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Check out the top 8 performances by Australian athletes in the lead up to Commonwealth Games selection. With Top Lists back in vogue in...
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Three years ago, Rheed McCracken didn’t want to race anymore. After a decade spent amassing twelve global medals, none of them gold, the relentless...
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Here’s the athletes that have achieved the tough qualifying standards for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. With a hard cap of 63 open...
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For 45 years after Ralph Doubell’s 1:44.40 Olympic win in Mexico City, breaking 1:45 remained one of the rarest feats in Australian middle-distance running....
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Two emerging 800m talents will make their global championship debuts as part of a carefully selected Australian team for the 2026 World Athletics Indoor...
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On a quiet Thursday night, Mia Gross might be found at a local athletics meet: not racing, just watching. “If I’m here [in Geelong]...
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Australia’s leading 400m contenders are tuning their speed at the business end of the domestic season, with Cooper Sherman and Aidan Murphy both producing personal best performances over...
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Fresh off her victory in the national 3000m titles, Claudia Hollingsworth has shot to number three on the Australian all-time list over 1500m. Running...
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In 2006, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Low left her home in Ratzeburg, Germany to go meet friends in a nearby town. It was a trip she...
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The kick. Wait patiently, and time it. Don’t let the main competition out of sight. Callum Davies executed the script to perfection at the...
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Six months ago, Matt Denny was sliding across a drenched throwing circle in Tokyo, part of one of the most chaotic finals in World...
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Morgan McDonald is back where he feels most alive: in the mud, in the mix, and with Mick Byrne again
Morgan McDonald doesn’t talk about cross country like it’s a side quest. He talks about it like it’s the original language of distance running:...
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Cooper Sherman still sounds mildly surprised when he says it out loud. Not because he didn’t believe he could do it, but because breaking...
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Box Hill once again proved a happy hunting ground for Linden Hall, who added the 5000m at the Box Hill Burn to her list...
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Backed by a vocal home crowd in Perth, Peter Bol delivered a performance that lifted the stadium and underlined his class. Bol, 32, delivered...
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“The challenge was to fall in love with the sport I had never fallen in love with in the first place.” Cover image by...
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The Australian Short Track Championships may not have drawn the full depth of the nation’s elite, but those who did line up at the...
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Australian junior 800m champion Bob Abdelrahim ran the fastest ever two lap performance at a Victorian Milers Club meet with his runaway 1:46.48 victory...
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Jumping has always been part of Izobelle Louison-Roe’s life. Long before podiums and qualifying standards, it was there in the backyard: sibling dares, improvised...
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There’s a particular kind of honesty that only shows up when things don’t go to plan. And in Canberra, Mia Gross let the cameras...
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When Ella Nelson pressed record on Instagram, she wasn’t trying to make a statement. She was trying to process something that had arrived ten years too...
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Nineteen-year-old Cameron Myers has delivered the fastest 3000m ever run by an Australian, producing a stunning 7:27.57 to win the men’s 3000m at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix....
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The first track session of a new year always carries a bit of symbolism, but for Mia Gross, the opening hit-out of 2026 came with...
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Three weeks on from her Valencia Marathon, Genevieve Gregson is already looking forward, not back. Her immediate post-race disappointment with a 2:28 run has given way...
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Australia’s first 4x100m relay camp of 2026 arrived fast. For Bree Rizzo, it lands right in that tricky space between holiday reset and high-performance reality....
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When Australia’s athletics team lines up at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, it will do so under a markedly different set of circumstances...
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Increasingly the prospects of being a full-time professional athlete rely on content creation as well as prowess on the track. Cover image by Fred...
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A big year in Australian athletics. 28,659 Free Photos Published 82 Original Stories 2,000+ Spikes Customers Supported 1 Amazing Year in Australian Athletics Relieve...
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Australian athletics has entered a new era, with Little Athletics Australia set to formally join forces with Australian Athletics in a move that brings...
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Seth O’Donnell didn’t just win Zatopek:10 — he claimed it. On a grey, drizzling Melbourne night at Lakeside Stadium, O’Donnell delivered the kind of performance that...
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Race walking rarely demands the spotlight. So it was fitting, in a way, that on a quiet Thursday night at the Sydney Olympic Park...
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Australia has a new national marathon queen.On a cool, calm morning in Spain, Jessica Stenson delivered one of the greatest road-running performances in Australian...
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The Australian All Schools Championships are a celebration of everything that makes our sport special — the talent, the heart, the courage, and the...
