It was a West Australian affair at the 18th Leonora Golden Gift. Sinead Noonan and Ben Chamberlain, took honours in the blue ribbon elite mile events, in West Australia's Goldfields. Covid-19 restrcitions, saw local WA showdowns on the Main Street of Leonora, a small outback town nestled amongst some of the biggest mines in the world.
West Australian 800m runner, Peter Bol, is Tokyo bound. The Australian champ, posted 1:44.88 on the Gold Coast today, at the Oceania Invitational Meet.
The heats are set for tonight's Leonora Golden Gift elite mile. The program begins at 5pm sharp.
Men's Elite Mile Heat 1
Ben Chamberlin
Matt Smith
Kai Luke Metzner
Sam Mileham
Ki Hehir
James Chansbury
Men's Elite Mile Heat 2
Luke Graves
Kiran Tibballs
Jaco Van Rensburg
Jordan Mayston
Dylan Bailey
Women's Elite Mile Heat 1
Danielle Graham
Sienna Hanikera
Sinead Noonan
Ruby Patterson
Ellie Glands
Kate James
Emma Phiippe
Women's...
Australia lost one of its athletics’ greats with the death of Rick Mitchell on 30 May. A nation our size doesn’t produce many Olympic gold medallists, even fewer on the male side of the gender balance. And still fewer in individual track events. With a silver medal in the 400 metres in Moscow in 1980, Mitchell is our most recent male Olympic medallist in an individual track event. Before ‘Mitch’, it’s right back to 1968 and Ralph Doubell with his gold medal in the 800 metres in Mexico City.
No such difficulty in nominating a favourite performance of the week. That would have to be Jeff Riseley’s 1:45.34 800 victory in the Citta di Conegliano meeting in Italy. Many things you could say here – just off the plane, ran down Algeria’s Mohamed Belbachir up the final straight, missed the Olympic auto standard by a mere 0.14 seconds. Mostly, however, it was a performance to make you smile.
In 2020, I had the pleasure of racing the takayna Ultra, well I only did the 21km event- but I'll claim it. takayna (Tarkine) is situated in Tasmania's north-west corner, and it is one of the most amazing places I have ever seen. It's up there with America's Yosemite, the Great Barrier Reef, or Brazil's Amazon. But few Australians have heard of it, and our politicians are quickly trying to destroy it.
34 year-old Jeff Riseley dropped a 1:45.34 bomb in Soldano, Italy, overnight.
Riseley competed in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games. Now he stands just 0.14 of a second away from his fourth Games; kudos to the big man from Victoria - taking 800m longevity to the next level.
Melbourne, Australia; - In a sign of unity, Athletics Australia and Coles Little Athletics Australia have announced they will host a joint 2021 Australian Cross Country Championships.
The Australian Cross Country Championships will be held this year on Saturday, 21 and Sunday, 22 August in Adelaide, with 2,500 athletes set...
Brad keeps moving towards his pacing Gold Coast Marathon.
Julian makes progress on his injuries in Noosa while pacing Ellie.
Brady feels the knock-on effects of the recent Victorian restrictions.
Izzi Batt-Doyle & Rose Davies both post 5000m Olympic qualifiers and personal bests at the Nijmegen World Athletics meet in the Netherlands....
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