McAllister, who continued to ride a surf-ski in Sydney waves well into the 1960s.
The first international surfing championships were held in Makaha, Hawaii in 1954. Australia's Bernard "Midget" \JFarrelly\j won the event in 1963 and as the only recognised international contest, the Makaha event was regarded as the unofficial world championship until 1964.
The inaugural amateur world championships were held at Manly Beach 16-17 May, 1964 and over two hundred competitors from ten countries participated. Midget \JFarrelly\j and Phyllis O'Donnell, also from Australia, won the men's and women's titles, and Robert Conneeley won the Australian junior men's title.
In 1966, Robert "Nat" Young won the championship in California, creating a major stir in world surfing by defeating the Americans in their home surf.
Professional surfing began in 1969 and the Gunston 500 at Durban in South Africa was the first pro-tournament held. The Easter Classic at Bell's Beach near Torquay, Victoria in 1973 was the first professional surfing tournament held in Australia and is the longest running surfing event in history, having started in 1961.
\BDescription:\b Men's surfing event \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Smirnoff Title",4,5_0024.jpg,c,0
The Smirnoff title in Hawaii was regarded as the unofficial professional world championship between 1969 and 1975.
Winners were:
Corky Carroll, USA (1969)
Nat Young, Australia (1970)
Paul Neilsen, USA (1971)
Gavin Rudolph, S. Africa (1972)
Ian Cairns, Australia (1973)
Reno Abellira, Hawaii (1974)
\JMark Richards,\j Australia (1975)
In 1976 the first International Professional Surfer's Championship was held.
Australians have held the majority of the top 10 world rankings since 1977. \JMark Richards\j of Newcastle, NSW, achieved a feat unlikely ever to be repeated when he won four consecutive world professional titles between 1979-82. In 1984 Australia's Tom Carroll was the first "goofyfoot" (right foot forward) surfer to win the world pro title.
\BDescription:\b Australians rank high in the top surfers of the world \I(DFAT)\i.
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"ASP World Tour and Men's Champions",5,"spread045.spr","c","0"
Today, professional surfing is organised by the Association of Surfing Professionals, established in 1982 after the International Professional Surfer's Association was disbanded.
The ASP operates two separate circuits - WCT and WQS. The ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) features 15 men's events and 15 women's events and the overall winner, decided on a points system, becomes world champion. The top 16 finishers are automatically seeded into the next year's tour. The three Australian events on the WCT are the Rip Curl Pro at Bell's Beach in Victoria; the Coke Surf Classic at mobile locations in New South Wales; and the Billabong Pro at mobile locations on the Gold Coast.
This table lists the male World Surfing Champions from 1976 to 1996.
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"Surfing World Champions - Women's",6,"spread044.spr","c","0"
Women's WCT events in Australia include the Diet Coke Surf Classic at Narrabeen, Sydney; the Billabong Pro at mobile locations on the Gold Coast; and the Quit Classic at Bell's Beach, Victoria.
This table lists the female WCT winners from 1977 to 1996.
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"Most Top 16 Appearances - Men",7,"spread037.spr","e","0"
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"Most Top 8 Appearances - Women",8,"spread036.spr","e","0"
"Most Career Victories - Men",11,"spread042.spr","e","0"
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"Most Career Victories - Women",12,"spread041.spr","e","0"
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"Longboard Champions",13,"spread043.spr","c","0"
This table shows the longboard champions from 1986 to 1996.
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"World Qualifying Series",14,"spread040.spr","c","0"
The World Qualifying Series (WQS) comprises satellite events, acting as a feeder system into the World Championship Tour. It consists of over 60 events, many of which are well established professional tournaments in their respective countries and domestic associations. In many cases, WQS events precede WCT competitions at the same venue. The top 28 finishers from the World Qualifying Series are seeded into the WCT the following year. WQS events in Australia are held at Surfer's Paradise and the Sunshine Coast (Qld); Newcastle and Manly (NSW); and Margaret River (WA).
This table shows the WCT winners by country to 1996.
