Box Hill Athletic Club

02/08/2026

Australian record holder, Sarah Billings, ran another great tactical race in the Commonwealth Games 800m final to win a bronze medal behind last years World championship gold and silver medalists. A brilliant run by Sarah!

30/07/2026

Another strong showing from Sarah Billings saw her qualify for the final of the 800m at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Sarah will contest the final at 5:25am on Saturday morning (Melbourne time).

Check out this link for an interview held with Sarah prior to the Games. https://insideathletics.com.au/from-seven-lost-years-to-the-record-books-the-making-of-sarah-billings/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTXfvJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFIbU00QUJMMTh5bzVyRGYwc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHt03ArGwBRkdPAuQ-j2DgSJAuhuBGo4k_y5Wgp7BY5lvnn9YTod2Rr9cxcMM_aem_xwOis28klLS4qv88x5G3Cw

28/07/2026

Sarah Billings looked strong winning her heat of the 800m in Glasgow last night. She will now race in the semi-final on Wednesday. Good luck Sarah!

29/06/2026

An Australian record of 1:57.01 to Sarah Billings in the Diamond League 800m in Paris. Congratulations Sarah!

22/06/2026

Congratulations to long-time Box Hill member Sarah Billings who has been selected to run in the 800m at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Sarah recently ran a PB of 1:57.61 to rank inside the top 14 in the world.
Good luck in Glasgow next month, Sarah!

22/05/2026

12/05/2026

A fantastic performance by Box Hill's distance runners on Sunday morning at Albert Park 5k to start off the XCR'26 season with a number of individual and team victories.

Donve Viljoen and Stella Radford won gold and silver medals respectively in the women's open race and led the Box Hill women to a team victory (Donve, Stella, Melissa Duncan, Caitlin McQuilken-Bell, Julie F**t). Box Hill teams were also victorious in the women's division 4 (Izzy Cotham, Amelie Alleva and Emelia Eagling-Every), women U18 (Lacey Williams, Isabella Johnstone and Lucy Collins), while Emily Collins won the silver medal in the 45+ age group.

On the men's side, Kalan Luong won the gold medal in the U20s leading the team to victory (Kalan, Robbie Petrie, Will Leslie), while Jae Hao Chan won bronze in the U18s where Box Hill also won the teams event (Jae Hao, Alexander Zabojec and Felix Morgan) and the men's Over 60 team of John Meagher, Andrew Egginton and Peter Stefanos also won their division with John Meagher winning gold.

21/04/2026

Box Hill athletes put in some outstanding performances at the national junior championships in Brisbane. Special mention to our Australian champions, Felix Hattwich (U20 pole vault), Harry Dolman (U18 long jump) and Kelsey Loudon (U16 javelin) and also to Sophie Hall (U16, 3000m) who won a silver medal.

13/04/2026

Congratulations to Sarah Billings, who competed in two of the most competitive events of the whole Australian championships and picked up a silver medal (1500m) and a bronze medal (800m).