Canberra Pictorial

A great initiative from the Athletics ACT to organise the High Noon Meets every months during the freezing winter season at the AIS Athletics Field. It was in particular interesting to see up-coming young guns to take up established elite athletes as well as veterans. This truly shows the spirits of competitive athletics in its paramount form.

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The Canberra Pictorial team has worked hard to download, sort, crop, and categorise all 928 selected images from the ACTLAA Championship. We are pleased to announce that they are now available for viewing from below links.

>> Complete Canberra Pictorial Coverage on ACTLAA State Championship.

$15/image special deal is offered to all 928 images from the 2-day event. All images will be edited and fine-tuned before delivery. All images are delivered digitally via Canberra Pictorial secured website.

If your photo is in the Editor’s Selections of the Day!, please contact us and we would like to offer you a free 8″ x 12″ print delivered to celebrate your fantastic sporting moment!

Congratulations to all athletes competing in the 2009 ACTLAA State Championships. What a way to showcase the energy, emotion, and sportsmanship from our little athletes. 700 images has been selection for editing and we will upload all of them for viewing later this week. In the meantime, check out out editor’s choices of the day!

Editor’s Selections of the Day! Day 1

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More than 600 little athletes gathered at the AIS Athletics Field for a weekend of thrilling track and field actions. The emotions going on on these little athletes’ face are of sheer excitement. It’s more than winning the medals, it’s the participation in itself that brings all the children together; hence the community.

It is an honor to be part of the action and we will continue to cover Day 2 of the ACT Little Athletics State Championship from the AIS Athleties Field tomorrow, and all images for sale from today will be uploaded shortly have been uploaded.

Australian talents continue to keep those surprises coming on the third and final day of the ACT Track & Field Championship at the AIS Athletics Field. ACT Academy of Sports (ACTAS) hurdler Lauren Boden wins the 400m event with 57.06s following Tristan Thomas‘ sensational A-qualifying performance, making him standing 4th on All-time Aussie list.

AIS sprinter Kurt Mulcahy and ACTAS scholarship holder Melissa Breen continued their superb form, both winning the 200m sprint event. Final event of the meet was men long jump where fierce competition was evident between AIS jumper John Thornell and Victorian Henry Frayne. Frayne produced a 7.99m jump just 1 centimeter shy of Aussie junior record. Thornell’s final round of 7.95 would not match Frayne’s superb effort, but shows that the talented Thornell is back with flying style.

ACT Track & Field Championship concludes with some amazing results and these athletes will compete in the upcoming Sydney Track Classic and the Melbourne Track Classic.

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Perfect condition at the AIS Athletics Field on Day 2 of the ACT Track and Field Championships sets up a few big moments in the lead up to the World Championship in Berlin. Kurt Mulcahy of AIS clocked a B-qualifying time performance and a personal best in the 400m heat. ACT Academy of Sports (ACTAS)’s Jenni Bryce threw a new Australian Record of 7.95m in the seated shot put event.

There was also a heated Discus Throw Seated competition going on between Beijing Paralympians Hamish MacDonald of AIS, Greg Hibberd of ACTAS and unofficially Damien Bowen of ACTAS. Hamish took the lead with 28.20m, following very close results from Hibberd (28.02m) and Bowen (27.95m is it?).

Highlight in the afternoon was also Canberra sprinter Melissa Breen in her 100m sprint final. The time of 11.47 gives her a solid win in the lead up to the Sydney Track Classic where Breen will face Olympic hurdles silver medallist Sally McLellan.

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Day 4 of the 2008 Pacific Schools Games at Canberra, no surprise it was another action-packed day at the AIS Athletics Field. Victoria’s 14-year-old Pole Vaulter Brodie Cross did a whopping 4.41m to claim Gold Medal as well as setting a new Australian record for the Boys Pole Vault 14yr event at the Pacific Schools Games. Congratulations to Brodie on such magnificent achievement.

Girl 5000 meters walk for 16 and 17 year was also on the way at the Track.

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