Club History

The Gold Coast Athletics Club was established in June 1969. Over the first couple of decades of its existence, training venues changed many times – an oval at Paradise Point, the TAFE College oval at Benowa, and Miami Sate High School oval.

In 1986, the Club moved its training base to Pizzey Park at Miami.

The Club remained there for a dozen years. This training venue is still used by the Gold Coast Little Athletics Centre.

In 1998 the Gold Coast City Athletics Track was established on ground leased by the Gold Coast City Council from the Griffith University Gold Coast. This facility is all-weather training and competition venue situated in University Drive, off Parklands Drive, Southport. The Club moved its training base to the Gold Coast City Athletics Track in 1999. In the 1999/2000 season, Club registrations almost doubled, and have continued to rise every year since. The Club officially changed its name to “Gold Coast Victory Athletics Club Inc” in July 2006.

Over the last few seasons the number of members of the Gold Coast Athletics Club has been growing consistently. No doubt this is in no small part due to the fact that there is now an international standard facility available locally for both training and competition. Another factor has been the ability of the Club to attract high quality coaches who can cover all event groups in Track and Field as well as cross country.

Recently, the club came runner-up in the 2006 Australian Women's Club Championships and won the 2007 Australian Men's Club Championships.

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Aims and objectives of the Gold Coast Victory Athletics Club

The Gold Coast Athletics Club was established in 1969 to provide

Training opportunities, and
competition opportunities for athletes residing both in, and in close proximity to, the Gold Coast area.

The Club officially changed its name to “Gold Coast Victory Athletics Club Inc” in July 2006.

The Gold Coast Victory Athletics Club provides training opportunities for athletes across the broad spectrum of both cross country and track and field events. The Club has registered (and qualified) coaches in all jumps (high. long, triple, and pole vault), all throws (shot put, discus, javelin, and hammer throw), sprints / hurdles / relays, race walking, multi-events and middle distance (including cross country and steeplechase).
The Gold Coast Victory Athletics Club provides many competition opportunities for athletes. Many competitions are conducted on a regular basis on the Gold Coast. All of our registered athletes are able to participate in these competitions, as well as competitions at other venues such as University of Queensland, State Athletics Facility and University of the Sunshine Coast.

Long term aims of the Gold Coast Victory Athletics Club include:

To be recognised throughout Australia as a “best practice” athletics club
To achieve an annual average membership of 400 members, including at least 80 Open age group athletes (20 years of age and older) by 2015
To become a recognised centre for the development of athletes in the ‘highly technical events’ - pole vault, hurdles, hammer throwing by 2013
To have a minimum of 5 new qualified officials every year
To have a minimum of 3 new qualified coaches every year
To develop a mentoring scheme (for beginning coaches to work with our more experienced coaches to increase their knowledge)

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MALES

Sprints Hurdles

Middle & Long Distance and Walks

FEMALES