March 

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• Asafa Powell to headline hot 100 at Olympic Park
  World 100m record holder Asafa Powell will make his competitive return to the 100m at the Telstra A-series/IAAF World Athletics Tour event at Melbourne�?�¢??s Olympic Park on Thursday 9 March.
• Fast Men Good to Go in Brisbane
  The Commonwealth’s best athletes will have their penultimate hit-out before the Commonwealth Games at the Telstra A-series event in Brisbane tomorrow night.
• Big Weekend of Athletics in Tassie
  In excess of 800 entries from more than 200 athletes have been received for this weekend’s Tasmanian Track and Field Championships.
• Telstra A-series Brisbane on SBS this Sunday
  Today’s Telstra A-series event in Brisbane will be broadcast on SBS this Sunday at 11.00am.
• Weather No Barrier To Elite Athletes Tonight in Brisbane
  Wet weather in Brisbane over the past 24 hours is no barrier to the Telstra A-series tonight at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre. The home of the 1982 Commonwealth Games is ready to host its best meet for many years in terms of quality of the leading faces as well as overall depth.
• Splish, Splash, Patrick Gives Rivals a Bath
  Australia’s Commonwealth Games hopes were boosted by some outstanding efforts in dismally wet conditions at the Telstra A-series meet in Brisbane tonight.
• Fast Men Queue Up to Take on Asafa Powell at Olympic Park
  More than 20 of the Commonwealth’s fastest sprinters want to race against world record holder Asafa Powell at Olympic Park on Thursday night.
• R.W. Clarke Foundation - Awards for 2006
  The R.W. Clarke Foundation has been set up to assist young athletes from 16 to 23 years of age to obtain competition at major domestic meets, e.g. Telstra A-series, National Championships and & other high level competitions, and to participate in appropriate training camps.
• Records in Sights of Melbourne's Middle Distance Stars
  Mottram has specifically requested the 2000m distance and will have his sights set on Simon Doyle’s Australian and Australian all-comers record of 5:00.84 set in Sydney in 1994.
• Australian Sprint Relays out to create History
  Australia’s men’s sprint relay team has become one of the world’s best relay outfits, making the finals of the Athens Olympic Games (6th) and Helsinki World Championships (5th).
• Telstra A-series Melbourne [IAAF World Athletics Tour] Timetable
  Olympic Park, Melbourne, Victoria Thursday 9th March 2006 Draft Timetable (as at 6th March 2006)
• Australia's premier athletics hits Melbourne TONIGHT
  The 19th edition of Australia’s premier athletics meeting promises to be one of its best with a stellar line-up chock-full of head-to head clashes that will produce a virtual Commonwealth Games in a night at Olympic Park.
• Its Here.... Melbournes Biggest Ever Telstra A-series
  The World's Fastest Man Over 150 Internationals from 25 Countries Great Tickets Available Online and at the Gate
• Mottram Magic in Melbourne
  Asafa Powell was the headline act at Melbourne Olympic Park, but it was Melbourne’s Craig Mottram who left fans with the most indelible memory at the Telstra A-series tonight.
• What the Commonwealth Games mean to our athletes..
  With the excitement and drama of the Commonwealth Games only one day away, here is what a few of our top athletes had to say about what the Games means to them:
• Under-18 Athletes to Have "The Games Experience"
  Forty under-18 Australian athletes will have an experience of a lifetime when they participate in Athletics Australia’s "The Games Experience" Camp, to be held in Melbourne from 20 to 23 March during the Commonwealth Games track and field competition.
• Saville to carry flag for Australia
  Australia’s top walker and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jane Saville will bear the Australian flag and lead the 18th Australian Commonwealth Games team onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground at tonight’s opening ceremony.
• Athletics Legends Guide Baton to its Journey's End
  The eyes of the Commonwealth focussed on Australian Athletics legends from the past 50 years, last night, as they carried the Queen’s Baton on the last stages of its epic journey from Buckingham Palace to the hands of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• Australian Athletics Comes Together to Name Captains
  The captains of the Australian Athletics Team will be named this evening at a gala dinner in Melbourne to celebrate the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Over 550 passionate supporters of Track and Field will come together at Eden on the Park to celebrate the feats of the past and wish the present athletes well for the next week of competition.
• AMENDED Commonwealth Games Athletics Competition Schedule
  Athletics Australia advises that changes have been made by Melbourne 2006 to the Commonwealth Games Athletics Schedule due to commence this Sunday 19th March at the MCG.
• Let the Games Really Begin - Australia Aims to Top Medal Tally
  Asafa Powell regularly starts his six-hour training sessions at dawn. And it might all pay off when the Commonwealth Games track-and-field program starts at the MCG tomorrow. There are two rounds of the men's 100 metres scheduled for "Super Sunday", the first at 10.56am, the second at 2.35pm.
• A Gathering of World Champions in Melbourne - Commonwealth Games preview
  Every four years the Commonwealth Games seems to spark a debate in the athletics world ­or in those parts of it that have any connection with the old British Empire, at least. What's it for? Is there any point to it? Should it really be regarded as a major date on the world athletics calendar?
