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Inform NSW duo Nicola Olyslagers and Jessica Hull lead the Australian team at the 19th edition of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Nicola and Jessica have equalled or broke Australian records in 2024 in the events they will contest – high jump and 3000m respectively. Unfortunately, Eleanor Patterson has withdrawn from the team.
Fri 01 Mar 2024

3 NSW athletes Glasgow-bound

Three NSW athletes were today announced in the 7-member Australian team for the World Indoor Championships to be held next weekend in Glasgow. Distance runner Jessica Hull and high jumpers Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers will wear the green and gold at the first global championship of the year.
Fri 23 Feb 2024

ANSW to host the largest-ever classification day

Athletics NSW is pleased to announce that the para-classification day has reached record numbers with more than 14 athletes already registered to attend on 8-10 March at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre. 
Mon 12 Feb 2024

NSW 5000m Championships: Blundell’s back

Finishing her first track race in nearly two years, dual Olympian Jenny Blundell has held off Paige Campbell by four seconds to claim the NSW women’s 5000m championships at Homebush last night. In the men’s race it was a wall of runners at the finish, with Ethan Wyatt-Smith taking the win.
Sun 11 Feb 2024

Lily Tilt and Robbie Cullen win NSW Open Combined Event Championships

First year senior athletes Lily Tilt and Robbie Cullen have claimed the open NSW Combined Event titles in 2024. Some of NSW’s best all round and hardest working athletes endured heat and rain during the two days of competition at the 92nd men’s NSW decathlon and 71st women’s heptathlon championships held at Homebush over the weekend.
Mon 29 Jan 2024

Athletics Wollongong inaugural winners of the Gibb/Loomes Shield

At the 79th NSW Country Championships held over the weekend, Athletics Wollongong won their third consecutive club point score and in 2024 will be the inaugural winners of the Gibb/Loomes Shield. Athletics Wollongong dominated the championships scoring 1419.5 points, nearly double second placed Nowra with 729.5 points. After close wins in 2022, over Mingara, and in 2023 ahead of Nowra, they were peerless in 2024. After slipping to eighth in 2020, it has been a tremendous return to the top.
Wed 24 Jan 2024

Stories from the 79th NSW Country Championships

It was another tremendous edition of the NSW Country Championships over the weekend conducted at Kerryn McCann Athletics Centre in Wollongong. With over 800 entries it was one of the largest ever championships. There were personal bests, championship records and athletes winning a bag full of medals, competing in a family friendly environment. Behind those achievement were some great stories, here are a few.
Sun 21 Jan 2024

Gibb/Loomes Shield to honour Rod Gibb, Jan Gibb and Valmai Loomes

The most prestigious award for an Athletics NSW country club will now be the Gibb/Loomes Shield, a new award which recognises the 166 years of extraordinary volunteer service by three stalwarts of country athletics - Rod Gibb, Jan Gibb and Valmai Loomes.
Sat 20 Jan 2024

Illawarra Track Challenge: Wins for Browning, Connolly and Azzopardi

Assisted by warm conditions and tailwinds the athletes delivered terrific sprint results at the 10th annual Illawarra Track Challenge in Wollongong on Saturday The event hosted the NSW 60m and mile championships, along with an open 100m, which is remembered for a wind assisted 9.96 by Rohan Browning in 2021.
Sun 14 Jan 2024

World Juniors is just one athletics pathway

In just over three months dozens of NSW athletes will chase their sporting dreams at the Australian Under-20 championships which double as the trials for the World U20 Championships to be held in Lima, Peru in August 2024. Many of our future Olympians have made their debut at the World U20 Championships, but many have NOT and have gone on to have very successful international careers.
Wed 27 Dec 2023

Australian All Schools Day 2: Tammin Lampret and Oliver Face nudge National hurdles records

Lighter tails winds on day two of the Australian All Schools Championships in Perth today enabled the athletes to chase records. In the under-16 events, Sydney hurdlers Tammin Lampret and Oliver Facer, ran within a whisker of their National records, while in the distance events, two NSW distance women, Eliza Lawton and Ivy Boothroyd, shone with two meet records.
Sun 10 Dec 2023

Australian All Schools Day 1: Beacroft produces a World Age best and Louison-Roe leaps to the best in the meet’s history

Triple jumper Izobelle Louison-Roe and race walker Isaac Beacroft have etched their names into history with record breaking performances on day one at the Australian All Schools Championships in windy Perth today. Beacroft, who has smashed many records this year, set not just a championship, NSW or Australian record, but a world best for an under-17 athlete. In the field events, Izobelle Louison-Roe bounded out to 13.39m in the triple jump, the longest by a female in the meet’s five decade histo
Sat 09 Dec 2023