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Legends of Australian Sport - Statistics
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- The average score is 14 of 49
Answer Stats
| Sport | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Cricket | Widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time | Donald Bradman | 74%
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| Tennis | The only player in tennis history to have twice won all Grand Slam singles titles in the same year (1962 & 1969) | Rod Laver | 74%
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| Motor Racing | F1 world champion in 1959, 1960 & 1966 | Jack Brabham | 63%
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| Cricket | Transformed and popularised the art of leg spin and became the most prolific wicket-taker in Australian Test cricket history with 708 wickets | Shane Warne | 63%
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| Tennis | A record 62 Grand Slam titles (24 singles, 19 doubles, 19 mixed doubles) between 1960 & 1975 | Margaret Court | 58%
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| Athletics | Gold in the 400m at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney | Cathy Freeman | 53%
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| Tennis | 14 Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 6 doubles, 1 mixed doubles) between 1971 & 1980 | Evonne Cawley | 53%
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| Swimming | Five Olympic gold medals (2000, 2004), nine Commonwealth gold, 13 World Championships and set 23 world records | Ian Thorpe | 53%
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| Golf | Spent 331 weeks as World Number 1 in the 1980s and 1990s, winning the British Open in 1986 & 1993 | Greg Norman | 47%
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| Cricket | Australian captain between 1958-1964 and a highly regarded commentator | Richie Benaud | 47%
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| Cricket | Regarded as the most accomplished and consistently hostile fast bowler of his time, by his career's end had claimed a world record 355 Test wickets | Dennis Lillee | 42%
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| Horse Racing | 12x Melbourne Cup winning trainer | Bart Cummings | 37%
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| Swimming | Won the Olympic 100m freestyle title at three successive Olympics (Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 & Tokyo 1964) | Dawn Fraser | 37%
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| Tennis | 26 Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 17 doubles, 2 mixed doubles) and 5x Davis Cup titles | John Newcombe | 37%
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| Surfing | First woman in history to win 7 World Championships, and only surfer, to win six consecutive world titles (1998-2003) | Layne Beachley | 37%
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| AFL | 4x VFL premierships as a player & 4x AFL premierships as a coach (including 3 consecutive flags with the Brisbane Lions) | Leigh Matthews | 37%
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| Swimming | Three Olympic gold medals at Melbourne 1956 and one gold, one silver & one bronze at Rome 1960 | Murray Rose | 37%
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| Sailing | Skippered Australia II to victory in the America's Cup in 1983 | John Bertrand | 32%
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| Athletics | Three Olympic silver medals: 200m in Mexico City in 1968 and 100m & 200m in Munich in 1972 | Raelene Boyle | 32%
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| AFL | 6x VFL Premierships as a player with Melbourne between 1955 & 1964 | Ronald 'Ron' Barassi | 32%
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| Rugby League | Represented Queensland in thirty-one State of Origin games from 1980 to 1991 | Wally Lewis | 32%
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| Athletics | Four Olympic gold medals: 3 in Melbourne in 1956 & the fourth (eight years later) in Tokyo in 1964 | Betty Cuthbert | 26%
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| Athletics | Gold in the 1500m at the 1960 Olympics in Rome | Herb Elliott | 26%
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| Rugby Union | The most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby, winning the Rugby World Cup for a second time in 1999 | John Eales | 26%
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| Rugby Union | The first indigenous Australian to captain a national sports team, captaining the Wallabies 10 times in his 25 caps | Mark Ella | 26%
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| Swimming | Three gold, one silver & one bronze in her only Olympics, the 1972 Munich Games, at age 15 | Shane Gould | 26%
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| AFL | Kicked 360 goals in 321 games for Footscray between 1951 & 1970 | E J 'Ted' Whitten | 21%
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| Athletics | The first great Australian distance runner and the second man in the world to break four minutes for the mile | John Landy | 21%
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| Cricket | Considered Australia's greatest ever all-rounder, played 168 test matches between 1946 & 1956 | Keith Miller | 21%
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| Tennis | 18 Grand Slam titles (8 singles, 9 doubles, 1 mixed doubles) between 1953 & 1972, and 4x Davis Cup titles | Ken Rosewall | 21%
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| Golf | Won the British Open in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958 & 1965 | Peter Thomson | 21%
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| Swimming | Butterfly specialist with two gold, four silver & two bronze medals from three Olympics (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000) | Susie O'Neill | 21%
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| AFL | Played 237 games for South Melbourne (1956-1971), winning the Brownlow Medal on three occasions (1959, 1964 & 1968) | Bob Skilton | 16%
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| Athletics | Australia's first Olympian, winning Gold in the 800m and 1500m in Athens in 1896 | Edwin Flack | 16%
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| Squash | 16 consecutive British Open titles between 1962 and 1977 | Heather McKay | 16%
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| Rugby League | Played in eight consecutive Grand final wins with St George between 1959 & 1966 and captained Australia from 1967-68 | John Raper | 16%
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| Athletics | Olympics bronze in the 10,000m in Tokyo (1964); broke 17 official world records throughout his career | Ron Clarke | 16%
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| Athletics | Three Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver & three Olympic bronze across three Olympic games (1948, 1952, 1956) | Shirley Strickland | 16%
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| Billiards | Often considered to be the greatest player ever seen in the sport of billiards, with some 57 world records to his credit | Walter Lindrum | 16%
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| Cycling | 4x Australian national road race titles between 1924 & 1929, and winner of the world's greatest endurance cyling race in 1931 | Hubert Opperman | 11%
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| Rugby League | 6x championships with St George, 8-time captain of Australia, and described by many as the ultimate all-round rugby league player | Reg Gasnier | 11%
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| Horse Racing | Jockey who won the Caulfield Cup five times between 1942 & 1952 | Arthur 'Scobie' Breasley | 5%
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| Equestrian | Competed in five Olympic Games, winning gold in Rome 1960, bronze in Mexico City 1968 & bronze in Montreal 1976 | Bill Roycroft | 5%
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| Athletics (Para) | Nine gold and four silver medals from four Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2004 in the sport of wheelchair racing | Louise Sauvage | 5%
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| Athletics | Gold in both the 100m and 200m at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki | Marjorie Jackson Nelson | 5%
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| Sailing | Won over four hundred international, national, state and club championship yachting races, including a bronze medal at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics | Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock | 0%
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| Netball | Represented Australia from 1978-1988, captaining the side for six years and playing in three World Championships | Anne Sargeant | 0%
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| Cycling | Gold in the 1000m time trial at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles | Edgar 'Dunc' Gray | 0%
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| Boxing | One of the greatest Australian boxers never to win a world championship; held numerous Australian titles but WW2 prevented him from competing overseas | Vic Patrick | 0%
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