1999–2000 Australian Athletics Championships

1999–2000 Australian Athletics Championships
1999–2000 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	24–27 February 2000
Host city	Sydney, Australia
Venue	Stadium Australia
	← 1998–99 2000–01 → ;

The 1999–2000 Australian Athletics Championships was the 78th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 24–27 February 2000 at the Stadium Australia in Sydney. It served as a selection meeting for Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The 10,000 metres events took place separately at the Melbourne Track Classic on 2 March 2000 in Melbourne.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The competition was also a preparation event for the athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics, which were held at the same venue.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Matt Shirvington New South Wales	10.26	Patrick Johnson Australian Capital Territory	10.32	Damien Marsh Queensland	10.40
200 metres (Wind: +0.4 m/s)	Darryl Wohlsen Queensland	20.64	Chris Donaldson New Zealand (NZL)	20.74	Antoine Boussombo Gabon (GAB)	20.90
400 metres	Patrick Dwyer New South Wales	45.21	Brad Jamieson South Australia	46.40	Daniel Batman New South Wales	46.71
800 metres	Djabir Saïd-Guerni Algeria (ALG)	1:44.28	David Lelei Kenya (KEN)	1:44.58	Kris McCarthy Victoria	1:45.91
1500 metres	William Chirchir Kenya (KEN)	3:38.51	John Kosgei Kenya (KEN)	3:39.60	Nick Howarth South Australia	3:40.19
5000 metres	Michael Power Victoria	13:28.11	Sisay Bezabeh Australian Capital Territory	13:33.23	Shaun Creighton Australian Capital Territory	13:42.68
10,000 metres	Joseph Kimani Kenya (KEN)	28:30.32	Brazil (BRA)	28:51.17	Robbie Johnston New Zealand (NZL)	28:54.54
110 metres hurdles (Wind: +1.5 m/s)	South Australia	13.87	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja Madagascar (MAD)	13.96	Japan (JPN)	14.13
400 metres hurdles	Rohan Robinson Victoria	50.21	Zid Abou Hamed New South Wales	50.45	Blair Young Queensland	50.53
3000 metres steeplechase	Chris Unthank Victoria	8:36.35	Stephen Thurston South Australia	8:39.98	Martin Dent Victoria	8:43.67
4 × 100 m relay	Malaysia (MAS) Nazmizan Mohamad	40.31	Sydney Pacific New South Wales (NSW)	41.32	Hastings New Zealand (NZL)	41.99
4 × 400 m relay	Pacific Athletics Queensland (QLD) Darryl Wohlsen Blair Young	3:07.05	Sydney Pacific New South Wales (NSW)	3:08.91	Sutherland District New South Wales (NSW)	3:16.71
High jump	Nick Moroney New South Wales	2.22 m	Konstantin Matusevich Israel (ISR)	2.22 m	South Australia	2.18 m
Pole vault	Paul Burgess Western Australia	5.50 m	Dmitri Markov Western Australia	5.50 m	Danny Krasnov Israel (ISR)	5.50 m
Long jump	Peter Burge New South Wales	8.28 m (-0.4 m/s)	Jai Taurima Queensland	8.09 m (+0.7 m/s)	Nabil Adamou Victoria	7.73 m (+0.4 m/s)
Triple jump	Rogel Nachum Israel (ISR)	16.80 m (+0.2 m/s)	Andrew Murphy New South Wales	16.56 m (-1.0 m/s)	Onochie Achike Great Britain (GBR)	16.28 m (+2.3 m/s)
Shot put	Justin Anlezark Queensland	19.24 m	Clay Cross New South Wales	18.33 m	Victoria	17.61 m
Discus throw	Ian Winchester New Zealand (NZL)	58.66 m	Queensland	55.52 m	Aaron Neighbour Victoria	53.44 m
Hammer throw	Stuart Rendell Australian Capital Territory	74.71 m	Japan (JPN)	65.08 m	Zsolt Németh Hungary (HUN)	64.28 m
Javelin throw	Andrew Currey New South Wales	81.81 m	Adrian Hatcher New South Wales	80.03 m	Terry McHugh Ireland (IRL)	76.13 m
Decathlon	Klaus Ambrosch Austria (AUT)	7892 pts^[4]	Jagan Hames South Australia	7720 pts^[5]	Matthew McEwen Queensland	7631 pts^[6]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -1.1 m/s)	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor New South Wales	11.53	Jodi Lambert Western Australia	11.72	Victoria	11.74
200 metres (Wind: -2.3 m/s)	Cathy Freeman Victoria	22.78	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor New South Wales	22.80	Nova Peris-Kneebone Northern Territory	23.51
400 metres	Cathy Freeman Victoria	50.00	Ana Guevara Mexico (MEX)	50.84	Lee Naylor Victoria	51.37
800 metres	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	1:59.29	Toni Hodgkinson New Zealand (NZL)	1:59.39	Susan Andrews Western Australia	2:00.37
1500 metres	Naomi Mugo Kenya (KEN)	4:10.27	Georgie Clarke Victoria	4:10.59	Sarah Jamieson Victoria	4:10.61
5000 metres	Anne Cross Victoria	15:36.15	Clair Fearnley Victoria	15:36.92	Breda Dennehy-Willis Ireland (IRL)	15:44.03
10,000 metres	Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland (IRL)	31:43.07	Clair Fearnley Victoria	31:55.65	Kylie Risk Tasmania	32:25.21
100 metres hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	United States (USA)	13.35	Mame Tacko Diouf Senegal (SEN)	13.35	Western Australia	13.50
400 metres hurdles	Lauren Poetschka Western Australia	56.03	Stephanie Price New South Wales	56.67	Mame Tacko Diouf Senegal (SEN)	57.30
3000 metres steeplechase	Queensland	10:10.73	Victoria	10:16.01	New Zealand (NZL)	10:21.48
4 × 100 m relay	Ryde New South Wales (NSW) Amy Winters	46.73	University of Queensland Queensland (QLD) Amy Harris	47.41	University of Melbourne Victoria (VIC)	47.92
4 × 400 m relay	Bankstown Sports New South Wales (NSW) Lauren Poetschka	3:45.37	University of Queensland Queensland (QLD) Caitlin Willis	3:48.99	Sutherland New South Wales (NSW)	3:53.45
High jump	Alison Inverarity Western Australia	1.85	Victoria	1.82	Western Australia	1.82
Pole vault	Emma George Western Australia	4.40 m	Alejandra García Argentina (ARG)	4.20 m	Victoria	4.10 m
Long jump	Kylie Reed Western Australia	6.57 m (-1.8 m/s)	Bronwyn Thompson Queensland	6.33 m (+0.2 m/s)	Western Australia	6.15 m (-0.8 m/s)
Triple jump	Western Australia	13.59 m (-0.0 m/s)	Connie Henry Great Britain (GBR)	13.45 m (-0.4 m/s)	New South Wales	13.05 m (-0.4 m/s)
Shot put	Queensland	15.55 m	Japan (JPN)	15.25 m	New Zealand (NZL)	15.12 m
Discus throw	Alison Lever Queensland	63.73 m	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari Queensland	62.71 m	Beatrice Faumuina New Zealand (NZL)	62.68 m
Hammer throw	Lisa Misipeka American Samoa (ASA)	63.90 m	Tasha Williams New Zealand (NZL)	63.34 m	Bronwyn Eagles New South Wales	62.77 m
Javelin throw	Sueli dos Santos Brazil (BRA)	54.92 m	Bina Ramesh France (FRA)	50.61 m	Queensland	49.58 m
Heptathlon	Victoria	5817 pts^[7]	Queensland	5751 pts^[8]	New South Wales	5199 pts^[9]