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"Amateur Surfing",15,"a\4\6_0016.jpg","f","0"
Amateur surfing is organised by the International Surfing Association (ISA), based in Australia. The ISA has more than 35 member countries and conducts world titles every two years. The ISA superseded the International Surfing Federation which conducted World Surfing Titles during the 1960s and early 1970s.
\BDescription:\b The ISA has more than 35 member countries \I(DFAT)\i.
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23#
7,0
"Overview of Swimming",1,"e\4\6_0001.jpg","c","swimpool0"
Although no clear records exist, it is thought that the first swimming baths were built at Woolloomooloo Bay in 1833. Swimming races were a regular feature at Robinson's Hot and Cold Baths at the Domain and the inaugural swimming championship over 440 yards was held in February 1846. The winner of the event was W. Redman Jnr in 8 mins 43 secs.
Swimming today is second nature to most people, but in the late 19th Century few had mastered the art. Australians were responsible for developing a number of swimming strokes during the late 19th Century which have had a great influence on swimming. George Wallis introduced the single-arm sidestroke in 1850 after watching Aborigines swim in the Lane Cove River near Sydney.
His technique was to bring the upper arm forward and above the surface while swimming on his side. Eventually superseded by the trudgen stroke, it remained the favoured stroke for all competitive swimming for 55 years and the Olympic Champions of 1896, 1900 and 1904 all swam the stroke originally developed by Wallis.
\BDescription:\b Swimming competition \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Freestyle and Other Stroke Development",2,"e\4\6_0012.jpg","c","swim0"
Swimming went through its greatest evolution in the 1890s, heralding sweeping changes that influenced the sport around the world. The new sensation was the crawl stroke developed by Syd and Dick Cavill, both who saw Alick Wickham, a Solomon Islander, using it in Sydney in 1893.
However, it wasn't until the visit of Olympic swimming champion Duke Kahanamoku in 1914-15, who won the New South Wales 100 yards championship in a world record 53.8 seconds, that everyone concentrated on the Duke's six beat kick which is fundamentally the freestyle of today. Cavill's brother, Sydney St. Leonard, also helped develop the double arm breaststroke, the forerunner of the butterfly.
"Australia at the World Championships",3,"e\4\5_0094.jpg","c","clap10"
World Swimming Championships, separate from the Olympic Games, were first held in 1973 and are now staged every four years.
At the inaugural World Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1973, Stephen Holland won the 1,500 m freestyle, the only Australian male swimmer to win a gold medal at the Championships.
At the second World Championships in Cali, Columbia, in 1975, Jenny Turrell won the 800 m freestyle. \JTracey Wickham\j won the women's 400 m and 800 m freestyle at the third World Championships in West Berlin in 1978.
Australia failed to win any gold medals in Guayaquil, Equador, in 1982 or in Madrid, Spain, in 1986. The sixth World Swimming Championships were held in Perth in January 1990 and Australia's three gold medals were won by \JHayley Lewis\j (200 m freestyle), Linley Frame (100 m breastroke) and Shelley Taylor-Smith (25 km marathon).
At the 1994 World Swimming Championships, Australia won 6 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals.
The gold medals were won by: \JKieren Perkins\j 1,500 m and 400 m freestyle; \JSamantha Riley\j 100 m and 200 m breastroke; Melissa Cunningham 25 km Open; and the Open Water Team Trophey (Melissa Cunningham, Shelley Taylor-Smith, David Bates and David O'Brien).
The silver medals were won by: David Bates 25 km Open; \JHayley Lewis\j 800 m freestyle; and David Kowalski 1,500 m freestyle.
The bronze medals were won by: Shelley Taylor-Smith 25 km Open; Susie O'Neill 100 m and 200 m butterfly; and Ellie Overton 200 I.M.
\BDescription:\b 6th World Swimming Championships \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Australia at the Commonwealth Games",4,"e\2\6_0013.jpg","c","swim0"
Australia has won just about every event in the pool in the Commonwealth Games and one of our best performances was at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1966, when every member of the swimming and diving team won a medal. Australian swimmers won 30 of the 84 medals awarded for the sport, 11 of them gold, and set nine world records.
