Olympic Highway

Olympic Highway
Proposed to replace [1]
Length	338 km (210 mi)
General direction	Northeast-Southwest
From	Mid-Western Highway, Cowra, New South Wales
via	Young, Wallendbeen, Cootamundra, Junee, Wagga Wagga, The Rock, Henty, Culcairn
To	Hume Highway, 22km north of Albury, New South Wales
Allocation	Wagga Wagga - Wagga Wagga West: (duplex with )
Major junctions	Lachlan Valley Way Henry Lawson Way Burley Griffin Way Goldfields Way Sturt Highway

Olympic Highway^[2] is a New South Wales trunk road that links Cowra and Albury at a distance of 338 kilometres. It is designated National Route 41 and was formerly known simply as Olympic Way. It was named as it was the path that the Olympic Torch took on its journey to Melbourne for the 1956 Summer Olympics.^[3]

From Albury to Cootamundra it runs parallel with the Sydney-Melbourne railway line. Olympic Way offers an alternative route from Albury to Sydney as it links Hume Highway to Mid-Western Highway and Great Western Highway via Bathurst.

Major towns enroute include:

• Wagga Wagga
• Junee
• Cootamundra
• Young
• Cowra

Olympic Torch relay

For the 1956 Summer Olympics the Olympic Flame, or torch, was carried along the road from Cowra to Wagga Wagga. The torch was carried from Cairns to Melbourne.^[3] For the 2000 Summer Olympics the torch was carried from Wagga Wagga to Cowra in mid-August en route to Sydney.

Olympic Highway, Route A41, links Albury to Cowra

Sturt and Olympic Highway Intersection at Wagga Wagga

See also

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• Highways in Australia
• Highways in New South Wales

References

v • d • e Road infrastructure in Regional New South Wales Freeways Hume Freeway • Pacific Motorway • South Western Freeway • Southern Freeway • Sydney–Newcastle Freeway National highways Barton Highway • Federal Highway • Hume Highway • New England Highway • Newell Highway • Sturt Highway Highways Barrier Highway • Bruxner Highway • Carnarvon Highway • Castlereagh Highway • Cobb Highway • Great Western Highway • Gwydir Highway • Illawarra Highway • Kamilaroi Highway • Kings Highway • Mid-Western Highway • Mitchell Highway • Monaro Highway • Murray Valley Highway • Olympic Highway • Oxley Highway • Pacific Highway • Princes Highway • Riverina Highway • Silver City Highway • Snowy Mountains Highway Local highways Alpine Way • Appin Road • Barry Way • Bathurst-Ilford Road • Bells Line of Road • Bucketts Way • Burley Griffin Way • Bylong Valley Way • Camden Valley Way • Castlereagh Highway • Central Coast Highway • Escort Way • Fossickers Way • Golden Highway • Goldfields Way • Goulburn-Oberon Road • Henry Lawson Way • Irrigation Way • Kidman Way • Lachlan Valley Way • Newcastle Inner City Bypass • O'Connell Road • Old Hume Highway • Picton Road • Princes Highway • Putty Road • Summerland Way • Thunderbolts Way • Waterfall Way • Wombeyan Caves Road • Yass Valley Way Proposals Hunter Expressway • Pacific Motorway Extension to Sydney • Sydney Bypass