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TRACK AND FIELD

TAURANGA
AIMS Games Cross Country, Waipuna Park, Welcome Bay – 3 September 2023

Year 8 3km; Girls Tayla Cox 10:58, Sylvia Allen 11:09, Morgan Day 11:19. Boys Jacob Williams 10:05, Jack Stirling 10:21, William Moulder 10:24.

Year 7 3km; Girls Daisy Ruthe 11:21, Sienna Rowe 11:35, Mia Thomson 11:36. Boys Leo Green 10:48, Antonio Basile 10:54, Ashton Mitford-Burgess 10:54.

PALMERSTON NORTH
Track and Field Winter Series #4, Massey Community Athletics Track – 3 September 2023

Aleksandra Domanski 60m 8.32 +2.6. Tyrone Trego 60m 7.03 +2.8, Lucas Lambert 7.36, Aden Porritt 7.45. Trego 200m 22.83, Porritt 23.23, Lambert 23.48. Amelia Abernethy 1000m 3:13.16. William Larkin 1000m 2:42.66 PB, Bernard Stallard 2:57.80. Jarvis Shaw 3000m 9:58.45.

Scarlett Robb 5000m 18:13.77 PB, Sophie Robb 18:32.98. Ellen Schaef 400m 60.91. Jacob Kilmister 52.63, Justin Cunningham 55.93.

Ana Ellison-Lupena 3kg SP 11.18m, DT 32.59m. Corran Hanning F12 6kg SP 12.90m, DT 33.15m. Hugh McLeod-Jones SP 12,78m, DT 40.65m. Via Norris-Spring HJ 1.55m. Hugo Jones HJ 1.90m. Ana Thomson LJ 5.52m +1.1. Scott Thomson TJ 14.41m +1.5.

CHRISTCHURCH
Lakeside Relay, Lake Roto Kohatu – 2 September 2023

Port Hills team of Louie Howell, Luke Jansen, Brynne Gordon and Kerry Gordon won the 4 x 5km relay in 1:16:03 from New Brighton Olympic 1:19:18 and Don Greig Racing 1:23:55.

Christchurch Avon (Charlotte Chiles, Wendy Richards, Lahana Reeves and Kate Currie) won the senior women relay in 1:24:10.
Master men; Christchurch Avon (John Gamblin, Ben Clark, Rob Holland, Pete Richards) 1:20:32, Sumner 1:25:51, Christchurch Avon 1:27:38.

Master women; Sumner (Fiona Gilroy, Robyn Perkins, Helen Bealey, Jennie Nicholson) 1:33:03, Port Hills 1:44:53.

Boys U16; Christchurch Avon, Selwyn. Girls U16 ; Selwyn, Port Hills, Christchurch Avon.

Fastest 5km legs, Harry Will 16:17, Brynne Gordon 19:01.

TE ANAU
Southland Road Championships, Te Anau Terrace – 26 August 2023

Ben Scott won the senior 10km in 34:57 from Dean Stewart 35:54 and Sagar Khemani 37:29. Dwight Grieve was the fastest overall winning the master men 10km in 33:09 from Craig Iversen 33:30 and Andrew Horton 40:26.

Debbie Telfer MW 6km 27:08. U18 6km Lucas Huia 21:05 and Kimberley Iversen 22:19. U16 4km Hudson Roy 14:07 and Millie McFadzien 14:23. Mahe Braaksma won the boys U14 2km in 7:36 and Cameron Fox the U14 girls in 8:42.

INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

SWITZERLAND
Diamond League, 35th Weltklasse, Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich, 31 August: Zoe Hobbs 100m 11.14 -0.2 (7). Sam Tanner 1500m 3:32.16 (11). Hamish Kerr HJ 2.33m (2) (2.15 o, 2.20 o, 2.24 xo, 2.28 xo, 2.31 xo, 2.33 o, 2.35 xx-, 2.37 x).

GERMANY
Thumer Werfertag, Stadion an der Wiesenstraße, Thum, 1 September: Tom Walsh SP 21.40m (1), (21.31, 21.38, 21.40, 21.00, 21.24, 21.35).

82nd Internationales Stadionfest ISTAF, Berlin, 3 September: Hamish Kerr HJ 2.24m (1) (2.16 xo, 2.24 o).

