2015 Oceania Athletics Championships

XV Oceania Athletics Championships
XV Oceania Athletics Championships
Dates	May 8–10
Host city	Cairns, Australia
Venue	Barlow Park
Level	Senior
Events	47
Participation	215 + 2 guest athletes from ; 20 + 2 nations
	← 2014 Rarotonga 2017 → ;

The 2015 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia, between May 8–10, 2015.^[1] The event was held jointly with the 2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships and the 2015 Oceania Combined Events Championships. Moreover, there were also exhibition events for masters and athletes with a disability (parasports), as well as school events for age groups 5 to 15 years.^[1]^[2] Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Initially, a total of 48 events were scheduled.^[1] However, results for women's pole vault could not be retrieved. The event was most probably cancelled resulting in a total of 47 contested events, 24 by men, 22 by women, and 1 mixed.

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage.^[6]^[7]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Banuve Tabakaucoro Fiji	10.22 CR	Jeremy Dodson Samoa	10.36	Australia	10.71
200 metres (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Jeremy Dodson Samoa	20.57 CR	Banuve Tabakaucoro Fiji	20.68	New Zealand	21.46
400 metres	Fiji	48.22	Australia	48.69	Nelson Stone Papua New Guinea	49.27
800 metres	Australia	1:54.02	Papua New Guinea	1:57.12	Papua New Guinea	1:58.11
1500 metres^1.)	Australia	4:05.76	Papua New Guinea	4:08.06	Papua New Guinea	4:12.23
5000 metres	Australia	15:34.31	Sapolai Yao Papua New Guinea	15:44.47	/ Northern Australia	16:15.42
10,000 metres	New Zealand	34:18.41	French Polynesia	34:32.18	Rosefelo Siosi Solomon Islands	37:00.71
3000 metres steeplechase	Sapolai Yao Papua New Guinea	9:39.74	New Zealand	9:50.68	Papua New Guinea	9:50.99
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Australia	14.40	Cedric Dubler Australia	14.72	Mowen Boino Papua New Guinea	14.92
400 metres hurdles	Michael Cochrane New Zealand	50.69 CR	Mowen Boino Papua New Guinea	52.19	Australia	53.01
High jump	/ Northern Australia	2.15m	Australia	2.15m	New Zealand	2.10m
Pole vault^2.)	/ Northern Australia	4.10m			Papua New Guinea	3.60m
Long jump	Waisale Dausoko Fiji	7.51m w (wind: +4.5 m/s)	Australia	7.47m (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	6.64m w (wind: +2.5 m/s)
Triple jump	Australia	14.97m w (wind: +5.0 m/s)	/ Northern Australia	14.88m w (wind: +2.6 m/s)	Papua New Guinea	14.81m w (wind: +3.4 m/s)
Shot put	Alexander Rose Samoa	16.89m	/ Northern Australia	13.53m	Nauru	13.11m
Discus throw	Alexander Rose Samoa	60.95m CR	New Zealand	59.87m	Guam	41.55m
Hammer throw	New Zealand	58.14m	Samoa	53.29m	Guam	48.29m
Javelin throw	Australia	64.35m	/ Northern Australia	55.85m	French Polynesia	54.09m
Octathlon	Samoa	4395
Decathlon	Brent Newdick New Zealand	7140	Aaron Booth New Zealand	6183	New Zealand	5919
5000 metres walk	New Zealand	24:18.39	Australian Masters Athletics	25:09.28
10,000 metres walk	New Zealand	46:17.0 (ht)	Australian Masters Athletics	51:29.0 (ht)
4 × 100 metres relay	Fiji Waisale Dausoko Banuve Tabakaucoro	40.98	Papua New Guinea Nazmie-Lee Marai Nelson Stone	41.70	Australia	41.86
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia	3:15.55	Fiji Banuve Tabakaucoro	3:22.16	New Zealand	3:32.77

^1.) In the 1500m event, , Papua New Guinea, finished 3rd in 4:11.07 competing as a guest.
^2.) The pole vault event was won by , Athletics North Queensland, Australia, in 4.50m competing as a guest.

