1996 Oceania Junior Athletics Championships

II Oceania Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	November 28–30
Host city	Townsville, Australia
Level	Junior
Events	35 (18 men, 17 women)
Participation	112 athletes from 16 nations
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The 1996 Oceania Junior Athletics Championships were held in Townsville, Australia, between November 28–30, 1996. They were held together with the 1996 Oceania Open Championships. A total of 35 events were contested, 18 by men and 17 by women.

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found as compiled by Bob Snow on the Athletics Papua New Guinea,^[1] on the Athletics Weekly,^[2] and on the World Junior Athletics History webpages.^[3]

Boys under 20 (Junior)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s)	(AUS)	10.50	Dallas Roberts (NZL)	10.85	Ryan McCabe (AUS)	10.97
200 metres (wind: +3.2 m/s)	(AUS)	21.55 w	Dallas Roberts (NZL)	21.70 w	(PNG)	21.84 w
400 metres	(PNG)	49.48	(PNG)	49.99	(TGA)	50.21
800 metres	(AUS)	1:58.70	/ Isaac Yaya (TAH)	1:59.47	(SOL)	2:00.41
1500 metres	(SOL)	4:09.57	(PNG)	4:11.71	(VAN)	4:18.32
5000 metres	(PNG)	15:57.49	(SOL)	16:11.31	(VAN)	17:17.23
3000 metres steeplechase	(SOL)	10:12.64	(SOL)	11:26.22	(ASA)	12:01.61
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.7 m/s)	(AUS)	15.33	(SAM)	15.47	(FIJ)	15.65
400 metres hurdles	(SAM)	55.49	(NZL)	55.96	(PNG)	56.71
High Jump	(AUS)	2.01	(AUS)	2.01	(PNG)	1.95
Long Jump	(AUS)	7.02 w (wind: +2.3 m/s)	(AUS)	6.90 w (wind: +2.2 m/s)	(SAM)	6.84 w (wind: +2.2 m/s)
Triple Jump	Josh Ferguson (AUS)	15.01 w (wind: +3.4 m/s)	(AUS)	14.78 (wind: +1.0 m/s)	(SAM)	14.15 (wind: +1.4 m/s)
Shot Put	(AUS)	16.13	(NZL)	15.06	(AUS)	14.71
Discus Throw	(AUS)	49.20	(AUS)	48.14	Shaka Sola (NZL)	48.04
Hammer Throw	(NZL)	44.30	(AUS)	43.04	(COK)	30.40
Javelin Throw	(AUS)	60.68	(NZL)	59.30	(NZL)	55.16
4 x 100 metres relay	Australia	42.51	Papua New Guinea	43.17	Fiji	43.23
4 x 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea	3:22.99	Australia	3:27.07	Samoa	3:34.34

Girls under 20 (Junior)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.2 m/s)	(AUS)	12.46	(NZL)	12.50	(AUS)	12.51
200 metres (wind: +1.6 m/s)	(AUS)	25.30	(PNG)	27.23	(NFK)	27.44
400 metres	(AUS)	58.70	Sally Ward (NZL)	59.50	(NFK)	65.93
800 metres	Sally Ward (NZL)	2:22.20	Belinda Smith (AUS)	2:29.31	(COK)	2:44.12
1500 metres	(AUS)	4:33.85	(NZL)	4:43.67	(AUS)	4:50.40
3000 metres	(NZL)	9:50.77	(AUS)	9:51.83	(AUS)	10:25.67
100 metres hurdles (wind: +2.3 m/s)	(NZL)	14.77 w	(AUS)	15.95 w
400 metres hurdles	(AUS)	68.93
High Jump	(AUS)   (AUS)	1.74			(NZL)	1.50
Long Jump	(AUS)	5.77 (wind: +1.1 m/s)	(AUS)	5.67 w (wind: +3.4 m/s)	(NZL)	5.62 w (wind: +3.7 m/s)
Triple Jump	(AUS)	11.85 w (wind: +2.7 m/s)	(NZL)	11.45 w (wind: +3.5 m/s)	(AUS)	10.86 w (wind: +4.1 m/s)
Shot Put	(AUS)	11.98	Joanne Morris (AUS)	11.89	Hayley Wilson (NZL)	11.29
Discus Throw	(AUS)	38.44	(AUS)	36.84	(NZL)	31.68
Hammer Throw	(NZL)	47.38	(AUS)	41.38	(NZL)	41.36
Javelin Throw	Hayley Wilson (NZL)	46.96	(AUS)	41.60	(AUS)	36.58
4 x 100 metres relay	Australia	48.90	New Zealand	52.56
4 x 400 metres relay	Australia	3:57.10	New Zealand	4:29.20

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)*	24	14	7	45
2	New Zealand (NZL)	6	11	7	24
3	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	3	4	3	10
4	Solomon Islands (SOL)	2	2	1	5
5	Samoa (SAM)	1	1	3	5
6	French Polynesia (TAH)	0	1	0	1
7	Cook Islands (COK)	0	0	2	2
	Fiji (FIJ)	0	0	2	2
	Norfolk Island (NFI)	0	0	2	2
	Vanuatu (VAN)	0	0	2	2
11	American Samoa (ASA)	0	0	1	1
	Tonga (TON)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		36	33	31	100

Participation (unofficial)[]

An unofficial count yields the number of about 112 athletes from 16 countries:

References[]