February 

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• Cream of State Athletics at NSW Championships
  Some of New South Wales’ and Australia’s best athletes will take to the track at Homebush this weekend at the NSW Open & Under 18 Championships. The Championships come at an opportune time as athletes start to hit the top of their form following the start of the Telstra A-Series last week in Canberra.
• Australian Under 20 Record Speared at NSW Championships
  An Australian Under 20 Record from Laura Cornford (Bankstown Sports) in the Women's Under 20 Javelin was the highlight performance of Day 2 of the NSW Open & U18 Championships.
• Lewis v Corrigan battle set to continue in Hobart
  One of the most enthralling battles of the 2007 Australian athletics season will continue in Hobart on Friday night with both Lisa Corrigan and Tamsyn Lewis confirming that they will run the 800 metres at the Tasmania's Forest Industries Graeme Briggs Memorial Athletics Classic.
• Stairway to heaven in New York for Walsham
  Commonwealth Games 1500m finalist Suzy Walsham has taken out the women's Empire State Building staircase race in New York, winning on her debut at the event in a time of 13min 12sec.
• Riseley a rising star
  Jeff Riseley produced an encore to his winning performance at the previous evening's Graeme Briggs Memorial Meet, to take the under 23 800 metres title at the Telstra Australian under 20 and under 23 Athletics Championships at the Domain Athletic Centre in Hobart this evening.
• Club champions crowned in Hobart
  The UTS Northern Suburbs from New South Wales and Gold Coast Victory are the Australian clubs champions in athletics.
• Martin and MacFarlane star in Hobart
  A massive last throw in the shot put by the big man Scott Martin (VIS) brought tonight's Tasmania's Forest Industries Graeme Briggs Memorial Athletics Classic in Hobart to a wonderful crescendo.
• Coach of Merit funding for top distance mentor
  Athletics Australia is pleased to confirm further Coach of Merit funding to one of Australia's most successful distance running coaches, Nic Bideau.
• Howe record, Burgess wins in Donetsk
  Commonwealth Games champion Kym Howe has broken her own Australian and Commonwealth pole vault record, leaping 4.72m to finish second at Sergey Bubka's annual Pole Vault Stars indoor meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine.
• Samuels stars on final day in Hobart
  A national junior record in the shot put to Dani Samuels, highlighted day three of the Telstra Australian Under 20 and Under 23 Athletics Championships in Hobart today.
• Mottram set to motor in Harbour City
  Fresh from destroying his opposition and producing a new Australian 3000m indoor record in Boston two weeks ago, sports fans in the harbour city will have the opportunity to witness Craig ‘Buster’ Mottram in action this Saturday night at the Telstra A-Series – Australia’s premier athletics competition.
• 2007 R.W. Clarke Foundation Awards
  One of the world's greatest middle and long distance runners of the 1960s, Ron Clarke, set 21 world records (18 outdoors and three indoors) in races ranging from two miles to the one hour run in an amazing career.
• International stars the icing
  If I needed any extra motivation to purchase a ticket to the looming Telstra A-Series meets in Sydney or Melbourne or the Telstra Selection Trials in Brisbane next month, the knowledge of viewing quality competition has me sold.
• Athletics Australia has Marree in sights
  Marree is a small community situated approximately six hours' drive north of Adelaide.
• World's best high fliers to soar Down Under
  Sports fans in Melbourne and Brisbane are in for a treat in March when four of the world's best pole vaulters strut their stuff Down Under.
• The Cheetah Man sprinting on thin ice
  Ice and snow have slowed down one of the world's fastest men - Athens 200m Olympic champion Shawn Crawford.
• Vote for Brooke Billett
  Commonwealth Games gold medallist Brooke Billett has been nominated for the South Australian Sports Star of the Year award.
• Athletics Australia and Healthe join forces
  Athletics Australia and Healthe, the country's premier provider of online health and wellbeing services, are pleased to announce the creation of an exciting partnership that will benefit athletes at all levels - from elite through to recreational runners and walkers.
• Cheetah Man set to pounce on Johnson and Ross
  The fast-men have arrived in town and are ready to rumble with our homegrown talent at the Telstra A-Series in Sydney on Saturday night.
• Mottram ready to stand up for himself in Sydney
  Two-time World Cup champion Craig Mottram returns to the track in Australia for the first time since his ill-fated Commonwealth Games 1500m campaign, when he lines up over his favourite distance at the Telstra A-Series meeting in Sydney tomorrow night.
• Crawford prowls, Steffensen, Ross and Corrigan smile in Sydney
  An emphatic victory from John Steffensen in the 400m, a neck-to-neck tussle in the men's 100m between Shawn Crawford and Joshua Ross and classy performances from middle distance runners Lisa Corrigan and Craig 'Buster' Mottram highlighted the Sydney Telstra A-Series tonight.
