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• Athletics the ONE this weekend
  As he did at the IAAF Melbourne Track Classic, Kenyan superstar David Rudisha will tonight steal the show on One HD as highlights from the final meet of the Australian Athletics Tour are televised on the all-sports network from 6:30pm.
• Fifty-one on track for future glory
  Fifty-one of the nation's most promising junior athletes have been named to Athletics Australia's Under 17 Development Squad for 2010.
• Burbidge smokes the field at Stawell
  Canberra sprinter Tom Burbidge has won the 2010 Australia Post Stawell Gift in emphatic style at Central Park this Easter long weekend. Starting off 8.75m, the 25-year-old dominated the race from the gun, quickly gathering in his frontmarkers for an impressive victory in 12.01 seconds.
• Athletics Australia CEO to depart track and field on a high
  Athletics Australia President Rob Fildes has today announced he has accepted the resignation of CEO Danny Corcoran from his role as the head of track and field in Australia following almost six years of service to the sport.
• Adams to lead world university charge
  Eleven athletes will this weekend take on the world's best off-road student runners at the 17th World University Cross Country Championships in Kingston, Canada.
• One week to go: Perth gets set for national titles
  With just seven days to go until the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials kick off in Perth, the eyes of the athletics community are now fully fixed on the three days of blistering track and field action in store from Friday, April 16.
• Green, gold and silver in Kingston
  Australia's Liam Adams has collected a second consecutive silver medal at the World University Cross Country Championships in Kingston, Canada, overnight, joining the Australian women's team in taking home a share of the silverware from the worldwide meet.
• Place your bets: Join the national championships tipping race today!
  How well do you know your athletics? Can you pick a winner? Prove it! Join the Australian Athletics Championships tipping competition today!
• Boldon races to Perth for national titles
  Four-time Olympian and five-time world championships representative Ato Boldon (TRI) arrived in Australia last week, hosting an athletics forum and clinic alongside Nova Batman in Melbourne before heading west for this week's Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials.
• Stage set for 88th Australian championships
  Five hundred and ninety-eight of Australia's top track and field athletes are today just 24 hours away from launching their bid for Commonwealth Games selection at the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials in Perth, Western Australia.
• Hooker 'on track' for title attempt
  On the eve of the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials, reigning Commonwealth, Olympic, world and world indoor champion Steve Hooker has declared himself all set to see just what he can do at the all-new Western Australian Athletics Stadium this Sunday.
• Disciplinary action determined
  A Disciplinary Tribunal was convened on Monday April 12, 2010 to hear the matter of Gary Finegan. As a result of the hearing, Mr Finegan has been suspended from competition in any Athletics Australia event for a period of six weeks from March 23, 2010. This suspension will lapse on May 4, 2010. He will be eligible to compete again on May 5, 2010.
• Steffensen gets early jump on one-lap wonders in Perth
  The stage is set for a blockbuster night of action at the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials tomorrow, with world championships bronze medal-winning 4x400m relay teammates John Steffensen, Ben Offereins, Sean Wroe and Joel Milburn all moving through today's qualifying rounds to set up a stellar showdown at the all-new Western Australian Athletics Stadium in Perth.
• Offereins on fire, Steff storms to silver in Perth
  Local favourite and in-form athlete of the season Ben Offereins has tonight taken out the battle of the 400m runners at the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials in Perth, securing his berth on the team bound for New Delhi, India, in October alongside reigning Commonwealth champion and national championships silver medallist John Steffensen.
• Leaping Lapierre steals the show in Perth
  World indoor long jump champion Fabrice Lapierre has jumped a massive 8.78m (w:3.1) to successfully defend his national long jump crown and headline the action on the third and final day of the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials in Perth.
• Hooker, Samuels crowned 2009/10 Athletes of the Year
  World champions Steve Hooker and Dani Samuels have tonight capped their outstanding years in track and field by being named Athletics Australia's Male and Female Athletes of the Year at the annual awards gala at the Rendezvous Observation City Hotel in Perth.
• Sixty-nine set for Commonwealth Games glory
  The Australian Commonwealth Games Association has today accepted the first round of nominations to the Australian athletics team bound for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, as submitted by Athletics Australia.
• Scott Dawson triumphs convincingly in tipping competition
  In the first athletics competition of its kind in Australia, Monash University student Scott Dawson (Vic) has topped the Australian Athletics Championships tipping leaderboard, finishing a convincing five points clear of his nearest rival.
• Track and field action rolls on
  Following the conclusion of the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials in Perth at the weekend and the end of the 2009/10 domestic season, the track and field action now moves offshore as the nation's top athletes continue the countdown to the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, in October.
• Gutsy Aussies test their mettle
  Australia's men's distance medley relay has placed fifth at the prestigious Penn Relay Carnival in Pennsylvania (USA) at the weekend despite serious injuries to two of its star athletes mid-race.
• Fearnley fifth in London
  Australian wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley has finished fifth in the 2010 London Marathon.
• New name, same super Sally
  Olympic 100m hurdles silver medallist and three-time world championships representative Sally McLellan has made a return to the track following her recent nuptials with an all-new name but having lost none of the talent and determination that saw the track sensation all the way to the dais at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
• Tucker on target for Great Ocean Road challenge
  Australian Flame representative and Geelong local Mark Tucker will embark on one of the most challenging assignments of his career when he tackles the Great Ocean Road International Marathon on Sunday, May 15.
• Sprint queen Breen in a hurry in Hiroshima
  Sprint queen Melissa Breen has kicked off her 2010 international campaign in style, clocking her fastest legal time over 100m ever recorded outside of Canberra at the Oda Memorial meet in Hiroshima, Japan, yesterday afternoon.
• Run Jump Throw to launch this weekend
  Athletics Australia will this weekend head to Canberra to launch the Beginning Coach program, part of the newly-developed Athletics Coach Accreditation Framework, to 40 coach education presenters and assessors from around the country.
• Relive the athletics action this weekend
  Don't miss your chance to relive Fabrice Lapierre's unbelievable 8.78m wind-assisted jump and all the highlights of the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials at 1:30pm this Sunday on Network Ten (AEST).