By Grace Kalac - Runner's Tribe - From the Gold Coast
Australian sprinters Melissa Breen, Rohan Browning, Trae Williams (100m) and Steve Solomon (400m) have cemented their spots in the semi-finals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Breen finishing fourth in her 100m heat, crossing the line in a time of 11.65....
The women’s race was a thrilling affair, with underdog Jemima Montag snagging the gold medal in 1:32:50.
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By Grace Kalac - Reporting from the Gold Coast - Runner's Tribe
The Australian 20km racewalkers have set an optimistic tone for the rest of the 2018 Commonwealth Games athletics team, finishing this morning’s competition with gold in both the men’s and women’s events.
The racewalking, held at Gold Coast’s Currumbin...
Medal tallies don’t always tell the full story but the fight between Australia and England over the history of the Games is an interesting one. Australia has dropped off in terms of total medals on recent editions whist we see the rise of both Jamaica and Kenya as modern...
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Brad manages a lazy 138km for the week despite feeling cooked and digging deep in...
The captain of the Australian athletics team, Sally Pearson has been forced to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games due to her Achilles injury.
The 31-year-old Olympic gold medalist, who has been battling an Achilles injury, walked her Surfers Paradise leg of the Queen's Baton relay yesterday.
At this point it looks...
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games 5000m medallist Zane Robertson has pulled out of the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team.
A groin injury picked up earlier in the year forced the Kenyan-based Kiwi to miss several weeks of training at a key stage of his preparation for the Games and while he...
CGF President hails “Commonwealth Connection” as 1.5 billion tune in for ‘the Friendly Games’
Commonwealth athletes encouraged to embrace “diverse yet unified” family of nations
HRH The Prince of Wales officially opens the Games on behalf of the Head of The Commonwealth, Her Majesty The Queen
Ceremony celebrates key Australian and Commonwealth...
The Commonwealth Games Federation Athletes Advisory Commission (CGFAAC) held its first ever meeting today, on the Gold Coast, Australia, and pledged to instil a culture of pride and purpose in being a Commonwealth athlete.
Meeting on the eve of Gold Coast 2018, the seven-member CGFAAC made a specific commitment to...
Stawell Gift Champions Crowned
Monday April 2 2018 Stawell, VIC: Two 21-year-olds today claimed the crowns at the Stawell Gift, Australia’s richest footrace. Jacob Despard, a Tasmanian who moved to Victoria in November, won the Stawell Athletic Club Stawell Gift, and Queenslander Elizabeth Forsyth won the Australia Post Women’s Gift.
Despard went in to the...
