September 

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• Lapierre the best of the Aussies in Europe
  Australian athletes have featured at Grand Prix meets in Gateshead and Zagreb overnight as the European athletics season enters the home straight.
• Bown, Tallent take winter walks titles
  South Australia's Darren Bown and world championships representative Claire Tallent have been crowned national winter road walking champions for 2009 after recording emphatic victories at Parramatta Park at the weekend.
• Aussie five to feature in Brussels
  Sean Wroe and 1500m men Collis Birmingham, Nick Bromley, Mitchell Kealey and Ryan Gregson will fly the flag for Australia in tonight's ultimate round of the Golden League series in Brussels, Belgium, where $1m will be up for grabs.
• New national record to relay four
  An Australian foursome that included world championships representatives Collis Birmingham and Ryan Gregson smashed the national 4x1500m relay record by 30 seconds to place third in Brussels overnight.
• Golden girl Samuels returns to action in Rieti
  Newly-crowned world discus champion Dani Samuels will tonight make a return to action when she lines up in the final leg of the Grand Prix series in Rieti, Italy.
• New best marks to Birmingham, Gregson and Kealey in Rieti
  World champion discus thrower Dani Samuels has finished third and middle distance runners Collis Birmingham, Ryan Gregson and Mitch Kealey have recorded new personal best times at the Rieti Grand Prix meet in Italy overnight.
• Golden run continues for City to Surf winner Vernon
  Sydney City to Surf winner Melinda Vernon has claimed Australia's first gold medal of the 2009 Deaflympic Games, turning on a breathtaking performance to take out the women's 10,000m in Taipei overnight.
• Samuels a contender in Thessaloniki
  Reigning world champion Dani Samuels will enter this weekend's World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece, as a red-hot contender for the season-ending title following her stunning win in Berlin last month.
• Lapierre leads jumps charge in Thessaloniki
  Australian Flame representative Fabrice Lapierre is on the start lists and in scorching form ahead of the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece this weekend.
• ASC Media Awards now open for nominations
  The Australian Sports Commission Media Awards - now in its eighth year - celebrates analytical and insightful presentation of sport and sporting issues by journalists, broadcasters and photographers.
• Four to fire in season final
  Four Australians will line up in the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece, this weekend as the 2009 European track and field season draws to a close.
• Wroe, Mickle fly the flag on day one in Thessaloniki
  World championships relay bronze medallist Sean Wroe placed eighth in the men's 400m and Western Australian Kim Mickle was sixth in the women's javelin throw on the first day of competition at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece overnight.
• Lapierre defends title and pockets $35k in Thessaloniki
  Australian Fabrice Lapierre is $35,000 richer after winning the men's long jump title at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece overnight.
• Birmingham, Willis in action in London, gold to Vernon in Taipei
  Australians Collis Birmingham and Benita Willis have turned on podium performances at the Great Capital Run in London and Sydney City to Surf winner Melinda Vernon has claimed her second gold medal at the Deaflympic Games.
• Twenty-six to take on Great North City Games
  A team of 26 Australian athletes, including five Berlin world championships representatives, has been selected to take on England in the inaugural Great North City Games this weekend, an event that will see new life added to the long-standing rivalry between the two great sporting nations.
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• City Games to reignite great English rivalry
  The countdown is now on to this weekend's Great North City Games, where five members of Australia's world championships team will again don the green and gold to spearhead the Aussie charge.
• Great North City Games LIVE
  Tune in here for all of the action from NewcastleGateshead. Current score is England 1 and Australia 1.
• One-all in Newcastle on day one of Great North City Games
  Australia and England are locked at one-all after the first day of competition at the Great North City Games in Newcastle overnight, a day that saw Aussie skipper Scott Martin take out the shot put and the English pole vaulters prove too good for the Australian contenders.
• Great North City Games - Day two LIVE
  All the action live from day two of the Great North City Games at NewcastleGateshead. Final score England 10 Australia 1
• And the winner is... athletics
  England's victory at the Great North City Games was emphatic, the final scoreboard showing 10-one in their favour, but the real winner was the sport of athletics, with thousands of spectators experiencing international-standard head-to-head athletics action free of charge in the city streets of northern England.
• Adams and Tallent top five in season final
  Australians Luke Adams and Jared Tallent have finished third and fifth respectively in the season-ending IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Saransk, Russia, overnight.
• Chapple, Fearnley rewrite the record books
  On a big weekend of running around the world, Victorian Nikki Chapple has recorded the fifth fastest half marathon on Australian record and wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley has smashed his own event record at the Sydney Wheelchair Marathon.
• Lapierre on top of the world
  Australian long jump sensation and reigning World Athletics Final title-holder Fabrice Lapierre takes centre stage in the latest issue of Spikes magazine.
• Aussies claim golden double in Keswick
  Australians Martin Fryer and Jackie Fairweather have struck gold at the inaugural Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra Distance Running Championships in Keswick, England.
• Hooker on verge of return
  Steve Hooker drew on the past and discovered something for the future in winning the world championships pole vault title despite an adductor injury. Here he reflects on his performance and how he turned the situation around.
• Race is on to Grand Final sprint
  As the clock counts down to tomorrow's AFL Grand Final, 16 of the league's fastest stars are busy gearing up for what is sure to be a hotly-contested Grand Final sprint.
• Birmingham at his best in the Big Apple
  Collis Birmingham has recorded a new personal best mark and distance running great Benita Willis has taken out the famous Lidingo Loppett cross country event in Stockholm, Sweden at the weekend.
• Watt a wonderful year for Mitchell
  World championships bronze medallist Mitchell Watt steps into the spotlight for Spikes magazine.