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Cedric Dubler (Qld) is the toast of the athletics world after a stunning performance to win the men’s decathlon at the Australian Athletics Championships and ensure his automatic nomination for selection to the Australian Olympic Team. Scoring a personal best and Rio 2016 standard 8114 points after competition in ten...
A shout out to the team at Hyperice for sending us the latest Normatic 2.0 Pro for testing.  After three weeks of daily use, we are not disapointed. This latest version has been created with the greatest performance and customisation to date. Built to help runners of all ability...
Excitement Continues to Build: 57 Days to Go! In May we have already seen the super efforts from Linden Hall (4.04.47 PB and OQ in the 1500m) and Josh Robinson (85.11m PB and OQ in the javelin), not to mention the fantastic performances from Jared Tallent and Dane-Bird Smith in...
Olympian Jess Stenson (nee Trengove) competing in her first marathon in three years catapulted herself right back in the mix, clocking a PB of 2:25.13. Her time was amazingly the 4th fastest of all-time by an Australian and is the fastest ever by an Australian, on Australian soil.
Eliud Kipchoge astounded the running world by taking the huge chunk of one minute, 18 seconds off the world record at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON. Germany’s most spectacular road race was the stage for the moon landing of marathon running on Sunday. But the Olympic champion still had enough energy in...
Australia's Jessica Hull has finished 7th in her Diamond League debut at the Prefontaine Classic with a big PB of 4:02.62 making her the fourth fastest Aussie all-time. Also a Tokyo 2020 qualifier. Hull recently signed with the management firm Total Sports US, signifying her move to the professional...
Not since the days of the first sub-four-minute mile has one barrier attracted so much focus in the world of athletics, but talk of the first sub-two-hour marathon has reignited after Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:01:39 run at the Berlin Marathon on Sunday (16). The 33-year-old Kenyan ran alone for the final 17 kilometres...
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Niels Holst-Sorensen, the esteemed 1946 European 400m champion, who left us on Tuesday, the 24th of October, at the remarkable age of 100.
Athletics Australia have filled the quotas and picked a full team for the fast appraoching Tokyo Olympics. 
Faith Chepkoech, a rising Kenyan athlete, receives a three-year ban for doping, highlighting ongoing challenges in the country's athletics integrity.
Faith Chepkoech, a 21-year-old emerging talent in Kenyan athletics, has received a three-year ban from the World Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after admitting to the use of prohibited substances. This sanction highlights a troubling trend of doping cases in Kenya, where a growing number of athletes have been barred from international competition.