2010 in Australia - Sport

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  • 12 – 28 February – Australia sends a team of 40 competitors to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Two Australians win gold medals, Torah Bright in the Women's halfpipe and Lydia Lassila in the Women's aerials.
  • 14 February – Sydney FC defeats Melbourne Victory 2-0 in the final match of the home-and-away season of the 2009–10 A-League, securing the club its second A-League premiership and a spot in the 2011 AFC Champions League.
  • 13 March – Australia defeats Germany 2-1 in the final of the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup at Dhyan Chand National Stadium, in New Delhi, India. This is Australia's second World Cup title.
  • 20 March – Sydney FC defeats Melbourne Victory in the 2010 A-League Grand Final at Etihad Stadium to add the A-League Championship to their Premiership. Sydney FC wins 4–2 on penalties, after the match is tied at 1–1 after extra time.
  • 21 March – Victoria win their 28th Sheffield Shield title, defeating Queensland by 457 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
  • 21 – 24 March – The 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Australia tops the medal table, winning 6 gold medals, 2 silver and 2 bronze.
  • 28 March – British driver Jenson Button wins the 2010 Australian Grand Prix for McLaren, his second successive victory in the race. He finishing 12 seconds ahead of Polish driver Robert Kubica.
  • 22 April – The Melbourne Storm are stripped of their 2007 and 2009 National Rugby League premierships and 2006–2008 minor premierships, fined a record $1.689 million, deducted all eight premiership points for the 2010 season and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the season after systematic breaches of the NRL salary cap were discovered.
  • 4 May – Neil Robertson defeats Scotland's Graeme Dott 18-13 to win the 2010 World Snooker Championship.
  • 16 May – Australia wins the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 defeating New Zealand by 3 runs in the final at Bridgetown, Barbados. In the corresponding men's event, Australia finish runners-up, losing the final to England by 7 wickets.
  • 30 May – The Australian team wins the 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup, defeating North Korea 5-4 on penalties after the two teams were level on 1-1 after extra time.
  • 10 June – Football Federation Australia withdraws Australia's bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but continues to bid for the 2022 event.
  • 12 June – Timana Tahu withdraws from the New South Wales team for the second match of the 2010 State of Origin series after assistant coach Andrew Johns made racially disparaging comments about Queensland player Greg Inglis.
  • 23 June – Despite defeating Serbia 2-1 in their final match in Group D, Australia did not progress past the group stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup—finishing third in their group behind Ghana on goal difference.
  • 5 August – Melbourne Heart FC plays its first match in the A-League. It is defeated 0–1 by Central Coast Mariners at AAMI Park.
  • 20 September – Carlton player Chris Judd wins his second Brownlow Medal.
  • 25 September – The 2010 AFL Grand Final is a draw between Collingwood and St Kilda.
  • 2 October – Collingwood wins the replay of the 2010 AFL Grand Final, defeating St Kilda 16.12 (108) to 7.10 (52).
  • 10 October – Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife win the 2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 ahead of Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden team mates Jamie Whincup and Steve Owen. It was Lowndes' fifth victory at Bathurst and Skaife's sixth, and the first team 1–2 finish since 1984.
  • 17 October - Ducati Corse rider Casey Stoner took a popular home crowd victory in the 2010 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, finishing eight seconds ahead of Spanish rider Jorge Lorenzo for the Yamaha Motor Racing team.
  • 23 October - So You Think wins the Cox Plate for a second time at Moonee Valley.
  • 1 November – Surfer Stephanie Gilmore wins the 2010 ASP World Tour, her fourth world championship.
  • 2 November – French horse Americain, ridden by Gérald Mossé, wins the 150th Melbourne Cup.
  • 2 December – Australia's bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup is unsuccessful, with Qatar selected as the location for the 2022 event.
  • 26–29 December – England win the fourth Test and retain The Ashes.
  • 28 December – Wild Oats XI takes line honours for the fifth time in the 2010 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, although a protest is unsuccessfully raised over the yacht's failure to report its position by radio as it entered Bass Strait at Green Cape.

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