September 

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• Beijing build-up begins for Paralympic stars
  After a successful pre-departure camp in Townsville and impressive performances in European competitions, the Australian team is ready to take on the world at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Assen, Holland, commencing Saturday.
• Hooker wins with new PB at Berlin Golden League
  Commonwealth Games champion Steven Hooker has provided himself with the perfect lead in to this weekend's World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with a magnificent victory and personal best in the pole vault at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Berlin.
• Raining medals for Australia at IPC World Championships
  After the first day of competition at the IPC World Championships in Assen, Australian athletes have braved torrential weather to win a gold and two silver medals.
• Aussies bag more medals - well placed for day three in Assen
  The rain has finally eased in Assen, giving the track and field team a chance to dry out after the heavy rain yesterday. It was another good day for the team with Australia clinching the gold medal in the men's 4x400m relay and a silver in the men's discus at the at the IPC World Championships.
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  Australian athletes have had another good day in Assen with gold medals going to Heath Francis in the men�s (T46) 200m, Lisa Macintosh in the women�s (T37) 100m and Tim Sullivan in the men�s (T38) 200m. Other medal winners were Christine Wolf who won a bronze in the women�s (T42) 100m and Evan O�Hanlon who also won bronze in the men�s (T38) 200m.
• Ten Australians to jostle for lucrative booty in World Final
  With a total prize purse of US$2,976,500 (A$3,890,849) up for grabs at this weekend�s IAAF World Athletics Final, ten Australians have qualified to jostle for the impressive winner�s cheque of US$30,000.
• Francis takes second gold in Assen, Chatman breaks World Record
  Heath Francis added another gold medal to his tally today, winning the men�s (T46) 400m final in a time of 49.40, in front of Brazilian Antonio Delfino Souza. Francis also received his gold medal for the men�s (T46) 200m event, which he won yesterday.
• Three golds to Australia on Day Six in Assen
  Australians athletes have taken more medals in Assen after a day that started out slowly but ended on a high note. Australia�s best athletes with a disability were on fire, with Hamish McDonald, Tim Sullivan and Andrew Newell all collecting gold medals.
• Du Bois and Thompson head mountain running hopes
  The World Mountain Running Championships will be conducted on Mt Olympus in Turkey this Sunday, 10th September.
• Hooker and Burgess finalise preparations for Stuttgart Final
  Victory and a six metre jump are both on the agenda for Australian pole vault stars Paul Burgess and Steve Hooker as they finalise their preparations for this weekend�s IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany.
• McIntosh makes it two out of two in Assen
  It was another good day for Australian athletes in Holland with a gold and a bronze medal being added to the tally. Today was one of mainly heats and semi-finals for Australian athletes in Assen, although four competed in finals.
• Budgie flies high and strikes gold at World Athletics Final
  Paul Burgess made amends for a disappointing Commonwealth Games in March by collecting the biggest pay cheque of his career to win the pole vault at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart overnight. In a good day for Australian athletics, Commonwealth champion Bronwyn Thompson also reached the podium, taking second place in the long jump, Scott Martin threw a personal best in the shot put and Sarah Jamieson finished just outside the medals in the 1500m.
• Grigorieva fourth in good weekend for Australians at World Athletics Final
  A commendable fourth placing in the pole vault to 2000 Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva and a personal best to Eloise Wellings were the highlights of the Australian performances on day two of the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart in Germany, yesterday (Sunday).
• Triple gold for Fearnley: Fraser breaks world record
  On the last day of track competition in Assen, Australian athletes have performed admirably, taking gold, silver and bronze medals. The championship concluded on Sunday with an amazing battle in the men's (T54) marathon.
• Miller and Troode heat it up off the track
  Support our boys as they line up for the biggest competition of their careers � the 2006 Cleo Bachelor of the Year!
• Burgess leaps to Number One in IAAF World Rankings
  Pole vaulter Paul Burgess has been rewarded for his victory in the World Athletics Final last weekend with the number ranking in the world, following the release of the latest International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) rankings today.
• Life tough at the top at World Mountain Running Championships
  Australia's teams at the World Mountain Running Championships in Turkey on Sunday have finished 10th in the senior women, 11th in the senior men and 10th in the junior men. There were representatives from 36 countries contesting the championships.
• Mottram has sights set on back-to-back World Cup victories
  Craig Mottram is hoping to create history when the international athletics roadshow moves to Athens this weekend for the final meeting of this year's European season - the 10th IAAF World Cup.
• Australian Ultra Marathoners take on the World
  
• Talented juniors Camp it up at the AIS
  The next generation of Australian track and field athletes have gathered at the Australian Institute of Sport as Athletics Australia's revitalised junior development program continues to identify and encourage the future stars of athletics.
• Youngsters lead the way for Oceania on day one of IAAF World Cup
  Although it was Commonwealth Games 1500 metres champion Nick Willis (New Zealand) who achieved Oceania's sole podium spot on day one of the IAAF World Cup in Athens yesterday and Scott Martin and Eloise Wellings who just missed with fine fourth placings, it was the rapidly improving youngsters in the team who rose to the occasion on the opening day.
• Mottram dethrones Emperor - Hooker flies to World Cup wins
  Craig Mottram has created history by becoming the first Oceania athlete to defend a World Cup title, and in doing so produced the best run of his career to dethrone one of the best distance runners of all time � Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele.
• Is this the best international season we have ever had?
  With twenty-eight Australians currently ranked in the top twenty - ten who have reached the top ten, thirteen personal bests produced over the European season and three Australian records broken, World Cup wins to Craig Mottram and Steve Hooker, and a World Athletics Final victory to Paul Burgess the question beckons � is this the best European season by Australian athletes ever?
• Siri Terjesen survives jet lag to finish 3rd in IAU 50 km trophy race
  The second annual International Association of Ultrarunning (IAU) 50K Trophy World Championships was held Saturday, September 16, 2006, in Winschoten, Netherlands.
• Tatiana sets new personal best, Sarah wins 1500m in Yokohama
  Australian athletes continued their winning form on the weekend with Tatiana Grigorieva setting a new personal best leap of 4.57 metres and Sarah Jamieson taking out the 1500 metres.
• 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival
  The 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival will be held in Sydney from 17 � 21 January. Open to athletes who are either 1990 or 1991 born exclusively, the Festival provides an excellent opportunity for young Australian athletes to compete in a high quality international competition.
• Tatiana PBs again, Benita out to regain Great North Run title
  Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva finished her 2006 season on the best possible note, with her second personal best in a week - jumping 4.58m at the Colorful Athletics Meeting in Daegu, Korea, yesterday.