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New Zealand Track and Field Championships, Newtown Park – 2/5 March 2023

Sprinting sensation Zoe Hobbs highlighted the 124th New Zealand championships with a New Zealand Allcomers, Resident, National and an Oceania 100m record of 11.07 +1.8.

This was achieved in the heats and clipped a hundredth of a second off her National and Oceania record set at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene and reduced her Allcomers and Resident record of 11.15 set in Hastings in February last year.

In the final, Hobbs sped to the fastest ever time recorded by a woman in New Zealand, a wind assisted 10.89 clocking. The following wind was 3.4mps. The previous fastest was also wind assisted, Jamaican Merlene Ottey’s final at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games timed at 11.02 +4.4.

Hobbs said she was a little surprised to run so quickly coming off the back of an injury.

“I had a little interruption, so I didn’t expect to open the season that well, but there have been indicators in training. It was just a matter of putting it together in a race. To actually go out and run so well was awesome,” she said.

“The performance in the heats gave me a boost of confidence and I thought I was capable because I finished that race just wanting to close the race down. I was running loose, so I knew I had a bit more to give in the final, I knew there was the capability for more.

“To get the entry standard for World Championships does lift the weight of my shoulders and give me a little more freedom to enjoy running.”

Rosie Elliott followed up her second to Hobbs in the 100m in 11.36 with a scintillating run in the 400m final. Chased by Portia Bing in the home straight she collected the gold in 52.39, just outside her best of 52.16 at the Cooks Classic in January. In successfully defending her title, Elliott said that she went out hard in an attempt at the long standing national record of 51.60.

“We were trying something new in this race, to go out hard and in a PB time for the 300m. I think I did that, but I really felt in the last 40metre or 50 metres. I could hear Portia coming, she is scary woman. Portia is the record holder in the 400m hurdles, so should I have finished second to her it would not be something to be disgruntled about.

“I wasn’t sure I would make it to the line. There was a moment I blinked, and I didn’t think I’d be able to open my eyes open again. I was still shooting for that sub-52 second time and New Zealand record time, but once I’ve gathered my thoughts, I will have learned a lot from today.”

Bing had earlier in the championships collected her sixth straight 400m hurdles title in 57.12.

Georgia Hulls made it three wins in a row in the women’s 200m.

Lex Revell-Lewis dug deep to hold out Fergus McLeay in the final of the 400m. The 19-year-old was just outside his best of 47.49 in winning in 47.68.

“It was pretty amazing I had John (defending champion John Gerber) in lane eight. He went out hard and I just followed him and I tried to beat him to the 300m, but he beat me, but I felt good.

“I found an extra little gear down the home straight and I managed to hold them off,” he said.

Joshua Hawkins collected his eighth 110m hurdles title with a bonus improving his New Zealand resident record by four hundredths of a second to 13.94 -0.3.

Hawkins said that he was happy with it, running his first legal sub-14 second time in four years.

“There was a little bit of a headwind at the start, so I thought if you can’t work to the conditions being perfect just go out and run hard and if it’s a bad time we know why it’s a headwind and if it is a good time you get that by trying,” he said. “I didn’t hit one hurdle which is a good sign as well.”

Jacko Gill scored a notable victory over Tom Walsh in the shot put. After winning the silver on five occasions to Walsh, the former national U20 champion finally struck gold with a throw of 21.80m.

This was just 10cm shy of his PB silver medal at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Gill led throughout with his series of 21.27m, 21.44m, 21.75m, 21.80m, x, 21.33m. Walsh’s best came in round two with 21.25m for the silver medal and Nick Palmer with 18.48m was third.

Gill said winning his first senior title was right up there.

“It feels amazing. It is very fresh but I’m just stoked to do it. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs over the past 15 years and there has been a lot of nationals when I have come second or been out through injury.

“I’m just happy to beat Tom. I have a lot of respect for him, and I’m honoured to beat him.”

Athletics Tauranga club athletes had a successful championship with Sam Tanner winning the 1500m title, Julian Oakley snaring the 5000m crown and Michael Sutton the 3000m steeplechase.

Laura Nagel was all class retaining the 1500m, in a PB 4:13.25, and 5000m titles.

