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  • Offereins, Boden take victory in Shizuoka
    National 400m champion Ben Offereins and national 400m hurdles title-holder Lauren Boden have continued their stellar starts to 2010 with wins at the Shizuoka International track and field meet in Japan.
  • Hooker looks to all-new Diamond League
    As an IAAF Diamond League Ambassador, Steve Hooker knows he will be the man to beat in men's pole vault this season - his results in the past two years give him that status anyway. But he doesn't mind the extra attention.
  • Let the countdown begin
    New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex will be abuzz with excitement 150 days from now, as the countdown to the Commonwealth Games hits yet another important milestone today.
  • Samuels to launch into international action
    World discus champion Dani Samuels will this weekend step out at her first major overseas meet of the year as she embarks on an international campaign that will take her all the way to the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, in October.
  • Samuels seals victory in Osaka
    World discus champion Dani Samuels has kicked off her 2010 international campaign in dominant form ahead of Friday night's inaugural IAAF Diamond League meet in Doha (QAT), setting a new meet record to take victory at the IAAF Osaka Grand Prix meet in Japan.
  • Hooker gets set for Diamond duel
    On the eve of the all-new IAAF Diamond League, Australian Flame captain Steve Hooker looks ahead to his duel with French rival Renaud Lavillenie.
  • Boden for glory
    Lauren Boden may not yet be a household name but if her 400m hurdles form continues as it has in recent months, she might soon be as well known as the company she keeps on the Australian all-time list.
  • Athletics the winner at Australian University Sport Awards
    Athletics has stolen the show at the 2010 Australian University Sport Awards, with three of Australia's top track and field athletes scooping all three major awards up for grabs.
  • Samuels set for Diamond debut
    World discus champion Dani Samuels will tomorrow night line up in the first round of the all-new IAAF Diamond League series in Doha, Qatar, as she steps up her preparations for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, in October.
  • Australia's got Tallent in Chihuahua
    Dual Olympic medallist Jared Tallent will this weekend lead the nation's top race walkers into battle against international challengers from around the globe at the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico.
  • Samuels second in Diamond debut
    World discus champion Dani Samuels has made a solid start to the world's premier international athletics series with a podium finish at the inaugural IAAF Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar, overnight.
  • Tallent takes bronze on dog day in Chihuahua
    Dual Olympic medallist Jared Tallent has battled tough conditions to place third at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico, overnight.
  • Aussie walkers wrap up Cup campaign
    Australia's top race walkers have wrapped up their 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup campaign with two further top-20 places on the second and final day of action in Chihuahua, Mexico, overnight.
  • Canberra overrun by Under 17 squad
    Canberra was overrun by some of Australia's brightest track and field stars at the weekend, with 51 athletes descending on the nation's capital for a three-day camp as part of the Athletics Australia Under 17 Development Squad program.
  • Great eight set for South Korean showdown
    Eight of the nation's top emerging track and field talents will fly the flag for Australia at tonight's Daegu athletics meet in South Korea, as the battle for nomination to this year's Commonwealth Games team heats up.
  • Colman king of Great Ocean Road
    In the closest race in the three-year history of the Great Ocean Road International Marathon Wheelchair Challenge, Commonwealth Games-bound athlete Richard Colman has taken out line honours by just .04 over Canberra rival Richard Nicholson at the weekend.
  • Pape, McKnight on the dais in Daegu
    Australian Flame athlete Madeleine Pape and fellow Victorian Kaila McKnight have secured podium finishes at the Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting in South Korea overnight, the home of the 2011 IAAF world championships in athletics.
  • Hooker set to go sky-high in Shanghai
    Reigning world, Olympic, world indoor and Commonwealth Games champion Steve Hooker will this weekend launch his IAAF Diamond League campaign in Shanghai, China, as the undisputed star of world pole vault takes his 2010 season on the road.
  • Lapierre on top, Hooker unstuck in Shanghai
    World indoor and Australian title-holder Fabrice Lapierre has defeated world champion Dwight Phillips (USA) to take victory in the men's long jump in Round 2 of the all-new IAAF Diamond League series in Shanghai, China, overnight.
  • From Stawell to CEO: Athletics Australia appoints new chief
    Athletics Australia President Rob Fildes has today named former Stawell Gift winner Dallas O'Brien as the new Chief Executive Officer of the national sporting body and the man charged with leading Australian track and field into the 2010 Commonwealth Games and beyond.
  • Delhi-bound athletes honoured at state awards
    Brendan Cole was the toast of the nation's capital at the weekend, taking home Male Athlete of the Year and the Globe Award for most outstanding athlete at the ACT Athletics Awards.
  • Five join road to Commonwealth Games glory
    Five athletes have today been added to the list of nominations to the Australian athletics team bound for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, in October.
  • WIN A TRIP TO NEW YORK!
    As Australia's elite track and field athletes continue their countdown to October's Commonwealth Games, one Australian athlete is paving his own path to glory in 2010.
  • Fien, Tucker take Sandown title
    2009 IAAF world half marathon championships representative Cassie Fien has firmed her credentials as one of Australia's leading road runners, crossing two and a half minutes clear of her nearest rival to claim the women's feature race at the 2010 SKINS Sandown Classic in Melbourne at the weekend.