Australian Mile Championship returns to Albie Thomas Mile

Published Thu 20 Oct 2022

By Sascha Ryner, Athletics Australia

After a two-year hiatus due to Covid, the Australian Mile Championship returns to Sydney on 3 December 2022 with the Albie Thomas Mile.

Athletics Australia has partnered with Athletics NSW and Bankstown Athletics Club to host the meet, with the national championship races now marking the official start of the Australian Summer of Athletics.

Athletics Australia CEO Peter Bromley said he was thrilled to add the event back to the Australian championship schedule.

“We’re excited to be collaborating with Athletics NSW once again to turn the Albie Thomas Mile into a race of national significance,” Bromley said.

“With Australia experiencing a resurgence in middle distance running, we have no doubt this meet will now attract more of the country’s best and we look forward to the race kicking off the domestic season.”

Athletics NSW Chair and host club Bankstown Athletics director Matt Whitbread added:

“We’re thrilled for the Albie Thomas Mile and the Australian Mile Championship to return in 2022, with more than $12,000 in prize money allocated for the meet and a full supporting program on offer to Australia’s best athletes.

The Albie Thomas has become a landmark single-day classic meet in Australian athletics and we are committed to further developing it and the Australian Mile Championships into a World Athletics Continental Tour Meet in coming years.”