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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7WGg4O8T-g Welcome to The Leonora Golden Gift 2018 Website: http://www.leonoragoldengift.com/ CALL OUT TO ELITES WISHING TO COMPETE IN THE 2018 LEONORA GOLDEN GIFT | GOLDEN MILE:  Australia richest mile. Spots are limited: contact Ross at ross@runnnerstribe.com with a short bio with PB’s. Elite Female Mile featuring State, National and International Runners Prize Money $6,000.00, $4000.00, $2,000.00, $1,500.00, $1,000.00, $750.00, $500.00, $250.00 Elite...
In 2015, the Australian women's 4x400m relay squad made the final of IAAF World Relay Championships to secure their start at Rio 2016. Going into the Olympics ranked outside the top 10 in the world, the team set themselves the formidable task of making the final on the biggest...
A column by Jaryd Clifford – Runner’s Tribe When David Rudisha came to Australia to kick-start his Olympic title defence in 2016, the expectation was that it would be a procession of royalty. After all, he was the king of the track, an Olympic legend and the fastest half-miler the world...
A Column By Daniel Quin – Runner’s Tribe Recently I was reminded of a story about Robert DeCastella. Evidently he was reading a book on the bus that was taking him to the start-line of a major marathon. The visual image I create in my mind makes me smile – an...
If one word defined the running career of Roger Gilbert Bannister, it would have to be the number ‘three’. Words came before it in Norris McWhirter’s ‘spontaneous’, rehearsed-in-the-bathtub-the-night-before, announcement of the result of the mile in the Oxford v AAA meeting on 6 May, 1954. Words followed, too, but they...
Article by Tracy Canham - Runner's Tribe Hobart brothers Hamish and Huw Peacock have been selected for a second consecutive time to represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games to be held on the Gold Coast in April. For Javelin thrower Hamish, winning his third National title last weekend secured his place...
1998 NCAA 800m Champion Khadevis Robinson's College Training Diaries If you watched any major American track meet between the years of 1999 and 2012, chances are you know of Khadevis Robinson. Robinson is without a doubt one of the best American 800m runners of his generation, with eight combined USA...
For quite a few years now, Athletics Australia’s selection policies have offered the selectors wide discretionary powers in considering the third place in any event. For almost all that time, many have advocated the selectors make more use of the discretionary clauses. Now, in picking the Gold Coast 2018 team,...
A column by Jaryd Clifford – Runner’s Tribe “Fall down seven times, stand up eight” – Japanese Proverb Carrara stadium was a furnace and the mondo was on fire. Flames licked at the heels of any runner that stepped foot on the track last weekend. It either ignited incredible performance, or, contrastingly...
It took just one minute 45.71 seconds for Joseph Deng to throw a hand grenade into considerations of the three men to represent Australia in the 800 metres at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Oh, and let’s not forget the aiding and abetting party to this chaos: I refer,...