2007 Melanesian Championships in Athletics

IV Melanesian Championships in Athletics
Dates	August 14–19
Host city	Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Venue	Barlow Park
Level	Senior
Events	38 (19 men, 19 women)
Participation	7 + 2 local teams + 6 guest nations
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The 2007 Melanesian Championships in Athletics took place between August 14–19, 2007. The event was held at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia, jointly with the OAA Grand Prix Series. Many athletes utilised the competitions preparing for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan.^[1] Detailed reports were given for the OAA.^[2][3][4][5]

A total of 38 events were contested, 19 by men and 19 by women.

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage,^[6][7][8] and at sportfieber.pytalhost.com.^[9]

In high jump, long jump and triple jump, as well as in shot put, discus throw, and javelin throw, there were separate open competitions for the Melanesian championships and the OAA Grand Prix Series held on different days. In the sprint events, athletes not competing for the Melanesian Championships were assigned to the B finals.

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.4 m/s)	Otis Gowa Jump Start Australia	10.76	Moses Kamut  Vanuatu	10.88	Wally Kirika  Papua New Guinea	10.92
100 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s) Open B (Grand Prix Series)	James Dolphin  New Zealand	10.72	Chris Donaldson  New Zealand	10.73	Papua New Guinea	11.10
200 metres (wind: -2.7 m/s)	Niko Verekauta  Fiji	21.26	Fiji	21.42	Moses Kamut  Vanuatu	21.57
200 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s) Open B (Grand Prix Series)	James Dolphin  New Zealand	21.15	/ North Queensland	22.21	Solomon Islands	22.39
400 metres	Fiji	47.30 CR	Niko Verekauta  Fiji	47.31	Nelson Stone  Papua New Guinea	48.44
800 metres1.)	Isireli Naikelekelevesi  Fiji	1:51.73 CR	Arnold Sorina  Vanuatu	1:55.04	Papua New Guinea	1:56.29
1500 metres2.)	Isireli Naikelekelevesi  Fiji	4:04.55 CR	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	4:05.25	Solomon Islands	4:10.67
5000 metres	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	15:46.95	Vanuatu	16:04.55	Solomon Islands	16:51.80
10000 metres	Vanuatu	35:01.83	Solomon Islands	36:09.77	Solomon Islands	47:52.14
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Jovesa Naivalu  Fiji	14.71 CR	Australia	15.09	Australia	15.41
400 metres hurdles	Mowen Boino  Papua New Guinea	51.43 CR	Fiji	53.01	Papua New Guinea	54.86
3000 metres steeplechase	Sapolai Yao  Papua New Guinea	9:43.07 CR	Solomon Islands	10:39.37	Solomon Islands	11:02.78
High Jump	Fiji	2.00m =CR	Australia	2.00m	Australia	1.80m
High Jump Open (Grand Prix Series)	Fiji	1.95m	/ North Queensland	1.90m
Long Jump	Jump Start Australia	7.05m (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Hamish Nelson  Australia	6.94m (wind: +1.9 m/s)	/ North Queensland	6.89m w (wind: +3.0 m/s)
Long Jump Open (Grand Prix Series)	/ North Queensland	7.46m	Jump Start Australia	6.99m	Fiji	6.82m
Triple Jump3.)	Fiji	14.66m (wind: +1.5 m/s) CR	Papua New Guinea	13.91m (wind: +0.6 m/s)
Triple Jump Open (Grand Prix Series)	Fiji	14.35m w (wind: +2.2 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	13.82m w (wind: +3.0 m/s)	Kiribati	13.48m w (wind: +2.3 m/s)
Shot Put4.)	/ North Queensland	12.38m	Australia	11.50m	Hamish Nelson  Australia	10.44m
Shot Put Open (Grand Prix Series)	/ North Queensland	12.89m	/ North Queensland	12.58m	/ North Queensland	9.31m
Discus Throw5.)	/ North Queensland	44.79m CR	Jump Start Australia	37.64m
Hammer Throw	New Caledonia	36.90m	Geoffrey Gardner  Norfolk Island	33.12m	/ North Queensland	28.49m
Javelin Throw6.)	/ North Queensland	54.43m	Australia	44.87m	Australia	38.64m
Javelin Throw Open (Grand Prix Series)	Stuart Farquhar  New Zealand	77.65m	New Caledonia	52.91m	Northern Mariana Islands	47.26m
4 x 100 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Peter Pulu	41.52	Fiji	41.77	Solomon Islands Jack Iroga Chris Walasi	42.75
4 x 400 metres relay	Fiji Isireli Naikelekelevesi Niko Verekauta	3:16.23 CR	Papua New Guinea Nelson Stone	3:18.38	Vanuatu Arnold Sorina	3:24.36

^1.): The 800 metres event was won by Aunese Curreen from  Samoa in 1:50.59 running as a guest.
^2.): The 1500 metres event was won by Aunese Curreen from  Samoa in 3:56.11 running as a guest.
^3.): In the triple jump event, from  Kiribati was 3rd in 13.36m (wind: +0.6 m/s) competing as a guest.
^4.): The shot put event was won by from  Tonga in 12.55m competing as a guest.
^5.): In the discus throw event, from / North Queensland was 2nd in 42.30m competing as a guest.
^6.): The javelin throw event was won by Stuart Farquhar from  New Zealand in 77.58m, from the  Northern Mariana Islands was 3rd in 45.37m, both competing as guests.

