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Gusman Records Impressive Sub 4 Minute Mile An emotionally charged mile in Sydney started off what was a very interesting couple of days of athletics from around the country. The Albie Thomas meeting in Bankstown was the perfect opportunity for Jordan Gusman to produce his very first sub 4 minute...
Not Every Story Has a Happy Ending There are now just over two weeks left before we know exactly which additional athletes will be added to the Australian team for Rio. We have been following the journeys of all our Olympic hopefuls, and over the last six months we have certainly...
Australian Women's Team for Rio Close to Being Finalised - Target 60 Although we only have 20 Australian female athletes confirmed for Rio, another 8 athletes are on the cusp of also adding their names to the list. Overall we would be ideally looking at a final count to be...
Tasmanian All School Championships The 2015/16 domestic season has just commenced and Jack Hale is already showing the rest of the world that he will be ready for the upcoming World Junior Championships in July next year. A dominant display of sprinting, where Hale recorded his second fastest ever time...
All Roads Lead to Sydney: A Glimpse of What to Expect at National Championships IAAF Melbourne World Challenge, March 5 At times you wondered where the highlights were going to come from on Saturday night, and then literally within 5 minutes the crowd was a buzz with super charged performances both...
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...
Rio not Paved with Gold, but there is a Silver Lining by Chris Wainwright for Runnerstribe.com I have seen my fare share of magical Olympic moments in athletics, dating back to 1988 when Debbie Flintoff-King won an amazing gold medal at the Seoul Olympic Games in the women's 400m hurdles. Since that moment...
20th Annual Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational Track and Field Meeting Event Details Venue: Cobb Track and Angell Field, Stanford, California USA. Date: Sunday, 1st May (Monday, 2nd May AEST) - Main Events commence at 11:00am (AEST) Australians Entered (16): Men's 1500m: Jordan Gusman, Josh Wright, Hugh Nicklason (Section 1: 12:46pm and Section 2: 12:40pm) Men's...
IAAF World Challenge Beijing, CHN On the 1st May Linden Hall smashed her PB in the women's 1500m with an extraordinary 4.04.47 win in Palo Alto, USA. Less than three weeks later we have seen yet another jaw dropping performance in the women's 1500m, this time from 22 year-old Jenny Blundell. Competing...
Melbourne Marathon Sunday, 18th October 2015 Three Olympic qualifiers, a fantastic comeback to racing and an early season sprint highlight - that's what happened over an interesting weekend of racing across Australia. The top highlights from the Melbourne marathon were the two Olympic qualifiers, where both Jess Trengove and Brad Milosevic both collected...