On completing the ‘double double’ Nagel said: “I’m very satisfied and a little relieved it is done. Having three races in four day I feel like a bit nervous everyday bar the Friday. I’m very happy because last year I never thought I’d win one 1500m title, let alone two.”

Katherine Camp was third in the 5000m and also sixth in the 1500m and eighth in the 800m which was won by Alison Andrews-Paul. It was title number three for James Preston in the 800m just holding off eight times champion Brad Mathas.

Eliza McCartney, three times champion 2015 to 2017, won the pole vault on a countback from Olivia McTaggart both clearing 4.61m.

McCartney said it was really exciting to be able to compete at nationals again.

“It is amazing to be out of action for years and to come back and be up against such high-class athletes in what is a niche sport here in New Zealand. We can really push each other. We have a great camaraderie and a friendly, healthy rivalry. It helps to have that energy,” she said.

McTaggart was delighted to be involved in a top quality pole vault competition.

“It was incredible, we’ve been wanting a competition like this all season, and it happened to be at nationals when it all came together. I am so excited for the next few competitions. There is great camaraderie between us where we genuinely wanted each other to jump well. I love it so much.”

Tori Peeters was out to 60.60m to win her seventh javelin title. Laura Langley won the 3000m and 10,000m race walks. Anna Thomson made it title number six in the triple jump and Anthony Nobilo chalked up title number five in the hammer throw.

Imogen Barlow lived up to her race number 111, convincingly winning three U16 titles, the 800m in 2:14.23 PB, the 1500m in 4:37.64 and the 3000m in 10:43.44.

Karmen Maritz won the U16 shot put and discus throw, Paige Fletcher first in the hammer, second in the discus and third in the shot put.

Noa King completed the 200m and 400m U16 double and placed second in the 100m, Ben Oxford took out the 1500m/3000m double, Rico Poutama an impressive treble in the 100m hurdles, shot put and high jump.

Talia Van Rooyen won the U18 100m and 100m hurdles, Sophie Hancock struck gold in the 300m hurdles, triple jump and silver in the long jump.

Rylan Noome secured the U18 100m and 200m double, James Trathen enjoyed a memorable few days in Wellington with 800m gold and 400m silver. Alfie Steedman plundered the 1500m/3000m double.

Addira Collette captured the U20 100m title and won silver in the 200m, twin sister Chayille Collette has to settle for silver in the 100m but took gold in the 200m in 22.73 – a new national U18 and U19 record. Emma Ferguson completed the 800m-1500m double, meanwhile there were also U20 doubles for Grace Wisnewski 100m/300m hurdles and Natalia Rankin-Chitar shot put/discus.

In the men’s U20 division James Ford completed the 400m/800m double with Angus Lyver taking out the 200m and long jump titles.

Paralympic champion Lisa Adams won the women’s Para shot put with a season’s best 15.19m. The 32-year-old Waikato Bay of Plenty athlete opened up with an outstanding 15.16 – within 34cm of her world record shot put F37 mark. In the following round she popped out her best for the day of 15.19m – 98% within the world record.

Una Kinajil-Reding (Canterbury) bettered her U17 national F45 record with a best throw of 7.98m.

Paralympic long jump T36 silver medallist Will Stedman claimed the gold medal in the men’s Para long jump with a best of 5.28m – which he registered twice in rounds two and three – within 89.04% of the world record. Yet the happiest athlete was silver medallist Jaxon Woolley who enjoyed an early birthday present by advanced his previous PB by 32cm in one competition to set an U17, U20 and senior national T38 record of 4.85m (0.9) for silver (66.35%). Woolley celebrated his 17^th birthday on the final day of the championships.

Double Paralympic medallist Danielle Aitchison blitzed to within 0.10 of her women’s national 100m T36 record mark as she struck gold in the women’s Para 100m final. Stopping the clock in 13.95 she claimed a percentage score of 97.56 within the world record to claim top spot ahead of Paralympian Anna Steven who clocked 14.15 (89.41%) to win the silver medal.

Mitch Joynt T64 edged a tight men’s Para 100m with a slick 11.94 (88.86%) to shade Joe Smith T37 (88.52%), who clocked a time of 12.37 – aided by a wind speed just over the allowable limit of 2.1m/s.