References[]

^ New Junior World Record. World Athletics (2000-02-25). Retrieved 2020-01-12.
^ Australian Track & Field Championships - Men 1999–00. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2020-01-12
^ Australian Track & Field Championships - Women 1999–00. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
^ (11.13 (-0.3), 7.02 m (+0.1), 14.37 m, 1.82 m, 50.28, 14.75 (0.0), 41.30 m, 4.90 m, 70.43 m, 4:37.24)
^ (11.20 (-1.3), 7.29 m (+0.5), 14.03 m, 2.09 m, 50.93, 14.76 (0.0), 45.68 m, 4.60 m, 56.44 m, 5:11.17)
^ (11.11 (-0.3), 6.94 m (+0.6), 13.44 m, 2.03 m, 48.82, 15.27 (0.0), 42.30 m, 4.40 m, 58.02 m, 4:47.51)
^ (13.65 (+1.8), 1.85 m, 11.54 m, 25.63 (-1.9), 5.98 m (+1.0), 39.34 m, 2:22.55)
^ (14.13, 1.73 m, 11.69 m, 25.31 (-1.9), 6.25 m (+0.7), 38.30 m, 2:18.92)
^ (14.80 (+1.8), 1.67 m, 11.13 m, 26.42 (-0.8), 5.72 m (+0.1), 34.13 m, 2:19.64)

External links[]

Athletics Australia website

[1] New Junior World Record. World Athletics (2000-02-25). Retrieved 2020-01-12.

[2] Australian Track & Field Championships - Men 1999–00. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2020-01-12

[3] Australian Track & Field Championships - Women 1999–00. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2020-01-12.

[4] (11.13 (-0.3), 7.02 m (+0.1), 14.37 m, 1.82 m, 50.28, 14.75 (0.0), 41.30 m, 4.90 m, 70.43 m, 4:37.24)

[5] (11.20 (-1.3), 7.29 m (+0.5), 14.03 m, 2.09 m, 50.93, 14.76 (0.0), 45.68 m, 4.60 m, 56.44 m, 5:11.17)

[6] (11.11 (-0.3), 6.94 m (+0.6), 13.44 m, 2.03 m, 48.82, 15.27 (0.0), 42.30 m, 4.40 m, 58.02 m, 4:47.51)

[7] (13.65 (+1.8), 1.85 m, 11.54 m, 25.63 (-1.9), 5.98 m (+1.0), 39.34 m, 2:22.55)

[8] (14.13, 1.73 m, 11.69 m, 25.31 (-1.9), 6.25 m (+0.7), 38.30 m, 2:18.92)

[9] (14.80 (+1.8), 1.67 m, 11.13 m, 26.42 (-0.8), 5.72 m (+0.1), 34.13 m, 2:19.64)

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