2017 Oceania Athletics Championships

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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]

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)

  *   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

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]

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

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

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