Inside Athletics

Fri05182012

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World Youth Championships

Parnov, Carli win silver in Lille

Olympic Youth runner-up Liz Parnov has added another global silver medal to her trophy cabinet in finishing second in the pole vault at the World Youth Championships.

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Daley dose of praise as Penrith teen leaps hurdle to stardom

British Olympic great Daley Thompson hailed the emergence of Penrith teenager Jake Stein as a future star of the decathlon event as something Australian Athletics desperately needed.

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World Youth Best as Stein claims gold

NSWs Jake Stein has set a new world youth (U18) best in the Octathlon in winning the gold medal at the World Youth Championships in Lille, France.

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Reigning Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker will get a chance to defend his crown after qualifying for London in an abandoned railway warehouse in the outer suburbs of Perth.
This is the secret training facility that has saved Steve Hooker's Olympic campaign.
Australia's former world champion Dmitri Markov believes every pole vaulter experiences the doubts that have threatened Steve Hooker's Olympic title defence.
Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker is fighting a serious confidence issue which is threatening the defence of his crown in London.