Former world cross country champion Benita Willis has beaten a strong field to take out the Australian world cross country trial this morning at Brimbank Park in Melbourne.Read more... Comments (2)
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Willis returns to winning ways
Former world cross country champion Benita Willis has beaten a strong field to take out the Australian world cross country trial this morning at Brimbank Park in Melbourne.Birmingham set for cross country trial
Australian 10000m record holder and champion Collis Birmingham will start as the strong favourite for the Australian world cross country trial this Sunday at Brimbank Park in Melbourne.
Ebuya, the modest prince who dethroned King Kenny
Two days ago in a snow covered Edinburgh a young, shy Kenyan annihilated arguably the world?s finest endurance runner to send shockwaves throughout the sport. This relatively unheralded athlete destroyed ?King? Kenenisa Bekele by thirty-six seconds when storming to an unprecedented victory in the BUPA Great Edinburgh International Cross Country - IAAF Permit - race. Joseph Ebuya had arrived on the 2010 scene with a bang. Click here to read the article
Middle distance champs back for track meet
Two of last year's champions will take part in the 2010 International Track Meet at QEII Stadium in Christchurch.
Meet director Craig Motley yesterday announced 2009 winners Jeff Riseley (mile) and Ryan Gregson (3000 metres) would return, along with Ireland's David Campbell, who was third in the mile.
Rising Australian stars Jeremy Roff and James Nipperess have confirmed they will compete in the 1500m. Click here to read the article
Meet director Craig Motley yesterday announced 2009 winners Jeff Riseley (mile) and Ryan Gregson (3000 metres) would return, along with Ireland's David Campbell, who was third in the mile.
Rising Australian stars Jeremy Roff and James Nipperess have confirmed they will compete in the 1500m. Click here to read the article
Kenenisa Bekele finishes outside top three in Edinburgh cross-country
He may have ruled the Noughties with 11 senior world-cross country crowns, three Olympic gold medals and five world track titles but Kenenisa Bekele looked anything but invincible in his first race of the new decade in Edinburgh's snow-bound Holyrood Park on Saturday. Click here to read the article
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With talk about juiced-up athletes doing the rounds in early 2008, track and field was praying for a star. The sport got more than it bargained for that summer when sprinter Usain Bolt won three gold medals in remarkable fashion at the Beijing Olympics.
If long-term injury is a rite of passage for professional athletes, then Mitchell Watt has certainly earned his stripes.
Craig Mottram has fired a broadside at Athletics Australia selectors, almost six months after he was left out of the squad for the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Steve Hooker has had an inconsistent season, but the true mark of a champion is that they rise to the occasion when it counts.
Europe has taken out the inaugural Continental Cup ahead of the America's, with Asia-Pacific finishing fourth.
Benn Harradine has broken his own national record in the discus in finishing second at the Continental Cup in Split, Croatia.
