Written by Michael Beisty “There are times when I run that the run is magic” (Herb Elliott 1981) (1) “I plan to run right into the next life” (Harold Weiss 1978, a non-competitive Chicago runner) (2) “The runner does not know how or why he runs. He only knows that he must...
The big picture numbers were more stable too. Australia got three medals in Tokyo – Nicola Olyslagers silver in the high jump, Moloney and Barber bronzes in the decathlon and javelin. It was three again in Eugene only this time Patterson and Barber contributed gold with Kennedy getting a bronze.
Written By Brett Davies Bathurst 2023 is just weeks away. Here is another of our World Cross Country Classics, looking at the history of the event. The World Cross Country Championships of 1984 were another engrossing championship. We saw two European veterans take the men’s and women’s senior titles, both of...
So, with support from World Athletics and the Victorian government, the Melbourne Track Classic has been picked up, dusted off and will be presented at Lakeside Stadium on 23 February as the Maurie Plant Meet (MPM), a World Athletics Continental Gold meeting.
Written By Brett Davies With the World Cross Country Championships arriving in Bathurst in just 7 weeks, Runners Tribe is taking a look back at some of the memorable moments in the event’s five-decade history. In 1975, the Championships were held on the Soussi racecourse in Rabat, Morocco. The course,...
We thought we would bring back an old RT tradition and have a crack at ranking the top 10 performances for middle-distance and distance running for the 2022 year. Not an easy year for a job such as this, given the depth that Australia currently possesses. Records dropping like flies, and global medals, that just a few years ago seemed like pipe dreams, are becoming the norm.
And although the runners aren’t here by the hundreds (nor the mountain bike riders, nor the bushwalkers), there are people up here on the Bogong High Plains. The landslide half-way up the mountain has closed the normal direct access from Mt Beauty necessitating a longer round trip to come up the ‘back’ way via Bairnsdale and Omeo or Wodonga and Mitta Mitta. The trip is a little longer, the reward a little sweeter.
Written By Brett Davies With the Bathurst World Cross Country Championships less than two months away, we are taking a look at some of the greatest and most memorable of the Championships in their 50-year history. There are many ultra-marathon footwear in the market today and one of the best...
The question can be asked of Sydney McLaughlin, whose deeds at the world championships in Eugene astounded us all. Her other-worldly world record of 50.68 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles final was the most stunning individual performance of a championships which saw two other world records – Mondo Duplantis’s 6.21 to win the pole vault gold medal and Tobi Amusan’s 12.12 in the 100 hurdles.
Readers of this column will know that I have never met a 10,000-metre race I did not like. “What never,” you ask. “No; never,” I re-affirm stoutly. “What never,” you repeat even more disbelievingly. “Well, hardly ever,” I reply, grudgingly giving an inch. To experience, exceptional performance in running, choose the...
