Melbourne, Australia; 13 February 2024: Just two sleeps remain until Australia’s biggest one-day athletics meeting erupts at Lakeside Stadium, as the highly anticipated Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne sets the scene for homegrown heroes led by Torrie Lewis and a star-studded cast of international challengers featuring 2022 world champion Jake Wightman and athletics prodigy Sasha Zhoya.
World-class fields will go for course records and target Olympic qualification in Sunday’s Haspa Marathon Hamburg. Kenya’s defending champion and course record holder Bernard Koech, who tied his personal best with 2:04:09 a year ago, is back while Gotytom Gebreslase, the World Champion from 2022, is the favourite in the women’s race. The Ethiopian, who has a PB of 2:18:18, wants to secure the third spot for the Paris Olympic race in Hamburg. Fellow-Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw holds Hamburg’s course record of 2:17:23. Late entry Nienke Brinkman will also try to qualify for Paris. The Dutch runner is the bronze medallist from the European Championships in Munich in 2022.
Double Olympic champion Sifan Hassan will continue her 42.2km adventure at the 17th edition of the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday 3rd March 2024, aiming to continue a record-breaking start to life over the distance.
A line-up of world-class fields were today released for the Yangtze River Delta Athletics Diamond Gala on April 27 in Shanghai/Suzhou, the second fixture in the 2024 Diamond League season. For one star-studded Saturday, over 25 world and Olympic champions will go toe-to-toe, writing the early script to an Olympic summer.
Melbourne, Australia; September 18, 2024 - Athletics Australia is proud to join Commonwealth Games Australia in supporting Glasgow’s bid to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3 March, 2024 - As the curtains closed on the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, the spotlight turned to global medallist Kurtis Marschall, who soared to fifth place in the Men’s Pole Vault in Glasgow this morning.
Canberra, Australia; 1 March 2024: The first Australian athletes for the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships have been named, with Victorian Haftu Strintzos and Canberran local Paige Campbell set to lead the charge in Serbia after storming to victory at Stromlo Forest to confirm their selection alongside distance veterans Liam Adams and Melissa Duncan.
Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2 March, 2024 - Middle-distance star Jessica Hull has bettered her own Australian 3000m record to finish in a valiant fourth place at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow this morning, sewing up her best individual result at a major championships.
Lima, Peru; 29 August, 2024 - Inspired by Olympic champion Nina Kennedy, South Australian pole vaulter Tryphena Hewett has secured Australia’s fourth medal at the 2024 World Athletics Under 20 Championships with a breakthrough bronze as Olympic semi-finalists Torrie Lewis, Peyton Craig and Claudia Hollingsworth bolted to victories in their respective semi-finals.
