2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships

The 2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, between May 8–10, 2015. They were held together with the 2015 Oceania Area Championships.^[1][2] Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.^[3][4][5]

XIII Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
Dates	May 8–10
Host city	Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Venue	Barlow Park
Level	Youth
Events	42
Participation	127 athletes from 16 nations
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Initially, a total of 44 events were scheduled.^[1] However, results for girl's pole vault and mixed 800m sprint medley relay could not be retrieved. The events were most probably cancelled resulting in a total of 42 contested events, 22 by boys and 20 by girls.

Medal summary

Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage.^[6][7]

Boys (U18)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Brandon Herrigan   Australia	10.71 CR	Johnathon Taylor   Australia	11.00	Jarvis Hansen   New Zealand	11.12
200 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Brandon Herrigan   Australia	21.71 CR	Johnathon Taylor   Australia	21.95	Shane Tuvusa   Fiji	22.22
400 metres	Shane Tuvusa   Fiji	49.52	Ben Mackay   Australia	49.91	Josiah McCarthy  /  Northern Australia	52.90
800 metres	James Uhlenberg   New Zealand	1:59.47	Blair Pennell   New Zealand	2:00.09	Jade Bidgood  /  Northern Australia	2:00.38
1500 metres	James Uhlenberg   New Zealand	4:05.90	Blair Pennell   New Zealand	4:10.43	Jade Bidgood  /  Northern Australia	4:12.67
3000 metres	Joshua Torley   Australia	8:54.84	James Uhlenberg   New Zealand	8:56.95	Liam Cullen   New Zealand	9:39.30
2000 metres steeplechase	Blair Pennell   New Zealand	6:25.14	Liam Cullen   New Zealand	6:59.25	Matthew Macguire  /  Northern Australia	7:56.60
110 metres hurdles (91.4 cm) (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Brandon Herrigan   Australia	13.84 CR	Jarrod Twigg   Australia	14.20	Sitiveni Sulunga   Tonga	14.42
400 metres hurdles (83.8 cm)	Ben Mackay   Australia	54.90	Matthew Harcourt   Australia	55.15	Sam Richardson   Australia	58.29
High jump	John Dodds  /  Northern Australia	2.06m CR	Brenton Foster  /  Northern Australia	2.00m	Teuraiterai Tupaia   French Polynesia	1.94m
Pole vault	Jack Stolarski   Australia	4.30m	Reggie Taumaa   French Polynesia	3.20m
Long jump	Taurere Teganahau   French Polynesia	6.91m w (wind: +2.5 m/s)	Christopher Goodwin   New Zealand	6.83m w (wind: +3.9 m/s)	Arnold Fage   New Zealand	6.37m (wind: +1.4 m/s)
Triple jump	Jack Stolarski   Australia	13.88m w (wind: +2.8 m/s)	Arnold Fage   New Zealand	13.30m w (wind: +3.5 m/s)	Johnny Quitugua   Guam	12.55m w (wind: +4.6 m/s)
Shot put (5.0 kg)	Raiarii Thompson   French Polynesia	15.89m	Timothy Ford   Australia	15.47m	Nathaniel Mommers   Australia	15.27m
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	Jack Bannister   Australia	50.17m	Timothy Ford   Australia	46.95m	Jean Marc Tafilagi   New Caledonia	46.39m
Hammer throw (5.0 kg)	Nathaniel Mommers   Australia	54.39m	Jack Bannister   Australia	53.62m	Caleb Moore   New Zealand	47.77m
Javelin throw (700g)	Teuraiterai Tupaia   French Polynesia	59.93m	Mahio Patu   French Polynesia	54.79m	Donavin Ada   Northern Mariana Islands	41.02m
Octathlon	Matthew Hosie   Australia	5647 CR	Ben Collerton   New Zealand	5636	Connor Tansley  /  Northern Australia	3187
Decathlon	Theo Watson  /  Northern Australia	6062 CR
5000 metres walk	Luke McCutcheon   Australia	24:08.84
4 × 100 metres relay	Australia Ben Mackay Johnathon Taylor Brandon Herrigan Jarrod Twigg	42.47 CR	New Zealand Arnold Fage Jarvis Hansen Christopher Goodwin Javon McCallum	43.85	/  Northern Australia Jake Doran Ashley Brooke Connor Tansley Maximilian Graf	46.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia Sam Richardson Luke McCutcheon Matthew Hosie Ben Mackay	3:32.52	New Zealand Javon McCallum Jarvis Hansen Blair Pennell Ben Collerton	3:32.90	/  Northern Australia Josiah McCarthy Jake Doran Maximilian Graf Jade Bidgood	3:37.87

