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Western Australian Institute of Sport athletes have enjoyed a highly successful weekend of track and field action after the Australian Athletics Championships were held in Perth for the first time since 1988.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Association has today accepted the first round of nominations to the Australian athletics team bound for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, as submitted by Athletics Australia.

World champions Steve Hooker and Dani Samuels have tonight capped their outstanding years in track and field by being named Athletics Australia's Male and Female Athletes of the Year at the annual awards gala at the Rendezvous Observation City Hotel in Perth.

The 2010 WAIS Sailing squad has been announced and is a great team of 14 sailors who have all shown >

Five hundred and ninety-eight of Australia's top track and field athletes are today just 24 hours away from launching their bid for Commonwealth Games selection at the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials in Perth, Western Australia.

WAIS-AIS gymnast Emily Little competed in France over the weekend qualifying for the final of the vault, placing an encouraging >

The West Coast Fever were defeated by the Waikato/ Bay of Plenty Magic 55-50 in the opening match of Rivalry Round.

WAIS-AIS cyclist Luke Durbridge scored an impressive road victory in the recent Tour of Mersey in Tasmania, putting behind him the disappointment of narrowly missing out on selection for Worlds.

With less than a week until the Go for 2&5 88th Australian Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games selection trials kick off in Perth, the eyes of the athletics community are now fully fixed on the three days of blistering track and field action in store from Friday, April 16.

Australia's next crop of rowers will be under the spotlight at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra this week, as the first Australian Junior camp of 2010 commences.