2000 Tri Nations Series
| Final positions | |
|---|---|
| Champions |  Australia (1st title) |
| Bledisloe Cup | Australia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 6 |
| Tries scored | 29 (4.83 per match) |
| Attendance | 63,609 (10,602 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Andrew Mehrtens (77) |
| Most tries | Christian Cullen (7) |
← 1999 2001 → | |
The 2000 Tri Nations Series was the fifth
Tri Nations Series, an annual rugby union competition contested by the national rugby union teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
. It was played from 15 July to 26 August 2000. Australia won the tournament for the first time after a 19–18 win over South Africa in Durban.
The opening game of the tournament between Australia and New Zealand attracted a world record rugby union crowd of 109,874 to Stadium Australia.
Australia made it three wins in a row in the Bledisloe Cup, having taken it from New Zealand in 1998.
Table
| Place | Nation | Games | Points | Try bonus |
Losing bonus |
Table points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | |||||
| 1 | Australia
|
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 104 | 86 | +18 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| 2 |  New Zealand
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 127 | 117 | +10 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 |  South Africa
|
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 82 | 110 | −28 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Results
| 15 July 2000 20:00 | Try: Umaga Alatini Cullen Marshall Lomu Con: Mehrtens (4) Pen: Mehrtens (2) |
| Stadium Australia, Sydney Attendance: 109,874 Referee: André Watson (South Africa) |
| 22 July 2000 19:35 Chris White (England ) |
| 29 July 2000 20:00 UTC+10) |
| Australia | 26–6 | South Africa |
| Try: Mortlock Paul Con: Mortlock (2) Pen: Mortlock (4) | Pen: Van Straaten (2) |
| Stadium Australia, Sydney Attendance: 77,048 Referee: Ed Morrison (England) |
| 5 August 2000 19:35 UTC+12) |
| (1 BP) New Zealand | 23–24 | Australia |
| Try: Cullen (2) Con: Mehrtens (2) Pen: Mehrtens (3) | Try: Mortlock Roff Con: Mortlock Pen: Eales Mortlock (3) |
| Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington Attendance: 36,500 Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa) |
| 19 August 2000 15:00 Australia ) |
| 26 August 2000 15:00 New Zealand ) |
External links
- Tri Nations at Rugby.com.au