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Cool, clear conditions and the trademark Lakeside breeze set the scene for a finale worthy of a championships defined by waves of sprinting talent....
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If the first three days of the Australian All Schools hinted at a new golden generation of Australian middle-distance talent, the final day confirmed...
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Power and precision: Field athletes cap a championship of breakthroughs: Australian All Schools 2025
The final day of All Schools opened with one of the most remarkable double acts of the championships: Rebecca Howarth (ACT) winning medals in...
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Australia’s Newest Sprint Star—Made in NZ, Claimed by Australia, Powered by 9.96 Australia has a long and storied tradition of adopting New Zealand’s best...
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Entering perhaps its 50th edition, the Australian All Schools Championships have been the proving ground for the nation’s best young athletes. Since the first...
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With the Adelaide summer turning up the heat, Izzi Batt-Doyle wrapped up her final major workout before flying to Europe for Sunday’s Valencia Marathon....
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Stromlo Forest Park is not known for generosity. It rewards rhythm, honest strength and an ability to hurt. But on a picture-perfect Friday evening...
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When the stadium clock stopped at 14:06.76, 17-year-old Lucas Chis did not raise his arms or search for a camera. He simply bent at the waist, hands...
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Queensland’s Callum Davies took out the Victorian 5000m title in just over 14 minutes at Lakeside Stadium on a cold Thursday evening. The former...
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Few athletes in Australian history have worn the green and gold with as much resilience, reinvention and raw honesty as Genevieve Gregson. A four-time...
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In athletics, precision matters. A fraction of a second separates champions from the rest. The same can be said of the delicate machinery that...
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Australia’s Favourite Athletics Photos Crowned Over 4,000 votes from the Australian athletics community have crowned Australia’s favourite athletics photos from the past 12 months....
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There’s something special about the feel of a brand-new track underfoot. The freshly laid blue Rekortan surface at Knox Park Athletics Centre shimmered under...
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At just 23, Jaylah Hancock-Cameron has become one of Australia’s most consistent middle-distance runners: a quiet achiever thriving in the toughest era the event...
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The eyes of the athletics nation turned to the north-west coast of Tasmania for the Australian 10km Road Running Championships on Sunday morning, where...
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Queensland sprint sensation Gout Gout produced another dazzling performance at his final GPS (Great Public Schools) Championships — the state’s inter-school athletics meet featuring...
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South Australia’s Caitlin Adams has won the 2025 Melbourne Marathon in a time of 2 hours, 30 minutes and 26 seconds in her debut...
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Thirteen medals. Ten Australian records. Twenty-four debutants. Australia’s Para Athletics team lit up the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, a glimpse...
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Behind the scenes with Australia’s women’s sprint relay after a heartbreaking DNF.(Watch the full 26-minute video embedded above.) Bree Masters pulls back the curtain...
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Australia sent its biggest world championships team ever to the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, with 88 athletes originally selected across the track,...
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On the final Sunday of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Nicola Olyslagers rose above the rain and the pressure to claim the gold...
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Cool, still conditions greeted athletes at Albert Park this morning for the third annual Run Prix, raced over two laps of the lake on a...
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Doctor by day, javelin thrower by night. Sydney’s Mackenzie Little has again reminded the world that athletics is not her sole identity, but simply...
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Fred Kerley should have been remembered as one of track and field’s great all-rounders: a man who defied the specialist mould, winning Olympic medals...
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Australia has a new middle-distance history maker, with Jessica Hull storming to the nation’s first ever medal in the 1500m at a World Athletics...
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One of track and field’s most untouchable world records may finally be under threat: the women’s 400 metres. On Day 4 at the World...
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Western Australia’s Kurtis Marschall has secured Australia’s first medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, soaring to bronze in the Men’s Pole...
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The 20th edition of the World Athletics Championships hits Tokyo from 13–21 September 2025, bringing together over 2,000 of the world’s top athletes from 200+...
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Seth’s latest training video gives a behind-the-scenes look at the work being done on the track — with plenty of banter between athlete and...
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A record 87 athletes will represent Australia at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this month, marking the nation’s biggest team ever assembled for...
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Australia’s team for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo (13–21 September 2025) is beginning to crystallise with the qualifying period now over. There’s a...
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Bronte Oates’s rapid rise through the Australian distance running ranks continued in emphatic style at Victoria Park in Ballarat, as the 21-year-old powered to...
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In this episode, Mia Gross sits down with Aussie middle-distance star Abbey Caldwell: Commonwealth Games medallist, Olympian, and one of the world’s top-ranked 800m...