At the 1994 Commonwealth Games held in Victoria, Canada, Australia won 25 gold medals out of a possible 32. All up we won 53 medals in the swimming events.
\BDescription:\b Australia is known to do very well in swimming events at the Commonwealth Games \I(DFAT)\i.
The annual Australian Championships were instituted in 1894 for men and in 1930 for women. Frank \JBeaurepaire\j won a record 25 individual titles between 1908 and 1924, and \JDawn Fraser\j won 23 individual and seven relay titles between 1955-1964, setting a women's record.
The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships are held every two years in either Japan, USA, Canada or Australia. The 7th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan where Australia won 10 gold medals including: Matthew Dunn, 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley; Michael Klim, 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle; Grant Hackett, 400m freestyle, 800m freestyle and 1500m freestyle; Susie O'Neill, 200m butterfly and Samantha Riley, 100m and 200m breaststroke.
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"The English Channel",7,"spread208.spr","f","0"
A number of Australians have successfully swum the English Channel and only one, Susie Maroney, has swum it in both directions back-to-back. \JDes Renford\j has swum the Channel 19 times.
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24#
18,0
"History of the Origins of Tennis",1,"e\4\6_0018.jpg","c","tennis10"
Tennis evolved as an outdoor form of Royal or Real Tennis which was played as early as the 16th Century in England when King Henry VIII was the tennis champion of England.
In 1858 Major Gem and Mr Perera marked a lawn court at Edgbaston and the game thrived there until 1870 when it moved to Leamingtom at the lawns of the Manor House Hotel. A plaque today records that on this lawn, the first Lawn Tennis Club in the world was founded in 1872.
The rules of today's game were codified in 1877 when the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club staged the inaugural Gentlemen's Singles Championship, the first Wimbledon.
Tennis began in Australia in 1878 when, enthusiasts who saw the game played in England, laid a rectangular asphalt court at the Warehousemen's Cricket Ground in St. Kilda Road, Melbourne and founded the first club. The first lawn court was laid down in 1879 and in January, 1880, the first tournament, only open to men, was held.
Meanwhile, the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1880, again as an adjunct to cricket with courts at the Association Ground, which later became the Sydney Cricket Ground. The first New South Wales Championships were held in 1885.
The Australasian Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA) was formed in September 1904 in Sydney, largely to conduct a national championship and enter a joint team in the new international event, the Davis Cup. Australasia was also a foundation member of the International Lawn Tennis Federation formed in 1913.
New Zealand withdrew its affiliation from the ALTA in 1922, preferring to be a separate tennis nation. In 1926 the ALTA moved its headquarters to Melbourne and changed its name to the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia. The organisation adopted the new title, Tennis Australia, in 1986.
\BDescription:\b Ford Australian Open \I(DFAT)\i.
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"The Australian Open (Tennis)",4,"spread061.spr","c","0"
The inaugural Australasian Championships were held in Melbourne in 1905 with 17 entrants. Twice, in 1906 and 1912, the event was played in New Zealand. Ladies' singles and doubles were introduced in 1922, and in 1924 the International Lawn Tennis Federation ranked the Australian Championships with the French, Wimbledon and United States titles.
In 1969 it was renamed the Australian Open and admitted professionals for the first time. The tournament rotated between Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane until 1972 when it moved permanently to Kooyong grass courts in Melbourne. Since 1988 the Australian Open has been held at the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park.
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"Australian Open - Women's Singles",5,"spread059.spr","e","0"
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"Australian Open - Men's Doubles",6,"spread060.spr","e","0"
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"Australian Open - Women's Doubles",7,"spread058.spr","e","0"
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"Australian Open - Mixed Doubles",8,"spread057.spr","e","0"
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"Australian Wheelchair Tennis Open - Men's Open",9,"spread056.spr","e","0"
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"Australian Wheelchair Tennis Open - Women's Open",10,"spread055.spr","e","0"
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"Wimbledon",11,"spread271.spr","c","0"
First held in 1877, the Championships of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club are the most prestigious of the Grand Slam tournaments. Prior to 1922, the tournament was run on a challenge round system where the previous year's winner stood out of an "all comers" event which produced a challenger. It was restricted to amateurs until 1968.
