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 Campbelltown Athletics Centre was built in 1999 as a training track for international teams prior to the 2000 Olympic Games. It replaced a grass athletics track that was marked on the adjacent Campbelltown Stadium, predominantly used for rugby league, which hosted regional Little Athletics competition. The track hosted two editions of the Telstra A-series, in 2002 and 2003, when Read more…
Holsworthy Army Barracks Physical Fitness Facility features a four lane synthetic track approximately 580m in length. The track was installed in 2015 as part of an upgrade to the physical fitness facilities at the base. The venue is not available for public use. However, in the 1990s Athletics NSW regularly hosted the NSW Road Championship at the base, utilising the Read more…
Dwyer Oval is located at Warwick Farm in Sydney’s western suburbs. The venue features a grass athletics track with three synthetic grass long jump runways. During the athletics off-season it is used for Rugby Union. The venue is managed by Liverpool City Council. Read more…
