2016–17 Australian Athletics Championships

2016–17 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	30 March – 2 April 2017
Host city	Sydney, Australia
Venue	Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre
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The 2016–17 Australian Athletics Championships was the 95th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 30 March – 2 April 2017 at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre in Sydney. It served as the selection meeting for Australia at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Distance events were held separately, with the 10,000 metres taking place at the on 8 December 2016 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne and the 5000 metres taking place at the Summer of Athletics Meet in Canberra on 11 March 2017.^[1][2][3]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: +0.1)	Joseph Millar  New Zealand (NZL)	10.25	Trae Williams Queensland	10.29	Western Australia	10.46
200 metres (Wind: -3.1)	Joseph Millar  New Zealand (NZL)	21.09	Alex Hartmann Queensland	21.19	Queensland	21.61
400 metres	Steven Solomon New South Wales	46.66	New South Wales	46.77	Alex Beck Queensland	46.83
800 metres	Luke Mathews Victoria	1:46.71	Josh Ralph New South Wales	1:46.76	Alexander Rowe Victoria	1:47.29
1500 metres	Ryan Gregson Victoria	3:52.86	Matthew Ramsden Western Australia	3:53.12	New South Wales	3:53.68
1500 metres	David McNeill Victoria	13:47.18	Australian Capital Territory	13:48.56	Stewart McSweyn Tasmania	13:49.04
10,000 metres	Patrick Tiernan Queensland	27:59.74	Stewart McSweyn Tasmania	28:29.65	Victoria	29:02.00
110 metres hurdles (Wind: +3.5)	Nicholas Hough New South Wales	13.53	New South Wales	13.66	Wataru Yazawa  Japan (JPN)	13.76
400 metres hurdles	Ian Dewhurst New South Wales	49.77	Keisuke Nozawa  Japan (JPN)	50.25	New South Wales	51.21
3000 metres steeplechase	Qatar (QAT)	8:51.79	James Nipperess New South Wales	8:52.89	Victoria	8:56.42
4 × 100 m relay	Victoria (VIC)	40.56	New South Wales (NSW)	40.82	Western Australia (WA)	40.95
4 × 400 m relay	Queensland (QLD) Murray Goodwin	3:12.16	New South Wales (NSW) Josh Ralph	3:12.81	Victoria (VIC)	3:15.98
High jump	Lee Hup Wei  Malaysia (MAS)	2.24 m	Nauraj Singh Randhawa  Malaysia (MAS)	2.21 m	Joel Baden Victoria	2.18 m
Pole vault	Kurtis Marschall South Australia	5.45 m	New Zealand (NZL)	5.30 m	New South Wales	5.30 m
Long jump	Victoria	7.90 m (+2.6 m/s)	Queensland	7.84 m (+3.7 m/s)	Queensland	7.83 m (+1.1 m/s)
Triple jump	Ryoma Yamamoto  Japan (JPN)	16.61 m (+0.5 m/s)	Alwyn Jones Victoria	16.13 m (+0.7 m/s)	New South Wales	15.95 m (+0.2 m/s)
Shot put	Damien Birkinhead Victoria	19.80 m	New South Wales	17.16 m	Western Australia	17.11 m
Discus throw	Julian Wruck Queensland	61.56 m	Matthew Denny Queensland	61.28 m	Japan (JPN)	56.45 m
Hammer throw	Matthew Denny Queensland	73.37 m	Victoria	68.14 m	Tasmania	64.94 m
Javelin throw	Hamish Peacock Tasmania	84.36 m	Luke Cann Western Australia	79.58 m	Sri Lanka (SRI)	77.92 m
Decathlon	Cedric Dubler Queensland	7779 pts[4]	Great Britain (GBR)	7362 pts[5]	Aaron Booth  New Zealand (NZL)	7246 pts[6]
10,000 metres walk	Dane Bird-Smith Queensland	38:34.23	Rhydian Cowley Victoria	41:35.60	New South Wales	42:01.39

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: +0.4)	Toea Wisil Queensland	11.42	Melissa Breen Australian Capital Territory	11.64	Margaret Gayen South Australia	11.78
200 metres (Wind: -2.4)	Toea Wisil Queensland	23.76	Ella Nelson New South Wales	23.91	New South Wales	24.28 24.271
400 metres	Morgan Mitchell Victoria	52.08	New South Wales	53.10	Lauren Wells Australian Capital Territory	53.84
800 metres	Lora Storey New South Wales	2:05.56	Anneliese Rubie New South Wales	2:05.93	Georgia Griffith Victoria	2:06.00
1500 metres	Heidi See New South Wales	4:23.99	Zoe Buckman Victoria	4:24.33	Linden Hall Victoria	4:24.53
5000 metres	Heidi See New South Wales	15:51.97	Jessica Trengove South Australia	16:02.66	Paige Campbell New South Wales	16:09.26
10,000 metres	Camille Buscomb  New Zealand (NZL)	32:34.41	New South Wales	33:04.72	Makda Harun Victoria	33:05.73
100 metres hurdles (Wind: +2.3)	Sally Pearson Queensland	12.53	Brianna Beahan Western Australia	12.96	Michelle Jenneke New South Wales	13.12
400 metres hurdles	Lauren Wells Australian Capital Territory	56.60	New South Wales	58.41	Sara Klein New South Wales	58.68
3000 metres steeplechase	Victoria Mitchell Victoria	9:44.09	Victoria	9:56.47	Victoria	10:03.85
4 × 100 m relay	New South Wales (NSW) Gabriella O'Grady	46.07	Queensland (QLD) Toea Wisil	46.32	Western Australia (WA)	46.43
4 × 400 m relay	New South Wales (NSW) Carley Thomas Bendere Oboya	3:39.79	Victoria (VIC) Emily Lawson	3:42.26	Western Australia (WA)	3:42.52
High jump	Eleanor Patterson Victoria	1.83 m	Western Australia	1.83 m	Western Australia	1.83 m
Pole vault	Eliza McCartney  New Zealand (NZL)	4.50 m	Liz Parnov Western Australia	4.30 m	Olivia McTaggart  New Zealand (NZL)	4.30 m
Long jump	Naa Anang Queensland	6.50 m (+1.5 m/s)	Margaret Gayen South Australia	6.27 m (+1.2 m/s)	New Zealand (NZL)	6.24 m (+0.6 m/s)
Triple jump	Victoria	13.30 m (+0.6 m/s)	New South Wales	13.26 m (+0.9 m/s)	Japan (JPN)	13.20 m (+1.2 m/s)
Shot put	Alifatou Djibril South Australia	14.56 m	Queensland	14.23 m	Queensland	14.21 m
Discus throw	Dani Stevens New South Wales	65.07 m	Taryn Gollshewsky Queensland	57.05 m	Kimberley Mulhall Victoria	54.17 m
Hammer throw	Lara Nielsen Queensland	66.31 m	Alexandra Hulley New South Wales	64.25 m	Japan (JPN)	60.97 m
Javelin throw	Kelsey-Lee Roberts Australian Capital Territory	61.40 m	Tori Peeters  New Zealand (NZL)	56.74 m	Risa Miyashita  Japan (JPN)	54.07 m
Heptathlon	Alysha Burnett New South Wales	5817 pts[7]	Portia Bing  New Zealand (NZL)	5752 pts[8]	Western Australia	5382 pts[9]
10,000 metres walk	Katie Hayward Queensland	45:51.09	Rachel Tallent Victoria	46:24.07	Queensland	46:31.34

References[]

External links[]

• Athletics Australia website