List of Oceanian youth bests in athletics

Oceanian youth bests are ratified by the Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) and comprise the all-time best marks set in competition by Oceanian athletes aged 17 or younger throughout the entire calendar year of the performance. OAA does not maintain official indoor bests. All indoor bests shown on this list are tracked by statisticians not officially sanctioned by the governing body.

Outdoor

Key:  Awaiting ratification  Best not kept by OAA  Not ratified or later rescinded by OAA

h = hand timing
Mx = Mixed gender race

Boys

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
100 m	10.27 (+0.8 m/s)	Sebastian Sultana	Australia	30 October 2022 [lower-alpha 1]	Illawong High Velocity Meet #4	Sydney, Australia	17 years, 48 days
200 m	20.69 (+1.4 m/s)	Gout Gout	Australia	27 January 2024	Denise Boyd Shield	Brisbane, Australia	16 years, 29 days	[1]
	20.60 (-0.7 m/s)	Gout Gout	Australia	30 August 2024	World U20 Championships	Lima, Peru	16 years, 245 days	[2]
300 m	33.16	Paul Greene	Australia	26 January 1989		Canberra, Australia	16 years, 48 days
400 m	45.96	Paul Greene	Australia	19 August 1989		Saga, Japan	16 years, 253 days
	45.53	Newbyior Islandton	Australia	24 February 2024		Brisbane, Australia	15 years, 180 days	[ citation needed ]
800 m	1:47.24	Paul Byrne	Australia	11 December 1993		Canberra, Australia	17 years, 316 days
1000 m	2:23.1 h	Michael Power	Australia	7 January 1993		Melbourne, Australia	16 years, 243 days
1500 m	3:33.26	Cameron Myers	Australia	16 July 2023	Kamila Skolimowska Memorial	Chorzów, Poland	17 years, 37 days	[3]
Mile	3:55.44 [lower-alpha 2]	Cameron Myers	Australia	23 February 2023	Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne	Melbourne, Australia	16 years, 259 days	[4]
2000 m	5:15.5 h	Mark Arens	Australia	23 March 1962		Adelaide, Australia
3000 m	7:52.06	Cameron Myers	Australia	11 March 2023 [lower-alpha 3]	Sydney Track Classic	Sydney, Australia	16 years, 275 days	[5]
5000 m	14:07.92	Sam Clifford	Australia	14 November 2019		Box Hill, Australia
10000 m	30:18.85	Alex Harvey	Australia	6 January 2024		Geelong, Australia	16 years, 110 days	[ citation needed ]
Half marathon
Marathon
110 m hurdles (91.4 cm)	12.87 (+1.6 m/s)	Sasha Zhoya	Australia	6 July 2019	French U18 Championships	Angers, France	17 years, 11 days
110 m hurdles (99/100 cm)
110 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
400 m hurdles (84.0 cm)	51.62	Jack Love	Australia	16 April 2023	Australian U18 Championships	Brisbane, Australia	16 years, 357 days	[6]
400 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
2000 m steeplechase (91.4 cm)	5:43.73	Aaron Hunt	Australia	5 December 1988		Sydney, Australia
3000 m steeplechase
High Jump	2.29 m	Tim Forsyth	Australia	12 August 1990		Plovdiv, Bulgaria	16 years, 360 days
Pole Vault	5.56 m	Sasha Zhoya	Australia/ France	1 April 2019	Australian Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	16 years, 280 days	[7]
Long Jump	8.01 m (+0.5 m/s)	Darcy Roper	Australia	16 July 2015	World Youth Championships	Cali, Colombia	17 years, 107 days
Triple jump	15.84 m NWI	Dylan James	Australia	23 November 2019		Perth, Australia
Shot put (5 kg)	22.53 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	5 August 2010		Stockholm, Sweden	15 years, 228 days
	22.86 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	11 December 2010		Hastings, New Zealand	15 years, 356 days
