The IAAF World Cross Country Championships were held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on the 24th of March. The Australian team did not let the less than ideal weather conditions deter them from performing at their best. There was intermittent snow, freezing temperatures and a muddy course for them to contend with. South Australia had two representatives [...]
Olympic race walker Claire Tallent has retired from competition to start coaching her husband, Jared, and the pair will move to Adelaide next month. It will be a homecoming for Claire, 31, who grew up in Adelaide but has been living in Canberra while part of the Australian Institute of Sport program. The dual Olympian [...]
South Australian Official and new Athletics SA Board Member, Caroline Jackman attended the International Technical Officials Course for the International Paralympic Committee (Athletics) in Germany in early February 2013. We are very proud of her as she was the only Australian attendee out of the seventeen participants. Well done Caroline! Coaching, Officiating and Clubs [...]
Athletics SA’s Tanya Holliday has ensured automatic selection to the Australian Flame for the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow after a dominant performance to win the Australian & Oceania 20km Race Walking Championships in Hobart yesterday. Holliday joined Victorian Regan Lamble in the lead to record a four-kilometre split time of 18:01. Lamble, who made her Olympic debut in London [...]
Saturday night’s Adelaide Track Classic provided a rare opportunity for SA’s best track and field athletes to compete against some of the country’s best on their home turf in front of a crowd of just over 1500 at Santos Stadium. Meanwhile, local junior athletes battled it out for the national titles in the Australian Junior Combined Events. [...]
World Class Athletics! | Saturday 16th February 2013 | 6:30pm | Santos Stadium Seven Olympians and a Paralympic Silver Medallist are set to light up Santos Stadium this Saturday night for the Adelaide Track Classic! The Adelaide Track Classic is part of the National Athletics Series and acts as a qualification opportunity for Australia’s best [...]
AUSTRALIA’S best long jumper, Mitch Watt, and top sprinter Josh Ross are set for an explosive 100m showdown in Adelaide this month. The London Olympians are expected to meet in the blue riband event when they headline the Adelaide Track Classic on February 16. Watt – a silver medallist at last year’s Games – is [...]
Six months ago, young South Australian distance runner, Tasmin McMahon, was a virtual unknown in Australian distance running. Yesterday on the manicured, purpose built cross country course at Stromlo Forest in Canberra, that all changed. Nineteen year old McMahon glided around the course, surprising many of her older rivals, taking out the Open World Cross [...]
The event grid and season information for the 2012 National Athletics Series, including the Qantas Australian Athletics Tour, has today been released by the Athletics Australia Competitions Department. Established after lengthy consultation with Athletics Australia’s High Performance coaches to ensure ample qualification opportunities ahead of the IAAF World Championships next year, the event grid will [...]
Athletics SA is excited to confirm that leading hotel, Crowne Plaza Adelaide, will continue its sponsorship of Athletics SA. Building upon the success of the 2012 Adelaide Track Classic, Crowne Plaza Adelaide will once again be the Official Hotel of Athletics SA and the Adelaide Track Classic. “The relationships between Athletics SA and Crowne Plaza [...]
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