| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1929 |
Leonie
Wray won the Australian Ladies Golf Union Amateur Championship
in Adelaide - her 3rd title having won also in 1907 and 1908. |
1933 |
Newtown
won the NSWRFL Grand Final against St George 18-5. |
1944 |
Balmain
won the NSWRFL Grand Final against Newtown 19-16. |
1975 |
Paul
Agostina, soccer player, was born. |
1984 |
Sunday
VFL football games began. |
1988 |
Canadian
athlete Ben Johnson won 100 metres sprint in record time of
9.79 seconds at Seoul Olympic Games, but was subsequently
disqualified and stripped of his gold medal after testing
positive for anabolic steroid drugs, and later banned from
athletics competition for life. |
2001 |
Troy
Bayliss won the world superbike championship title at Assen
in The Netherlands. |
2001 |
Lleyton
Hewitt won the US Open defeating Pete Sampras. |
2003 |
Rugby League's
Dally M Awards were cancelled due to a player boycott over more
pay |
