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Australia At The 1998 Commonwealth Games
Australia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their sixteenth of 16 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games. The games took place in Kuala Lumpur, between the 11th - 21st of September. Australia placed first, winning a total of 198, with 311 competitors. Medals , style="text-align:left; width:78%; vertical-align:top;", , width="22%" align="left" valign="top" , Sport Debuts The 1998 commonwealth games was the first games that tea sports were played. Australia debuted teams in cricket, rugby sevens, hockey, and netball. The 1998 games have been the only games which cricket has been played. Australia won a silver medal, losing gold to South Africa. Australia won a bronze medal in Rugby Sevens, defeating Samoa in the playoff. The gold and silver medals were lost to New Zealand and Fiji respectively. The Australian men's hockey team won gold, defeating Malaysia in the finals and the women's team won gold, defea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Commonwealth Games Association
Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) is the Commonwealth Games Association for Australia, and is responsible for representing and promoting the Commonwealth Sport movement in the country, and organises the participation of athletes at the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. It changed it name from the Australian Commonwealth Games Association to Commonwealth Games Australia in 2015. The Commonwealth Games have been held in Australia five times, most recently the 2018 Commonwealth Games were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Role The CGA is one of 72 Commonwealth Games Associations currently recognised by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). Working with the national governing bodies of each sport, Commonwealth Games Australia selects Team Australia's members to compete in all sports at the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGA is independent and receives no funding from the government. The non-profit organisation's income comes from fundrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Maree Peris-Kneebone
Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election, after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick", installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin. She retired from the Senate in 2016. Sporting career Peris was a representative in the Australian Women's Hockey team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. In 1997, she switched sports and a year later she became a double gold medalist in the 1998 Commonwealth Games (Kuala Lumpur) winning the 200m sprint with a time of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Lancaster
Brett Lancaster (born 15 November 1979) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016. Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four years riding for before moving to in July 2006. In 2009 and 2010 he rode for , and rode for in 2011. His greatest successes as a road cyclist were winning the prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race general classification leader's pink jersey. He set a time of 1' 20" for the race against the clock, the shortest prologue in the 88-year history of the event. Brett Lancaster is the first member of the Italian registered team, , to ever claim the pink jersey. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Bradley McGee, and Luke Roberts) in world record-breaking time of 3:58.233. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycling At The 1998 Commonwealth Games
The 1998 Commonwealth Games ''( Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998)'', officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16)'', was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition is marked by several unprecedented facts in the history of the event. The 1998 games were the first held in an Asian country and the last Commonwealth Games of the 20th century. This was also the first time the games took place in a nation with a head of state other than the Head of the Commonwealth, and the first time the games were held in a country whose majority of the population did not have English as the first language. For the first time ever, the games included team sports. The other bid from the 1998 games came from Adelaide in Australia. Malaysia was the eighth nation to host the Commonwealth Games after Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Jamaica and Scotland. Around 3638 athletes from 70 Commonwealth member nations participated at the games which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowls At The 1998 Commonwealth Games
The lawn bowls competition at the 1998 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Lawn Bowls Centre, Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from 11 September until 21 September 1998. Medal table Medallists Results Men's singles – round robin Section A Section B + Awarded Bronze medals Final Garden bt Price 25-14 Men's pairs – round robin Section A Section B + Awarded Bronze medals Final Australia bt Wales 16-14 Men's fours – round robin Section A Section B + Awarded Bronze medals Final Northern Ireland bt Australia 26-21 Women's singles – round robin Section A Section B + Awarded Bronze medals Final Hartwell bt Rahim 25-14 Women's pairs – round robin Section A Section B + Awarded Bronze medals Final Scotland bt Namibia 31-8 Women's fours – round robin Section A Section B + Awarded Bronze medals Final South Africa bt Australia 17-16 References See also *List of Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Jacobsen
Mark Jacobsen (born 1968) is an Australian international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career In the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship he won a bronze medal in the pairs with Brett Duprez. He also won a gold medal in the pairs with Brett Duprez at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. He won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships The Asia Pacific Bowls Championships formerly the Pacific Rim Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Asia Pacific region. The event was inaugurated in 1985, and it was initially held ..., of which four have been gold medals. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobsen, Mark 1968 births Australian male bowls players Living people Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian people Sportsmen from Victoria (state) Sportspeople from Melbourne Meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's Javelin Throw
The women's javelin throw event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 19 September in Kuala Lumpur. This was the last time that the old model of javelin was used in the women's competition at the Commonwealth Games. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Javelin Javelin 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ... 1998 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's Hammer Throw
The women's hammer throw event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 16 September in Kuala Lumpur. This was the first time that this event was contested at the Commonwealth Games. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammer Hammer 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ... 1998 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's Pole Vault
The women's pole vault event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 19 September in Kuala Lumpur. This was the first time that this event was contested at the Commonwealth Games. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pole Pole 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ... 1998 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's 4 × 400 Metres Relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 21 September on National Stadium, Bukit Jalil. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Relay Relay 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ... 1998 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Van Heer
Tania Van Heer (born 30 December 1970) is an Australian sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Athletics career A junior prodigy, born in Sri Lanka (her Sri Lankan 200m women Under 18 record that established in 1986 with 24.8s held for 32 years until it was broken by Shelinda Jansen in 2018), Van Heer won the Under-20 sprint treble (100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres) at the 1988 Australian Championships in Athletics. Badly affected by injury through most of her career, Van Heer was selected to represent Australia internationally on six occasions. During her best years (1998–99), when coached by 1950 British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Naylor (sprinter)
Lee Michelle Naylor (born 26 January 1971 in Shepparton, Victoria) is a retired sprinter from Australia. She qualified to the quarter-finals in the 400 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics before finishing 8th and ran on her national 4 × 400 metres relay team that finished sixth in the qualifying round. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she repeated qualifying to the quarter-finals then finishing 8th in the quarterfinals. At the 1995 World Championships in Athletics her relay team captured the bronze medal. She ran the third leg on her relay team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games that won gold. She also set her personal record at 51.35 that year. At the 1999 World Championships in Athletics she was disqualified for a lane violation. Naylor received a doctorate in neurochemistry from the University of Melbourne. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
