![]() Monica Brennan was selected for the women's 4 × 400 m relay team, but did not run in either heat or final.Storm Gertrude didn’t bring the expected wind to Fountains Abbey and the course was in excellent condition when we ran around to set up at 0800hrs, a big thankyou to the National Trust for ensuring our course was yet again in tip top condition for our 40 new PBs.Īs we are on the subject of thanks we must give a huge round of applause to our amazing volunteers including our volunteering families for standing in the cold and cheering all 271 athletes around the course. On 30 July 2016, sprinter Josh Clarke withdrew from the Games after failing to fully recover from a hamstring injury that he suffered in the early months of the year. On 29 June 2016, sprint hurdler and reigning Olympic champion Sally Pearson withdrew from the Games due to a hamstring injury, with middle-distance runner Melissa Duncan following her with the same incident two weeks later. Six marathon runners (three per gender) were named to the Australian team on, and were followed by three 20 km (12 mi) race walkers and one long-distance runner at the first of week of June 2016. Twenty-seven track and field athletes were announced on 3 April 2016, following the completion of the Australian Championships. On 8 January 2016, the Australian Olympic Committee had selected the two long-distance runners (one each in both men's and women's 10,000 m) and three race walkers, including three-time Olympic medallist Jared Tallent, in the men's 50 km (31 mi). The team selected its athletes with a specific qualifying standard based on the results at the 2016 Australian Championships and Olympic Trials (31 March to 3 April) in Sydney. Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer OlympicsĪustralian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event). The men's team (Potts, Tyack, and Worth) was officially named to the Australian roster for the Games on, with Alice Ingley joining them on her Olympic debut in the women's individual archery one month later. Another Australian archer has been added to the squad by finishing in the top two of the women's individual recurve at the Oceania Qualification Tournament in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Three Australian archers qualified for the men's events after having secured a top eight finish in the team recurve at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics This amount includes funding to Winter Olympics and non-Olympic sports. In the lead up to the Rio Olympics, the Australian Sports Commission advised that it had invested A$376.7 million to high performance sports in the Rio cycle 2012–2016. In May 2014 Australian Sports Minister Peter Dutton announced that 650 Australian athletes identified as medal prospects would receive funding directly from a newly designed program that reallocated A$1.6 million from the Direct Athlete Support program. Kitty Chiller, who competed as a modern pentathlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, was selected as the team's Chef de Mission, the first female to hold the role for Australia. * – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final relay.
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