10.02.2010

Tickets selling fast: Sydney, Melbourne now on sale

After a stunning start to the 2010 Australian Athletics Tour all eyes will soon turn to Sydney and Melbourne for the marquee rounds of the domestic series, where a raft of international challengers will head down under to take on Australia's top track and field talent.

With dual Beijing Olympics medalist David Neville (USA, 400m), 800m gun David Rudisha (KEN, 400m/800m) and Olympic and world championships long jump representative and 2008 national indoor champion Trevell Quinley (USA, long jump) already named as starters for the Sydney and Melbourne Track Classics, the stage is set for two fast and furious nights of track and field action this summer.

And it's not just the international contenders who will be turning up the heat this season. 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 meet 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!

With a win at the Brisbane Athletics Classic on Saturday night already under her belt, Samuels enters the domestic season in the same scintillating form that took her all the way to a world title in Berlin last August and with added incentive to fire in her own backyard.  

The 21-year-old Sydneysider and youngest world discus champion of all time was recently announced as an ambassador for the Go Research Fund, joining racing identity Gai Waterhouse in aiming to raise awareness of ovarian cancer and funding research into gynaecological oncology.
 
Throughout the 2010 Australian Athletics Tour one of Samuels' key sponsors, Painaway, will donate $100 every time the world title-holder throws over 62m, setting up what should be some big performances in the field from the New South Wales powerhouse. 
 
“I'm very determined to make this year my best yet as I strive towards the Commonwealth Games and the London Olympics in 2012, " Samuels said this week.

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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