Category: Features

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Harold Corr Oval upgraded as Australia’s newest synthetic track

Cambridge Park’s Harold Corr Oval is making headlines as the newest addition to Australia’s synthetic track landscape, marking the 25th…

3 min read 19 September 2023
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Australia’s Most Scenic Athletics Track

In 2021 the Australian athletics community decided Australia’s Favourite Track and Australia’s Favourite Grass Track. In 2022 the focus was…

6 min read 2 September 2022
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World Athletics Certified Facilities

World Athletics certifies facilities as either Class 1 or Class 2 based on the level of independent testing of the…

0 min read 29 January 2022
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Athletics Track Quiz

How well do you know your way around an athletics track? Take our quiz!
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Australia’s Favourite Grass Track

Central Reserve, Glen Waverley in Melbourne has been voted Australia’s Favourite Grass Track. The pristine grass surface, used from grassroots…

6 min read 1 October 2021
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The most and least isolated tracks in Australia

We measure distance with precision on an athletics track, but what about the distance between tracks? Perhaps not surprisingly, Arafura…

2 min read 13 September 2021
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Australia’s favourite athletics track

We set out in July 2021 to find out which track is Australia’s favourite. With the assistance of the Australian…

6 min read 26 June 2021
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The long and short of it… 7 odd length athletics tracks.

Athletics tracks are generally 400m in length. But not all are. Across Australia there are tracks as short as 200m…

4 min read 10 October 2020