September 

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• Coach diary: W is for...
  Sharon Hannan, coach of Olympic silver medallist Sally Pearson, talks about life on the road to the Commonwealth Games.
• IPC World Championships selection process begins
  Athletics Australia's IPC World Championships qualification period drew to a close yesterday, with a team of approximately 40 athletes expected to be named by mid-September.
• World's best look to Split
  Just one week on from the conclusion of the 2010 Diamond League tour, the world's top track and field athletes will return to centre stage this weekend at the IAAF Continental Cup in Split (CRO), where 26 Australians en route to next month's Commonwealth Games will hone their preparations for New Delhi (IND).
• All-star cast headlines day one action in Split
  Fourteen Australians bound for next month's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, have featured in the overnight action at the IAAF Continental Cup in Split, Croatia, as the countdown to the Commonwealth titles enters its final stages.
• Hooker, Pearson grab gold in Split
  World, Olympic, world indoor and Commonwealth Games champion Steve Hooker (pole vault) and Beijing Olympics silver medallist Sally Pearson (100m hurdles) have won gold and fellow Commonwealth Games nominee Benn Harradine has set a new national benchmark in the men's discus throw on a big for Australia at the IAAF Continental Cup meet in Split (CRO).
• Athletics granted cash bonus by the ASC
  Australian athletics is set to receive a boost in the form of an additional $1.5million of high performance funding following the announcement of funding allocations by the Australian Sports Commission Board late last Friday.
• Harradine and Samuels to lead throws charge in Delhi
  Australia will head to the Commonwealth Games with a throws team of 18 athletes next month, world discus champion Dani Samuels and Australian discus record-holder Benn Harradine set to lead the green and gold charge in New Delhi (IND) when athletics action gets under way on October 6.
• Statement from Athletics Australia CEO Dallas O'Brien regarding John Steffensen
  Athletics Australia CEO Dallas O'Brien responds to reports John Steffensen in withdrawing from the Commonwealth Games.
• Athlete diary: Boden compares one year to the next
  Do you ever look back and think...
• St Lawrence rewrites the record books in Milan
  Commonwealth Games 5000m nominee Ben St Lawrence has shown he is on track for New Delhi (IND) by clocking the fifth fastest time over 3000m in Australian athletics history at the Notturna di Milano meet in Milan, Italy, overnight.
• Coach diary: Super Sally on track for New Delhi
  Sharon Hannan, coach of Olympic silver medallist Sally Pearson, continues the fast and furious journey along the road to the Commonwealth Games.
• Athlete diary: Congratulations Mr & Mrs Henry
  Providing further insight into her New Delhi countdown today is Jody Henry.
• Team captain Hooker leads Delhi-bound jumpers
  Reigning Commonwealth champion Steve Hooker will lead a jumps team of nine at the XIX Commonwealth Games next month, the Australian Flame captain looking to defend his title when competition gets under way in New Delhi (IND) on October 3, 2010.
• Forty-nine headed across Tasman for IPC Athletics World Championships
  Athletics Australia has today announced a 49-strong team for the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch (NZL), the garden city to play host to the world's best athletes with a disability when competition gets under way on January 21, 2011.
• Taking it to the streets
  In what will be one of its final hit-outs before the Australian team travels to New Delhi, India, for the XIX Commonwealth Games next month, traditional rivals Australia and England will tomorrow battle it out for glory on the streets of Newcastle-Gateshead in the second edition of the Great North City Games in Newcastle, northern England (1PM-2:30PM local time / 10PM-11:30PM AEST).
• England takes street battle on the line
  On a bright sunny day on the Tyne River, two traditional rivals came together for a nontraditional battle of street athletics.
• Delhi-bound walkers impress in China
  Australia's dual Olympic medallist Jared Tallent returned to the city of his greatest triumph in Beijing (CHN) for the final of the 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge series at the weekend, which opened in Hobart in February.
• Records fall as 65,000 take to the streets
  On a huge day for recreational running around Australia, about 65,000 fun runners took to the streets on Sunday, September 19 at the Sydney Running Festival and the City-Bay Fun Run in Adelaide.
• Pearson to spearhead Aussie sprints and hurdles charge
  Twenty-two of Australia's sprinters and hurdlers will blast out of the blocks at the XIX Commonwealth Games next month, with Olympic 100m hurdles silver medallist Sally Pearson one of 14 athletes taking to the start line solo when competition kicks off on October 3.
• Dani Samuels withdraws from 2010 Commonwealth Games team
  Athletics Australia today advised the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) of the withdrawal of discus thrower Dani Samuels from the 2010 Australian Commonwealth Games team.
• Australia gets set for London glory
  As the Australian athletics team makes its final preparations for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, next month, planning for success at the London Olympic Games is also high on the agenda with Athletics Australia today announcing its final team camp will be held at the Tonbridge School in Kent, south-east England.
• Oceania Athletics Championships to heat up Cairns
  Three hundred of the region's best athletes have descended on Cairns this week, Australia's gateway to the Great Barrier Reef playing host to the Oceania Athletics Championships from Thursday, September 23.
• Day 1: Australian hammer throwers control podium at Oceania Championships
  Three hundred of Oceania's best athletes have taken to the start line in Cairns...
• Day 2: Eagles and Martin continue Aussie throws charge in Cairns
  Australia's throwers have once again taken centre stage at the Oceania Athletics Championships, Bronwyn Eagles and Scott Martin taking gold with meet record throws in the women's hammer throw and men's shot put on day two at Barlow Park.
• Day 3: Roff takes charge across 1500m at Oceania Championships
  The Oceania Athletics Championships have drawn to a close in Cairns today, with Commonwealth Games-bound athlete Jeremy Roff leading the charge with his 1500m victory in a meet record time of 3:41.87.
• Mottram to lead Aussies once again
  National 5000m record-holder Craig Mottram will again lead off the Australian team at the Chiba Ekiden relay in Chiba (JPN) in 2010 following the announcement of team selections today.
• Athletics the ONE for entertainment
  Tune in to ONE HD from 11:00PM tonight (AEST) to catch all the action from the 2010 Great North City Games, featuring world and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker, Olympic silver medallist Sally Pearson and national 5000m record-holder Craig Mottram.
• Walkers and distance runners round out Delhi team
  Australia's distance runners and walkers round out the 66-strong athletics team lining up in New Delhi next month, dual Olympic medallist Jared Tallent...