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Olympic champ Kennedy thrilled with pole vault return

It was only off a half run-up, but Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy was still able to dazzle the crowd in her long-waited return from injury.

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Australia's Tokyo campaign bodes well for future

Australian Athletics high performance boss Andrew Faichney liked what he saw from the green and gold squad in Tokyo.

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Over the Moon: American vaulter savours gold of her own

With Nina Kennedy absent through injury, American Katie Moon has won a third world pole vault title in Tokyo.

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Gout Gout’s future races towards him as he introduces himself to the world

Results show the 17-year-old is ready for more than what Australia can offer but his team are putting the brakes on his rise to stardom

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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.

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Gout Gout fanfare obscures depth of Australian athletics poised for world championships spotlight

The Brisbane teenager may be the talk of the town but there are many other athletes well placed to impress in Tokyo in the green and gold

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Australia’s pole vault queen Nina Kennedy: ‘I’m in full force to go to the world champs’

The Paris gold medallist opens up on her comeback from surgery, her longtime US rival, and the inner ‘mongrel’ that drives her to win

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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.

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Two injured stars out of Australian team for worlds

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

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Gout hoping to square off against Lyles in Tokyo

Sprint stars Gout Gout and Lachlan Kennedy have locked in their spots in the Australian team for the Tokyo world athletics championships.

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Gout Gout’s winds of change whip Australian athletics into frenzy

Tailwinds are robbing the teenage sprint sensation of astonishing times but his rise is part of a wider shift

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Torrie Lewis and Rohan Browning edge out rising stars in dramatic 100m finals

Lewis holds off teenager Leah O’Brien in a photo-finish while Browning pips Lachie Kennedy at the Australian athletics championships

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‘Perth is primed for fast times’: Australian athletics’ Generation Next set to light up nationals

Conditions are ideal at this week’s national championships, with the prospect of a sub-10s 100m driving much of the pre-meet excitement

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Campaigners and Olympians recognised in honours list

More than 450 people have been recognised for their achievements in the 2025 Australia Day Honours List.

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Water safety pioneer, master swim coach makes a splash

Water safety pioneer and master swim coach Laurie Lawrence is among a batch of sporting luminaries feted in the Australia Day Honours list.

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Nina Kennedy ends golden season with Diamond glory

Olympic champion Nina Kennedy has soared to victory in the Diamond League final once more in Brussels, completing her remarkable 2024 pole vault campaign.

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Undefeated since June: Olympic champ extends golden run

Olympic champion Nina Kennedy says she was disappointed to only clear 4.87m despite registering a fourth straight pole vault win in the Diamond League.

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Shooting glory: young snapper seizes moment at the Paris Olympics

"I was thrown into the deep end, which, to be honest, I loved."

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Aussies set 200m pace at world junior athletics

Torrie Lewis and 16-year-old Queenslander Gout Gout are the fastest qualifiers in the 200 metres, while Tryphena Hewett has won Australia's fourth junior medal.

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A joie de vivre in Paris revived the Olympic spirit to leave Tokyo Games in alternative universe

Despite fears about security, strikes and sweltering heat, Paris 2024 delivered the ‘party Games’ with Australia among the teams leading the celebrations

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Kennedy and Hull among the athletics stars in Paris

Australia's haul of seven athletics medals in Paris was the most since the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

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