	24.45 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	19 December 2011	Auckland Millenium Shot Put Invitational	Auckland, New Zealand	16 years, 334 days	[8] [9]
Shot put (6 kg)	22.31 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	5 December 2011		North Shore City, New Zealand	16 years, 350 days	[10]
Shot put (7.26 kg)	20.38 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	5 December 2011		North Shore City, New Zealand	16 years, 350 days	[11] [12]
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	68.44 m	Werner Reiterer	Australia	2 November 1985		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 279 days
Discus throw (1.75 kg)
Discus throw (2 kg)	60.10 m	Werner Reiterer	Australia	21 December 1985		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 328 days
Hammer throw (5 kg)	81.44 m	Matthew Denny	Australia	9 June 2013		Brisbane, Australia	17 years, 7 days
Hammer throw (6 kg)
Hammer throw (7.26 kg)
Javelin throw (700 g)	77.80 m	Conor Warren	Australia	6 December 2015		Melbourne, Australia
Javelin throw (800 g)
Octathlon	6491 pts	Jake Stein	Australia	6–7 July 2011	World Youth Championships	Lille, France	17 years, 171 days	[13] [14]
	11.52 (-0.5 m/s) (100 m), 7.22 m (+1.2 m/s) (long jump), 17.22 m (shot put), 51.32 (400 m) / 14.25 (-1.0 m/s) (110 m hurdles), 1.98 m (high jump), 59.65 m (javelin), 2:52.93 (1000 m)
Decathlon (Youth)	7559 pts	Ashley Moloney	Australia	29–30 March 2017	Australian U18 Championships	Sydney, Australia	17 years, 17 days
	100 m (wind) Long jump (wind) Shot put High jump 400 m 110 m h (wind) Discus Pole vault Javelin 1500 m 10.84 (+0.5 m/s) 7.11 m (-1.0 m/s) 14.97 m 2.03 m 49.01 13.98 (-0.1 m/s) 36.40 m 4.40 m 44.04 m 5:03.21
Mile walk	6:08.45	Riley Coughlan	Australia	14 December 2023	Collingwood Classic	Melbourne, Australia	16 years, 334 days	[15]
3000 m walk	11:42.04	Troy Sundstrom	Australia	21 February 1998		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 297 days
	11:32.9 h	Douglas Connolly	Australia	27 November 1999		Sydney, Australia
5000 m walk	19:58.64	Douglas Connolly	Australia	12 December 1999		Sydney, Australia
	19:51.81	Isaac Beacroft	Australia	15 April 2023	Australian U18 Championships	Brisbane, Australia	15 years, 271 days	[16]
5 km walk (road)	20:55	Owen Toyne	Australia	12 February 2023	Australian U20 Race Walk Championships	Fawkner Park, Australia	15 years, 248 days	[17]
10000 m walk (track)	40:44.47	Isaac Beacroft	Australia	11 April 2024	Australian Championships	Adelaide, Australia	16 years, 268 days	[18]
10 km walk (road)	39:56	Isaac Beacroft	Australia	21 April 2024	World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships	Antalya, Turkey	16 years, 278 days	[19]
20000 m walk (track)
20 km walk (road)
50000 m walk (track)
50 km walk (road)
4 × 100 m relay	40.85	Barnett Richardson Manns Chodat	Australia	4 December 2008		Canberra, Australia
	40.48		Australia	14 March 2014
4 × 200 m relay	1:26.75	Wong Easton Lilley Cox	Australia	9 December 1981		Brisbane, Australia
4 × 400 m relay	3:14.39	Klabbers Nevin Longmuir Reed	Australia	30 March 1984		Melbourne, Australia
4 × 800 m relay	7:46.20	Andreatti Fitzgerald Bromley Hall	Australia	17 December 2000		Sydney, Australia
4 × 1500 m relay	16:04.7 h	Ellis Howley McMahon Millichamp	Australia	17 December 1989		Melbourne, Australia
Swedish medley relay	1:53.98	Browning Wood Shelley Stenmark	Australia	7 December 2014		Adelaide, Australia

