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Discus thrower Connor Bell is fizzed after a perfect few days culminated in Olympic selection

23 April 2024

Discus thrower Connor Bell is fizzed after a perfect few days culminated in Olympic selection

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Black Ferns coach Allan Bunting is adamant the league-union women's athlete poaching competition works both ways
	23 Apr 2024: Black Ferns coach Allan Bunting is adamant the league-union women's athlete poaching competition works both ways... more

Two New Zealand athletes are celebrating podium places at the first Diamond League meet of 2024 in China
	21 Apr 2024: Two New Zealand athletes are celebrating podium places at the first Diamond League meet of 2024 in China... more

New Zealand will have a triple jumper at an Olympics this year, for the first time since 1960 in Rome
	19 Apr 2024: New Zealand will have a triple jumper at an Olympics this year, for the first time since 1960 in Rome... more

For the first time, a Kiwi swimmer has clocked a 50 metre freestyle time of less than 22 seconds
	13 Apr 2024: For the first time, a Kiwi swimmer has clocked a 50 metre freestyle time of less than 22 seconds... more

Athletics has become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics - individual gold medallists at the Paris Games will pocket 84 thousand dollars
	11 Apr 2024: Athletics has become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics - individual gold medallists at the Paris Games will pocket 84 thousand dollars... more

A couple of New Zealand's top throwers are frustrated despite being in national title winning form at the track and field championships in Wellington
	17 Mar 2024: A couple of New Zealand's top throwers are frustrated despite being in national title winning form at the track and field championships in Wellington... more

Connor Bell will look to move on quickly from this year's national track and field championships despite winning the men's discus title for the fourth year running
	17 Mar 2024: Connor Bell will look to move on quickly from this year's national track and field championships despite winning the men's discus title for the fourth year running... more

Tom Walsh is confident he's hitting the right form for Paris despite another silver at the Track and Field nationals
	17 Mar 2024: Tom Walsh is confident he's hitting the right form for Paris despite another silver at the Track and Field nationals... more

Eliza McCartney has admitted she wasn't at her best as she locked in the national women's pole vault title in Wellington this afternoon
	16 Mar 2024: Eliza McCartney has admitted she wasn't at her best as she locked in the national women's pole vault title in Wellington this afternoon... more

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Most Popular Recent Athletics News

26 Jul: It may only be around 6 degrees in Wellington currently but that's not stopping emergency service staff and athletes from taking part in a polar plunge for a special cause +++++++++++

10 Aug: A hint of rust from triathlete Hayden Wilde during his victorious return at the latest T100 race in London ++++++++++

04 Aug: Track and field has turned into a contact sport at the US Athletics Championships in Oregon +++++++++

06 Aug: Athletics New Zealand has confirmed it's largest ever team for a World Para Championships ++++++++

18 Aug: A close knit team is being pinpointed as a winning formula for high jumper Hamish Kerr +++++

13 Aug: Tom Walsh has finished second in the shot put at the World Continental Gold Tour event at Budapest +++

21 Aug: To the latest athletics meet in Lausanne, Switzerland.. +++

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17 Aug: This australian runner just set a new national record. she thinks it’s ‘pretty sick’ (Sydney Morning Herald)

7 Aug: My 30-year-old world record is 'not a good sign for athletics', says jonathan edwards (BBCWorld)

5 Aug: Beloved ex-wellington college teacher and athletics coach neville paul dies (NZ Herald)

3 Aug: Hughes and hunt win british 100m titles (BBCWorld)

31 Jul: ‘gender cannot trump biology’: world athletics introduce mandatory gender test (Sydney Morning Herald)

31 Jul: World athletics introduces gene test for female category (BBCWorld)

28 Jul: Japanese teen shatters 100m record (Sydney Morning Herald)

23 Jul: Us olympic, paralympic officials bar transwomen from women’s sports (Stuff.co.nz)

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