National 400m Champion Ben Offereins was last night 7th in the final of the Men’s 400m at the Commonwealth Games. Despite going in to the final with the quickest time from 2010 of anyone in the field, Offereins was philosophical about his performance at the Games. “I made a Commonwealth Games final, and I’m happy.…
Australia’s Matthew Ebden will tonight play off for the Commonwealth Games Bronze Medal against fellow Australian and Davis Cup regular, Peter Luczak. The match will be the second fixture on Court 1, scheduled for 7pm Delhi time (12.30am AEST). Despite being beaten by top seeded Indian Somdev Devvarman in the semi finals, Ebden has felt privileged…
National 400m Champion Ben Offereins will tonight contest the final of the Men’s 400m at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. In perhaps the toughest of the three semi finals, Offereins placed third behind Michael Mathieu and Conrad Williams in a time of 46.11sec. He then had to endure an agonising five minute wait to…
Australia’s hope in the women’s marathon event, Lisa Weightman will depart for Delhi later this afternoon from her training camp in Cairns. With the marathon scheduled as the last event on the program next Thursday 14 October, it was always going to be the plan of Weightman’s coach Richard Telford, to have her arrive in…
National Champion Ben Offereins easily progressed through to the semi finals of the 400m with a comfortable 46.85 sec run at the Jawahdal Nehru Stadium. Taking the first 200m out hard, Offereins eased up over the closing stages of the race and cruised to the line to gain automatic qualification through to the next round.…
Australian number 3 seed Matthew Ebden moved within one win of the gold medal match after recording a tight three set victory over England’s Josh Goodall. In the hot and humid Delhi conditions Ebden prevailed 6-7 6-1 7-6 in just under 2 hours and 15 minutes. Goodall played exceptionally well throughout the tight encounter and…
The heats of the men’s 400m get underway this afternoon with Ben Offereins being drawn in Heat 2. Of the other Australians, Joel Milburn is in Heat 3 and will have to contend with the improving Kenyan Mark Kiprotich Muttai. Sean Wroe in Heat 6 should have enough speed to also progress after receiving a…
Australia’s Matthew Ebden won through to the quarter-finals of the men’s singles at the Commonwealth Games overnight with a commanding 6-4 7-5 victory over Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi from Pakistan. Qureshi, a recent finalist at the 2010 US Open in both doubles and mixed doubles, was unable to handle Ebden’s supreme consistency in the humid conditions on…
Both Lisa Weightman and Jody Henry will be waiting until later in the Commonwealth Games Athletics Program for their turn to race. Weightman, so far undefeated in any race in 2010 will contest the women’s marathon next Thursday 14 October, which is the last day of competition. Henry will lead the Australian charge in the…
With his training and competition planning throughout this year all geared towards the Games, National Champion Ben Offereins will run the heats of the individual 400m tomorrow (Thursday 7 October) at 5:10pm AEST. From the athletes entered in the 400m, Offereins goes in as the one with the fastest time thus far in 2010. While…