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The Australian Cross Country Championships head to Ballarat this weekend, and the men’s race has a clear frontrunner: 23-year-old Ed Marks, who has emerged...
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From upcoming world-record chases to off-track headlines, here’s your quick-fire wrap of the week’s biggest stories in athletics. Hull to Pace Kipyegon’s 3000m World...
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Australian sprinter Mia Gross shares a week-long altitude block in St. Moritz focused on recovery and a lighter load (blocks, wickets, one 350m rep,...
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From a home-based training plan by high jump star Nicola Olyslagers, to 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus rewriting the record books over 800m, it’s been a...
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In this edition of Inside Track, we revisit the athlete-led fight that kept Australia in the 1980 Olympics, learn of Darren Clark’s rise, fall and...
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Australia’s track and field squad delivered a standout performance at the 2025 FISU World University Games, finishing atop the athletics medal table after a...
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Ed Marks continued his exceptional road form with a dominant win at the 2025 Lakeside10, clocking 28:55 to take out the men’s title in a fast and...
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Leanne Pompeani added another win to her resume on Sunday, claiming victory in the women’s 10K at the 2025 Real Insurance Harbour 10, just five...
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Welcome to the first edition of Inside Track — your curated wrap of the biggest stories in athletics from across Australia and around the...
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In his latest vlog, Seth O’Donnell takes us inside a big training and race day double — complete with muscle soreness, minimal sleep, and...
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For Ed Goddard, running has never been just about medals or margins. It’s about freedom, rhythm, and building a life around what feels good....
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Mia Gross kicked off her European campaign in Lausanne with a massive breakthrough: smashing her long-standing 400m personal best by over two seconds! In...
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Under blue skies and beside the steel-edged shadows of the escarpment, the 110th NSW Short Course Cross Country Championships unfolded in Dapto — fast,...
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The iconic Sandown Relays returned to the wide turns and long straights of Sandown Racecourse on Saturday, with overcast skies giving way to fine...
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The 127th edition of the NSW Athletics Cross Country Championships was held in glorious winter sunshine at the iconic Willandra course on the NSW...
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Linden Hall has added another chapter to her 2025 season, powering to victory in the 3000m at the Stockholm Diamond League in a personal...
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A thousand runners took to the road for Athletics Victoria’s inaugural 5km offering at Albert Park. Run over essentially the same course as the...
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Western Athletics’s men’s team prevailed with a strong final three legs of the 6x6km relay to claim a convincing victory at the Athletics Victoria...
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Run Crew dominated the 2025 NSW Cross Country Relays, going back-to-back in both the men’s and women’s open events under perfect sunny skies at...
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There’s a lot to love about Australian athletics right now and community sentiment is high. We surveyed our readers last month, with 621 responses...
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The start of Athletics Victoria’s winter season was no picnic, with a challenging course testing runners. Andre Waring and Katherine Dowie handled the conditions...
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Andy Buchanan isn’t just heading to Tokyo to race: he’s going there to compete. The Australian marathon record holder will lead a six-strong team...
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A record crowd lined the famed Central Park straight on Easter Monday as the Stawell Gift delivered everything it’s known for – drama, legacy,...
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Australian 200m record holder Gout Gout has it all ahead of him to make the the final of the Stawell Gift after drawing short-priced...
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The Australian Athletics Championships in Perth had already produced fireworks, but the grand finale was reserved for two of the sport’s brightest stars –...
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Day Three of the 2025 Australian Open and Under 20 Athletics Championships delivered a dose of drama and dominance, with the nation’s best sprinters...
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Lachlan Kennedy has scorched his name into Australian sprinting history, clocking 10.00 (+0.9) in the heats of the Men’s 100m to climb to number two on the all-time...
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The star continues to rise for Gout Gout, with the 17-year-old sprinter lighting up the track on the opening day of the Open and...
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The domestic season nears its thrilling conclusion this week in Perth, with the 2025 Australian Athletics Championships set to deliver fireworks across four jam-packed...
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This time last year WA’s Leah O’Brien had a more than respectable 100m personal best of 11.76 seconds. Now, she’s the fastest ever Australian...
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As the Australian Athletics Championships roll into Perth this week, two of the country’s brightest stars have been showcasing their talents far beyond home...
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When the Australian Athletics Championships were last held in Perth in 2010, it had been a generation in time since the nation’s best had...
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Check out who has form on the board with the domestic season about to hit its peak with just the Maurie Plant Meet –...
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A sprint double from World Indoor silver medallist Lachlan Kennedy highlighted the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne. As favourite for the 100m it was...