Girls

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
100 m	11.20 (+1.2 m/s)	Raelene Boyle	Australia	15 October 1968	Olympic Games	Mexico City, Mexico	17 years, 113 days
200 m	22.74 (+2.0 m/s)	Raelene Boyle	Australia	18 October 1968	Olympic Games	Mexico City, Mexico	17 years, 116 days
400 m	51.80	Jana Pittman	Australia	12 December 1999		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 33 days
800 m	2:00.81	Keely Small	Australia	12 April 2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	16 years, 307 days	[20]
1000 m	2:36.72	Claudia Hollingsworth	Australia	8 March 2021		Box Hill, Australia	15 years, 330 days
1500 m	4:06.77	Georgie Clarke	Australia	30 January 2000	Optus Grand Prix	Hobart, Australia	15 years, 227 days
Mile	4:32.73	Susan Power	Australia	17 December 1992		Melbourne, Australia
2000 m	5:56.3 h	Angela Raines-White	Australia	27 November 1988		Brisbane, Australia
3000 m	9:00.60	Amy Bunnage	Australia	15 December 2022		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 268 days
5000 m	16:06.01	Katrina Robinson	New Zealand	16 June 2001		Brisbane, Australia
	15:18.6 Mx	Eloise Poppett	Australia	18 October 1999		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 335 days
10000 m
Half marathon
Marathon
100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	13.02 (+1.8 m/s)	Delta Amidzovski	Australia	16 April 2023	Australian U18 Championships	Brisbane, Australia	16 years, 236 days	[21]
100 m hurdles (84 cm)
200 m hurdles	27.91	Jess Gulli	Australia	21 March 2003		Sydney, Australia	15 years, 2 days
400 m hurdles	56.23	Jana Pittman	Australia	18 December 1999		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 39 days
2000 m steeplechase	6:25.77	Melissa Rollison	Australia	1 May 2000		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 18 days
3000 m steeplechase	10:10.73	Melissa Rollison	Australia	25 February 2000	Australian Championships	Sydney, Australia	16 years, 318 days	[22]
High jump	1.96 m	Eleanor Patterson	Australia	7 December 2013	Australian All Schools Championships	Townsville, Australia	17 years, 199 days	[23]
Pole vault	4.40 m	Vicky Parnov	Australia	30 June 2007		Saulheim, Germany	16 years, 249 days
		Liz Parnov		17 April 2010		Perth, Australia	15 years, 343 days
		Nina Kennedy		24 July 2014		Eugene, United States	17 years, 110 days
	4.40 m	Olivia McTaggart	New Zealand	14 January 2017	Potts Classic	Hastings, New Zealand	17 years, 5 days	[24]
Long jump	6.55 m (+1.9 m/s)	Nicole Boegman	Australia	15 October 1983		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 224 days
Triple jump	13.30 m (-0.1 m/s)	Tianna Boras	Australia	6 August 2022	World U20 Championships	Cali, Colombia	17 years, 155 days	[25]
Shot put (3 kg)	17.27 m	Allira Takau	Australia	17 April 2024		Adelaide, Australia
Shot put (4 kg)	17.08 m	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	13 July 2001		Debrecen, Hungary	16 years, 280 days
Discus throw	58.52 m	Dani Samuels	Australia	26 November 2005		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 184 days
Hammer throw (3 kg)	71.14 m	Alexandra Hulley	Australia	6 December 2014		Adelaide, Australia	17 years, 135 days
Hammer throw (4 kg)
Javelin throw (500 g)	56.01 m	Annabel Thompson	Australia	15 July 2004		Grosseto, Italy
	61.47 m	Mackenzie Little	Australia	11 July 2013	World Youth Championships	Donetsk, Ukraine	16 years, 196 days
Heptathlon	5650 pts	Sharon Joklofsky	Australia	24 February 1985		Brisbane, Australia	16 years, 147 days
	100m H (wind) High jump Shot put 200m (wind) Long jump (wind) Javelin 800m
3000 m walk (track)	12:36.21	Natalie Saville	Australia	9 December 1995		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 153 days
5000 m walk (track)	21:39.03	Katie Hayward	Australia	22 October 2016		Brisbane, Australia	16 years, 91 days
5 km walk (road)	22:44	Katie Hayward	Australia	30 July 2017		Brisbane, Australia	17 years, 7 days
	22:39	Tanya Holliday	Australia	5 November 2005		Adelaide, Australia	17 years, 45 days	[26]
10000 m walk (track)
10 km walk (road)
20000 m walk (track)
20 km walk (road)
4 × 100 m relay	45.48	New South Wales Team O'Gready Thornton Geddes Kyriacou	Australia	14 March 2014		Sydney, Australia
4 × 200 m relay	1:38.41	New South Wales Team Gardner Bannister Turner Morton	Australia	9 December 2007		Sydney, Australia
Swedish relay	2:06.58	Jessica Gulli Olivia Tauro Megan Hill Jaimee-Lee Hoegbergen	Australia	17 July 2005	World Youth Championships	Marrakesh, Morocco	17 years, 120 days
4 × 400 m relay	3:42.47	Alton Babbage Hall Moroney	Australia	21 March 1982		Brisbane, Australia
4 × 800 m relay	8:57.62	Kajan Tomsett Neville Doyle	Australia	21 November 2005		Sydney, Australia
4 × 1500 m relay	18:22.47	Blacktown Team L. Harding-Delooze Evans Hopper A. Harding-Delooze	Australia	15 November 2015		Sydney, Australia

