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Hopes very high for Australian success at world titles

Hopes very high for Australian success at world titles

The Australian team at the world athletics championships in Tokyo is an intoxicating mix of the now and the next.

Quicker and wiser: Rohan Browning set to fly in Tokyo

Quicker and wiser: Rohan Browning set to fly in Tokyo

Quicker and wiser: Rohan Browning set to fly in Tokyo

Quicker and wiser: Rohan Browning set to fly in Tokyo

Rohan Browning and Jessica Hull will be among a host of big-name Australians in action on day one of the world athletics championships in Tokyo.

Usain Bolt's message to Gout Gout ahead of worlds debut

Usain Bolt's message to Gout Gout ahead of worlds debut

Usain Bolt's message to Gout Gout ahead of worlds debut

Usain Bolt's message to Gout Gout ahead of worlds debut

Usain Bolt has delivered a simple piece of advice to Gout Gout as the Australian teenage sprint sensation prepares for his first world championships.

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Rising Aussie long jump star ready to shine in Tokyo

Rising Aussie long jump star ready to shine in Tokyo

A rising star who has already been compared to the great Sally Pearson is primed to make her mark at the world athletics championships.

Injury forces pole vault star Kennedy out of worlds

Injury forces pole vault star Kennedy out of worlds

Pole vaulter Nina Kennedy, who won gold at last year's Olympics, is out of the Tokyo world championships because of a new leg injury.

Huge Australian team for world athletics championships

Huge Australian team for world athletics championships

The Australian team for the upcoming world athletics championships in Tokyo will be even bigger than the one at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Pole vault queen Kennedy shifts the goalposts for Tokyo

Pole vault queen Kennedy shifts the goalposts for Tokyo

After recovering from major hamstring surgery, pole vault superstar Nina Kennedy is taking a whole new mindset into her world championships title defence.

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Records fall: Hassan, Kiros win Sydney Marathon titles

Records fall: Hassan, Kiros win Sydney Marathon titles

Records fall: Hassan, Kiros win Sydney Marathon titles

Records fall: Hassan, Kiros win Sydney Marathon titles

Dutch superstar Sifan Hassan and Ethiopia's Hailemaryam Kiros have triumphed in the Sydney marathon as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge battled to ninth.

Treading water: Aussie star blows Diamond League dream

Treading water: Aussie star blows Diamond League dream

Treading water: Aussie star blows Diamond League dream

Treading water: Aussie star blows Diamond League dream

Jess Hull has suffered a wretched finale to her bid to win a Diamond League title, miscalculating her 1500m final charge only to get pipped on the line.

Marathon's 'GOAT' ready for Sydney's Major moment

Marathon's 'GOAT' ready for Sydney's Major moment

Marathon's 'GOAT' ready for Sydney's Major moment

Marathon's 'GOAT' ready for Sydney's Major moment

Kenyan superstar Eliud Kipchoge is set to add to his legend at age 40, eyeing another World Marathon Major title in Sydney.

Diamond bound: Olyslagers leaps to glory in Zurich

Diamond bound: Olyslagers leaps to glory in Zurich

Diamond bound: Olyslagers leaps to glory in Zurich

Diamond bound: Olyslagers leaps to glory in Zurich

Nicola Olyslagers has won the Diamond League high jump title with a record-breaking display that's sent a message to all her world championship rivals.

Two injured stars out of Australian team for worlds

Two injured stars out of Australian team for worlds

Two injured stars out of Australian team for worlds

Two injured stars out of Australian team for worlds

Injuries have ruled two Australian stars out of the world athletics championships in Tokyo.

'A very good week': Aussie miler Hall shines in Belgium

'A very good week': Aussie miler Hall shines in Belgium

'A very good week': Aussie miler Hall shines in Belgium

'A very good week': Aussie miler Hall shines in Belgium

Victorian veteran Linden Hall has produced a lifetime best 1500 metres run to finish runner-up in the Brussels Diamond League meeting.

Winging in the rain: Olyslagers splashes to Diamond win

Winging in the rain: Olyslagers splashes to Diamond win

Winging in the rain: Olyslagers splashes to Diamond win

Winging in the rain: Olyslagers splashes to Diamond win

Despite rain-sodden conditions in Lausanne, Aussie high jump ace Nicola Olyslagers has splashed to a third Diamond League win of the season.

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New national record for Australian middle-distance star

Middle-distance star Claudia Hollingsworth produced the stand-out Australian performance at the Silesia Diamond League meet.

Jess Hull breaks Australian mile record in London

Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull has set an Oceanian and Australian national mile record while finishing runner-up at the London Diamond League meeting.

Gout Gout dazzles again on latest European 200m outing

Amazing Gout Gout has won an under-23 race at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco in trademark style, maybe deprived of a sub-20sec 200m by a headwind.

Hull the standout Australian at Diamond League in US

Australian Jessica Hull produced the standout Australian performance as two world records were broken at the Diamond League meet in Oregon.

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Dutch marathon legend locked in for Aussie debut

Sifan Hassan, whose sprint to gold was one of the most celebrated moments around the world during the Paris Olympics, has signed up to race the Sydney Marathon.

Gout runs hot in Europe to break Aussie 200m record

Australian 17-year-old sprinter Gout Gout has marked his first senior race abroad by improving his own national 200m record at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet.

Leap of faith: Olyslagers soars to gold in Paris

Australian high-jumper Nicola Olyslagers has won back-to-back gold medals in the Diamond League, this time rising highest in Paris.

Soaring in Sweden: Olyslagers, Duplantis hit heights

Nicola Olyslagers has won her latest Diamond League high jump duel in Stockholm on a night pole vault legend 'Mondo' Duplantis again soared to new heights.

Aussie teenager earns first podium in Diamond League

Australian rising star Cameron Myers has secured a second place in the mile in the Diamond League meet in Oslo.

Aussie Adcock leaps to gold in Diamond League meet

Long jumper Liam Adcock has clinched his first gold medal in the Diamond League, capping a great night for Australian athletes in Rome.

Sprint sensation Kennedy breaks magical 10-second mark

Lachlan Kennedy has joined fellow sprinter Patrick Johnson in one of Australian sport's most exclusive clubs.

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