Sport & Exercise directions for Regional Victoria in Step 3

The Victorian Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) have updated their website with the detailed Sport & Exercise directions for Regional Victoria in Step 3!

Please note that State Sporting Associations will provide more detailed guidelines for their respective sports.

Please click on the buttons above for more detailed information; in summary:

Current as of 11:59pm Wednesday 16 September 2020

Outdoor Activities

Groups of up to 10 people can meet up in a public outdoor place (babies under 12 months are not included in this cap).

Outdoor Community Facilities

Outdoor community facilities have opened. Whilst at the playground or skatepark you must keep 1.5 metres between yourself and others.

Outdoor Gym Equipment

Allowed. You must clean and disinfect equipment between users. Where possible, you should minimise the sharing of equipment.

Personal Training

Outdoor exercise classes and training can resume for up to 10 people – plus the trainer. You should keep 1.5 metres between yourself and others at all times.

Swimming Pools

Outdoor pools can open for up to 50 people or the number allowed when the four square metre rule is applied (must be the smaller number).

Toilets and Changerooms

Toilets and communal changerooms are open. 

Meetings and Training

Groups of up to 10 people can meet in outside areas that allow for appropriate physical distancing or should be held virtually if you cannot keep 1.5 metres between yourself and others.

Indoor Venues

Closed.

Community Sport

Under 18: Outdoor non-contact sport 
Outdoor contact sport

Both allowed: For the minimum number of people required

to play plus necessary coaches and umpires. Spectators are allowed if they are supervising children or supporting players with additional needs, gathering limits of less than 10 people.

Community Sport

Over 18: Outdoor non-contact sport 

Only outdoor non-contact sport can resume. Keep 1.5 metres between yourself and others while playing with the number of people required to play plus necessary coaches and umpires. Spectators are not allowed.

Face Masks / Coverings

A face mask must be worn when you leave your home in Regional Victoria. You must still wear a face covering if you are exercising, unless you have a lawful exception or you are partaking in an activity that causes you to be out of breath.

GippSport acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work, The Bunurong Peoples, Gunaikurnai Peoples and other traditional owner groups of the Gippsland/East Gippsland Region.  We recognise their ongoing connection to the land, waters and community, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and the ongoing living culture of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people.

GippSport is committed to making a positive contribution to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and working in solidarity towards reconciliation.

GippSport – Gippsland Sports Assembly Inc.
PO Box 741, Traralgon, VIC, Australia 3844
Traralgon Sports Stadium, Catterick Cres, Traralgon