Born 29 May 1981

Brendan Cole was a member of Waverley Little Aths from the late 80's through to 1996. He is the son of Life Member Barry Cole. Judging from the previous Waverley Records that Brendan has held, he has alway liked jumping LONG or HURDLES !!!

Brendan played many sports including Volleyball, Swimming, Football and Cross Country running, and at 16, played top level Representative Basketball and toured the USA playing against their best at that age !! At 17, he decided on athletics as his chosen sport, and his career has steadily progressed since then. In 2000, he ran a World Juniors qualifying time, but missed selection by 0.1 sec :-(

Brendan has a PB of 20.94 (2007) in the 200m , 47.67 (2005) in the 400m and his 400mh times have tumbled from 53.24 in 1999 to his current PB of 49.35 sec ! (which he ran in Osaka Japan in May 2009).

Since 2004, Brendan has been training at the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra), has an AIS scholarship and is coached by Matt Beckenham.

Brendan made the Final of the 400mh at the Com Games to finish a fantastic 5th place in a time of 49.41 sec !

2009 was a very good year for Brendan.  He was a member of the Gold medal winning 4 x 400m relay team at the World University Games in Belgrade Serbia (with Chris Troode, Tristan Thomas & Sean Wroe) and finished 5th in the 400h final.  He made the 400h semi finals at the World Championships in Berlin Germany and won no fewer than 5 International meets in his lead up to Worlds around August/Sept 2009 !

Waverley Records: (All records have since been broken)

• U9 LJ 89/90
• U12 80mh 93/94
• U13 80mh 94/95
• U15 100mh 95/96

National Championships:

• 2004 3rd 400mh
• 2005 1st 400mh
• 2006 1st 400mh
• 2007 1st 400mh

Telstra A-Series

• 2005 Canberra 1st 400mh
• 2005 Adelaide 3rd 400mh
• 2006 Melbourne 3rd 400mh
• 2007 Canberra 4th 200m
• 2007 Sydney 1st 400mh
• 2007 Melbourne (World Aths Tour) 1st 400mh

Zatopek Classic 2005 Melbourne 1st 400mh

National Series 2006 Hobart 1st 400mh

NSW Championships 2002 1st 400mh

ACT Championship 2006 1st 400mh