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2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...
was represented by
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the (ACGA), and abbreviated AUS. Athletes from Australia were given automatic qualification in all sports due to the host status. Australia first competed at the then-titled British Empire Games in 1930, and is one of only six countries to have sent athletes to every Commonwealth Games. Australia entered the Melbourne Games as a strong favourite to win the medal tally after having won 207 medals at the
2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August, 2002. The 2002 Games were to be hosted in the United Kingdom to coin ...
in
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compared to England's 165 and Canada's 116. Its strongest sports are
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and
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. At the
2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...
, Australia was at the top of the medal tally with 221 medals: 84 Gold, 69 Silver and 68 Bronze.
Jane Saville Jane Kara Saville (born 5 November 1974) is an Australian race walker who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She was born in Sydney. Saville, from an athletically inclined family, competed in swimming, surf lifesaving, ...
bore Australia's flag at the
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bore the flag during the
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.


Medallists

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Athletics

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Badminton


Men's


Women's


Mixed


Basketball


Men's tournament

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Women's tournament

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Boxing


Cycling


Road

;Men ;Women


Track

;Team sprint ;Sprint ;Pursuit ;Keirin ;Time trial ;Points race ;Scratch race


Mountain bike


Diving

;Men ;Women


Field hockey


Men's tournament

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  • Mark Knowles Mark Knowles (born 4 September 1971) is a Bahamian professional tennis coach and former professional tennis player, becoming the former number 1 in world as a specialist in doubles tennis. He won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments in m ...
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  • Luke Doerner Luke Doerner is an Australian field hockey player. He plays for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League. He is a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team, and won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He is try ...
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  • Grant Schubert Grant Schubert ( OAM) (born 1 August 1980 in Loxton, South Australia) is a field hockey striker from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was named ''World Hockey Young Play ...
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  • Bevan George Bevan Christopher George (born 22 March 1977 in Narrogin, Western Australia) is a field hockey defender from Australia. Field hockey National team George won a gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team (''The Kookaburras'') a ...
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  • Aaron Hopkins Aaron Hopkins (born 12 September 1979 in Busselton, Western Australia) is a field hockey defender from Australia. He narrowly missed selection in Australia's Olympic Games squads in both 2004 and 2008. He did, however, win two gold medals ...
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  • Travis Brooks Travis Neil Brooks OAM (born 16 July 1980 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a field hockey forward from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He made his international deb ...
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  • Brent Livermore Brent James Livermore OAM (born 5 July 1976 in Grafton, New South Wales) is a field hockey midfielder from Australia. He was first selected in the Australian team in 1997, and was awarded the Kookaburras player of the yea ...
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  • Stephen Mowlam Stephen Mowlam OAM (born 22 December 1976 in Victoria) is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by beating title holders The Netherlands in the f ...
    ;Group play ;Semifinal ;Gold medal match


    Women's tournament

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  • Toni Cronk Toni Maree Cronk (born 27 March 1980 in Bankstown, New South Wales) is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team in October 2001 in the test series against New Zealand in Melbourne ...
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  • Suzie Faulkner Suzanne ("Suzie") Margaret Faulkner (born 16 March 1979 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a field hockey striker from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team in 2002 during a Six Nations International Tournament. Nickna ...
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  • Karen Smith Karen Smith may refer to: Sportspeople * Karen Smith (Australian field hockey) (born 1979), Australian field hockey player * Karen Smith (New Zealand field hockey) (born 1970), New Zealand field hockey player * Karen Smith (diver) (born 1976), Brit ...
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  • Kate Hollywood Kate Hollywood (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian former field hockey player who represented the Australian national team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won two Commonwealth Games gold medals, in 2006 and 2010. Domestically, Hollywood playe ...
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  • Madonna Blyth Madonna Blyth (born 30 November 1985) is an Australian field hockey player who competed in the 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed ...
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  • Angie Skirving Angela Robyn Lambert (; born 1 February 1981, in Toowoomba) was an Australian Women's Field Hockey player. She captained the under 21 Australian women's field hockey squad before entering the Hockeyroos in 1998 and in 2000 won gold at the Syd ...
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  • Nikki Hudson Nicole Elaine Hudson (née Mott; born 6 July 1976) is an Australian former women's field hockey player. She was the captain of the Hockeyroos, Australia's national women's team, until her retirement from international hockey in 2009. She made ...
    ;Group play ;Semifinal ;Gold medal match


    Gymnastics


    Artistic

    ;Men ;Team ;Individual finals ;Women ;Team ;Individual finals


    Rhythmic

    ;Team ;Individual finals


    Lawn bowls

    ;Men ;Women


    Netball

    : : : : : : : : : : : : ;Preliminary round ---- ---- ---- ---- ;Semifinal ;Gold medal match


    Rugby sevens

    ;Preliminary rounds ---- ---- ---- ;Quarterfinal ---- ;Semifinal ---- ;Bronze medal match


    Shooting

    ;Men ;Women ;Open


    Squash

    ;Men ;Singles ;Doubles ;Women ;Singles ;Doubles ;Mixed ;Doubles


    Swimming

    ;Men ;Women


    Synchronised swimming

    * Luda Plotnikova (Vic) – Reserve


    Table tennis

    ;Men ;Women ;Mixed


    Triathlon


    Weightlifting

    ;Men ;Women


    Officials

    * President: Mr. Sam Coffa AM JP * Vice President: Mr. Donald Stockins OAM * Vice President: Mrs. Susan Taylor AM * Chief Executive Officer / Games General Manager : Mr.
    Perry Crosswhite Perry Rothrock Crosswhite AM (born 22 September 1947) is a former Australian Olympic basketballer and leading sport administrator. Personal He was born on 22 September 1947 in Washington, D.C. He moved to Australia in 1969 to play basketball. H ...
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    John Devitt John Thomas Devitt, AM (born 4 February 1937) is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a gold medal in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He won in controversial circumstances, bein ...


    See also

    * Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics *
    Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics A total of 433 competitors competed for Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team was Australia's second largest away team after the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, which included a team of 482 competitors. Australian athletes ha ...
    * 2006 Commonwealth Games#Missing athletes


    References


    External links


    Australian Commonwealth Games Association
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    2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
    Nations at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...