SWEDEN
NKPG City Norrköping Stadslopp 5km Road Race, Norrköping, 23 August: Tim Robertson 15:19 PB (1).

GREAT BRITAIN
Tom Lintern Open, Crawley, 28 August: Josh Nairne 800m 1:54.74 (1).

Paisley 10km Road Race, Paisley, 20 August: Katherine Camp 35:06 (1).

AUSTRALIA
Australia Cross Country Championships, Stromio Forest, Canberra, 26 August: SW 10km; Caitlin McQuilkin-Bell 36:46 (9). U20 6km; Catherine Lund 21:25 (2), Sofia Lumbreras 22:29 (6), Zara Geddes 22:38 (8), Lulu Johnson 22:48 (10), Bella Earl 23:07 (13), Lucy Jurke 23:17 (17), Kennedy Taylor 23:41 (25). Teams SSNZ (1). U18 4km; Boh Ritchie 14:37 (7). U17 4km; Kate McHardy 14:37 (6), Ava Sutherland 14:44 (10), Amy McHardy 15:10 (19), Kate Currie 15:24 (27). Teams SSNZ (4).

U20 8km; Jamie Mora 25:37 (8), Daniel Sinclair 26:37 (24), Pai Wynyard 26:43 (28), Az Cabusao 27:29 (43). Teams SSNZ (4). U17 6km; Elliott Pugh 18:46 (3), Daniel Prescott 19:04 (6), Max Doherty 19:29 (12), Angus Sevier 19:59 (24), Toby Caro 19:59 (25), Joshua Gordon-Glassford 20:38 (39). Teams SSNZ (2). U16 6km; George Wyllie 19:00 (1), Caleb Wagener 19:06 (2).

ROAD AND TRAIL RACES AROUND THE COUNTRY   

AUCKLAND 
Fox Trot 5km, Viaduct Harbour, 29 August: Greg Darbyshire 16:20, Harry Harris 17:20, Adam Berry 17:24. Alice Adams 20:34, Joanne Wainwright 21:29, Tracy Hill 21:54.

Rat Race 5km, Takapuna, 30 August: Damon Nicholas 18:24, Joel Martin 19:47, Tracy McCartney 19:50.

XTERRA Trail Run, Riverhead Forest, 3 September: 20km; Logan Griffin 1:31:07, James Spence 1:35:14, Matthew Gould 1:37:23. Amelia Lythe 1:49:13, Nikki Hill 1:54:42, Gill Fullen 1:55:23. 17.5km; Tom Mowbray 1:22:36, Mark Paterson 1:31:41, Andrew Battley 1:34:53. Amber Taylor 1:43:00, Gilly Davy 1:44:07, Kat Jordan 1:51:47. 14km; Macs Green 1:08:10, Mac Chamberlin 1:11:01, Andrew Marshall 1:11:31. Denika Clooney 1:15:48, Alyssa Bullot 1:24:18, Rosa Henderson 1:27:50. 7.5km; Ottis Oliver-Chambers 38:09, James Whiteley 38:25, Ricco Korewha 38:47. Biahn Pallister 39:43, Caitlin Hickford 41:31, Angela Hawkes 43:36.

OBITUARY
Prominent Athletics New Zealand official during the 2010’s Kathryn Fraser of Christchurch died on Wednesday 30 August 2023 aged 57 as a result of an E-Scooter accident.

Kathryn was an Oceania area walks judge and was a regular official at Athletics Canterbury and Athletics New Zealand events. She was a walks judge, chief walks judge as well as assistant chief track umpire at New Zealand track and field championships from 2010 to 2021. She was an official at the 2015 Oceania Athletic Championships in Cairns and at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Kathryn was the chair of the Athletics New Zealand Officials Association from 2015 to its dissolution in July 2021. She led the Association through to becoming an Incorporated Society and obtained grant funding to provide accommodation for officials attending national championships. She also organised wet weather jackets for all officials and all-weather folders.

Kathryn attended Timaru Girls’ High School from 1979 to 1983 and was currently Scholarships and Postgraduate Co-ordinator at Ara Institute of Canterbury.

A service to celebrate Kathryn’s life will be held in the Westpark Chapel, 467 Wairakei Road Burnside on Wednesday 6 September at 2pm.