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This weekend sees the biggest single track and field event held in New Zealand – The NZ Secondary Schools Track & Field and Road Race Championships. If you are on your way to Hastings for this event, have a great time!

In this issue of Athletics in Action we chat with Annika Pfitzinger, recent winner of the NZ Half Marathon Champs, we talk to young Para athlete Guy Harrison and we catch up with Christchurch hurdler Fiona Morrison for our “Five minutes with …” segment.
There's much more in this issue of Athletics in Action, so keep reading.

 

 

Unlikely road to podium for Harrison

World Para Athletics Junior Championship 800m silver medallist Guy Harrison was one of the quiet success stories of the 2017 season. Steve Landells chats to the Hastings-based middle-distance runner to find out more about his unlikely road to the podium.
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Dame Valerie's domination extends

News through this week that due to a retrospective doping suspension, Dame Valerie Adams' unbeaten streak now stretches to 107 competitions over a period of eight years. She is now the holder of two Olympic titles, four World Championship titles, four World Indoor titles, three Commonwealth Games titles, as well as silver medals from the Olympics, World Champs and Commonwealth Games. This comes as Dame Valerie settles into parenthood and will soon commence training towards her fifth Commonwealth Games. What a champion!

 

Robinson first to be named for Gold Coast 

Paralympic javelin silver medallist Holly Robinson has been named as the first athlete in the New Zealand team to compete in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The 22 year old F46 javelin thrower represented New Zealand at the London 2012 Paralympic Games placing seventh, and the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games where she won the silver medal. 2017 has been another strong year for Robinson who placed second in the F46 javelin at the World Para Athletics World Championships in London with a throw of 42.41m, just below her New Zealand record of 42.68m set earlier in the year.
Read more

 

Rankings

We’ve now hit 79,000 individual performances in our Athlete Rankings Database and we’ll be adding a huge number after this weekend! A reminder that you can only be added into the database if you are a financial member of an affiliated club. The rankings section of our website features athlete profiles, yearly ranking lists, all-time lists and NZ records.
Check out our world-leading rankings database

 

Member Benefits


One of the advantages of belonging to an Athletics NZ affiliated club, and automatically becoming a member of Athletics NZ, is that you and your family can access the Athletics NZ Member Benefits  programme. The programme can save you money on travel, accommodation, rental cars, insurance, sports gear, sports medical products and more, just by being a member of your local athletics club. We feature some of our Member Benefits Partners below.
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Bene Sports Medical


Bene Sports Medical Ltd are proud to have been appointed the New Zealand Distributor for world renowned ZAMST Sports Medical supports and braces range. Zamst Braces aim to keep you performing at your peak by addressing individual sporting injuries. Whether it is for prevention or rehab, there is a Zamst brace for most common running and athletic injuries – check out the range by visiting our website and remember that Athletics NZ members get a 10% discount if they use the coupon code ATHNZ16 at  www.benesportsmedical.co.nz


To show their commitment to athletics, Sports Distributors are offering all Athletics New Zealand members 15% OFF selected athletics gear! Simply insert the promo code: ATHNZ15  when you are checking out. 
Get the good pricing here


The latest to join our member benefits is Go Native. They are a New Zealand owned company making delicious, all natural, slow release energy snacks and multi-day expedition food packs for active people. Multiple World Champion athletes eat Go Native Fruit Bars and Bites as they are excellent low GI 33-42 easily digestible and delicious training and pre competition snacks. 
Go Native is offering Athletics New Zealand supporters a generous 15% off their Go Native Mango and Apple Fruit Bites Pack of 15 and donating $2 from the sale of every 15 pack sold to the continuing development of athletics in New Zealand. Available from now until the end of January 2018 for NZ residents. 

 

Where to find what you need

We have a lot of information for members and fans, it can sometimes seem a little daunting to locate what you want on our website, so here are some quick links:

 

What's next?

December 2017
1         NZ Secondary School Champs  Hastings

January 2018
5-7     North Island Colgate Games      Auckland
6        Lovelock Classic                        Timaru
12-14 South Island Colgate Games     Timaru
17      Jumps 2 Music                           Hawera
19      Capital Classic & CG Trials        Wellington
20-27 Oceania Masters Champs          Dunedin
23      Cooks Classic & CG Trials         Whanganui
27      Potts Classic & CG Trials           Hastings

February 2018
10      Porritt Classic                              Hamilton
24      NZ 10,000m Champs                  Inglewood
24-25  NZ Combined Events Champs   Wanganui
 

 

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Pfitzinger rises to challenge for first senior title

Annika Pfitzinger claimed her maiden national senior title in Kerikeri earlier this month. Steve Landells talks to the recently minted NZ Half-Marathon champion about her journey to the title and living as the daughter to a pair of very special athletes.
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Five minutes with
Fiona Morrison

Five-time New Zealand 100m hurdles champion Fiona Morrison boasts a proud domestic record. Find out more about the 29-year-old Cantabrian as she answers our Five Minutes With questions...
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NZ Half Marathon Champs

