While the sub-10 second club is undeniably track and field’s most iconic, pole vault’s six-metre society is reserved for an exclusive echelon of the elite.
The Australian Athletics Team has arrived in Budapest from their staging camp in France, ready to make history as the country’s largest-ever team fielded for a World Athletics Championships.
There have been golden moments aplenty in Australian athletics history but few in recent years have left an impression like Kelsey-Lee Barber’s back-to-back victory at the World Athletics Championships.
The art of the steeplechase and its inevitable chaos is one that Cara Feain-Ryan is still refining, but with a World University Games gold medal in her pocket and an Australian legend in her corner, the 24-year-old is out to deliver the breakthrough barrier in Budapest.
In the world of elite sport, stories of rivalries and cut-throat competition often prevail but within Australia’s middle-distance ranks, a heart-warming tale of camaraderie unravels as three women lift each other on their road to the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
The Australian athletics team will travel to the 2023 World Athletics Championships with a renewed sense pride, united by a quartet of seasoned athletes at the helm.
Genevieve Gregson and Ellie Pashley have gone stride for stride since giving birth on the same day last June, but for the first time in a long time, Gregson believes she can break the tape against the toughest of rivals come Sunday’s Australian Half Marathon Championships.
The roads of the Sunshine Coast are set to be scorched by some of Australia’s biggest names in distance running this Sunday, as Olympians lead the way for elite fields and the masses in a bid to be crowned 2023 Australian Half Marathon champions.
Australian athletics has bolted out of the blocks at Trinbago 2023, winning two gold, three silver and three bronze on the first day of competition at the famed Hasely Crawford Stadium.
Australia will field one of its strongest line-ups in athletics history, when a team of 67 don the green and gold at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from August 19-27.
The Australian UniRoos have concluded their track and field campaign at the 2023 World University Games with another two Top-8 performances by long jumper Zane Branco and middle distance runner Jack Lunn.
Against the picturesque landscapes of St Moritz and Lyon, Australia’s elite race walkers have completed a rigorous high-altitude training camp in preparation for the World Athletics Championships in less than a fortnight’s time.
The next generation of Australian walkers have added to the nation’s illustrious history in the endurance event, uniting their efforts to secure bronze in the Men’s 20km team race walk on the penultimate day of competition at the World University Games.