Tania van heer biography

  • Tania Van Heer is an Australian sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
  • Tania Van Heer (born 30 December 1970) is an Australian sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
  • Tania VAN HEER, 200m, 400m, 100m, Country: Australia, Born: 30 DEC 1970, Athlete code: 14271146, 1X World Indoor Championships silver medallist.

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    Personal Bests

    Result
    22.42
    Date
    06 FEB 1999
    Score
    1194
    Result
    3:26.87 AR NR
    Date
    07 MAR 1999
    Score
    1190
    Result
    43.40
    Date
    13 SEP 1998
    Score
    1161

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    Aidan James Murphy is a sprinter who was awarded a Tier 3 Scholarship within the 2023 Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship and Mentoring Program.

    Born in Adelaide in 2003, as the son of former Australian Olympian and 100m Commonwealth Games medalist, Tania Van Heer, speed is in his blood. Aidan was encouraged to try an array of sports including surf lifesaving, BMX, tennis, football, and water polo and delayed any introduction to athletics until he joined the Saint Peters Athletics Club at 12 years old (2016).

    After only a short while of training properly, Aidan was offered a Scholarship at Saint Peter’s College where the head coach was Tony Keynes. After a few years of hamstring injuries, before his 16th  birthday (2019), he was already showing promise with times of 10.96 (100m) and 21.80 (200m). Before the 2019/20 summer season was shut down due to COVID, he also clocked an impressive 48.68 over 400m.

    In early 2021, his progress was solid, with sprint times of 10.86/21.30/47.79. His 200m time was the most impressive and was achieved when placing second in the National U20 200m Championship. He missed the World U20 standard by just 0.02 seconds and selection in the Australian team which unfortunately didn’t travel to the World U20 Championships.

    The results to-date

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    List of Malaysian records in athletics

    Event Record Athlete Date Meet Place Age Ref 100 m10.18 (+1.1 m/s)Khairul Hafiz Jantan27 July 2016 Sukma GamesKuching, Malaysia 18 years, 5 days [1]10.09 A(+0.8 m/s)Muhd Azeem Fahmi1 August 2022 World U20 ChampionshipsCali, Colombia 18 years, 94 days [2]10.0 h(±0.0 m/s)Watson Nyambek3 May 1998 Vietnam Open Championships Hanoi, Vietnam 22 years, 65 days [3]200 m20.77 (+2.0 m/s)Russel Taib23 March 2019 Queensland Track Classic Brisbane, Australia 20 years, 352 days [4]20.7 hRamli Ahmad29 May 1976 Medan, Indonesia 19 years, 230 days [5]400 m46.41 Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin20 July 2001 Asian Junior ChampionshipsBandar Seri Begawan, Brunei 19 years, 24 days 46.3 hJegathesan Manikavasagam46.34 Umar Osman9 May 2023 Southeast Asian GamesPhnom Penh, Cambodia 19 years, 271 days [6]46.09 Umar Osman2 August 2023 Summer World University GamesChengdu, China 19 years, 356 days [7]800 m1:47.37 Batumalai Rajakumar26 Sept
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