2005 Melanesian Championships in Athletics

III Melanesian Championships in Athletics
Dates	April 22–24
Host city	Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Venue	Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	31 (18 men, 13 women)
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The 2005 Melanesian Championships in Athletics took place between April 22–24, 2005. The event was held at the Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium in Lae, Papua New Guinea, in conjunction with the Papua New Guinea National Athletics Championships.^[1][2] Detailed reports were given for the OAA.^[3][4]

A total of 31 events were contested, 18 by men and 13 by women.

Medal summary[]

Medal winners and their results were published on the Athletics Weekly webpage.^[5] Complete results can be found on the Athletics Papua New Guinea^[1] and for the first two days on the Oceania Athletics Association webpages.^[6][7]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Otis Gowa  Australia	10.81	Wally Kirika  Papua New Guinea	10.87	Anton Lui  Papua New Guinea	11.05
200 metres (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Otis Gowa  Australia	21.94	Fiji	22.10	Papua New Guinea	22.45
400 metres	Fiji	48.98	Papua New Guinea	49.22	Australia	49.43
800 metres	Isireli Naikelekelevesi  Fiji	1:53.5 CR	Papua New Guinea	1:53.9	Papua New Guinea	1:55.2
1500 metres	Isireli Naikelekelevesi  Fiji	4:08.47	Papua New Guinea	4:09.04	Papua New Guinea	4:09.24
5000 metres	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	16:00.29	Solomon Islands	17:21.60	Papua New Guinea	18:05.86
10000 metres	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	34:25.10	Solomon Islands	36:09.10	Papua New Guinea	40:09.20
3000 metres steeplechase	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	9:50.5 CR	Solomon Islands	10:13.5	Papua New Guinea	10:16.4
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Ivan Wakit  Papua New Guinea	16.71	Papua New Guinea	17.80	Jack Iroga  Solomon Islands	21.01
400 metres hurdles	Fiji	54.87	Ivan Wakit  Papua New Guinea	54.97	Papua New Guinea	62.61
High Jump	Papua New Guinea  Fiji	2.00m CR			Papua New Guinea	1.85m
Long Jump	Fiji	7.07m CR	Papua New Guinea	6.52m	Papua New Guinea	6.30m
Triple Jump	Papua New Guinea	13.61m CR	Papua New Guinea	13.14m	Papua New Guinea	12.52m
Shot Put	Fiji	13.58m CR	Papua New Guinea	10.10m
Discus Throw	Fiji	36.42m	Jack Iroga  Solomon Islands	24.87m	Papua New Guinea	21.32m
Javelin Throw	Fiji	57.40	Papua New Guinea	54.16	Papua New Guinea	45.16
4 x 100 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Wally Kirika Anton Lui	41.69	Fiji Isireli Naikelekelevesi	41.94	Solomon Islands Jack Iroga Francis Manioru	42.68
4 x 400 metres relay	Fiji Isireli Naikelekelevesi	3:17.40 CR	Solomon Islands	3:25.97	Vanuatu	3:30.25

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Mae Koime  Papua New Guinea	11.96	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	12.42	Fiji	12.64
200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Mae Koime  Papua New Guinea	24.99	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	25.70	Fiji	26.07
400 metres	Mae Koime  Papua New Guinea	56.52	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	57.28	Papua New Guinea	58.05
800 metres	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	2:20.0 CR	Papua New Guinea	2:21.9	Papua New Guinea	2:23.9
1500 metres	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	5:05.97 CR	Papua New Guinea	5:12.68	Papua New Guinea	5:14.45
400 metres hurdles	Fiji	69.33
Long Jump	Fiji	5.38m CR	Papua New Guinea	4.62m	Papua New Guinea	4.51m
Triple Jump	Fiji	11.48m CR	Betty Burua  Papua New Guinea	11.00m	Papua New Guinea	9.72m
Shot Put	Papua New Guinea	9.20m	Maggie George  Papua New Guinea	8.51m	Solomon Islands	7.83m
Discus Throw	Papua New Guinea	18.42m	Maggie George  Papua New Guinea	18.39m
Javelin Throw	Papua New Guinea	19.63m	Maggie George  Papua New Guinea	17.60m
4 x 100 metres relay	Papua New Guinea A Mae Koime Toea Wisil	49.04	Papua New Guinea B	51.31	Papua New Guinea Lae Team	51.32
4 x 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea A Toea Wisil Salome Dell	3:57.01 CR	Papua New Guinea Simbu Team	4:01.85	Papua New Guinea B	4:11.54

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Papua New Guinea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Papua New Guinea*	17	20	18	55
2	Fiji	13	2	2	17
3	Australia	2	0	1	3
4	Solomon Islands	0	5	3	8
5	Vanuatu	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		32	27	25	84

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