2013 Oceania Athletics Championships

XIII Oceania Athletics Championships
XIII Oceania Athletics Championships
Dates	June 3-5
Host city	Papeete, French Polynesia
Venue	Stade Pater Te Hono Nui
Level	Senior
Events	44 (21 men, 22 women. 1 mixed)
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The 2013 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at the Stade Pater Te Hono Nui in Papeete, French Polynesia, between June 3–5, 2013. The event was held jointly with the 2013 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, and there were also exhibition events for masters, athletes with a disability and children.^[1] Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The event was overshadowed by the death of New Zealand racewalker Lesley Cantwell. She collapsed while waiting for the medal ceremony after winning the gold medal in the 5000 metres race walk event, and was taken to Papeete Hospital on life support. However, she died a few days later.^[5]

In the open division, a total of 44 events were contested, 21 by men and 22 by women, as well as 1 mixed medley relay.

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage.^[6]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Banuve Tabakaucoro (FIJ)	10.65	Siueni Filimone (TGA)	11.17	William Smart (NZL)	11.17
200 metres (wind: -1.5 m/s)	Banuve Tabakaucoro (FIJ)	21.08	Nelson Stone (PNG)	21.98	William Smart (NZL)	22.32
400 metres	(NZL)	48.44	(NZL)	49.59	Theo Piniau (PNG)	49.70
800 metres	Adrien Kela (NCL)	1:52.81	Alex Beddoes (COK)	1:54.10	(AUS)	1:55.91
1500 metres	(AUS)	4:01.18	Adrien Kela (NCL)	4:05.19	/ (NAUS)	4:05.39
5000 metres	(NZL)	15:33.90	/ (NAUS)	15:38.74	Sapolai Yao (PNG)	15:43.03
10000 metres	(NZL)	32:31.31	/ (NAUS)	33:35.39	Sapolai Yao (PNG)	33:44.20
3000 metres steeplechase	Sapolai Yao (PNG)	9:49.67	/ (NAUS)	9:56.49	(PYF)	9:59.03
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.1 m/s)	(AUS)	15.57	(GUM)	16.64	(GUM)	16.87
400 metres hurdles	Mowen Boino (PNG)	51.97	(AUS)	52.08	(VAN)	54.14
High Jump	Jordan Peters (NZL)	2.06m	Cedric Dubler (AUS)	2.06m	(FIJ)	2.03m
Pole Vault	Cedric Dubler (AUS)	4.50m	(PYF)	3.80m
Long Jump	Cedric Dubler (AUS)	7.24m w (wind: +3.4 m/s)	(FIJ)	6.95m w (wind: +3.6 m/s)	(NZL)	6.71m w (wind: +2.4 m/s)
Triple Jump	(NZL)	14.91m (wind: +0.0 m/s)	(NZL)	14.57m (wind: +0.0 m/s)	(PNG)	14.18m (wind: +0.0 m/s)
Shot Put	Alexander Rose (SAM)	17.22m	(PYF)	14.86m	(SAM)	14.76m
Discus Throw	Alexander Rose (SAM)	56.05m	(SAM)	45.66m	(PYF)	42.05m
Hammer Throw	Alexander Rose (SAM)	55.49m	(SAM)	31.05m
Javelin Throw	Leslie Copeland (FIJ)	76.87m	(AUS)	59.46m	/ (WLF)	57.97m
Decathlon	(NZL)	6807	(AUS)	6573	(AUS)	5861
4 x 100 metres relay	Tonga Siueni Filimone	43.27	Kiribati Nooa Takooa	44.46	Tahiti	44.48
4 x 400 metres relay	New Zealand William Smart	3:21.26	Australia	3:28.15	Vanuatu	3:31.18

