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  • Nation's best go the distance at Falls Creek
    While for many the recent New Year holiday was the ideal excuse to kick back after a hard year at work there was no rest for Australia's top distance runners, who used the break to get some rare air at Falls Creek ahead of the 2010 Australian Athletics Tour.
  • Records fall in Hobart
    The racing was fast and furious for the 27th running of the Cadbury Marathon at the weekend, where two course records were set on a big day of action on the Apple Isle.
  • Tickets now on sale: 2009/10 Athlete of the Year Awards
    Athletics Australia is proud to present the 2009/10 Athlete of the Year Awards, to be held in Perth following the 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships & Commonwealth Games Selection Trials from April 16-18.
  • Local stars to hit up Hunter
    The all-new Hunter Track Classic is set to become one of the most fiercely contested meets of the New South Wales season as athletes from all over the country vie for qualification to the 2010 Commonwealth Games and World Junior Championships.
  • National 10,000m champions to headline world cross country trials
    National 10,000m champions Collis Birmingham and Eloise Wellings will headline the field at this weekend's world cross country trials at Brimbank Park (Vic) as the nation's top distance runners vie for selection to the world titles in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in March.
  • Birmingham, Willis lead world cross country charge
    National 10,000m record-holder Collis Birmingham and 2004 world cross country champion Benita Willis have kicked off their 2010 campaigns in style, taking victory in the open men's and women's fields at the world cross country trials at Melbourne's Brimbank Park this morning.
  • World cross country trials
    With thanks to Athletics Victoria, included below are a set of highlight packages from the world cross country trials held at Melbourne's Brimbank Park on Sunday January 17, 2010.
  • J.L.L.C: Samuels to headline Sydney
    Enticing you away from your desk and that hastily prepared sandwich, the John Landy Lunch Club returns in 2010 with this year's event confirmed for Sydney on Thursday, February 25.
  • Foster sets new Australian mark in Pennsylvania
    Tasmanian athlete Ryan Foster is the talk of the US college track and field circuit this week following his blistering run at the Northeast Challenge meet in Pennsylvania (USA) on Saturday, where he set a new Australian indoor record over 1000m.
  • Seventeen bound for world cross country titles
    Athletics Australia has announced a 17-strong team headlined by national 10,000m record-holder Collis Birmingham and 2004 world cross country champion Benita Willis to contest the 2010 IAAF world cross country championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on March 28.
  • Official-ly brilliant!
    In the coming months more than 600 of Australia and the world's best track and field stars will trek across the country competing as part of the Australian Athletics Tour before heading west for the 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games Selection Trials.
  • J.L.L.C: Hooker at home in Melbourne
    The John Landy Lunch Club will return to Australia's spiritual home of sport, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, for the 2010 instalment of the annual lunch series on Tuesday, March 2.
  • Olympic medallist to test Australia's 400m stocks
    In what is fast becoming the event of the 2010 domestic season, dual Olympic medallist David Neville (USA) will take on Australia's best 400m athletes this summer as the nation's top one-lappers look towards Commonwealth Games glory in New Delhi, India, in October.
  • State pride on the line at the Australia Cup
    Sixteen world championships representatives will tomorrow night kick-start the 2010 Australian Athletics Tour with the annual state-versus-state Australia Cup, where state pride is on the line and bragging rights are up for grabs.
  • Victory to the big V at the Australia Cup
    Victoria has taken out the annual Australia Cup meet in hot and blustery conditions at the Australian Institute of Sport to launch the five-meet Australian Athletics Tour for 2010.