Australian athletes achieve historic success at the Paris Olympics and World Championships, breaking records and winning multiple medals.
Nina Kennedy won a gold medal in the pole vault at both the Paris Olympics and the World Championships . Jessica Hull broke the world 2,000-metre record and claimed an Olympic silver medal, finishing just behind the greatest of all time. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Gout Gout broke the country's longest-standing senior record in the men's 200m, running faster than Usain Bolt did at the same age.
It feels like there's a shift in the sport, where Australians — who used to only associate with athletics once every four years — have really started to take notice. It's now making headlines, on the back page of the paper, and leading the sport bulletins in the 7pm News.And it's all because the athletes — who track and field fanatics have known about for years — have stepped up to another level, catching the attention and the imagination of the nation.'I feel like if you had a said at the start of the year, we'd have seven Olympic medallists … multiple Paralympic medallists … 10 World Junior medallists, an age world record that beats Usain Bolt, you probably would have called bulls*** pretty quickly,' athletics commentator Mitch Dyer said.Nina Kennedy reacts after a successful attempt in the women's pole vault during the diamond league final 2024 athletics meet in Brussels in September. The Paris Olympic Games was the best performance from an Australian athletics team since Melbourne in 1956. The team brought home seven medals — one gold, two silver and four bronze — to claim the best Olympics result in 68 years.Kennedy's gold medal-winning pole vault of 4.90m was the first gold medal from an Australian woman in a field event. But she wasn't the only woman who dominated in the field — Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson won silver and bronze respectively in the high jump.She was only beaten by world record holder Faith Kipyegon who won her third consecutive 1,500 metre Olympic titl
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