Golden Athletics in Budapest

Dr Kira James recently travelled to Europe with the Australian Athletics Team for their World Championships in August 2023.

The Athletics team based their staging camp in Montpellier, France as a test run for next year’s Paris Olympics – not a bad place to spend summer in Europe! Although there were no lazy beach-time cocktails in the hot Cairns-like conditions!!

The World Championships were sensational in a purpose-built stadium in Budapest, along the waterfront, in Australia’s BEST ever performance!

Nailing 1x gold, 2x silver & 3x bronze medals, Australia’s competing team of 64 placed 8th on the overall placing table. The team also achieved eleven Top-8 performances, and a collective total of 18 Top-16 placings, as well as a further three national records, three personal bests and four season’s bests.

Medically, we always have our ups and downs with injuries and illnesses on tour, adapting where we can, but with this amazing team, bring on Paris 2024! Can’t wait!