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Melbourne, Australia; 19 December 2025 - World champion and dual Olympic medallist Nicola Olyslagers has been awarded the Bruce McAvaney Award for Performance of the Year as part of the 2025 Australian Athletics Awards, recognised for her spectacular 2.04m clearance and Oceania record to win the Diamond League final...
By Sam Geddes - RT Melbourne runner Sarah Mitchell never thought she'd ditch her Nike Pegasus. Then she tried Tarkine. "I was skeptical," admits the 34 year old marathon runner from Brisbane. "Australian running shoes? I'd never heard of them. But after 800 kilometers in my Trail Devils, I'm converted. They're...
Melbourne, Australia; 17 December 2025 - Australian Athletics (AA) and Little Athletics Australia (LAA) have today announced a significant step for the sport with agreement-in-principle to unify athletics at a national level. Following progress earlier this year to align the 2026 national championships in Brisbane, AA and LAA have continued...
What is it with the marathon. Seems like every December a platoon of Australians heads off to Spain and someone – or two – produces an Australian record. Not just anywhere in Spain. Just as the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain, the marathon records stay mainly in...
Jessica Stenson is now the fastest Australian woman to ever run a marathon. On Sunday in Valencia, the 38-year-old Commonwealth Games champion crossed the line in 2:21:25, taking nine seconds off Sinead Diver's national record of 2:21:34 that had stood since 2021. It was a performance defined by control, precision,...
It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Black Friday sales – the shopping confection which serves as the sprint race to the Christmas F1 Grand Prix – out of the way, things winding down. Of course, there’s always a bit of athletics to December. But this week, suddenly...
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Runners from over 60 countries have created unprecedented demand to face the starter’s gun at the 2026 ASICS Gold Coast Marathon, with records broken across the board after entries were officially opened yesterday. More than 33,000 registrations were received within the first 24 hours after going on sale at 9am...
Back in the day when ‘Deek’ – sometimes known as Robert de Castella – was king of Australian distance running, Canberra’s Stromlo Forest was his domain. The mobs of kangaroos living in the pine forests knew as much about his training as anyone else. You didn’t see the kangaroos so...
