{"id":233968,"date":"2026-03-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/historic-unification-of-australian-athletics-and-little-athletics-australia-complete\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:00","slug":"historic-unification-of-australian-athletics-and-little-athletics-australia-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/historic-unification-of-australian-athletics-and-little-athletics-australia-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Unification of Australian Athletics and Little Athletics Australia Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"inner_content-23-12261\">\n<p>Australian athletics has entered a new era, with Australian Athletics and Little Athletics Australia officially unifying at a national level. This historic milestone brings the sport together under one structure, creating stronger connections between grassroots participation and high performance, while supporting long-term growth.<\/p>\n<p>The unification will deliver clearer pathways for athletes, enhanced support for centres\/clubs and volunteers, and new opportunities for the sport as a whole\u2014particularly as Australia looks ahead to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Find out what this means for athletes, families and the future of athletics by reading <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleathletics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-LA-unification-media-release-FINAL2_MT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the full media release here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To find out more, including answers to frequently asked questions, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.com.au\/aa-laa-unification-faqs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australian Athletics<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.8rem\">Posted 19\/03\/2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.8rem\">By Coles Little Athletics Australia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleathletics.com.au\/2026\/03\/19\/historic-unification-of-australian-athletics-and-little-athletics-australia-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian athletics has entered a new era, with Australian Athletics and Little Athletics Australia officially unifying at a national level. This historic milestone brings the sport together under one structure, creating stronger connections between grassroots participation and high performance, while supporting long-term growth. The unification will deliver clearer pathways for athletes, enhanced support for centres\/clubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}