2017 Oceania Athletics Championships

XVI Oceania Athletics Championships
Dates	June 28 – July 1
Host city	Suva, Fiji
Venue	ANZ Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	43
Participation	21 + 1 nations
Records set	6
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The 2017 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at the ANZ Stadium in Suva, Fiji between June 28 and July 1, 2017. ^[1] The event was held jointly with the Oceania under 18 and under 20 championships, including exhibition events for masters and for athletes with disabilities (parasports). ^[2]

Participating nations (Unofficial)

A total of 22 teams participated in the senior championships. There were 21 nations with 1 regional team from Australia. The regional Australian team (RAT) competed separately and not as Australia. ^{[3] [4]}

•   American Samoa (3)
•   Australia (37)
  • / Northern Australia (11)
•   Cook Islands (6)
•   Micronesia (5)
•   Fiji (Host) (42)
•   French Polynesia (1)
•   Guam (8)
•   Kiribati (2)
•   Marshall Islands (2)
•   Nauru (6)
•   New Caledonia (12)
•   New Zealand (15)
•   Norfolk Island (1)
•   Northern Mariana Islands (1)
•   Palau (1)
•   Papua New Guinea (29)
•   Samoa (17)
•   Solomon Islands (9)
•   Tonga (8)
•   Tuvalu (5)
•   Vanuatu (5)

Medal table (Unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Fiji)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	11	14	8	33
2	Papua New Guinea	10	12	7	29
3	Fiji*	8	6	7	21
4	New Zealand	6	2	4	12
5	Samoa	3	0	2	5
6	New Caledonia	2	1	3	6
7	Solomon Islands	1	3	1	5
8	/ Northern Australia	1	0	2	3
9	American Samoa	1	0	0	1
10	Tonga	0	1	2	3
11	Cook Islands	0	1	1	2
12	French Polynesia	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		43	40	38	121

Medal summary

A total of 47 events were originally scheduled for the championships, however, 3 events for women were cancelled due to no entries, while medals for the men's 5000m race walk were never distributed because of both entries disqualified. Resulting in a total of 43 medal events.

Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage. ^[5]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.4 m/s)	Jeremy Dodson   Samoa	10.86	Nazmie-Lee Marai   Papua New Guinea	10.88	Jonty Flottmann   Australia	10.99
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Jeremy Dodson   Samoa	20.80	Nazmie-Lee Marai   Papua New Guinea	21.64	Wesley Logorava   Papua New Guinea	21.77
400 metres	Murray Goodwin   Australia	47.53	Samuela Railoa   Fiji	48.16	Theo Piniau   Papua New Guinea	48.49
800 metres	Alain Dutton   Australia	1:56.06	Martin Orovo   Papua New Guinea	1:57.21	Alex Beddoes   Cook Islands	2:01.46
1500 metres	Alain Dutton   Australia	4:16.20	George Yamak   Papua New Guinea	4:17.28	Martin Orovo   Papua New Guinea	4:21.71
5000 metres	Simbai Kaspar   Papua New Guinea	15:50.25	Patrick Kam   Solomon Islands	16:04.12	Liam Woollett   Australia	16:09.59
10,000 metres	Avikash Lal   Fiji	33:16.04	Patrick Kam   Solomon Islands	33:46.88	Simbai Kaspar   Papua New Guinea	33:56.83
5000 metres race walk	All competitors disqualified
10,000 metres race walk	Pramesh Prasad   Fiji	1:06:53.42
110 metres hurdles (wind: -2.2 m/s)	Terrell Mckenzie   Australia	14.77	Talatala Po'oi   Tonga	15.51	Kolone Alefosio   Samoa	15.78
400 metres hurdles	Ephraim Lerkin   Papua New Guinea	51.71	Mowen Boino   Papua New Guinea	53.57	Harrison Roubin   Australia	54.25
3000 metres steeplechase	Atama Vunibola   Fiji	11:15.27
4 × 100 metres relay	Australia Sam Toleman Jonty Flottmann Terrell McKenzie Nicholas Bate	41.51	Papua New Guinea Nelson Stone Nazmie-Lee Marai Wesley Logorava Charles Livuan	41.87	Samoa Shu Peng Ah Vui Quinton Dodson Joseph Paletasala Jeremy Dodson	41.88
4 × 400 metres relay	Fiji Emosi Sukanaivalu Kameli Sauduadua Sailosi Tubuilagi Samuela Railoa	3:17.83	Papua New Guinea Emmanuel Wanga Peniel Joshua Ephraim Lerkin Kaminiel Matlaun	3:18.30	Tonga Heamatangi Tuivai Fine Tokai Larry Sulunga Ronald Fotof	3:22.40
High jump	Malakai Kaiwalu   Fiji	2.04m	Sebastian Gray   Australia	1.98m	Meli Kolanavanua   Fiji	1.90m
Pole vault	Caihe Caihe   New Caledonia	3.80m
Long jump	Isireli Bulivorovoro   Fiji	7.28m w(wind: +2.6 m/s)	Sam Toleman   Australia	7.14 w(wind: +3.4 m/s)	Waisale Dausoko   Fiji	7.00m (wind: +0.9 m/s)
Triple jump	Peniel Richard   Papua New Guinea	14.56m (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Kalaveti Mokosiro   Fiji	13.66m (wind: +0.0 m/s)	Andrew Allan   New Zealand	13.30m (wind: +0.3 m/s)
Shot put	Mustafa Fall   Fiji	15.68m	Debono Paraka   Papua New Guinea	15.64m	Jean Vehikite   New Caledonia	13.10m
Discus throw	Alexander Rose   Samoa	61.12m CR	Mustafa Fall   Fiji	45.86m	Debono Paraka   Papua New Guinea	44.40m
Hammer throw	Ram Abhineet   Fiji	55.17m	Debono Paraka   Papua New Guinea	39.45m
Javelin throw	Ben Burnell   New Zealand	78.10m CR	Alex Wood   New Zealand	65.79m	Pita Tamani   Fiji	65.10m
Decathlon	Max Attwell   New Zealand	6975 pts	Martin Clark   Australia	6171 pts	Matthew Wecker   Australia	6031 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.3 m/s)	Toea Wisil   Papua New Guinea	11.63	Morgan Gaffney   Australia	12.24	Jessica Peris   Australia	12.27
200 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Toea Wisil   Papua New Guinea	23.24 CR	Larissa Pasternatsky   Australia	23.56	Jessica Peris   Australia	24.06
400 metres	Jessica Haig   Australia	57.70	Shirley Vunatup   Papua New Guinea	58.35	Elenani Tinai   Fiji	58.70
800 metres	Keely Waters   Australia	2:12.49	Tia Brady   Australia	2:13.38	Poro Gahekave   Papua New Guinea	2:20.71
1500 metres	Hannah Miller   New Zealand	4:36.07	Audrey Hall   Australia	4:43.54	Poro Gahekave   Papua New Guinea	4:47.26
5000 metres	Hannah Miller   New Zealand	17:08.47	Audrey Hall   Australia	17:29.15	Sharon Firisua   Solomon Islands	18:08.05
10,000 metres	Sharon Firisua   Solomon Islands	37:54.60 CR	Dianah Matekali   Solomon Islands	39:47.00	Sophie Bouchonnet   French Polynesia	39:56.76
5000 metres race walk	Cancelled due to no entries
10,000 metres race walk	Cancelled due to no entries
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.2 m/s)	Ashleigh Sando   New Zealand	14.37	Summer Johnson   Australia	14.57	Carla Takchi   Australia	14.82
400 metres hurdles	Raylyne Kanam   Papua New Guinea	1:05.40	Trudy Davidson   Australia	1:07.35	Ariana Blackwood   New Zealand	1:07.96
3000 metres steeplechase	Cancelled due to no entries
4 × 100 metres relay	Australia Summer Johnson Jessica Peris Morgan Gaffney Larissa Pasternatsky	46.26	Fiji Laisani Moceisawana Makereta Naulu Elenoa Sailosi Younis Bese	47.88	/ Northern Australia Mikielee Snow Emily Dixon Natasha Rudder Kayla Montagner	49.07
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia Tia Brady Trudy Davidson Hannah Cox Jessica Haig	3:56.86	Papua New Guinea Shirley Vunatup Nancy Malamut Leonie Beu Raylyne Kanam	4:05.11	Fiji Maria Noela Elenani Tinai Tavenisa Senigacali Filomena Balobalo	4:19.87
High jump	Rellie Kaputin   Papua New Guinea	1.65m	Rosalia Raqato   Fiji	1.56m	Nanise Tavisa   Fiji	1.53m
Pole vault	Jamie Scroop   Australia	4.00m CR	Katherine Iannello   Australia	3.60m
Long jump	Rellie Kaputin   Papua New Guinea	5.86m (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Jessie Harper   Australia	5.75m (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Ashleigh Sando   New Zealand	5.66m (wind: +0.7 m/s)
Triple jump	Rellie Kaputin   Papua New Guinea	13.05m CR (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Allison Nankivell   Australia	12.91m w(wind: +2.2 m/s)	Anna Thomson   New Zealand	12.51m (wind: +1.8 m/s)
Shot put	Maddison-Lee Wesche   New Zealand	15.27m	Ashley Bologna   New Caledonia	14.68m	ʻAta Maama Tuutafaiva   Tonga	14.07m
Discus throw	Patria Vaimaona   American Samoa	45.48m	Tereapii Tapoki   Cook Islands	44.83m	Falakika Fakate   New Caledonia	41.68m
Hammer throw	Mikayla Horan / Northern Australia	46.63m	Emma Werner   Australia	44.80m	Coranne Truques   New Caledonia	43.72m
Javelin throw	Linda Selui   New Caledonia	47.29m	Sharon Toako   Papua New Guinea	43.54m	Elena Caucau   Fiji	40.27m
Heptathlon	Adrine Monagi   Papua New Guinea	4639 pts	Ariana Backwood   New Zealand	4369 pts	Vicky Clark   Australia	4136 pts

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 800m sprint medley relay	Australia Carla Takchi Jordan Shelley Jessica Payne Murray Goodwin	1:33.94	Fiji Laisani Moceisawana Aaron Powell Makereta Naulu Samuela Railoa	1:35.78	/ Northern Australia Emily Dixon Jaqson Dagan Kayla Montagner Jay Stone	1:38.76

References

1. Oceania Athletics Championships – Suva 2017 – Competition Manual (PDF), Oceania Athletics Association , retrieved June 27, 2017
2. Oceania champs return to Fiji, Radio New Zealand, 28 June 2017, retrieved June 28, 2017
3. Oceania athletics centerstage - Fiji fields largest team, Fiji Sun , retrieved June 25, 2017
4. Biggest event, Fiji Times, archived from the original on June 28, 2017, retrieved June 28, 2017
5. Oceania Athletics Championships - Full Results, Oceania Athletics Association, archived from the original on May 8, 2017, retrieved July 2, 2017