Two Queensland cricketers have made history over the weekend.

In the Queensland Premier Cricket first-grade final between the Gold Coast Dolphins and Northern Suburbs, the Dolphins’ Hugo Burdon (340 runs) and Stephan Muller (272 runs) produced a batting partnership of 629 runs.

It marks the highest partnership total in Australian premier cricket history. Queensland Premier Cricket is the state’s top cricket competition.

Hats off to Hugo and Stephan!

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The time it took Australian Olympian Cameron McEvoy to swim the men’s 50m freestyle at the China Swimming Open in Shenzhen over the weekend. McEvoy’s time is a new world record for the event, eclipsing the previous record of 20.91 seconds set by Brazil’s César Cielo in 2009.

"I'm never going to tell Essendon fans to be patient, because I reckon 25 years is long enough to hear the same message. But if I'm an Essendon fan, I'm watching the character of these players, particularly the younger players, who will make them proud one day. As frustrating as it is at the moment, good clubs stick together."
Essendon coach Brad Scott after his side's second consecutive loss to start 2026. The Bombers were beaten by 62 points by Hawthorn in Round 1, then by 63 points by Port Adelaide on Sunday, a worrying sign for a club that has not won a final since 2004. Essendon will look to get off the mark against North Melbourne in Round 4, after the Kangaroos were themselves beaten by West Coast on Sunday.

On this day in 2022, Australian tennis star Ash Barty announced her retirement from the sport at 25 years old. At the time, Barty was the number one player in the world and had spent 114 consecutive weeks at the top.

⛳ Aussie golfer Hannah Green claimed victory at the Australian WPGA Championship on the Gold Coast on Sunday, finishing four strokes clear to secure her third consecutive major-tour title. Germany's Alexandra Försterling and South Africa's Casandra Alexander tied for second. After wins at the World Championships in Singapore and the Australian Open in Adelaide, Green is the first Australian golfer to win three straight major-tour events. She has now won seven LPGA titles.

🏉The ACT Brumbies and Queensland Reds continued their strong starts to the Super Rugby Pacific season on the weekend. The Brumbies came from 17 points down to beat the Chiefs 33-24 in Canberra, while the Reds claimed a fourth straight win, defeating the Fijian Drua 21-6 in Lautoka. The Western Force had a bye, and the NSW Waratahs went down to the Auckland Blues 35-20 in Sydney. New Zealand’s Wellington Hurricanes and Blues sit top of the table on 20 points, with the Brumbies third on 19 and the Reds fourth on 18.

🏉 Round 3 of the NRL wrapped up on Sunday with the North Queensland Cowboys claiming their first win of the season, defeating the still-winless Gold Coast Titans 30-16 in Townsville. Scott Drinkwater starred for the Cowboys with a 70-metre solo try. In Sydney, the Parramatta Eels beat the St George Illawarra Dragons 30-20. The victory was marred for the Eels by a season-ending ACL injury to lock J'maine Hopgood. 

🏀The Sydney Kings made a statement in game one of the NBL Championship Series on Friday, demolishing the Adelaide 36ers 112-68. The margin of 44 points is the largest winning margin in NBL Championship Series history. Kendric Davis led the way for the Kings with 25 points and seven assists, while Tim Soares added 22. The Kings take a 1-0 series lead into game two of the best-of-five series in Adelaide on Friday night.

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Australia finished the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland with five medals, the second most of any country at the meet. 

Here’s what to know. 

Jessica Hull was the Australian team’s standout performer, winning bronze in the 3000m and backing it up the next day with silver in the 1500m. In the 1500m final, Hull became the first Australian woman to break the four-minute barrier indoors, running 3:59.45. 

24-year-old Adam Spencer was also impressive as he won a bronze medal in the men’s 1500m, his first global final. In the men’s 800m final, fellow Australian and three-time Olympian Peter Bol narrowly missed the podium in fourth. 

Earlier in the meet, Nicola Olyslagers won high jump silver with a 1.99m clearance, finishing in a three-way tie for second. Kurtis Marschall claimed pole vault bronze with a 6.00m clearance, finishing behind only Swedish world record holder Armand Duplantis and Greece's Emmanouil Karalis.

Hull said: "To be leaving with a bronze and a silver against world-class fields feels incredible. I am happy to be very consistently on the podium."

Spencer said: "I cannot believe I have a world championship medal… Thankfully things opened up towards the end and I managed to get through."

Marschall said: "In this day and age, you have to jump six metres to get a medal. I feel like I'm just a six-metre guy now."

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Japan defeated the Matildas 1-0 in the Women's Asian Cup final at Stadium Australia on Saturday night, in front of 74,400 fans. 

It is the third time Australia has lost an Asian Cup final to Japan by that scoreline, following defeats in 2014 and 2018. 

The only goal of the match came in the 17th minute, when Chelsea forward Maika Hamano struck from outside the penalty area and curled the ball into the top of the net. The result was agonising, given how the match played out. Australia had 15 shots to Japan's nine, dominated the final 20 minutes, and saw Alanna Kennedy's towering header in the 89th minute tipped over by Ayaka Yamashita. 

The last time and only time Australia won the Women’s Asian Cup was in 2010 when they defeated North Korea in the final. 

Vice-captain Steph Catley: "It was one of the hardest defeats in my career. We were brave and created chances and it just wasn't to be. They scored an amazing goal, and that was the difference. It's a shame we haven't got anything to show for it, because we deserve it."

Coach Joe Montemurro: "I've got 26 warriors out there that for 21 days have been absolutely fantastic… Today I think we created probably more chances than we had all tournament and didn't score…This team needs to believe more in who they are and what they can do, and this tournament has shown that."

The Matildas secured automatic qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil by reaching the final. Montemurro described the Asian Cup campaign as an important step in the team's development ahead of Brazil.

For Australian football fans, there’s still plenty of drama to come this year with the Socceroos' campaign at the men's FIFA World Cup kicking off in June.