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.
Glasgow, United Kingdom; 1 March 2024: The Australian athletics team will have more than just medals on their mind at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow this weekend, with six of Australia’s top tier talent sizing themselves up against their international counterparts on the eve of the Olympic Games.
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.
Distance runners looking to qualify for the Paris Olympics in midsummer next year get two early opportunities in the United Arab Emirates, with the Dubai Marathon opening the athletics year on January 7, followed by the Ras Al Khaimah half-marathon, now under the same management, on February 24.
The Vienna City Marathon could turn into a race for records and Olympic dreams next Sunday. If weather conditions are suitable the women’s course record of 2:20:59 is expected be attacked and may be even the 2:05:08 men’s course best could come under threat. Additionally a number of runners will chase Olympic qualification at Austria’s most prestigious road race. Organisers of the 41st Vienna City Marathon, which is a World Athletics Elite Label event, have registered a total of over 41,000 entries. More than 10,000 of them are marathon runners.
Oslo, Norway; 30 May 2024 - Australia’s premier track and field athletes have claimed no less than four podium finishes at the renown Bislett Games in Norway, with middle distance star Georgia Griffith stealing the show with a golden finish and an area record at the Oslo leg of the Diamond League.
Adelaide, Australia; 12 March 2024 - The Chemist Warehouse Australian Athletics Championships is building to its crescendo after two days of competition, with Queensland heptathlete Camryn Newton-Smith crowned the most versatile woman in Australian athletics on an action-packed day in Adelaide.
Nassau, Bahamas; 4 May 2024 - Australia’s women’s 4x100m relay team has all but punched their tickets to Paris 2024, marking their first Olympic appearance since Sydney 2000 with a record-breaking performance in the opening round of the World Athletics Relay Championships in Nassau, the Bahamas tonight.
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.
Melbourne, Australia; 1 February 2024 - Australia’s newly crowned fastest woman in history is set to ignite the night at the Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne, with teenager Torrie Lewis ready for a white-hot showdown against New Zealand’s sub-11 second sprinter Zoe Hobbs at Lakeside Stadium on February 15.
