The 2000 Rugby League World Cup was held during October and November of that year in Great Britain, Ireland and France. Sixteen national teams competed in four groups of four, playing each other once over three weekly rounds before a series of play-offs that culminated in the final between Australia and New Zealand. Tournament favourites Australia defeated New Zealand in the final, claiming their sixth consecutive and ninth total Rugby League World Cup title. Australian winger Wendell Sailor was named player of the tournament.
Cameron Bruce is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant coach for the Carlton Football Club. During his AFL career, he was known for his aerobic capacity and neat kicking skills.
The Australia international rules football team is Australia's senior representative team in International rules football, a hybrid sport derived from Australian rules football and Gaelic football. The current team is solely made up of players from the Australian Football League.
The Perth Heat is a baseball team in the current Australian Baseball League and a foundation member of the Australian Baseball League. It is now the most successful team in ABL, winning 15 Claxton Shields.
Travis Jarred Blackley is an Australian professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. Blackley has also played in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers, in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, and in the Mexican Baseball League (LMB) for the Pericos de Puebla. Also in Liga Mexicana del Pacifico on Aguilas de Mexicali and Naranjeros de Hermosillo.
The 2006–07 season of the Ford Ranger One Day Cup was the 38th season of the domestic one-day cricket competition played in Australia. It involved 30 group matches and a final match. The Queensland Bulls defeated the Victorian Bushrangers in the final, played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The Calder Cannons is an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia. The club competes in the NAB League, the Victorian Statewide Under-18s competition, and fields squads in the Under-15s, Under-16s and Under-18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs. The geographic catchment area for the club is the north western suburbs of Melbourne extending to cover the Macedon Ranges area.
The Eastern Ranges is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition.
Adam Bright is an Australian left-handed pitcher. He is son of ex-star Australian spin bowler Ray Bright.
James Richard Beresford is an Australian professional baseball infielder who is currently a free agent.
Adam Blackley is a former Australian pitcher. He is the brother of Travis Blackley.
The 2010 Claxton Shield finals series made use of the same structure as had been used in the 2009 season. The top three teams at the conclusion of the ten rounds of regular season games qualified. The second and third placed teams faced in each other in a best of three series hosted by the second placed team. The winner of that series then faced the first placed team for a best of three series. South Australia hosted the New South Wales Patriots at Norwood Oval, Adelaide for the semi-final series, while the Victoria Aces hosted the championship series at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.
The Melbourne Renegades is an Australian professional men's Twenty20 cricket team based in the Australian state, Victoria. They compete in Australia's Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League. The Renegades play their home matches at Marvel Stadium, in Melbourne's Docklands precinct, whilst also using Geelong's GMHBA Stadium for home matches. The team is coached by Andrew McDonald and captained by Aaron Finch. Melbourne Renegades won their first BBL title ever in season 8 (2018–19). In the finals they defeated their arch rivals Melbourne Stars at Marvel Stadium.
10 Sport is the brand that all sporting events broadcast on Network 10, an Australian free-to-air commercial television network.
Athletics events have been held at every Paralympic Games. At the end of the Beijing Games, athletics was Australia's most successful medal sport. Since 2001, Athletics Australia has the responsibility of preparing the Australian athletics team for the Paralympic Games..
This is a list of award winners and league leaders for the Melbourne Aces professional baseball team of the Australian Baseball League.
Adam Christian Cimber is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the San Diego Padres. Cimber is one of only a few Major League pitchers to throw submarine pitches.
