2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships

XIII Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
XIII Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
Dates	May 8–10
Host city	Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Venue	Barlow Park
Level	Youth
Events	42
Participation	127 athletes from ; 16 nations
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The 2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, between May 8–10, 2015. They were held together with the 2015 Oceania Area Championships.^[1]^[2] Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Initially, a total of 44 events were scheduled.^[1] However, results for girl's pole vault and mixed 800m sprint medley relay could not be retrieved. The events were most probably cancelled resulting in a total of 42 contested events, 22 by boys and 20 by girls.

Medal summary[]

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

Boys (U18)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Australia	10.71 CR	Australia	11.00	New Zealand	11.12
200 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Australia	21.71 CR	Australia	21.95	Fiji	22.22
400 metres	Fiji	49.52	Australia	49.91	/ Northern Australia	52.90
800 metres	New Zealand	1:59.47	New Zealand	2:00.09	/ Northern Australia	2:00.38
1500 metres	New Zealand	4:05.90	New Zealand	4:10.43	/ Northern Australia	4:12.67
3000 metres	Australia	8:54.84	New Zealand	8:56.95	Liam Cullen New Zealand	9:39.30
2000 metres steeplechase	New Zealand	6:25.14	Liam Cullen New Zealand	6:59.25	/ Northern Australia	7:56.60
110 metres hurdles (91.4 cm) (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Australia	13.84 CR	Australia	14.20	Tonga	14.42
400 metres hurdles (83.8 cm)	Australia	54.90	Australia	55.15	Sam Richardson Australia	58.29
High jump	/ Northern Australia	2.06m CR	/ Northern Australia	2.00m	French Polynesia	1.94m
Pole vault	Australia	4.30m	French Polynesia	3.20m
Long jump	French Polynesia	6.91m w (wind: +2.5 m/s)	New Zealand	6.83m w (wind: +3.9 m/s)	New Zealand	6.37m (wind: +1.4 m/s)
Triple jump	Australia	13.88m w (wind: +2.8 m/s)	New Zealand	13.30m w (wind: +3.5 m/s)	Guam	12.55m w (wind: +4.6 m/s)
Shot put (5.0 kg)	French Polynesia	15.89m	Australia	15.47m	Australia	15.27m
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	Australia	50.17m	Australia	46.95m	New Caledonia	46.39m
Hammer throw (5.0 kg)	Australia	54.39m	Australia	53.62m	New Zealand	47.77m
Javelin throw (700g)	French Polynesia	59.93m	French Polynesia	54.79m	Northern Mariana Islands	41.02m
Octathlon	Australia	5647 CR	New Zealand	5636	/ Northern Australia	3187
Decathlon	/ Northern Australia	6062 CR
5000 metres walk	Australia	24:08.84
4 × 100 metres relay	Australia	42.47 CR	New Zealand	43.85	/ Northern Australia	46.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia Sam Richardson	3:32.52	New Zealand	3:32.90	/ Northern Australia	3:37.87

Girls (U18)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	New Zealand	12.20	Shannon Reynolds / Northern Australia	12.31	Papua New Guinea	12.43
200 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s)	New Zealand	24.48 CR	Shannon Reynolds / Northern Australia	25.02	Australia	25.06
400 metres	New Zealand	56.85	Australia	57.14	Australia	57.78
800 metres	/ Northern Australia	2:19.11	Australia	2:20.88	/ Northern Australia	2:31.53
1500 metres	/ Northern Australia	4:44.59	/ Northern Australia	4:51.49
3000 metres	/ Northern Australia	10:35.29	/ Northern Australia	12:31.38
2000 metres steeplechase	Papua New Guinea	7:13.18	Australia	7:15.30
100 metres hurdles (76.2 cm) (wind: +2.1 m/s)	Karina Brown Australia	14.34 w	Australia	14.59 w	Australia	14.71 w
400 metres hurdles	Australia	64.69 CR	Australia	67.84
High jump	/ Northern Australia	1.76m CR	Australia	1.65m	/ Northern Australia	1.60m
Pole vault	Most probably cancelled
Long jump	New Zealand	5.87m w (wind: +4.0 m/s)	New Zealand	5.57m (wind: +1.7 m/s)	New Zealand	5.56m w (wind: +3.3 m/s)
Triple jump	Australia	12.41m (wind: +1.7 m/s) CR	/ Northern Australia	11.52m (wind: +1.2 m/s)
Shot put (3.0 kg)	Australia	15.56m CR	/ Northern Australia	14.02m	/ Northern Australia	12.33m
Discus throw	/ Northern Australia	40.95m	/ Northern Australia	32.51m	New Caledonia	30.98m
Hammer throw (3.0 kg)	Australia	55.45m CR	Australia	53.71m	/ Northern Australia	45.14m
Javelin throw (500g)	Australia	47.30m	French Polynesia	40.97m	/ Northern Australia	37.76m
Heptathlon	/ Northern Australia	3179
5000 metres walk	Australia	27:41.19	/ Northern Australia	39:40.90
4 × 100 metres relay	Australia	49.15 CR	New Zealand	49.38	/ Northern Australia Shannon Reynolds	50.17
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia	4:01.89 CR	New Zealand	4:13.08	/ Northern Australia Shannon Reynolds	4:14.57

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 800m sprint medley relay	Most probably cancelled

Medal table (unofficial)[]

* Host nation (Australia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia*	22	15	6	43
2	/Northern Australia	8	8	15	31
3	New Zealand	7	12	5	24
4	French Polynesia	3	3	1	7
5	Fiji	1	0	1	2
5	Papua New Guinea	1	0	1	2
7	New Caledonia	0	0	2	2
8	Guam	0	0	1	1
	Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	1	1
	Tonga	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		42	38	34	114

Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation (unofficial)[]

According to an unofficial count, 127 athletes from 16 countries and territories participated. 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 300km 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]