By: TrackAthletes
Published on: Apr 25, 2025
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What is TrackAthletes?
TrackAthletes is your ultimate resource for following Australian track and field athletes. It includes information about Australian athletes, what competitions they’ll be competing in, and how to follow all the major domestic and international indoor, track and field, multievent, race walking, cross country and road racing events.
The Australian page has been built on the successful website set up for Irish athletes. You can access both Australian and Irish pages.
The website shows athletes currently in qualifying spots for major international championships, including on the Road to Tokyo (World Athletics Championships). The current qualification picture for other international championship events, together with links to event websites and selection policies, can be found via our Other Championships page.
If you want to follow specific athletes or meetings, simply set up an account, and add the athletes, competitions and championships you’re interested in to your Watchlist.
Who is the site for?
Anyone with an interest in Australian athletics will find something of interest on the site. Our main target audience are fans of the sport - new and diehard - who want to watch more Australian athletes in action.
If you’re just interested in an athlete, select their profile from the Australian Athletes page, set up an account, and add them to your Watchlist. If you opt to receive email notifications, we’ll let you know every time they’re due to compete.
If you’re a die-hard fan and want to watch everything the sport has to offer, then check our calendar each day. You’ll see what competitions are on and how to watch them.
We’ll write articles for those who are somewhere in between, and want to learn more about the sport, when the best events are on, and how to watch them.
If you’re an athlete, you can use the filter options on our calendar to plan your season. However, we strongly recommend that you check all details on the meeting organisers’ websites before firming your race plan; some information, including dates of competitions and level of the meet, can change as the season progresses.
We want to elevate the sport of athletics, and journalists and others working in athletics media may find useful information for telling the story of Australian athletes on their journey to major championships. Referencing the website in return is always appreciated.
You use the word Track in your title. Does that mean we can’t find anything about field events here?
TrackAthletes is all about tracking athletes, irrespective of their discipline, as they compete on the international circuit and try to qualify for major championships. We share links so you can follow Australian athletes (by livestream and live results, where available), in track and field competitions and on the roads and cross country, and updates of athletes qualified for upcoming major championships.
I watched the athletics at the Olympics, and liked what I saw. How can I follow the sport in non-Olympic years?
Firstly, you’ve come to the right place. We really want to help lower the entry barrier for new fans of athletics. During the Australian winter there can be many European and North American meets on during the week. We give you the livestreams, which for most can be watched on replay. You’ll also find for each event the timetable, start lists and live results.
We’ll highlight those major events (such as Diamond League, Grand Slam Track) which are a great place to start as they’ll have Australian athletes competing against the world’s best, informative commentary, and something at stake (e.g. championship titles or lots of prize money).
We also share some articles on what is good to watch and how to follow the sport closer. Check out our explanation of how the Diamond League works, and what Australian athletes have to do in their quest for World Championship qualificaton.
There are a lot of filter options on the Calendar page. How can I best use them?
This searchable database of events includes national and international competitions, and will be of interest to both fans looking to watch the events, and athletes looking to plan their seasons.
Dates of competitions, events at a particular meeting, and the level of the meeting may change. While every effort is made to ensure that the information is up to date, please always check the meeting website. We hold no responsibility for loss or damage occurring as a result of information gained from this site.
Can you explain the relevancy scale?
Very High: High standard domestic events - these are events we think you should try get to in person.
High: Major Championships, Diamond Leagues, and World/Continental Tour Meetings with Australian athletes competing.
Medium: These are lower-ranked meetings with Australian athletes, or World/Continental Tour Meetings which are likely to feature Australian athletes, but have none listed yet.
Low: These are meetings which have little or no relevance to fans of Australian athletes and do not feature big international stars.
Why do only certain meetings appear on the homepage?
The Upcoming Meetings list on our homepage indicate the next meetings which have a Very High or High relevance attached to them, i.e. that they are domestic meetings, or are World Athletics tour meetings with Australian athletes confirmed in them. If you'd like to see a more complete list of upcoming meetings, then please check out the Meeting Calendar.
Are underage events listed?
No. TrackAthletes is focused on senior athletics. Some major U20 events may be mentioned, especially if there’s an international championship to watch, but the priority is always adult and senior athletes and competitions.