\JKen Rosewall\j was probably the unluckiest person never to win Wimbledon. He contested the final four times, losing as an amateur to Jaroslav Drobny (1954) and \JLew Hoad\j (1956). He was barred from playing as a professional until 1968 and lost the 1970 final in five sets to \JJohn Newcombe\j. In 1974 at the age of 37, Rosewall was runner-up for the fourth time, to Jimmy Connors. Rosewall won every other Grand Slam tournament.
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"The French Open",12,6_0019.jpg,g,0
Played at Roland Garros Stadium, Paris, the French Open is the premier claycourt championship of the world and the second leg of the Grand Slam. It was open only to French nationals until 1925.
\BAustralia's French Open winners:\b
Jack Crawford (1933)
\JKen Rosewall\j (1953, 1968)
\JLew Hoad\j (1956)
Mervyn Rose (1958)
\JRod Laver\j (1962, 1969)
\JRoy Emerson\j (1963, 1967)
Fred Stolle (1965)
Tony Roche (1966)
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"The US Open",13,rafter2.jpg,c,0
The US Open is another leg of the Grand Slam. The tournament was known as the US National Championships from 1881 until professionals were admitted in 1968. It was held at West Side Club, Forest Hills, New York, on grass between 1968-74 and on Har-Tru courts in 1975-77. Since 1978 it has been held at The National Tennis Centre, Flushing Meadow, New York.
\BAustralia's US National Championships/Open winners:\b
Frank Sedgman (1951,1952)
\JKen Rosewall\j (1956, 1970)
Mal Anderson (1957)
Ashley Cooper (1958)
Neale Fraser (1959, 1960)
\JRoy Emerson\j (1961, 1964)
\JRod Laver\j (1962, 1969)
Fred Stolle (1966)
\JJohn Newcombe\j (1967, 1973)
\JPat Rafter\j (1997)
\JMargaret Court\j (nee Smith) (1962, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973) is the only Australian woman to win the US National Championships/Open.
\BDescription:\b Patrick Rafter won the US Open in 1997 \I(Roger Gould)\i.
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"Davis Cup",14,0,g,0
The Davis Cup is recognised as the biggest annual international teams event in sport, with over 100 nations participating in 1997.
The tournament was inaugurated in 1900 at the suggestion of patron and player Dwight F. Davis, runner up in the 1898 US Championships. Only the United States and Great Britain participated in the first four years.
Australia and New Zealand entered the Davis Cup together as Australasia and first played in 1905, when Australia's Norman Brookes and New Zealand's Anthony Wilding played the singles rubbers, and Brookes and A.W. Dunlop were the doubles pair. H.A. Parker (NZ) was also selected for the team. Australasia first won the Davis Cup in 1907, with Brookes and Wilding defeating Great Britain's team of Arthur Gore and H. Roper, 3-2 at Wimbledon.
Australia's first win as a separate nation came in 1939. John Bromwich and \JAdrian Quist\j defeated the US team of Bobby Riggs, Frank Parker, Jack Kramer and Joseph Hunt in the Challenge Round in Philadelphia. Australia has won the Davis Cup 26 times and has finished runner-up 17 times.
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"Fed Cup",15,6_0011.jpg,c,tennis10
The Fed Cup, formerly the Federation Cup, is an international teams' competition for women. It was first staged in 1963 as a result of the initiative of a group led by Australia's Nell Hopman. Nations are seeded into the World Group, Group One and Zonal Groups and rounds are held throughout the year. Each tie consists of four singles and one doubles.
The USA has won 15 times, Australia seven, Czechoslovakia five, Spain four, Germany twice and South Africa once.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i.
