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  1. Oceania Athletics Championships 2022 – Mackay, Australia
  2. Continental Tour 2022: Oceania
  3. World Athletics Veteran Pin
  4. Brian Roe – World Athletics Plaque of Merit
  5. Once-in-a-Lifetime Games; Privileged to be a Technical Official 
  6. Flack, Snell, Doubell … Peter Bol?
  7. Oceania Identified Athlete from Tuvalu makes Olympic Debut
  8. Oceania Athletics Tokyo2020 Event Previews
  9. Jonah Harris on Track to Create Nauru History
  10. Global Conversation
  11. 2020 MERIT AWARD RECIPIENTS
  12. Oceania One Day Meetings 2020-21
  13. Cook Islands Games
  14. World Athletics – Wrap Up
  15. Lauren Bruce Claims Area Hammer Throw Record
  16. McSweyn Area Record
  17. Project W.I.N: HPTC Athletes take on Nutrition
  18. Area Record Holder Announces Retirement
  19. OAA COMPETITION COMMISSION: EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
  20. Alex Beddoes: Sportsmen of the Year
  21. AREA NEWS: FEBRUARY
  22. Ratcliffe Sets New Area Record at Porritt Classic
  23. Oceania 20km Race Walk Championships
  24. Fiji’s Sprinter, Heleina Young, Awarded Inaugural Scholarship
  25. Tokyo Qualifiers, Records, and GIO OzDay10k
  26. Hull and Baxter Set New Area Records
  27. Palau: 4th Annual Koror Kolor Run
  28. Maurie Plant: Tributes and Memories
  29. 2020 Melanesian Championships: New Location
  30. NMA 38th Annual Christmas Island Relay
  31. Congratulations to newly elected OAA President Robin Sapong Eugenio of the Northen Mariana Islands
  32. McSweyn claims Zatopek 10,000m Victory in Record Time
  33. Sir Peter Snell, a New Zealand Athletic Legend who Always be Remembered
  34. Day 9 & 10: Doha Report
  35. Doha Report: Day 8
  36. Doha Day 7: Report
  37. Doha Report: Day 6
  38. Doha Report: Day 3
  39. Doha – Day Two
  40. Day 1: Competition Begins
  41. Press Release: 2021 OCEANIA AREA CHAMPIONSHIPS
  42. Sally Pearson, one of Australia’s greatest Olympians, has announced her retirement. 
  43. Oceania Athletics Council 2019-2023
  44. Oceania Cup 2023
  45. Athlete Profile: Banuve Tabakaucoro FIJI
  46. Athlete Profile: ‘Ata Maama Tu’utafaiva TONGA
  47. Athlete Profile: Isila Apkup PNG
  48. Pacific Mini Games Award Recipients

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January 25, 2022
Oceania Athletics Championships 2022 – Mackay, Australia

Oceania Athletics is pleased to announce that the Mackay Regional Council will be the Major Sponsor and Host of the 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships. The Oceania Athletics Championships, which is the pinnacle event within the Oceania Area for Athletics, will see the best athletes head to Mackay from the 7th until 11th of June. Mackay…

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January 18, 2022
Continental Tour 2022: Oceania

The Continental Tour in 2022 will begin in New Zealand, at the Potts Classic, and includes 12 Meetings in Oceania before criss-crossing the globe and each of the six (6) continental geographical areas. The Continental Tour will be expanded in 2022 to include 4 levels, with the newly introduced Challenger Level, which was the previous…

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November 19, 2021
World Athletics Veteran Pin

Dame Valerie Adams (New Zealand) Dame Valerie Adams DNZM is a New Zealand shot putter. She is a four-time World champion, four-time World Indoor champion, two-time Olympic, three-time Commonwealth Games champion and twice IAAF Continental Cup winner. She has a personal best throw of 21.24 metres outdoors and 20.54 m indoors. These marks are Oceanian, Commonwealth and New Zealand national records. She also holds the Oceanian junior record (18.93 m) and the Oceanian youth record (17.54 m), as…

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November 19, 2021
Brian Roe – World Athletics Plaque of Merit

Brian Roe (AUS) has great experience in all aspects of athletics – at local, national, area and international levels. He has for more than 35 years worked in the sport in both voluntary and professional capacities and continues to do so.  There could not be many people in World Athletics who have been involved in…

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August 4, 2021
Once-in-a-Lifetime Games; Privileged to be a Technical Official 

Oceania Athletics are thankful for the updates from our officials during their time in Tokyo. Great insight from inside the inner circle. Helen Roberts (AUS) – Jury of Appeal As I sit here in the foyer of our hotel, looking over at the stadium where I have just witnessed a fantastic race in the history…

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August 3, 2021
Flack, Snell, Doubell … Peter Bol?

