November 

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• Exciting races set for NSW 3000m championships
  Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre's warm-up track is set for exciting races this Saturday with the staging of the NSW 3000m championships at the conclusion of round five of the Kings Track & Field Club Premiership.
• Roff and Delaney victorious at NSW 3000m titles
  Jeremy Roff and Bridey Delaney have taken out the 2008 NSW 3000m titles in personal best times.
• Breen blitzes
  Eighteen-year-old Melissa Breen (ACT) has run the fastest Australian 100m time of 2008, clocking 11.33sec (+1.9) at an inter-club meet in Canberra on the weekend.
• On Target for London 2012
  Twenty-two of Australia's most talented young athletes have been selected in Athletics Australia's inaugural Target 2012 squad which was launched in Melbourne late last week.
• Famous five inducted into Hall of Fame
  World marathon champion Robert De Castella and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Debbie Flintoff-King are amongst five of Australia's greatest athletes inducted into Athletics Australia's prestigious Hall of Fame.
• Athletics Australia announces season funding
  For the 2009 domestic season Athletics Australia has again committed funds in the vicinity of $150,000 to ensure athletes can travel and attend a wide range of athletics competitions nation wide.
• CGF releases medal events programme for Delhi 2010
  The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has officially released the Para-Sports Medal Events Programme for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games following consultation with the International Paralympic Committee.
• Fearnley makes it three in a row in New York
  Australian Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley has won his third straight New York Marathon.
• Corrigan dominates Bank of Queensland 1500m Classic
  On a night when the UQ Athletic Centre celebrated ten years of achievements, the fifth annual Bank of Queensland 1500 metres meet was conducted.
• Last chance to vote for your Athletics Star of the Year
  Voting for the most prestigious sports award in Australia - the Sports Performer of the Year - will close this Friday 21 November. Submit your vote now to go in the draw to win $5,000.
• National champion set for Ron Clarke Classic
  Current National 100m champion Otis Gowa from Queensland will be headlining the sprinters in the 4th edition of the Ron Clarke Classic to be held this Saturday at John Landy Field.
• Bolt and Isinbayeva are World Athletes of the Year
  During the celebrations of the World Athletics Gala hosted by International Athletic Foundation (IAF) Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and IAF & IAAF President Lamine Diack in the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d�Eté Monte Carlo, 22-year-old Jamaican Usain Bolt and Russia�s 26-year-old Yelena Isinbayeva were crowned as the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year 2008.
• Aussies fifth in Chiba Ekiden
  The Australian team of Ben St Lawrence (NSW), Melinda Vernon (NSW), Shawn Forrest (VIC), Tara Palm (SA), Tim Rowe (NSW) and Lara Tamsett (NSW) has recorded a fine fifth place finish in the 2008 edition of the Chiba Ekiden Relay in Japan.
• Gowa storms to victory
  Horrendous weather conditions didn't stop reigning national 100m champion Otis Gowa from reigning supreme at the 2008 Ron Clarke Classic in Geelong on Saturday afternoon, as he stormed to an easy victory in the blue-riband event.
• World's greatest set for HBA Great Australian Run
  The man regarded as the greatest distance runner of all time, Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie comes to the streets of Melbourne on a dual mission this Sunday - to take on our own number one, Craig Mottram, whilst attempting to break the 15km world record, he has already once been denied.
• Australian Youth Olympic Festival begins count down
  The fifth Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) promises to be the biggest and best yet, with more sports, more competing countries and more aspiring Olympians than ever before.
• Distance Queen jets into Melbourne for Great Run
  Reigning world champion Catherine Ndereba, the second fastest marathon woman of all-time, has arrived in Melbourne for Sunday's HBA Great Australian Run.
• Gebrselassie eyeing fast race in HBA Great Australian Run
  The athletic career of the man regarded as the best distance runner of all time, Haile Gebrselassie is a long way short of coming to a conclusion - and the source is an impeccable one, the great man himself.
• The Emperor reigns in Melbourne
  World marathon record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia and reigning world marathon champion Catherine Ndereba of Kenya dominated the inaugural HBA Great Australian Run in Melbourne this morning.
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• Birmingham ends Dents reign, Tamsett defends Bolt title
  Olympic 5km representative Collis Birmingham finally ended a three-year dominance of the Asics Bolt by Martin Dent in near record time to claim his first Asics Bolt title, while Sydney youngster Lara Tamsett upstaged Australia's best in Benita Johnson to successfully defend her title.
• World Record Holder v Commonwealth Champion v World Champ v Weekend Warrior
  In what has quickly become the best quality road race ever staged in Australia outside of the Sydney Olympics, the men’s field for the HBA Great Australian Run will feature the world marathon record holder, the world marathon champion and now the reigning Commonwealth Games marathon champion, after it was announced that Tanzanian Samson Ramadhani will toe the start line on Sunday 30 November.
• Indigenous athletes take to the track in Newcastle
  The 2008 New South Wales Indigenous Championships took place last Friday and Saturday at the Hunter Sports Centre in Newcastle.
• Junior talent set to unleash at Pacific School Games
  More than 2600 athletes aged between 10 and 19 from 15 nations will converge on the AIS athletics field in Canberra this week, for promises to be one of the largest and most exciting youth athletics events ever to be held in Australia, the 2008 Pacific School Games.