February 

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• World record to Ellery in Canberra
  Dual Paralympian Louise Ellery has set a new world record in the F32 seated shot put event at the Australia Cup meet in Canberra at the weekend, becoming the first athlete in her category to break the elusive six metre-mark.
• Comeback king to headline star field at Hobart's first IAAF World Challenge event
  Former world champion and world record-holder Nathan Deakes will launch his much-anticipated return to competitive athletics in Hobart this month when he lines up in Round 1 of the 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge, marking the first time the series has ventured to the southern hemisphere in its eight-year history.
• US champ to take on mega-Watt Mitchell in Sydney, Melbourne this summer
  World championships long jump bronze medallist Mitchell Watt is on track for a showdown with Olympic and world championships representative Trevell Quinley this summer, the US big man a confirmed starter for the Sydney and Melbourne editions of the Australian Athletics Tour.
• Rudisha races to join Australian Athletics Tour
  The fastest man over 800m in the world in 2009 will throw down the gauntlet to Australia's top track athletes this summer when he lines up at the Sydney and Melbourne legs of the Australian Athletics Tour across two fast and furious nights of track and field action.
• World champion Samuels set to launch into 2010
  World discus champion Dani Samuels will tomorrow night launch her 2010 Australian Athletics Tour campaign at the Brisbane Athletics Classic, where she will be joined by nine fellow Berlin world championships representatives on a star-studded night of track and field action.
• Samuels, Watt lead rise of the young guns in Brisbane
  Athletics Australia's ambition to send its largest ever team to a major overseas meet is on track after a further four Commonwealth Games A-qualifiers were posted at tonight's Brisbane Athletics Classic, with two of the rising stars of track and field joining world championships medallists Dani Samuels and Mitchell Watt in staking their claim for selection to the team bound for New Delhi, India, in October.
• Hunt, Chapple lead all-Aussie assault in Japan
  Australian distance running has enjoyed an outstanding weekend of results with New South Welshman Jeff Hunt and Victoria's Nikki Chapple each posting medal-winning performances in Japan.
• Gregson the highlight at Hunter
  Australian Flame athlete Ryan Gregson has stormed home in personal best time to take out the men's 800m and cap a thrilling night of track and field action at the inaugural Hunter Track Classic in Newcastle on Saturday night.
• Dawes breaks through for world championships win
  Australian wheelchair athlete Christie Dawes has broken through for her first major international victory, winning the 10km World Road Race Championships in the United Arab Emirates.
• Hooker makes competitive return in Perth
  Reigning world, Olympic and Commonwealth pole vault champion Steve Hooker has made his competitive return to athletics at the brand-new WA Athletics Stadium.
• Shot put champion bids farewell to athletics
  Nine-time national shot put champion and Australian Flame athlete Justin Anlezark has announced his retirement from athletics, effective immediately.
• 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.
• Super seven on track for Briggs Athletics Classic
  The Australian Athletics Tour heads to Hobart this Friday night for the Briggs Athletics Classic, where seven world championships representatives will headline a night of blistering track and field action.
• D-day for Australia's elite race walkers in Hobart
  Former world champion and world record-holder Nathan Deakes will tomorrow night make his long-awaited return to the international race walking scene when he lines up in Round 1 of the 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Hobart, the first time the series has ventured to the southern hemisphere in its eight-year history.
• Birmingham, Gregson rewrite the record books in Hobart
  Berlin world championships representatives Collis Birmingham (5000m) and Ryan Gregson (1500m) have turned on a stunning show at the Briggs Athletics Classic in Hobart tonight, posting new meet records and Commonwealth Games A-qualifying marks on a night that saw four of Australia's top athletes stake their claim for a ticket to New Delhi.
• Tallent-ed two take victory in Hobart
  Husband and wife duo Jared and Claire Tallent have tonight taken out Round 1 of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge and 2010 Australian 20km race walking championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials in Hobart.
• Aussies star in weekend action
  Australia's top athletes have turned on a huge weekend of track and field performances all over the world as attention now turns to the Sydney Track Classic on Saturday, February 27.
• Olympic medallist to launch into action Down Under this summer
  Former world champion and Beijing Olympic Games bronze medallist Tero Pitkamaki is the latest international challenger signed up to test his mettle against Australia's top athletics talents this summer, the Finnish star heading south for the Sydney Track Classic on Saturday, February 27 and Melbourne Track Classic on Thursday, March 4.
• Juniors on track in 2010
  Adding young talent to an already outstanding start list in Hobart at the weekend were members of Athletics Australia's Under 19 Talent Squad, who travelled south to compete at one of the many meets hosted on the Apple Isle across a bumper three days of action.
• 2XU youth compression competition
  If you're aged 10-16 years old, passionate about sport and all things fitness, then this competition is for you.
• Price is right on Briggs honour roll
  Athletics Tasmania has announced the award winners from the 2010 Briggs Athletics Classic.
• One week to go: Sydney tickets selling fast
  With just one week to go before some of the biggest names in track and field hit town for the 2010 Sydney Track Classic, it's time for all athletics fans to get behind their favourite athletes along the road to Delhi and get their tickets to the hottest show in town.
• Johnson's love affair with Perth continues
  The new Western Australian athletics stadium is fast becoming a favourite amongst the nation's best athletes after hosting two Commonwealth Games A-qualifying performances on a cool and breezy Friday night.
• Australia and New Zealand battle it out in Auckland
  Competing against New Zealand in Auckland, the Athletics Australia 21s Squad challenged our traditional rivals for the Trans-Tasman Cup on Saturday.
• Olympic silver medallist to fuel trans-Tasman fire
  In what is shaping up as a super trans-Tasman showdown, Olympic 1500m silver medallist and reigning Commonwealth Games champion Nick Willis (NZL) will take on Australia's own 1500m men Jeff Riseley, Jeremy Roff and Mitch Kealey at the Melbourne Track Classic on Thursday, March 4.
• Hooker to lead world indoor charge
  World and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker will lead a small but world-class Australian contingent in action at the IAAF world indoor championships in Doha, Qatar, next month in his first international appearance since his heroic world titles win.
• Three days to go: Sydney tickets on sale now
  With just three days to go before some of the biggest names in track and field hit town for the 2010 Sydney Track Classic, it's time for all athletics fans to get behind their favourite athletes along the road to Delhi and get their tickets to the hottest show in town.
• McFarlane, Martin get set for Sydney
  As the clock counts down to the Sydney Track Classic at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre this Saturday night, the big-name stars of international track and field continue to roll into town.
• World champions headline star field set for Sydney Track Classic
  World champions Steve Hooker and Dani Samuels will tomorrow night lead 26 members of the Australian Flame into action at the Sydney Track Classic, where close to $100,000 is up for grabs in the penultimate stopover on the 2010 Australian Athletics Tour.
• Sweet seventeen A-qualifiers in Sydney
  World discus champion Dani Samuels and rising star Ryan Gregson have turned on personal best, meet record and Commonwealth Games A-qualifying performances in front of a home crowd at the Sydney Track Classic on a night that saw 17 Commonwealth Games A-qualifying standards set by the nation's top track and field athletes.