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Junior Athletes Fire Up for Long Hot Summer
Australia’s Top Marathon Runner - Lisa Weightman

The state of Australian distance running is currently heads and shoulders above anything being produced in New Zealand ...

I recall watching the Men's 1500 race at one of the televised Grand Prix Meets at the start of 2000. The race was won in a slow time of 3:42 ...

RT's Edward Ovadia is back in Berlin, this time covering the Berlin marathon...
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In a blast from the past, our heroes of yesteryear recall their memories of this race and the unique course ...
By Len Johnson. The first article about the 1959 Men's Cross Country Championships - held 50 years ago....
With Runnerstribe staff on the ground during Berlin we were able to cover all the acion. Check out all the video, interviews and articles from a fantastic championships...
Most of you will already be familiar with the Oxfam Trailwalker event. It's a 100km running race held in Sydney and Melbourne on an annual basis ...

New Zealand runner Scott Winton talks about trainning for the Gold Coast Marathon at Iten which is perched on the western side of the mighty Rift Valley and is 2,400 metres above sea level ...

Collis Birmingham has paid his dues. He's done the hard slog on the domestic scene; he's been knocked out in the heats of the Olympics; and most importantly he's followed the rule that to be the best in the world, you have to start by being the best in Australia. And now that Birmingham stands alone as our best long distance runner, he's ready to take on the world...

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Australian will send a small but talented team of 22 athletes (7 girl's and 15 boy's) to Bressanone, Italy for the 2009 World Youth Championships....
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On the 31st July, 2004 a future star of the track was born. Standing at only 5 feet tall, Jordan Hasay ran an amazing 9:48.77 over 3000m at the US Junior Olympics in Eugene, Oregon and in the process showed the world of track and field that one day she would be a star of the sport. So what's happened in the life of Hasay since that magical run in Oregon?...
Australian 1500m runner Jeremy Roff has smashed just over three seconds from his 1500m PB running a 3:34.39 to finish 8th at the Berlin Golden League...
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When Melinda Gainsford-Taylor announced her retirement at the end of 2001 we all thought that she had left women's sprinting in Australia in good hands. We have been waiting for the next sprint sensation to step onto the track. Eight years later have we really found our next sprint champion?...
In what is regarded as one of the largest track and field meetings in the United States, eight Australians will be lining up at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Taking place in Fayetteville, Arkansas (10-13 June)...
Event organisers could not have hoped for more exciting finishes for both the elite men's and women's mile races at this years Leonora Golden Gift. Both races had the crowd in hysterics, as fierce finishing kicks determined who got to take home the prized gold nuggets and the heavier cheques. The sprint events also didn't fail to entertain...
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The Leonora Golden Gift is a unique and prestigious athletics carnival held May 30-31st in the West Australian outback. The event carries $53,000AUD in prize money and has attracted the cream of Australian middle distance running in its 6 year history...
'One year ago, Athletics in Australia was stunned, when Craig Mottram's 3000m junior record was broken by New South Welshman Ryan Gregson. Fast forward to January 2009, and the seemingly impossible has happened - the record has been broken, again! Many thought that once broken, Gregson's record would stay around for quite some time, daring up and coming juniors to touch it. Enter Richard Everest.' ...
'Runner's Tribe is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching our first athlete sponsorship program. We are very happy that we are now in the position to develop such programs and are positive that, in our own way, we are doing our part towards the development of this great sport.'...