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Congratulations to and for setting new Club Records.

At the NSW Open, U23 and AWD Championship held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre on 2 March 2014 broke the Senior Women's 800m Club Record. Bridey's time of 2:05.18 broke her existing record of 2:05.22 that had been set on 28 February 2009 at the Sydney Track Classic.

Details of the Senior Women's 800m record progression can be found here.

At the Sydney Track Classic held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre on 15 March 2014 broke the Senior Women's 5000m Club Record. Bridey's time of 16:08.24 broke the existing record of 16:12.12 that had been set by on 5 March 2011 at the Victorian Open & AWD Championship.

Details of the Senior Women's 5000m record progression can be found here.

At the Australian Junior Championship held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre on 16 March 2014 broke the Senior, U20 & U18 Women's 4kg Shot Put Club Records. Grace's throw of 13.33m broke the existing record of 12.24m that had been set by on 20 October 2007.

Details of the Women's 4kg Shot Put record progression can be found here: U18, U20 and Senior.

Regards,
Kim Delaney
President

St George Junior Athletes and have been selected to represent Australia at the second summer Youth Olympic Games taking place in Nanjing, China from 16-28 August 2014.

The athletics team has grown since the last Youth Olympics Games in 2010, when only 17 were selected to wear the green and gold. From that Team, Liz Parnov progressed to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games. Pole vaulter Parnov has been selected for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland along with her Singapore 2010 teammates Nick Hough and Damien Birkinhead.

To date, 47 athletes from 11 sports have been selected to represent Australia at the second summer Youth Olympic Games taking place in Nanjing, China from 16 – 28 August 2014. All the athletics action will take place on days 4-10 at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre.

Grace and Matt are both members of the large squad coached by our master coach Ray Russell.

Grace has been selected to compete in the Shot Put, while Matt has been selected for the Javelin Throw.

Congratulations to both Grace and Matt on your team selections.

Athletics Australia Story

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Kim Delaney
President

The Commonwealth Games is likely to welcome a full quota of Australian marathoners, with Athletics Australia today nominating a further four athletes including to the Australian Commonwealth Games Association for selection to compete in the event in Glasgow (SCO).

Set to start together with an already confirmed 45 athletes , the quartet of Sarah Klein (Vic), Melanie Panayiotou (Qld), Michael Shelley (Qld) and Liam Adams (Vic) join Lara Tamsett (NSW, 10,000m), (NSW) and Harry Summers (NSW) on the latest nominee list, with the latter three to race in the 10,000m.

"The Qualification Period for the marathon and the 10,000m closed last weekend, and in accordance with the Selection Policy the Athletics Australia Selectors have met and determined that seven new athletes should be nominated for selection. This is a great result, and continues the growth of what is shaping into a very big athletics team for Glasgow," Dion Russell, the Athletics Australia Chairman of Selectors, said.

"The ability of Australia to field as many marathon runners as we can is very positive news, and this is also the case for the men's 10,000m with two new athletes announced today to compete alongside the already selected Collis Birmingham."

In the 10,000m, St Lawrence boasted an A-Standard to earn his consideration, while Summers ran 28:16.05 in the Selection Trial in December to lay claim to the next best qualifier. The duo will join Birmingham (Vic) in the race.

Well done Ben, another well deserved recognition.

Athletics Australia Story

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Kim Delaney
President

A big team of 31 athletes that includes a mix of regular Australian Flame representatives including Collis Birmingham, Zoe Buckman, Tristan Thomas, Jeff Riseley and John Steffensen as well as young talents such as Morgan Mitchell and has been selected by Athletics Australia to take part in the inaugural IAAF World Relays in The Bahamas in May.

Athletics Australia Chairman of Selectors Dion Russell said the mix of familiar faces and promising youngsters was a positive.

"We are pleased to have a mix of experienced international level athletes as well as some emerging talented athletes in the team," said Russell. "We've been able to select teams for each of the relay events which maximises providing major Championship experience for our athletes. At this stage it looks like 48 countries will be sending teams to The Bahamas."

"In exercising our discretion the Selectors opted for a larger squad for the distance relays to ensure we had coverage for both the 4x800m and 4x1500m events. With the top eight teams in the 4x100m and 4x400m automatically qualifying for the 2015 IAAF World Championships this is a great opportunity for Australia to try and secure a qualification and assist in the planning for Beijing next year."

"As per the Policy, the Selectors took into account performances throughout the Australian domestic season – more than half of the selected team are medallists from the Australian Athletics Championships just three weeks ago."

has been selected to compete in the 4x800m and 4x1500m squads. Best wishes to Bridey for a great run.

Athletics Australia Story

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Kim Delaney
President

Athletics Australia has today confirmed the selection of 59 athletes, including , for the 2014 Oceania Area Athletics Championships.

Set to compete in Rorotonga, Cook Islands, from 24-26 June 2014, the event will welcome athletes from across our IAAF region for three days of competition to determine the Oceania champions for 2014.

Selected athletes will today have their selection confirmed via email by Team Manager Michelle James, with the team set to depart Australia on Friday 20 June. For more information on the Oceania Athletics Championships, please follow this link to the Athletics Oceania website.

St George athlete has been selected to compete in the 2000m Steeplechase event at these championships.

Congratulations Cassie! Best wishes from all your fellow club mates.

Athletics Australia Story

Regards,
Kim Delaney
President

Congratulations to , and for setting new club records.

At the Australian Junior Championship competition at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre on 14 March 2014 broke his U16 Shot Put Club Record. His throw of 18.19m broke his existing record of 17.62m that he set on 8 February 2014 at the NSW Junior Championship.

Details of the U16 Shot Put record progression can be found here.

At the same event broke her U18 Shot Put Club Record. Her throw of 15.91m broke her existing record of 15.38m that was set on 8 December 2013 at the Australian All Schools competition in Townsville, Queensland.

Details of the U18 Javelin record progression can be found here.

Also at the same event broke his U18 Javelin Throw Club Record. His throw of 70.85m his existing record of 70.27m that was set on 8 February 2014 at the NSW Junior Championship.

Details of the U16 Shot Put record progression can be found here.

Regards,
Bob Simpson
Track Secretary