By Brett Davies
The Rotterdam Marathon of 1983, featuring the match race between Australian Rob de Castella (AKA ‘Deek’) and American Alberto Salazar, was, as mentioned in Part 1 of this article, a hugely anticipated event on the global sporting calendar. It did not disappoint. To experience, exceptional performance in...
Is 10 seconds for the men’s 100 metres going the way of four minutes for the mile as measure of elite performance.
Part 1 – The Buildup:
By Brett Davies
This month is the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest match races in marathon history when Australia’s Rob de Castella – AKA ‘Deek” - took on American Alberto Salazar and a select group of international distance runners in the Dutch port city...
Wayne is a highly experienced individual who has spent numerous years as the Assistant Race Director of one of the largest fun runs in the world, the City to Surf. Following his successful stint in the fun run, he proceeded to deliver a multitude of Sydney Olympic Sponsorship programs...
For the first time in quite a few years I wasn’t at the nationals. Not by choice: the situation was imposed on me, first by a scheduled trekking trip to Nepal, then by the flaring up of a back condition which forced the cancellation of the former and precluded...
Luke Boyes has shown immense improvement since his second-place finish in the U20 800m national final last year. In just one year, he has managed to reach the global semi-finals and has impressively lowered his personal best time from 1:50 to an impressive 1:46.
Over the weekend, Luke managed to...
If, like me, you think innovation in athletics started with Nitro and those introductions were athletes trot onto the track past a couple of exploding gas canisters, then you’ve probably never heard of the International Track Association.
Fifty years ago this month (I can write that because it’s 31 March...
Athing Mu, the legendary American middle-distance runner, and Olympic gold medalist has had an outstanding start to her professional career. In 2022, she won nine out of ten races and secured a world-leading season’s best time of 1:56.30 at the World Championships, earning herself a gold medal. Despite being just 20 years old, Mu has already achieved remarkable success, including a World and Olympic gold medal, the American record, and an unbeaten 800m professional career.
Peter Bol is clean; apologies, and answers, are in order.
Good grief. Are the national championships really coming up in Brisbane in a week’s time. I guess they must be. I’ve been getting emails advertising the fact all this past week.
