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Aussie Olli Hoare third in New York’s Wanamaker Mile
Sprinter Browning: I’m set to join the sub-10 club
Nuguse breaks North American indoor mile record at Millrose Games
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Australian discus champion Matt Denny details dramatic weight loss transformation
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2024 is an Olympic year and all eyes for Australia's athletes will be on qualifying for Paris.
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Check out which Australians are on track to compete in the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in the French capital.
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Jess Hull has finished a marathon length season with fifth place in the Mile at the World Road Running Championships in Riga, Latvia.
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Ivy Boothroyd and Daniel Williams recorded the fastest 800m times in the 87 year history of the NSW All Schools Championships.
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The northern hemisphere summer has seen Australian records set on 19 occasions.
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The final round of Athletics Victoria's XCR series took place around Melbourne's Tan in beautiful spring weather.
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Australia has recorded its best global championship result since the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, winning six medals at the recent World Championships...
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Throwing a javelin is ultimately about balance. On the runway, at release, and in the flight of the projectile.
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Check out the Australian team for the World Championships in Budapest.
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Strong, cool winds made Athletics Victoria's road relays at Sandown Racecourse tough going.
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Two paths diverged in a winery, and Andre Waring took the one less travelled by.
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Stephanie Ratcliffe has broken the 20 year old Australian record in the hammer throw with a performance of 73.11m.
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Two races, both alike in dignity, in Sydney and Melbourne where we lay our scene.
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Australian 1500m and 5000m champion Jessica Hull has run the fastest ever lap by a female around Melbourne's Tan.
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A Para athlete with a bargain shirt from DFO, a photographer inspired by his late grandfather and Sydney's premier athletics meet.
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Glenhuntly Athletics Club was the winner of the Premier men's and women's races at the opening round of the Athletics Victoria XCR season at...
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Melbourne is home to Australia's most successful athletics meet for the first time since 2016 according to data released by World Athletics.
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Delta Amidzovski has recorded the performance of the meet at the Australian U18 Championships, running the seventh fastest time in history by an under...
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15-year-old Gout Gout has eclipsed the Australian U18 200m record jointly held by Darren Clark, Paul Green and Zane Branco.
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Ryan Tarrant and Bella Pasquali defeated previous Stawell Gift winners to claim the $40,000 winners' cheques on Easter Monday.
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Announcement of the winners of our annual Photo Competition.
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Australian junior 200m runner-up, Ryan Tarrant, was fastest in the heats of the 141st running of the Stawell Gift.
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The Australian U20 Championships were held last weekend in conjunction with the 100th edition of the Australian Championships, with some impressive performances from the...
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In 140 editions only six men have ever won the Stawell Gift off a handicap mark of 4 metres or less.
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Catriona Bisset challenged her own national record with a front running 800m performance on the final day of the one-hundredth edition of the Australian...
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The 100th Australian Championships. The 100m. 10 seconds. Not quite, but the 10.02 second run from Australia's fastest man, Rohan Browning, was damn impressive.
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A four-way tussle and a fall at the final barrier made for a thrilling women's steeplechase final on the second day of the 100th...
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The Brisbane Track Classic was a case of the calm before the storm to this week's Australian Championships.
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Pick between the favourite and the rest of the field for your chance to share in $200 worth of prizes!
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Check out the top performances by Australian athletes since 1 October 2022.
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Abbey Caldwell has continued her strong domestic campaign, running her fourth fastest career time to set a Victorian Milers Club record.
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Jessica Hull reigned supreme on a night that also saw a barrier breaking Australian Allcomers record from New Zealand's Zoe Hobbs in the 100m.
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Joel Baden has been making waves in the Australian athletics scene since he was a teenager. At the Victorian Championships over the weekend the...
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Check out the Top 10 performances from State Championships held across the weekend in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
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In the world of track and field, sprinting is one of the most exciting and adrenaline-fueled event groups to watch. It can, at times,...
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The world's fastest man, Fred Kerley, electrified Lakeside Stadium with a dominant win at the inaugural Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne.
