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 Fearnley Dawes Athletic Track is located in Newcastle. The venue was opened in 1954 and originally called the Newcastle Athletics Field, until it was renamed in 2017 following the venue’s resurfacing. The track is named after Paralympic wheelchair athletes Kurt Fearnley and Christie Dawes. The track is a six lane blue Reckotan surface and features an additional seventh lane, Read more…
Alder Park is a seasonal grass track located in the Newcastle suburb of New Lambton. The venue is a public park that is marked with an athletics track from October to March. It was first used as an athletics track in 1993. The track consists of a 400m oval with a separate 110m sprint track, three long jump pits, three Read more…