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Melbourne Cup
Through tears and triumphs, 'the race that stops a nation™' has cemented its position as a revered sporting, social and cultural event that continues to play a significant role in defining Australia's national identity. -
The Ashes Commmenced
The Ashes is the notional prize in a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that won the last Test series between those sides or, if that series was drawn, by the team that last won such a series. -
NRL Was Established
The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from the established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition. -
Phar lap
He triumphed during the Great Depression of the early 1930s, when a hero was most needed by the people of Australia. He conquered the local racing scene—36 wins from his last 41 starts—and then won North America's richest race, the Agua Caliente Handicap, in 1932. A fortnight later he went to the great equine heaven in the skies, struck down by a mystery illness that many suspected was the work of gangsters. -
Dawn Fraser Announced Australian of the Year
Fraser won eight Olympic medals, including four gold medals, and six Commonwealth Games gold medals. She also held 39 records. The 100 metres freestyle record was hers for 15 years from 1 December 1956 to 8 January 1972. She is the first of only three swimmers in Olympic history to win individual gold medals for the same event at three successive Olympics. In October 1962, she became the first woman to swim 100 metres freestyle in less than one minute. -
Australia wins America's Cup
First Australian team to win the Americas Cup. -
Cathy Freeman
Her personal best of 48.63 currently ranks her as the sixth fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-Jose Perec's number three time at the 1996 Olympics. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame. -
Steven Bradbury Won Gold
Bradbury’s bizarre come-from-behind gold medal triumph in 2002 has propelled him into Aussie vernacular - to do a Bradbury or be ‘Bradburied’ is to unexpectedly achieve success. -
Black Caviar
Black Caviar is a retired Australian Thoroughbred racehorse undefeated in 25 races, a success record not equalled for over 100 years. She was named WTRR World Champion Sprinter in 2010,2011 2012 and 2013 -
Jessica Watson. Youngest person to sail around the world non-stop
In May 2010, she unofficially became the youngest person to sail non-stop and unassisted around the world, although her route did not meet World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) criteria for circumnavigation of the globe -
Adam Scott First Aussie to win US Masters
It was Scott's first major championship and marked the first time an Australian has won the Masters.
