Noah Lyles is a great athlete, a multiple gold medallist the announcer kept pointing out, conveniently ignoring the fact none of these wins were at 100 metres, the distance being raced at the time. His 9.83 is a moderate performance compared to Usain Bolt’s world record 9.58 set atht eh Berlin 2009 worlds.
Day one of a world championships always asks many questions. Who’s up for it? Who’s not? How are the assumptions we brought into the meeting standing up to the test of the day’s results?
Olympian Declan Tingay has launched Australia’s campaign at the World Athletics Championships in style, walking to his first global Top-8 finish in the Men’s 20km Race Walk, while Australia’s fastest man Rohan Browning dashed to a date with the 100m Semi-Finals.
As the Australian middle-distance scene surges, so does the country’s top-three female metric miles as Jessica Hull (NSW), Linden Hall (VIC) and Abbey Caldwell (VIC) safely navigated their way through the first round of competition.
The highly anticipated 2023 World Athletics Championships are set to take place against the backdrop of Budapest, Hungary, from August 19th to the 27th. While the event will undoubtedly showcase well-established names such as Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, Mondo Duplantis, Karsten Warholm, Yulimar Rojas, Faith Kipyegon, Sha'Carri Richardson, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, it also offers a stage for emerging talents to leave their mark. A group of promising young athletes, already familiar with the global stage due to their participation in the previous year's World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, are poised to capture the audience's attention. For a closer look, Olympics.com has thoughtfully curated a selection of ten exceptional athletes—five women and five men—whose performances are anticipated to shine brightly in Budapest.
The Australian Athletics Team has arrived in Budapest from their staging camp in France, ready to make history as the country’s largest-ever team fielded for a World Athletics Championships.
Australia will field one of its strongest line-ups in athletics history, when a team of 67 don the green and gold at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from August 19-27.
Abbey Caldwell, one of Australia's most exciting young athletes, has broken Linden Hall's Australian 1000m record in Bern, Switzerland. Racing at the Citius Meeting, Abbey took the line victory and posted a nice confidence boosting run, just two weeks out from the Budapest World Champs.
Reece Holder has won silver at the World University Games, and in doing so has run the 5th fastest time in Australian history over 400m. Victorious runs are possible if you have the best shoes, check out Tarkine Goshawk V2 running shoes.
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Melbourne, Australia; 1 August 2023 - Athletics Australia welcomes Sport Integrity Australia’s confirmation today, of the news that every sports fan has been hoping for… Peter Bol has been cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to his out-of-competition test from October 2022.
