page_title: History of sport in Australia
section_title: 1960s
hierarchical_section_title: History of sport in Australia / 1960s
caption_attribution_description: English: An original Australian Olympic ice hockey sweater from 1960, worn by the original owner, Australian Olympian Vic Ekberg during the 55th anniversary weekend.
context_page_description: The history of sport in Australia dates back to the pre-colonial period of the country.
context_section_description: Australia first entered an ice hockey team in the 1960 Winter Olympics held in Squaw Valley.
  By the 1960s, Australia had an international identity as a sport obsessed country, an identity which was embraced inside the country. This was so well known that in a 1962 edition of Sports Illustrated, Australia was named the most sports obsessed country in the world.
  In 1962 Rod Laver became only the second Men's Tennis player to complete the Grand Slam and repeated the feat in 1969 (the only player to do so), winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open in a single calendar year. He also holds the record for the most number of singles titles won – between 1962 and 1976 he won 200 titles. The 1969 Australian Open was the first held under the name Australian Open.
  In 1967, Australia hosted the second Netball World Championships in Perth. That same year, South Australia became the last state to lift its ban on the playing of sports on Sunday.
caption: Original 1960 Australian Olympic ice hockey sweater worn by Vic Ekberg
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