Kerikeri was the venue for the 2017 NZ Half Marathon Championships, hosted by the ASB Kerikeri Half Marathon in the beautiful Bay of Islands. The weather didn’t quite promote the “winterless north”, but the racing certainly was hot!
Find out what happened

 

NZ Sec Schools Champs


This weekend!  The NZ Secondary Schools Champs in Hastings 1-3 December will be a fantastic meeting to be at. If you are heading to Hastings as a competitor, enthusiastic parent supporter, coach, team manager or official, good luck from all of us at Athletics NZ. We'll be hosting a livestream from Hastings on our facebook and there'll be live results available on Web and App.
Here's our preview
Start lists
Find out more

 

Colgate Games


The iconic North and South Island Colgate Games are coming up in early 2018 - Auckland (5-7 Jan) and Timaru (12-14 Jan). These events for children from Grade 7 to Grade 14 are a lot of fun and well worth considering for a family holiday. Entries can only be done through your club and close with organisers today, so if you haven’t been in contact with your club to enter, this is now very urgent.
Find out more

 

Rotorua Marathon Discount


If you're thinking about running New Zealand's iconic Rotorua Marathon on 5 May 2018, we've got a special for Athletics NZ members. If you are a member of an affiliated Athletics NZ club, you can get $30 off the early bird price, but the special price closes tonight. Combined with the earlybird special, which also ends tonight, entering today will be $40 cheaper than if you enter tomorrow! 
Get in now to save!

 

2018 Oceania Masters T&F Championships

Dunedin is hosting the 2018 Oceania Masters Athletics Championships (20 - 27 January) featuring hundreds of athletes from all over the Pacific. Entries close at the end of next week (8 December), so if you don't want to miss out on this fantastic week of international masters athletics, get your entries in soon. There are three non-stadia events (road walk, cross country and half marathon) as well as a full programme of track & field events. It's open to all Athletics NZ and NZMA competitive members.
Find out more

 

Weekly results roundup 

If you are new to the sport, you may not be aware of our weekly results service called the Weekly Roundup. Every Monday we send out an email to subscribers with highlights from the last seven days around NZ venues and looking at Kiwis competing overseas. If you would like to subscribe to this weekly service, head to the Athletics NZ website and subscribe on the bar at the bottom of the front page.

 

High Performance Topics

We’re rolling out nomination and selection information for upcoming international events so keep an eye on the 2018 Competitions page

Recent updates
2018 World Indoor and World Junior Championships
2018 Australian Junior Championships
2017 Oceania Area Half Marathon Champs  
2018 Gold Coast nomination criteria updated  

You can check out all the latest updates from our High Performance team HERE.

 

Drug Free Sport NZ at NZ Sec Schools Champs

Going to NZ Secondary Schools T&F Champs in Hastings this weekend? Drug Free Sport NZ will have an education station on site to answer all of your questions about clean sport. If any students are looking to advance their athletics career into the high performance space, anti-doping education is essential and this is a perfect place to start learning!  Drop in and check out what you should know!

 

California Tour 2018

California beckons for New Zealand athletes looking for top performances and memories that will last a lifetime. 
The eighth California Track & Field Tour promises to be the best yet with meets over three weekends from April 3-23 in Southern and Central California.  
Greg Lautenslager, the tour’s coach and manager, knows his way around California. He competed and coached throughout California before moving to Nelson in 2002. 
Find out more

 

Official Chat

Important for Athletes, Coaches and Officials:
The IAAF have updated a number of rules that came into effect from 1 November 2017. The important ones relate to starting blocks, times for field event attempts, the start, relay races and throwing events
Check out the latest rules updates

Applications to officiate at major events are open for many events including Colgate Games and NZ Track & Field Champs.
Register to officiate now  

Copies of The Referee and IAAF Combined Events Scoring Tables are available.
Head to our Online Shop

 

Coaching Corner

Most of our Athletics NZ High Performance Coaches will be at the NZ Secondary School Championships in Hastings this weekend. If you have any questions about the athletics coaching system in New Zealand have a chat to them. They’ll be wearing Athletics NZ shirts and can usually be found at the rail around the outside of the track.

If you are going to be involved in coaching in any capacity this summer from helping out at your local club to coaching Olympians, check out the coaching information and resources on our website

You’ll also benefit from an Athletics NZ Coach Membership. Athletics NZ Coach Memberships for the 2017/18 season are now available, so take the most of the support Athletics NZ offers by  Renewing Your Membership   or  Joining Online now!

If you are starting out in coaching we have some special online modules available just for you.

 

Are you up to date?

We want to keep all our members and fans right up to date with all the important news and happenings in the sport. Check out the latest offerings:
   Weekly Roundup (new)
   Club Chat Newsletter
   Official Focus Newsletter
   Athletics NZ website (updated)
   Athletics NZ High Performance (updated)
   Athletics NZ Rankings & Records (updated)
 

 
 
  
 
 

 

  

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