April 14, 2017
PNG gears up for Oceania Championships

National squad athletes around PNG have the opportunity this month to prove themselves ready for the Oceania Championships which will be held in Suva, Fiji from 28th June to 1st July. With regular competitions getting underway in Port Moresby and occasional meets being conducted in Lae as well as many inter secondary school competitions in…

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April 13, 2017
PNG athletes in great form

PNG athletes are in great form as the outdoor season gets underway in the USA. Both Peniel Richard and Rellie Kaputin registered very significant performances in the long jump last weekend in Texas, leaping 7.57m and 6.41m respectively. Although both performances were marginally wind assisted  and therefore not recognised as national records, they are both…

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April 7, 2017
Women in Sports – a success story

Celebrating International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, what could be a better topic than the successful women in our sport? Brenda Ribauw and Trienssa Lanja Fritz are two role models of women in sports for the Oceania area. Both are holding positions within the Nauru Athletics Association and are dedicated to develop the…

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April 6, 2017
Weekly Recap

2017 Australian Athletics Championships Last weekend was the 2017 Australian Athletics Championships and what a week it was for track and field in Australia. Putting the nation’s best able-bodied and para-athletes of all ages against each other. Over the course of the week many records were broken including national and world records, plenty qualifiers for…

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April 6, 2017
#IDSDP Lautoka hosts Time Trials

On Saturday 1st April the newly re-opened Churchill Park in Lautoka was host to the Athletics Fiji Lautoka Time Trials for the first time. Local schools and clubs have certainly be waiting for this and many came to compete and watch: 17 schools and clubs with more than 200 Athletes, 500 spectators and 30 Officials…

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April 6, 2017
#IDSDP Weekly athletics in schools in Kiribati

Today we are celebrating International Day of Sport for Development and Peace and we are looking at Kiribati as one of our Member Federations and partner in the Pacific Sports Partnership program funded by the Australian government. The Development Program is only a month old, but there has already been lots of activity in the…

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