Junior, Masters and Para athletes of the Year
Athletics NSW has pleasure in announcing the 2019/20 athletes of the year in the categories, juniors, masters and para-athletics.
2020 Club Award winners - Margaret Beardslee and UTS Norths
Mingara club’s Margaret Beardslee and UTS Norths have won the top Athletics NSW club awards for 2020. The sport in NSW is fortunate to have many hard-working club administrators. Often they go unrecognised as they burn the midnight candle organising everything from finances to registrations, uniforms, awards, publicity competitions and relay teams.
Bankstown and Mingara dominate 2019 Winter Awards
With the cancellation of the 2020 Athletics NSW awards, over the next month we will announce the winners on the website and in social media.
Vale: Jim Bailey – 1956 Olympian
During the ‘50s and ‘60s Australia produced a procession of the world class milers, including John Landy, Merv Lincoln, Herb Elliott and Albie Thomas. A lesser known was 1956 Olympian Jim Bailey (STG) who passed away aged 90 last week (March 31) in Bellingham in Washington State.
Athlete Pathway: World Juniors or not
Leading NSW and Australian teenager athletes are in limbo, unsure if the World Athletics U20 Championships will he held this year.
In this article for the Athletics NSW’s coaching newsletter, David Tarbotton, through athlete examples, highlights the enormous variety of pathways junior athletes follow to senior success – some via the World Juniors and others with very limited or even no junior involvement or achievements in athletics.
Fletcher fills a coaching void
NSW’s Hunter area has been a fertile region for talented horizontal jumpers, but when Max Debnam flagged his retirement, a member of his squad Shaun Fletcher took the baton.
COVID-19 Update - Impacts on small group coaching/training
Overnight, the Federal Government announced further restrictions and measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Small group training is now not permitted, with outdoor exercise restricted to two people and in compliance with social distancing advice.
COVID-19 Update - Further impact on Athletics NSW 2020 winter calendar
Please find following further updates regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the 2020 ANSW | RunNSW calendar and advice for Club events and competitions:
ANSW Winter Calendar
The NSW Government has released “Public Heath (COVID-19 Public Events) Order 2020†which prohibits the staging of outdoor events which will or is likely to have 500 people or more in attendance. This order is in place until at least 14th June 2020 (Please note we will provide updates and/or changes as communicated).
Update regarding upcoming Athletics NSW events
The COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented and causing wide spread disruption. Athletics NSW Staff and Board are working together to ensure we prioritise the health, safety and wellbeing of our athletes, officials, participants, staff, volunteers and supporters over the coming months. We have unfortunately had to make some changes to the early events on our winter calendar and other planned ANSW events:
A message from the Chair of Athletics NSW
Good afternoon all,
I had hoped that my first message to the NSW athletics community as Chair would come in more positive circumstances, having just come off the back of the NSW Championships and looking forward with anticipation to the Australian Track and Field Championships in Sydney and the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Teenagers dominate 123rd NSW Open Championships
The 123rd NSW Championships, held over the weekend at Homebush, were dominated by teenagers with 11 juniors winning titles. The competition produced two new NSW World U20 Championships qualifiers - triple jumper Desleigh Owusu and javelin thrower Lianna Davidson, while there were two attempts at Tokyo Olympic Games qualification by Nicola McDermott in the high jump and South Korean Minsub Jin in the pole vault.
REVIEW: NSW Junior Championships
The 2020 NSW Junior Championships showcased the next generation of Olympians. Here are some of the highlights across the track and the field.
Field action lights up Sydney Track Classic
There were world class performances everywhere you looked and especially in the field at the 2020 Sydney Track Classic. Three Sydney high jumpers Brandon Starc, Nicola McDermott and Eleanor Patterson confirmed they are on track to make the final at the Tokyo Olympics, while former promising junior, Alex Hulley defeated a world class field with the longest throw by an Australian for 14 years.
Preview: Sydney next stop for the Coles Summer Super Series
The fourth meet in Athletics Australia’s Coles Summer Super Series arrives in Sydney this Saturday night when the Sydney Track Classic is held at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre at Homebush. National record holders Linden Hall (1500m), Jo Deng (800m), Brooke Stratton (long jump) and another high jump clash between Eleanor Patterson and Nicola McDermott, highlight a quality meet.
Round two of the Mcdermott and Patterson High Jump display hits the Sydney Track Classic
Round two of the Nicola McDermott and Eleanor Patterson high jumping display hits the Homebush track. In Canberra last week they both cleared 1.96m – Olympic qualifiers, equal personal bests and the highest leap by Aussies on Australian soil. What can they do in Sydney? The Australian record?
Two Combined Events titles for NSW athletes
NSW athletes won six medals at the 2020 Australian Combined Event Championships held in warm conditions in Brisbane over the weekend.
McDermott opens season with a 1.96m jump
A heavy down pour of rain just prior to the start of competition didn’t dampen the athletes resolve to perform at the Canberra Track Classic on Thursday night with many quality performances and some thrilling events, highlighted by an extraordinary women’s high jump competition.
Matthew Whitbread elected as Chair of Athletics NSW
Athletics NSW is pleased to announce that Matthew Whitbread has been elected as the new Chair of Athletics NSW following the resignation of Dr Peter Higgins.
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