Collis Birmingham News

COLLIS Birmingham became the first Australian to book a place in the team for the Delhi Commonwealth Games last night, powering to victory in the 10,000 metres at the Zatopek:10 meet at Olympic Park.

Dani Samuels is no distance runner, but the 2010 season still shapes as a marathon for the reigning discus world champion.

AFTER a nightmare two years in which she lost her marriage, her form and her fitness, Benita Willis finds herself in an unlikely position ahead of today's Great Australian Run: race favourite.

EME NEWS MIKITENKO LATE WITHDRAWAL MELBOURNE : Three-time Olympian Benita Willis and Australian Flame Collis Birmingham will headline the Australian contingent at the Great Australian Run on Sunday as part of the Australian Road Running Championships.

Austrian Guenther Weidlinger upstaged Olympic champions Sammy Wanjiru and Stefano Baldini to take out the Great Australian Run over 15 kilometres here on Sunday.

REIGNING Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru could not cope with wet conditions and a delayed arrival into Melbourne as local runners starred in yesterday's 15-kilometre Great Australian Run.

NO PRIVATE jet ushered Samuel Wanjiru into Essendon Airport late last night; no TV helicopters followed his tollroad journey to a city hotel.

ANDY BADDELEY helped England claim an emphatic victory over Australia in the inaugural athletics Ashes in Newcastle.

SCOTLAND'S Freya Murray scored another high-profile victory at the Bupa Great Capital Run in London's Regents Park, tasting success for the second weekend running.

THE men's 4x400m relay squad capped Australia's best-ever medals haul at a world athletics championships with a fighting bronze in the last event of the nine-day titles overnight.

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia celebrates his victory in the men's 10,000 metres. Photo: Reuters Dan Silkstone in Berlin August 18, 2009 - 9:22AM He got himself into the perfect position and looked set for the top-five finish that would have put him into a World Championship final but Australia's Jeff Riseley just did not have the kick he needed when ...

FOR the first time in world championships history Australia has two long-jumpers in the final but that's not the only good news, Mitchell Watt and Fabrice Lapierre are in personal best form which makes them legitimate medal contenders.

SPRINTER Shelly-Ann Fraser has made it a Jamaican 100m world titles double and Australia's Samantha Stosur has won first-up in Toronto.

Jeff Riseley ran the fastest-ever 1,500m by an Australian at a world athletics championships on Monday.

Australian Jeff Riseley contests a heat of the 1500 metres at the World Championships.

WATT University student Ryan Oswald may be too young to remember "The Man who shot Liberty Vallance" but in future he may well be remembered as the "Man who beat the Blade Runner." Oscar Pistorius, the South African triple Paralympic gold medallist and double amputee, was trumpeted as the star attraction of the 2009 Scottish National Athletics ...