Oceania athletics presented the following awards at the Oceania Area Athletics Championships
Lesley Cantwell Memorial Walks Trophy:
Lesley Cantwell was a New Zealand racewalker. Cantwell won the gold medal in the women’s 5000 m race walk at the 2013 Oceania Athletics Championships in Tahiti on 4 June 2013. While waiting for the medal ceremony, she felt unwell and collapsed. She was taken to a local hospital where she passed away three days later.
This Memorial Trophy is presented to the best walker at the Oceania Championships:
2014 Jayde Hill Australia
2015 Zoe Hunt Australia
2017 Connor Frew Australia
2019 Jemima Montag Australia
2022 Jemima Montag Australia
Arthur Eustace Shield:
Arthur Eustace won eight New Zealand senior championships from 1946 to 1951, and set records in both the 120 yards and 220 yards hurdles. Three of these were won within a period of 25 minutes in 1948 in Dunedin.
At the 1950 British Empire Games, he won a bronze medal as part of the men’s 4 x 110 yards relay alongside He lived in Fiji between 1951 and 1954, and represented Fiji at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in the 4 x 110 yards relay, in a team of which he was coach and manager.
Eustace was a member of the management committee of the New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association for 28 years and was its president in 1985. He was elected patron of Athletics New Zealand in 2009.
He qualified as a national athletics coach in 1955 and was elected president of the New Zealand Athletics Coaches Association in 1974. He served as the manager of coaching and development of athletics in Oceania from 1974 to 1985. In 2006, Eustace was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Eustace represented Oceania for 14 years on the IAAF council. Eustace was a technical delegate at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Eustace was the first person awarded Oceania Life Memberships in 1991. He was awarded the World Athletics (IAAF) Veteran Pin in 1986, and the Plaque of Merit in 1995.
1995 Hapo Maliaki Papua New Guinea
1997 Akeki Sapoi Tonga
1999 Lisa Corrigan Australia
2000 E Tuivanliavou Fiji
2002 Rachel Perderson Australia
2004 Tumatai Dauphin French Polynesia
2006 Joshua Hall Australia
2016 Nash Lowis Australia
2017
2019 Reece Holder Australia
Tomysha Clark Australia
2022 Cameron Myer Australia
Tayla Van Rooyen New Zealand