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The Track and Field Performance Podcast

Dedicated to giving coaches, athletes, and fans of Track and Field expert knowledge and insights from practitioners across the various event disciplines and domains of human performance.

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56:58

Craig Pickering: Developing Elite Sprint Relay Teams...

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2025/12/06

Craig Pickering – former Olympic sprinter, Winter Olympian in bobsleigh, sport scientist, and now Director of Performance Sustainability at Athletics Australia – joins the show to unpack what it takes to build a world-class sprint and relay system. He shares insights on athlete transitions, skill acquisition, and the systems driving Australia’s sprint resurgence. We explore his journey from elite athlete to high-performance leader, how Australia has built depth and buy-in across its relay pro...

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72:00

Marco Airale | Sprint Mechanics, Intensive Tempo...

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2025/08/06

Marco Airale has been one of the fastest-rising elite sprint coaches of the past five years — and one of the youngest — guiding athletes like Reece Prescod, Andre De Grasse, Daryll Neita, Amy Hunt and others to fast times and global medals. With a background in physiotherapy and osteopathy, Marco blends therapy and coaching to maximise performance and keep athletes healthy. In this conversation, we discuss: Balancing step length and step frequency for each athleteUsing intensive tempo t...

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89:03

Paul Burgess: Vaulting from Elite Athlete to...

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2025/07/07

From being a 6m pole vaulter back in 2005 to coaching the 2024 Olympic gold medallist Nina Kennedy and 2023 World Championships bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall, Paul Burgess has transitioned from elite athlete to coach with huge success over the past 5 years. That journey, however, hasn’t been straightforward. In this episode, you’ll hear real humility from someone who has kept an open mind and a strong drive to support the athletes he works with throughout their careers. We spoke not only ...

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56:18

Eamonn Flanagan: Key Principles Behind Effective...

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2025/05/19

Eamonn Flanagan is the Head of S&C at the Sport Ireland Institute. In this episode, Eamonn shares deep insights from a career that spans elite Olympic (including track & field), Paralympic, and professional rugby environments. He is very well known for his work on jump or plyometric training with peer-reviewed research, online courses and much more on this form of training. We unpack a range of topics including: -Eamonn's career journey and some key perspective shifts along the...

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73:51

Joseph Coyne: Giving the Athlete What They Need When...

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2025/03/22

Joseph Coyne, PhD is the Director of High Performance & Sports Development, Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar and Strength & Conditioning Coach, Elite Sport Program & Swimming, Bond University Joseph's experience in Track & Field extends far and wide; we dug into his time working with the Chinese athletics federation including his work supporting Olympic-level sprinters and jumpers alongside world-renowned coach Randy Huntington. Joseph shares practical insights on plyometric trai...

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74:15

Chris Shambrook: How Psychological Preparation Fuels...

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2025/03/01

Dr. Chris Shambrook, is a renowned expert in performance psychology with over five Olympic cycles of experience. In this episode, Chris shares his journey from earning a PhD in sports psychology to working extensively with British Rowing, Olympic athletes, and high-performance teams across various sports and business settings. We explore the evolving role of sports psychology in elite environments, discussing how athletes and coaches can integrate psychological skills into daily training rat...

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83:08

James Sandilands: The Art and Science of High Jumping

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2025/02/03

Athletics New Zealand track and field coach, James Sandilands is mainly known as the coach to the current World Indoor and Olympic champion in the jump, Hamish Kerr, but James's current crop of high level athletes spans far and wide from multi-eventers, sprinters, and horizontal jumpers. He is a former high jumper and hurdler himself with several years of experience as both a performance technique analyst and a strength and conditioning coach for High Performance Sport New Zealand. In this ...

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78:00

Werner Prinsloo: Akani Simbine's Journey to 9.82 and...

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2025/01/04

In this episode, I chatted with Werner Prinsloo, the coach behind South African sprinting sensation Akani Simbine who in his third consecutive Olympic 100m final, at the age of 30, ran a national record of 9.82 seconds to finish fourth place. Werner shares his unique journey into coaching, from a corporate career to becoming a full-time coach for one of the world’s most consistent sub-10-second sprinters and his group of aspiring elite sprinters in Johannesburg. Key topics include:...

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76:12

Josef Karas: Nailing General Prep, Coaching...

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2024/12/09

Josef Karas is a former Czech International Decathlete and a graduate of Kansas State where he worked under legendary coach Cliff Rovelto. Since transitioning into coaching, Josef has coached long jumper Radek Juska to 8.31m (NR), gold at the World University Games, Silver at the European Indoor championships and most recently, the Olympic final in Paris. Josef is a well known multi's coach working with 8,000+ point decathletes like Adam Helcelet and current world u-20 champion Tomas Järvinen...

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85:26

Glenn Smith: Breakthrough Performances, Technical...

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2024/11/27

Glenn Smith is a former Canadian national champion and world championship semi-finalist in the 200m sprint. He holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Texas at Austin and has nearly 20 years of coaching experience. His expertise spans developing All-American collegiate athletes and international-level competitors in the jumps, throws, multi-events, and sprints. A central theme of this episode was Glenn Smith's coaching philosophy, which emphasizes the imp...

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98:37

Gordon Bosworth: Wisdom from 40 years of...

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2024/10/13

Being the Chief Physiotherapist to UK Athletics/British Athletics at the London Olympic Games (2012) is just one of many major roles that Gordon Bosworth has undertook during his professional career. He has played a key role in several national physiotherapy teams in winter and summer Olympic enabling Bobsledders like Kaillie Humphries to win Olympic gold.Gordon who owns his own practice 'The Bosworth Clinic' in Oxfordshire, England extrapolated many key theoretical insights, assessment techn...

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75:07

Dan Pfaff: The Holistic Performance Puzzle

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2024/08/01

Dan Pfaff is widely regarded as one of the most influential track and field coaches of all-time with over 50 years of experience. His thought provoking insights on sports performance concepts always come with a lot of dept and in this episode, He spoke about the rationale for having a holistic knowledge base and how coaches can develop that. From there, we dove into debriefing throughout the season so that coaches can make the athlete aware of the overall objectives to facilitate 'smooth...

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72:49

Dublin Sprint: A Breeding Ground for Irish...

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2024/06/27

Coaches Jeremy Lyons, Gerard O'Donnell, and Aideen Synott have created a high performing environment for sprinters in Ireland to thrive both collegiately and post-collegiately. Through years of hard work and collaboration, they've enabled the likes of Sophie Becker, Cillian Greene, and Jack Raftery to become Olympians, European medalists, and household names in Irish Athletics.In this episode, Jeremy and Gerard began by discussing how the club came to be and the characteristics they look for ...

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112:33

Stuart McMillan | Influencing Sprint Performance

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2024/05/24

CEO of Altis and world class sprints coach Stu McMillan came back on the podcast to talk about the importance of pursuing what is interesting to you as an individual, the core features of high level sprinting, trialing new methods with your athletes in an informed way, and much more.I hope you enjoy. Give Stu and Altis a follow if you haven't already. -Instagram: FingerMash and Altis-Altis Website: https://altis.world/Support the Show.

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143:33

Rolf Ohman: Elasticity, Transfer of Training, and...

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2024/04/09

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107:14

Jim VanHootegem: Complimentary Training, Stabilising...

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2024/03/25

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51:16

Justin Rinaldi: How to Run a Fast 800m

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2024/02/09

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76:40

Sam Leslie: Physiotherapy | Rehabilitation, Health,...

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2024/01/01

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68:24

Daniel Davey: The Ingredients of a High-Performance...

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2023/11/20

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69:32

Steve Fudge: Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast

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2023/11/06

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