Jana Pittman, Jana Rawlinson, Jana Pittman-Rawlinson - we’re not sure what to call her. Let’s just call her the winner.

The dual World champion has gone by all those names in the past couple of years, but it was Pittman on the entry list and the number bib. In any case, she made light of an absence of almost two years to defeat reigning national champion Lauren Boden in the 400 metres Hurdles at the Australian Athletics Tour final in Perth.

Pittman’s win, in 55.75 seconds to Boden’s season-best 55.97, came almost 21 months after her last race in Luzern (SUI) in July 2009. Given that she has not raced since, it was also tolerably close to the 55.34 she ran on that occasion.

“I just love this. This is what I live for,” a happy Pittman said after the race.

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