1998–99 Australian Athletics Championships

1998–99 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	18–20 February 1999
Host city	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Olympic Park Stadium
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The 1998–99 Australian Athletics Championships was the 77th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 18–20 February 1999 at the Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne. It served as a selection meeting for . The 10,000 metres event took place separately at the on 5 December 1998 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne. The combined events were also held separately at the Hobart Grand Prix on 25–26 February 1999.^[1][2]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.8 m/s)	Matt Shirvington New South Wales	10.24	Adam Basil Victoria	10.34	Chris Donaldson  New Zealand (NZL)	10.37
200 metres (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Chris Donaldson  New Zealand (NZL)	20.71	Matt Shirvington New South Wales	20.77	Marc Foucan  France (FRA)	20.86
400 metres	Brad Jamieson South Australia	45.59	Ibrahima Wade  Senegal (SEN)	46.03	Casey Vincent Victoria	46.16
800 metres	Noah Ngeny  Kenya (KEN)	1:47.70	Grant Cremer New South Wales	1:48.10	Tasmania	1:48.72
1500 metres	Paul Cleary Victoria	3:43.59	Victoria	3:43.99	Victoria	3:44.25
5000 metres	Benjamin Maiyo  Kenya (KEN)	13:26.09	Mizan Mehari Australian Capital Territory	13:31.02	Kenya (KEN)	13:35.09
10,000 metres	Luke Kipkosgei  Kenya (KEN)	27:22.54	Benjamin Maiyo  Kenya (KEN)	27:40.34	Lee Troop Victoria	28:04.64
110 metres hurdles (Wind: -0.6 m/s)	Kyle Vander-Kuyp Victoria	13.73	Queensland	14.05	South Australia	14.17
400 metres hurdles	Dai Tamesue  Japan (JPN)	49.39	Zid Abou Hamed New South Wales	49.47	Rohan Robinson Victoria	49.57
400 metres hurdles	Martin Dent New South Wales	8:39.33	Stephen Thurston South Australia	8:41.50	Japan (JPN)	8:54.97
4 × 100 m relay	Homebush Track Club  New South Wales (NSW) Dean Capobianco	40.00	Wellington  New Zealand (NZL)	40.16	University of Western Australia  Western Australia (WA)	44.98
4 × 400 m relay	Western Athletics  Victoria (VIC)	3:09.31	North Harbour Bays Cougar  New Zealand (NZL) Mark Keddell	3:09.93	University of Queensland  Queensland (QLD) Eugene Farrell	3:12.28
High jump	South Australia	2.18 m	Western Australia	2.14 m	Nick Moroney New South Wales	2.14 m
Pole vault	Viktor Chistiakov South Australia	5.40 m	Paul Burgess Western Australia	5.30 m	South Australia	5.10 m
Long jump	Shane Hair New South Wales	8.01 m (+0.3 m/s)	Jai Taurima Queensland	7.99 m (+0.2 m/s)	Victoria	7.72 m (+0.3 m/s)
Triple jump	Andrew Murphy New South Wales	17.04 m (+0.6 m/s)	Queensland	15.92 m (+0.9 m/s)	Takashi Komatsu  Japan (JPN)	15.89 m (+0.7 m/s)
Shot put	Clay Cross New South Wales	18.89 m	Aaron Neighbour Victoria	18.26 m	Queensland	16.81 m
Discus throw	Queensland	53.32 m	Peter Elvy New South Wales	52.71 m	Victoria	51.81 m
Hammer throw	Stuart Rendell Australian Capital Territory	70.79 m	Tasmania	64.25 m	Victoria	62.04 m
Javelin throw	Andrew Currey New South Wales	76.67 m	Queensland	72.46 m	France (FRA)	71.51 m
Decathlon	Scott Ferrier Victoria	8056 pts[3]	Jagan Hames South Australia	7488 pts[4]	Queensland	6869 pts[5]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.9 m/s)	Lauren Hewitt Victoria	11.48	Jodi Lambert Western Australia	11.65	Sharon Cripps Queensland	11.68
200 metres (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Lauren Hewitt Victoria	23.08	Jodi Lambert Western Australia	23.48	Sharon Cripps Queensland	23.74
400 metres	Cathy Freeman Victoria	50.94	Tania Van Heer South Australia	51.28	Susan Andrews Western Australia	52.01
800 metres	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	2:02.29	Georgie Clarke Victoria	2:02.49	Faith Macharia  Kenya (KEN)	2:03.65
1500 metres	Sarah Jamieson Victoria	4:18.75	Mandy Giblin Tasmania	4:22.67	Christine Pfitzinger  New Zealand (NZL)	4:24.27
5000 metres	Natalie Harvey Victoria	15:34.07	Kylie Risk Tasmania	15:38.42	Susie Power Victoria	15:41.69
10,000 metres	Natalie Harvey Victoria	32:20.58	Kerryn McCann New South Wales	32:23.79	Kylie Risk Tasmania	32:33.18
100 metres hurdles (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Eunice Barber  France (FRA)	13.36	Nicole Ramalalanirina  France (FRA)	13.36	New South Wales	13.51
400 metres hurdles	Lauren Poetschka Western Australia	57.05	Victoria	57.09	New Zealand (NZL)	57.14
400 metres hurdles	Melissa Rollison Queensland	10:15.77	New South Wales	10:28.68	New Zealand (NZL)	10:34.24
4 × 100 m relay	University of Western Australia  Western Australia (WA) Kylie Wheeler Susan Andrews Jodi Lambert	46.24	Sutherland  New South Wales (NSW)	48.39	Ringwood  Victoria (VIC)	48.95
4 × 400 m relay	University of Western Australia  Western Australia (WA) Kylie Wheeler Jodi Lambert Susan Andrews	3:42.84	Bankstown Sports  New South Wales (NSW) Lauren Poetschka	3:44.26	University of Queensland  Queensland (QLD)	3:45.37
High jump	Alison Inverarity Western Australia	1.88 m	Victoria	1.84 m	Victoria	1.84 m
Pole vault	Tatiana Grigorieva South Australia	4.25 m	Kym Howe Western Australia	4.15 m	Victoria	4.00 m
Long jump	Eunice Barber  France (FRA)	6.74 m (+0.7 m/s)	Nicole Boegman New South Wales	6.53 m (+1.2 m/s)	Chantal Brunner  New Zealand (NZL)	6.48 m (+0.2 m/s)
Triple jump	Tasmania	13.26 m (+0.5 m/s)	Western Australia	13.21 m (+0.8 m/s)	South Australia	12.91 m (-0.2 m/s)
Shot put	Tressa Thompson  United States (USA)	17.86 m	Amy Palmer  United States (USA)	16.55 m	New Zealand (NZL)	15.44 m
Discus throw	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari Queensland	61.72 m	Alison Lever Queensland	60.92 m	Aretha Hill  United States (USA)	57.75 m
Hammer throw	Deborah Sosimenko New South Wales	62.77 m	Karyne Perkins New South Wales	62.59 m	Amy Palmer  United States (USA)	61.89 m
Javelin throw	New Zealand (NZL)	47.48 m	France (FRA)	46.75 m	Jane Jamieson New South Wales	45.10 m
Heptathlon	Victoria	5722 pts[6]	Queensland	5464 pts[7]	New South Wales	5090 pts[8]

References[]

External links[]

• Athletics Australia website