Tony Manning (born 9 January 1943) is a former track and field athlete from Coolah in New South Wales, Australia, who competed in the middle-distance running events.

[1] At the 1970 Commonwealth Games, Manning won the gold medal ahead of Ben Jipcho and Amos Biwott of Kenya after an eventful race in which his teammate Kerry O'Brien fell at the second last water-jump, while leading, and failed to finish the race.

With his brother Peter, later a successful junior middle/long-distance running coach in Coolah, he dead-heated in the 10,000 state cross-country championship and a fortnight later beat Bob Vagg over ten miles at Randwick racecourse, running on bare feet, an unofficial Australian record at the time.

[4] He travelled six hours twice a week from his home in Coolah to train and compete for Randwick Botany Harriers in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.

He is brother of Kevin Manning (born 2 November 1933), who was Bishop of Parramatta, a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney from 1997 to 2010.