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Commonwealth Games Australia has announced 44 names additional names to complete the athletics squad for Gold Coast 2018. This brings the total number of athletics representatives to 109, the second-largest team in history following Melbourne in 2006. Australian Team Chef de Mission Steve Moneghetti congratulated the new members and reiterated the...
The IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 gets under way on Thursday 1 March as more 600 athletes from more than 140 countries descend on the British Midlands. Here are some of the ways you can follow all the action from the 17th edition of the IAAF's second largest event. Television As part...
World Indoor Championships Preview - Team New Zealand Tom Walsh goes into the World indoor Championships in Birmingham this weekend as the defending champion in the shot put and the 25 year old part time builder will be aiming to repeat his win at the last edition of the World...
A strong Australian team will line-up for the 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, May 5 – 6 in Taichang, China. Dane Bird-Smith (Qld), Michael Hosking (Vic), Rhydian Cowley (Vic), Adam Garganis (Vic) and Brendon Reading (ACT) will line up in the men’s 20km event while in the women’s 20km event Beki Smith (NSW), Jemima Montag (Vic) and Rachel Tallent (SA) have been selected. Tallent will also...
Matthew Centrowitz to run in Whanganui Mile race  - New Zealand Olympic 1500 metres champion Matthew Centrowitz is setting his sights on breaking the Cooks Gardens track mile record when he competes in the Sir Peter Snell International Track Meeting on Wednesday 21 March. Centrowitz, the 2016 Rio Olympic winner, is a...
Six World Indoor Championships medals will be reallocated during ceremonies at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on Friday and Saturday 2-3 March. These upgrades follow the disqualification of the results of the original medallists after their sanction for anti-doping rule violations. Among those receiving their reallocated medals is Tianna Bartoletta of the...
The provisional entry lists for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018, which take place from 1-4 March, are now available. The entries, as at 25 February, are now available via the athletes page on the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 mini-site where users can quickly search and browse all 632 athletes from...
Craig Lautenslager and Sally Gibbs won the New Zealand men’s and women’s 10,000m titles in Inglewood on Saturday evening. With dominant displays, taking the lead from the gun and both running a relentless pace, neither were in doubt in their respective races. Lautenslager (Tasman) had Michael Voss for company for the early laps,...
Steve Solomon (NSW) has broken the Australian 400m indoor record in South Carolina on Friday evening. Solomon, currently studying a Masters in Management Studies (MMS) at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, bettered the previous mark of 45.93 set by Daniel Batman (ACT) in 2003, clocking 45.44 to...
Tauranga sprinter Joseph Millar has been added to the athletics team for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. He will run in the 200 metres. Millar, four times the New Zealand double sprint champion at the New Zealand Championships from 2012 to 2017 made big advances last year to run...