Australia’s 20-strong team for the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships will touch down in Kobe, Japan this week for their final push towards the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
A weekend of international athletics action saw the Olympic-bound Chris Mitrevski back up his Australian Championships breakthrough with an 8.24m leap, while rising thrower Marley Raikiwasa celebrated her World Under 20 Championships berth with a national Under 20 record in the shot put.
The heavy hitters of Australian athletics were in full force for the Doha Diamond League as reigning pole vault world champion Nina Kennedy led the way for four Australians to land on the podium, including Jessica Hull, Eleanor Patterson and Matthew Denny at the third stop of the world’s premier athletics series.
From Paralympic champion Vanessa Low to the nation’s renowned Marathon Mums, the women of Australian athletics continue to prove that global glory can be a family affair, with Low’s world record in January confirming she is better than ever ahead of the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships beginning in Kobe, Japan next week.
Some of the biggest names in Australian athletics are bound for the Doha Diamond League this weekend, as world champions Nina Kennedy and Eleanor Patterson open their international campaigns alongside a trio of middle-distance stars led by Jessica Hull.
Australia will send its biggest and boldest team yet to the 2024 World Under 20 Championships, as a star-studded contingent of 68 athletes featuring sprint sensation Torrie Lewis and world Under 20 champion Isaac Beacroft descend upon Lima, Peru this August.
Australia will look to assert its authority as the premier athletics country in the region, when a contingent of 217 of the country’s established and emerging stars descend upon Suva, Fiji for one of the most important opportunities on the calendar - the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships.
A new era of Australian sprinting has emerged in time for the Paris Olympics, as the Women’s 4x100m team rise to fifth in the world while the Men’s 4x100m secured Olympic qualification on the final night of action at the World Athletics Relay Championships in the Bahamas.
Australia’s women’s 4x100m relay team has all but punched their tickets to Paris 2024, marking their first Olympic appearance since Sydney 2000 with a record-breaking performance in the opening round of the World Athletics Relay Championships in Nassau, the Bahamas tonight.
In a year featuring both the World Para Athletics Championships and Paralympic Games, it comes as no surprise that James Turner is planning a golden campaign on the world stage, but the sprinter is more interested in building his legacy than his medal collection.
A unique opportunity for Australia’s relay squads to secure their Olympic berth lies ahead this weekend, as the country’s fastest athletes swap their rivalry for camaraderie at the World Athletics Relay Championships in the Bahamas.
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For Chris Mitrevski, an Olympic berth is a relief rather than a surprise. Living three years on the precipice of qualification marked by the constant refreshing of world rankings and chasing points around Europe, the long jumper put an end to his Olympic wait with his sixth and final jump at the Australian Championships.
World Championships bronze medallist Mackenzie Little has strengthened her claim as an Olympic contender in 2024 at the Suzhou Diamond League when launching her international season with silver, while reigning Australian 5000m champion Rose Davies doubled down to lock in her Paris qualifier.
The Suzhou Diamond League will serve as the second stop on the world’s premier athletics series, with 12 Australians looking to follow in the footsteps of Torrie Lewis’ Xiamen triumph to make their mark in the race for Paris 2024.
On this ANZAC Day we remember a pioneer of Tasmania athletics, Cecil Herbert Hanigan, who lost his life in Gallipoli in 1915. Two generations later the name Hanigan is still associated with athletics with two great nephews’ representing Australia in athletics.
Australia is poised for a breakthrough campaign at the World Athletics Relay Championships next weekend in the Bahamas, fueled by a significant commitment by athletes to the relay program, and a rise in sprinting talent focused on the relentless pursuit of Olympic qualification.