Other sports
Orienteering is a popular sport that combines cross-country running with land navigation skills in the woods. Orienteering in Australia is organized by Orienteering Australia.
Amateur Radio Direction Finding is a sport that combines the skills of orienteering with the skills of radio direction finding. Although an obscure sport to most, Australia has had great success at Asia/Pacific regional competitions. ARDF events in Australia are organized by local clubs and the national team is organized by the Wireless Institute of Australia.
Australian Ice Hockey League
In athletics the Stawell Gift is run over the Easter weekend
North Queensland Broomball Association
Trugo is a sport unique to Australia, played by a small number of Australians, although unknown to the majority.
Australian Professional Rodeo Association

Olympic Games
Two Olympic Games have been held in Australia; the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Australia is one of only three countries to have sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games. Australia is currently the only southern hemisphere country to win a gold Olympic medal in the Winter Olympics. The most successful Australian athlete at an Olympics in terms of medals won is Ian Thorpe with nine medals, with five of them gold. Athletes who have achieved four gold medals were: Betty Cuthbert, Murray Rose, Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. [2]

The most medals Australia has won at an Olympics was at Sydney 2000, with 58 medals, with 16 of them gold. It was also the largest team Australia has had at an Olympics with 630 athletes, helped by the home country’s automatic qualification into every sport. The most gold medals Australia has won at an olympics were at Athens 2004, with 17.

Commonwealth Games

1938 British Empire Games in Sydney
1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth
1982 Commonwealth Games - Brisbane,
2006 Commonwealth Games - will be held in Melbourne

University sport

Universities have a role in promoting sport in Australia, with many competitions for university teams (though university sport does not attract the intensive attention that it does in the United States). Uni-games is an annual competition in which University teams compete in traditional sports such as track and field, touch football, rugby union as well as other less conventional sports such as ultimate frisbee.