What a weekend for Men’s Middle distance running in Oceania. It all kicked off on Saturday morning, with the 5000m race at the Porritt Classic. Originally scheduled for the Friday evening, but windy conditions meant the race was moved to Saturday morning. Olympic Triathlete Hayden Wilde has been chasing a fast 5000m all season, and…
Pat Tiernan has broken the Oceania 10,000m in Los Angeles, USA. Running at the Sound Running event, put on for athletes to try and qualify for the rescheduled Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. Pat ran 27:22.55, to take over a second off the record, held by Stewart McSweyn from the Zatopek Classic in 2019, a race…
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…
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…
Jessica Hull (AUS), has broken the Oceania Area 1500m Record in the World Athletics Continental Silver Meeting in Berlin on 13th of September. Her time was 4.00.42, which breaks the previous record of Linden Hall from 2018. This is Hull’s second Area Record of the year, after breaking the Indoor 1500m at a meet in…
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