Why did that #FIFAWorldCup 🏆win feel different?
Longest we have ever sat watching #Australia with a two goal lead
2006 vs Japan🇯🇵 3-1 for 1 minute
2010 vs Serbia🇷🇸 2-0 for 11 minutes
2026 vs Türkiye🇹🇷 2-0 for 21 minutes
#Socceroos🦘
Where do the top 50 run their PBs?
Looking at the 1500m, mile and 5000m for men initially.
Perhaps no surprise in the 1500m its Monaco. 34% of the top 50 in the 1500m have set their PB at Monaco & after that go to Paris.
34% Stade Louis II🇲🇨
10% Stade Charléty🇫🇷
8% Stade de France🇫🇷
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What about 5000m? Top 50 PBs are largely from:
32% Bislett Stadion🇳🇴
10% Boudewijnstadion🇧🇪
10% Stade de France🇫🇷
And for the milers, go find same Hayward Magic
30% Hayward Field🇺🇸
22% Bislett Stadion🇳🇴
10% Olympiastadion, Berlin🇩🇪
Will this be different for the women?
The last five games for #Australia at the #FIFAWorldCup 🏆
2022 v France🇫🇷 1-4
2022 v Tunisia🇹🇳 1-0
2022 v Denmark🇩🇰 1-0
2022 v Argentina🇦🇷 1-2
2026 v Türkiye🇹🇷 2-0
Won 3, and the two losses were to the 2022 #FIFAWorldCup 🏆 Finalists
#Socceroos 🦘
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Oliver Hoare breaks McSweyn's record almost two years later, and now we have Cameron Myers fast approaching.
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Steve Scott 🇺🇸 only man to win both the Wanamaker🇺🇸 and Dream Mile🇳🇴 in the same year (1982)
Video of the Dream Mile - Scott set his lifetime PB, 3:47.69. Mike Hillardt🇦🇺 3:57.06 (6th)
Cameron Myers🇦🇺 currently holds the Wanamaker trophy, runs Dream Mile Thurs. morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSH_...
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Never before had we seen an Australian dominate a middle-distance race at the Diamond League as McSweyn did, his first victory in a DL event.
As the graph shows the floodgates opened, with the new talent emerging.
There's a new podcast out covering all things in Australian athletics
athsSTATS was got a call up to present a Top 10 for the week, heavy with stats of course!
Thanks for your support over the years and great to see the interest in athletics growing
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Before Stockholm🇸🇪 Diamond League 1500m, you may want to watch this
Stewart McSweyn breaking the Australian 1500m record when winning the Doha Diamond League race in 2020
If there's a ground-zero for Australia's middle-distance resurgence you could argue it's this
youtube.com/watch?v=RWEh...