2010–11 Australian Athletics Championships

2010–11 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	15–17 April 2011
Host city	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Olympic Park Stadium
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The 2010–11 Australian Athletics Championships was the 89th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 15–17 April 2011 at the Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne. It served as a selection meeting for Australia at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. This was the last competition to be held at the stadium before its demolition.^[1]

Several events were contested at different times and venues. The 10,000 metres event took place at the on 9 December 2010 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, the decathlon and heptathlon were held in Perth on 31 March and 1 April 2011, the men's 5000 metres took place at the Melbourne Track Classic on 3 March 2011 and the women's 5000 metres was held as part of the Victorian Championships on 5 March 2011.^[2][3]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.6 m/s)	Victoria	10.39	Anthony Alozie New South Wales	10.58	Isaac Ntiamoah New South Wales	10.63
200 metres (Wind: -1.2 m/s)	Victoria	20.88	Queensland	21.08	Western Australia	21.39
400 metres	Steven Solomon New South Wales	45.58	Ben Offereins Western Australia	45.88	John Steffensen New South Wales	46.41
800 metres	New South Wales	1:47.48	Lachlan Renshaw New South Wales	1:47.88	Victoria	1:47.98
1500 metres	Jeff Riseley Victoria	3:39.21	Jeremy Roff New South Wales	3:40.21	Victoria	3:40.85
5000 metres	Bernard Lagat  United States (USA)	13:08.43	Ben St Lawrence New South Wales	13:10.08	Chris Solinsky  United States (USA)	13:10.22
10,000 metres	Josphat Kiprono Menjo  Kenya (KEN)	27:39.80	Ben St Lawrence New South Wales	28:05.25	Bobby Curtis  United States (USA)	28:08.78
110 metres hurdles (Wind: -1.3 m/s)	Siddhanth Thingalaya  India (IND)	14.14	Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian  Malaysia (MAS)	14.17	New South Wales	14.47
400 metres hurdles	Brendan Cole Australian Capital Territory	50.46	Ian Dewhurst New South Wales	51.05	Queensland	51.22
3000 metres steeplechase	Youcef Abdi New South Wales	8:38.13	Brett Robinson Australian Capital Territory	8:52.47	Queensland	8:56.90
High jump	Victoria	2.16 m	Joshua Lodge New South Wales	2.12 m	Brandon Starc New South Wales	2.08 m
Pole vault	Sergey Kucheryanu  Russia (RUS)	5.40 m	Victoria	5.10 m	Victoria	4.95 m
Long jump	Mitchell Watt Queensland	8.44 m (+1.6 m/s)	Robert Crowther Australian Capital Territory	8.05 m (+2.5 m/s)	Fabrice Lapierre New South Wales	7.83 m (+1.6 m/s)
Triple jump	Victoria	15.67 m (+0.8 m/s)	Victoria	15.31 m (+1.2 m/s)	Queensland	15.26 m (+1.1 m/s)
Shot put	Dale Stevenson Victoria	19.24 m	Tom Walsh  New Zealand (NZL)	17.58 m	New South Wales	17.11 m
Discus throw	Benn Harradine Victoria	63.15 m	South Australia	52.96 m	Victoria	52.51 m
Hammer throw	Australian Capital Territory	68.63 m	Queensland	68.59 m	New South Wales	62.67 m
Javelin throw	Jarrod Bannister Victoria	80.17 m	Leslie Copeland  Fiji (FIJ)	76.50 m	New South Wales	71.79 m
Decathlon	South Australia	7500 pts[4]	Victoria	6863 pts[5]	New South Wales	6722 pts[6]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.6 m/s)	Sally Pearson Queensland	11.38	Queensland Melissa Breen Australian Capital Territory	11.67	Not awarded
200 metres (Wind: -1.4 m/s)	Sally Pearson Queensland	23.20	Queensland	24.01	Northern Territory	24.17
400 metres	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	52.31	Caitlin Sargent Queensland	53.18	Anneliese Rubie New South Wales	53.31
800 metres	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	2:00.80	Kelly Hetherington Victoria	2:03.58	New South Wales	2:03.59
1500 metres	Zoe Buckman Australian Capital Territory	4:12.85	Kaila McKnight Victoria	4:12.92	Georgie Clarke Victoria	4:13.82
5000 metres	New South Wales	16:12.12	Great Britain (GBR)	16:12.71	New Zealand (NZL)	16:13.90
10,000 metres	Eloise Wellings New South Wales	32:08.32	Lara Tamsett New South Wales	32:32.02	Jessica Trengove South Australia	34:21.14
100 metres hurdles (Wind: -1.1 m/s)	Sally Pearson Queensland	12.83	Western Australia	13.55	Michelle Jenneke New South Wales	14.25
400 metres hurdles	Lauren Boden Australian Capital Territory	57.47	Western Australia	59.37	Jess Gulli Victoria	59.99
3000 metres steeplechase	Victoria Mitchell Victoria	10:10.66	New Zealand (NZL)	10:14.17	South Australia	10:20.18
High jump	Ellen Pettitt Victoria	1.83 m	Western Australia	1.80 m	New South Wales	1.80 m
Pole vault	Queensland	4.15 m	Victoria	3.90 m	Victoria	3.70 m
Long jump	Kerrie Perkins Australian Capital Territory	6.42 m (+1.2 m/s)	Brooke Stratton Victoria	6.37 m	Australian Capital Territory	6.02 m (+0.5 m/s)
Triple jump	Victoria	13.23 m (+0.8 m/s)	Victoria	12.99 m (+0.1 m/s)	Nneka Okpala  New Zealand (NZL)	12.72 m (+0.5 m/s)
Shot put	Margaret Satupai Victoria	15.86 m	Victoria	14.31 m	New South Wales	14.05 m
Discus throw	Dani Samuels New South Wales	61.79 m	Victoria	53.61 m	Margaret Satupai Victoria	49.20 m
Hammer throw	Victoria	64.26 m	Bronwyn Eagles New South Wales	59.99 m	Victoria	58.02 m
Javelin throw	Kim Mickle Western Australia	59.39 m	Kathryn Mitchell Victoria	57.72 m	New South Wales	57.00 m
Heptathlon	South Australia	5539 pts[7]	Victoria	5061 pts[8]	Queensland	4967 pts[9]

References[]

External links[]

• Athletics Australia website