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First tied cricket test Australia v West indies at The Gabba
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The year of 1960.
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Australian Soccer Football Association suspended by FIFA. Poaching of players from oversease, Australia SUSPENDED by FIFA.
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Billiards champion Walter Lindrum dies at 61.
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They recieved 5 place, with 8 gold medals, 8 Silver and 5 Bronze.
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Australia sent a confident team of 214 athletes, 184 men and 30 women, to Rome, its biggest team ever for an overseas Games.
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Perth’s Herb Elliott won the 1500m gold medal in world record time to crown his tremendous career, decimating the field to win by almost 20 metres. Elliott would retire soon after the Games having won 44 consecutive races over 1500m or a mile.
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Swimming champion Dawn Fraser is an iconic figure in Australian sporting history. A exceptional sportswoman with a larrikin streak, over the course of her swimming career, she won eight Olympic and eight Commonwealth medals.
