Australia
- Years active: 1995-1996, 2008
The event originally lasted sixty seconds for the first half of series one, before being cut to 30 seconds. The event remained at thirty seconds for the 2008 revival. In 2008 quarter finals, Amazon was disqualified for not making any attempt to attack her challenger. In the same episode, Destiny was disqualified for letting go of her hammerhead on one hand and holding onto the challenger's hammerhead to maintain her balance. In the semi-finals, challenger Natasha Haines and Gladiator Thunder were both disqualified for pushing the opponent. Thunder complained that he couldn't help it if his hammerhead got stuck to the challenger's head. More notably, challenger Phillip Breslin defeated Gladiator Tank yet did not need to reach the other side in order to receive 10 points, with the challenger actually falling off the bridge shortly after Tank. Not only that, Breslin was on his knees when he pushed Tank off the bridge. Despite Tank complaining to the referee, Breslin earned himself 10 points.
Read more about this topic: Suspension Bridge (Gladiators), Event History
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