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AUSTRALIA's ROSTER
#	Name	P	Heigth	DOB	Place Of Birth	Club

4	Chris ANSTEY	C	213cm 7'0"	01/01/1975	Melbourne, Victoria (AUS)	Melbourne Tigers (AUS)
5	Patrick MILLS		183cm 6'0"	11/08/1988	Canberra (AUS)	-
6	Andrew BOGUT	F	207cm 6'9"	28/11/1984	Melbourne (AUS) (AUS)	-
7	Joe INGLES		203cm 6'8"	02/10/1987	Adelaide (AUS)	-
8	Brad NEWLEY	F	199cm 6'6"	18/02/1985	Adelaide (AUS)	BESIKTAS MILANGAZ (TUR)
9	C.J. BRUTON	PG	188cm 6'2"	13/12/1975	Perth (USA)	-
10	David BARLOW		205cm 6'9"	22/10/1983	Melbourne (AUS)	-
11	Mark WORTHINGTON		202cm 6'8"	08/06/1983	Bunbury (AUS)	BROSE BASKETS BAMBERG (GER)
12	Glen SAVILLE	F	199cm 6'6"	17/01/1976	Bendigo (AUS)	Wollongong (AUS)
13	David ANDERSEN	C	212cm 6'11"	23/06/1980	Melbourne (AUS)	REGAL FC BARCELONA (ESP)
14	Matt NIELSEN	F	208cm 6'10"	03/02/1978	Sydney (AUS)	VALENCIA BASKET CLUB, S.A.D. (ESP)
15	Shawn REDHAGE	F	203cm 6'8"	21/01/1981	Nebraska (USA)	Perth Wildcats (AUS)

Average height:			202cm/6'8"

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18/08/2008 AUS/LTU – Australia destroy nemesis Lithuania BEIJING (Olympics) – Australia turned the basketball world upside down on Monday by humiliating red-hot and traditional nemesis Lithuania 106 -75 on the last day of preliminary round action at the more »

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16/08/2008 AUS/RUS – Bogut back with a BOOM as Aussies stun European champions Russia BEIJING (Olympics) – Australia coach Brian Goorjian stood up for Andrew Bogut and the big center thanked him by scoring leading the Boomers to a 95-80 upset of European champions Russia and into the more »

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14/08/2008 AUS – Goorjian tells Bogut bashers to back off BEIJING (Olympics) - Australia coach Brian Goorjian launched a stout defense of under-fire center Andrew Bogut after the Boomers' 106-68 win over Iran. Bogut has been criticized Down Under for not more »

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14/08/2008 AUS/IRI – Australia taste victory with decisive win over Iran BEIJING (Olympics) – Australia put two bad defeats behind them and destroyed Iran on Thursday to keep alive their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals. Brad Newley scored 19 of his game-high 24 more »

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