Australia’s charge towards Tokyo will step up on Sunday, as the nation’s best race walkers line up in Adelaide for the Oceania and Australian 20km Race Walking Championships.
The last time Australian Team Co-captain Steve Solomon took to the track to compete was in February last year at the Canberra Track Classic, and now excitement is brewing for the London 2012 Olympian as he gets ready to make his return to the AIS track for the ACT Championships this weekend.
The Boards of Coles Little Athletics Australia and Athletics Australia are pleased to announce that former Sport Australia CEO, Kate Palmer has accepted the role of Chief Executive of OneAthletics for the next 12 months.
Competition is heating up as the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games edge closer, and Liz Clay had her best weekend of competition yet securing her first Olympic qualifier in the 100m hurdles.
Two-time Paralympic silver medallist Jemima Moore has announced her retirement from international wheelchair racing, after a career spanning more than 12 years.
Less than a week after unofficially breaking the Australian 10km race walk all-comers record, Jemima Montag is celebrating another achievement - being selected for the IOC Young Leaders program.
Australia’s top athletes are making serious strides in the 2021 season both home and abroad, with another week of impressive performances now in the books.
For Evan O’Hanlon, the Rio Paralympics was set to be his swansong - the sprints sensation had five Paralympic gold medals to his name with a perfect strike rate in Beijing and London, and retirement was calling. But what happened next has inspired his next step towards greatness.
Often when world records are broken the obsession is with performance rather than the person, but the opposite rings true for Paralympian Jaryd Clifford - such is the calibre of the man.
The Australian Summer of Athletics is now underway, with the first event of the season, the ever-prestigious Zatopek:10 taking place in Box Hill overnight.
While the official start of the Australian Summer of Athletics begins this Tuesday with the Zatopek:10, Australia’s elite track and field athletes are already showing promise, with top results across the country and abroad over the weekend.
One of the premier nights on the Australian athletics calendar is only days away, with Zatopek:10 set to go ahead at Box Hill’s Hagenauer Reserve on January 26.
As the dense morning fog rolls in at Falls Creek on the first Sunday of 2021, its business as usual for Ryan Gregson – lacing up his shoes after a meticulous morning’s preparation ahead of his weekly long run.
Australia’s elite track and field athletes continued to impress ahead of the official start of the summer season, with a run for the history books by Rohan Browning and a world’s best lowered by Jaryd Clifford.