2002 Oceania Athletics Championships

VI Oceania Athletics Championships
Dates	December 12–14
Host city	Christchurch, New Zealand
Venue	Queen Elizabeth II Park
Level	Senior
Events	39 (20 men, 19 women)
Participation	16 nations
Records set	6
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The 2002 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at the Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, between December 12–14, 2002.

A total of 39 events were contested, 20 by men and 19 by women.

Medal summary[]

Medal winners were published.^[1] Complete results can be found in the Cool Running New Zealand newsgroup.^[2]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Peter Pulu (PNG)	10.66	(AUS)	10.84	(AUS)	10.92
200 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Peter Pulu (PNG)	21.39 CR	(NZL)	21.57	(NZL)	21.61
200 metres (Invitation/Exhibition) (wind: +2.9 m/s)	Dallas Roberts (NZL)	22.06w	(NZL)	22.84w	(NZL)	22.91w
400 metres	(PNG)	49.03	(NZL)	49.37	Moses Kamut (VAN)	49.88
400 metres (Invitation/Exhibition)	(NZL)	50.56	A. Crawford (NZL)	52.87
800 metres	(NZL)	1:51.12	Isireli Naikelekelevesi (FIJ)	1:54.11	(FIJ)	1:57.82
1500 metres	(NZL)	3:53.64	(NZL)	3:53.68	/  (TAH)	4:03.09
1500 metres (Invitation/Exhibition)	Mark Rodgers (CAN)	3:59.84	Clyde McIntosh (CAN)	4:00.52	(CAN)	4:04.61
5000 metres	(NZL)	15:05.27	Terenzo Bozzone (NZL)	15:05.80	Neil Weare (GUM)	15:30.47
Half Marathon	/  (TAH)	1:10:40 CR	(SOL)	1:13:41	(NCL)	1:14:43
3000 metres steeplechase	(NZL)	9:47.07	(SOL)	10:09.86	(SOL)	10:31.35
110 metres hurdles (wind: -3.6 m/s)	(SAM)	15.18	Mowen Boino (PNG)	15.52	(SAM)	15.55
400 metres hurdles	Mowen Boino (PNG)	53.06	(NZL)	54.12	(AUS)	54.44
High Jump	(NZL)	1.99	(PNG)	1.96	(FIJ)	1.96
Pole Vault	(NZL)	4.56 CR	(NCL) /  (TAH)	4.30
Long Jump	(SAM)	6.83w (wind: +3.1 m/s)	(NZL)	6.82 (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Harmon Harmon (COK)	6.76w (wind: +8.5 m/s)
Triple Jump	(NZL)	14.66w (wind: +4.2 m/s)	(SAM)	14.64w (wind: +4.6 m/s)	(PNG)	13.95w (wind: +2.8 m/s)
Shot Put	Chris Mene (SAM)	14.22	(FIJ)	14.03	(TGA)	13.96
Discus Throw	Chris Mene (SAM)	50.52 CR	(NCL)	49.03	/  (TAH)	48.24
Hammer Throw	(NZL)	50.54	(NCL)	49.37	(TGA)	37.32
Javelin Throw	(NZL)	57.59	(AUS)	49.66	(ASA)	45.48
5000 metres Track Walk	(FIJ)	28:27.76
4 x 100 metres relay (Invitation/Exhibition)	New Zealand "A"	42.14	Australia "A" Otis Gowa	42.23	Solomon Islands "A"	43.26
800 metres Medley relay	Papua New Guinea Peter Pulu Mowen Boino	1:31.17	New Zealand	1:31.89	Fiji Henry Rogo Isireli Naikelekelevesi	1:34.38
4 x 400 metres relay (Invitation/Exhibition)	Australia "A"	3:27.34	Canterbury "A"	3:27.56	New Zealand "A"	3:28.04

