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Mitch Kealey takes another step forward after long period injured

Beijing Olympic 1500m runner Mitch Kealey will take another step back toward full fitness by competing in the Gold Coast 10k this weekend which is part of the Gold Coast marathon festival in Queensland this weekend. Kealey missed the whole Australian season with a foot injury but is now training pain free and looking forward to testing himself in competition on Sunday.

Riseley and Birmingham head group for Oslo's Bislett Games

Australian champions Jeff Riseley and Collis Birmingham will be joined by rising junior star Ryan Gregson and Irish star Dave Campbell in Friday (July 3) night's Bislett Games in Oslo. Both Riseley (mile) and Birmingham (5000m) are coming off some outstanding training of late and are looking to translate this in to top class results. Gregson races the 1500m while Campbell lines up in the 800,.

Kaila McKnight in 800m race as final tune up for World University Games

Fresh of her maiden victory in Europe, Kaila McKnight heads to Slovenia with Nick Bromley and Peter Nowill for the 13th international meeting in Velenje on Thursday (July 2). Kaila runs in the 800m as does Bromley while Nowill will contest the 3000m steeplechase.

Shane Nankervis returns to the marathon at Gold Coast this weekend

Australian half marathon champion will contest his first marathon in over 12 months when he lines up on the Gold Coast next Sunday (July 5) morning. Nankervis heads into the race confident of his form after finishing 2nd to World Championships marathon team member, Scott Westcott in Christchurch in May. Nankervis has a personal best of 2:12.33 set in Berlin in 2005 and should he run up to that form he should be in contention for victory on Sunday.

Kaila McKnight win's in Sweden

Kaila McKnight gave herself some confidence as she approaches the World University Games in Belgrade next month with a 5 second victory in the 1500m at the Swedish Grand Prix in Sollentuna last night (June 25) in a new personal best of 4.10.01. At the same meeting Dave Campbell went within a stride of beating Sudanese 800m star when he was 2nd in the 1500m in 3.40.10. In the men's 3000m Mark Draper was 4th in 7.57.93

Melbourne Track Club treble at Scottish Championships

Benita Willis, Collis Birmingham and Nick Bromley were all dominant winners at the Scottish Championships at Pitreavie near Edinburgh today (June 21). Benita ran alone for the last 3000m of the 5000m to win by almost 300m, Collis ran the last 1km in 2.25 to win the 1500m by 4 secs and Bromley was too strong over the final 100m for the field after a pedestrian first lap. Details will appear in the results section tomorrow.

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Andy Baddeley sets European mile lead

Olympic 1500m finalist Andy Baddeley set Europe's fastest mile time when he recorded 3.51.83 to place 2nd at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava on June 17. Baddeley's next race will be the Dream mile in Oslo on July 3, the venue he notched a famous victory last year setting 2008's fastest mile time.

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Jeff Riseley sets 800m personal best

Australian 1500m champion Jeff Riseley set a new 800m personal best of 1.45.48 in placing 3rd in the B heat of the (8th overall at the meeting) at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava on June 17. It was almost a whole second faster than Riseley's previous best and it now ranks him no.7 all-time amongst Australians. His next race will be the Dream Mile in Oslo on July 3.

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Ryan Gregson runs first sub 4 minute mile in Ostrava

Competing is his first open European grand prix race, 19-year-old Ryan Gregson became the 45th Australian and the 3rd Australian junior to run a sub 4-minute-mile. Gregson placed 12th behind a slew of Africans and Briton Andy Baddeley racing only 5 days after he had arrived in Europe.

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Benita Willis, Collis Birmingham and Nick Bromley in Scotland this weekend.

Benita Willis (5000m), Coilis Birmingham (1500m) and Nick Bromley (800m) are the headline names at this weekend's (June 20-21) Scottish Athletics Championshionships at Pitreavie near Edinburgh. It will be Benita's first race on the track since 2007 and for Birmingham an attempt to win his 3rd straight Scottish 1500m title.

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Scott Westcott 2nd in NSW cross country championship

Scott Westcott has placed 2nd in NSW 12km cross country championship in Nowra today (June 20), an event he was using as part of his preparation for the World Championships marathon in Berlin in August. Today he was 2nd to former national cross country championship Jeff Hunt running 39.35 on the tough Nowa course. In the women's 8km championship Eloise Wellings place 4th in in 31.28 with the race won by former Australian 10,000m champion Melinda Vernon.

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