Paddy Walsh was in record-breaking form in the women’s Para long jump, adding 18cm to her national record long jump T64 with a best of 4.17m (0.9).

National records came with the one-two in the men’s 200m – Will Stedman T36 and Mitch Joynt T64 both smashing national senior records (Joynt also secured the Oceania record) with a pair of hugely impressive performances. Stedman, the four-time Paralympic medallist, crossed the line second, clocking 25.20 (0.3) to trim 0.12 from the previous New Zealand record of Keegan Pitcher, and struck gold with a 95.60% of world record.

Joynt flashed across the line in 23.36 to carve 0.20 from his previous national record and claim silver (91.05%) in a B qualifier for the World Para Athletics Championships.

The women’s para discus provided an additional workload for the statisticians as Milly Marshall Kirkwood added more than a metre on to her national discus F57 U20 and senior record with an impressive throw of 16.53m.

Josh Taylor posted a national F20 javelin record of 16.77m, Jack Adams a new national shot put F46 of 9.95m and Rorie Poff added 2cm to his New Zealand F34 shot record of 7.28m.

Senior results:

Men

100m: Tiaan Whelpton (Canterbury) 10.13s 1, Dhruv Rodrigues Chico (Auckland City Athletics) 10.31s 2, James Guthrie Croft (Papatoetoe) 10.57s 3.

200m: Rodrigues Chico 21.10s 1, Hamish Gill (Auckland) 21.27s 2, Tommy Te Puni (Auckland) 21.45s 3.

400m: Lex Revell-Lewis (Auckland) 47.68s 1, Fergus McLeay (Otago) 48.11s PB 2, Troy Middleton (Auckland) 48.22s PB 3.

800m: James Preston (Wellington) 1m 49.80s 1, Brad Mathas (Manawatu Whanganui) 1m 49.88s 2, Dominic Devlin (Auckland) 1m 50.79s 3.

1500m: Sam Tanner (WaikBoP) 3m 53.03s 1, Eric Speakman (HBG) 3m 54.05s 2, Russell Green (Canterbury) 3m 54.13s 3.

5000m: Julian Oakley (Waikato Bay of Plenty) 13m 52.32s 1, Eric Speakman (Hawke’s Bay Gisborne) 14m 2.23s 2, Connor Melton (Canterbury) 14m 10.11s PB 3.

110m hurdles: Josh Hawkins (Auckland) 13.94s (NZ resident record) 1, Masaki Tomooka (Canterbury) 15.37s 2, Max Attwell (Canterbury) 15.70s 3.

400m hurdles: Jonathan Maples (Manawau Whanganui) 54.05s PB 1, Cameron Moffitt (Otago) 56.08s PB 2, Louis Andrews (Canterbury) 58.29s 3.

3000m steeplechase: Michael Sutton (WaikBoP) 9m 17.92s PB 1, Matthew Arnold (Auckland) 9m 21.54s PB 2, Darian Sorouri (HBG) 9m 23.24s PB 3.

3000m race walk: David Smyth (Australia) 17m 1.94s 1.

10,000m race walk: Lucas Martin (Manawatu Whanganui) 46m 10.02s 1.

Shot put: Jacko Gill (Auckland ) 21.80m 1, Tom Walsh (Canterbury 21.25m 2, Nick Palmer (Hawkes Bay Gisborne) 18.48m 3.

Discus throw: Connor Bell (Auckland) 61.33m 1, Kieran Fowler (Otago) 50.79m 2, Jade Zaia (Wellington) 49.36m 3.

Hammer throw: Anthony Nobilo (Auckland) 66.95m 1, Todd Bates (Otago) 56.14m 2, Arno van der Westhuizen (Auckland) 51.53m 3.

Javelin throw: Douw Botes (Auckland) 63.62m 1, Jared Neighbours (Canterbury) 60.64m 2, Anton Schroder (Otago) 59.37m 3.

Long jump: Shay Veitch (Otago) 7.65m 1, Felix McDonald (Otago) 7.47m 2, Lewis Arthur (Auckland) 7.23m 3.

