Lachie Kennedy runs 10 seconds flat for second-best 100m by an Australian

Lachie Kennedy’s run of 10.00sec is now only bettered in the Australian record books by Patrick Johnson in 2003, while Leah O’Brien also displayed swift form at the national championships

Gout Gout breaks 10-second barrier for 100m at Australian athletics championships

The 17-year-old sprint sensation ran 9.99s in the U20 heat and final both with an illegal tailwind to become only the third Australian to go under 10s

LA 2028 Olympics adds swimming sprints and mixed-gender gymnastics

Sprint-distance swimming races and mixed-gender events in gymnastics and golf are among the additions to the programme for the 2028 LA Olympic Games

‘Perth is primed for fast times’: Australian athletics’ Generation Next set to light up nationals

Conditions are ideal at this week’s national championships, with the prospect of a sub-10s 100m driving much of the pre-meet excitement

Australian sprinter Leah O’Brien breaks Raelene Boyle’s 57-year-old 100m record

Australia’s sprinting revival has gone up a gear at this year’s national athletics championships after another record more than half a century old was broken

Matthew Denny’s monster discus throw smashes his Australian record

Matthew Denny elevated himself into rarified air with the fifth longest throw of all time while becoming the first Australian to eclipse the 70m mark

Big matchups and bigger bucks: Michael Johnson pledges Grand Slam Track will bring ‘fantasy to life’

Athletics legend says his new four-part event, which launches on Friday, is exactly what the sport needs

The A’s settled into their new home in Sacramento. The result was familiar

The team that brought us Moneyball is in the middle of a move from Oakland to Las Vegas. Fans turned up to their home opener but this is still a club in flux

Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father denies kicking Olympic champion and whipping daughter

The father of Jakob Ingebrigtsen has denied kicking the double Olympic gold medallist and whipping his daughter in the face with a towel

Gout v Kennedy was like Bolt v the T-1000 – and no one could look away

The 17-year-old sensation was edged out by Kennedy in a thrilling 200m but left an entire stadium entranced in Melbourne

Lachie Kennedy upstages Gout Gout on Australian athletics’ historic night

Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout was upstaged by Lachie Kennedy in the 200m at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne on a night that confirms athletics’ resurgence in Australia

Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father forced daughter to run with breathing problems, court told

The father of double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen forced his daughter to keep running even though she was struggling to breathe, a court has heard

Jess Warner-Judd: ‘I want to finish my track career on my terms, not epilepsy’s’

After her seizure in Rome last June, Jess Warner-Judd tells Ben Bloom about rebuilding her health and running career and plans for a final summer on the track

Gout Gout ‘can be one of the best’, says Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo

The men’s 200m sprint champion believes Australian teenager Gout can secure a place in athletics history books if he maintains his level of motivation