Fifty-three years later, Peter Bol becomes the 5th Australian and just the 6th Oceanian Athlete to make the Final of the Olympic Games 800m for Men. The progression to the Olympic Final has been all class, Area Record each round; courageous yet confident – Peters’ perfection, a story 27 years in the making. Bol, 27,…

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Australia
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July 29, 2021
Oceania Identified Athlete from Tuvalu makes Olympic Debut

Matie Stanley will represent Tuvalu in the Women’s 100m at the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games. The now 18 year old sprinter Matie Stanley has had a rapid rise since she first started athletics on the mainland in Tuvalu in 2018. Tuvalu Athletics Association in conjunction with Tuvalu National Olympic Committee, hosted a Talent Development Camp in…

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July 29, 2021
Oceania Athletics Tokyo2020 Event Previews
Sprints/Hurdles/Relays: 100m Men: Rohan Browning, Nathan Crumpton, Scott Fiti, Ronold Fotofili, Jonah Harris, Adrian Ililau, Karalo Maibuca, Latiasi Mwea, Banuve Tabakaucoro 100m Women: Hana Basic, Maitie Stanley, Regine Tugade 200m Women: Riley Day 400m Men: Alex Beck, Steve Solomon  400m Women: Bendere Oboya 110m Hurdles: Nick Hough 100m Hurdles: Liz Clay 400m Hurdles Women: Sarah...
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July 28, 2021
Jonah Harris on Track to Create Nauru History

Jonah Harris, the Nauruan National Record Holder in the 100m and 200m, 2020 flag bearer, and if he finishes his 100m race, he will become the first Nauran to run at the Olympic Games. Nauru first competed at the Olympic Games in 1996. However, that wasn’t the first Nauran to compete at the Games. Marcus,…

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March 23, 2021
Global Conversation

Monaco – 22 March 2021:  For the very first time in our history, World Athletics is reaching out to the entire international athletics community to participate in a Global Conversation and contribute insights and feedback that will shape the future direction of the sport for the next decade. This year World Athletics has committed to…

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February 18, 2021
2020 MERIT AWARD RECIPIENTS

📄 PRESS RELEASE: 18th February 2021 Oceania Athletics is proud to announce the recipients of the 2020 Oceania Athletics Association Merit Award.  Maria Clarke (NEW ZEALAND) Alan Stevens (NEW ZEALAND) Peter Deane (AUSTRALIA) Alifereti Cawanibuka (FIJI) OAA President Robin Sapong Eugenio said the 2020 recipients were well-deserved, with extensive and worthy nominations supported by their…

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November 6, 2020
Oceania One Day Meetings 2020-21
Oceania Athletics is pleased to announce the One Day Meeting Calendar to be conducted in the Oceania Region in 2021. The Continental Tour and Area Permit Meetings are the pathways to qualification for Major World events, and in 2021, that is the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Oceania Athletics recognises the importance of giving athletes the...
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October 13, 2020
Cook Islands Games

The 2020 Cook Islands Games are underway, taking place from the 3rd – 17th October 2020 on the island of Rarotonga. The Athletics is taking place from the 13th of October until the 15th October, the event also doubles as the Cook Islands National Championships for Athletics.  Best of luck to Athletics Cook Islands, and…

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Cook Islands
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September 29, 2020
World Athletics – Wrap Up

25 SEP 2020  REPORT DOHA, QATAR Obiri and McSweyn victorious in Doha as Wanda Diamond League draws to a close https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/doha-diamond-league-obiri-mcsweyn-kipyegon 26 SEP 2020 REPORT ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND Sparking glimmers of hope, mass racing returns with Rotorua Marathon https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/rotorua-marathon-2020 28 SEP 2020 GENERAL NEWS  New way to judge jumps take-off fouls among recent competition rule changes introduced for 2020 and…

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September 20, 2020
Lauren Bruce Claims Area Hammer Throw Record

Lauren Bruce (NZL) has thrown 5.30m Personal Best to break fellow Kiwi, Julia Ratcliffe Area Hammer Throw Record.  Her throw of 73.47, at a meet in Hawkes Bay takes her up to 57th on the World All time list.  The former gymnast, who at 14 years old had to give up Gymnastics due to a stress…

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September 18, 2020
McSweyn Area Record

Australian Stewart McSweyn has broken the Oceania Area 3000m Record in Rome overnight.  The race was set up to run fast, with Irishman Sean Tobin taking the pace for the first 4 laps right on the requested 60 seconds a lap. With McSweyn sitting in second, when Tobin dropped out after 1800m, it was Stewart…