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Mae Koime  Papua New Guinea	11.91	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	12.05	Papua New Guinea	12.31
100 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s) Open B (Grand Prix Series)	Sally McLellan  Australia	11.76	New Zealand	12.12	Papua New Guinea	13.08
200 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji	23.36 CR	Mae Koime  Papua New Guinea	24.08	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	24.23
200 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s) Open B (Grand Prix Series)	New Zealand	24.07	/ North Queensland	26.10	Elis Lapenmal  Vanuatu	26.51
400 metres7.)	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji	53.66 CR	Fiji	58.48	Fiji	59.14
800 metres	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	2:14.67 CR	Ann Mooney  Papua New Guinea	2:15.29	Papua New Guinea	2:17.26
1500 metres	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	4:50.39 CR	Papua New Guinea	4:56.38	Poro Gahekave  Papua New Guinea	5:00.29
5000 metres	Poro Gahekave  Papua New Guinea	18:58.10 CR	Solomon Islands	20:52.20
10000 metres	Solomon Islands	47:52.22
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Australia	16.02
400 metres hurdles8.)	Papua New Guinea	63.24 CR	Jump Start Australia	65.55	/ North Queensland	74.84
3000 metres steeplechase	Poro Gahekave  Papua New Guinea	11:54.71
High Jump	Australia	1.70m CR	/ North Queensland	1.65m	Papua New Guinea	1.60m
High Jump Open (Grand Prix Series)	/ North Queensland	1.66m	Emma Fletcher / North Queensland	1.60m	Papua New Guinea	1.55m
Long Jump	Fiji	5.78m w (wind: +2.8 m/s)	Fiji	5.66m w (wind: +2.6 m/s)	/ North Queensland	5.54m w (wind: +2.3 m/s)
Long Jump Open (Grand Prix Series)	Fiji	5.84m (wind: NWI)	/ North Queensland	5.52m (wind: NWI)	Fiji	5.50m (wind: NWI)
Triple Jump	/ North Queensland	11.80m (wind: +0.5 m/s) CR	Fiji	11.72m w (wind: +2.1 m/s)	/ North Queensland	10.52m (wind: +1.3 m/s)
Triple Jump Open (Grand Prix Series)	/ North Queensland	12.02m w (wind: +2.7 m/s)	Fiji	11.52m (wind: +1.1 m/s)	/ North Queensland	10.39m (wind: +0.9 m/s)
Shot Put9.)	Australia	10.77m CR	Australia	10.56m
Shot Put Open (Grand Prix Series)	Valerie Vili  New Zealand	19.06m	Ana Po'uhila  Tonga	16.87m	/ North Queensland	4.34m
Discus Throw10.)	Australia	34.12m CR
Discus Throw Open (Grand Prix Series)	Beatrice Faumuina  New Zealand	58.08m	Australia	35.96m	/ North Queensland	14.24m
Hammer Throw11.)	Norfolk Island	34.44m	Australia	26.67m
Javelin Throw12.)	Fiji	39.31m	Australia	33.66m
Javelin Throw Open (Grand Prix Series)	Serafina Akeli  Samoa	48.33m	Fiji	42.38m	/ North Queensland	10.51m
4 x 100 metres relay13.)	Papua New Guinea	48.68	Solomon Islands Pauline Kwalea Jenny Keni	52.07
4 x 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Ann Mooney Toea Wisil	3:54.12 CR	Fiji	3:58.96	/ North Queensland	4:11.98

^7.): In the 400 metres event, Toea Wisil from  Papua New Guinea was 2nd in 55.66 running as a guest.
^8.): The 400 metres hurdles event was won by from / North Queensland in 63.17 running as a guest.
^9.): The shot put event was won by Valerie Vili from  New Zealand in 20.03m, Ana Po'uhila from  Tonga was 2nd in 16.49m, both competing as guests.
^10.): In the discus throw event, from / North Queensland was 2nd in 13.63m competing as a guest.
^11.): The hammer throw event was won by Ana Po'uhila from  Tonga in 41.11m, Serafina Akeli from  Samoa was 3rd in 29.55m, both competing as guests.
^12.): The javelin throw event was won by Serafina Akeli from  Samoa in 49.63m competing as a guest.
^13.): In the 4x100 metres relay event, a team from  Australia (, , , ) was 2nd in 50.26 running as guests.

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Discus Throw Mixed Open	Beatrice Faumuina  New Zealand	57.69m	Ana Po'uhila  Tonga	46.76m	/ North Queensland	41.83m

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation ( North Queensland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Fiji (FIJ)	12	8	1	21
2	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	12	7	9	28
3	Australia (AUS)	4	8	4	16
4	North Queensland*	4	1	6	11
5	Jump Start Australia	2	2	0	4
6	Solomon Islands (SOL)	1	4	5	10
7	Vanuatu (VAN)	1	3	2	6
8	Norfolk Island (NFK)	1	1	0	2
9	New Caledonia (NCL)	1	0	0	1
Totals (9 nations)		38	34	27	99

Participation[]

The participation of athletes from 7 countries and 6 guest countries from Oceania was reported. In addition, two local teams comprising athletes from the organizing Athletics North Queensland (ANQ) (representing North Queensland) and from the Athletics Australia's Jump Start program for indigenous athletes ("Jump Start Australia") competed.

Guest countries from Micronesia and Polynesia:

References[]