2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics

V Melanesian Championships in Athletics
Dates	August 4–8
Host city	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Venue	Griffith University
Level	Senior
Events	34 (18 men, 16 women)
Participation	85 athletes from 7 nations
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The 2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics took place between August 4–8, 2009. The event was held at the Griffith University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, jointly with the OAA Grand Prix Series, and the OAA sub-regional Micronesian and Polynesian Championships. Many athletes utilised the competitions preparing for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany.^[1] Detailed reports were given for the OAA.^[2][3]

A total of 34 events were contested, 18 by men and 16 by women.

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage,^[4][5][6] and at sportfieber.pytalhost.com.^[7][8][9]

In 100 metres, 400 metres hurdles, 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.

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Niko Verekauta  Fiji	10.60	Nelson Stone  Papua New Guinea	10.76	Fiji	10.82
100 metres Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Solomon Islands	11.21 (wind: +0.0 m/s)	Solomon Islands	11.30 (wind: +1.2 m/s)	Jack Iroga  Solomon Islands	11.37 (wind: +1.2 m/s)
200 metres (wind: +2.5 m/s)	Niko Verekauta  Fiji	21.47 w	Nelson Stone  Papua New Guinea	21.59 w	Fiji	22.17 w
400 metres1.)	Nelson Stone  Papua New Guinea	47.61	Papua New Guinea	48.38	Australia	48.77
800 metres	Fiji	1:55.21	Adrien Kela  New Caledonia	1:55.58	Australia	1:55.62
1500 metres	Adrien Kela  New Caledonia	4:08.57	Australia	4:09.19	Solomon Islands	4:17.28
5000 metres	Vanuatu	16:08.60	Nathan Sutherland  Australia	16:34.26	New Caledonia	17:30.16
10000 metres	Solomon Islands	34:08.25	Vanuatu	35:43.02	Australia	42:11.04
3000 metres steeplechase	Solomon Islands	10:17.84	Solomon Islands	10:24.15
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s)	New Caledonia	15.79	Fiji	15.82	Australia	18.04
400 metres hurdles	Papua New Guinea	53.12
400 metres hurdles Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Papua New Guinea	52.45	Fiji	56.06
High Jump	Papua New Guinea	1.96m	New Caledonia	1.87m	Australia	1.81m
Long Jump	Australia	7.01m (wind: +1.1 m/s)	Australia	6.71m (wind: -1.5 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	6.69m (wind: +1.9 m/s)
Long Jump Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Australia	6.90m (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	6.69m (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Australia	6.39m (wind: +0.9 m/s)
Triple Jump	Papua New Guinea	13.91m (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	13.24m (wind: +0.0 m/s)	Fiji	12.98m (wind: -2.1 m/s)
Triple Jump Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Papua New Guinea	13.98m (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	13.64m (wind: -0.2 m/s)
Shot Put	Australia	11.11m
Discus Throw Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Australia	34.61m
Hammer Throw	Australia	43.25m	Australia	32.59m
Javelin Throw	Leslie Copeland  Fiji	67.99m CR	Australia	61.12m	Fiji	55.13m
Javelin Throw Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Leslie Copeland  Fiji	66.36m	Australia	64.23m
4 x 100 metres relay2.)	Fiji	41.40 =CR	Papua New Guinea	41.90	Australia	44.33
4 x 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea	3:23.07	Vanuatu	3:30.73	Australia	3:34.31

^1.): In the 400 metres event, from  Papua New Guinea was 2nd in 48.05 competing as a guest.
^2.): In the 4 x 100 metres relay event, the B team from  Fiji was 3rd in 42.30 competing as guests.

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	11.80 =CR	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji	11.98	Helen Philemon  Papua New Guinea	13.07
100 metres (wind: +1.0 m/s)] Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Papua New Guinea	13.52	Pauline Kwalea  Solomon Islands	13.63
200 metres (wind: 1.6 m/s)	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji	24.25	Toea Wisil  Papua New Guinea	24.64	Fiji	25.65
400 metres1.)	Makelesi Bulikiobo  Fiji	54.90	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	55.79	Fiji	58.36
800 metres	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	2:09.25 CR	Fiji	2:21.23	Poro Gahekave  Papua New Guinea	2:26.37
1500 metres	Fiji	4:57.81	Poro Gahekave  Papua New Guinea	5:08.60	Fiji	5:20.75
5000 metres	Fiji	20:24.28
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Fiji	15.66 CR
400 metres hurdles	Sharon Kwarula  Papua New Guinea	64.38
Long Jump	Fiji	5.71m w (wind: +4.9 m/s)	Australia	5.50m w (wind: +2.8 m/s)
Long Jump Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Australia	5.17m (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Fiji	5.17m (wind: +1.3 m/s)
Triple Jump	Australia	10.20m (wind: +0.5 m/s)
Shot Put	Australia	11.19m CR	Australia	9.63m	Norfolk Island	8.91m
Shot Put Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Australia	11.09m	Australia	10.47m	Norfolk Island	8.81m
Discus Throw2.)	Australia	38.23m CR	Australia	32.34m	Australia	32.01m
Discus Throw Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Australia	36.17m	Australia	35.40m	Australia	31.18m
Hammer Throw	Australia	44.22m CR	New Caledonia	41.28m
Javelin Throw	Australia	40.99m	Australia	39.02m
Javelin Throw Non-Championship Event (Grand Prix Series)	Australia	41.45m	Australia	37.09m	Australia	29.26m
4 x 100 metres relay	Papua New Guinea	49.08	Australia	51.92
4 x 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea	4:00.20	Fiji	4:02.28

^1.): In the 400 metres event, from  Australia was 3rd in 55.85 competing as a guest.
^2.): In the discus throw event, from  Australia was 2nd in 35.71m competing as a guest.

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Fiji (FIJ)	11	4	7	22
2	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	10	8	3	21
3	Australia (AUS)*	8	10	8	26
4	New Caledonia (NCL)	2	3	1	6
5	Solomon Islands (SOL)	2	1	1	4
6	Vanuatu (VAN)	1	2	0	3
7	Norfolk Island (NFK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		34	28	21	83

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 85 athletes from 7 countries participated.

References[]