Darcy Roper & Conor Warren farewell junior competition with gold, as #AAC17 gets underway in Sydney
Darcy Roper (Qld) has capped off his impressive junior career with victory in the boy’s under 20 long jump as the 2017 Australian Athletics Championships launched at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre.
Soaring to...
Geoffrey Kamworor successfully defended his crown from 2015 in 28:24 at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017. His back-to-back wins mean he is the first senior man in 11 years to successfully defend his cross country title.
On the women's side Kenya's, Irene Chepet Cheptai broke from teammates...
On the eve of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017, some of the world’s top middle and long distance runners joined IAAF President Sebastian Coe, dignitaries from the Local Organising Committee and IAAF Ambassadors Tegla Loroupe and Paul Tergat at the pre-event press conference at the Sheraton...
The IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 takes place at the Kololo Independence Grounds on Sunday (26), and you can follow all the action on the IAAF website.
Time Schedule Local Time (Uganda)
14:00 Mixed Relay Final - 10:00pm (AEDT) – Australian Eastern Daylight Time
14:30 Women U20 Race Final - 10:30pm...
Australia’s men’s team at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships should not be ignored according to confirmed starter Patrick Tiernan (Qld), as he gets set to line up at the first major international event of the year in Kampala (UGA) on Sunday 26 March.
To be joined on the start...
The Athletics in Australia Celebration on Sunday 2 April will feature the presentation of a number of Athletics Australia Awards, including the Athlete of the Year, with the illustrious list of nominees, also confirmed yesterday.
Nominee lists outlined below have been determined through collaboration by the Special Awards Committee and the Athletics...
Chief Executive Resignation Announcement
Athletics New Zealand Board Chair Annette Purvis announced today that Chief Executive Linda Hamersley has tendered her resignation and will leave the role in September 2017.
The Board received the resignation with much disappointment but understand Hamersley’s need to move back to Australia to join her husband...
Australian athletics has a rich and proud history of success dating back over 100 years.
In celebration of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame was established to recognise the outstanding achievements of Australia's truly great athletes across the course of this history and since then...
Both of London’s Olympic Champions will run in Hamburg: Tiki Gelana completes the package
Both Olympic Marathon champions from London 2012 will be on the start line for the Haspa Marathon Hamburg on April 23: after Stephen Kiprotich’s participation was confirmed last month, Tiki Gelana has completed the duo by...
Joseph Millar produced the performance of the meeting on the final day of the Jennian Homes New Zealand Track & Field Championships in Hamilton with a stunning 200m victory in 20.37s.
The time, with a negligible 0.1 tail wind, broke two long standing New Zealand records, the national record of...