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"Hopman Cup",16,"e\4\3_0001.jpg","c","tennis10"
Named after the legendary Australian coach and player Harry Hopman, the Hopman Cup is the only world teams' championship for men and women and is played by 12 of the leading tennis nations in Perth at the Burswood Superdome in early January. In each tie, the men and women compete separately against each other in two singles rubbers, then team together for the final mixed doubles rubber.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Australian Women Hardcourt Champions",17,"spread053.spr","e","0"
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"Australian Men Hardcourt Champions",18,"spread054.spr","e","!"
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25#
8,This is a null field.
"Overview of Yachting in Australia",1,"e\5\6_0009.jpg","c","gulls0"
Yachting races date back to 1661 on the Thames River in London, although the first yacht club, the Royal York Yacht Club, in Ireland, was not founded until 1720.
The first yachting competition in Australia was organised by the captains and officers of the Royal Navy in their warships' boats on the Derwent River, near Hobart, on 5 January 1827, and on Sydney Harbour on 28 April the same year.
Annual regattas were held on Sydney Harbour on 26 January (then called Anniversary Day) from the late 1820s and the first formal Australia Day Regatta was held on 26 January, 1837. The race for first class sailing boats that year was won by James Milson, sailing the 12-ton vessel \ISophia.\i
\BDescription:\b Start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race \I(DFAT)\i.
The first yacht club in Australia was the Tamar Yacht Club in \JLaunceston,\j Tasmania, which existed in 1837, then lapsed and was later reformed. Australia's first club to receive the Royal Warrant was the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, founded in 1862 as the Australian Yacht Squadron.
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania was founded in 1874 as the Derwent Sailing Boat Club. The Victoria Yacht Club, which was formed in 1856, became the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria in 1887.
The first ocean race in Australia was a 140 nautical mile race from Sydney to Newcastle and back, on 14th February 1864. Charles Parbury's \IXarifa,\i a 31-ton yacht, beat \IChance,\i a 71-ton iron-hulled schooner designed and built in England for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's founder, Commodore William Walker.
There were four starters in the first Bass Strait race in 1907. Edgar Newland's \IThistle,\i a 14.63 m yawl, won the 196 nautical mile race from Queenscliff in Victoria to Low Head at the mouth of the Tamar River in Tasmania to score a Cup presented by the American yachting magazine \IRudder.\i
\BDescription:\b Start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race \I(DFAT)\i.
Since it was first run in 1945, the 630 nautical mile Sydney - Hobart Yacht Race has been Australia's premier ocean yacht race, attracting participants from all over the world. Organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, the Sydney Hobart traditionally starts on Boxing Day on Sydney Harbour and finishes at Constitution Dock in Hobart.
In December 1945, Captain John Illingworth, a successful English yachtsman and yacht designer, then stationed in Sydney, persuaded a group of members of the newly formed Cruising Yacht Club to make a race of their proposed Christmas cruise to Hobart.
Only nine boats made up the fleet, and the winner, Illingworth's 10.59 m cutter \IRani,\i was feared lost when it was not sighted for days, but finished more than 17 hours ahead of the second boat, \IWinston Churchill,\i Percy Coverdale's 15.8 m yawl. \IRani's\i elapsed time for the course was 6 days 14 hrs 22 minutes, the longest race on record. \IRani\i also won on handicap by 1 day, 5 hours 1minute from \IAmbermerle\i (J. Colquhoun/C. Kiel), with \IWinston Churchill\i third.
\IMorning Glory\i set a new record for the 1996 Sydney-Hobart yacht race at 2 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes. The German owner, Hasso Plattner, picked up $300,000 from race sponsor Telstra for breaking the record.
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"The America's Cup",4,"spread210.spr","c","0"
The America's Cup, yachting's most sought after international prize, began on 22 August, 1851 off Cowes, England, when the 31m schooner \IAmerica\i easily won a challenge race of 53 nautical miles around the Isle of Wight against 15 yachts from England's Royal Yacht Squadron.
