A TICKET to Rio de Janeiro awaits Tasmanian javelin thrower Hamish Peacock if he can make the grade on Saturday.
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For the Hobart athlete, that grade is 83 metres – Olympic qualifying distance for the event in which he won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Peacock has already made two world championship teams but is targeting his first Olympic Games and will be up against a strong field including Matthew Outzen (NSW) at the Hunter Track Classic in Newcastle.
The meet is the first of eight Australian Athletics Tour events across the nation in the coming months, before the national championships provide a chance for athletes to secure automatic nomination for selection to the Australian Olympic team at the end of March.
The series comes to Tasmania for the Briggs Athletics Classic on February 13.
Another Tasmanian hoping to impress on Saturday will be Australia’s fastest schoolboy Jack Hale.
The Hobart teenage sensation takes on Australia’s fastest man Joshua Clarke, of NSW, in the blue-riband men’s 100m which carries an Olympic qualifying time of 10.16 seconds.
Hale rounded out his Australian All-Schools Championships career with victory in December and has his sights set on selection in both the long jump and 100m at the IAAF world junior championships.