Veteran Channel Seven broadcaster Bruce McAvaney says the attention around burgeoning sprint star Gout Gout is unprecedented ahead of his appearance at this week’s Australian Athletics Championships in Perth.
Ben Smith
Australian athletics has another teenaged sprint young gun, with Leah O'Brien breaking an under-18 record that Raelene Boyle set at the 1968 Olympics.
Roger Vaughan
Either Lachlan Kennedy or Gout Gout will have to do it the hard way if they are to salute at the 2025 Stawell Gift.
John Salvado
Matt Denny is eyeing world championships gold in Tokyo later this year after obliterating his discus personal best.
British sprinter Matthew Hudson-Smith was the big winner as Grand Slam Track debuted in Jamaica.
Staff Writers
Lachlan Kennedy and Gout Gout will renew their sprint rivalry at the national championships in Perth in mid-April.
Little Athletics is still riding the wave of success from the Paris Olympics.
Caitlin Bassett
Lachlan Kennedy has done the sprint double at the Maurie Plant Meet and relegated Gout Gout to second place in the 200m.
Australia’s sprint sensation will light up the track, live and free on Seven and 7plus.
Digital Staff
Eleanor Patterson will be among a host of Australian stars at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne, having made some major changes since the Paris Olympics.
Australian men's sprint stars Lachlan Kennedy and Gout will take centre stage with Letsile Tebogo and others at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne.
A cheek swab test to determine the presence of a gene that reveals biological sex has been approved for use by World Athletics to "protect the female category".
Jamie Gardner
High jumpers Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson have headlined a record seven-medal display by Australian athletes at the world indoor championships.
Aussie Olympic star Jess Hull has played her part in inspiring middle-distance teammate Ky Robinson to follow her to a world indoor podium place in Nanjing.
Ian Chadband
Australia’s prince of pace Gout Gout has issued a grim forecast for future rivals as he embarks on a career many judges believe can lead to a 100m-200m Olympic gold medal double.
Glen Quartermain
Jess Hull and Ky Robinson have won 3000m bronze medals for Australia at the world indoor championships in Nanjing.
Lachlan Kennedy has promised that his silver medal from the world indoor championships is just the start for him - and for Australia's lightning sprinters.
Lachlan Kennedy has won the first ever 60 metres medal by an Australian at the world indoor championships, taking silver in an agonising near-miss in Nanjing.
Gout Gout had his heart set on playing soccer until an impromptu schoolyard sprint race, wearing joggers, changed everything.
Murray Wenzel
The legendary caller was asked a simple question about the Aussie sprint sensation. He then had to apologise to Shirvo.
Paris podium finishers Nicola Olyslagers, Eleanor Patterson and Jessica Hull headline the Australian team at the world indoor championships.
Sam Ruthe, a 15-year-old New Zealander, has become the youngest athlete ever to break four minutes for the mile.
Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout will race in Perth at next month’s national track and field championships.
Gout Gout has broken 20 seconds for the 200m for the first time at the Queensland championships with the aid of an illegal tailwind.
Damien Stannard
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