Mixed

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
4 × 400 m relay	3:25.08	Bendere Oboya Sebastien Moir Carley Thomas Jordan Doris	Australia	23 July 2017	Commonwealth Youth Games	Nassau, Bahamas	17 years, 97 days 16 years, 209 days

Indoor

Boys

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
50 m
60 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1000 m
1500 m
Mile
2000 m
3000 m
5000 m
50 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
50 m hurdles (99/100 cm)
50 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
60 m hurdles (91.4 cm)	7.48	Sasha Zhoya	Australia	24 February 2019	French U18 Championships	Liévin, France	16 years, 244 days	[27]
60 m hurdles (99/100 cm)
60 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
High jump
Pole vault	5.32 m	Sasha Zhoya	Australia	23 February 2019	French U18 Championships	Liévin, France	16 years, 243 days	[28]
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put (5 kg)
Shot put (6 kg)
Shot put (7.26 kg)
Heptathlon (Youth)
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m
Heptathlon (Junior)
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m
Heptathlon (Senior)
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m
5000 m walk
4 × 200 m relay
4 × 400 m relay

Girls

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
50 m
60 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1000 m
1500 m	4:13.21	Georgie Clarke	Australia	10 March 2001	World Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	16 years, 266 days	[29]
Mile
2000 m
3000 m
5000 m
50 m hurdles (84 cm)
60 m hurdles (76.2 cm)
60 m hurdles (84 cm)
High jump
Pole vault	4.10 m	Olivia McTaggart	New Zealand	22 February 2017	Vertical Pursuit	Auckland, New Zealand	17 years, 44 days	[30]
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put (3 kg)
Shot put (4 kg)
Pentathlon (Senior)
	60m H High jump Shot put Long jump 800m
3000 m walk (track)
4 × 200 m relay
4 × 400 m relay

Notes

1. by OAA source; 29 October 2022 by World Athletics source
2. by official result and World Athletics sources; 3:55.54 by OAA source, a typo
3. by official result and World Athletics sources; 11 February 2023 by OAA source, a typo

References

General

• Oceania Records 2 July 2024 updated

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