Forty-eight of Australia’s best will don the green and gold to compete at the London 2017 IAAF World Championships, commencing 4 August 2017. The biggest team to compete at an able-bodied world championship since Seville (ESP) in 1999 and the largest ever squad to duel in the year prior to a Commonwealth...
BAHAMAS 6th Commonwealth Youth Games, Thomas A Robinson Stadium, Nassau – 20/23 July 2017 New Zealand finished the Games with six medals, one gold, three silver and two bronze medals, finishing sixth on the athletics medals table at the championships. 20 July: A gold medal to Connor Bell on the opening day...
The Australian Para-athletics Team has cemented itself as a world leader on the track and field after scooping up another three medals on the final day of the World Para-Athletics Championships in London. Team Australia will now return home with a medal haul of 11 gold, 9 silver and 8...
Olympic bronze medallist Nick Willis is the tenth Kiwi athlete confirmed in the New Zealand team for the World Championships in London starting 4 August. Willis’ selection was announced this morning by Athletics New Zealand following his race on Monaco on Saturday, where he ran 3:34.74, easily under the A selection standard...
Willis and Walsh hit straps ahead of World Champs On two different continents on Saturday morning (NZ time), two of New Zealand’s Rio Olympic bronze medallists had their final hit-outs for the IAAF World Championships starting in thirteen days. The situations for Nick Willis and Tom Walsh couldn’t have been more different. Willis has had...
The IAAF is considering erasing all T&F world records set before 2005. In today's vlog Nick discusses why this idea is so dumb. ► Subscribe to Nick's Channel Here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeXJ... Nick Symmonds is a two-time Olympian and a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and president of Nick Symmonds, LLC and...
The elite field for the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 24 has grown in star quality even more with the announcement that the man who broke the world record there in 2013, Wilson Kipsang, will join his fellow Kenyan and current world number one Eliud Kipchoge on the start line....
UNITED KINGDOM World Para Athletics Championships, London – 14/23 July 2017 New Zealand struck its first medal of the 2017 Para Athletics World Championships in London on Sunday morning NZ time, with Holly Robinson firing her javelin out to 42.41m, finishing a close second to Great Britain's Hollie Arnold who threw 43.02m. The...
Victory was the theme of the day, as two more Australians were crowned world champions, and another two earned themselves silver and bronze on day four of the World Para-Athletics Championships in London. Scott Reardon (NSW) proved he is the undisputed king of the track in the 100m T42, after claiming...
She claimed victory as a 14-year-old debutant at the 2015 World Championships, and now Isis Holt (VIC) has done it again. Soaring across the finish line in the 200m T35 final, Holt gave it her all to take out gold in 28.47s (+0.3), and reclaim the number one spot she had lost...
