2015 Oceania Athletics Championships

The 2015 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia, between May 8–10, 2015.[1] The event was held jointly with the 2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships and the 2015 Oceania Combined Events Championships. Moreover, there were also exhibition events for masters and athletes with a disability (parasports), as well as school events for aqe groups 5 to 15 years.[1][2] Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.[3][4][5]

XV Oceania Athletics Championships
Dates	May 8–10
Host city	Cairns, Australia
Venue	Barlow Park
Level	Senior
Events	47
Participation	215 + 2 guest athletes from 20 + 2 nations
← 2014 Rarotonga 2017 →

Initially, a total of 48 events were scheduled.[1] However, results for women's pole vault could not be retrieved. The event was most probably cancelled resulting in a total of 47 contested events, 24 by men, 22 by women, and 1 mixed.

Medal summary

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

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Banuve Tabakaucoro  Fiji	10.22 CR	Jeremy Dodson  Samoa	10.36	Michael Konomamyi  Australia	10.71
200 metres (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Jeremy Dodson  Samoa	20.57 CR	Banuve Tabakaucoro  Fiji	20.68	Michael Goldie  New Zealand	21.46
400 metres	Uluiyata Batinisavu  Fiji	48.22	Jayden Barmby  Australia	48.69	Nelson Stone  Papua New Guinea	49.27
800 metres	Sam Russell  Australia	1:54.02	Martin Orovo  Papua New Guinea	1:57.12	Veherney Babob  Papua New Guinea	1:58.11
1500 metres^1.)	Sam Russell  Australia	4:05.76	Martin Orovo  Papua New Guinea	4:08.06	Skene Kiage  Papua New Guinea	4:12.23
5000 metres	Joshua Torley  Australia	15:34.31	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	15:44.47	Anthony Craig / Northern Australia	16:15.42
10,000 metres	Matthew Dryden  New Zealand	34:18.41	Loïc Mével  French Polynesia	34:32.18	Rosefelo Siosi  Solomon Islands	37:00.71
3000 metres steeplechase	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	9:39.74	Harry Ewing  New Zealand	9:50.68	Skene Kiage  Papua New Guinea	9:50.99
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Jack Conway  Australia	14.40	Cedric Dubler  Australia	14.72	Mowen Boino  Papua New Guinea	14.92
400 metres hurdles	Michael Cochrane  New Zealand	50.69 CR	Mowen Boino  Papua New Guinea	52.19	Alexander Schaffer  Australia	53.01
High jump	John Dodds / Northern Australia	2.15m	Jason Strano  Australia	2.15m	Matt Nicholls  New Zealand	2.10m
Pole vault^2.)	Triston Vincent / Northern Australia	4.10m			Peniel Richard  Papua New Guinea	3.60m
Long jump	Waisale Dausoko  Fiji	7.51m w (wind: +4.5 m/s)	Tim McGuire  Australia	7.47m (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Idau Asigau  Papua New Guinea	6.64m w (wind: +2.5 m/s)
Triple jump	Tim McGuire  Australia	14.97m w (wind: +5.0 m/s)	Alex Ypinazar / Northern Australia	14.88m w (wind: +2.6 m/s)	Peniel Richard  Papua New Guinea	14.81m w (wind: +3.4 m/s)
Shot put	Alexander Rose  Samoa	16.89m	Albert Karo / Northern Australia	13.53m	Joseph Dabana  Nauru	13.11m
Discus throw	Alexander Rose  Samoa	60.95m CR	Marshall Hall  New Zealand	59.87m	Justin Andre  Guam	41.55m
Hammer throw	Warren Button  New Zealand	58.14m	Alexander Rose  Samoa	53.29m	Justin Andre  Guam	48.29m
Javelin throw	John Crandell  Australia	64.35m	Liam Spannenburg / Northern Australia	55.85m	Mahio Patu  French Polynesia	54.09m
Octathlon	Siologa Viliamu  Samoa	4395
Decathlon	Brent Newdick  New Zealand	7140	Aaron Booth  New Zealand	6183	Alex Mander  New Zealand	5919
5000 metres walk	Jarad Free  New Zealand	24:18.39	Ignacio Jimenez Australian Masters Athletics	25:09.28
10,000 metres walk	Jarad Free  New Zealand	46:17.0 (ht)	Ignacio Jimenez Australian Masters Athletics	51:29.0 (ht)
4 × 100 metres relay	Fiji Waisale Dausoko Vilisoni Rarasea Uluiyata Batinisavu Banuve Tabakaucoro	40.98	Papua New Guinea Charles Livuan Nazmie-Lee Marai Nelson Stone Wesley Logorava	41.70	Australia Benjamin Hayward Jack Conway John Crandell Michael Konomamyi	41.86
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia Alexander Schaffer Sam Russell Matthew Crowe Jayden Barmby	3:15.55	Fiji Banuve Tabakaucoro Shane Tuvusa Poasa Satoqi Uluiyata Batinisavu	3:22.16	New Zealand Harry Ewing Jonty Morrison Alex Mander Matthew Dryden	3:32.77

