The prestigious Treloar Shield is making its return on the weekend, and the series is already showing signs of being significantly larger than last year with participation numbers on the rise.
Last Saturday Athletics NSW awarded Life Membership to Technical Official Del Warrick. The unassuming start crew team member was presented with Athletics NSW’s highest award by Board Chair, Matthew Whitbread.
Day three at the Junior NSW All Schools Athletics Championships was all about the continuing dominance of one athlete, Tammin Lampret. The superlatives were dazzling.
Day two at the Junior NSW All Schools Athletics Championships was another great day with many athletes stamping themselves as future Australian representatives.
On day one of the Junior NSW All Schools Athletics Championships we saw established stars continue their reign, but also the emergence of some bright new talent. It was a fourth consecutive win for hurdler Tammin Lampret and a second consecutive record for race walker Sophie Polkinghorne, while in the field exciting new athletes emerging include discus thrower Ashley Hogan and Csenge Zsuzsanna Zsombor in the pole vault.
NSW’s distance duo Jessica Hull and Morgan McDonald closed their 2023 campaigns with epic performances at the World Road Running Championships in Riga overnight. In contrasting seasons, Hull placed fifth in the women’s mile, while McDonald was seventh in the men’s 5km event.
The performances went up a notch on the final day of the NSW All Schools Championships, led by a World leading performance by 800m athlete Daniel Williams. Sam Perkins competed a perfect NSW All Schools journey with a sixth consecutive title, while 16-year-olds Ivy Boothroyd (800m) and Izzi Louison-Roe (triple jump) recorded the best ever performances in the history of the championships.
The 2023 NSW All Schools Athletics Championship have not produced a plethora of records, but we have witnessed some great racing and emergence of some very new stars.
The 2023 NSW All Schools Athletics Championship kicked off in style with a series of record breaking performances from our emerging talent. In the first field event on the program, Commonwealth Youth Games medallists Izzi Louise-Roe leapt out to 6.13m in the long jump – the longest jump at the meet for 40-years, while in the very last event on day one, we witnessed Isaac Beacroft record the best race walking performance in the history of the meet, first held in 1936 – 87 years ago.
Athletics NSW (ANSW) is pleased to announce that as part of its strategy to improve the athlete and fan experience, we have recently formed a partnership with Athletic Live that will improve the way results and footage are delivered to our members and participants.
Athletics NSW (ANSW) is proud to announce its newest appointment Matt Rawlings as Para-Liaison Coordinator reinforcing our commitment to promoting inclusivity in Para Athletics.
Just five weeks after they made their international debut at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago, NSW 10 emerging stars are back in action at the 2023 NSW All Schools Athletics Championships starting Saturday at Homebush. But such is the depth in NSW juniors, many face very tough competition to win.
Masters athletics is for those aged 30 and over, and is all about participation, the most important aspect is that people come along and give something a try. We look forward to welcoming athletes of all abilities, current members or those just interested in trying something new, or taking up again something they’ve done previously. Everyone is welcome!
Athletics NSW is committed to providing competition and participation opportunities for all its athletes at all levels of the sport. But to continue to do this at the frequency and standard expected- our athletes need your help!
NSW are well represented in the final two National teams for 2023. Later this month, at the newly expanded World Athletics Road Running Championships, three NSW athletes, headlined by Jessica Hull in her seventh Australian team in two years, competes in Lativa at the two-day championships. In late November, seven NSW athletes compete at the Pacific Games in the Solomon Games, a key competition for those with Paris Olympic Games aspirations.
We are just two weeks from the start of the 2023 NSW All Schools Athletics Championships and one athlete, Samuel Perkins, heads to the event in pursuit of a special achievement - a sixth consecutive title.
Sydney-based Irish athlete Niamh Allen has run herself into the record books with a remarkable winning time of 1:12.44 in the 33rd Sydney Half Marathon this morning at Sydney Olympic Park. Her training partner at Run Crew, dual Olympian Ben St Lawrence, likewise was just as impressive winning the men’s race in 65:55.