Star born as 16-year-old lands on Dolphins team
Sienna Toohey wins the women's 100m breaststroke at the 2025 Australian trials, and nails Swimming Australia's time standard, to qualify for her first senior Dolphins team.
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Perth Now
32 minutes ago
- Perth Now
Soaring in Sweden: Olyslagers, Duplantis hit heights
Australian high jumper Nicola Olyslagers and 3000m runner Linden Hall made it a special day for Australian athletics at the Stockholm Diamond League meet but were still mere support acts to another world-record show-stopper from the incredible Armand Duplantis. Pole vaulter supreme 'Mondo' wowed his home fans in the Swedish capital's venerable Olympic Stadium on Sunday by soaring to 6.28 metres -- the 12th time the 25-year-old has set a new landmark. The double Olympic champ improved his previous record, set in February, by one centimetre on his first attempt, cheered to the rafters by an ecstatic home crowd. Australian Kurtis Marschall did his best to challenge the hometown hero but had to settle for second place with a 5.90m vault before his great pal Duplantis cleared 6.00m and set the stage for his record-busting vault, making the new landmark look preposterously easy. 'Mondo' sprinted away from the landing mat in ecstasy, tore off his vest to celebrate his first ever world record on Swedish soil and declared: "This was one of my biggest goals and dreams, to set a world record here at Stadion. "I really wanted to do it, I had my whole family here, from both sides - it's magic, it's magic!" Of his landmark leap, he added: "I almost couldn't believe it, it felt like the very first time I broke the record. It feels unreal, I'm just so happy, it's a cloud nine feeling. It's hard to explain, it's hard to compare, it felt a bit like the Olympics. "My grandma, she wanted me to promise yesterday that I would break the world record today - so I had a lot of pressure on me to do that in front of her, and I'm glad I could do it for her." He reckoned he would celebrate with a night on the town in Stockholm with the visiting sprint king Usain Bolt, who was watching from the stands. Earlier, Paris silver medallist Olyslagers had outjumped Olympic champ Yaroslava Mahuchikh with an equal season's best 2.01m leap that the Ukrainian star couldn't match, clearing a best of 1.99m. Olyslagers' domestic rival Eleanor Patterson had to settle for joint-fourth with a 1.91m effort. "That felt great, jumping out there in those conditions," said Olympic silver medalist Olyslagers. "I take great inspiration competing against other world-class high jumpers, and am managing the travel to and from Australia by allowing myself more time -- and it is working." In the 3000m, the 33-year-old Victorian veteran Hall enjoyed the win of her career as she knocked over five seconds off her personal best, battling home to clock 8min 30.01sec and oust Ugandan Sarah Chelengat by 1.26sec. "I won a 1500 metres here a few years ago but I hadn't won a Diamond League race before. I've finally got there so it's pretty cool," beamed Hall. "I hadn't started well but I got to the last 600 and thought 'I've got a little more in the legs'. This is my favourite Diamond League and now this only adds to that." With agencies
Sydney Morning Herald
2 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Formula 1 LIVE: Piastri starts third for Canadian Grand Prix, behind Russell and Verstappen
3.31am The Canadian Grand Prix: What you need to know, in a snapshot The 4.361-kilometre Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve is on the man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River. It only came to host grand prix racing after it had served its original purpose as host of the Expo 67 World's Fair in 1967 and, later, the Montreal Olympics in 1976. It first hosted the Canadian Grand Prix in 1978 when, fittingly, Canadian star Gilles Villeneuve claimed his first win at the track that would end up bearing his name. Villeneuve, the father of 1997 world champion Jacques, was the runner-up in the 1979 world championship with Ferrari but died in a crash during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. He was just 32. His track is beloved by drivers up and down the grid, and it's not hard to see why, given how action-packed the fast, low-downforce circuit is. There's a mixture of high-speed straights and very slow and technical corners and chicanes, but it's very free-flowing – and picturesque, too, given its surrounds. You've probably heard of the most iconic section of the track – turn 14, or 'the Wall of Champions'. It's the name given to the wall alongside the track out of the final turn and leading up to the start-finish line after former world champions Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher made contact with it during the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix race weekend. Last year's winner: Max Verstappen in his Red Bull Overtakes completed last year: 83 (by contrast, there were just 17 at last year's Monaco Grand Prix) Most wins: Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton (both seven) Lap record: 1m 13.078s, Valtteri Bottas in his Mercedes in 2019 Fun fact: The longest race in F1 history took place in Canada in 2011 – four hours, four minutes and 39 seconds. These days, Formula 1 has a three-hour window (from once a race starts) for the completion of a grand prix. 3.31am This race couldn't actually be about damage limitation for Oscar, could it? Championship leader Oscar Piastri stayed hopeful after a qualifying session that had McLaren team principal Andrea Stella talking of damage limitation in this morning's Canadian Grand Prix. The Australian will start from third on the grid with teammate Lando Norris, 10 points behind in the standings after nine of 24 races, back in seventh. Mercedes' George Russell took pole position and Red Bull's Max Verstappen, winner in Canada for the past three years, joined him on the front row in a repeat of 2024's qualifying top two at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal. 