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The domestic season proper kicked off in Adelaide, with Matt Denny and Ben Buckingham recording the best ever marks set at the SA Athletics...
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Junior Logan Janetzki beat home Stewart McSweyn in a handicapped 3200m race at Mentone.
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Commonwealth Games 1500m champion Olli Hoare and up-and-coming collegiate distance runner Ky Robinson have been named in the final team for next month's World...
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The summer season is well and truly in swing, with athletes starting to lay down markers of their form.
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Stewart McSweyn and Abbey Caldwell recorded convincing victories in the trials for the mixed 4x2km relay at the World Cross Country Championships.
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It was no surpise that Australian 10000m record holder Jack Rayner took victory at the Australian world cross country trial, but not before a...
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Hometown hero Leanne Pompeani was the nominal favourite for the women’s selection trial for the World Cross Country Championshipsafter victory at last month’s Zatopek:10,...
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Tim O’Shaughnessy coached junior distance runners Amy Bunnage and Logan Janetzki scored the most convicing victories of the Australian Trials for the World Cross...
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Check out the course, timetable, accommodation and transport options.
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Fast times in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney set up a scorching summer of sprinting, set to be headlined by world 100m champion Fred Kerley...
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In a boost for Australian athletics the Melbourne Track Classic has been granted Continental Tour Gold status by World Athletics.
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Ten Australians have finished 2022 ranked within the Top 10 in the world according to the World Athletics Rankings. The World Athletics Rankings, based...
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Jack Lunn recorded his second win in the space of a week, recording the fastest ever 800m performance at the Victorian Milers Club meet...
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Australian 10000m record holder Jack Rayner has achieved the unique distinction of winning the Zatopek:10 twice within the same calendar year. The annual event...
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Gout Gout, Isaac Beacroft and Daniel Okerenyang all broke Australian Under 16 records at the Australian All School Championships in Adelaide.
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The Nic Bideau coached duo of Brett Robinson and Sinead Diver set new marks in Japan and Spain.
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The Australian mile championships returned to the domestic ciruit after a COVID induced hiatus, with Izzy Thornton-Bott and Cameron Myers taking victory.
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It was a night for milers at the Victorian 5000m Championships at Box Hill, with Sarah Billings and Lachlan Herd claiming line honours.
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The first weekend in October marks the traditional start of the summer athletics season. Have a look at key dates for the season ahead.
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After a two-year break due to COVID cancellations, 900 runners took to the pristine roads of Albert Park on Sunday morning for the Lakeside:10.
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Australia recorded one of its strongest ever team performances at the World Athletics Championships, headlined by gold medals to Kelsey-Lee Barber and Eleanor Patterson.
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Melissa Duncan and Seth O'Donnell have taken out the Victorian cross country championships at Bundoora Park.
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Australia's largest ever team for an international global championships will take to the track and to the field at the famed Hayward Field, in...
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Around 900 runners took hot laps around Sandown Racecourse at today’s Athletics Victoria XCR’22 Sandown Road Relays.
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Former local Aaron Spiessberger-Parker has claimed the 124th NSW cross country title, at Willandra, near Nowra on the NSW south coast.
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Our busiest, and final update, before the close of the World Championships qualifying period on 26 June.
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With one selection criteria being entirely discretionary and referencing Commonwealth Top List performances, and the other cut-throat qualifying based largely on World Rankings, could...
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Top 5 performers in each event (6 for relay events) recorded by Australian athletes since 1 July 2021.
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Take a look at the events that could make or break World Championship qualification for Australian athletes.
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The St George Classic, featuring the NSW Novice Cross Country Championships, was held on Saturday at its traditional venue of Scarborough Park, Ramsgate.
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Bendigo District and Box Hill Athletics Club have taken out the cross country relay titles at the opening round of the Athletics Victoria XCR...
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Have a look back at some of the athletes who would come to define Australian athletics in the decade leading into the 2000 Sydney...
