Marshall Hall plots future
Marshall Hall climbed to number four on the all-time New Zealand lists after hurling the discus 60.77m in Auckland last month. Steve Landells speaks to the eight-time New Zealand champion about his journey in the sport and future ambitions.
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Five minutes with Alana Barber
New Zealand 20km race walk record-holder and Rio Olympian Alana Barber raced in Mexico at the weekend, but took time to answer our Five Minutes With…. questions.
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Jennian Homes 2017 NZ Track & Field Champs
What a fantastic weekend at national champs! If you were at Porritt Stadium in Hamilton over the weekend, you would have witnessed a marvellous NZ championships event. If you weren’t there you may have been one of over 6,000 viewers we had watching our live-stream each day. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all the coaches, officials, volunteers and fans who supported the championships. We’ll be back in Hamilton for the 2018 championships – date to be confirmed shortly.
Records and qualifiers for Para athletes
National Championships roundup
Millar upstages Rio medallists on final day
Women to the fore on day 2
Millar blasts to NZ record on day 1
Livestream replay, results and stories at
http://www.athletics.org.nz/NZTF2017
Upcoming NZ Championship Events
This Saturday will see the NZ Mountain Running Champs in Queenstown.
There are currently no championship entries open, but watch out for our next stand-alone championship event, the New Zealand Cross Country Championships in July.
Secondary Schools
Secondary Schools athletes are particularly busy at this stage of the season. Schools have completed their school champs, are now into Zone and Regional champs, followed by the North and South Island Champs in Dunedin and Inglewood. If you’ve qualified for the next stage, congratulations, we hope it goes well – and have a blast!
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Children's Athletics
We’re at the end of the children’s athletics season with Regional champs around the country all finished. Just the Grade 12 & 13 Interprovincial to go at Easter. We hope the thousands of children in athletics clubs have had a wonderful summer, learning new skills, making new friends, having fun and for many, enjoying a new sport. No doubt many kids who did athletics over the summer will benefit from the improved fitness, speed and skills in their winter sports. See you all next summer!
Coaching Corner
Welcome to our newest staff member, Emily Nolan who has just started in the role of Coach Education Manager. Emily will be working in our Community Team in Auckland. You’ll be hearing more from Emily in the future.
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Official Chat
A shout out to the more than 120 graded officials who were involved in the Jennian Homes NZ Track & Field Champs over the weekend. It’s clear that working at the Champs is a highlight for officials and we have many that travel big distances to officiate there. We had 45 officials from the host Centre Waikato Bay of Plenty, 27 from Canterbury, 17 from Auckland, 13 from Wellington and others from Northland, Taranaki, Manawatu Wanganui, Otago and Southland. It’s great to see these experts turned out very smartly and enjoying their work at the championships. THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORTS OFFICIALS!
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High Performance Topics
Rankings
We’ve had 1450 performances added to our Rankings database so far in March, including 869 in Hamilton at the Jennian Homes NZ Track & Field Championships. It’s kept our statistician Steve Hollings very busy but he’s fully up to date. With so many recent performances added, there have been many changes in the rankings for all age grades
Athletics NZ Rankings and Records
Previous issues of AiA
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