Triple jump: Ebuka Okpala (Auckland) 15.39m 1, Scott Thomson (Auckland) 14.49m 2, Ethan Gow (Canterbury) 13.54m 3.

High jump: Hamish Kerr (Canterbury) 2.20m 1, Adam Stack (Canterbury) 2.07m 2, Mate Poduje (Otago) 2.03m 3.

Pole vault: James Steyn (Auckland) 5.26m 1, Nick Southgate (Auckland) 5.11m 2, Attwell 4.81m PB 3.

4 x 100m relay: Otago (Fergus McLeay, Jackson Rogers, John Gerber, Shay Veitch) 40.74s 1, Manawatu Whanganui 42.16s 2, Canterbury 42.31s 3.

4 x 400m relay: Otago (McLeay, Felix McDonald, Rogers, Gerber) 3m 14.16s 1, Wellington 3m 15.06s 2, Canterbury 3m 16.33s 3.

Women
100m: Zoe Hobbs (Auckland) 10.89s 1, Rosie Elliott (Canterbury) 11.36s 2, Veronica Shanti Pereira (Singapore) 11.44s 3, Brooke Somerfield (WaikBoP) 11.51s 4.

200m: Georgia Hulls (HBG) 23.89s 1, Somerfield 24.12s 2, Tamsin Harvey (Wellington) 24.64s 3.

400m: Rosie Elliott (Canterbury) 52.39s 1, Portia Bing (Auckland) 53.09s 2, Stella Pearless (Auckland) 55.32s PB 3.

800m: Alison Andrews-Paul (Wellington) 2m 5.01s 1, Jennifer Hauke (Auckland) 2m 6.32s 2, Holly Manning (HBG) 2m 6.87s 3.

1500m: Laura Nagel (NHB) 4m 13.25s PB 1, Rebekah Greene (Otago) 4m 16.23s 2, Anneke Grogan (Auckland) 4m 21.81s 3.

5000m: Nagel 16m 40.33s 1, Anneke Grogan (Auckland) 16m 43.68s 2, Katherine Camp (Canterbury) 16m 48.25s 3.

100m hurdles: Anna Percy (Canterbury) 13.57s PB 1, Alessandra Macdonald (WaikBoP) 14.26s 2, Celine Pearn (Auckland) 14.31s 3.

400m hurdles: Bing 57.12s 1, Loan Ville (France) 58.76s 2, Alessandra Macdonald (WaikBoP) 1:03.32 3, Hereiti Bernadino (Tahiti) 1m 4.94s 4, Sophie Adams (Auckland) 1m 6.65s 3.

3000m steeplechase: Grogan 10m 40.12s 1, Saraya Lindsay (NHB) 11m 41.76s 2, Laura Smidt (Tasman) 12m 45.56s 3.

3000m race walk: Laura Langley (HBG) 13m 56.94s 1.
10,000m race walk: Laura Langley (HBG) 50m 9.08s 1, Courtney Ruske (Canterbury) 52m 18.87s 2.

Shot put: Maddison Wesche (Auckland) 19.13m 1, Natalia Rankin-Chitar (Auckland) 14.93m 2, Ata Maama Tuufafaiva (Tonga) 14.80m 3, Lexi Maples (Canterbury) 12.34m 4.

Discus throw: Tatiana Kaumoana (WaikBoP) 54.69m 1, Savannah Scheen (Auckland) 52.96m 2, Natalia Rankin-Chitar (Auckland) 48.90m 3.

Hammer throw: Lauren Bruce (Canterbury) 67.83m 1, Lexi Maples (Canterbury) 59.81m PB 2, Dyani Shepherd-Oates (Otago) 54.03m 3.

Javelin throw: Tori Peeters (WaikBoP) 60.60m 1, Abbey Moody (Canterbury) 45.19m 2, Leala Willman (Auckland) 36.70m 3.

Long jump: Mariah Ririnui (WaikBoP) 6.08m 1, Kelsey Berryman (Canterbury) 6.00m 2, Hannah Sandilands (Canterbury) 5.94m 3.

Triple jump: Anna Thomson (Wellington) 12.62m 1, Alessandra Macdonald (WaikBoP) 11.63m 2, Hannah Collins (Canterbury) 11.51m 3.

