September 

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• Alf Robinson Memorial Race Walking Foundation Winners - 2008
  The winners of the 2008 Alf Robinson Memorial Race Walking Foundation for 2008 are Melissa Hayes (NSW) and Brendon Reading (ACT)
• Australian Youth Olympic Festival - Team Management application
  2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival Applications for Team Managers and Team Coaches
• Talent hunt for London 2012 goes online
  With competition from other nations increasing, the Australian Sports Commission has developed a world first online electronic talent identification program (better known as eTID), designed to uncover talented hopefuls from every corner of the nation.
• Paralympians set to soar at bird's nest
  Australia is staking its hopes for a Paralympics gold medal haul in athletics on a combination of youth and experience.
• Wolf blows them away at the Bird's Nest
  Canberra's Christine Wolf has stunned herself and her opponents to win gold in the women's long jump with a leap of 3.73 metres on day one of the athletics competition at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
• Francis conquers in world record time
  Newcastle's Heath Francis streaked to victory in a world record time of 21.74 at the Bird's Nest in Beijing tonight, claiming gold in the T46 200m.
• Indigenous honours for Angeline
  18 year old Angeline Blackburn has just returned from Bydgoszcz, Poland where she competed as a member of the Australian team in the 12th IAAF World Junior Athletics Championship.
• Lapierre wins in Zagreb with 8.14m leap
  With an impressive leap of 8.14m (+0.1), Queenslander Fabrice Lapierre blitzed the field in the men's long jump at the IAAF World Athletics Tour meet in Zagreb, Croatia on Tuesday night.
• Deadly Harradine
  Australian discus thrower Benn Harradine has been nominated for male sportsperson of the year at the 2008 Deadly Awards � the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, sport, entertainment and community awards.
• Fearnley settles for silver in upset
  In an upset at the Bird's Nest, Kurt Fearnley has been beaten for gold in one of his favourite events, the 5000m, on day five of the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
• Vale David Fitzsimons
  It is with great sadness that Athletics Australia and the athletics community acknowledges the passing of David Fitzsimons, one of Australia's great athletes.
• Golden day at the nest
  In a golden day at the track,Australia won two Paralympic gold medals in less than 10 minutes and followed up with another for Heath Francis.
• Sally wraps up season in Stuttgart
  Olympic silver medallist Sally McLellan has finished a long season with seventh place in the 100m hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany.
• Silver, bronze and a second chance at gold
  Another interesting day at the nest saw Australian’s Richard Coleman and Christine Wolf take hard fought silver and bronze medals respectively. Followed by the news that Aaron Chatman will compete in the high jump after recovering from a bout of the chicken pox and that champion Kurt Fearnley’s protest after taking silver in the 800m wheelchair event had been upheld giving him the chance to go for gold, finished day 7 in style.
• Lapierre leaps to World Athletics Final victory
  Sydney long jumper Fabrice Lapierre has scored the biggest win of his career with a stunning upset at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany overnight.
• Triple gold for Francis
  Heath Francis claimed his third gold medal of the Paralympic Games in the mens' amputee class 100m sprint.
• Final chance for unlucky Fearnley
  In Sydney, he won silver medals in the 800m and 4x100m relay. At the Paralympic Games in Athens he won gold in the 5000m and then pushed the last 5km of the marathon with a flat tyre to claim a second gold medal.
• Gold for Aussies in relay an historic affair
  Sprinter Tim Sullivan has made Australian Paralympic history after winning his 10th gold medal in the men's 4x100m cerebral palsy class relay in Beijing.
• Fate at last shines brightly for marathon man Kurt
  On the last day, in the last event of the Beijing Paralympics, luck changed for wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley when he clinched the sweetest prize of them all - gold in the wheelchair marathon, mirroring his feat from four years ago in Athens.
• Your opportunity to congratulate Steve and Sally
  The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games produced an abundance of memorable moments, none better than our own Steve Hooker sailing over the bar to win Australia's first nail-biting pole vault gold medal, and the dramatic 100m hurdles final, where an ecstatic Sally McLellan jumped for joy after her seeing her name alongside the silver medal.
• Athletics changes lane
  As part of a post Beijing review and long term strategic planning in conjunction with the Australian Sports Commission and other key stakeholders, Athletics Australia will focus on direct support to athletes, coaches, and Institute based national programs, and move away from funding State sports institutes and academies who are not aligned to the sport's national approach.
• Tallent search continues in Spain
  Can 2008 get any better for Jared Tallent? A massive 20km PB at the National Championships set the scene for his first major international victory in Beijing in May, followed by his two sensational medals at the Olympic Games. His post-Games nuptials to fellow walker Claire Woods in Adelaide capped off an amazing eight month period.
• $30,000 prize tops off Tallent's terrific year
  Dual Olympic medallist Jared Tallent has capped off a sensational 2008 season by winning the IAAF Race Walking Challenge, and a valuable US$30,000 pay cheque in Murcia, Spain overnight.
• Next stop Melbourne for Gebrselassie
  Gebrselassie breaks marathon world record in Berlin - Next stop Melbourne for the HBA Great Australian Run
• Tucker smiles all the way to Rio
  Mark Tucker has been added to the team to represent Australia in the upcoming IAAF/CAIXA World Half Marathon Championships
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• HBA joins the world's best for the first-ever Great Australian Run
  HBA, part of Australia's leading health and care company, Bupa Australia, is lacing up the runners as the premier sponsor of the inaugural 15 kilometre Great Australian Run, to be held in Melbourne on 30 November 2008.
• Maritim claims fourth Sydney Marathon title
  Kenya's Julius Maritim has won the 2008 Blackmores Marathon for the fourth year in a row with a time of 02:19:01. On a hot Sydney morning, Maratim led from the beginning and finished five minutes ahead of his countryman Benson Mbithi (2:24:10), while Sydney runner Jeremey Horne finished third with a time of 2:33:17.
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