Joel Milburn is an Australian athlete whose specialist distance is 400 metres.

He was selected for the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

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 in Beijing where he made the semi-finals of the individual 400 metre competition and was hoping to help Australia repeat its 4 x 400 metre medal winning performance from the Athens

Athens

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Games. His personal best time for the 400m is 44.80 seconds which he ran at the Beijing Olympic Games in the first round. He placed 15th overall in Beijing in the 40000m Individual and 6th in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3.00.02. He won the Australian National 400 m Championship in 2008.