Profiles of individuals who are under the age of 18 will never be added to the site.
If an athlete is listed on a start list, does that mean they’ll definitely be competing?
No. There can be a last-minute change of plan, due to illness, injury, missed flights or an athlete being upgraded to a higher meeting. The higher the meeting, the more likely an athlete listed on the final startlist is to compete.
We will always try to list the most up-to-date information we can find, but this may not always be accurate. We encourage athletes to let us know if they are no longer competing in a competition they've entered, but sometimes they have other things on their mind.
I’m looking for the results for an event that happened two weeks ago, but the event is no longer listed on the calendar. Is it possible to find this?
While only events in the future will appear by default on the calendar, if you choose the year in the search, you will see past events. Events back to when the site was started (January 2025) can be found this way, though there is no guarantee that the links still work (as these are all on external websites).
Why do I need to set up an account and log into the site?
You don’t. But if you want to save athletes and events to your Watchlist, then you’ll need to register an account. When you’re setting up your account, you can opt to receive email notifications about when the athletes on your Watchlist are due to compete and additional information during championships on your Watchlist.
What do you do with my data?
We take your privacy rights seriously, and you’ll find the full details of why we collect data, what data we collect and how we store and manage it in our Privacy Policy.
Who is behind this site?
The TrackAthletes Irish site was set up in January 2025 by Louise Shanahan and Elizabeth Egan, both athletes, avid athletics fans, and data enthusiasts. Angus Barnes has been working with them over the last couple of months to help establish and manage the Australian TrackAthletes page.
Louise, from Cork, is an Irish senior international athlete. She competed in the 800m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has multiple Irish titles and held the Irish senior 800m record from May 2022 to May 2023. She completed a PhD in Quantum Physics at University of Cambridge in 2024, and has since picked up the programming skills to build this website. Louise is sponsored by Asics and is currently aiming to qualify for her second Olympics in 2028.
Elizabeth has been tracking Irish athletes on their ‘Road to…’ journeys, deciphering ranking points and sharing links to livestreams and results since 2020. She has a PhD in Exercise Physiology, has published two books, and provides lifestyle and personal development coaching to high performance sportspeople. She competed in her first All-Ireland cross country championships in 1993 and has six Irish Senior steeplechase medals.
Angus Barnes’ passion for athletics stems from days as a junior middle distance runner in the 1980’s representing Tasmania. He’s always been interested in the data and reporting aspect of sport, editing an in-house newsletter for the Australian Institute of Sport resident athletes, while living there as an athlete supervisor. His level of engagement with athletics has grown over the last few years with the increasing prevalence of livestreamed events and growing prominence of Australia athletes on the world stage.
Where do your photos come from?
All photos on the Australian site are used with the permission of the photographer who took them. We are indebted to Fred Etter, Michael Thomas (MTSportsPhotography), InsideAthletics and SS Athletics for the use of their wonderful shots.
If you're a photographer and have photos that we can use, then we'd love to hear from you. We're particularly interested in photos of field, road event and para athletes.
How can I contact TrackAthletes?
You can get in touch via email or through the contact form on this site. We’d love to hear your comments and suggestions on how the site can be improved. We also want to hear when we’ve missed information or got something wrong, so that we can correct it.
More athlete profiles will be added as the site grows, but if there’s an athlete that you would like to follow, or if you’re an athlete yourself and would like to be added so that your friends and family can easily follow your races, then do get in touch.
I’m an athlete and I’ve spotted missing and incorrect information about myself. What should I do?
Please contact us via email or our mistake reporting form. We want the information on the site to be correct, but we're human and sometimes we get things wrong. Whether we've missed the fada from your name, added you to a meeting that you're not competing in, or missed a PB or qualifying standard, please don't feel like you're being a nuisance. We want to know when something is wrong, so that we can make it right.
I’m a meeting organiser and my meeting is not listed. Why is this?
We make every effort to add meetings relevant to Australian senior athletes and fans focusing on the international competitions that Australian athletes are competing in for the next six months. However, sometimes we miss an important event. If that's the case, then please get in touch.
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