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The Kookaburras have received automatic qualification to the 2012 London Olympics after Fiji today withdrew from the Oceania Cup-Olympic Qualifier which will be held in Hobart from October 6-9.

On the back of shooting Australia to World Championship glory in July, WAIS athlete and West Coast Fever star Caitlin Bassett has been named the club's Player of the Year at the 2011 Netball WA Annual Dinner.

Teenage WAIS scholarship holder Greta Small triumphed over fields of high fliers to win the senior national slalom and giant slalom gold medals in Thredbo this month.

WAIS cyclists Luke Durbridge (men's U23) and Jessica Allen (women's Junior) have given Australia a golden start at the 2011 Road World Championships in Denmark after both athletes won their respective age group time-trials on day one of competition.

Australia has finished third at the FINA Women's Junior World Championships in Trieste, Italy after thrashing Russia 10-2 in their bronze medal playoff.

Four time world player of the year and Olympic gold medallist Jamie Dwyer is set to play his first match for the Kookaburras for 2011 and his first since suffering a knee injury earlier in the year when the Kookaburras compete in the 2011 Oceania Cup - Olympic Qualifier in Hobart from October 5-9.

The WA Sting has capped its first ANL finals series appearance with a third place finish, after defeating The Queensland Fusion 51-48 in the bronze medal play-off at the Waverley Netball Centre in Melbourne.

Rowing in Australia is entering a new and exciting chapter. At the 2011 World Rowing Championships held in Bled, Slovenia >

WAIS-AIS cyclist Luke Durbridge has capped a successful week by being named in Cycling Australia's U23 squad for the Road World Championships to be held in Copenhagen later this month.

Australia has moved into the quarterfinals of the FINA Women's Junior World Championships in Trieste, Italy after accounting for Uzbekistan >