For the second consecutive day, a Penny Gillies coached athlete, Abbie Taddeo, recorded the best result at the 125th NSW Championships which concluded at Homebush on Sunday night.
Tokyo Olympic finalist Steve Solomon has signalled he is in the form of his life on days one and two of the 125th NSW Championships being held at Homebush this weekend.
Today Athletics Australia named three NSW Central Coast athletes in the Australian team for the World Athletics Race Walking Teams Championships to be held in Muscat, Oman on March 4 and 5.
Making their international debuts in the team are Allanah Pitcher and Carl Gibbons, while Tyler Jones will be returning to the national team. It is a personal achievement for Frank Overton who coaches all three athletes.
The 2022 Australian Junior Combined Event Championships featured an array of exciting and close battles for the podium with many NSW athletes in the mixed for medals.
The Vipers Run Club have held 2 standalone Level 1 Recreational Running Coaching Courses with Athletics NSW over the past year, empowering their club with the ability to have a qualified coach at all sessions, keeping their members running healthy & running well.
The annual pilgrimage to the ACT Championships for hundreds of NSW athletes produced dozens of personal bests, national team qualifiers and some significant breakthroughs across the three days of competition.
Two of NSW’s best emerging distance runners are Coffs Harbour pair Hayley and Jade Kitching. The siblings are coached by their father Tim Kitching, a former triathlete and runner.
A collection of interviews from Stephanie Auston (Winner Women's Open 5000m), Ben James (Winner Men's Open Pole Vault), and World Junior Qualifiers Mitchell Lightfoot and Katie Gunn.
NSW Combined Event athletes battled warm conditions at the successful championships, held in Woden in Canberra and hosted by ACT Athletics in 2022. NSW’s two under-20 winners Hanna Tait (heptathlon) and Thomas Noakes (decathlon) are on track for a shot at the qualifier for the World U20 Championships at the nationals in April.
The 2022 NSW Combined Events Championships will certainly be remembered as eventful and challenging competition, but hey that pretty much describes the World in the last two years. For leading NSW allrounders, Alec Diamond, Samuel Taylor and Tori West there were some positive signs ahead of an unusual year which includes a World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
This weekend the 90th NSW decathlon and 69th NSW heptathlon titles will be held in Woden in the ACT. The 2022 open titles look set to be the best for a few years with some leading Australian athletes Alec Diamond and Tori West competing.
NSW has a great tradition and history in Combined events. In recent decades it has been a key event in the development and pathway for our Australian representatives. Little Athletics are encouraged to try many events and not concentrate on one too early, often leading athletes into the Combined events in the developing years. Recent stars Jane Jamieson, Alysha Burnett, Jake Stein and Alec Diamond started their pathway in the sport in Little Athletics.
Percy Hobson, Australia’s first indigenous gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games has passed away in Melbourne aged 79. A Gundabooka man and known as the ‘Boy from Bourke’ Hobson won the men’s high jump at the Perth 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in a terrific competition.
Last week the prestigious Track and Field News magazine top-10 merit rankings for 2021 were announced with an outstanding four NSW athletes included. Three high jumpers Nicola McDermott, Eleanor Patterson, Brandon Starc and metric miler Ollie Hoare were ranked in the top-six.
When Nicola McDermott speaks of memorable moments during her 14-year-strong partnership with coach Matt Horsnell, two pivotal events spring to mind – one that defines success and one that defines character.