News - Athletics NSW

NSW Open Championships: Lovell on track for Paralympic Games success

The 127th NSW Open track and field championships concluded on Sunday with an impressive number 200m performances from Mali Lovell, Rohan Browning, Josh Azzopardi, Chris Ius, Ella Connolly and Victorian Mia Gross.

Mon 18 Mar 2024

NSW Open Championships: 10 Things to Watch

Sat 16 Mar 2024

NSW Open Championships: Beacroft races to an Australian record, now #2 in the World

Ahead of a key month in his career, Hills race walker Isaac Beacroft, 16, won the NSW Open 5000m walk to launch the four-day NSW Championships. The women’s winner, Alannah Pitcher, won in a 84 seconds PB, signalling she was back to her best and past two bouts of illness.

Fri 15 Mar 2024

NSW Juniors REVIEW Day 3: Sebastian Sultana 200m 20.84

Day three of the NSW Junior Athletics Championships brought some special performances in the continuing glorious weather conditions. Four world junior qualifiers were highlighted by Australia’s leading junior sprinter Sebastian Sultana winning the 200m in a slick 20.84. A feature was the number of athletes unable to claim the traditional doubles, like the 100/200, 800/1500, LJ/TJ combinations – a clear indication of top-end quality at the championships were more than usual number of athletes are

Mon 11 Mar 2024

NSW Juniors REVIEW Day 2: Kabba two world junior qualifiers from two starts

Day two of the NSW Junior Championships, in glorious conditions at Homebush, will be remembered by a host of sprint results that didn’t go by the form guide, while two established stars Rashid Kabba and Izzi Louise-Roe achieved key World U20 Championships qualifiers.

Sun 10 Mar 2024

Sydney Track Classic: Jessica Hull favourite to defend her National 3000m title

After a record-breaking tour across American and Europe over the last month, Jessica Hull returns to the scene of one of her finest performances in 2023, the Sydney Track Classic.

Sat 09 Mar 2024

NSW Juniors REVIEW Day 1: Louison-Roe treble

On International women’s day it certainly was the girls who shone on day one of the NSW Junior Championships at Homebush, highlighted by Izzi Louison-Roe and Delta Amidzovski.

Sat 09 Mar 2024

NSW Juniors Preview: New kids on the block

Nearly 1500 of NSW finest junior athletes will be in action this weekend at the three-day NSW Junior Athletics Championships at Homebush. The honour of NSW champion will be hard fought across competition in the under-14 to under-20 events. The championship lead to the Australian Junior Championships in Adelaide in April.

Thu 07 Mar 2024

Preview of ANSW's Centre of Excellence

In partnership with AA and NSWIS, the Athletics NSW (ANSW) Centre of Excellence focuses on the importance of ensuring emerging NSW athletes and coaches have acquired all the skills, knowledge, experience and exposure along their athletics journey that will allow them to cope with that pressure, relish opportunities and perform at their best physically, psychologically, and technically when they reach the elite arena.

Tue 05 Mar 2024

NSW athletes competing across the globe: Mt Stromlo – Canberra – Glasgow – Homebush - Taicang

Mon 04 Mar 2024

World Indoors: High Jump Gold for Nicola Olyslagers

Central Coast’s Nicola Olyslagers has won Australia’s seventh gold medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships this morning in Glasgow. In a nail biting competition against arch rival, Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Nicola negotiated 1.99m on her third attempt to take the title.

Sat 02 Mar 2024

World Indoors: Preview and how to watch our athletes

Inform NSW duo Nicola Olyslagers and Jessica Hull lead the Australian team at the 19th edition of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Nicola and Jessica have equalled or broke Australian records in 2024 in the events they will contest – high jump and 3000m respectively. Unfortunately, Eleanor Patterson has withdrawn from the team.

Fri 01 Mar 2024

Athletes, officials, coaches, clubs and volunteers to be honoured at 2024 ANSW Awards

On Saturday April 27, Athletics NSW will celebrate a successful year of athletics as we recognise our athletes, clubs, coaches, technical officials and volunteers. The 2024 Athletics NSW Awards Dinner will be held at The Locker Room, Sydney Olympic Park.

Tue 27 Feb 2024

3 NSW athletes Glasgow-bound

Three NSW athletes were today announced in the 7-member Australian team for the World Indoor Championships to be held next weekend in Glasgow. Distance runner Jessica Hull and high jumpers Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers will wear the green and gold at the first global championship of the year.

Fri 23 Feb 2024

ANSW to host the largest-ever classification day

Athletics NSW is pleased to announce that the para-classification day has reached record numbers with more than 14 athletes already registered to attend on 8-10 March at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre.

Mon 12 Feb 2024

NSW 5000m Championships: Blundell’s back

Finishing her first track race in nearly two years, dual Olympian Jenny Blundell has held off Paige Campbell by four seconds to claim the NSW women’s 5000m championships at Homebush last night. In the men’s race it was a wall of runners at the finish, with Ethan Wyatt-Smith taking the win.

Sun 11 Feb 2024

Graham Kearns awarded Athletics NSW Life Membership

Athletics NSW were fortunate in 2008 when Graham Kearns, a member of Illawong Revesby Workers Athletics Club, joined the photo-finish team.

Sun 11 Feb 2024

Lily Tilt and Robbie Cullen win NSW Open Combined Event Championships

First year senior athletes Lily Tilt and Robbie Cullen have claimed the open NSW Combined Event titles in 2024. Some of NSW’s best all round and hardest working athletes endured heat and rain during the two days of competition at the 92nd men’s NSW decathlon and 71st women’s heptathlon championships held at Homebush over the weekend.

Mon 29 Jan 2024