Linden Hall has made her own piece of Australian athletics history, becoming the first Australian woman to run under four minutes for 1500m in Melbourne on Thursday (1).
Rose Davies, Brett Robinson and Linden Hall victorious in Box Hill
Like all other athletes around the world, Kelsey-Lee Barber finds herself suddenly in a world full of uncertainties. The Covid-19 pandemic throws into chaos the carefully-laid plans most athletes make and follow towards an Olympic Games. Worse, they can’t make new plans until the scope and duration of the crisis becomes clearer. And no-one can tell them when that will be.
The past few months of Linden Hall’s life must seem like one long dream.
The local headlines in California were dominated by Bernard Lagat's world M40 masters' best of 27:49.35 in the 10,000m, but Irene Cheptai’s 31:13:58 also commanded a huge amount of attention at the Payton Jordan Invitational in Stanford, USA on Sunday (1).