Stewart McSweyn has the Australian record at 1,500m (3:30.51)

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Stewart McSweyn won the 1,500m at the Doha Diamond League in 3:30.51. He won big time and with his 3000m Australian record at 7:28.02 (17 Sept 2020), and his Australian record at 10,000m, 27:23.80, set 14 December 2020, Stewart now has 3 Australian records.

Sir Ian Stewart with Stewart McSweyn, who won the 2018 Emsley Carr Mile, photo by Getty Images / British Athletics

DOHA (QAT): The 3:30.51 by Stewart McSweyn was Australian record, but not Oceanian. That belongs of course to Nick Willis 3:29.66 in Monaco Herculis 2015.

In the Mixed Zone, Doha, Qatar, 25 September 2020, video interview with
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