Australian marathon runner Lisa Weightman has attained an Olympic qualifying time and a twelfth place finish at today’s BMW Frankfurt Marathon. While her time of 2:29:23 is shy of her personal best of 2:28:48 which she set in winning the 2010 Nagano International Marathon, it is well under the 2:32:00 mark set by Athletics Australia…
Matt Ebden has this evening booked his place in the quarter finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters event with a 6-2 2-6 7-6 (10-8) victory over the eighth seeded world #12 Gilles Simon. In his finest career performance to date, the Australian took the first set before Simon drew on all his experience and rallied…
The Australian men’s 4 x 400m relay team have missed out on qualification to the final at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. Sam Maxwell Sports Management athlete Ben Offereins helped the Aussies clock the ninth fastest time in Australian 4 x 400 relay history – 3:01.56 – but it was still outside the…
Ben Offereins was in the form of his life two years ago at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin but must now refocus for the next World Championships instalment in Daegu, South Korea. Offereins ran the third leg in Berlin to rescue the Australians from last place to finish fourth fastest in the heats and…
World Champion Michael Freiberg is hoping that a stint living and training with US cycling star Taylor Phinney in Boulder, Colorado will pay dividends at the Airforce Cycling Classic beginning tomorrow in Arlington, Virginia.
Dual national 400m champion Ben Offereins and his 2010 female counterpart Jody Henry, both hailing from the Lyn Foreman stable in Perth, are about to end a 21 day period spent at the Australian Institute of Sport’s Altitude House in Canberra.
Two-time Wimbledon champion, Rafael Nadal stopped Matt Ebden’s run at the Queens Tournament on Wednesday evening, but the Australian was far from disgraced in the 6-4 6-4 result. Ebden produced a strong serving display and applied pressure to the current world number one from the back of the court. “Overall the match was good,” Ebden…
Australia’s number 3 ranked tennis player Matthew Ebden has booked a date with world No. 1 Rafael Nadal after winning his first round match at Queen’s against India’s Somdev Devvarman. Ebden looked comfortable in his 7-5 6-3 win over the world No. 67, a player who he lost to in straight sets at last year’s…
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kevin Moore capped an impressive few weeks by running a new meet record over 400m in the States of Europe Meet in Schaan, Liechtenstein over the weekend. Coming just weeks after being named in the Australian team for the World University Games in August, Moore powered to victory in a time…
Sam Maxwell Sports Management is pleased to announce that talented Australian sprinter Kevin Moore has joined the SMSM stable. At only 20 years of age, Moore was a member of the gold medal-winning 4x400m Australian relay team from last year’s Commonwealth Games. Moore began his athletics career at the age of 8, where he was…
