Originally published by http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/ Home of the Australian Olympic Team RIO TEAM: New faces and seasoned track and field performers have been selected on to the 2016 Australian Olympic Team today for the Rio Games. Twenty-eight (28) new athletes have been announced at a Gala Dinner at Sydney Olympic Park, following...
The outstanding start to 2016 by Fabrice Lapierre (NSW) has continued with the 32-year-old winning the men’s long jump at the Australian Athletics Championships to ensure his automatic nomination for Rio 2016 selection. Soaring to an impressive season best mark of 8.27m (w: +2.0), the victory now sits alongside the...
Morgan Mitchell (Vic) and Luke Mathews (Vic) will be automatically nominated for Rio 2016 selection after victory in the women’s 400m and men’s 800m at the Australian Athletics Championships tonight. Undefeated in the one-lap race so far in 2016, Mitchell started in the final tonight after impressive runs in both...
Cedric Dubler (Qld) is the toast of the athletics world after a stunning performance to win the men’s decathlon at the Australian Athletics Championships and ensure his automatic nomination for selection to the Australian Olympic Team. Scoring a personal best and Rio 2016 standard 8114 points after competition in ten...
A dream start at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games remains open to Sam McEntee (WA) after he won the men’s 5000m at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney (NSW) tonight. Crossing the line in 13:37.95 to win his maiden Australian title from the Rio 2016 qualified Brett Robinson (Vic, second,...
Olympic Selection Trials: Important Stepping Stone to Rio If the Australian team for Rio was selected today we would expect to have 21 males and 28 females being selected (plus a few additional athletes added as part of the women's 4x400m relay squad). But as we count down to the...
975 athletes. 204 events. 82 gold medals. Welcome to the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships! The Nomination Trial for the Olympic Games, and a crucial qualification opportunity for our best para-athletes, the four days of competition coming up at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre will feature the very best athletes...
Firstly covering the Aussies. All ladies performed exceptionally well at the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff (Wales). Milly Clark captured a huge PB finishing just behind Eloise Wellings. Cassie Fien also recording a PB. Our girls finished 4th in the teams, just missing out on a team medal by 23secs. 1. Peres JECHIRCHIR...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved CARDIFF (25-Mar) -- In order to win his first IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships title tomorrow, Mo Farah will not only have to overcome a stiff challenge from a stacked Kenyan team led by defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor, but also...
Athletics Australia Chief Executive Officer, Phil Jones, has applauded the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport that will see all competitive results obtained by Sergey Kirdyapkin from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 disqualified. This will result in Kirdyapkin being stripped of his gold medal in men’s...