\IAmerica,\i owned by a syndicate headed by Commodore John Cox Stevens of the New York Yacht Club, finished the course in 10 hours and 37 minutes, eight minutes ahead of \IAurora,\i and the New York Yacht Club was later presented the Hundred Guinea Cup (the price charged by London Jeweller Garrard's to make the trophy) to become a perpetual challenge cup for competition against overseas yacht clubs.
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"Australian Challenges for the America's Cup",5,"e\5\3_0013.jpg","c","sail10"
Australian newspaper tycoon Sir Frank Packer commissioned Alan Payne to design Australia's first 12 m yacht to challenge for the America's Cup. \IGretel,\i named after Packer's newly born granddaughter, was skippered by Jock Sturrock and won the first race by a challenger since 1934, narrowly lost the fourth, finally losing the series 1-4 to \IWeatherly.\i
Sir Frank tried again in 1964 but the British boat \ISovereign\i won the challenger series. Today \IGretel\i sails charter groups in the Whitsunday Islands.
The next Australian challenge came in 1967 by a syndicate headed by Emil Christensen with the Warwick Hood-design \IDame Pattie,\i named after ex-Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzie's wife, skippered again by Sturrock. \IDame Pattie\i was defeated 4-0 by \IIntrepid.\i
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Australia's Various Challengers",6,"e\5\2_0097.jpg","c","beach0"
In 1970 Sir Frank went back to Alan Payne, who produced \IGretel II.\i Skippered by Jim Hardy, many agreed it was faster than the American defender \IIntrepid,\i but poor sail handling, men overboard, a disasterous collision in one race and disqualification in another which she won, marked one of the most extraordinary Cup matches ever sailed. \IGretel II\i eventually lost 1-4.
In 1974 an ailing Sir Frank passed the mantle to Alan Bond who commissioned Sydney designer Bob Miller to build \ISouthern Cross,\i unkindly nicknamed the "stone banana" because she was painted bright yellow and sank without a trace.
In 1977, \IGretel II\i again entered the challenger elimination series but Miller came up with a superior challenger, \IAustralia,\i skippered by Noel Robbins. \IAustralia\i was defeated in a 4-0 walkover by \ICourageous.\i By 1980 Bob Miller had changed his name to Ben Lexcen and this time, instead of producing an expensive new boat, he redesigned \IAustralia.\i
The revamped boat was skippered by Jim Hardy, won one race and was miles ahead of the defender \IFreedom,\i in another which was abandoned when the time limit expired.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Australia II Wins the America's Cup",7,"e\5\5_0010.jpg","c","sail10"
\IAustralia II,\i in 1983, after being down 1-3, won the remaining three races to win the closest series in the history of the America's Cup. In the final race, \IAustralia II,\i trailing the first four legs, made a dramatic move to go ahead of \ILiberty\i and held off a desperate series of tacks by \ILiberty\i on the final leg to win.
Much of the credit for her win was given to Ben Lexcen's design, researched in the Netherlands, featuring an inverted keel shape with a bulbous bottom which had the advantage of lowering the boat's centre of gravity, giving it greater stability. However, it also caused greater turbulence, so this problem was solved by adding wings which helped direct the flow. Today \IAustralia II\i is the showpiece of the Australian Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney.
\BDescription:\b \I(DFAT)\i
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"Australia's Defence of the America's Cup, Perth 1987",8,"e\5\5_0010.jpg","c","sail10"
Australia lost the America's Cup at its first defence off Fremantle, near Perth in 1987. In the Defender series \IAustralia III\i and \IAustralia IV\i were no match for \IKookaburra III\i skippered by Iain Murray, who then went down to San Diego Yacht Club challenger \IStars and Stripes,\i skippered by Dennis Conner who had lost the Cup in 1983.
Australia's two challengers, \ISpirit of Australia\i and \IChallenge Australia\i failed to make the semi-finals of the Challenger series in the 1992 America's Cup off San Diego, USA.