High jump: Alice Taylor (WaikBoP) 1.87m PB 1, Maddie Wilson (Canterbury) 1.84m PB 2, Imogen Skelton (Auckland) 1.76m 3.

Pole vault: Eliza McCartney (Auckland) 4.61m 1, Olivia McTaggart (Auckland) 4.61m 2, Imogen Ayris (Auckland) 4.46m 3.

4 x 100m relay: Auckland (Sophie Adams, Symone Tafunai, Georgia Whiteman, Elena Edgar-Nemec) 49.71s 1.

4 x 400m relay: Auckland (Mia Powell, Stella Pearless, Lucy Shennan, Jennifer Hauke) 3m 48.57s 1, Canterbury 3m 50.36s 2, Hawkes Bay Gisborne 3m 52.79s 3.

Para Athlete

Men: 100m: Mitch Joynt (Auckland) 11.94s 1, Joe Smith (Auckland) 12.37s 2, Joshua Taylor (Wellington) 13.93s 3. U20: Jaxon Woolley (WaikBoP) 12.97s 1, Tamahae Wirepa (HBG) 13.28s 2, Zachary Orbell (Auckland) 14.30s 3. 200m: Stedman 25.20s 1, Joynt 23.36s 2, Smith 25.96s 3. U20 Woolley 25.98s 1, Jaden Movold (Auckland) 30.94s 2, Tamahae Wirepa (HBG) 28.33s 400m: William Stedman (Canterbury) 54.56s 1, Taylor 1m 4.27s 2, Jaden Movold (Auckland) 1:02.11 3. 800m wheelchair: Movold 2m 17.99s 1, 1500m: Movold 4m 6.68s 1. Long jump: Stedman 5.28m 1, Woolley 4.85m 2, Wirepa 4.15m 3, Discus throw: Corran Hanning (Wellington) 37.20m 1, Zack Lappin (Canterbury) 32.19m 2, Caelan Harris (WaikBoP) 18.34m 3. Shot put: Hanning 13.09m 1. Seated shot put: Rorie Poff (Canterbury) 7.28m 1.

Women: 100m: Danielle Aitchison (WaikBoP) 13.95s 1, Anna Steven (Auckland) 14.16s 2, Sarah James (Canterbury) 20.40s 3. U20: Paddy Walsh (Auckland) 15.18s 1, Sionann Murphy (Auckland) 16.28s 2, Gabrielle Wright (Auckland) 21.06s 3. 200m: Aitchison 29.46s 1, Steven 29.99s 2, James 37.81s 3. 400m: Sasha Al Dazhani (Taranaki) 1m 19.48s 1, James 1m 19.37s 2, Gabrielle Wright (Auckland) 1m 19.14s 3. 800m wheelchair: Sarah James (Canterbury) 2m 57.24s 1, Gabrielle Wright (Auckland) 3m 2.59s 2. 1500m: James 5m 50.87s 1.

Long jump: Walsh 4.17m 1, Charli Gardiner-Hall (Auckland) 2.59m 2. 1500m Gardiner-Hall 7m 57.04s 1. Javelin throw: Una Kinajil-Reding (Canterbury) 15.15m 1. Shot put seated Milly Marshall Kirkwood (Taranaki) 4.86m 1, seated discus throw 16.53m. Shot put: Lisa Adams (WaikBoP) 15.19m 1, Kinajil-Reding 7.98m 2, Caitlin Dore (Canterbury) 8.70m 3. Discus throw; Sionann Murphy 22.41m.

INTERNATIONAL RESULTS
USA INDOORS
Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletics Association Championships, Pittsburg KS, 25 February: Kayla Goodwin LJ 5.90m PB (1), pentathlon 3943 points (1) (60m H 8.80, HJ 1.66m PB, SP 11.09m, LJ 5.81m, 800m 2:22.35). 26 February: Kayla Goodwin TJ 12.63m (2).
Ivy League Heptagonal, Dartmouth-Leverone FH, Hanover NH, 25 February: Maia Ramsden 1000m 2:52.41 (1H2), mile 4:50.27 (1H1). Penelope Salmon 3000m 9:32.87 (2). 26 February: Maia Ramsden 1000m 2:44.96 (1), mile 4:44.89 (1).
Atlantic 10, Rhode Island Mackal FH, Kingston RI, 25 February: Chris Devaney 5000m 14:15.04 (2), Taonga Mbambo 14:32.30 (10). 26 February: Chris Devaney 3000m 8:11.16 (2), MacCallum Rowe 8:19.93 (4), Andres Hernandez 8:30.50 (2RB).
Summit Championships, Vermillion SD, 25 February: Hinewai Knowles 60m H 8.75 (5H1). 26 February: Hinewai Knowles 60m H 8.72 (8).

