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Jimmy Carruthers became the first Australian to win a boxing World Championship.
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Peter Thomson becoming the first Australian to win the British Open.
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Melbourne hosting the Olympics for the first time and Australia winning 13 gold medals.
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Dawn Fraser became the first swimmer to win three successive Olympic swimming gold medals in the same event by winning the Women’s 100-metre Freestyle.
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Jack Brabham became the first (and still only) driver to win the World Formula 1 Championship in a car of his own make.
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Lionel Rose defeating Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo to win the world bantamweight title. He made history by becoming the first indigenous Australian to be a world champion boxer.
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Margaret Court becoming the first woman during the open era.
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In 1974, Australia qualified for the World Cup finals in West Germany.Until that time, many Australians had considered soccer to be a marginal sport played only by migrants.
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Australia's netball team won the world championships 3 times in the 1970's
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The 1984 Wallabies becoming the first team from Australia to achieve a Grand Slam by defeating all four Home Nations
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Australia defeating arch-rivals England to claim their first Cricket World Cup
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Wayne Gardner winning the inaugural 500cc Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island.
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Australia winning the second Rugby World Cup, defeating England 12-6.
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Leg spin bowler Shane Warne bowling England's Mike Gatting with his first ball in the 1st Ashes Test. Described as "ball of the century
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Wheelchair racer Louise Sauvage winning four gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics.
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Cathy Freeman becoming Australia's first indigenous individual gold medalist by winning the Women’s 400-metre at the Sydney Olympics.
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Australian women’s water polo team defying the odds to win the gold medal by defeating the United States at the Sydney Olympics.
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At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Steven Bradbury becoming Australia's first Winter Olympics gold medallist
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Cadel Evans becoming the first Australian to win the Tour de France.
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Adam Scott becoming the first Australian to win the US Masters, one of the four major golf tournaments.
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Socceroos defeating South Korea 2-1 to win the Asian Cup for the first time.
