#Onthisday 23 March at the 1980 Australian championships, at ES Marks, two Australian records were set: 400m 45.35 Rick Mitchell and 200m 22.35 Denise Robertson-Boyd.
The men’s and women’s 3000m National titles at the Sydney Track Classic on Saturday are two of the feature events. They are the first National titles this year to be held on the track and they have attracted terrific fields, particularly in the women’s event.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.