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Toea Wisil (PNG)	11.90	Patricia Taea (COK)	12.57	(NZL)	12.63
200 metres (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Toea Wisil (PNG)	24.45	(NZL)	24.75	(AUS)	25.56
400 metres	(AUS)	55.07	(NZL)	55.51	(GUM)	61.99
800 metres	(AUS)	2:08.05	(NZL)	2:08.14	(NZL)	2:10.29
1500 metres	(NZL)	4:33.36	(NZL)	4:38.24	(FIJ)	4:57.75
5000 metres	Sharon Firisua (SOL)	19:41.23	(PYF)	19:49.95	(TAH)	19:50.26
10000 metres	(PYF)	41:04.47	(PYF)	41:13.85	(TAH)	41:38.74
3000 metres steeplechase	(AUS)	11:18.08	Sharon Firisua (SOL)	12:20.57
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.7 m/s)	(NZL)	16.16
400 metres hurdles	(AUS)	63.17	(PYF)	65.63	(GUM)	66.65
High Jump	(PYF)	1.52m
Pole Vault	(TAH)	2.70m
Long Jump	(AUS)	5.74m (wind: +0.0 m/s)	/ (NAUS)	5.44m (wind: -1.4 m/s)	(PYF)	5.14m (wind: -0.4 m/s)
Triple Jump	(NZL)	11.64m (wind: NWI)	(NZL)	11.60m (wind: NWI)	(PYF)	11.05m (wind: NWI)
Shot Put	Tereapii Tapoki (COK)	14.17m	(AUS)	12.74m	(ASA)	11.33m
Discus Throw	(AUS)	50.68m	Tereapii Tapoki (COK)	49.98m	(ASA)	43.72m
Hammer Throw	(AUS)	48.17m	(NZL)	46.82m	(NZL)	45.06m
Javelin Throw	(NZL)	41.98m	/ (WLF)	41.93m	(NZL)	34.42m
Heptathlon	(AUS)	4348	(TGA)	3000	(TGA)	2625
5000 metres Walk	Lesley Cantwell (NZL)	25:39.79
4 x 100 metres relay	New Zealand	49.07	/ North Australia	51.58	Guam Regine Tugade	52.35
4 x 400 metres relay	New Zealand	3:52.38	Australia	4:01.93

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
800 Sprint Medley relay	New Zealand	1:36.31	Fiji Sisilia Seavula Banuve Tabakaucoro	1:38.95	French Polynesia Namataiki Tevenino Gregory Bradai	1:42.87

Medal table (unofficial)[]

* Host nation (French Polynesia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Zealand	15	8	7	30
2	Australia	12	7	3	22
3	Papua New Guinea	4	1	4	9
4	Fiji	3	2	2	7
5	Samoa	3	2	1	6
6	French Polynesia*	2	5	5	12
7	Cook Islands	1	3	0	4
8	Tonga	1	2	1	4
9	New Caledonia	1	1	0	2
9	Solomon Islands	1	1	0	2
11	French Polynesia	1	0	3	4
12	/ North Australia	0	5	1	6
13	Guam	0	1	4	5
14	/ Wallis and Futuna	0	1	1	2
15	Kiribati	0	1	0	1
16	American Samoa	0	0	2	2
16	Vanuatu	0	0	2	2
Totals (17 nations)		44	40	36	120

Participation (unofficial)[]

The participation of 480 athletes representing 24 teams from 22 countries was published.^[1] The list comprises also the U-18 athletes, some of them competed in both the open and the youth event, especially in the relays.

20 of the participating teams were OAA members, one team an associate OAA member, only Niue was absent.

In addition, there was a team from Wallis and Futuna, which is no OAA member, and two regional teams: A local team dubbed "Tahiti West Coast" (TWC in the results list,^[6] here dubbed TAH)^[7] and a "Regional Australia Team" (RAT in the results list,^[6] here dubbed NAUS) ^[8] including athletes with "their normal place of residence in Northern Australia (defined as comprising the Northern Territory and any parts of Western Australia and Queensland, north of 26th parallel south latitude)."