‘Very wild’: Aussies achieve world champs first

News.com.au - 28/08
In an Australian first two athletes stood on the same podium at the world championships with Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers claiming silver and bronze in the high-jump.

In an Australian first two athletes stood on the same podium at the world championships with Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers claiming silver and bronze in the high-jump.

The shared podium is the first for Australia at the World Athletics Championships, and the first at a global athletics meet since the 1956 Olympics, when pioneers Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Matthews claimed gold and bronze respectively in the spr...
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