Champions Australia (1st title) Matches played 6 Top scorer(s) Mehrtens (77) | Bledisloe Cup Australia Tries scored 29 (4.83 per match) Most tries Cullen (7) | |
The 2000 Tri Nations Series was contested from 15 July to 26 August between the Australia, New Zealand and South Africa national rugby union teams. The Wallabies won the tournament for the first time after a thrilling 19–18 win in Durban.
The opening game of the tournament between Australia and New Zealand attracted a world record rugby union crowd of 109,874 to the Sydney Olympic Stadium.
Australia made it 3 wins in a row in the Bledisloe Cup, having taken it from New Zealand in 1998. (They also won the first ever Mandela Challenge Plate in a one-off home test against South Africa on July 8, but that was a week before the Tri-Nations began.)
Results
The 15 July Sydney fixture set a world record for a rugby union crowd, with 109,874 spectators filling Telstra Stadium.