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Grand arrival … Budapest.

Port guide: Budapest, Hungary

Grand architecture, a rich history, and a stylish and confident present make Budapest one of Europe’s most beautiful, fascinating and lively capitals.

  • Brian Johnston

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The love child of brioche and a doughnut.

This country’s rustic doughnut offshoot is worthy of a trip on its own

You’ll need your stretchy pants for a day-trip to this Hungarian town where a brioche and a doughnut had a love child.

  • Kerry van der Jagt
Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel.

The real-life Grand Budapest Hotel is excessive in the best ways

This palatial Anantara outpost feels like I’ve stepped onto a Wes Anderson film set.

  • Sheriden Rhodes
Australia won six medals at the world athletics championships in Budapest.

‘We can do anything in Paris’: Why grand Budapest haul has Aussie aths team cock-a-hoop

Australia’s athletics team leaves Hungary with its best-ever haul of medals from the world championships and brimming with confidence less than a year out from the Paris Olympics.

  • Michael Gleeson
Silver medallist Eleanor Patterson, Ukraine’s gold medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh nd bronze medallist Nicola Olyslagers wer on the podium in the women’s high jump.

Two medals in one event: Aussie high jumpers claim both silver and bronze

Neither Eleanor Patterson nor Nicola Olyslagers claimed gold in the high jump, but they did achieve a rare feat, and they were overjoyed for the winner, displaced Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh.

  • Michael Gleeson
Australia’s Kurtis Marschall competing in the pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Budapest, where he won a bronze medal.

Bronze is rich reward for Marschall when Mondo has gold in the vault

Australian Kurtis Marschall knew he couldn’t beat pole vault great Armand Duplantis, but was elated to win a medal and end up on the podium with the man called “Mondo”.

  • Michael Gleeson
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Australian Mackenzie Little’s path to a bronze medal in the women’s javelin final at the world athletics championships in Budapest.

She’s no Dr do-Little: Why Aussie javelin thrower might need a day off work to collect her Budapest bronze

Compete against the world’s best javelin throwers in Budapest on Friday night, collect your medal at the weekend, back at work in a Sydney hospital on Monday. Welcome to Mackenzie Little’s busy life as a FIFO athlete.

  • Michael Gleeson
Women’s pole vault world champion Nina Kennedy.

‘All-time clutch performer’: Why new world champion Nina Kennedy can vault to Olympic gold

Having entrenched herself as Australia’s greatest women’s pole vaulter, Nina Kennedy can now realistically aim to break five metres and win gold in Paris at next year’s Olympic Games, her coach Paul Burgess said.

  • Michael Gleeson
Australia’s Catriona Bisset feels an affinity with sea turtles (inset) when she runs.

Flapping like a baby sea turtle: How Catriona Bisset is dashing for 800m glory

Leopards, cheetahs, gazelles - elite runners are often likened to animals. But Australia’s Catriona Bisset might be the only one at the world championships thinking like a sea turtle.

  • Michael Gleeson
Australian discus thrower Matthew Denny finished fourth at the world championships while his compatriot Nina Kennedy qualified for the pole vault final.

‘It’s on a slope’: Pole vaulter says downhill world champs track will produce big jumps

Nina Kennedy knew something was up when other pole vaulters were going big. She says the pole vault runway is on a slope.

  • Michael Gleeson

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