Natasha Ward, a 21-year-old Australian middle-distance runner, has died, according to a joint statement from NSW Athletics and the Sutherland District Athletics Club released Thursday, July 30. Ward competed at the 2024 Australian Championships against established names like Morgan Mitchell and Claudia Hollingsworth and had recently won bronze at the UniSport Nationals.

The promising middle-distance runner, 21, died last week.

Australian athletics is mourning the death of rising middle-distance runner Natasha Ward, just weeks after Stawell Gift finalist Jemma Stapleton was killed during a family holiday…