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Kyabram sporting town of Australia
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Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:51 pmby SOTTERS
Interested to know if any other country town has produced so many elite sportspeople. Kyabram is located in the Goulburn Valley in Victoria and has 5,800 people living there.
AFL CRICKET NETBALL CYCLING
Garry Lyon Matthew Elliott Cynna Neele Stephen Pate
Dick Clay Jim Higgs
Ross Dillon
Brett Delidio
Kayne Pettiffer
Posted:
Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:57 pmby Dutchy
Wagga Wagga would compete - Mark Taylor, Carey off the top of my head...heaps of others but cant think....Slater?
Posted:
Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:16 pmby Aerie
Dutchy wrote:Wagga Wagga would compete - Mark Taylor, Carey off the top of my head...heaps of others but cant think....Slater?
And Paul Kelly. Was it '96 Wagga had produced both captains of the AFL Grand Final and Australia's two Test opening batsman?
Posted:
Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:32 pmby am Bays
Well wagga wagga has about 20 000 people so it will and should produce more champions than Kyabram. However I'd give it to Ungaire, pop 373, it produced 4 Danihers brothers and a couple of decent Netballers too I believe.....
Posted:
Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:53 pmby magpie in the 80's
well known sportspersons include;
THE DANIHER BROTHERS...AFL
STEVE ELKINGTON....GOLF
PAUL KELLY...AFL
GEOFF LAWSON...CRICKET
CHRIS MORTIMER....NRL
STEVE MORTIMER....NRL
TONY ROCHE...TENNIS
PETER STERLING...NRL
PLUS THE OTHERS LISTED IN POSTS ABOVE
IN ALL WAGGA WAGGA HAS 96 PEOPLE ON THEIR SPORTING HALL OF FAME.
MANY WHO HAVE REPRESENTED AUSTRALIA/OLYMPIC GAMES
SPORTS REPRESENTED:
AFL
NRL
UNION
GOLF
ATHLETICS
HORSE RACING
SAILING
EQUESTRIAN
LAWN BOWLS
HOCKEY
SHOOTING
TRIATHLON
KARATE
GYMNASTICS
MOTORSPORTS
TENNIS
DANCESPORTS
CYCLING
SWIMMING
VOLLEYBALL
KAYAKING
SOFTBALL
DIVING
SNOOKER
SQUASH
SOCCER
ORIENTEERING
Posted:
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:13 pmby SOTTERS
I dont belive Wagga Wagga is a country town. As far as I am concerned Kyabram is the Premier sporting country town of Australia.
Posted:
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:17 pmby heater31
SOTTERS wrote:I dont belive Wagga Wagga is a country town. As far as I am concerned Kyabram is the Premier sporting country town of Australia.
well its not a capital city nor a suburb so it is regarded a country town big enough to be a city. I bet for rep sides they are regarded as country athletes eg u15s,17s,19s etc
Posted:
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:30 pmby magpie in the 80's
heater31 wrote:SOTTERS wrote:I dont belive Wagga Wagga is a country town. As far as I am concerned Kyabram is the Premier sporting country town of Australia.
well its not a capital city nor a suburb so it is regarded a country town big enough to be a city. I bet for rep sides they are regarded as country athletes eg u15s,17s,19s etc
and you are spot on there heater. some teams whether juniors or seniors from wagga play against all the small towns, e.g footy, rugby ,union, netball, soccer, softball and tennis just to name a few sports.