^1.) In the 1500m event, George Yamak,  Papua New Guinea, finished 3rd in 4:11.07 competing as a guest.
^2.) The pole vault event was won by Peter Hollenbeck, Athletics North Queensland,  Australia, in 4.50m competing as a guest.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.9 m/s)	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	11.41 w	Christine Wearne  Australia	11.52 w	Younis Bese  Fiji	11.89 w
200 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	23.71 CR	Betty Burua  Papua New Guinea	23.74	Louise Jones  New Zealand	24.22
400 metres	Betty Burua  Papua New Guinea	54.32	Louise Jones  New Zealand	54.63	Donna Koniel  Papua New Guinea	54.89
800 metres	Donna Koniel  Papua New Guinea	2:09.58	Holly Campbell  Australia	2:12.17	Talia Horgan  New Zealand	2:15.24
1500 metres	Coreena Cleland  Australia	4:27.36 CR	Holly Campbell  Australia	4:29.25	Maudie Skyring  Australia	4:46.76
5000 metres	Sharon Firisua  Solomon Islands	18:35.51	Ongan Awa  Papua New Guinea	18:55.39	Mary Kua  Papua New Guinea	19:23.09
10,000 metres	Mary Kua  Papua New Guinea	40:39.52	Miriam Goiye  Papua New Guinea	40:57.79
3000 metres steeplechase	Rama Kumilgo  Papua New Guinea	11:10.48 CR	Coreena Cleland  Australia	11:20.89	Sharon Firisua  Solomon Islands	11:27.42
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Fiona Morrison  New Zealand	13.57	Lucie Turpin  New Caledonia	14.44	Emma Walker  New Zealand	15.15
400 metres hurdles	Betty Burua  Papua New Guinea	59.10	Lauren McAdam  Australia	62.55	Lucie Turpin  New Caledonia	65.76
High jump	Ashleigh Reid  Australia	1.80m CR	Kimberley Jenner / Northern Australia	1.75m	Abigail Rothery  Australia	1.75m
Pole vault	Most probably cancelled
Long jump	Catherine Hannell / Northern Australia	5.82m w (wind: +3.7 m/s)	Ashleigh Jones / Northern Australia	5.64m w (wind: +4.6 m/s)	Helen Philemon  Papua New Guinea	5.59m w (wind: +3.0 m/s)
Triple jump	Milika Tuivanuavou  Fiji	12.29m w (wind: +3.3 m/s)	Atipa Mabonga  New Zealand	11.98m (wind: +2.0 m/s)	Alexandra Kanowski / Northern Australia	11.95m w (wind: +2.3 m/s)
Shot put	Milika Tuivanuavou  Fiji	14.35m	Patsy Mckenzie  Samoa	13.83m	ʻAta Maama Tuutafaiva  Tonga	13.65m
Discus throw	Siositina Hakeai  New Zealand	56.06m	Tereapii Tapoki  Cook Islands	50.83m	Adrienne Worth / Northern Australia	43.20m
Hammer throw	Kaysanne Hockey  Australia	54.01m	Laura Herbert  Australia	50.29m	Kasandra Vegas  Samoa	45.59m
Javelin throw	Laura Overton  New Zealand	45.87m	Patsy Mckenzie  Samoa	45.05m	Tianah List  Australia	41.52m
Heptathlon	Sarah Wood / Northern Australia	5052	Tori West / Northern Australia	4841	Merissa Colledge / Northern Australia	4186
5000 metres walk	Zoe Hunt  Australia	25:28.75	Jayde Hill  Australia	27:41.22
10,000 metres walk	Zoe Hunt  Australia	50:21.0 (ht)
4 × 100 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Toea Wisil Betty Burua Helen Philemon Miriam Peni	46.31	Australia Tess Nelson Lauren O'Sullivan Kiara Chambers Christine Wearne	46.87	New Zealand Emma Walker Louise Jones Livvy Wilson Fiona Morrison	47.34
4 × 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Betty Burua Donna Koniel Tuna Tine Miriam Peni	3:52.66	Australia Lauren McAdam Maudie Skyring Coreena Cleland Beth Vanderwaal	3:53.99	New Zealand Louise Jones Olivia Bryce Livvy Wilson Talia Horgan	3:55.55