Girls (U18)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Olivia Eaton   New Zealand	12.20	Shannon Reynolds  /  Northern Australia	12.31	Miriam Peni   Papua New Guinea	12.43
200 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Olivia Eaton   New Zealand	24.48 CR	Shannon Reynolds  /  Northern Australia	25.02	Hayley Heel   Australia	25.06
400 metres	Amanda Fitisenamu   New Zealand	56.85	Caroline Higham   Australia	57.14	Hannah Schlecht   Australia	57.78
800 metres	Montanna McAvoy  /  Northern Australia	2:19.11	Maxine Paholek   Australia	2:20.88	Tahryn Kellie  /  Northern Australia	2:31.53
1500 metres	Montanna McAvoy  /  Northern Australia	4:44.59	Clio Ozanne-Jaques  /  Northern Australia	4:51.49
3000 metres	Clio Ozanne-Jaques  /  Northern Australia	10:35.29	Emma Henderson  /  Northern Australia	12:31.38
2000 metres steeplechase	Rama Kumilgo   Papua New Guinea	7:13.18	Maxine Paholek   Australia	7:15.30
100 metres hurdles (76.2 cm) (wind: +2.1 m/s)	Karina Brown   Australia	14.34 w	Samantha Johnson   Australia	14.59 w	Emily Bass   Australia	14.71 w
400 metres hurdles	Emily Bass   Australia	64.69 CR	Nicola Bowtell   Australia	67.84
High jump	Kimberley Jenner  /  Northern Australia	1.76m CR	Emma Meyer   Australia	1.65m	Grace-Kelly Davidson  /  Northern Australia	1.60m
Pole vault	Most probably cancelled
Long jump	Atipa Mabonga   New Zealand	5.87m w (wind: +4.0 m/s)	Ashleigh Bennett   New Zealand	5.57m (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Emma Hopcroft   New Zealand	5.56m w (wind: +3.3 m/s)
Triple jump	Mikaela Bretz   Australia	12.41m (wind: +1.7 m/s) CR	Taaliyah Markos  /  Northern Australia	11.52m (wind: +1.2 m/s)
Shot put (3.0 kg)	Julia Bourke   Australia	15.56m CR	Zoe Henare  /  Northern Australia	14.02m	Alexandra Worth  /  Northern Australia	12.33m
Discus throw	Alexandra Worth  /  Northern Australia	40.95m	Rhiann Cull  /  Northern Australia	32.51m	Luciendra Truques   New Caledonia	30.98m
Hammer throw (3.0 kg)	Emma Keleher   Australia	55.45m CR	Emily Rotunno   Australia	53.71m	Jennifer Moss  /  Northern Australia	45.14m
Javelin throw (500g)	Tianah List   Australia	47.30m	Gwoelani Patu   French Polynesia	40.97m	Zoe Henare  /  Northern Australia	37.76m
Heptathlon	Rebekah Gleeson-Cherry  /  Northern Australia	3179
5000 metres walk	Tahlia Hunt   Australia	27:41.19	Jessica Grech  /  Northern Australia	39:40.90
4 × 100 metres relay	Australia Katie Colebourne Emily Bass Samantha Johnson Hayley Heel	49.15 CR	New Zealand Olivia Eaton Ashleigh Bennett Atipa Mabonga Emma Hopcroft	49.38	/  Northern Australia Bridget Seymour-Jones Kayla Horne Tayla King Shannon Reynolds	50.17
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia Nicola Bowtell Maxine Paholek Hannah Schlecht Caroline Higham	4:01.89 CR	New Zealand Atipa Mabonga Ashleigh Bennett Amanda Fitisenamu Emma Hopcroft	4:13.08	/  Northern Australia Lacey Taylor Shannon Reynolds Kayla Horne Montanna McAvoy	4:14.57

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 800m sprint medley relay	Most probably cancelled

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia*	22	15	6	43
2	/ Northern Australia	8	8	15	31
3	New Zealand	7	12	5	24
4	French Polynesia	3	3	1	7
5	Fiji	1	0	1	2
	Papua New Guinea	1	0	1	2
7	New Caledonia	0	0	2	2
8	Guam	0	0	1	1
	Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	1	1
	Tonga	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		42	38	34	114

• Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation (unofficial)

According to an unofficial count, 127 athletes from 16 countries and territories participated. As in the years before, there was also a "Regional Australia Team" Northern Australia (dubbed "RAT" in the results list) comprising Australian athletes who either have their normal place of residence (defined as being a place where an athlete is resident and/or educated) in an "athletically remote area" of Australia (defined as a being a place more than 300km from any centre at which track and field competition is held on a regular basis i.e. basically weekly or fortnightly during the track season) or "Northern Australia" (defined as comprising the Northern Territory and any parts of Western Australia and North Queensland, north of 26th parallel south latitude).^[8]

•   American Samoa (4)
•   Australia (29)
•   Cook Islands (4)
•   Fiji (1)
•   French Polynesia (10)
•   Guam (3)
•   Marshall Islands (2)
•   Micronesia (2)
•   New Caledonia (2)
•   New Zealand (18)
•  /  Northern Australia (39)
•   Northern Mariana Islands (4)
•   Papua New Guinea (2)
•   Samoa (2)
•   Tonga (3)
•   Vanuatu (2)

References

1. (PDF), Oceania Athletics Association, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-18, retrieved May 7, 2015
2. Athletes Roll into Cairns for the Oceania Championships, Oceania Athletics Association, 6 May 2015, retrieved May 7, 2015
3. Oceania Championships – Day 1, OAA, 8 May 2015, retrieved May 9, 2015
4. Oceania Championships – Day 2, OAA, 9 May 2015, retrieved May 10, 2015
5. Oceania Championships – Day 3, OAA, 10 May 2015, retrieved May 11, 2015
6. (PDF), OAA, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04, retrieved May 10, 2015
7. (PDF), OAA, archived from the original (PDF) on May 18, 2015, retrieved May 10, 2015
8. (PDF), Athletics North Queensland, 13 January 2015, archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015, retrieved May 7, 2015