March 

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• World Athletics Tour opens in Melbourne tonight
  The 2007 World Athletics Tour opens in Melbourne tonight with a stellar cast of the world's top athletes led by Olympic champion Shawn Crawford and Australian stars Craig Mottram and John Steffensen.
• Mottram busts a move, Crawford reigns and Hooker soars
  The World Athletics Tour opened in Melbourne tonight, with world class performances befitting the 20th anniversary of Australia's premier athletics meeting.
• Fearnley takes LA
  Australian wheelchair racing champion Kurt Fearnley has continued his amazing form with a stellar win in the Los Angeles Marathon.
• Burning up the track in Brisbane
  World Championships selection, national titles and pride are on the line in Brisbane this weekend, as Australia's best athletes tackle the 85th Australian Championships which also double as the Telstra Selection Trials for this year's world championships in Osaka, Japan.
• World records highlight day two of ACT Vets Championships
  World record breaking performances by Aaron Chatman and Evan O'Hanlon highlighted day two of the ACT Athletics and ACT Veterans Club Track and Field Championships.
• John Steffensen out of Telstra Australian Championships
  Commonwealth 400m champion John Steffensen has withdrawn from the Telstra Selection Trials & 85th Australian Championships starting today with a hamstring injury.
• Riseley, Bromley and Abdi to tackle Mayoral Mile in New Zealand
  Last year in an epic Mayoral Mile battle in New Zealand, Commonwealth Games 1500m champion Nick Willis defeated our very own Craig Mottram in a track record of 3:52.7 eclipsing the time of New Zealand's favourite son, the great Olympic champion Peter Snell.
• Fearnley conquers Rome
  Australian Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley has continued his amazing run of form with a victory in the Rome Marathon overnight.
• Vote for Tatiana
  Recently-retired pole vault champion Tatiana Grigorieva is currently testing her mettle on the dance-floor through Channel Seven’s Dancing with the Stars.
• Australian athletes land in Kenya
  Team Australia has arrived safely in Kenya ahead of Saturday's anticipated IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
• Aussies in walk action in China
  The second leg of the 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge is set for this weekend (24 / 25 March) in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
• Countdown to Mombasa
  Attracting the finest endurance runners from around the world, the IAAF World Cross Country Championships which are set to be contested this Saturday (24 March) in Mombasa, Kenya, will showcase a brutally tough competition - the extremely high temperatures and humidity will test even the most super-human of athletes.
• Brisbane supported by athletics greats in Mombasa
  With just over 24 hours to the final presentation for the right to host the 2011 or 2013 IAAF World Championships, Brisbane has wheeled out the big guns in Mombasa, Kenya, to demonstrate to the assembled International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council Members and senior executives in the sport that they will make the perfect host city. Brisbane is bidding for either 2011 or 2013. The decision is made on Tuesday, 27 March.
• Adams and Tallent top eight in China
  Osaka-bound walkers Luke Adam and Jared Tallent have produced excellent results to finish in the top eight at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Shenzen, China.
• Stars of the future on show in Ostrava
  The cream of the nation's talented young athletes have been selected in the Australian team to compete at the 5th IAAF World Youth Championships to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic from July 11-15, 2007.
• Daegu and Moscow to host IAAF World Championships
  Athletics Australia congratulates Daegu, Korea on winning the right to host the 13th edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics to be staged in 2011. It was also announced tonight that Moscow, Russia will host the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Athletics.
• Mombasa joy for Eritrea and Holland, defeat for Bekele
  The reigning IAAF World Road Running champions Zersenay Tadesse (ERI) and Lornah Kiplagat (NED) took the senior titles at the World Cross Country Championship titles in Mombasa, Kenya on Saturday.
• Benita's final hit-out before London
  2004 World Cross Country champion Benita Johnson will compete in her final lead-up race this weekend before she tackles the Flora London Marathon on April 22.
• 'Budgie' flies to the top
  The recently-released IAAF world rankings have confirmed pole vault star Paul Burgess as Australia’s highest ranked athlete and No. 1 in the world in his discipline.
• Head-to-head clashes bolster Telstra Selection Trials
  After sensational Telstra A-Series meetings in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne that have introduced new stars and confirmed the status of some established names, the focus of the Australian athletics world now moves to Brisbane where the coveted title of Australian champion will be bestowed on event winners beginning Friday night.
• Brisbane to come alive through athletics.com.au
  Every inch of this weekend's Telstra Selection Trials & 85th Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane will be covered by athletics.com.au
• Who's the boss?
  Spectators at the Telstra Selection Trials & 85th Australian Championships in Brisbane on Saturday night literally witnessed history thanks to a man athletics circles call 'The Boss'.
• SBS brings you the Australian Championships
  Highlights of an action-packed three days at the Telstra Selection Trials & 85th Australian Championships in Brisbane will be televised on SBS this Sunday, March 18 from 4pm.
• Field finals to provide fine fare in Brisbane
  World No.1 pole vaulter Steve Hooker might be ranked as the best on the planet, but he is yet to win the Australian title - something he hopes to address this weekend in a sensational line-up of field event finals at the Telstra Selection Trials and 85th Australian Championships in Brisbane.
• Dramatic steeple closes day one of Telstra Australian Championships
  The Telstra Selection Trials and 85th Australian Championships kicked off in Brisbane today highlighted by a dramatic fall in the men's 3000m steeplechase and a return to form for Patrick Johnson in the 100m heats.
• Ross wins in a 'heartbeat' in Brisbane
  The Telstra Selection Trials and 85th Australian Championships continued in Brisbane today with a sensational night of athletics highlighted by the fastest 100 metres ever run by an Australian in Australia.
• Seasons of change for Australian athletics
  Buzz is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days in sporting circles in Australia.
• Rawlinson and Mottram head 40-strong squad for Osaka
  Athletics Australia today named a squad of 40 athletes to participate in the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics to be held in Osaka, Japan in August 2007.
• Triple double and a new Australian record
  The Telstra Selection Trials and 85th Australian Championships concluded in Brisbane today with a new Australian record and three athletes winning doubles.
• Strong Stawell field named
  Nigerian Anthony Alozie and American John Woods are the backmarkers for the 2007 Australia Post Stawell Gift following the release of the handicaps for the 126th edition of Australia�s richest footrace.
• Kealey third in Mayoral Mile
  Queenslander Mitch Kealey has finished third in New Zealand’s Mayoral Mile, the best performing Australian in the race ahead of Youcef Abdi, Jeff Riseley and Nick Bromley.