Australia’s top track and field athletes will have more to race, jump and throw for this season, with more than $370,000 in prize money on offer across three meets within the country’s premier athletics series, the Chemist Warehouse Summer Series – marking a new investment from Australian Athletics in the nation’s top-tier domestic competition.
The series officially begins this Saturday, February 15 with the Adelaide Invitational, where many of Australia’s track and field stars will launch their 2025 campaigns in front of a passionate crowd. As athletes build toward the World Athletics Championships and World Para Athletics Championships, the Series provides the ideal platform for world-class performances at home, with prize money incentives helping to attract top talent to Australian shores.
The Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne will feature the highest prize pool of the series, reinforcing its status as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier one-day meet with World Athletics Continental Tour Gold status, while the Adelaide Invitational and Perth Track Classic will receive an uplift as World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze level meets.
Australian Athletics CEO Simon Hollingsworth said the boost in prize money is all about keeping the country’s best athletes competing on home soil, while building a stronger, more exciting domestic season that engages fans both new and old.
“The Chemist Warehouse Summer Series brings together the best of Australian and international talent at the start of the year, creating world-class competition that is exciting and meaningful. This summer will be about giving our athletes more reasons to compete on home soil and put on a show for our growing crowds,” Hollingsworth said.
“With Paris 2024 behind us and Brisbane 2032 on the horizon, now is the time for us to invest in our athletes and our competition product and make the series and season bigger and better than ever.”
The 2025 Chemist Warehouse Summer Series will feature a world-class line up of Olympians, Paralympians and rising stars, with each meet designed to provide athletes with opportunities to meet the qualifying standards and earn crucial ranking points for World Athletics Series meets.
Saturday’s meet in Adelaide will feature Olympic medallist Matthew Denny, Paralympic champion Vanessa Low as well as Australian heroes Peter Bol and Bree Masters, and the Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne scheduled for March 29 will see Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo take on the 400m, with more headline acts to be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets to the meets can be purchased at the links below:
By Sascha Ryner, Australian Athletics
Posted: 10/2/2025