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.6 m/s)	Makelesi Bulikiobo (FIJ)	12.22	(TGA)	12.49	(NZL)	12.49
200 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Makelesi Bulikiobo (FIJ)	24.21	(NZL)	24.93	(TGA)	25.03
200 metres (Invitation/Exhibition) (wind: +2.1 m/s)	(CAN)	26.84w	(CAN)	27.53w	(CAN)	27.54w
400 metres	Makelesi Bulikiobo (FIJ)	56.67	(NZL)	57.21	(NZL)	57.57
400 metres (Invitation/Exhibition)	(CAN)	63.12	(CAN)	63.49	(CAN)	63.69
800 metres	(NZL)	2:11.79	(AUS)	2:23.11	(PNG)	2:26.00
1500 metres	(NZL)	4:38.37	(NZL)	4:41.49	(AUS)	5:00.46
5000 metres	(NZL)	16:58.72	(AUS)	18:35.05	(KIR)	23:10.46
Half Marathon	(AUS)	1:18:57 CR	(NCL)	1:27:17	(AUS)	1:27:54
2000 metres steeplechase	(NZL)	6:56.52	(AUS)	7:19.16	(AUS)	8:00.16
100 metres hurdles (wind: -3.4 m/s)	Rachel Rogers (FIJ)	15.39	(NCL)	15.74	(TGA)	16.11
400 metres hurdles	Mae Koime (PNG)	69.15	(TGA)	70.37
High Jump	(AUS)   (NZL)	1.69			(NZL)	1.63
Pole Vault	(NZL)	3.61	(NCL)	2.80
Long Jump	(AUS)	5.78w (wind: +3.1 m/s)	(NZL)	5.64w (wind: +9.9 m/s)	(TGA)	5.62w (wind: +5.7 m/s)
Triple Jump	(TGA)	12.16w (wind: +3.4 m/s)	(NCL)	12.13w (wind: +3.2 m/s)	(NZL)	12.04w (wind: +2.3 m/s)
Shot Put	Ana Po'uhila (TGA)	15.66	(TGA)	13.78	Joanne Morris (AUS)	13.05
Discus Throw	(TGA)	51.01 CR	Ana Po'uhila (TGA)	45.11	Tereapii Tapoki (COK)	40.87
Hammer Throw	(AUS)	54.63	(NZL)	47.87	(NCL)	46.85
Javelin Throw	(NCL)	47.90	(AUS)	45.72	(NZL)	40.90
4 x 100 metres relay (Invitation/Exhibition)	New Zealand "A"	48.12	Australia "A"	49.89	Canterbury "A"	50.01
800 metres Medley relay	Fiji Makelesi Bulikiobo	1:45.09	New Zealand	1:47.94	Australia	1:58.92
4 x 400 metres relay (Invitation/Exhibition)	Australia "A"	4:01.71	New Zealand "A"	4:03.04	Canterbury "A"	4:15.41

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3000 metres Track Walk	(CAN)	16:26.29	(CAN)	16:32.14	(CAN)	17:51.82

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (New Zealand)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Zealand (NZL)*	14	14	6	34
2	Fiji (FIJ)	6	2	3	11
3	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	6	2	2	10
4	Australia (AUS)	4	6	7	17
5	Samoa (SAM)	4	1	1	6
6	Tonga (TON)	3	4	5	12
7	New Caledonia (NCL)	1	7	2	10
8	French Polynesia (TAH)	1	1	2	4
9	Solomon Islands (SOL)	0	2	1	3
10	Cook Islands (COK)	0	0	2	2
11	American Samoa (ASA)	0	0	1	1
	Guam (GUM)	0	0	1	1
	Kiribati (KIR)	0	0	1	1
	Vanuatu (VAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		39	39	35	113

Participation (unofficial)[]

The participation of athletes from 16 countries could be determined from the Cool Running New Zealand newsgroup.^[2] Athletes from  Canada and further athletes from  New Zealand started as guests out of competition.

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