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| Born | 5 November 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:44.50 (Perth, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Luke Boyes born (5 November 2003) is an Australian middle-distance runner. He won the Australian Athletics Championships over 800 metres in 2024. [1]
He is from the City of Blue Mountains area of New South Wales and began to be coached by former Olympian Ben St Lawrence from the age of 15 years-old, and is a member of Run Crew, a running club in Sydney. He was a keen all-round sportsman, participating in sports such as cricket and football, before focusing fully on athletics during the COVID-19 Pandemic when team sports were paused. He declined offers to enter the collegiate system in the United States to stay and train with St Lawrence in his home state. [2]
He won the Australian Athletics Championships over 800 metres in 2024 in Adelaide in April 2024 at the age of 20 years-old, beating Olympic finalist Peter Bol by 0.33 of a second and set a new championship record of 1:44.73. [3] [2] In June 2024, he won the silver medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji over 800 metres finishing behind compatriot Peyton Craig by six hundredths of a second. [4]
In April 2025, he placed third over 800 metres at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth behind Bol and Craig, running a personal best 1:44.50 as Bol set a new Australian national record in a highly competitive race, with all three meeting the automatic qualifying Stoke standard for the upcoming World Championships. [5] [6] [7] He was subsequently selected for the Australian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [8]
