February 

 Further Information  

• High performance planning update
  Under the leadership of new High Performance Manager Eric Hollingsworth, all areas of high performance are currently being reviewed with a view to implementing a new high performance plan.
• Big names set for Stromlo showdown
  Entries have now closed and fields are confirmed for what is set to be one of the highest quality National Cross Country Selection Trials ever held in Australia.
• Saville hangs up her walking shoes
  After an outstanding 20-year career that included four Olympic appearances, highlighted by a bronze medal in 2004, walker Jane Saville has announced her retirement from Australian and international athletics.
• Australians aim for Greatest Race
  The Greatest Race on Earth 2008/09 is set to reach a thrilling climax this weekend with the fourth and final leg of the gruelling series to be staged at the Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday.
• Athletics fans in for triple treat this weekend
  Athletics fans are in for a triple treat this weekend as competition heats up across the nation and around the globe.
• Queensland on top in the Australia Cup
  Victoria's hold on the Australia Cup was broken by the home state today in the third annual team's event at the Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre.
• Schipp sails team into second place
  A seventh placing to Billinda Schipp in Sunday's Hong Kong marathon has seen Australia's women's team finish second in the North East Asia and Rest of The World category at the conclusion of The Greatest Race on Earth 2008/09 at the weekend.
• World-class marathon added to Perth City to Surf program
  Organisers of the Perth City to Surf are working to assemble the finest elite field seen in a marathon in Australia since the Sydney Olympic Games.
• Triple hurdles treat for Thomas and Merlino
  World champion Bershawn Jackson, Commonwealth Games champion LJ Van Zyl and Olympic bronze medallist David Oliver are the latest names to join a stellar cast of international stars set to compete in Sydney and Melbourne this summer.
• Selectors announce world cross country team
  Athletics Australia has named a strong 18-member team to compete at the 37th edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan on March 28.
• Canberra has fastest 50km ultra marathon in the world
  The International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) has released its 50km road rankings for 2008 and it is all good news for the Canberra 50km Ultra Marathon.
• Field ready to raise the bar
  The stage is set for a great domestic contest this weekend when the nation's best female high jumpers go head-to-head at the NSW Championships.
• Accredited athletics coaches to bolster sport in Australia
  Information for all coaches regarding the status of accredited athletics coaches from 2009 onwards.
• Hooker makes it three from three over six metres
  Beijing Olympic pole vault gold medalist Steve Hooker has cleared the magical six metre mark for the third time in as many meets in 2009, winning the Paris Indoors this morning.
• Hooker strikes first in battle of vaulters
  Olympic champion Steve Hooker has scored a confidence building victory over silver medallist Yevgeniy Lukyanenko overnight, ahead of their showdown at the Sydney Track Classic on Saturday, 28 February and World Athletics Tour Melbourne on Thursday, 5 March.
• Target 2012 squad takes aim at NSW Championships
  The future of Australian athletics was on show and on fire at the weekend, with the elite Target 2012 squad taking home a host of medals at the NSW Championships.
• Farewell to an Olympic legend
  Athletics Australia, on behalf of the entire athletics community, would like to extend its sincere condolences to the family of Julius (Judy) Patching AO OBE, who passed away in hospital on Friday aged 92.
• How does your school stand out in a crowd?
  Win 50 student tickets to the World Athletics Tour Melbourne or Sydney Track Classic and a clinic with an elite athlete and coach at your school, with just a little bit of creativity and the guts to follow it through.
• Champ's coach awarded top honour
  Athletics Australia is pleased to announce that Mrs Sharon Hannan (QLD) has been awarded the prestigious Coach of Merit award for 2008.
• Hooker's high five
  Beijing Olympic pole vault gold medalist Steve Hooker has wrapped up his international indoor campaign in the best possible fashion, taking out the GE Galan meeting in Stockholm this morning and securing five wins from as many starts in 2009.
• Kiwi stars head across the Tasman
  Australian athletics fans will welcome two world-class New Zealanders with glowing credentials this summer, world and Olympic shot put champion Valerie Vili and Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Nick Willis.
• Countdown on to ACT action
  The countdown is on to the ACT Track and Field Championships, where the best athletes in the Territory will be joined by some of the nation's most impressive talent for three days of hard-fought competition.
• DJ Smillie powers Hooker and Powell
  Olympic Park will take on a new flavour next month when Australia's hottest DJ Grant Smillie mixes it up trackside along with a world class program of athletics action at the World Athletics Tour Melbourne on Thursday March 5, 2009.
• Hooker's hero joins stellar pole vault ensemble
  Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker will compete alongside one of his childhood heroes, 2004 Olympic champion Tim Mack, in Australia over the next two weeks, the American adding to a sensational list of high fliers.
• Sally's sizzler sets up Sydney showdown
  Just like rampaging pole vaulter Steve Hooker, Olympic silver medallist Sally McLellan is showing no signs of a post Games hangover, producing a sizzling effort over 100m at the Queensland titles in Brisbane yesterday.
• On the couch with Steve Francis
  Athletics Australia, in conjunction with Athletics Victoria, invites you to spend an evening with Steve Francis, coach of some of the fastest sprinters in history.
• State record and 'A' qualifier for Thomas
  Tristan Thomas continued his red hot form in Canberra on Sunday, clocking a world championships 'A' qualifier and breaking the Tasmanian 400m hurdles record.
• Asafa set tough task in Sydney
  What Coach Francis says goes, and this Saturday night at the Sydney Track Classic, the second fastest man in the world, Asafa Powell will compete in the 400m, setting up a highly-anticipated showdown over the one lap.
• Sydney Track Classic e-ticket
  Download your e-ticket for free admission for one child to the Sydney Track Classic.
• Samuels in a spin over Olympic champion's visit
  Olympic discus champion Stephanie Brown Trafton is the seventh Beijing gold medallist joining a stellar cast of international stars set to compete in Sydney this Saturday night and Melbourne next Thursday.
• Gainsford-Taylor joins national selection panel
  Three-time Olympian Melinda Gainsford-Taylor has been appointed to Athletics Australia's national selection committee.
• Olympic stars set to shine at Sydney Track Classic
  The stage is set for tomorrow night's Sydney Track Classic, with seven current Olympic champions to compete in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Sydney Olympic Park.
• Happy Hooker extends win streak to six
  Building on his recent run of good form, Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker recorded his sixth straight victory of 2009, in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 7480 at tonight's Sydney Track Classic.