AUS sport

By anton.hoschke

  • First fleet

    first fleet arrive and bring British sport with them

  • First athletics carnival

    First athletics carnival in Australia

  • First soccer game

    Early forms of soccer

  • First cricket game

    Cricket was played for the first time in Australia

  • Rugby

    Early form of rugby

  • AFL

    First Game of AFL was codified

  • The Melbourne cup

    The Melbourne Cup was first run

  • Rugby Union

    The first game of Rugby Union at Sydney Uni

  • Basketball

    Basketball was first played in Adelaide, South Australia in 1900

  • Ice Hockey

    The first recorded game of ice hockey in Australia was on Tuesday July 17, 1906

  • Boxing Champ

    Les Darcy began his boxing career in 1915

  • Yacht Race

    At noon on Boxing Day 1945, the inaugural Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race began

  • Davis Cup

    Australia won the Davis Cup 8 times in the 1950s: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1959

  • Netball

    In 1967, Australia hosted the second Netball World Championships in Perth

  • Basketball

    In 1979, the National Basketball League was introduced

  • Aleague

    In 1989, the Victorian Football League decided to rebrand themselves as a national league and renamed the league the Australian Football League

  • Olympics

    In 2000, Sydney hosted the Summer Olympic Games at a cost of $6.6 billion. Australia finished fourth on the medal tally with 58 medals, 26 of them gold.

  • Commonwealth games

    n 2018, Gold Coast hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games.