What makes Lucy Sheat so speedy?

Star turn at the recent New Zealand Secondary Schools Championships, Lucy Sheat tells Steve Landells how parental support, coaching acumen and a bout in the boxing gym have all played a part in her rise to the top.
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Five minutes with
Imogen Ayris

Gifted teenage pole vaulter Imogen Ayris is another athlete out of the exciting stable of athletes coached by Jeremy McColl. Here the New Zealand Secondary Schools silver medallist and 4.05m vaulter answers our Five Minutes With questions.
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NZ Sec Schools Champs

What a weekend in Hastings!  Fabulous weather, great competition, 12 new championship records, two Athletics NZ records, friendships renewed and new ones made. If you want to catch up on the videos from the weekend, head to the Athletics NZ Facebook page.
Read about the highlights:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Final wrap
Full Results

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 $15 off the entry fee.
Enter now!

Rankings

We’ve now hit 80,000 individual performances in our Athlete Rankings after the NZ Secondary Schools! That’s a huge number of performances to be added individually by our statistician Steve Hollings over the years. A reminder that athletes can only be added into the database if they are financial members of an affiliated club. The rankings section of our website features athlete profiles, yearly ranking lists, all-time lists and NZ records.
What do our rankings look like after the Schools Champs

2018 HP funding announced 

Athletics New Zealand is one of the sports to benefit in the recent announcement from High Performance Sport NZ regarding High Performance funding for the next twelve months, with its annual funding increased by $150,000 to $2,750,000 for 2018, and $500,000 confirmed for the Para athletics programme.
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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
Australian Championships 2018
2018 Australian Junior Champs Online Entry
2018 Australian Senior Champs Online Entry
2018 IAAF World Race Walking Teams policy
2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Champs policy
2018 World Indoor and World Junior Champs

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

Drug Free Sport NZ update

We hope you made time to chat to the Drug Free Sport NZ (DFSNZ) team at the NZ Secondary School Champs. They looked very busy on the final day of the champs.
The WADA 2018 Prohibited List has been released and there are a number of changes that athletes need to be aware of, including the increase in Intravenous (IV) Infusion limits and the removal of Cannabidiol from the list. The more athletes know, the better they can manage the risk of a positive test. Athletes should take the time to read through this short list DFSNZ has put together, highlighting some of the top 2018 Prohibited List changes and prohibited substances that impact athletes.

Official Chat

Important for Athletes, Coaches and Officials:
Rule 180.17 Time Allowed for Trials.
The recent IAAF rule amendments include changes to the time allowed for trials in field events. This has caused some confusion, so to clarify, the time for all events other than Pole Vault is now 30 seconds while more than three athletes remain for vertical jumps.
The time commences when the official indicates the site is ready for the athlete, generally by calling the athlete’s name. Once 15 seconds has elapsed a yellow flag is raised and held up until the full 30 seconds has been reached. At this point if the athlete has commenced their attempt it should not be disallowed. If they have not, then the red flag will be raised.
It is important that the athlete is prepared prior to their name being called and is ready to quickly move to the start position. It has been noted that many athletes are using 12 to 15 seconds to get into the circle, so half of their time has expired before even positioning themselves. The official has no provision to extend this time to allow for this, but needs to ensure all is clear when calling events where part of the track is used for High Jump and Javelin.
For further clarification about this rule, please contact our Officials Development Manager
Check out the other latest rules updates

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