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World athletics championships

December 2024

Track and field athletes do not make as much money as other elite sportspeople such as golfers, tennis players, basketballers or baseball players.

The young sprint star on track to join Aussie sport’s big earners

The highest-earning Australian sports stars usually play tennis, golf or basketball. Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout may be able to change all that.

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  • Zoe Samios
Gout Gout

The world’s next Usain Bolt could be this Queensland teen

Gout Gout is just 16 but runs in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprints against athletes who have years on him. He’s already faster than some of the world’s best.

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  • Zoe Samios

August 2024

Jessica Hull brings it home in the women’s 1500m.

Australia’s athletes bag more Olympic medals than any Games since 1956

After Jess Hull won silver in the 1500m, the unsung Australian track-and-field team quietly surpassed the golden era of the 1960s.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt.

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  • Natasha Rudra and Lucy Slade

August 2023

Usain Bolt is hoping to trademark the pose he used to celebrate his wins.

Being the best just isn’t enough to make a living from sport

Usain Bolt understood that setting the world on fire with his athletic feats would not immediately transfer to personal riches – he had to do more.

  • Kris Rhim

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