8 October; Liam Petterson
The University of Melbourne continued to prove it is one of the country’s premier sporting universities by winning eight National Championships at the 2019 UniSport Nationals Div 1 competition on the Gold Coast.
Women’s championship teams were Australian Rules Football, Badminton, Fencing, Surfing, Table Tennis and Touch Football, while Men’s teams brought home National Championships in Fencing and Volleyball.
National runners-up were earned by six teams – Women’s Basketball, Men’s Hockey, Men’s Kendo, Men’s Table Tennis, and Men’s and Women’s Tennis.
Third place was collected by Melbourne teams in Women’s Cycling, Women’s Football, Women’s Rowing, Women’s Volleyball and Mixed Squash.
A week before the main draw on the Gold Coast, the Women’s Surfing team also won the National Championship at Manly Beach in Sydney.
Leading from the front, both the University’s sporting captains earned gold medals. Alice Wu was part of the championship-winning Badminton side which dominated the University of Sydney to win 3 – 0 in the championship final, while Noam Tidhar won an individual Gold in Men’s Judo in his weight class, as well as taking the Champion-of-Champions title.
Back in the competition for the first time in a decade, the Women’s Australian Rules team won all seven of their matches to collect the trophy, as did the Men’s Volleyball side, while the Women’s Table Tennis and Touch Football teams also went undefeated.
Despite not taking home the National Championship in Rowing, the team placed first in three individual races – women’s eight, men’s coxed four and women’s single scull.
Full results and photos
Sport | Placing |
---|---|
Australian Rules Football - Women |
GOLD |
Badminton - Men |
4th |
Badminton - Women |
GOLD |
Baseball - Open |
4th |
Basketball - Men |
6th |
Basketball - Women |
Silver |
Cycling - Women |
Bronze |
Fencing - Men |
GOLD |
Fencing - Women |
GOLD |
Football - Men |
7th |
Football - Women |
Bronze |
Hockey - Men |
Silver |
Hockey - Women |
6th |
Rowing - Men |
5th |
Rowing - Women |
Bronze |
Rugby 7s - Men |
5th |
Squash - Mixed |
Bronze |
Surfing |
GOLD |
Table Tennis - Men |
Silver |
Table Tennis - Women |
GOLD |
Tennis - Men |
Silver |
Tennis - Women |
Silver |
Touch - Women |
GOLD |
Ultimate - Mixed |
5th |
Volleyball - Men |
GOLD |
Volleyball - Women |
Bronze |
Water Polo - Men |
9th |
Water Polo - Women |
10th |