19.02.2010

One week to go: Sydney tickets selling fast

With just one week to go before some of the biggest names in track and field hit town for the 2010 Sydney Track Classic, it's time for all athletics fans to get behind their favourite athletes along the road to Delhi and get their tickets to the hottest show in town.

With dual Beijing Olympics medallist David Neville (USA, 400m), 800m gun David Rudisha (KEN, 400m/800m), Olympic, world championships long jump representative and 2008 national indoor champion Trevell Quinley (USA, long jump) and former world champion and Olympic medallist Tero Pitkamaki (FIN, javelin throw) already named as starters for both the Sydney and Melbourne (Thursday, March 4) Track Classics, the action is set to be fast and furious Down Under this summer.

And it's not just the international contenders who will be turning up the heat. Headlining an all-star line-up of local talent will be Australia's very own world champions Steve Hooker (pole vault) and Dani Samuels (discus throw) and their Australian Flame teammates Mitchell Watt (long jump), Jared Tallent (walks), Sean Wroe (400m), Ben Offereins (400m) and the nation's top hopes for Commonwealth Games glory in New Delhi, India, in October.  

What's more, tickets to the Sydney Track Classic on Saturday, February 27 and the IAAF-sanctioned Melbourne meet on Thursday, March 4 are now on sale. Premium seats at the Sydney and Melbourne stopovers of the Australian Athletics Tour are selling fast so get in quick - click here to book your seats to the hottest show in town today!

Three rounds of action on the Australian Athletics Tour in Canberra, Brisbane and Hobart have so far turned up a host of outstanding results and the action will only get bigger and better when the marquee rounds of the domestic series get under way.

Eight athletes have posted A-qualifying times on tour already this season, with Australian Flame representatives Mitchell Watt (long jump), Ben Offereins (400m), Dani Samuels (disucs throw), Collis Birmingham (5000m), Ryan Gregson (1500m) and Petrina Price (high jump) joined by Dale Stevenson (shot put) and Liam Zamel-Paez in staking a claim for Commonwealth Games selection.

With over 90 athletes expected to earn a call-up to the Delhi squad, look out for some big performances when the Australia Athletics Tour rolls into Sydney next weekend and on to Melbourne next month.

After its best ever performance at a world championships in Berlin in 2009, the Australian team will be one to watch in New Delhi this October but our top track and field athletes need your help to get there. Get down to Sydney Olympic Park on February 27 or Melbourne Olympic Park on March 4 and show your support as we count down to Delhi - tickets now on sale, see you there!

Sydney Track Classic: Sydney Olympic Park - Saturday, February 27
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Melbourne Track Classic: Melbourne Olympic Park - Thursday, March 4
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