'Our pace on race days is generally where we're strong,' Piastri, winner of five races this season and bidding to become the first Australian to take six in a single campaign, said in a press conference. 'These two next to me were very quick in the race runs yesterday, so it's certainly not going to be a slam dunk win, but I think we're definitely in the fight.' The scrappy qualifying session, a gift for those talking up bad blood between Russell and Verstappen after a headline clash in Spain between the pair, left McLaren off the pace for once. It was the first time Mercedes had taken pole this season. 'The picture changes completely for the race – that's what we have to focus on,' Stella told Sky Sports. 'I think in terms of race pace we should be a bit more comfortable, but let's see. This weekend could be one of damage limitation.' Norris will certainly have a battle on his hands to get onto the podium. '[I made] a couple of big mistakes, one hitting the wall on the last lap on the exit of turn seven and also the first lap at the final corner – mistakes that cost me,' he said. 'We have not been as quick as usual, and it was maybe not the car to take pole position, but it should have been enough for the top three. 'It is a very easy track to push 1% too much and pay the price, and that's what happened today. A podium will be tough because we don't have the pace we have had of the past few races.'
The Age
2 hours ago
- The Age
Formula 1 LIVE: Piastri starts third for Canadian Grand Prix, behind Russell and Verstappen
Latest posts Latest posts 3.31am The Canadian Grand Prix: What you need to know, in a snapshot The 4.361-kilometre Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve is on the man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River. It only came to host grand prix racing after it had served its original purpose as host of the Expo 67 World's Fair in 1967 and, later, the Montreal Olympics in 1976. It first hosted the Canadian Grand Prix in 1978 when, fittingly, Canadian star Gilles Villeneuve claimed his first win at the track that would end up bearing his name. Villeneuve, the father of 1997 world champion Jacques, was the runner-up in the 1979 world championship with Ferrari but died in a crash during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. He was just 32. His track is beloved by drivers up and down the grid, and it's not hard to see why, given how action-packed the fast, low-downforce circuit is. There's a mixture of high-speed straights and very slow and technical corners and chicanes, but it's very free-flowing – and picturesque, too, given its surrounds. You've probably heard of the most iconic section of the track – turn 14, or 'the Wall of Champions'. It's the name given to the wall alongside the track out of the final turn and leading up to the start-finish line after former world champions Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher made contact with it during the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix race weekend. Last year's winner: Max Verstappen in his Red Bull Overtakes completed last year: 83 (by contrast, there were just 17 at last year's Monaco Grand Prix) Most wins: Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton (both seven) Lap record: 1m 13.078s, Valtteri Bottas in his Mercedes in 2019 Fun fact: The longest race in F1 history took place in Canada in 2011 – four hours, four minutes and 39 seconds. These days, Formula 1 has a three-hour window (from once a race starts) for the completion of a grand prix. 3.31am This race couldn't actually be about damage limitation for Oscar, could it? Championship leader Oscar Piastri stayed hopeful after a qualifying session that had McLaren team principal Andrea Stella talking of damage limitation in this morning's Canadian Grand Prix. The Australian will start from third on the grid with teammate Lando Norris, 10 points behind in the standings after nine of 24 races, back in seventh. Mercedes' George Russell took pole position and Red Bull's Max Verstappen, winner in Canada for the past three years, joined him on the front row in a repeat of 2024's qualifying top two at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal. 'Our pace on race days is generally where we're strong,' Piastri, winner of five races this season and bidding to become the first Australian to take six in a single campaign, said in a press conference. 'These two next to me were very quick in the race runs yesterday, so it's certainly not going to be a slam dunk win, but I think we're definitely in the fight.' The scrappy qualifying session, a gift for those talking up bad blood between Russell and Verstappen after a headline clash in Spain between the pair, left McLaren off the pace for once. It was the first time Mercedes had taken pole this season. 'The picture changes completely for the race – that's what we have to focus on,' Stella told Sky Sports. 'I think in terms of race pace we should be a bit more comfortable, but let's see. This weekend could be one of damage limitation.' Norris will certainly have a battle on his hands to get onto the podium. '[I made] a couple of big mistakes, one hitting the wall on the last lap on the exit of turn seven and also the first lap at the final corner – mistakes that cost me,' he said. 'We have not been as quick as usual, and it was maybe not the car to take pole position, but it should have been enough for the top three. 'It is a very easy track to push 1% too much and pay the price, and that's what happened today. A podium will be tough because we don't have the pace we have had of the past few races.'
