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Sport
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Hint
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Answer
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AFL
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6x VFL Premierships as a player with Melbourne between 1955 & 1964
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Ronald 'Ron' Barassi
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Cricket
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Australian captain between 1958-1964 and a highly regarded commentator
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Richie Benaud
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Surfing
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First woman in history to win 7 World Championships, and only surfer, to win six consecutive world titles (1998-2003)
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Layne Beachley
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Sailing
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Skippered Australia II to victory in the America's Cup in 1983
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John Bertrand
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Athletics
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Three Olympic silver medals: 200m in Mexico City in 1968 and 100m & 200m in Munich in 1972
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Raelene Boyle
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Motor Racing
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F1 world champion in 1959, 1960 & 1966
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Jack Brabham
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Cricket
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Widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time
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Donald Bradman
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Horse Racing
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Jockey who won the Caulfield Cup five times between 1942 & 1952
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Arthur 'Scobie' Breasley
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Tennis
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14 Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 6 doubles, 1 mixed doubles) between 1971 & 1980
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Evonne Cawley
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Athletics
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Olympics bronze in the 10,000m in Tokyo (1964); broke 17 official world records throughout his career
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Ron Clarke
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Tennis
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A record 62 Grand Slam titles (24 singles, 19 doubles, 19 mixed doubles) between 1960 & 1975
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Margaret Court
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Horse Racing
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12x Melbourne Cup winning trainer
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Bart Cummings
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Athletics
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Four Olympic gold medals: 3 in Melbourne in 1956 & the fourth (eight years later) in Tokyo in 1964
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Betty Cuthbert
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Rugby Union
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The most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby, winning the Rugby World Cup for a second time in 1999
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John Eales
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Rugby Union
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The first indigenous Australian to captain a national sports team, captaining the Wallabies 10 times in his 25 caps
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Mark Ella
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Athletics
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Gold in the 1500m at the 1960 Olympics in Rome
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Herb Elliott
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Athletics
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Australia's first Olympian, winning Gold in the 800m and 1500m in Athens in 1896
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Edwin Flack
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Swimming
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Won the Olympic 100m freestyle title at three successive Olympics (Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 & Tokyo 1964)
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Dawn Fraser
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Athletics
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Gold in the 400m at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
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Cathy Freeman
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Rugby League
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6x championships with St George, 8-time captain of Australia, and described by many as the ultimate all-round rugby league player
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Reg Gasnier
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Swimming
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Three gold, one silver & one bronze in her only Olympics, the 1972 Munich Games, at age 15
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Shane Gould
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Cycling
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Gold in the 1000m time trial at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles
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Edgar 'Dunc' Gray
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Athletics
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Gold in both the 100m and 200m at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki
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Marjorie Jackson Nelson
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Athletics
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The first great Australian distance runner and the second man in the world to break four minutes for the mile
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John Landy
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Tennis
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The only player in tennis history to have twice won all Grand Slam singles titles in the same year (1962 & 1969)
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Rod Laver
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Rugby League
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Represented Queensland in thirty-one State of Origin games from 1980 to 1991
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Wally Lewis
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Cricket
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Regarded as the most accomplished and consistently hostile fast bowler of his time, by his career's end had claimed a world record 355 Test wickets
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Dennis Lillee
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Billiards
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Often considered to be the greatest player ever seen in the sport of billiards, with some 57 world records to his credit
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Walter Lindrum
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AFL
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4x VFL premierships as a player & 4x AFL premierships as a coach (including 3 consecutive flags with the Brisbane Lions)
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Leigh Matthews
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Squash
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16 consecutive British Open titles between 1962 and 1977
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Heather McKay
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Cricket
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Considered Australia's greatest ever all-rounder, played 168 test matches between 1946 & 1956
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Keith Miller
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Tennis
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26 Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 17 doubles, 2 mixed doubles) and 5x Davis Cup titles
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John Newcombe
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Golf
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Spent 331 weeks as World Number 1 in the 1980s and 1990s, winning the British Open in 1986 & 1993
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Greg Norman
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Swimming
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Butterfly specialist with two gold, four silver & two bronze medals from three Olympics (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000)
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Susie O'Neill
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Cycling
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4x Australian national road race titles between 1924 & 1929, and winner of the world's greatest endurance cyling race in 1931
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Hubert Opperman
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Boxing
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One of the greatest Australian boxers never to win a world championship; held numerous Australian titles but WW2 prevented him from competing overseas
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Vic Patrick
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Rugby League
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Played in eight consecutive Grand final wins with St George between 1959 & 1966 and captained Australia from 1967-68
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John Raper
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Swimming
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Three Olympic gold medals at Melbourne 1956 and one gold, one silver & one bronze at Rome 1960
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Murray Rose
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Tennis
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18 Grand Slam titles (8 singles, 9 doubles, 1 mixed doubles) between 1953 & 1972, and 4x Davis Cup titles
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Ken Rosewall
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Equestrian
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Competed in five Olympic Games, winning gold in Rome 1960, bronze in Mexico City 1968 & bronze in Montreal 1976
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Bill Roycroft
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Netball
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Represented Australia from 1978-1988, captaining the side for six years and playing in three World Championships
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Anne Sargeant
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Athletics (Para)
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Nine gold and four silver medals from four Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2004 in the sport of wheelchair racing
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Louise Sauvage
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AFL
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Played 237 games for South Melbourne (1956-1971), winning the Brownlow Medal on three occasions (1959, 1964 & 1968)
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Bob Skilton
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Athletics
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Three Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver & three Olympic bronze across three Olympic games (1948, 1952, 1956)
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Shirley Strickland
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Sailing
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Won over four hundred international, national, state and club championship yachting races, including a bronze medal at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics
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Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock
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Golf
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Won the British Open in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958 & 1965
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Peter Thomson
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Swimming
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Five Olympic gold medals (2000, 2004), nine Commonwealth gold, 13 World Championships and set 23 world records
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Ian Thorpe
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Cricket
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Transformed and popularised the art of leg spin and became the most prolific wicket-taker in Australian Test cricket history with 708 wickets
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Shane Warne
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AFL
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Kicked 360 goals in 321 games for Footscray between 1951 & 1970
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E J 'Ted' Whitten
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