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 800m sprint medley relay	Fiji Younis Bese Banuve Tabakaucoro Sisilia Seavula Uluiyata Batinisavu	1:35.32	Papua New Guinea Betty Burua Nazmie-Lee Marai Toea Wisil Peniel Joshua	1:36.08	Australia Christine Wearne Michael Konomamyi Ashleigh Reid Alexander Moore	1:40.12

Masters (exhibition)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 1500 metres Race Walk	Ignacio Jimenez	9:36.99	Lynne Schickert	11:01.75

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia*	12	13	7	32
2	Papua New Guinea	10	9	11	30
3	New Zealand	9	5	9	23
4	Fiji	7	2	1	10
5	/ Northern Australia	4	6	4	14
6	Samoa	4	4	1	9
7	Solomon Islands	1	0	2	3
8	Australian Masters Athletics	0	2	0	2
9	French Polynesia	0	1	1	2
	New Caledonia	0	1	1	2
11	Cook Islands	0	1	0	1
12	Guam	0	0	2	2
13	Nauru	0	0	1	1
	Tonga	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		47	44	41	132

Participation (unofficial)

According to an unofficial count, 215 athletes (+ 2 guests) from 20 countries and territories participated. There were two additional teams: one athlete represented Australian Masters Athletics (dubbed "AMA" in the result lists). 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 300 km 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 (1)
•  Australia (33 + 1 guest)
• Australian Masters Athletics (1)
•  Cook Islands (2)
•  Fiji (11)
•  French Polynesia (8)
•  Guam (9)
•  Kiribati (7)
•  Marshall Islands (2)
•  F.S. Micronesia (5)
•  Nauru (7)
•  New Caledonia (2)
•  New Zealand (27)
•  Norfolk Island (1)
• / Northern Australia (36)
•  Northern Mariana Islands (2)
•  Palau (5)
•  Papua New Guinea (29 + 1 guest)
•  Samoa (7)
•  Solomon Islands (2)
•  Tonga (9)
•  Vanuatu (9)

References

1. Oceania Athletics Championships – Cairns 2015 – Competition Manual (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. Oceania Area Championships 2015 – 8/05/2015 to 10/05/2015 – Barlow Park – Cairns – Results (PDF), OAA, archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016, retrieved May 10, 2015
7. Oceania Area Championships 2015 – 8/05/2015 to 10/05/2015 – Barlow Park – Cairns – Results – Combined Events (PDF), OAA, archived from the original (PDF) on May 18, 2015, retrieved May 10, 2015
8. REGIONAL AUSTRALIA Selection Policy – Oceania Senior and Youth Area Championships – Cairns, Australia, 8-10 May 2015 (PDF), Athletics North Queensland, 13 January 2015, retrieved May 7, 2015