2017–18 Australian Athletics Championships

2017–18 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	15–18 February 2018
Host city	Gold Coast, Australia
Venue	Carrara Stadium
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The 2017–18 Australian Athletics Championships was the 96th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 15–18 February 2018 at Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast, Queensland. It served as the selection meeting in athletics events for Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Distance events were held separately, with the 10,000 metres taking place at the on 14 December 2017 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne and the 10,000 metres race walk was held in Canberra in 14 January 2018.^[1][2][3]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: +0.4)	Trae Williams Queensland	10.10	Rohan Browning New South Wales	10.20	Josh Clarke New South Wales	10.31
200 metres (Wind: -2.1)	Alex Hartmann Queensland	20.57	Joseph Millar  New Zealand (NZL)	20.60	Queensland	20.83
400 metres	Murray Goodwin Queensland	46.24	Queensland	46.37	Alex Beck Queensland	46.61
800 metres	Luke Mathews Victoria	1:45.90	Josh Ralph New South Wales	1:46.85	Jeff Riseley Victoria	1:47.04
1500 metres	Ryan Gregson Victoria	3:39.66	Jordan Williamsz Victoria	3:39.85	New South Wales	3:40.12
5000 metres	Morgan McDonald New South Wales	13:19.05	David McNeill Victoria	13:19.51	Stewart McSweyn Tasmania	13:19.96
10,000 metres	Stewart McSweyn Tasmania	28:37.28	Patrick Tiernan Queensland	28:38.94	David McNeill Victoria	28:47.54
110 metres hurdles (Wind: -0.2)	Nicholas Hough New South Wales	13.76	New South Wales	13.94	New South Wales	14.02
400 metres hurdles	Ian Dewhurst Western Australia	49.80	Australian Capital Territory	50.37	New South Wales	50.73
4 × 100 m relay	New South Wales (NSW)	40.45	Victoria (VIC)	41.13	South Australia (SA)	41.29
4 × 400 m relay	Victoria (VIC)	3:10.96	New South Wales (NSW) Ian Halpin	3:11.80	Western Australia (WA)	3:15.59
High jump	Brandon Starc New South Wales	2.28 m	Nik Bojic Queensland Joel Baden Victoria	2.21 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	Kurtis Marschall South Australia	5.55 m	Western Australia	5.45 m	New Zealand (NZL)	5.25 m
Long jump	Victoria	8.09 m (+2.1 m/s)	Queensland	7.81 m (+0.7 m/s)	Henry Smith Victoria	7.78 m (+0.2 m/s)
Triple jump	New South Wales	16.08 m (-0.8 m/s)	Alwyn Jones Victoria	15.99 m (+0.9 m/s)	Queensland	15.92 m (-0.1 m/s)
Shot put	Damien Birkinhead Victoria	20.02 m	New South Wales	17.82 m	Western Australia	17.70 m
Discus throw	Matthew Denny Queensland	64.03 m	Benn Harradine Queensland	63.56 m	Julian Wruck Queensland	60.96 m
Hammer throw	Matthew Denny Queensland	72.78 m	Victoria	65.78 m	New South Wales	65.42 m
Javelin throw	Hamish Peacock Tasmania	79.38 m	New Zealand (NZL)	78.20 m	Queensland	77.21 m
Decathlon	Cedric Dubler Queensland	8229	Kyle Cranston New South Wales	7786	New South Wales	7405
10,000 metres walk	Perseus Karlström  Sweden (SWE)	39:22.41	Evan Dunfee  Canada (CAN)	40:11.80	Marius Žiūkas  Lithuania (LTU)	40:43.17

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.4)	Riley Day Queensland	11.56	Zoe Hobbs  New Zealand (NZL)	11.70	Victoria	11.81
200 metres (Wind: -1.7)	Riley Day Queensland	22.93	Maddie Coates Victoria	23.06	New South Wales	23.27
400 metres	Anneliese Rubie New South Wales	51.92	Bendere Oboya New South Wales	51.94	Morgan Mitchell Victoria	52.69
800 metres	Brittany McGowan Queensland	2:00.24	Angie Petty  New Zealand (NZL)	2:00.73	Georgia Griffith Victoria	2:02.09
1500 metres	Linden Hall Victoria	4:07.55	Zoe Buckman Victoria	4:08.15	New South Wales	4:11.12
5000 metres	Celia Sullohern New South Wales	15:34.42	Madeline Hills New South Wales	15:35.50	Eloise Wellings New South Wales	15:37.47
10,000 metres	Celia Sullohern New South Wales	32:31.22	Jessica Trengove South Australia	32:35.06	Eloise Wellings New South Wales	32:41.96
100 metres hurdles (Wind: +1.1)	Sally Pearson Queensland	12.73	Michelle Jenneke New South Wales	13.14	Brianna Beahan Western Australia	13.16
400 metres hurdles	Lauren Wells Australian Capital Territory	56.06	Victoria	56.59	Sarah Carli New South Wales	56.87
3000 metres steeplechase	Victoria Mitchell New South Wales	9:45.37	Paige Campbell New South Wales	9:49.00	Victoria	9:50.61
4 × 100 m relay	New South Wales (NSW) Michelle Jenneke	45.61	Victoria (VIC)	46.25	Western Australia (WA)	46.29
4 × 400 m relay	Queensland (QLD) Caitlin Sargent-Jones	3:37.15	Western Australia (WA)	3:40.52	New South Wales (NSW) Jessica Thornton Gabriella O'Grady	3:40.94
High jump	Queensland	1.86 m	Eleanor Patterson Victoria	1.83 m	Western Australia	1.80 m
Pole vault	Nina Kennedy Western Australia	4.60 m	Liz Parnov Western Australia	4.25 m	Olivia McTaggart  New Zealand (NZL)	4.10 m
Long jump	Brooke Stratton Victoria	6.66 m (+1.7 m/s)	Naa Anang Queensland	6.66 m (+1.3 m/s)	Lauren Wells Australian Capital Territory	6.49 m (+0.1 m/s)
Triple jump	Victoria	13.44 m (+1.5 m/s)	Ellen Pettitt Victoria	13.17 m (+0.9 m/s)	New South Wales	13.16 m (+0.2 m/s)
Shot put	Maddi Wesche  New Zealand (NZL)	16.45 m	Chelsea Lenarduzzi Queensland	15.93 m	Queensland	14.00 m
Discus throw	Dani Stevens New South Wales	65.30 m	Taryn Gollshewsky Queensland	58.67 m	Te Rina Keenan  New Zealand (NZL)	56.39 m
Hammer throw	Alexandra Hulley New South Wales	64.84 m	Lara Nielsen Queensland	64.69 m	Queensland	57.59 m
Javelin throw	Kathryn Mitchell Victoria	65.51 m	Kelsey-Lee Roberts Australian Capital Territory	62.21 m	Victoria	51.31 m
Heptathlon	Celeste Mucci Victoria	5812 pts[4]	Western Australia	5742 pts[5]	Alysha Burnett New South Wales	5699 pts[6]
10,000 metres walk	Beki Smith New South Wales	45:56.08	Alana Barber  New Zealand (NZL)	46:03.24	Claire Tallent South Australia	46:06.59

References[]

External links[]

• Athletics Australia website