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Less than a week to go until the Olympic qualifying period ends on July 11. Will This Be Our Best Olympic Team Since Sydney? It's hard to imagine an Australian Olympic team without Sally Pearson, but unfortunately that's what we are faced with leading into the 2016 Rio Olympics. In saying...
NCAA Cross Country Championships Our very own Patrick Tiernan delivered in one of the biggest college races of the year - the NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championships. With thanks to http://www.ustfccca.org/ this is what unfolded: Villanova junior Patrick Tiernan went for the win from the start. He had thought about it...
Victorian All Schools Championships Although for many junior athletes their grand final is next March's Australian Junior Championships, we are still seeing some exciting early season performances from our junior stars. Over the last 3 days we have been witness to many highlights at the Victorian All Schools Championships, none...
2016 Australian Female Athlete of the Year It was always going to be a difficult task to split two athletes who both had exceptional years. Genevieve LaCaze ended up receiving the nod over the recently retired Alana Boyd, although if Boyd had not be injured at the World Indoors the decision...
Athlete of the Month - October, 2015 We have counted all the votes and the winner of our inaugural Athlete of the Month (for October) is awarded to 16 year-old Zach Facioni. Congratulations! Facioni took the win, polling 76 votes to defeat Jess Trengove (66), while third place ended up going...
What We Learned from 'Super Saturday' - Proud to be an Australian If you have managed to catch any of the IAAF World Indoor Championships over the past 3 days you would have witnessed some tough competition, accompanied by some gutsy Australian results. It hasn't gone to plan for all our...
Australian Athletics Team - Target 60* The Australian Athletics Championships have concluded and there are now less than 100 days until the final Australian athletics team is announced, and fingers crossed we will end up with a 60 strong team representing the green and gold in Brazil. We already know...
Hall's Amazing Rise to International Stardom It's hard not to get a little carried away with the success of Linden Hall over the last 4 weeks. Her latest performance at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene (4.01.78) had to be seen to be believed. Not only did she run a controlled...
Fantastic Prize on Offer! We are very excited to announce the fact that the first winner of the 'Athlete of the Month' award will receive an individual prize valued at $100. The prize is an 'Experience Gold Class Package' through Event Cinemas. The winner will be announced on runnerstribe.website at the conclusion...
In many ways 2015 has been a breakthrough year for 21 year-old Luke Stevens. A tremendous 46.48s to secure gold at the 2015 Victorian Championships back in February lead to a call up for the National team for the World relay Championships. On the same day as the 400m final at...