The High Jump looks to be a very close affair with none of the main competitors standing out from the pack with their 2017 form. Fiji NR Holder, Malakai Kaiwalu (2.09m in the Melanesian Championships in 2016), jumped 1.90m at this year’s Nationals.  Peniel Richard (PNG) has cleared 2.00m this season and in his last…

The Senior Women’s High Jump should be won comfortably by PNG’s Rellie Kaputin. Rellie won the 2015 Pacific Games contest with a height of 1.77m. This year she has jumped 1.70m or higher eight times. The next best on the ranking list is Fiji’s Rosalia Raqato who cleared 1.60m earlier this year. The rest of…

For the Australian and New Zealand competitors, this will be their last meet of the season. For the Pacific Islands’ athletes, however, this will be a major stepping-stone for selection for their national teams to the Mini Pacific Games in Port Vila in December.   Following on from her impressive display in the Australian National…

Since the last Oceania Area Championship we have seen the Island’s top sprinter, Banuve Tabakaucoro (FIJ) leave the sport, and the newly-recruited Jeremy Dodson (SAM) re-write the record books.   Jeremy Dodson had represented the USA in the Pan Am Games and the IAAF World Championships in 2011 before switching his allegiance to Samoa in…