Athletics Queensland Track and Field State Titles: Schoolgirl dreams of 2032 Olympics

One of Queensland’s most promising track athlete has dared to dream of the 2032 Olympic Games almost certainly bound for Brisbane.

When you live almost within the shadows of the proposed 2032 Olympic Games stadium at Albion like Isabella Harte, it is hard not to dream about possibly competing at a home Games.

St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ Schools middle distance athlete will be aged 26 and in her running prime when the Games come around.

She lives so close to the proposed stadium at Albion, the lights of the dog track currently on the site beam brightly across her neighbourhood.

“You’d be able to see the lights of the stadium (from out our window),’’ she smiled.

The national 16 years 3000m and 4km cross country 16 years champion, said she thinks about competing at a Brisbane Olympics “all the time’’.

Distance runner Isabella Harte, 15, is the Under 16 3km and Cross-country 4km National Champion, Ascot. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

“When it is local, it is more imaginable,’’ Harte said. “It is something that kids would think ‘it is just down the road and I could race there’.

“And you’d never think Brisbane, out of all the cities’s in Australia, could be chosen. That was a shock hearing that.’’

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Harte and many other young athletes around her age and younger will now have atwinkle in their eyes about the possibility of a Brisbane Olympics.

Distance runner Isabella Harte. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Harte just loves running.

early last year she created Queensland athletics history last night when she became the first 14-year-old to win the state 3000m under 20 and open championship race.

Then in 2019 she was the both the 1500m and 3000m national champion in her age group.

The state titles start today and will continue until Monday.

Originally published as Athletics Queensland Track and Field State Titles: Schoolgirl dreams of 2032 Olympics