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PREVIEW: Sydney Track Classic

Adding to a bumper week of athletics action is the third leg of the Coles Summer Super Series - the Sydney Track Classic, just two days after the Canberra Track Classic. Featuring the 5000m National Championships, the Sydney Track Classic will also see the arrival of many Western Australian athletes and rematches from two days prior.
Wed 10 Mar 2021

NSW Championships – best ever?

The 2021 NSW Track and Field championships could rightly be claimed to have been the best ever in the 124-year history of the event.
Mon 08 Mar 2021

Katrina Morrow: from athlete to official

The Commonwealth Games holds special memories for Katrina Morrow. She has been involved with five Games – two as a competitor, two as a spectator and now as an official. Her latest association was in 2018 on the Gold Coast with her appointment as a volunteer athletics Technical Official.
Sun 07 Mar 2021

124th NSW Track & Field Championships - Preview

This weekend the 124th NSW Track and Field Championships will be held at Sydney Olympic Park. The inaugural championships were held in 1888 on the Recreation Ground in Ashfield. The only years they were not held were 1891 and 1894 and during World War I (1917 to 1920) and World War II (1941-1944). Fortunately the 2020 and 2021 editions have survived COVID.
Thu 04 Mar 2021

Stories from the NSW Country Championships

Lani Withnall – back to country COVID has impacted people in different ways. For Lani Withnall it brought a move ‘home’. Back to athletics and back to the country for Lani.
Mon 01 Mar 2021

Life Membership: Peter Lawler OAM

Yesterday at the NSW Country Championships over 50 years of service to athletics in NSW, Australia and the Pacific, was recognized with the awarding of Life Membership to Peter Lawler. Thank you Peter, you have had a positive influence on the athletics careers and lives of so many athlete and coaches.
Sun 28 Feb 2021

Master Class from McDermott

Central Coast’s Nicola McDermott led an array of strong NSW performances at the Coles Summer Super Series in Canberra last night.
Fri 26 Feb 2021

Liz Clay hurdles into history

Dozens of NSW athletes trekked to Canberra for the ACT Championships and were rewarded with Olympic, Paralympic and World U20 Championships qualifiers, along with lifetime bests. The headline act was undoubtedly Liz Clay’s Olympic qualifier in the hurdles.
Mon 15 Feb 2021

Welcomed into their second track and field careers in Masters Athletics

Were you aware competing this weekend at the NSW Masters Championships is a current Australian open record holder? Rachael Jackson, who lines up in the 40+ years sprints, is a member of the current Australian 4x100m record team along with Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Suzanne Broadrick and Jodi Lambert. She is one of many athletes really enjoying a second track and field career in Masters athletics.
Thu 11 Feb 2021

Liddy’s Night

As a coach not every day is ideal and Ben Liddy knows that, but Saturday night at the NSW 5000m championships was special for the lower North Shore-based middle-distance coach.
Mon 08 Feb 2021

Tall and Spencer claim 5000m titles

Kieren Tall and Kate Spencer have claimed the NSW 5000m titles for 2021. In largely tactical races, they clocked times of 13:59.23 and 16:30.30. While Tall is on the way up and continuing to impress, the stories of the night were Spencer’s return to the top of the podium and Matt Hudson’s first sub 14 minute time in placing second in the men’s race.
Sun 07 Feb 2021

Rose Davies claims national 10,000m crown

Not rated a medal prospect for the 2020/21 Australian 10,000m title, Newcastle’s Rose Davies, 21, won the event, held in conjunction with the Zatopek 10, in a stunning time of 31 minutes 39.97 seconds.
Fri 29 Jan 2021

NSW Combined Event Championships Reviews

Athletes, coaches, officials and supporters endured stifling heat at the NSW Combined Event Championships held at Campbelltown on January 23-24. Despite the conditions, there were many terrific all-round performances.
Fri 29 Jan 2021

Browning runs 9.96 but still striving for perfection

In Wollongong yesterday Rohan Browning broke the magical 10 second barrier in the 100m, just the second Australian to run under 10 seconds electronically, but for Browning and coach Andrew Murphy the run was far from perfect.
Mon 18 Jan 2021

Katie Smee’s journey to State Champion

Saturday night’s Hunter Pure Performance Track Challenge will feature four classy local sprinters, three emerging teenagers and the fourth, Katie Smee, 23, the current NSW open 200m champion. Smee’s journey in athletics reminds us of so many talented juniors who are lost to the sport, but some, like Smee, find their way back.
Fri 08 Jan 2021