Glengowrie is a suburb of the Australian city of Adelaide, approximately 12 kilometres south west of the city centre. The name Glengowrie means "Glen of Gowrie", so called in honour of Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia from 1936 to 1944.
Xiong Ni is a Chinese diver who won his first Olympic medal at the age of 14 at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. He also competed at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
The Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria (G&FC) was a government-owned monopoly supplier of household gas in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1950 and took over two of the three main gas utilities in Melbourne – the Metropolitan Gas Company and the Brighton Gas Company. As part of the conversion to natural gas, in 1971 the corporation acquired the Geelong Gas Company, one of only two remaining private gas companies in Victoria at the time. The Ballarat Gas Company closed at the time. The G&FC was wound up in June 1995.
Humphrey Dennis McQueen is an Australian public intellectual. Over the course of his career he has written histories, biographies and cultural criticism. McQueen was the pivotal figure in the development of the Australian New Left. His most iconic work, A New Britannia, gained notoriety for challenging the dominant approach to Australian history developed by the Old Left. He has written books on history, the media, politics and the visual arts. Although McQueen began his career as an academic at the Australian National University under Manning Clark, most of his career has been as an independent scholar.
Hannah Dudley (1862–1931) was a Methodist mission sister who worked amongst Indo-Fijians in the Suva area of Fiji for 13 years. She had few educational qualifications but was revered for her kind-heartedness and self-sacrifice. Indo-Fijians in Suva called her Hamari Mataji. She did her work with dedication but was sometimes eccentric and independent minded.
The Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC) is a group of thirteen independent Catholic boys schools in Victoria, Australia. The Association, formed in 1911, and renamed in 1948, provides the basis for interschool sporting and other competitions between member schools.
Australian National Airways, Ltd. (ANA) was a short-lived Australian airline, founded on 3 January 1929 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.
Alice Ishbel Hay Creswick is best known for her work in the Free Kindergarten Union (FKU) and as an important figure in the Australian Red Cross Society (ARCS) during World War II.
The Diving competition in the 1981 Summer Universiade were held in Bucharest, Romania.
Diving was a sport at the 2011 Summer Universiade from August 16 to August 22 at the Shenzhen Swimming and Diving Gym in Shenzhen, China. Men's and women's 1 and 3 metre springboard, 10 metre platform, synchronized 3 and 10 metre platform, and team events will be held.
Charles Witto-witto Cawthorne was a businessman who, with his father founded Cawthorne and Co, music publishers and retailers in Adelaide, South Australia. He was a proficient musician and important in the history of orchestral music of Adelaide.
The 1877 South Australian Football Association season was the inaugural season of the top-level league of Australian rules football in South Australia. The clubs participating were Adelaide, Bankers, Kensington, Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, South Park, Victorian, Woodville.
Football Queensland Sunshine Coast is the governing body of football (soccer) on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. It is a member zone of Football Queensland and Football Federation Australia.
The women's 400 metres event at the 1991 Summer Universiade was held at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on 21 and 22 July 1991.
The Bankers Football Club was an Australian rules football club, formed on 28 March 1877 in Adelaide from a meeting of about 50 officers of the Banks of Adelaide, that played in the inaugural 1877 SAFA season.
The European Diving Championships are biennial diving competitions, organized by LEN. The meet features divers from Europe, competing in events on 1-meter and 3-meter springboards and on 10-meter platform. The meet has traditionally been held in June.
The District Council of Munno Mara West was a local government area of South Australia on the central Adelaide Plains from 1854 to 1933.
Thomas Patrick Gleeson (1889-1931) was an Australian rugby league footballer from the 1910s.
Hermann Rieck was a pioneer farmer in the Coffs Harbour region of New South Wales, Australia, and the founder of the banana industry in the region.
William Drain was a Scottish footballer who played in Scotland, England and Australia for Celtic F.C. Bradford City Railways S.C, Victoria Park S.C, South Perth United Veterans League retiring to be a referee in the Western Australian Soccer Association. William also represented Bunbury on a number of occasions and was Captain of the Scotland v England Charity Cup.
Lan Wei (CHN)
Dean Panaro (USA)
Simon McCormack (AUS)
Jesús Mena (MEX)
Canada (CAN)
Brita Baldus (GER)
Kim Hye-Ok (PRK)
