Australian Short Track Championships

  • Event Dates
    7 February 2026
  • Profile

    The second edition of the Australian Short Track Championships will be held at Lakeside Stadium.

    The inaugural edition was held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre in 2024.

    Short track is the new name for what was previously called Indoor athletics by World Athletics. Taking advantage of the change of definition the Australian Short Track Championships are run outdoors, as Australia does not have any indoor athletics venues for competition.

    2026 EVENTS:

    Men: 60m, 60m H, Pole Vault, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put

    Women: 60m, 60m H, Pole Vault, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put

    The meet will be followed by a Victorian Milers Club meet, featuring 800m and Mile (including the Victorian Mile Championships)

  • Venue
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      Lakeside Stadium

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      Lakeside Stadium is Melbourne’s premier athletics venue, located close to the Melbourne CBD in the suburb of Albert Park. Sporting facilities have been located on the site of Lakeside Stadium since 1878, with Lakeside Oval serving as the ground for Australian Rules club South Melbourne until 1981. The venue was converted to a soccer facility as Lakeside Stadium in 1995, Read more…




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    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…
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    Victorian Junior Track & Field Championships

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    Perth Track Classic

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    Lakeside Stadium

    0.7 km
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    Lakeside Stadium is Melbourne’s premier athletics venue, located close to the Melbourne CBD in the suburb of Albert Park. Sporting facilities have been located on the site of Lakeside Stadium since 1878, with Lakeside Oval serving as the ground for Australian Rules club South Melbourne until 1981. The venue was converted to a soccer facility as Lakeside Stadium in 1995, Read more…
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    Olympic Park Oval

    2.79 km
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    Olympic Park Oval is located on the site of Melbourne’s former Olympic Park track, which was demolished in 2011. Olympic Park Stadium was the spiritual home of Australian athletics from its opening as a training venue for the 1956 Olympics, until its last meet, the 2011 Australian Championships. The oval that replaced it was opened in 2013 and is primarily Read more…
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    Olympic Park Stadium

    2.8 km
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    Olympic Park Stadium is a former athletics track that served as the main athletics venue in Melbourne from 1951 to 2011. The stadium was located on the current site of Olympic Park Oval and also hosted soccer and rugby league matches. The venue was one of the first cinders athletics tracks in Australia, after the Poplar Road Athletics Track in Read more…