Athletics is a popular sport in Australia, with around 34,000 athletes, officials and coaches currently registered with the national association. Though...
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of current Australian records in athletics as ratified by the national governing body, Athletics Australia. There are two types of Australian records. An...
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Athletics Australia is the national sporting organisation (NSO) recognised by Sport Australia for the sport of athletics in Australia. Founded in 1897...
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Australia has competed in athletics in all Summer Olympics. Edwin Flack won the Men's 800 m and 1500 m at the 1896 Summer Olympics. He won Australia's...
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enthusiasts." — Kevin Rudd, January 2008 Sport came to Australia in 1810 when the first athletics tournament was held; soon after cricket, horse racing...
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The Australian Athletics Team, also known as the Australian Flame since 2009, represents Australia in international athletics competitions. The team participates...
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Gout Gout (category Australian athletics biography stubs)
Australian under-18 men's 200m record. He ran 20.87 seconds to win the under-18 men's 200m final at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Brisbane...
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Little Athletics is an Australian activity program that involves modified athletics events for children aged 3 to 16 in the Australian Capital Territory...
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swimming, athletics, cycling, soccer, golf, tennis, basketball, surfing, netball and cricket. Australia is one of five nations to have participated in every...
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first women's national athletics body designed to govern the sport in Australia was founded in 1932 and was called the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic...
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The Australian Athletics Tour, formerly the Athletics Grand Prix Series, is a series of annual Australian track and field competitions which is held from...
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Australia has participated in every edition of the World Athletics Championships since the inaugural event in 1983. Australia is 13th on the all time...
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Australian Athletics Championships or Australian Open Track and Field Championships are held annually to determine Australia's champion athletes in a...
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Athletics events have been held at every Paralympic Games. At the end of the Beijing Games, athletics was Australia's most successful medal sport. Since...
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Liz Parnov (category Australian Athletics Championships winners)
StreetX. Athletics in Australia "Liz Parnov". results.gc2018.com. 2018 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 12 April 2018. "Elizaveta Parnova". Australian Olympic...
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Brandon Starc (category World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia)
2018. "404 page not found | Athletics Australia". athletics.com.au. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) "Athletics STARC Brandon - Tokyo 2020...
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Matt Shirvington (category Australian Athletics Championships winners)
2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023. "Athlete Profiles – Matt Shirvington". Athletics Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 6 January...
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Peter Norman (category Australian Athletics Championships winners)
the Australian Athletics Championships. Norman ran several qualifying times from 1969–1971 but he finished third in the 1972 Australian Athletics Championships...
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Vicky Parnov (category Australian Athletics Championships winners)
Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault Athletics in Australia IAAF profile for Vicky Parnov Athletics Australia profile http://www.athletics.com...
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2023 Australian Athletics Championships was the 100th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in Australia. The commercial...
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Australia Games was held in Melbourne, Victoria, from 26 January to 5 February 1985. The concept of the national festival of sport was first raised in...
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The following is a list of sports venues in Australia. Venues for Australian rules football, cricket, rugby league, rugby union and soccer are listed...
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Shirley Strickland (category Australian Athletics Championships winners)
sprinter and hurdler. The Second World War was disruptive to women's athletics in Australia. Some runners, including Strickland, enlisted to help the war effort...
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Australia competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, from 19 to 27 August 2023. Australia entered 66 athletes. Key Q = Qualified...
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World Athletics U20 Championships, also known colloquially by its former official title, the World Junior Championships, is an international athletics competition...
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under the name Australasia. Australia has been represented at every Summer Olympics. New Zealander Leonard Cuff, an athletics administrator, organised with...
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medals. 1988 in athletics (track and field) Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-12-04. Australia Athletics...
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Under-18 world best performances in the sport of athletics are the best marks set in competition by athletes aged 17 or younger throughout the entire...
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Australia won medals in nine sports: boccia, athletics, canoe, cycling, rowing, swimming, table tennis, triathlon and wheelchair rugby. Australia at...
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Simon Hollingsworth (category World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia)
internationally for Australia in the 400 metres hurdles. He participated in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games and World Athletics Championships...
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