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September 8, 2020
Project W.I.N: HPTC Athletes take on Nutrition
The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) identified Nutrition and Health as a priority area for the IAF funding. Nutrition is a major determinant of health, and promoting a healthy diet has the potential to substantially reduce the burden of disease and improve quality of life. OAA engaged the Griffith University Health Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics department...
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July 10, 2020
Area Record Holder Announces Retirement
Melissa Breen, A two-time Olympian and Oceania Area record holder, has announced her retirement. Congratulations to Melissa on an incredible career, a true leader on and off the track, and an inspiration to many up and coming athletes. Melissa has a tremendous list of highlights, including;   In 2014, Breen broke the Area and Australian Record for the 100m with a Personal...
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July 8, 2020
OAA COMPETITION COMMISSION: EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – OAA COMPETITION COMMISSION The Oceania Athletics Association is calling for Expressions of Interest to be considered for the newly constituted Oceania Athletics Association, Competition Commission. The Competition Commission will replace the previous editions of the OAA Technical Commission and Cross-Country Committee. The role of the Commission is to advise and to make recommendations…

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May 27, 2020
Alex Beddoes: Sportsmen of the Year

Congratulations, Alex Beddoes awarded Sportsman Of the Year at the recent Cook Islands Sports Awards held at the Edgewater Resort and Spa. Alex, was a Dual gold at Pacific Games in Samoa (800m/1500m), the flag bearer for the Cook Islands at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony, Commonwealth Games representative for Gold Coast 2018, and COK national…

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February 25, 2020
AREA NEWS: FEBRUARY
RESULTS RANKINGS CALENDAR FEDERATIONS IN THE NEWSPAPER NEWS FROM AROUND THE REGION RECORDS New Records: Mustafa Fall (Fiji): New National Indoor Record: Shot Put - 17.65m. Tori Peeters (NZL): New National Record: Javelin - 62.04m Julia Ratcliffe (NZL): New Area Record: Hammer - 72.35m Regine Tugade (GUAM): New National Record: 200m - 24.31 IN THE...
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February 17, 2020
Ratcliffe Sets New Area Record at Porritt Classic

Julia Ratcliffe Sets New Record at Porritt Classic

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February 10, 2020
Oceania 20km Race Walk Championships
The 2020 edition of the Oceania 20km Race Walks Championships took place on Sunday (9th Feb), along Memorial Drive, Adelaide, Australia. Dane Bird-Smith (QLD) and Jemima Montag won the men’s and women’s the Oceania and Australian 20km Race Walking Championships (respectively) in Adelaide. As both already had raced the automatic qualifying time (men -1:21.00, women...
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Australia
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January 31, 2020
Fiji’s Sprinter, Heleina Young, Awarded Inaugural Scholarship
Congratulations to Heleina Young on being awarded the inaugural Griffith University Oceania Australia Foundation Athletics Business Scholarship. Heleina has been creating waves in the athletics arena around the region and caught the eye of OAA when she became the fastest high school athlete in Fiji to go under 12 seconds at the 2018 Coca-Cola Games....
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January 28, 2020
Tokyo Qualifiers, Records, and GIO OzDay10k
The 2020 Athletics Season is well and truly underway, with Oceania Athletes producing outstanding results across the weekend. Whilst early in the season, results are showing positive signs as we head toward the Olympics, Paralympics and World U20 Championships. Recap: Hull and Baxter Set New Area Records: Article Palau: 4th Annual Koror Kolor Run: Article...
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January 26, 2020
Hull and Baxter Set New Area Records
Jessica Hull (Aus) sets a New Area Record at the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour (New Balance Indoor Grand Prix) in Boston, USA. In the women’s 1500m, Jessica Hull of Australia burst to the front in the final straight to win in 4:04.14, taking more than two seconds off the Oceanian indoor record. Matthew Baxter (NZL)...
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January 26, 2020
Palau: 4th Annual Koror Kolor Run

The 4th Annual Koror Kolor Run was a massive success in 2020.

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January 20, 2020
Maurie Plant: Tributes and Memories
Maurie Plant, Mr Athletics, the much loved Australia agent, team manager, coach and broadcaster, passed away peacefully and painlessly in hospital over the weekend. Maurie was a great friend to Oceania Athletics and many of our athletes and coaches throughout the Region – he will be missed by all. Maurie left behind a legacy which...
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January 10, 2020
2020 Melanesian Championships: New Location

The 2020 Melanesian Championships will be in Lautoka, Fiji on 24-25 June.

