Superstars of Australian athletics will take on the world’s best in a high-profile track and field meet on home soil, with World Athletics and the Victorian Government today announcing their support of a World Continental Tour Gold Level meet in Melbourne in February.
Leanne Pompeani has pulled off an upset to win the Australian Zatopek 10,000m track title, in Melbourne. While in the men's race, Jack Rayner, successfully defended his title, topping off what has been one hell of a year.
School boy sprint sensation Gout Gout has broken the Australian Under 16 200m record not once but twice on Day One of the 2022 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Championships in Adelaide.
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.
Young will be remembered most of all for establishing American steeplechasing on the international map, for solidifying the 1952 gold-medal achievement of Horace Ashenfelter.
As the sun set on a quiet Friday night at Narrabeen, Anneliese Rubie-Renshaw’s career came full circle. After countless laps in stadiums around the world, she laced up her spikes and closed the chapter right where it began.
Stewart McSweyn has become the second Australian man in history to run sub-13 over 5000m at the Brussels Diamond League overnight. In a strung out race that saw American Grant Fisher run a new American record clocking 12:46.96 for second place, Stew was pulled around for a ~9 second PB (old PB 13:05.23).
'If there’s one thing that bothers Feidhlim Kelly — and there are many — then it’s wasted talent, unfulfilled potential. Kelly, 39, can see these days why he didn’t achieve his athletic potential and, for the past six years, he’s done everything to ensure others don’t make the same mistake, guiding many of Ireland’s best like Andrew Coscoran, Michelle Finn, Brian Fay, Hiko Tonosa, Sean Tobin and Mark English.
In a clinical demonstration of 1500m running, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, dominated a stacked field at the Lausanne Diamond League. It was a performance reminiscent of the great Hicham El Guerrouj - a fast pace from the gun, with Ingebrigtsen taking the lead with 700m remaining, taking it a long way from home and never looking in doubt.
One of Australia's most exciting middle distance runners, Abbey Caldwell, has become the latest member of the sub-2-minute club, clocking 1:59.31 at the Monaco Diamond League women's 800m. In a fast race (won in 1:56.98), Caldwell hung back before unleashing her trademark kick, passing Linden Hall to finish 5th.
