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Athletics | News, Live Coverage & Results | The Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) •
October 21, 2026 • 10:52 PM
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The latest Athletics news and results from The Sydney Morning Herald

Athletics | News, Live Coverage & Results | The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian sprint champion Jake Doran has been charged with a child sex offence in Queensland.

Soonchil Shin had run 15 Sydney Marathons before he missed out on a spot in the increasingly popular general ballot – next year, that will change.

Jack Hanley will live up to his Instagram handle - @the_crazy_running_man - this weekend and possibly well into next week.

South Australian Izzi Batt-Doyle, who is a dual Olympian in the 5000 and 10,000 metres, smashed her own personal best time by two minutes.

Eliud Kipchoge, the greatest marathon runner of all time, hadn’t won a marathon since 2023 – but he did it in Melbourne on Sunday, and in record time.

Sunday morning, outside Melbourne Park. You’re standing at the marathon starting line, nerves making you twitchy, you yawn. Is there time for another wee?

Just six years out from the Brisbane Games, Australia’s sporting bodies are facing dozens of job cuts, putting decades of expertise and the futures of athletes at risk.

Santiago Vergara is attempting to break the most unusual of world records in Sunday’s Melbourne Marathon.

The 21-year-old South Australian medical student won the famous Easter sprint in April off five metres in a time of 12.03 seconds, but that result has now been overturned.

Rohan Browning burst onto the world stage at the Tokyo Olympics in a stadium emptied by the COVID pandemic, but departs with Australian sprinting in a much healthier state.

In the week the NFL ventured down under, cricket planned a sell-off and tennis toyed with innovations of its own, athletics is trialling a fresh new look.

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