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January 9, 2020
NMA 38th Annual Christmas Island Relay
The Northern Marianas Athletics (NMA) hosted their 38th Annual Christmas Island Relay, on Saturday, December 28, 2019. The annual Island Relay has always attracted hundreds of running enthusiasts willing to cruise the 13.7 mile-long race across the western coast of Saipan starting from Pacific Islands Club (PIC) - San Antonio to the Last Command Post...
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Northern Mariana Islands
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December 16, 2019
Congratulations to newly elected OAA President Robin Sapong Eugenio of the Northen Mariana Islands

OAA Member Federations assembled today for a Special Congress to fulfil the role of Area President, a position previously held by Norfolk Island’s Geoff Gardner. The OAA Special Congress elected Robin to the position of Area President, effective immediately, until the next election in 2023. Robin has been an OAA Council Member since 2007, and…

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Northern Mariana Islands
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December 15, 2019
McSweyn claims Zatopek 10,000m Victory in Record Time

Stewart McSweyn capped a hugely successful 2019 with a win at the annual Zatopek 10,000m in Melbourne on Saturday night

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December 15, 2019
Sir Peter Snell, a New Zealand Athletic Legend who Always be Remembered

Three-time Olympic champion and world record-breaking middle-distance man from New Zealand passes away on the eve of 81st birthday.

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October 7, 2019
Day 9 & 10: Doha Report

Doha Report by Bob Snow

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October 6, 2019
Doha Report: Day 8

Doha Day 8 Report by Bob Snow

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October 6, 2019
Doha Day 7: Report

Doha Day 7 Report by Bob Snow

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October 4, 2019
Doha Report: Day 6

Day 6 Report from Doha World Championships.

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October 1, 2019
Doha Report: Day 3

Day 3 Doha Report

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September 30, 2019
Doha – Day Two

Doha Day 2 Report

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September 28, 2019
Day 1: Competition Begins

2019 World Athletics Championships, Doha Qatar

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August 22, 2019
Press Release: 2021 OCEANIA AREA CHAMPIONSHIPS

Oceania Athletics Association is pleased to announce Vanuatu as host of the 2021 Oceania Area Championships.

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August 6, 2019
Sally Pearson, one of Australia’s greatest Olympians, has announced her retirement. 

Congratulations to Sally Pearson on An incredible career, spanning across 16 years.

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March 16, 2019
Oceania Athletics Council 2019-2023

The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) conducted the OAA Congress today on the Gold Coast.  The 20 Member Federations of the Association elected its new Council for the 2019 to 2023 period. The election was overseen by three Oceania Athletics Life Members, who acted as scrutineers, Bob Snow (AUS), Fletcher McEwen (AUS), and Vuli Waqa (FIJ)….

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September 30, 2022
Oceania Cup 2023

Press Release: Oceania Cup In 2023 the Area Association will host the 4th edition of the Oceania Cup in Saipan, Northern Marianas. Previous editions have been hosted by Vanuatu, Samoa and Australia. Following of an audit of the facilities available in the region by OAA, the Oceania Athletics Council made the decision to have the…

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September 27, 2022
Athlete Profile: Banuve Tabakaucoro FIJI

Banuve Tabakaucoro             By Bob Snow Banuve was born on 4th September 1992 in Suva. He has had a long and distinguished history in Oceania Athletics. He holds the fastest ever 100m time by a Pacific Islander – 10.20 seconds, set on his home track in Suva at the Melanesian Regional Championships in July 2016. His list…

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Fiji
September 12, 2022
Athlete Profile: ‘Ata Maama Tu’utafaiva TONGA

‘Ata Maama Tu’utafaiva        Tonga By Bob Snow ‘Ata Maama was born on 25 May 1997 at Ha’afeva, a small island in the Ha’apai Group in northern Tonga. Her main event has been the Shot Put. She started her athletics career in Tailulu  Primary and High School in Havelu on the main island of Tongatapu. In her first…

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Tonga
September 6, 2022
Athlete Profile: Isila Apkup PNG

Athlete Profile: Isila Apkup PNG Article By Bob Snow Isila was born 15th August 1998 at Ambunti Health Centre and raised in Waskuk Village, in the Ambunti District of the East Sepik Province. Her early endeavours in Athletics came when she was a student at Ambunti High School. She later moved to the “big smoke” of…

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Papua New Guinea
August 17, 2022
Pacific Mini Games Award Recipients

The 11th edition of the Pacific Mini Games (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) hosted 329 athletes from 18 nations competing in 49 Events. Seven para-events were also included at these games for the first time. The Pacific Games Council recognised the extraordinary contributions to the success of Northern Marians Pacific Mini Games 2022 through their awards ceremony after the…

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July 22, 2022
Merit Awards 2022

OAA takes this opportunity to congratulate our three Merit Award Recipients, Deanna Sanitoa, Peoria Koshiba and Peter Hamilton. We thank them for their dedication to their Member Federations and Oceania Athletics Area Association. Deanna Sanitoa Deanna has been the General Secretary of ASA for more than 20 years. She has spent all of this time promoting athletics…

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