News - Athletics NSW

NSW Championships: 15-year-old Chelsy Wayne shatters records winning discus

At the age of just 15, Wollongong’s Chelsy Wayne has become the youngest winner of an event at the NSW Track and Field Championships in 41 years. Competing in a wet discus circle in the rain are not the best conditions, but that didn’t seem to worry Chelsey as she spin the 1kg implement out to 49.94m.

Sun 05 Mar 2023

NSW Championships: Kailyn Joseph - When a PB is a gold medal

Competing on a gloomy and damp night on day one of the 126th NSW Track and Field Championships there was one special highlight in the women’s ambulant long jump. Kailyn Joseph didn’t finish on the podium in the event, but it was a breakthrough that has been five years in the making.

Sat 04 Mar 2023

Talent across generations in Women’s High Jump | Sydney Track Classic

Returning to the home of the historic 2-metre leap, Nicola Olyslagers (Matt Horsnell) is fresh and ready to set the Sydney Olympic Park runway alight once again in 2023, and headlines the next generation of high jump talent emerging in Australia.

Sat 04 Mar 2023

Trans-Tasman Battle Looms In Men’s 800m | Sydney Track Classic

With the excitement of Australian middle-distance running reaching new heights following the World Athletics Cross Country Championships and the Maurie Plant Meet - Melbourne, another chapter will be written at the Sydney Track Classic with an exciting Trans-Tasman battle in the Men’s 800m.

Tue 28 Feb 2023

NSW Juniors: Commonwealth Youth and World Champs qualifiers highlight the action

Izzy Louison-Roe and Delta Amidzovski were the stars of the 2023 NSW Junior Championships going undefeated across the weekend and securing Commonwealth Youth Games qualifiers.

Mon 27 Feb 2023

Athletics NSW To Pilot Paid Officiating Program

Athletics NSW announces the launch of a pilot paid officiating program at the 2023 NSW Junior Track and Field Championships and the 2023 NSW Open and U23 Track and Field Championships, with a view to the program being rolled out in the 2023 winter and 2023/24 summer season.

Mon 13 Feb 2023

Country Campbell to make Australian debut at the cross country

At age 26, Holly Campbell, the newly crowned NSW 5000m champion, will make her Australian team debut at the World Cross Country Championships. Raised in NSW country, for the last seven years Holly has shown glimpses of brilliance but progress has been hampered by injury. With enormous patience and under coach Jeremy Roff, she has flourished in the last few seasons.

Mon 13 Feb 2023

Stories from the NSW Masters Championships

Sun 05 Feb 2023

Claudia Meaker – Australia’s youngest ever athlete to compete at World Junior XC

Sydney’s Claudia Meaker, aged just 15 years, will make history when she lines up at the start of the under-20 race at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst.

Fri 03 Feb 2023

Kerley and Centrowitz Set To Run In Sydney

The fields at this year’s 2023 Sydney Track Classic are quickly shaping up to be some of the best in recent times – with the addition of USA Track & Field royalty in the form of reigning 100m World Champion and Olympic silver medallist, Fred Kerley, and 2016 Olympic 1500m Champion, Matthew Centrowitz Jnr.

Wed 01 Feb 2023

Rorey Hunter breaks through for first national vest

After 20 years in the sport, 10 as a senior athlete, Canberra physiotherapist Rorey Hunter has broken through for his first Australian team after a surprise, but impressive fourth place, in the Australian team trials for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. And what a team to make your debut - on home soil in Bathurst in February.

Tue 31 Jan 2023

Nine Host State Athletes to compete at Bathurst World Cross Country

With the announcement of the Australian team today, comes the welcome news the host state of New South Wales will be represented in all five events on the program for the 44th World Athletics Cross Country Championships to be held in the western NSW country town of Bathurst next month.

Mon 30 Jan 2023

NSW Combined Events: Piper Todd’s third consecutive as Alec Diamond wins number four

Commonwealth Games representative Alec Diamond claimed his fourth senior men’s NSW Decathlon title in Canberra on the weekend with a solid score of 7458 points, while Bankstown’s Piper Todd won the under-16 heptathlon her third win in as many years.

Wed 18 Jan 2023

Booked for Bathurst: Rose Davies and Leanne Pompeani

On Sunday morning the best line-up of Australian distance running battled the challenging Stromlo hills for places in the Australian team for the 44th World Athletics Cross Country Championships set down for Bathurst next month. NSW pair, Rose Davies and Leanne Pompeani were the only two to confirm their positions with automatic selections, while another seven NSW athletes are in the box seat to be named later this week, making the home State representation nine.

Mon 16 Jan 2023

Me vs. Me - Abbie Taddeo

We caught up with the six-time NSW 60m Champion, returning to one of her favourite meets of the year, to chat about what’s in the water with NSW sprinting, some exciting announcements from down south, and her life off the track looking as positive as her future on it.

Fri 13 Jan 2023

NSW athletes to chase selection in the WXC team

This Sunday morning at Stromlo Forest in Canberra, the best domestic distance fields ever assembled will challenge for the rare opportunity to wear the green and gold on home soil. The Australian World Athletics Cross Country trials have attracted phenomenal fields.

Tue 10 Jan 2023

Teenager McMillen smashes NSW record in Canberra at World Athletics Race Walking Tour event

The rise of 18-year-old Sydney race walker Lizzy McMillen continued in Canberra today with a stunning 10,000m walk at the World Athletics Race Walking Tour race, titled Supernova #1.

Fri 06 Jan 2023

Australia’s Youngest World Cross Country Championship official: Georgia Hughes, 19

Aged 19, Campbelltown teenager Georgia Hughes will be our youngest National Technical Official at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships to be held in Bathurst next month. This prestigious honour comes just two years after commencing her journey as an Official in athletics. In this interview with Athletics NSW, we read about what a special person Georgia is, of her gratitude for her mentors, family and many other supporters. A proud aboriginal Wiradjuri/Dharawal woman, Georgia overcomes

Mon 02 Jan 2023