Australian Athletics officiating ranks continue to swell following the World Athletics Bronze Referee Evaluation

The 34 newly-accredited officials from all States and the ACT bring to 157 the number of Australian officials with current World Athletics international officiating accreditations.

Included in the new group are three “twenty-something” officials from New South Wales. University student Josh Henry becomes Australia’s youngest international athletic official at 20 and is joined on the list by his Sydney-based colleagues – Josephine Ng, a finance officer by profession, and algorithm engineer Adam Mylonas.

A total of 36 Australians (19 women and 17 men) were successfully evaluated – two of whom Kirsten Crocker (Gold Race Walking Judge) and Les Allen (Bronze Starter) were already international officials in their specialist areas.

AA Chief Executive Officer, Simon Hollingsworth heaped praise on the outcome,

“In this global sport, this is a wonderful achievement for each official personally and for our sport as a whole.

“Athletics in Australia could not run and thrive without volunteers like this group who contribute in all manner of ways to athletics.

“We are also very grateful to our Gold Referees who assisted in ensuring this latest group of bronze candidates were as well prepared as possible.”

Further opportunities for officials to acquire international qualifications will be available later this year with bronze and silver evaluations available in race walking. There will also be an eight-year re-evaluation for our longest serving gold referees.

The list of successful World Athletics Bronze Referee candidates in 2025 is:

By Brian Roe, Australian Athletics
Posted 2/7/2025