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.9 m/s)	Toea Wisil Papua New Guinea	11.41 w	Australia	11.52 w	Fiji	11.89 w
200 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Toea Wisil Papua New Guinea	23.71 CR	Betty Burua Papua New Guinea	23.74	New Zealand	24.22
400 metres	Betty Burua Papua New Guinea	54.32	New Zealand	54.63	Donna Koniel Papua New Guinea	54.89
800 metres	Donna Koniel Papua New Guinea	2:09.58	Australia	2:12.17	New Zealand	2:15.24
1500 metres	Australia	4:27.36 CR	Australia	4:29.25	Australia	4:46.76
5000 metres	Sharon Firisua Solomon Islands	18:35.51	Papua New Guinea	18:55.39	Papua New Guinea	19:23.09
10,000 metres	Papua New Guinea	40:39.52	Papua New Guinea	40:57.79
3000 metres steeplechase	Papua New Guinea	11:10.48 CR	Australia	11:20.89	Sharon Firisua Solomon Islands	11:27.42
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.5 m/s)	New Zealand	13.57	New Caledonia	14.44	New Zealand	15.15
400 metres hurdles	Betty Burua Papua New Guinea	59.10	Australia	62.55	New Caledonia	65.76
High jump	Australia	1.80m CR	/ Northern Australia	1.75m	Australia	1.75m
Pole vault	Most probably cancelled
Long jump	/ Northern Australia	5.82m w (wind: +3.7 m/s)	/ Northern Australia	5.64m w (wind: +4.6 m/s)	Helen Philemon Papua New Guinea	5.59m w (wind: +3.0 m/s)
Triple jump	Fiji	12.29m w (wind: +3.3 m/s)	New Zealand	11.98m (wind: +2.0 m/s)	/ Northern Australia	11.95m w (wind: +2.3 m/s)
Shot put	Fiji	14.35m	Samoa	13.83m	ʻAta Maama Tuutafaiva Tonga	13.65m
Discus throw	Siositina Hakeai New Zealand	56.06m	Tereapii Tapoki Cook Islands	50.83m	/ Northern Australia	43.20m
Hammer throw	Australia	54.01m	Australia	50.29m	Samoa	45.59m
Javelin throw	New Zealand	45.87m	Samoa	45.05m	Australia	41.52m
Heptathlon	/ Northern Australia	5052	/ Northern Australia	4841	/ Northern Australia	4186
5000 metres walk	Australia	25:28.75	Australia	27:41.22
10,000 metres walk	Australia	50:21.0 (ht)
4 × 100 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Toea Wisil Betty Burua Helen Philemon	46.31	Australia	46.87	New Zealand	47.34
4 × 400 metres relay	Papua New Guinea Betty Burua Donna Koniel	3:52.66	Australia	3:53.99	New Zealand	3:55.55

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 800m sprint medley relay	Fiji Banuve Tabakaucoro Sisilia Seavula	1:35.32	Papua New Guinea Betty Burua Nazmie-Lee Marai Toea Wisil	1:36.08	Australia	1:40.12

Masters (exhibition)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 1500 metres Race Walk		9:36.99		11:01.75

Medal table (unofficial)[]

* Host nation (Australia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia*	12	13	7	32
2	Papua New Guinea	10	9	11	30
3	New Zealand	9	5	9	23
4	Fiji	7	2	1	10
5	/ Northern Australia	4	6	4	14
6	Samoa	4	4	1	9
7	Solomon Islands	1	0	2	3
8	Australian Masters Athletics	0	2	0	2
9	French Polynesia	0	1	1	2
9	New Caledonia	0	1	1	2
11	Cook Islands	0	1	0	1
12	Guam	0	0	2	2
13	Nauru	0	0	1	1
13	Tonga	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		47	44	41	132

Participation (unofficial)[]

According to an unofficial count, 215 athletes (+ 2 guests) from 20 countries and territories participated. There were two additional teams: one athlete represented Australian Masters Athletics (dubbed "AMA" in the result lists). As in the years before, there was also a "Regional Australia Team" Northern Australia (dubbed "RAT" in the results list) comprising Australian athletes who "either have their normal place of residence (defined as being a place where an athlete is resident and/or educated) in an "athletically remote area" of Australia (defined as a being a place more than 300 km from any centre at which track and field competition is held on a regular basis i.e. basically weekly or fortnightly during the track season) or "Northern Australia" (defined as comprising the Northern Territory and any parts of Western Australia and North Queensland, north of 26th parallel south latitude)".^[8]