2026 Inside Athletics Photo Competition
This year there are 87 entries across three categories (Best Track Photo, Best Field Photo and Best Running Photo), more than $1,000 in prizes,
Australian Best from Morgan Mitchell at Knox Track Classic
Two-time Olympian Morgan Mitchell has run the fastest 500m ever by an Australian at the second edition of the Knox Track Classic in south-east
Batt-Doyle breaks 2:21 with Australian record in Chicago
Izzi Batt-Doyle is the fastest Australian woman ever over the marathon. The South Australian ran 2:20:38 to finish sixth at the Chicago Marathon on
Kipchoge breaks course record at Melbourne Marathon
Eliud Kipchoge recorded the 18th marathon victory of his illustrious career with a convincing performance at the Melbourne Marathon. The two-time Olympic champion wound
It turns out we do value bananas, as Little Athletics starts new season and era
The Coles Little Athletics Community Fund has passed $3 million in grants, as Little Athletics begins its first season under the Australian Athletics banner.
Vale Pat Clohessy AM (1933–2026): athlete, coach, mentor
He took Robert de Castella from the Xavier College team to a world marathon title, and for a generation his methods shaped how Australia
Kurtis Marschall Said Yes to Everything. Next, He Wants Mondo to Say Yes to Perth.
After a 22-meet season that included a win over the greatest vaulter in history, Australia’s pole vault mainstay is plotting a night of lights,
No medals, no argument? Budapest delivered for the events that made the cut
Three nights in Budapest with twenty-eight global champions. Ten million US dollars paid out, three sell-out crowds, and a men’s javelin competition that produced
No medals, no fillers, no second chances: the Ultimate Championship arrives
Three nights in Budapest. Twelve Australians. Ten million US dollars. And not a single medal to hang around anybody’s neck. The World Athletics Ultimate
“A little bit numb”: Patterson crowned Diamond League champion in Brussels
Eleanor Patterson has added the one line on her career resume that was missing, clearing 2.01m to win the Diamond League final in Brussels
King Cam: Myers beats Olympic champions to claim Diamond League Final title
Cameron Myers has produced the biggest result of his career, holding off a 1500m field containing two Olympic champions to win the Diamond League
Ballarat: By the numbers
People will remember Haftu Strintzos’s win, but not his time of 32:14. Ten kilometres in thirty-two minutes and change is a time you’d run
Summer just around the corner as 26/27 dates announced
A big summer of athletics is on the cards for 2026/27 leading into Sydney hosting the Australian Championships in early April. The Harbour City
Strintzos and Campbell claim first Australian titles in Ballarat
Australian marathon record holder Haftu Strintzos and City2Surf winner Holly Campbell are now national championships following victories at the Australian Cross Country Championships in
Old school ties: Marks and Strintzos meet again at Ballarat
Long before either of them was a national record-holder or a sub-61 half marathoner, Haftu Strintzos and Ed Marks and were two Melbourne schoolboys
Seven for Her, Ten for Him. Athletics’ last unequal event?
When Jim Thorpe won the first Olympic decathlon in Stockholm in 1912, King Gustav V of Sweden reportedly told him: “Sir, you are the