World and Attendance Records

Records are made to be broken and over the years athletes from various sports have set many new world and Olympic records at Sydney Olympic Park. For all current and progressive world and Olympic records at all venues world wide visit the Official Olympic Movement website

World Records at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre

Attendance Records at Sydney Olympic Park

Many attendance records have been set at Sydney Olympic Park mainly at venues such as Telstra Stadium, SuperDome and Aquatic Centre.

Telstra Stadium

The jewel in Sydney’s Olympic crown was the Olympic Stadium. With 110,000 seats, Telstra Stadium was the largest stadium in Olympic History and played host to some of the most significant and memorable events of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (The previous record holder being a 101, 000 seat Stadium prepared in Los Angeles for the Games of the 23rd Olympiad, staged in 1984.)

1. Telstra Stadium has set rugby league all-time attendance records;
• NRL double header 104,583
• NRL Grand Final 107,558: A Rugby League world record crowd packed the Stadium to see the Melbourne Storm win a thriller in the 1999 NRL Grand Final against the St George Illawarra Dragons.
• State of Origin 88,33
• As well as setting benchmarks for marquee rugby league events, Telstra Stadium has established new club records. This season the Bulldogs set a club home crowd record, when 33,105 attended the NRL club match against the Dragons in Round 1.
2. The ‘Greatest ever Rugby Match’ in 2000, before a world record crowd of 109,874, when a Jonah Lomu try sealed an All Blacks win over the Wallabies 39-35. The All Blacks had led 24-nil after 11 minutes only to see Australia draw level at 24 all by half time.
3. The first ever AFL match was held at Telstra Stadium in 2002 with the Swans taking on Essendon for the inaugural Marn Grook trophy. The Sydney Swans v Collingwood match at Telstra Stadium on Saturday 23 August 2003 set an attendance record for the largest crowd to watch an AFL game outside of Victoria with 72,393 spectators attending and was the largest home and away AFL crowd at any Stadium for 2003.
4. The first ever cricket match at Telstra Stadium, an ING Cup one dayer, was played between NSW and South Australia on February 16 2003. An enthusiastic crowd of 25,763 set a Sydney domestic one-day attendance record as the Waugh twins and new batting sensation Michael Clarke sealed victory for NSW. 

Sydney SuperDome

1. A world record crowd of 14,339 attended the Australia-New Zealand Netball Test held at the SuperDome in November 2004. A new World Record was first set on Friday 30 July 2004, with 13,436 spectators attending the Commonwealth Bank Trophy Round 13 double header, also held at the Sydney SuperDome.
2. During the Sydney 2000 a record crowd of 16,000 watched Australia versus the United States of America in the men's wheelchair basketball in the SuperDome, the largest crowd for any basketball event in the SuperDome either for the Olympics or the Paralympics.
3. All the seats in the SuperDome were filled to watch Wheelchair Rugby at the 2000 Paralympic Games, particularly the final between Australia and the United States of America, which had a capacity crowd and set a new world record attendance. 
4. The WWE SmackDown! Superstars broke a box office attendance record at the Sydney SuperDome on 27 August 2004 with 17,739 fans attending, and set a new per-cap merchandise record of $16.93. Both of the previous records were also held by WWE.

Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre

Over 900,000 people have visited the Sydney Aquatic Centre, the most visitations than any swim centre in Australia.