There’s been no bring-back-the-mile style campaign, but the 3000 metres is well and truly back.
So what, you say. Like the mile (perhaps even more so), the 3000 has never really been away. It’s been substituted in for the 5000 metres in Diamond League meetings – even the final, even...
These past few years Claudia Hollingsworth has been the next big thing in Australian women’s middle-distance running. Considering her most recent exploits – destroying a strong field to win the national 3000 metres title in Hobart on 28 February, running the fastest 1500 by an Australian woman in Australia...
Linden Hall seems to have had the better of time just lately.
Approaching her 35th birthday, Hall shows no signs of a performance drop-off. Established as a world-class 1500 metres performer with a sixth place at the Tokyo Olympics and being the first Australian woman under four minutes, she continues...
You don’t often get the best seat in the house to watch the shot put. Usually, it’s one of the worst, regardless of where you’re seated.
The throwing circle is normally at one end of the oval or the other. Often, it’s obscured by the infrastructure for other field events:...
Through the 2005 winter in Melbourne a group of middle-distance supporters coalesced around the idea of doing something to promote middle-distance running. Over several meetings the concept of a Victorian Milers Club was formulated.
Now, as I write this, Vic Milers is on the eve of meeting number 100.
It is...
Sunday 24 January 2026, Boston, and for the second time in two years two male Americans set world records at the same indoor meeting.
In 2025, at the Millrose Games meeting held in the New York Armory (apt venue for explosive performances!), Grant Fisher ran 7:22.91 for 3000 metres, eclipsing...
One bite at the annual rankings compiled by Track & Field News is never enough. As foreshadowed, then, here we are back for seconds.
Last time I wrote about the Australians who had been ranked in the top 10 in an individual event in 2025. There were 10 in all,...
When someone experiences a huge amount of good fortune or happiness all at the same time we often say all their Christmases have come at once.
I’m not sure if all my Christmases came at once on 10 January 2026, but at least two of them did which is something...
A Column By Len Johnson
Years ago, there were many sets of numbers I had committed to memory.
The world all-time list of sub-2:10 marathoners, for example. The top 20 Australians (it helped that my own modest 2:19:32 was on that list!).
It also helped that the weren’t that many numbers to...
We’ve barely recovered from New Year’s Eve. And now we’re only a week away from a world cross-country. A common complaint among the more ‘mature’ – don’t call us old! - is that modern life moves too fast, but a world cross-country 10 days into the new year? Too...
