2002 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships

VI Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
Dates	December 12–14
Host city	Christchurch, New Zealand
Venue	Queen Elizabeth II Park
Level	Youth
Events	34 (17 boys, 17 girls)
Participation	96 (55 boys, 41 girls) athletes from 15 nations
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The 2002 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, between December 12–14, 2002. They were held together with the 2002 Oceania Open Championships. A total of 34 events were contested, 17 by boys and 17 by girls.

Medal summary[]

Medal winners can be found on the Athletics Weekly webpage.^[1] Complete results can be found on the webpages of World Junior Athletics History,^[2] and of the Cool Running New Zealand newsgroup.^[3]

Boys under 18 (Youth)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 3.8 m/s)	(FIJ)	11.53 w	Brett Robinson (AUS)	11.55 w	(FIJ)	11.58 w
200 metres (wind: 1.9 m/s)	(NZL)	22.31	(NZL)	22.51	Brett Robinson (AUS)	22.64
400 metres	(AUS)	49.69	(PNG)	51.73	Matthew Wills (AUS)	52.03
800 metres	(AUS)	1:56.55	Setefano Mika (SAM)	1:57.56	(NZL)	1:59.01
1500 metres	(NZL)	4:16.49	(NZL)	4:17.20	Setefano Mika (SAM)	4:28.83
3000 metres	(NZL)	8:49.56	(NCL)	9:32.92	(AUS)	9:50.52
110 metres hurdles (wind: -4.8 m/s)	(NCL)	15.56	(AUS)	15.74	(NCL)	16.04
400 metres hurdles	(NCL)	57.23	(SAM)	58.44	/  (TAH)	58.71
High Jump	(TGA)	1.85	James Murphy (AUS)	1.85	Paul Schilling (AUS)	1.85
Pole Vault	(NZL)	4.05
Long Jump	(NZL)	7.13 w (wind: 3.0 m/s)	/  (TAH)	6.90 w (wind: 5.3 m/s)	(AUS)	6.83 w (wind: 4.7 m/s)
Triple Jump	(AUS)	14.03 (wind: -0.4 m/s)	(NZL)	13.87 (wind: +0.7 m/s)	/  (TAH)	13.55 w (wind: 2.3 m/s)
Shot Put	(SAM)	14.26	(AUS)	14.24	Jeffrey Bowen (TGA)	13.55
Discus Throw	(SAM)	40.73	(AUS)	39.85	Jeffrey Bowen (TGA)	33.97
Hammer Throw	(AUS)	48.59	(AUS)	45.98	Jeffrey Bowen (TGA)	28.84
Javelin Throw	(FIJ)	66.96	(NZL)	52.21	(AUS)	48.11
800 metres Medley relay (100m x 100m x 200m x 400m)	Australia	1:36.75	New Zealand	1:41.00

Girls under 18 (Youth)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 3.4 m/s)	(NZL)	12.88 w	(SAM)	12.98 w	(AUS)	13.23 w
200 metres (wind: 4.0 m/s)	(NZL)	26.14 w	(SAM)	26.41 w	(AUS)	26.63 w
400 metres	(AUS)	58.34	(AUS)	60.65	(NCL)	63.04
800 metres	(AUS)	2:17.56	(AUS)	2:18.83	(NZL)	2:19.32
1500 metres	(NZL)	4:43.68	(AUS)	4:51.63	(AUS)	5:00.56
3000 metres	(NZL)	10:45.17	(AUS)	11:04.33	(KIR)	13:17.38
100 metres hurdles (wind: -3.7 m/s)	(AUS)	17.39	(SAM)	19.91
400 metres hurdles	(AUS)	65.98	(NCL)	68.15	(AUS)	69.95
High Jump	(PNG)	1.51	(NFK)	1.50	(KIR)	1.45
Pole Vault	(NZL)	3.30	(NCL)	2.80	/  (TAH)	2.80
Long Jump	(AUS)	5.51 w (wind: 5.6 m/s)	(COK)	4.85 w (wind: 5.7 m/s)	Savannah Sanitoa (ASA)	4.38 w (wind: 6.2 m/s)
Triple Jump	(AUS)	10.89 (wind: -0.5 m/s)	(SAM)	10.09 w (wind: 5.9 m/s)	(NFK)	9.85 (wind: 1.3 m/s)
Shot Put	(AUS)	12.73	(NZL)	11.40	(AUS)	11.22
Discus Throw	(AUS)	44.13	(AUS)	37.20	(COK)	34.15
Hammer Throw	(AUS)	33.85	(SAM)	22.65	Savannah Sanitoa (ASA)	21.44
Javelin Throw	/  (TAH)	33.78	(AUS)	33.04	(SAM)	31.23
800 metres Medley relay (100m x 100m x 200m x 400m)	Australia	1:54.98	New Caledonia	2:04.34

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (New Zealand)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	15	12	11	38
2	New Zealand (NZL)*	10	6	2	18
3	Samoa (SAM)	2	7	2	11
4	New Caledonia (NCL)	2	4	2	8
5	Fiji (FIJ)	2	0	1	3
6	French Polynesia (TAH)	1	1	3	5
7	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	1	1	0	2
8	Tonga (TON)	1	0	3	4
9	Cook Islands (COK)	0	1	1	2
	Norfolk Island (NFK)	0	1	1	2
11	American Samoa (ASA)	0	0	2	2
	Kiribati (KIR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 nations)		34	33	30	97

Participation (unofficial)[]

An unofficial count yields the number of about 96 athletes from 15 countries:

References[]