Australian sports!!!By Abbie, Kate and

Sarah

RUGBY -1The Australian National Rugby Union Team (A.N.R.U.T), is represented side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed The Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the tri-nations series, in which they also contest the Bledistoe cup with New Zeland and the mandella challenge plate with South Africa.

Rugby - 1

Australia are currently ranked second behind the all blacks in the IRB world rankings and hold the tri nations trophy and the Mandela plate !!!

Rugby -2

Australia have competed in all seven rugby world cups, and have won the world cup on two occasions, in 1991 against England, and in 1999 against France. Australia also lost in the final after extra time to England in the 2003

Rugby -2

competiton.Australia are governed by the Australian rugby union (ARU) Seven former Australian players have been inducted into the international Rugby Hall Of Fame with one of those also having been inducted into the (IRB) Hall Of fame.

Bondi Beach/Body surfing

Bondi beach is a very popular beach for surfing in Australia, but many people get injured over there !

Bondi Beach Body Surfing

Body Surfing is where you catch waves without a proper surf board: a float made of plastic foam or a blow-up surf-o-plane sure helps !

Soccer

Soccer is a popular, professional sport in Australia. The sport has a high level of participation in Australia. The full professional a-league competition has been operating since 2005 and the national team competes in the Asian Football Confederation.

Baseball

• Baseball arrived in Australia in the 1850’swith American gold miners and was played on the gold fields of Ballarat. 30 years later the Union Baseball club was formed by Americans resistants. Aussies joined the yanks to form the Sydney baseball club a year later. In 1913 the Australian baseball council was created.

Facts !!!

• Australian football is also known as aussie rules.

• Nicknames: football, footie, aussie rules.

• Clubs: 2,659.• Mixed gender: single categorization.• Contact: full contact team members

22 ( 18 at a time )

!! Quiz time !!

1. How many footie clubs are there ???? 2. when did baseball arrive in

Australia ???? 3. What is the nickname for Australia's

rugby team ????4. When was Australia's baseball council

created ????5. How many full contact team

members ? How many at a time ?????

Answers !!!!!!!

1. There are 2,659 footie clubs !!! 2. Baseball first arrived in Australia in the 1850’s!! 3. The nickname for Australia's rugby team is the wallabies !! 4. The baseball council was created in 1913 !! 5. 22 contact mmbers,18 at a time !!!!!!

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By Abbie, Kate and Sarah !!!!