OCEANIA ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS – 2000 Adelaide (August 24-26)  Coming just a month before the start of the Sydney Olympic Games, it was a meet fraught with tension, drama and importance. The Senior and the Youth Championships were held in conjunction with each other. In this outing of the OAA Championships the Junior Division was replaced…

Sixteen nations competed in the third Oceania Athletics Championships, including the Federated States of Micronesia who had been admitted to the IAAF (now World Athletics) earlier in the year. There were 42 events contested with 22 for men and 20 for women.  The outstanding athlete of the meet was Tonga’s Siulolo Liku who won the…

The second Oceania Athletics Championships was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 22-26 February. This is right in the middle of the Australian and New Zealand Athletics season, but it was a very early wake-up call for many of the island nations. The venue was the Mt Smart Stadium, home of the 1990 Commonwealth Games….