23/09/2026
This weekend sees the first State Championship of the 2026/27 season with the 100 yards being held at Athletics North Queensland Championships.
The Women’s Final will be at 5.10pm with the Men’s Final will be at 5.20pm on Friday.
The Men’s Race is named after Hector Hogan. Hector was born in Rockhampton and educated in Brisbane. In 1952, he won the Queensland junior and senior title with a time of 9.6 in the senior final and in 1952 won the Australian 100 yards title. He was 3rd at the 1956 Olympic Games 100m.
The Women’s Race is named after John Campbell Miles. In 1923, a lone, quiet and unassuming prospector, while travelling with his horse on a gold prospecting trip to the Northern Territory camped by the banks of the Leichhardt River. He realised it was heavily mineralised. He stumbled on one of the world’s richest copper, silver, lead and zinc ore bodies. He decided to call his discovery “Mount Isa”.
