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Congratulations to everyone who participated in the club’s first ever virtual race. With the 2021 XCR season cancelled, the club celebrated what would have been...
Athletics Essendon has gone live on Strava. Jump on, get connected and get ready for some club challenges. https://www.strava.com/clubs/athleticsessendon
With today's announcement of easing of restrictions in Victoria, the club has decided to postpone the AGM until 11am Sunday August 22. Only 10 people can...
Athletics Essendon's Maria Strong has been selected for the Tokyo Paralympics in the F33 seated shot put. This is a Paralympics debut for Maz at...
After a lengthy delay, the XCR season got back up and running at Cruden Farm. Good winter weather made for near perfect conditions, with no...
Congratulations to Linden Hall (1500m) and Liam Adams (Marathon) for their official selection for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Athletics Team. Tokyo will be the...
Athletics Essendon is mourning the passing of life member Neville Sillitoe. Neville was undoubtedly Australia’s greatest sprint coach, coaching numerous Olympic and Commonwealth games representatives...
The first of the individual XCR events was held in near perfect conditions at the Lardner Park venue. The course varied from flat to undulating...
A great day for our club started with an hour of lawn bowls at Buckley Park bowls club. We welcomed our guests, Glenn Turnor the...
Annual Membership Now Due The current athletics year started on the 1st April 2021and ends on 31 March 2022.If you intend being a member for...
It was great to have XCR back and perfect weather made for a pleasant day for a cross country relay. Thanks again to those who...
A big weekend at Doncaster was a good way to finish off the summer of track & field. Our Essendon Masters (over 35 years) starred...
Athletics Essendon (ESS) & Athletics Victoria (AV) welcome you to the 2021-2022 10 race XCR (cross country and road races) season. The program is on...
The Bill Burke 4Km handicap event is conducted to honour the memory of the club's longest serving coach and mentor. Born in April 1907, Bill...
Sydney April 12 to 19 After last years National Champs were cancelled, it was great to see so many Essendon Athletes trek to Sydney to...
Linden Hall becomes the first Australian woman to break the 4min mark for the 1500m 3:59.67 Continuing her blistering form which has seen her go...
HVC #8 Female100m: Nina Lawson 12.96 (+0.0); 200m Hurdles: Lily-Bella Hilli 33.08 (+0.0);Triple Jump: Zara Keca 12.04m (+0.0); Catherine Mendes 11.94m (0.4); Emily Portaro 11.79m...
Congratulations to our most recent club record breakers. Linden Hall's sub 2 minute 800m in Brisbane broke Margaret Crowley's 1996 record by 0.38sec. Meanwhile Ellie...
Superstar Linden Hall does it again! 800m Olympic Qualifier, a 2.05sec PB and a new Athletics Essendon Club Record. A superb 1:59.22 She jumps to...
Congratulations to Doncaster for winning the 2020/21 Premier division Play Off. Our 60 competitors simply couldn't match their weight of numbers and in the end...
It was a ripper night for Essendon at the Melbourne Track Classic Thursday 25th March. Highlighted by Maria Strong's Oceania and Australian Record in the...
Round 10 was one of the club's worst results for quite a while. With round 9 points being wiped ESS ended up finishing the season...
