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Crunch Time | Olympic qualifying period draws to a close

June 29th 2021 is a date etched that has been etched into the diaries of track and field athletes across the world since the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 910 days ago, the Olympic qualification began, and today it will finally close as athletes learn their fate ahead of what has been one of the most tumultuous Games cycles the world has ever seen.
Tue 29 Jun 2021

Michal Burian's Road to Green and Gold

Michal Burian has been obsessed with throwing the javelin since his early days when witnessing world record holder and Olympic champion Jan Železný throwing at his local club in the Czech Republic – so obsessed that decades later he finds himself just eight weeks out from his Paralympic debut in Tokyo.
Fri 25 Jun 2021

Paralympic Sprinters Enter Final Straight

A group of Australia’s top Paralympic sprinters and long jumpers are completing their final preparations ahead of this year’s Tokyo Games, lifted by a high-performance training camp on the Gold Coast.
Tue 22 Jun 2021

PREVIEW | Festival of Athletics

Townsville Sports Reserve will become the home of the Festival of Athletics this weekend, as track and field athletes across the country travel north for what will be one of their final opportunities to compete ahead of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Fri 18 Jun 2021

Statement on Anti-Doping

2014 Commonwealth Games representative Melanie Panayiotou has been suspended from competition due to the presence and use of prohibited substances.
Thu 17 Jun 2021

Historic day at Runaway Bay

It was a day of qualifiers, historic performances and personal bests at the Oceania Athletics Invitational Series on the Gold Coast, headlined by Queensland discus thrower Matthew Denny all but booking his ticket to Tokyo in the men’s discus.
Sat 12 Jun 2021

PREVIEW | Oceania Athletics Invitational Series meet 2

The countdown to the end of the Tokyo qualifying period is well and truly on for Australia’s Olympic and Paralympic track and field athletes, but each have a unique opportunity to meet the standards and improve their ranking points at the second meet of the Oceania Athletics Invitational Series on the Gold Coast this Saturday.
Fri 11 Jun 2021

Make or break for Australia's relay teams

It has come down to the wire for both the Australian men and women’s 4 x 100m relay teams, who have one last chance to prove themselves worthy of Olympic competition.
Thu 10 Jun 2021

Best Day still to come

All eyes were on Usain Bolt in anticipation of witnessing the world’s fastest man strut his stuff at 2017’s Nitro Athletics, but Australians couldn’t help but notice the young girl in the lane to his right sporting green and gold - Riley Day.
Wed 09 Jun 2021