2002–03 Australian Athletics Championships

2002–03 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	3–6 April 2003
Host city	Brisbane, Australia
Venue	Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
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The 2002–03 Australian Athletics Championships was the 81st edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 3–6 April 2003 at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Brisbane. It served as a selection meeting for . Long-distance events were held separately: the 5000 metres took place at the Melbourne Track Classic on 1 March 2003 while the 10,000 metres was contested at 12 April 2003 in Runaway Bay, Queensland.^[1][2][3]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -1.4 m/s)	Patrick Johnson Australian Capital Territory	10.25	Matt Shirvington New South Wales	10.34	Adam Basil Victoria	10.43
200 metres (Wind: -1.4 m/s)	Patrick Johnson Australian Capital Territory	20.50	New South Wales	20.99	Victoria	21.33
400 metres	Clinton Hill New South Wales	45.50	Daniel Batman New South Wales	46.19	Casey Vincent New South Wales	46.39
800 metres	Kris McCarthy Victoria	1:48.20	Mark Rodgers  New Zealand (NZL)	1:48.56	New South Wales	1:49.43
1500 metres	Queensland	3:42.99	New South Wales	3:43.03	Mark Fountain Victoria	3:44.02
3000 metres	Michael Power Victoria	8:00.45	Victoria	8:03.65	Victoria	8:05.38
5000 metres	Daniel Komen  Kenya (KEN)	13:54.48	Michael Power Victoria	13:55.99	Canada (CAN)	13:58.19
10,000 metres	Shaun Creighton Australian Capital Territory	29:27.56	Australian Capital Territory	29:28.67	South Australia	29:30.74
110 metres hurdles (Wind: -1.9 m/s)	Kyle Vander-Kuyp Victoria	14.14	Queensland	14.15	New South Wales	14.28
400 metres hurdles	Michael Hazel Victoria	50.50	Victoria	51.43	New South Wales	52.04
3000 metres steeplechase	Peter Nowill Queensland	8:41.61	Victoria	8:43.80	Victoria	8:55.12
4 × 100 m relay	New Zealand (NZL) James Dolphin James Mortimer Dallas Roberts	40.59	New South Wales (NSW) Isaac Ntiamoah John Thornell	41.22	Queensland (QLD)	41.30
4 × 400 m relay	Victoria (VIC)	3:13.33	South Australia (SA)	3:13.90	Western Australia (WA) John Steffensen	3:15.68
High jump	Joshua Lodge New South Wales	2.21 m	New South Wales	2.11 m	Western Australia	2.11 m
Pole vault	Dmitri Markov Western Australia	5.50 m	Viktor Chistiakov South Australia	5.40 m	Paul Burgess Western Australia	5.20 m
Long jump	Peter Burge New South Wales	7.82 m (+2.1 m/s)	Shane Hair Western Australia	7.79 m (+0.6 m/s)	John Thornell New South Wales	7.78 m (+1.2 m/s)
Triple jump	Andrew Murphy New South Wales	16.73 m (+1.0 m/s)	Michael Perry New South Wales	16.25 m (+1.0 m/s)	Queensland	15.91 m (+1.7 m/s)
Shot put	Justin Anlezark Queensland	20.96 m	Clay Cross Queensland	19.00 m	Scott Martin Victoria	18.72 m
Discus throw	Peter Elvy New South Wales	58.42 m	Scott Martin Victoria	56.99 m	Benn Harradine New South Wales	55.25 m
Hammer throw	Stuart Rendell Australian Capital Territory	76.61 m	South Australia	65.09 m	Victoria	63.64 m
Javelin throw	Andrew Currey New South Wales	80.56 m	William Hamlyn-Harris New South Wales	79.44 m	Stuart Farquhar  New Zealand (NZL)	74.17 m
Decathlon	Matthew McEwen Queensland	7724 pts[4]	New South Wales	6952 pts[5]	New Zealand (NZL)	6700 pts[6]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.6 m/s)	Sharon Cripps Queensland	11.50	Gloria Kemasuode New South Wales	11.74	Amy Harris Queensland	11.92
200 metres (Wind: -1.1 m/s)	Sharon Cripps Queensland	23.39	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji (FIJ)	23.64	Victoria	24.05
400 metres	Cathy Freeman Victoria	51.66	Rosemary Hayward New South Wales	52.24	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji (FIJ)	53.18
800 metres	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	2:00.13	Susan Andrews Western Australia	2:01.30	New South Wales	2:03.66
1500 metres	New South Wales	4:12.96	New South Wales	4:15.56	Anna Thompson Victoria	4:18.88
3000 metres	Anna Thompson Victoria	9:21.79	Australian Capital Territory	9:29.63	Australian Capital Territory	9:36.37
5000 metres	Benita Johnson Australian Capital Territory	15:21.55	Eloise Poppett New South Wales	15:56.73	Haley McGregor Victoria	16:01.11
10,000 metres	Anna Thompson Victoria	33:55.75	Queensland	35:31.92	Serena Gibbs Victoria	35:46.22
100 metres hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	New South Wales	13.37	Queensland	13.43	Rachel Rogers  Fiji (FIJ)	13.96
400 metres hurdles	Jana Pittman Victoria	53.95	Rebecca Wardell  New Zealand (NZL)	56.50	New Zealand (NZL)	59.94
3000 metres steeplechase	Victoria Mitchell Victoria	10:20.60	South Australia	10:42.58	Tasmania	11:14.09
4 × 100 m relay	New Zealand (NZL)	46.04	Western Australia (WA) Kylie Wheeler	46.83	South Australia (SA)	47.57
4 × 400 m relay	Victoria (VIC) Cathy Freeman	3:39.65	New South Wales (NSW) Rosemary Hayward	3:42.48	Western Australia (WA) Kylie Wheeler Susan Andrews	3:48.71
High jump	Miyuki Aoyama  Japan (JPN)	1.84 m	Petrina Price New South Wales	1.81 m	New South Wales	1.78 m
Pole vault	Melina Hamilton  New Zealand (NZL)	4.20 m	Victoria	4.20 m	Tatiana Grigorieva South Australia	4.10 m
Long jump	Bronwyn Thompson Queensland	6.55 m (+1.8 m/s)	Kerrie Perkins Australian Capital Territory	6.50 m (+2.0 m/s)	Western Australia	6.41 m (+1.5 m/s)
Triple jump	Victoria	12.72 m (+0.6 m/s)	Tasmania	12.66 m (+1.3 m/s)	New Zealand (NZL)	12.65 m (+1.0 m/s)
Shot put	Japan (JPN)	16.61 m	ʻAna Poʻuhila  New Zealand (NZL)	15.80 m	Alifatou Djibril South Australia	14.65 m
Discus throw	Beatrice Faumuina  New Zealand (NZL)	63.36 m	Queensland	58.92 m	Queensland	53.70 m
Hammer throw	Brooke Krueger South Australia	66.41 m	Bronwyn Eagles New South Wales	65.85 m	Deborah Sosimenko New South Wales	62.87 m
Javelin throw	Bina Ramesh  France (FRA)	52.29 m	New South Wales	52.26 m	Kathryn Mitchell Victoria	50.98 m
Heptathlon	Kylie Wheeler Western Australia	5838 pts[7]	New South Wales	4991 pts[8]	New South Wales	4903 pts[9]

References[]

External links[]

• Athletics Australia website