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Eureka Stadium in Ballarat was foreshadowed as the venue for athletics at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. However, the Victorian Government announced on 18 July 2023 that the March 2026 event would not go ahead. The venue, which is also known commercially as Mars Stadium, was to undergo a $150m upgrade from being a local AFL field to having a temporary Read more…

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…

Gerry Green Reserve is a suburban oval in Melbourne’s south-east suburbs, that was marked as an athletics track once a year for the Parkdale Gift. The oval is mainly used for cricket and AFL The venue was previously called Parkdale Recreation Reserve but was renamed in 1972 after former Mayor of Mordialloc, Gerry Green. With the Parkdale Gift being renamed Read more…

Stadium Australia was the venue for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Construction of the venue was completed in March 1999, with the first sporting event at the venue seeing a world record crowd for a rugby league match. The 2000 Olympic Games were held at the venue from 22 September to 1 October. Amongst the highlights was Cathy Freeman winning Read more…

The Poplar Road Athletics Track was built 1936 and used by the Victorian Women’s Amateur Athletic Association until the 1970s. The track was located in the Melbourne suburb of Parksville and was often referred to as the Royal Park venue. The track was a cinders surface – the first ever laid in Australia – and was the only cinders track Read more…