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The top placed Australians🇦🇺 at the World Major Marathons since their inception in 2006 Izzi Batt-Doyle becomes just the 5th Australian to finish in the top 6, after her Chicago🇺🇸 performance. The full list in comments ...

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Australian results from NCAA XC racing Many took the chance to trial the National XC course in Indiana: Bailey Habler finishes strongly, from 10th to 6th in the last km & Ben Thomas wins the 'white' race Div II athlete Flynn Pumpa runs his second sub-24 min race for 4th

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Australian results from weekend's NCAA cross country racing At Nuttycombe, so many quality teams competing, if an athlete's team finished in top 20 good chance they could go to Nationals (max 31 teams) Top 4 non-qualified athletes from 9 regional events also qualify

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🔥 WOW 🔥 New Area Record to Izzi Batt-Doyle in the Chicago Marathon, finishing 6th in 2:20:38 Incredibly consistent 5km splits: 16:46 16:42 16:40 16:40 (half 70:29) 16:37 16:43 16:47 16:36 last 2.2km 7:07 (second half 70:09) Also 2027 World Championships qualifier.

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Izzi Batt-Doyle🇦🇺 breaks the Area Record at the Chicago Marathon🇺🇸, finishing sixth in 2:20:38 Takes 46 seconds off Jess Stenson’s record and grabs a 2027 World Championships qualifier as well 📽️Flotrack

Well over 100 Australian athletes are based in USA Universities across 36 States. The biggest gathering of Australian cross-country athletes at one meet occurs tomorrow morning (AEDT), with 28 travelling to Wisconsin for the Nuttycombe Invitational

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NCAA Cross Country season continues to roll-on, although 30+ degrees in Pennsylvania saw Paul Short meet cancel some events Lily Mather has a 6km win at Nike XC Town Twilight (clips on socials show her gutsy finish) Thanks to those who let us know of results missed

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A quieter weekend for the NCAA Cross Country circuit, with many colleges aiming for next weeks Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational Events with multiple Australians competing listed on our home page - let us know if we've missed any.

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Incredible racing from Ky Robinson: appeared to lose contact with the leaders & was 8th with 1km to go, but passed 4 athletes in the last 500m to finish 4th in the 5km event, only 8 seconds off the winner Takes a massive 16 seconds off Craig Mottram's 21-year-old Area Record

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Rose Davies becomes Australia's first ever winner of an individual medal at the World Road Running Championships, taking bronze🥉 in the 5km event Breaks Benita Willis' 24-year-old Area Record by 9 seconds, running 14:50 Stunning finish to a wonderful year for Davies

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Great results from Copenhagen🇩🇰 on 1st day of World Road Running Championships 🔸BRONZE Rose Davies (5km) & another Global 4TH Ky Robinson (5km) 🔸Area Records: Oliver Hoare (Road Mile), Rose Davies & Ky Robinson (5km) 🔸Teams SILVER to Australia in both events

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Stunning finishing night for Australians at World Ultimate Jessica Hull (5000m) & Cameron Myers (1500m) both grab silvers, with Rose Davies a very competitive 6th in 5000m All run under 2027 World Championships qualifying standards Torrie Lewis unfortunately dns in 200m

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Finishes 2nd at World Ultimate to Josh Kerr, but Cameron Myers has put together a year of consistent, elite 1500m / mile running not seen since the days of Hicham El Guerrouj. Seven wins over 1500m / mile in sub-3:31 / 3:48 & seven times sub-3:31 in the 1500m Extraordinary!

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Day 2 of World Ultimate sees Little throw a SB 63.37m to grab 4th place Kennedy runs 10.05 (-0.2) in 100m heat to just miss the final In the 1500m, Caldwell finished 6th in 3:58.64 and Hull 9th in 3:59.97 Billings made the 800m final & finishes 7th in 1:58.89

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Lot of talk about Australian athletics on the rise etc .. I think they're right!! Delving into some stats for update to blog re World Ultimate, but had to share this now Since World Rankings system started 2019 we've had two at same time .. but four?? 🤯🤯 Extraordinary!

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Adam Spencer continues his great form, breaking the Australian road mile record running 3:53.83 finishing second in Düsseldorf. Jude Thomas was 3rd in 3:54.12, and former record holder Jack Anstey 6th in 3:55.56 Maudie Skyring was in 4th in the 5km in 15:39.47

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This has been the most successful Diamond League💎 Finals for Australian athletes ever 🔹Most number of competitors (12) 🔹equal most number of Champions (2) 🔹most podiums (5) 🔹equal most top 4 (8) Congrats to all the athletes who made the Finals and competed so well!

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