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O’Donnell surges to Zatopek victory
Meet Australia’s newest World Record holder… Isaac Beacroft
Jessica Stenson sets Australian Marathon record with 2:21:24 at Valencia
Australian All Schools 2025: A Pictorial Celebration
Reed strikes back as Australia’s junior sprint surge rolls on: Australian All Schools 2025
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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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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...
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Peyton Craig and Bendere Oboya have tuned up for Saturday’s Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne with outings at the ‘Home of PBs’ at the...
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Australia has delivered its most successful World Athletics Indoor Championships performance in history, returning from Nanjing with seven medals—including a golden one-two in the...
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The Australian 4x100m record of 38.12 set at last year’s Olympics is no more following a blistering 37.87 run at tonight’s Sydney Track Classic....
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A formidable mix of world champions, Olympic medallists, and rising stars will don the green and gold at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships...
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Paris Olympians Lachlan Kennedy and Liam Adcock have rocketed to third and fifth on the Australian all-time list at the Perth Track Classic. Cover...
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Olympic 800m semi-finalist Claudia Hollingsworth opened her season in style at The Crest while distance runner Josh Phillips took the men’s event in a...
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Olympic bronze medalist Matt Denny opened his season with a meet record at the Adelaide Invitational in a meet otherwise dominated by windy conditions....
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17-year-old Lucas Chis out kicked older rivals to claim the open state title while Amy Robinson was the runaway winner in the women’s race....
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52 blog posts, 13,037 photos and an Instagram reel with 12 million views… here’s our highlights from 2024. What a year for Australian athletics!...
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Tactical races with big finishes were the flavour of the 10000m races at the 2024 Zatopek:10 at Lakeside Stadium. The women’s race meandered in...
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Australian 10000m record holders Lauren Ryan and Jack Rayner will start as favourites for the feature events at the Zatopek:10 meet at Lakeside Stadium...
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Gout Gout redefined Australian sprinting – at a school meet – while other athletes who will also be a prime age for Brisbane 2032...
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See top 20 Instagram movers and shakers within Australian athletics. Cover image by Fred Etter Let’s take a closer look at the biggest influencers...
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The athletics world is set to enter a bold new era with the launch of the World Athletics Ultimate Championships, commencing 11 September 2026 and running...
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World junior silver medallist Gout Gout has shattered the Australian U20 200m record with a sensational run at the Queensland All School Championships. The...
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There was high quality running and drama at the NSW 3000m Championships at ES Marks Athletics Field. The women’s race was a race of...
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With the nation’s best Olympic performance since 1956, a consistent high performance summer series and increased unity across the sport there’s lots to look...
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A cold, wet and windy day greeted runners for the final round of the Athletics Victoria XCR series. National cross country runner-up Ed Marks...
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The 2024 Olympics Games have commenced in Paris. With a week to go until the athletics here’s a few things to look out for....
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34 athletes will make their Olympic debut next month.
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The qualifying list for the Olympics has been updated for the final time.
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Australia’s most progressive state athletics association plans to sever ties with the Little Athletics national body citing inefficiency, cost and a dispute over trademarks....
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The National Sports Tribunal found flaws in Athletics Australia's selection process in Lisa Weightman's successful appeal.
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Let's face it, keeping everyone happy in high-stakes competition is a fool's errand. But that doesn't mean mass uncertainty should reign. For athletics selection,...
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If the team were picked today it would be likely, even though their marks were all set within the last 12 months.
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Seth O'Donnell and Jessica Coyne took line honours over 12km at the first individual round of the Athletics Victoria winter season.
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Sensational performances at the World Relays in Bahamas, including a new Australian record, has seen Australia's 4x100m teams qualify for the Olympics.
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Super fast times in the marathon make gaining selection for Paris a tricky proposition.
