The Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne is the premier invitational high performance athletics meet annually held in Melbourne. The meet is a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet which accrues Category A points for World Athletics Rankings. As a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet, the Melbourne Track Classic is the most prestigious one-day meet in Australia. This includes: A Read more…
The Victorian Milers Club was founded in 2005 and runs a series of middle distance meets in Melbourne each year. The club is modelled on the British Milers Club. Most meets are granted a World Athletics F permit by Australian Athletics for the A & B races, which allows performances to count towards qualification to competitions, including the World Athletics Read more…
The Stawell Gift is Australia’s oldest athletics event, highlighted by 120m gift races for men and women taking place annually on Easter Monday. The event features handicapped races from 70m to 3200m. The main 120m Gift heats are traditionally conducted on Easter Saturday, with the semi-final and final held on Easter Monday. The winning male and female athletes each take Read more…
The Bill Jacobs Athletics Centre is located in Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales. The venue was established in 1988 and features a well maintained grass track and synthetic long jump run ways. The venue was originally named Jubilee Park and was renamed in 2021 in memory of Bill Jacobs, who was a local athletics coach Read more…
