Australia's Greatest Sporting Moments

A Selection Of Some Of The Greatest Sporting Moments In Australian History

Includes:

Cadel Evans: 2nd Overall 2007 Tour de France

Makybe Diva: First Horse To Win The Melbourne Cup Three Years In a Row 2003-2005

Steve Waugh: Century On Last Ball Of His Last Test Cricket Match

Peter Brock: Leads Every Lap And Wins The 1979 Bathurst 1000

Australia II: Won The Americas Cup After A 132 Year American Winning Streak, 1983

Kookaburras: 2004 Athens Olympic Field Hockey Gold Medal

Cathy Freeman: Sydney 2000 Olympic Womens 400m Gold Medal

Shane Warne: Three Wickets In A Row vs England 1994

Steven Bradbury: First Australian To Win A Winter Olympic Gold Medal, Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games Short Track Gold Medal

Socceroos: Qualification For 2006 FIFA World Cup For The First Time In 32 Years

Australian 4x100m Swimming Team: Australia Wins An Event Which America Has Won At Every Olympics, Sydney 2000 Olympics 4x100m freestyle final

Category:

Sports

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• Australia
• sport
• greatest
• moments

[0zziefan]

cadel needs an update!

[RemissionGh5Band]

@TheMitchellWhite Actually per capita Australia is one of the best nations in the world at sports. We do fairly good for a population of 22.5 million

[aclock2]

@RemissionGh5Band I think the love for sport, the quality of training facilities, young academies as well as the amount of investment are what matter not the population. For ex: China and India have huge population but they did not invest much in sport and the people have to more things to worry about than watching sports which make them not so successful in world sports.

[jazzybfunny]

@RemissionGh5Band AFL, cricket, swimming, they by far overtake soccer.

[AustraliaFootball]

They need Michael Clarke's Triple Century.

[bongo155]

@RemissionGh5Band Because someone goes down to the local pool and swims a few laps you can't really call competitive swimming. Very, very few Australians participate in actually swimming competition. And football's numbers is largely made up of young kids who upon reaching teenage years move into other sports. Compare how many 15-18 year olds guys play football to Aussie Rules, cricket or League.

[RemissionGh5Band]

@AFFTL Look up the statistics. Swimming is the most participated sport (fair enough), closely followed by soccer...don't believe me? look it up, simple.

[AFFTL]

@RemissionGh5Band You don't live in reality if you believe that. Australian Football smashes in partitapation compared to Soccer, by a long way. And so does Cricket & Rugby League. Soccer will never over take Australian Football.

Your living in a fantasy world if you honestly believe that.

[RemissionGh5Band]

@AFFTL *You're.....also, soccer is already the most played sport in Australia

[AFFTL]

Your kidding self, Soccer won't over take in numbers, Australian Football, Rugby League or Cricket. Soccer has no where as many people playing compared to those sports, & never will.

[RemissionGh5Band]

@119glory Australia has won Rugby Union World Cups, Cricket World Cup's, a lot of Gold in the swimming of the olympics, more recently Cadel Evans won the Tour De France. All of these are highly anticipated sports..but i do believe we are improving slowly at soccer (football). More recently, we lost to Japan in The Asian Cup 1-0 and beat the Germans on their home turf. No matter how many haters there are, soccer (football) in Australia will always be the most played sport.

[119glory]

Needs more Brisbane Roar last-second Grand Final win, more Tim Cahill v Japan 2006 FIFA World Cup, more footage of Australia II winning the America's Cup. :)