July 

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• Jana returns
  After nine months on the sidelines, reigning world champion Jana Rawlinson made her much anticipated return to the track last night, finishing second in the 400m hurdles at the European Athletics Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• Talented paralympic team off to Beijing
  An array of reigning Paralympic and World champions headline a formidable Australian Athletics team unveiled today by the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC).
• Future Champions board for Bydgoszcz
  With variable winds, but sunny Queensland conditions, there were some solid performances as the cream of Australia's under 20 athletes finalised their preparations for one of the biggest events of their lives.
• Record numbers line up for the 30th Gold Coast Airport Marathon
  A REASONABLY unfancied Japanese runner and a 37-year-old mother from New Zealand took the men's and women's spoils at the 30th annual Gold Coast Airport Marathon which drew a record number of 21,001 people today.
• Dreaming, Believing and Achieving: Juniors Set for Poland
  The 28-strong Australian team for the World Junior Championships have settled well in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz after being amongst the first to arrive out of the record 183 nations which will contest the championships.
• Vicky Parnov: taking it in her stride
  For an athlete who has achieved so much in such little time, attending media conferences with the elite of the sport is just another day at the office for Vicky Parnov.
• Juniors open with style
  The Australian team has made a promising start to the world junior championships, with four of the six athletes in action during the morning session progressing through to the next round of their event.
• Junior's impressive at end of day one
  A flawless performance from Western Australia's Zoe Timmers was the highlight of the evening session of the first day of the world junior championships.
• Rothwell fourth with new Australian under-20 record
  Despite its simplicity, or perhaps because of it, athletics can be an unpredictable sport. So a day like the Australian team enjoyed today at the world junior championships is one which most team manager fantasise about, where little, if anything went wrong for the athletes in action.
• Shattered Jana out of Games
  Two-time world 400m hurdles champion Jana Rawlinson has withdrawn from the Beijing Olympic Games after succumbing to her chronic injuries.
• Personal bests and top eight finishes deliver dual Australia Junior Records
  Athletics is often highlighted for being a purely individual sport. However, anyone who saw the Australian world junior team in action on day three would be fair to disagree, with a lively atmosphere created by rallying team members, their coaches and supportive parents lifting five athletes into top eight finishes in their events.
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• String of strong performances in Rome
  Australian athletes produced a string of promising performances at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Rome, Italy overnight.
• Peacock shows his colours
  Tasmania's Hamish Peacock reinforced his status as a 'big time performer' in an enthralling javelin final at the world junior championships.
• Junior relay team through to final
  Today was the quietest day so far for the Australian team at the world junior championships, with only the men's and women's 4x400m relay teams in action. The women's team of Brittney McGlone, Trychelle Kingdom, Olivia Tauro and Angeline Blackburn qualified second fastest for tomorrow's final with a run of 3:35.22 in their heat.
• Relay team wins bronze
  They may have had to wait until the second last event on the program, but Australia has won its first medal at the 12th edition of the world junior championships thanks to a brilliant run from the women's 4x400m relay team.
• Hooker and Jamieson impress
  Following on from the string of promising Australian performances at the Rome Golden League on Friday night, Sarah Jamieson and Steve Hooker continued the theme, producing strong results over the weekend.
• Lachlan Renshaw: 1:45 800m runner, Olympian and Australian Champion
  At this year's World Athletics Tour meet in Melbourne a bomb was dropped by twenty year old Sydney-sider, Lachlan Renshaw. Renshaw won the 800m race in emphatic fashion in a time of 1:45.79. The time was a huge personal best and more importantly, an Olympic A qualifier.
• Lapierre leaps on to Olympic team
  Long jumper Fabrice Lapierre will be nominated to the Australian Olympic Committee for selection into the 2008 Australian Olympic team, after successfully appealing his omission from Australia’s track and field team.
• Super Sally smashes Australian record
  Australian hurdler Sally McLellan has smashed her own Australian and Oceania record in Luzern, Switzerland overnight, in a stunning display that saw her named athlete of the meet, and awarded a one carat diamond worth US$10,000.
• Riseley selected for Beijing
  The AOC Selection Committee has added 21-year-old 1500 metre runner Jeff Riseley to the 2008 Australian Olympic Team.
• Hooker no longer flying under the radar
  Steve Hooker has become accustom to flying under the radar.Not tonight in Paris, when Hooker was the standout Australian performer, taking another leap closer to achieving his Olympic ambitions by winning the pole vault at the Meeting Gaz de France, the Paris leg of the IAAF Golden League.
• Nathan Deakes out of Beijing Games
  World 50km walk champion Nathan Deakes is out of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Deakes, who has battled chronic hamstring problems for the majority of the past four years, suffered a reoccurrence of the injury at his training base in St Moritz, Switzerland, last week.
• 2008 DN Galan Preview
  Eight Australian athletes will get a taste of Olympic history tonight, during the DN Galan, IAAF Super Grand Prix in Sweden. The venue for tonights World Athletics Tour meeting, is that of the 1912 Olympic stadium in Stockholm.
• Mottram motors to Stockholm win
  Craig Mottram has scored an impressive win over 3000m at the IAAF World Tour event in Stockholm, Sweden, overnight.
• Athletics International
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• London Calling for Important Clashes
  Nine of Australia's athletics team for Beijing will take to the track in London, for the next edition of the World Athletics Tour this weekend.
• Mottram sharpens up for Games
  Craig Mottram has sharpened up his preparations for next month�s Beijing Olympics by racing over the mile at the London Grand Prix at Crystal Place. Mottram finished fourth in a slowly run race that wasn�t suited to the lanky Australian.
• Steve and Sally close seconds in London
  Steve Hooker and Sally McLellan have confirmed they remain on track to produce their best at the Olympic Games with both recording the second best performances of their careers to finish a close second in their respective events at the London Grand Prix meet at Crystal Palace.
• Sally lowers Australian and Oceania record in Monaco
  Gold Coast hurdler Sally McLellan has broken her own Australian record for the second time in two weeks, clocking a slashing time of 12.53 to finish second at the IAAF World Tour in Monaco.
• Beijing 2008 - Field of Dreams
  Next week, the Australian athletics team will step onto the biggest stage in the world; the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China.
• Gold Coast Airport Marathon eclipses 20,000 in on its 30th birthday
  The 2008 Gold Coast Airport Marathon celebrated its 30th year with record numbers, great elite racing, jubilant finishers of all ages and abilities, plenty of colour and crowds, and some amazing stories.
• Are you 'bourne to run?
  The starting gun for the 31st edition of the Samsung Melbourne Marathon will sound off on Sunday 12 October – is this date circled in your diary?
• Beijing Bound, via Launceston
  Two members of the Beijing Olympic squad will this weekend have their final race before departing for Beijing.
• World's Greatest set for Great Australian Run
  In a major boost to athletics in Australia, the man regarded as the greatest distance runner of all time, Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie will take on our own number one, Craig Mottram on the streets of Melbourne this November.
• Athletics for the Outback go bare foot in Normanton
  Athletics for the Outback, in its fourth consecutive year, returned to Far North Queensland to continue athletics education in the region.
• Lapierre on track for Berlin
  National long jump champion Fabrice Lapierre has continued his impressive form leading into the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in August with another win at the Athens Grand Prix overnight.