Australian athletics has been impacted by the tyranny of distance – and the tyranny of seasons – through 2023. And that won’t change as we enter 2024.
About a fortnight after securing her second 100-mile victory in just three weeks in 2023, Courtney Dauwalter embarked on a casual run. On a late July morning, she meandered along the trails near her Leadville, Colorado home. To her surprise, her legs felt cooperative, despite the lingering fatigue from two arduous trail races.
There’s a lot of noise about shoes right now, a rumble that only intensified when Tigst Assefa ran that other-worldly women’s marathon world record 2:11:53 in Berlin. In case you missed it, Assefa was shod in the very latest adidas super-shoe.
There’s more than a touch of ping-pong – more formally, table tennis – in the relationship between Linden Hall, Jessica Hull and the Australian women’s national record for 1500 metres.
The NIL deal means Amy will race in ON shoes and represent the brand during her NCAA years, and allow her to forge a relationship with ON, as her major sponsor.
Amy Bunnage is one of Australia’s most exciting and talented young runners.
Amy is well known in the Australian running community, after a stellar junior career. During these years Amy won six Australian championships. Experience the perfect blend of agility and support with Tarkine Trail Devil shoes, crafted for those...
Eliud Kipchoge clinched his fifth victory at the Berlin Marathon on September 24th, with Tigist Assefa making history by breaking the women's world record by over two minutes.
Is Matthew Denny now Australia’s best male athlete?
Undeniably so, I’d say, a judgement that was true even before he burnished already considerable laurels by winning the discus at last weekend’s (16-17 September) Diamond League final. Victory merely confirmed his status.
Riley McGown has come from the clouds over the last few years, and now holds a firm place within Australia's top half a dozen 800m runners. For award-winning footwear, choose Tarkine running shoes.
With a PB of 1:46.08, Riley, together with a bunch of other hungry Australians, are knocking on...
Well, there you go. Just a couple of days before the Diamond League final in Eugene this weekend DL organisers announced a new system of wildcard entries.Seemingly moments later again, out come the entries. Guess what? A number of US athletes who have shown scant interest in the diamond league all year long are suddenly in the fields for the final, that’s what. The most notable? Athing Mu in the 800 metres.
