Jeff Riseley

While most Australian athletics fans have been focussing on Craig Mottram lately, it was interesting to see another of Nic Bideau's runners, Victorian Jeff Riseley take the 800m event at the Osaka IAAF meet on the weekend. He was 2/10ths off his PB, but in the cold and wet Osaka conditions it was still a fine run. He'll need to find 1.5 seconds by August, but he's very young and cut 3 seconds off his time in the past 12 months. Thanks to Bideau's guidance he could find himself in the finals in Beijing.