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Four days on, the heartbroken Australian athlete is still struggling to come to terms of how her Olympics dreams came to an abrupt halt in one moment.

Runners Tribe * indicates required Karsten Warholm brought down the curtain – and the house with it – on the Bislett Games with a world record in the 400 metres hurdles. Mondo Duplantis attempted a world record in the men’s pole vault. World champion Hellen Obiri won the women’s 5000 metres. For Australians, though, it was only the mile that mattered. Any year a Norwegian athlete is not attempting a world record – which is most years – the Dream Mile is the closing e...

Izzi Batt-Doyle & Rose Davies both post 5000m Olympic qualifiers and personal bests at the Nijmegen World Athletics meet in the Netherlands.

Premium Content Subscriber only PREPARING for his next major mission, record-breaking athlete Jude Thomas will represent his club and city with additional pride. Having just added an Australian open 3km silver medal and another under-20 national record to his sensational achievements, Thomas plans to continue competing in a specially created racing singlet. The singlet was custom made by Pete Wyman from Bit Hit, to replicate what Ipswich and District Athletic Club (IDAC) competitors wore fro...

Nicola McDermott becomes first Australian woman to clear 2m in the high jump Athletics by Scott Gullan 19th Apr 2021 7:06 AM It was the upset of the championships which elevated Jye Edwards from promising injury-prone junior to giant killer and Tokyo-bound. Edwards stalked Australias best runner Stewart McSweyn in the 1500m final and then took him down over the final stages to win his first national title and claim a spot on the...

Australian middle-distance runner Linden Hall (© Getty Images) Linden Hall has made her own piece of Australian athletics history, becoming the first Australian woman to run under four minutes for 1500m in Melbourne on Thursday (1). Running on her own for the last 700 metres at Melbourne’s Box Hill track, Hall kicked down from a 2:09 first 800 metres to a 3:59.67 finish. Genevieve Gregson was a distant second in 4:10.08, just ahead of Melissa Duncan’s 4:10.40, but it was the race against ...

Is this our next Aussie track star? Ipswich athlete Jude Thomas leads the pack on his way to smashing a state under-20 record in the Queensland 3km open championships race. Picture: Michael Thomas Sport by Andrew Dawson Premium Content Subscriber only Queensland distance runner Jude Thomas has run almost 13,000km in two years, but his journey toward international middle distance success has only just started. Thomas, 18, is one of an elite list of loca...

Australian distance runner Rose Davies (© Getty Images) When the 2020 Zatopek 10 should have been run last December, Rose Davies was stuck on the wrong side of the Victoria-New South Wales border, with her chances of even getting to the race rapidly diminishing. The border was closed due to the travel restrictions imposed to combat Covid-19 outbreaks. When the border re-opened – for what turned out to be just a few weeks – Davies dashed across into Victoria. It was a timely seizing of an o...

Geoff Burns, former USATF 100km champ, and PHd shoe expert joined us on this weekś LEpodcast to talk supershoes this week. We talked a lot about road shoes but then turned to super spikes. He says the playing field is still not fair and he also expects a big shakeup in track times this year as more athletes race in super spikes. His comment on spikes "2021 on the track is going to look like 2018 on the roads." Many people might say that is a good thing. Bad news however he said, "I dont think ...

Stewart McSweyn runs worlds fastest mile for 2020, becoming the quickest Australian for 15 years Posted WedWednesday 30 updated WedWednesday 30 Stewart McSweyn ran the record time at a Tasmanian Christmas Carnival Meet at Penguin. ( Share Print text only Cancel Australian distance running star Stewart McSweyn has capped an unprecedented year in remarkable style at the most unlikely of venues. Key points: Its the quickest mile run by an Australian in 15 years McSweyn has also previously broken ...