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Meet Australia’s team of 60 athletes, the largest ever for the World Athletics Under 20 Championships.
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The Inside Athletics Photography Competition is back for 2022 with $500 in prizes!
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Harrison Kerr produced a once-in-a-generation performance to emphatically win the 2022 Powercor Stawell Gift on Easter Monday.
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The feature 120m gift races at the Stawell Gift are still open for the taking, with some impressive heat runs but no definitive favourite.
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When all is said and done, often a lot more is said than done. Not for these athletes, who produced standout performances during the...
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National javelin champion Mackenzie Little has capped off the Australian domestic season undefeated, taking victory ahead of world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber at the Brisbane...
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See how all of the action from the Australian Championships rates using the World Athletics Rankings.
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Cedric Dubler produced the standout performance of the eighth day of the Australian Championships, winning the decathlon in a new personal best of 8,393...
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Jake Doran and Zoe Hobbs recorded the fastest ever 100m times at an Australian Championships in winning the blue-ribband events on Friday night.
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The next generation of Australian athletics looks bright if results from Junior events at the Australian Championships is anything to go by.
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There’s nothing better than head-to-head contests at the Australian Championships.
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Pick the winner in each event at the Australian Championships!
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Reversing the sprints down the back straight and a warm Melbourne night created the conditions for the fastest 200m runs ever at Lakeside Stadium,...
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Matt Denny broke the discus meet record while Jude Thomas and Rose Davies were crowned national champions over 3000m at the Sydney Track Classic.
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Zatopek champion Rose Davies has continued her form this season, taking out the 5000m at the Box Hill Burn with a front running performance...
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There was State Championship action across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia over the weekend. Here's how the performances stacked up...
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There aren’t many athletics championships that can claim they pre-date the Olympic Games. The Victorian Championships, first held in 1892, is one that can.
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Batt-Doyle just missed the 5000m qualifying standard for the world championships while Michael Roeger set a T46 world record at the Adelaide Invitational on...
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Olympians Rose Davies and Jack Rayner have taken victory in the feature 10,000m races at the annual Zatopek:10 meet, held yesterday at Lakeside Stadium.
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17-year-old Torrie Lewis has run an impressive wind-assisted 11.18 seconds over 100m at the Sally Pearson Shield meet today at the Queensland State Athletics...
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2022 is a unique year in athletics, with the World Championships and Commonwealth Games both taking place. We caught up with Athletics Australia General...
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What an amazing year 2021 was. A different year to be sure, but with lots of great things to reflect upon.
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A look back at the year through the lens of my camera (and that of some great contributors!)
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So, athletics remains a sport divided, for the time being.
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St Stephen's Harriers and Rebekah Greene from Melbourne University Athletics Club were crowned Victorian 5000m champions for 2021-22 at Lakeside Stadium on Tuesday night.
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As a sport we don’t need two separate Boards setting two separate strategies and employing two different CEOs to implement them
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Getty Images have some of the best sports photographers in the world on their books. Check out their great snaps from the Tokyo Olympics.
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After an interruption to the Athletics Victoria XCR series due to COVID restrictions, foggy conditions greeted runners at the delayed Cruden Farm leg of...
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After over 900 days the Olympic qualifying period has ended, with World Athletics publishing the final list of athletes eligible for selection
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Last ditch efforts by Australian based athletes to make the team for Tokyo take place this weekend at the Festival of Athletics in Townsville.
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After approaching the mark on a number of occasions during the domestic season, Peter Bol recorded the Olympic qualifying standard over the weekend at...
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A couple of weeks ago we launched two surveys to understand how much members of the Australian athletics community value live streaming of the...
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Karinna Fyfe from Glenhuntly Athletics Club prevailed in a close three way tussle in the open women's 8km race on a tough course at...
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With a 10.05 seconds personal best at the Queensland Track Classic and taking out the national title in front of his home crowd in...
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What would you be willing to pay to stream world class athletics live?
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With pandemic pandemonium a thing of the past, Victoria's distance runners were back in action with cross country relays in the opening round of...
