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Male Athlete Profiles
 Welcome to my biographies of Australia's best track and field athletes of all-time.
Over fifty profiles so far on-line - and here's the start of a range
of profiles covering the best male athletes in Australian history.
Some of the bios are quite short, but all will be extended in the future.
- Edwin Flack - Australia's first international champ
- Stan Rowley - still holds the record for most
medals by an Aussie male athlete
 Nigel Barker - world record in 1904
- Nick Winter - first field event star
- Jimmy Carlton - 20.6 for 200m in 1932
- Jack Metcalfe - the only Aussie
medal in 1936
- John Treloar - Commonwealth Sprint Star
- John Winter - West Australian Olympic High
Jump Champ
- John Landy - the four minute miler
- Hec Hogan - sprint world record-holder
- Herb Elliot - the world's greatest miler
- Ron Clarke - the legendary distance runner
- Peter Norman - 200m record in 68 still a record
- Ralph Doubell - Australia's last Olympic Champ
- Darren Clark - 400m star of the 80s and 90s
- Steve Moneghetti - marathon man
- Matt Shirvington - Five Time Australian 100m Champ
- Dmitri Markov - World Pole Vault Champion
And you can browse Golden Girl biographies by era:
Pioneers - Golden Era - Modern Athletes - Today's Athletes
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Welcome to my biographies of Australia's best track and field athletes of all-time.