Rising Australian star Kurtis Marschall has smashed his personal best twice in less than an hour to finish third in the men’s pole vault in an exhibition event at Zurich’s central train station. Competing before a large and enthusiastic crowd under the roof at the station, Marschall clinched third spot…
HAVING had a taste of international competition, teenage pole vaulter Lauren Hyde-Cooling has set her sights on an even biggest stage – the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 18-year-old Mt Pleasant resident, who has just returned from competing in the World Junior Championships in Finland, said it’s every athletes…
Alana Boyd knows that a special height on a pivotal night at the WA Athletics Stadium on February 24 – before fewer than 200 officials, parents, friends and workmates – won’t match the primordial hum created by 80,000 people during the London Games at Olympic Park on August 6. That…
