The purpose of the OAA Regional Development Centre (RDC) is to support the Member Federations in the Oceania Region as we work to promote the development of athletics in our respective countries. RDCs are responsible for the implementation of the IAAF Development Programme and the co-ordination of the development activities in our Region. Since the…
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2017 NORTHERN FMF CHOW GAMES Last Weekend Athletics Fiji accommodated up to 992 athletes from 11 districts as they all converged at Labasa’s Subrail Park for a competition that would last 2 days with the help of over 100 volunteers to run the competition. At the end of the weekend Seaqaqa finished their 2017 campaign with…
Athletics Australia’s Life Memberships awarded Last week Athletics Australia has awarded two life memberships to Len Johnson from Victoria and Laurie Keaton from NSW. Len Johnson’s association with athletics started in the early 1970s when he began to train as a distance runner in Melbourne. As an athlete, he would say his best performance was in 1978…
The IAAF has now published the new Competition Rulebook 2018-2019. This is available for download on their website. These rules have already come in to effect as of the 1st of November 2017. https://www.iaaf.org/about-iaaf/documents/rules-regulations IAAF Competition Rules 2018-2019, in force from 1 November 2017
Anti-Doping Vanuatu Last week Athletics Vanuatu held an Anti-Doping activity/course, which gather people both athletes and local coaches young and old with ages ranging from 15yrs – 32yrs for athletes and 35yrs – 48yrs for the coaches. Throughout the activity/course 66 athletes attended the awareness including 6 local coaches. Athletics Vanuatu’s President Jansen Molisingi was present at…
Down Syndrome World Championships Last week Portugal hosted the Sports Union for Athletes with Down Syndrome (SU-DS) World Championships in Athletics from 14th – 16th October 2017. For the first time Australia took part in the event sending Brisbane Athlete Andre Rivett, who competed in the Javelin, Shot Put and Discus. Andre finished 2nd in the…