• Womens's 100m Round 1 - Jamaica's Brooks runs fastest
  The first round of the Women’s 100m heats have been run and won, with Jamaican Sheri-Ann Brooks qualifying fastest with a time of 11.30 seconds - only 38 hundredths of a second outside Debbie Ferguson’s Games record set in Manchester 2002.
• McCann wins Marathon for Australia
  Australian Kerryn McCann has courageously won her second consecutive Commonwealth Gold medal, winning the Women's Marathon in a time of 2:30.53.
• McCann Wins First Athletics Gold at Melbourne 2006 - Day 1 Wrap
  In what will be remembered as one of the truly great moments at the MCG, Kerryn McCann has sprinted the last 300m of the Women’s marathon to hold off Kenyan Hellen Cherono Koskei and defend her Commonwealth Marathon title.
• Jane Saville takes Hatrick and Deakes Goes Back to Back
  Australia made history in he 20km walks today sweeping both the men’s and women’s events for the first time. Saville sisters Jane and Natalie and team mate Cheryl Webb took gold, silver and bronze for Australia this morning at Melbourne’s Docklands. For Jane, the race delivered a hatrick of wins, having also won the event in Kuala Lumpur 1998 and Manchester 2002.
• Mottram Takes Silver in 5000m Sprint Finish
  World Championship bronze medallist Craig "Buster" Mottram drew the crowd to their feet and received a standing ovation, crossing the line to claim Silver for Australia in the Men’s 5000km at the MCG.
• Good Performances in a Morning of Qualifiers
  Day three of the athletics program and the Australian’s continue to excel the track with both National 400m Hurdle Champion Brendan Cole and Commonwealth Youth Champion Tristan Thomas advancing through to the semi-final of the Men’s 400m Hurdles. Thomas won through with a personal best of 49.88.
• Jamieson Takes Silver as Debutants Step Up
  Sarah Jamieson overcame being boxed-in in the final 100m and some argy bargy for position, to take silver in the women’s 1500 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this evening. In what was a tight start to the Women’s 1500m final, Australia’s Lisa Corrigan took the lead in the opening lap while Jamieson settled in fifth place and Suzie Walsham fought at the back of the pack.
• Tonight is the Night and the MCG stage belongs to Steffensen
  He’s an Olympic silver medallist, a finalist at the World Championships, but tonight John Steffensen has the opportunity to win what he truly desires, the respect he believes he is due from his home crowd.
• Pittman the Fastest into Final in Womens 400m Hurdles
  Jana Pittman has qualified fastest in a solid, if not spectacular, semi final of the women’s 400m hurdles this afternoon. Pittman, who ran 55.07, did enough to move through, leading the entire way but missing her stride pattern as she approached the second last hurdle.
• OH YEAH! Gold, Gold, Gold for John Steffensen the Marvel, the Master
  John Steffensen, Olympic silver medallist and finalist at the World Championships, added the Commonwealth Games gold medal to his resume tonight after running a killer 400m final.
• Triple Gold as Powerhouse Pittman Brings it Home for Australia
  Night eight of the Commonwealth Games started with a reminder of what many now rate as the highlight to date. With a pearly smile, John Steffensen accepted his gold medal, still on a high from his performance last night.
• Deakes Takes Golden Double
  Not content with gold in last Monday’s 20km Walk, Nathan Deakes has mirrored his performance from four years ago in Manchester by winning the 50km walk this morning to complete the double.
• Hooker Jumps to Gold on a Night Dominated by Field Medals
  It may have been a lacklustre pole vault final, but Steve Hooker gleamed brightly as he claimed his first Commonwealth gold medal. Hooker vaulted 5.80m to claim gold and break the Games record. On a day where Australia took four gold medals in one of its most successful days ever at the Games, Hooker put the icing on the cake in the final event of the day.
• The Final Night Of Athletics At The MCG
  A night of controversy, sweat and tears.
• Athletics International Grants Reminder
  Athletics International would like to remind all those eligible to apply for a 2006 Development Grant that applications close on the 7th April, 2006.
• Elite Junior Development Camp a Huge Success
  Forty young Australian athletes have had a unique experience of the Commonwealth Games, spending four days at Athletics Australiaâ??s Games Experience Camp. The group included under 18 athletes who had not represented Australia before at youth level and were either from remote locations who train on their own, from Athletics Australiaâ??s indigenous pathways program or who are also doing well in another sport.
• Much More Than Medals, It Was a Wonderful Performance
  The 2006 Commonwealth Games marked a momentous occasion for Australian Athletics, with the Games seeing the return of Track and Field to the MCG for the first time since the 1956 Olympics.
• Australian U20 & U23 Track & Field Championships
  This weekend (Friday 31 March – Sunday 2 April) a strong contingent of ACT athletes will make the trek to Adelaide for the Australian U20 & U23 Championships.
• World Cross Country Championships - Fukuoka, Japan
  From the Commonwealth Games to the World Cross Country Championships, twenty-four of Australia's top athletes will travel to Fukuoka, Japan this week for the 34th edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on the 1-2 April.
• Australia's best speedsters line up for richest ever Australia Post Stawell Gift
  Australia’s fastest ever sprinter, the defending champion and a supporting cast of Australia’s best speedsters will line-up in the 125th edition of Australia’s richest and most famous footrace – the 2006 Australia Post Stawell Gift.