2010 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships

X World Youth Athletics Championships
Dates	March 11–14
Host city	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Venue	Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre
Level	World
Events	42 (21 boys, 21 girls)
Participation	383 (203 boys, 180 girls) athletes from 18 (17 + 8 Australian States and Territories) nations
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The 2010 Oceanian Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre in Homebush, New South Wales, Australia, between March 11–14, 2010. They were held together with the 2010 Australian Junior Athletics Championships (U14 to U20). A total of 42 events were contested, 21 by boys and 21 by girls. Two highlights of the games were u20 boy athlete Damien Birkenhead winning the shot put with a throw of 21.72m and u18 girl athlete Sarah Jackson winning the 400m sprint in a time of 53:61 seconds.

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found on the websites of the Oceania Athletics Association,^[1] and of the World Junior Athletics History webpage.^[2]

Boys under 18 (Youth)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Nicholas Hough (NSW)	10.83	(SA)	11.09	(NZL)	11.10
200 metres (wind: −2.9 m/s)	Nicholas Hough (NSW)	21.79	(NSW)	21.91	(SA)	22.13
400 metres	(VIC)	49.13	Ian Halpin (NSW)	49.33	(WA)	49.34
800 metres	(NZL)	1:52.19	(VIC)	1:52.97	(NSW)	1:53.29
1000 metres	(VIC)	2:30.39	(WA)	2:31.48	(QLD)	2:31.79
1500 metres	(VIC)	3:55.93	(QLD)	3:56.60	(NSW)	3:56.80
3000 metres	(NZL)	8:40.23	(VIC)	8:42.87	(VIC)	8:43.66
2000 metres steeplechase	(QLD)	6:09.19	(NSW)	6:11.34	(VIC)	6:12.59
110 metres hurdles (wind: −1.8 m/s)	Nicholas Hough (NSW)	13.87	(NZL)	14.20	James Woodgate (QLD)	14.41
400 metres hurdles	(WA)	52.74	(SA)	53.31	(NZL)	53.39
High Jump	Brandon Starc (NSW)	2.06	(QLD)	1.99	(NSW)	1.99
Pole Vault	(VIC)	4.65	(VIC)	4.15	(VIC)	3.70
Long Jump	(NSW)	7.18	(NSW)	7.07	(NZL)	6.91
Triple Jump	(VIC)	14.22	(PNG)	14.06	(QLD)	13.91
Shot Put	Jacko Gill (NZL)	20.62	(VIC)	20.17	(NSW)	17.69
Discus Throw	Jacko Gill (NZL)	56.64	(NSW)	51.99	(VIC)	51.97
Hammer Throw	(VIC)	67.88	(QLD)	60.88	(QLD)	55.80
Javelin Throw	(NSW)	67.47	(NT)	67.33	Luke Cann (VIC)	66.98
5000 metres Walk	(SA)	21:49.66	(VIC)	24:00.19	(NZL)	24:21.24
4 × 100 metres relay	New South Wales Nicholas Hough Jarrod Geddes	41.36	Queensland James Woodgate	42.24	South Australia	42.51
4 × 400 metres relay	New South Wales Jarrod Geddes Steven Solomon	3:20.10	Victoria	3:20.66	New Zealand	3:21.51

Girls under 18 (Youth)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.5 m/s)	(VIC)	12.04	Ellia Green (VIC)	12.12	Michelle Jenneke (VIC)	12.15
200 metres (wind: −0.9 m/s)	(VIC)	24.75	(NZL)	25.05	Rebecca Watts (NSW)	25.16
400 metres	(QLD)	55.69	(NSW)	55.74	(NZL)	56.61
800 metres	(NSW)	2:11.02	(SA)	2:11.07	(QLD)	2:11.69
1000 metres	Jenny Blundell (NSW)	2:45.68	(NZL)	2:45.99	(ACT)	2:53.38
1500 metres	(SA)	4:38.26	(VIC)	4:39.23	(NSW)	4:39.33
3000 metres	(NZL)	9:53.14	(NZL)	9:55.30	Melanie Townsend (VIC)	10:05.17
2000 metres steeplechase	(SA)	6:53.83	Jenna Hansen (NZL)	7:23.89	(QLD)	7:30.27
100 metres hurdles (wind: −1.4 m/s)	Michelle Jenneke (NSW)	14.12	(NSW)	14.43	(NSW)	14.44
400 metres hurdles	(NSW)	61.23	(QLD)	62.04	(VIC)	62.47
High Jump	(NSW)	1.86	(TAS)	1.78	(QLD)	1.78
Pole Vault	Liz Parnov (WA)	3.95	(VIC)	3.85	(VIC)	3.70
Long Jump	(QLD)	5.90	Portia Bing (NZL)	5.81	(NSW)	5.76
Triple Jump	(QLD)	12.61	Brooke Stratton (VIC)	12.60	(TAS)	12.23
Shot Put	(VIC)	13.58	Siositina Hakeai (NZL)	13.43	(NSW)	12.78
Discus Throw	(NZL)	49.18	(NZL)	47.80	Siositina Hakeai (NZL)	47.61
Hammer Throw	Julia Ratcliffe (NZL)	53.31	(TAS)	49.69	(TAS)	46.87
Javelin Throw	(VIC)	41.39	(VIC)	39.21	Patricia Taea (COK)	38.07
5000 metres Walk	(SA)	25:26.73	(VIC)	25:52.92	(QLD)	25:55.69
4 × 100 metres relay	New South Wales Michelle Jenneke Ella Nelson Rebecca Watts	45.75	Victoria Ellia Green	45.83	Queensland Carla Williams	47.27
4 × 400 metres relay	New South Wales	3:47.36	Queensland	3:47.43	Victoria	3:53.98

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (New South Wales)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New South Wales*	15	7	9	31
2	Victoria	10	13	10	33
3	New Zealand	7	8	7	22
4	Queensland	4	6	9	19
5	South Australia	4	3	2	9
6	Western Australia	2	1	1	4
7	Tasmania	0	2	2	4
8	Northern Territory	0	1	0	1
	Papua New Guinea	0	1	0	1
10	Australian Capital Territory	0	0	1	1
	Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		42	42	42	126

Participation (unofficial)[]

An unofficial count yields the number of about 383 athletes from 18 countries. 309 athletes were from the 8 Australian States and Territories:

and 74 athletes from 17 other OAA member and associate member countries:

References[]