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The pinnacle event for school-aged athletes, the 2022 Australian All Schools Championships will be the biggest edition of the Championships yet, with more than 1,200 athletes from all States and Territories showcasing their abilities from this Friday to Sunday, in team-based competition.
Athletics Australia Selectors have today confirmed an initial squad of 12 for the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships. To descend on Rome (ITA) in early May, the team is headlined by three-time Olympic medallist Jared Tallent (Vic, 50km walk) and Australian 20km race walking champions Dane Bird-Smith (Qld) and Rachel...
World and Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk broke her own world record 82.29m with a throw of 82.98m at the Skolimowska Memorial in Warsaw on Sunday (28). Each one of the Pole's five valid throws were beyond the previous meeting record. She opened with 79.68m and improved with her following three efforts,...
Listen: Inside Running Podcast (podbean.com) This week is sponsored by New Balance, where you can check out their full range of running shoes including the recently released and reviewed Vongo v5. Julian’s shoes fare poorly through the wet as he settles down before his knee operation. Brad goes through his old shoes and...
A cohort of British athletes is poised to challenge their limits at the upcoming Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso on Sunday (Dec 3), eyeing not only personal bests but also aiming to set the stage ablaze with potential record-breaking performances. Among the notable participants are Lily Partridge, Clara Evans, Sonia Samuels, Phil Sesemann, and Mahamed Mahamed. However, the spotlight is firmly fixed on Joshua Cheptegei, the Ugandan sensation who has carved his name in history books with world records in the 5000m and 10,000m disciplines.
Eliza McCartney
Kiwi pole vaulting sensation Eliza McCartney will be highlighting the 2017 International Athletics Series in New Zealand this summer with competitions in Central Auckland and on the North Shore. Vertical Pursuit, an event at Britomart in the heart of Auckland’s CBD supported by Les Mills on Wednesday 22 February and...
20th Annual Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational Track and Field Meeting Event Details Venue: Cobb Track and Angell Field, Stanford, California USA. Date: Sunday, 1st May (Monday, 2nd May AEST) - Main Events commence at 11:00am (AEST) Australians Entered (16): Men's 1500m: Jordan Gusman, Josh Wright, Hugh Nicklason (Section 1: 12:46pm and Section 2: 12:40pm) Men's...
Melbourne, Australia; 10 January 2024 - Nina Kennedy’s historic pole vault triumph at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest last August has earned her the Bruce McAvaney Award for the Performance of the Year at the Athletics Australia Awards.
West Australian, Peter Bol, has broken his own Australian 800m record at the Paris Diamond League overnight. Bol stopped the clock at 1:44.00, wiping 0.11 of a second from his old mark, to finish second to Frenchman Benjamin Robert.
Do you think you can run 465 kms in 30 days?? YES......465 kms in 30 days.  I created the run30formovember challenge to raise money for Men's health during Movember 2019. The challenge was to run 1 km per day corresponding to that day of the month. Day 1 was 1 km, day 2 was 2 km, day 5 was 5 kms so on until I hit day 30 when I ran 30 kms. Total kms I ran in 30 days back to back with no rest day was 465 kms!! So to crunch the numbers, that was just over 11 Marathons or 22 half marathons.