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June 23, 2017
Preview of Women’s Track events

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…

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June 22, 2017
Preview of Men’s Track Events

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…

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June 5, 2017
Lautoka’s new track at Churchill Park

the Burning West* can now compete on an equal footing In the early days of the Fiji Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships, the finals were held on the the grass tracks at either Buckhurst Park in Suva, or Natabua High School in Lautoka. Term One of the school year is the allocated time for this huge…

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June 1, 2017
Rellie Kaputin delivers again

Rellie Kaputin delivered another Champion’s performance to play a big part in her West Texas A&M Team winning the NCAA Division 2 National Championships team title in Bradenton, Florida last weekend. The 24 year old from Tinganalom village in East New Britain produced a massive long jump of 6.53m for second place behind her team…

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June 1, 2017
OAA visit to Kiribati

May 2017 by Bob Snow Below is a brief profile, with photos, of one of the smaller countries in the world and one of the most remote in the Oceania Region. It highlights the problems to be found in such small nations, and outlines the great advances the people have made to compete in Athletics…

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May 31, 2017
Tonga hosts coaching course

Tonga Athletics Association has hosted a CECS Level I course in country from 1st – 12th May 2017. The coaching course was the first of its kind for more than a decade in Tonga and an important milestone for the development of Athletics. 21 participants have attended and successfully completed the course, which teaches not only…

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