Champion hurdler Sally Pearson's stellar comeback from career-threatening injuries has been recognised with a nomination for the IAAF's athlete of the year award.

But the Canberra middle-distance runner is using it as motivation to earn a shot at redemption.

The 22-year-old has set his sights on becoming just the second Australia run 100 metres in less than 10 seconds.

The newly crowned world champion has no plans to find a coach heading towards the Commonwealth Games and the next Olympics.

Melissa Breen will compete in The Canberra Times fun run for a cause close to her heart.

Sally Pearson has continued her hot athletics form, winning the women's 100m hurdles at the Diamond League final in Zurich.

During a memorial service in Mandurah, mourners remembered Betty not just for her sporting prowess, but for her humility, her love of God, and her loyal friendship.

Sally Pearson can win an Olympic medal as a 33-year-old in Tokyo according to coach Craig Hilliard.

Usain Bolt's teammates have accused organisers of contributing to the retiring superstar's dramatic collapse during his farewell to competition at the world championships.

Eight years after she won an unexpected and premature world gold as a 21-year-old, Dani Stevens has won a world silver medal in a fashion almost as unexpected her world gold.

After three lost years ruined by injury, Sally Pearson is world champion again.

A bold plan nearly paid off for Aussie Pat Tiernan in the 5000m final. His tactic might have helped consign the great distance running great Mo Farah to silver.

Sally Pearson's second world championship gold has elevated her to the best Australian track athlete of the modern era, according to Australia's head coach.

The world's most glorious athlete, Usain Bolt, finished his last race in the most inglorious fashion walking across the finish line.

Leading the steeplechase, Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech forgot to peel off for the water jump and just went sailing on by.

She could see she had lost her Olympic final before she had even begun.

Sally Pearson is poised for one of the great comebacks after recovering from years of injury to be the fastest qualifier into the world championship hurdles final.

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It was one of the great moments in Australian sport. You see, when Raelene Boyle won gold in her last race, at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982 – roaring home in the 400 Metres – the stadium roared even as the nation came to a standstill.

Sally Pearson has won her first serious race in three years, winning her heat at the World Athletics Championships