• $250,000 up for grabs at Telstra A-Series in Melbourne
  Olympic champion Shawn Crawford, world champion Michelle Perry and Australian stars Craig Mottram, John Steffensen, Joshua Ross and Sarah Jamieson will compete for a total prize pool of a quarter of a million dollars when Australia's premier athletics meeting hits Melbourne's Olympic Park on Friday, 2 March.
• Deakes and Fearnley the best of the bunch
  Nathan Deakes was deemed the nation's best male athlete at the Australian Sports Awards in Melbourne last night. And in a double for Australian athletics, Kurt Fearnley was named Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability.
• Racing the Kenyans in Kenya
  Twenty Australian athletes have been handed the toughest assignment in world sport - taking on the Kenyans in Kenya.
• Don't miss all of the exciting Sydney Telstra A-Series highlights on SBS this Sunday afternoon
  Re-live all the exciting moments from the Telstra A-Series in Sydney on SBS this Sunday, 25 February from 4:00pm.
• Mottram will need to be on song in Melbourne
  Craig Mottram may be one of the world's premier distance runners, but he will face a real fight to win his fifth Australian title at Olympic Park next Friday.
• Athletes on the hunt for Vic Champs gold
  The Victorian Open & U20 Track & Field Championships, return to the home of Victorian athletics - Olympic Park, this weekend, where some of the state's best athletes hit out looking for the championship gold.
• Sally set to sizzle at Queensland Championships
  The fastest woman in the country, Sally McLellan, is set for some blistering times at the Queensland Championships at QSAC this weekend.
• To Gold Coast the victory
  It was a fitting end to the Queensland State Championships � the best event in three days of competition was the last � the mens 4x400m relay. It was classic interclub stuff, the lead changing hands several times on each leg and a former star anchoring his team to victory after making up almost ten metres in the last 200.
• Athletics Australia Under 19 Talent Squad announced
  Twenty-three talented young athletes across a range of event disciplines have been selected in Athletics Australia's inaugural Under 19 Talent Squad.
• Thrupp claims world record
  Darren Thrupp has become the latest Australian to set a new world record, breaking his previous mark in the long jump with a leap of 5.99m at the 2007 Queensland Open Championships.
• High fliers shoot for the stars in Melbourne
  The world's best high fliers have landed in Melbourne and are confident they can put on the best pole vault competition ever seen in Melbourne at the Telstra A-Series on Friday night.
• Fearnley to represent Australia at Laureus awards
  Wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley is the sole Australian nominated for the high-profile Laureus World Sports awards to be announced in Barcelona in April.
• Markov set to fly for final time in Melbourne
  The athletics world is paying tribute today to 2001 world pole vault champion Dmitri Markov, who has announced that he will retire after his last jump at the Telstra A-Series in Melbourne on Friday night.
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• Telstra A-Series Canberra action on SBS this Sunday
  Don't miss all the highlights from the Telstra A-Series Canberra on SBS this Sunday, February 4 from 4pm.
• There's more to see (and hear) at athletics.com.au
  Subscribers and visitors to athletics.com.au are strongly encouraged to enhance their experience through the media gallery that graces the homepage of the new-look website.
• Telstra A-Series returns to Sydney
  The Telstra A-Series returns to Sydney on Saturday for the first time since 2003.
• Rich booty up for grabs at Sydney Telstra A-Series
  Athletics Australia is pleased to announce that prize money will be awarded to athletes to a maximum value of $100,000 for the Telstra A-Series Sydney meet to be held at Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday, February 17, 2007.
• Melbourne record book tough to enter
  Last year it was the world's fastest human Asafa Powell, in 1993 the world's longest leaper Mike Powell and in 1996 Cathy Freeman broke barriers - we've seen Australian, Oceania, Commonwealth and world records at Australia's premier athletics meeting.
• Crawford to run his heart out in Melbourne
  Olympic champion Shawn Crawford has arrived in Melbourne and is ready to race his heart out in the Peter Norman Memorial 200m at the Telstra A-Series at Olympic Park on Friday week.
• NYRR donates $10,000 to Paul Crake Appeal
  New York Road Runners today announced the donation of $10,000 to the Australian Cycling Federation Support Paul Crake Appeal in honor of five-time NYRR Empire State Building Run-Up champion and current record-holder Paul Crake.
• NYRR donate $10,000 towards Paul Crake recovery fund
  New York Road Runners today announced the donation of $10,000 to the 'Australian Cycling Federation Support Paul Crake Appeal' in honour of five-time NYRR Empire State Building Run-Up champion and current record-holder Paul Crake.
• Australian runners offered spot to run infamous New York Marathon for charity
  Running enthusiasts are being offered the opportunity of a lifetime to run the highly coveted ING New York Marathon while raising funds for charity.
• Past, present and future gather at Falls
  The National Junior Distance Camp held at Falls Creek in early January brought together the past, present and future stars of distance running.