Missouri Valley Conference, Gately Complex, Chicago IL, 26 February: Anthony Barmes WT 20.26m (2). Centaine Noom-Duckworth WT 17.54m (8).

IC4A/Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, Boston University Track & Tennis Centre, Boston MA, 4 March: Zane Powell 1000m 2:25.51 (1H1). Kimberley May 1000m 2:45.18 PB NZ U20 record (1H2). Angus White mile 4:05.71 (1H1). Tessa Hunt mile 4:53.08 (3H3). 5 March: Zane Powell 1000m 2:23.15 PB (1). Kimberley May 1000m 2:42.78 PB Meet Record, NZ U20 record breaks Rebekah Greene’s record of 2:45.99 set in Sydney in 2010. Angus White mile 4:03.89 (2). Tessa Hunt mile 4:52.74 (8). Liam Back 3000m 8:03.93 (5).

USA OUTDOORS
Longhorn Invitational, Austin TX, 4 March: Macey Hilton 1500m 4:28.80 PB (1).

Fresh 15km Road Race, Tyler TX, 4 March: Craig Lautenslager 45:09 PB, by two minutes (6).

JAPAN
Tokyo Marathon, 5 March: Olivia Witney 2:40:01 PB, by 13 minutes (21).

ITALY
RomaOstia Half Marathon, Rome, 5 March: Cecilia Flori 1:22:14 PB (15).

AUSTRALIA
NSW Championships, Sydney, 5 March: Caitlin Shepperson HT 45.57m PB (7).

ROAD AND TRAIL RACES AROUND THE COUNTRY                                                                                                                      

AUCKLAND 

Fox Trot 5km, Viaduct Harbour, 28 February: Nick Moore 16:12, Naoki Toyomura 16:39, Simon Mace 17:03. Tia Knight 19:15, Sjanne Meinders 20:02, Sophie Hogan 20:30.

Rat Race 5km, Takapuna, 1 March: Anna Bramley 17:30, Sam Mayhew 18:12, Andrew Harvey 19:06.

YMCA 10km, Auckland Domain, 2 March: Anton Roche 39:50, Daniel Yep 41:35, Michael Tucker 43:44. 5km; Louis Wright 18:18.

Round the Bays 8.4km, 5 March: Jacob Priddey 24:48, Ronan Lee 24:59, Jack Moody 25:07, Cameron Graves 25:12, Luke Cotter 26:39, Mark Boyce 26:56. Clara Lachurie 30:36, Karen Donaldson 30:38, Katie Evans 31:14, Alannah Van Hout 31:34, Maiya Christini 31:44, Jasmine Finney 32:44.

WELLINGTON
Kapiti 5km Series, Raumati, 27 February: Dave Chandler 20:10, Dan Headifen 20:19, Luke Anderson 21:56. Roasalie Hanna 22:56, Angela Charlton 23:31.

Waterfront 5km Series, 28 February: Ben Twyman 16:12, Magnus Monahan 17:10, Josh Dunston-Brown 17:10. Emily Solsberg 20:26, Emma Bassett 20:38, Kasey Mackinnon 21:38.

Trentham 5km Series, 28 February: Tom Strawbridge 15:40, Daniel Du Toit 15:43, Brian Garmonsway 15:54. Sarah Tobin 22:29, Belinda Walker 23:24, Madison Wos 23:47.

NELSON
Honest Lawyer 5km Series, Monaco, 27 February: Tony Phillips 17:43, Rory Dadds 18:39, Mike Beever 19:45. Catherine Delaporte 21:08, Chloe Quilliam 22:50, Anna Scarth 25:46.