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unusual facts about Australia men's national goalball team


Australia men's national goalball team

Goalball national team members who have been part of this program include Warren Lawton, Robert Crestani and Kevin Frew.


2003 IIHF World U18 Championships

Australia and Iceland won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division II for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Australia men's national field hockey team

Barry Dancer/Brent Dancer and Ric Charlesworth/Jonathan Charlesworth are two pairs of father as coach and son as player while both were affiliated with the national team in those positions.

Noteworthy former and current members of the national team include Ric Charlesworth.

Australia men's national ice hockey team

Australia's ice hockey team has participated in just one Winter Olympics: the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, California.

Australia men's national water polo team

The Australian team managed 5th place in both the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, the highest Olympic placing so far, and managed to finish 4th in the World Championships at home in Perth in 1998.

Australia women's national goalball team

The women's Australian team did not have as much experience as other teams in the 1996 Paralympics.

C. J. Bruton

This successful tenure also lead to him being selected in the Boomers squad for the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Conor White

White was first called up to represent Australia in 2000 where he joined the national senior team to compete in the 2000 IIHF World Championship Pool D tournament being held in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Darren Croft

Croft was first called up to represent Australia in 2000 where he joined the national under-20 team to compete in the 2000 IIHF World U20 Championship Pool D tournament being held in Mexico City, Mexico Australia finished seventh while Croft managed one goal from his four games.

Gordon Pearce

Gordon Charles Pearce (born 10 January 1934 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India) is a field hockey player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics for Australia.

Jonathon Charlesworth

He joined the Kookaburras in 2009, where he was coached by his father Ric Charlesworth.

Larry Davidson

Davidson was named a member of the Australian Boomers squad for the 2006 Commonwealth Games but injury prevented him from playing with the gold medal team.

Mike Dunlap

Dunlap is credited as the coach who kick-started the NBL career of the 36ers all-time leading home grown player Brett Maher in the 1994 season (Maher had debuted for the 36ers in 1992 and would go on to be the leading point scorer (8,941) and games record holder at the club (526), captaining the team to 3 NBL titles as well as having a distinguished international career for the Australian Boomers before retiring in 2009).

Nathan Crosswell

After recovering from his injury, Crosswell suited up for the 36ers in the 2012–13 NBL season and was named as co-captain of the team along with new recruit, Aussie Boomers 2012 London Olympian Adam Gibson.

Neil Brooks

Their son Luke is a member of the Australian water polo team, playing as a goalkeeper.

Nikolaos Zisis

The next year, at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Japan, Zisis hit a game winning 3-point shot at the end of the game against the Australian national basketball team to give Greece a 72-69 victory.

Richard Moon

Moon received his first and only callup to represent Australia in 2001 where he joined the national senior team to compete in the 2001 IIHF World Championship Division II Group A tournament being held in Majadahonda, Spain.

Ross Howell

Howell was first called up to represent Australia in 2001 where he joined the national senior team to compete in the 2001 IIHF World Championship Division II Group A tournament being held in Majadahonda, Spain.

Sean Greer

Greer was first called up to represent Australia in 2006 where he joined the national under-18 team to compete in the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II Group B tournament being held in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania.

Sean Oultram

Oultram was first called up to represent Australia in 2004, where he joined the national under-20 tean to compete in the 2005 IIHF World U20 Championship Division II Group B tournament being held in Puigcerdà, Spain.

Steven Marković

Marković played for Australia at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.


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