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  1. Oceania Athletics Championships 2024 – Suva, Fiji Islands
  2. Pacific Games – Preliminary Entries, Timetable and Information
  3. Continental Tour – Oceania – 2024
  4. Climate Change Forum – Budapest 2023
  5. WORLD ATHLETICS – PLAQUE OF MERIT
  6. World Championships – Budapest 2023
  7. 2024 Continental Tour: Oceania
  8. 2024 Oceania Athletics Area Championships Update
  9. Oceania Cup Competition – Officials & Planning
  10. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, Revisited
  11. Kids’ Athletics Day celebrations 
  12. Adrine Monagi Awarded Scholarship
  13. Oceania at the World Cross Country Championships
  14. Oceania’s first World Athletics Gold Level Meet
  15. Success in Fiji: Coaches Education
  16. World Athletics Race Walking Judge Silver and Bronze
  17. Oceania Athletics Association Commissions – Expression of Interest
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November 15, 2023
Oceania Athletics Championships 2024 – Suva, Fiji Islands

The 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships will be conducted in Suva, Fiji, with the Championships to begin on Tuesday June 4th and run until Saturday June 8th. The National Stadium, HFC Bank Stadium, will be the host venue, and is currently being re-laid with a new track surface to be finished by mid-April 2024. Suva has…

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November 6, 2023
Pacific Games – Preliminary Entries, Timetable and Information

Oceania Athletics is pleased to announce the preliminary entries for the Pacific Games, to be held in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The Pacific Games alternates between different countries of the Pacific Region. The Solomon Islands will host a Games in the capital, Honiara, for the second time. Honiara has previously hosted the 1981 Mini Games. The…

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October 17, 2023
Continental Tour – Oceania – 2024

Oceania Athletics is pleased to announce the event grid and events on the Continental Tour for 2024. The Continental Tour within Oceania sees cooperation from both from Australia and New Zealand, to form a calendar and event grid, which will assist athletes in gaining much needed ranking points to qualify for the Olympic Games. Following…

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August 22, 2023
Climate Change Forum – Budapest 2023

Members of the OAA family participate in a climate change forum in Budapest today at the World Championships. All three regions of Oceania were represented on the panel and explained their own challenges with climate change. The Oceania federations, through not fault of their own, are being effected by climate change.   You can watch…

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August 18, 2023
WORLD ATHLETICS – PLAQUE OF MERIT

NAME  OF NOMINEE:  Robert Snow AUSTRALIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA The World Athletics Plaque of Merit is awarded for meritorious services to World Athletics. The Plaque is awarded to one person from each of the six (6) continental areas at each World Athletics Congress. Bob is a previous Statistician of the Oceania and continues to work closely…

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August 17, 2023
World Championships – Budapest 2023

With thanks to Oceania Athletics Life Member, Bob Snow for the following on the Pacific Island Athletes. Australian Preview New Zealand Preview How to Watch Timetable/Results ASA                 Nathan Crumpton – 100m Nathan competed in the 100m at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 recording the time of 11.27 seconds in the Preliminary Round. He also…

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August 10, 2023
2024 Continental Tour: Oceania

Oceania Athletics is pleased to announce the One Day Meeting Calendar to be conducted in the Oceania Region in 2024.   Currently, there is 8 meetings across the 4 levels to be held in 3 different Federations. Oceania Athletics want to ensure that athletes have the best opportunity to qualify for Major Championships.   The…

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August 9, 2023
2024 Oceania Athletics Area Championships Update

Oceania Athletics will be hosting the Oceania Area Athletics Championships in 2024.   OAA intends to hold the Championships in the Pacific in the May/June timeframe. The dates will be confirmed when the Venue is confirmed.   There has been a shortage of International Standard Athletics Facilities in the Pacific over the past few years…

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June 22, 2023
Oceania Cup Competition – Officials & Planning

Article by Bob Snow The athletes from the Micronesian Region to the north of the Equator, have always had difficulties travelling to host cities south of the Equator for Oceania Athletics competitions and the Pacific Games. This is a wonderful opportunity for them to stay within their own region and enjoy all the fruits that…

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June 20, 2023
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, Revisited

Article by Bob Snow On Thursday 22nd June, we will see the beginning of four days of Athletics’ competition at the Oleai Stadium on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. This is the scene of the highly successful Pacific Mini Games which were held here in August 2022 and an equally successful Oceania…

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May 8, 2023
Kids’ Athletics Day celebrations 

7 May 2023 is World Kids’ Athletics Day! A day dedicated to celebrating children and young people across the globe participating in athletics and being active. World Athletics’ theme for the 2023 Kids’ Athletics Day is MOVE, PLAY, EXPLORE. Whether moving from A to B, playing athletics activities with friends, or exploring new skills, the aim is…

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March 7, 2023
Adrine Monagi Awarded Scholarship

Oceania Athletics Association has partnered with Griffith University and the Oceania Australia Foundation to provide a three-year Business/Athletics Scholarship. Nominations were called from interested Oceania Pacific Island athletes for this fantastic opportunity. Adrine Monagi PNG has been awarded the Scholarship and is starting her studies for a Bachelor of Business this week. Adrine is very…

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February 6, 2023
Oceania at the World Cross Country Championships

The Bathurst World Cross Country Championships will see the largest number of Oceania Athletes (90) attend the championships. In total, 12 Oceania Member Federations will toe the start at Mount Panorama. (Beating the previous 5 in 1988). With 90 Athletes across the teams, it would almost double the previous best of 48 athletes in 1991…

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January 4, 2023
Oceania’s first World Athletics Gold Level Meet

Melbourne to host the world’s best athletes at the Maurie Plant Meet, Oceania’s first World Athletics Gold Level meet Superstars of Australian athletics will take on the world’s best in a high-profile track and field meet on home soil, with World Athletics and the Victorian Government today announcing their support of a World Continental Tour Gold…

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November 21, 2022
Success in Fiji: Coaches Education

The Oceania Athletics Association Area Development Centre is excited to announce the completion of our first face-to-face Coaches Education and Certification System (CECS) LII Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps since the borders opened for the Pacific Region. Thirteen (13) participants from eight (8) different Member Federations participated in the course held in Nadi, Fiji, at the beginning of November….

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November 23, 2023
World Athletics Race Walking Judge Silver and Bronze

Oceania Athletics Association congratulates 7 Oceania Technical officials newly appointed World Athletics Race Walking Judge Silver and Bronze Status. Completing the World Athletics Race walking Evaluation in October, 5 of our Oceania Technical officials have obtained the Silver level status and 2 Bronze level status. Silver Bronze The virtual evaluation comprises of three elements of…

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August 29, 2023
Oceania Athletics Association Commissions – Expression of Interest

The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) Council are seeking Expressions of Interest from interested persons to join the OAA Competition, Development Commission and Oceania Athletics Coaches Association.  Please find the following documents:     The closing date for Expressions of Interest is MONDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2023.   If you have any questions please do not hesitate…

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August 28, 2023
Budapest 2023 – Oceania Results

Nina Kennedy                                 W PV                   4.90                     1= Jemima Montag                             W 20km RW       1:27.16 AR          2nd Eleanor Patterson                          W HJ                    1.99m                  2nd Nicola Olysagers                              W HJ                    1.99m                  3rd Kurtis Marschall                             M PV                   5.95                     3rd =…

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