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089: Jessica Hull - This week’s episode is sponsored by New Balance, tune in episode 90 for their product review about their upcoming innovative shoes. Julian Spence has been announced to represent Australia at the World Championships Athletics in Doha running the marathon at midnight, 5th October 2019.Brad debuts for...
Overnight Australia's Peter Bol has clocked in an 800m Doha world champs qualifier in Barcelona with 1:45.56. It was only five days ago Bol ran his slowest time this season 1:50.56 coming last. Athletics is indeed a strange sport as stated by Bol post race. View this post on Instagram   Tonight in Barcelona...
Brad throws up the wings in the Gold Coast marathon pacing duties. Julian blows up in the half marathon making the predictions come true. Brady gets through the 10K ahead of Lakeside of the Inside Running head-to-head.
Griffith University (QLD) Matt Denny has thrown an in stadium personal best of 65.27m in the men’s discus at the World University Games in Naples, Italy.
Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands broke the 23-year-old women’s mile world record on Friday clocking 4:12.33 seconds, beating the 4:12.56 set by Russia’s Svetlana Masterkova in 1996.
In a rough final, Bisset pushed through a number of knocks and checks in the final lap to dash clear in the straight to win in 2:01.20 ahead of Christine Hering (GER) in 2:01.87 and Docus Ajok of Uganda in 2:02.31. Fellow Australian Morgan Mitchell finished 8th in 2:04.19.
Former Commonwealth games 10,000 meter champion Joyce Chepkirui has been suspended for four years for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced Tuesday. Chepkirui has been suspended over the use of prohibited substances and discrepancies in her her Athletes Biological Passport (ABP).
The decision has been made to publish Australian Athlete magazine once a year, in time for Christmas.
Kenyan Rodah Jepkorir (KEN) held off a strong finishing burst from Tasmanian Milly Clark (AUS/TAS) to take out the women’s Gold Coast Marathon. The 27-year-old broke away from the 30km mark and then lasted to break the tape in 2:27:56, with Clark second (2:28:08) and Eritrea’s Nazret Weldu (ERI) third...
Australian Bill Chaffey returned to the podium of the Wheelchair Marathon Australian Paralympian Bill Chaffey (AUS/NSW) has made a triumphant return to the Gold Coast Marathon, taking out the Wheelchair Marathon, while golden girl Madison de Rozario (AUS/NSW) continued her love affair with the Gold Coast. Chaffey had been an annual...