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Queensland based Casey Sims was a popular winner of the Best Track Photo and Best Field Photo in our recent Photo Competition, which celebrated...
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Each week aspiring & hobby photographers around Australia capture stunning images of athletics action. To celebrate and showcase their work we are running a...
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Nicola McDermott has broken the Australian high jump record with a jump of 2.00m at the Australian Championships in Sydney.
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We have a look at what Australia's multi-eventers need to do at Nationals to push for Olympic selection. Plus, your chance to show your...
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Linden Hall has become the first Australian woman to break four minutes for 1500m, with a run for the ages at the Box Hill...
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Linden Hall will attempt to reclaim the Australian 1500m record and become the first Australian woman to break four minutes for the metric mile...
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Rohan Browning has run an Olympic qualifying mark of 10.05 seconds to record the fastest time ever run by an Australian in Australia.
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National record holder Stewart McSweyn headlines the deepest 1500m fields of the season at a happy stomping ground at Hagenauer Reserve, Box Hill this...
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400m hurdler Chris Douglas has put himself into contention for Olympic selection with his first sub-50 second performance at the Melbourne Track Classic. In...
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World championship and Commonwealth Games representative Georgia Griffith made a successful return to the track following injury, convincingly taking out her event at the...
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Australia's two fastest sprinters will go head to head at the ACT Championships over the weekend.
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Some of Australia's best distance runners battled it out over 2-miles at the Parkdale Gift in Melbourne on Saturday.
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21-year-old Rose Davies has moved to seventh on the Australian all-time list in taking out the Zatopek:10 at Hagenauer Reserve, Box Hill.
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Guess the winning times in the men's and women's 10000m races to win.
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A look at some social media posts that caught our attention over the past week. View this post on Instagram A post shared by...
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A look at some social media posts that caught our attention this week. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jeffrey Riseley...
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The COVID induced break to the Olympic qualifying period ends today, with athletes having until 29 June next year to claim their place for...
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We look back at the events from the Games of the XXVII Olympiad that have stood the test of time as close contests. This...
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Can you name all of the athletics gold medalists from Sydney 2000 in under 5 minutes?
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By Tim McGrath Twenty years ago when I was a volunteer at the Sydney Olympics, I didn’t imagine that I would go on to...
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The most unusual European athletics season since World War II rolls on for Stewart McSweyn, Matthew Ramsden, Ryan Gregson and Nicola McDermott on Thursday...
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A small number of Australian athletes were in action across Europe and USA as world class competition returned in August. Their results were impressive....
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The time for time trials is over, with world class athletics returning in Monaco this weekend.
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The Athletics Track Directory is a community created listing of athletics tracks around Australia.
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Jessica Hull and Stewart McSweyn were a class above the rest of the fields in the Australian 5000m championships, held at the 2020 Melbourne...
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Stewart McSweyn recorded his third straight Zatopek win, kicking away from Patrick Tiernan over the final lap to set a new national record at...
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With a clutch performance Kelsey-Lee Barber became world champion in the javelin at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha.
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Close to a thousand runners took to the Tan for the final round of the Athletics Victoria XCR series.
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The Oceania Championships have always been about providing opportunity.
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The opening round of the 2019 Athletics Victoria winter season took place at Jells Park on 4 May with cross country relays.
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Naa Anang and Celeste Mucci won their second gold medals of the meet, while New Zealand’s Tom Walsh unleashed a monster throw in the...
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17-year-old Edward Nketia set a New Zealand junior record of 10.17 seconds in his semi-final and backed it up with a 10.22 second performance...
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In overcast, windy conditions Catriona Bisset and Grant Szalek produced the standout performances on the final day of the 2019 Victorian Championships at Lakeside Stadium. Melbourne University’s Bisset...
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Nitro Athletics was an innovative, team-based athletics competition held at Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne during February 2017.
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17-year-old Ryan Gregson continued his record breaking season, setting a new Australian U18 5000m record with a run of 14:14.35.