Athletics New Zealand Media Release - Weekly Roundup

AUCKLAND
New Zealand junior 100m champion Isaac Tatoa started the athletic season in startling form winning the 60m and 100m at the opening meeting at Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday.
Racing into a slight head wind Tatoa powered his way to a 10.73s (-1.3) clocking in the 100m beating national M16 record holder Joseph Millar of Tauranga who recorded 11.04s.
Earlier Tatoa had headed in Millar over 60m in 6.85s to Millar’s 7.12s. Tatoa was just outside his Auckland M19 record of 6.84s.
Millar, the New Zealand M16 100m champion went on to win the 200m in 22.30s (+0.9).
Rachel Peeters, second in the national W19 200m, won the 100m in 12.54s while Livvy Wilson, runner up in the national W16 200m, won the 200m in 24.87s.
Getting away to a clean start in the sprints has become much more tense with the new IAAF rule coming into force in that anyone who breaks is disqualified. Previously only the second runner to commit a false start in any race was expelled regardless of who caused the first one. National W16 400m champion Katrina Anderson became the first athlete in Auckland to be disqualified under the new rule being excluded after breaking in the W19 100m.
National junior road champion Jono Jackson won the 3000m in 8m 43.06s, five seconds ahead of Tadele Tekle-Haimanot.
In the field events Ana Po’uhila threw the hammer out to 50.27m and Portia Bing cleared 5.42m (+3.0) in the long jump. Former Taranaki athlete Tom Ingram, now competing for Takapuna, had an impressive early season throw of 55.62m in the M19 hammer.

ROTORUA
Rees Buck of Wellington won the Xterra 21km trail challenge, which incorporated the New Zealand trail running championship, in Rotorua on Saturday.
The New Zealand cross country representative won in 1h 22m 2s beating the Tauranga running twins of Iain and Kyle MacDonald.
Buck said that he paced himself over the first half.
“The MacDonald boys and Steve O’Callaghan took off at the start, I didn’t know the course very well so I sat in till I thought we had made it to the top of the major climbs, then I opened up a bit and picked up the pace over the last couple of kilometres,” he said.
Jessica Ruthe of Tauranga beat defending champion Ady Ngawati of Whangarei for the women’s title in 1h 32m 40s.

HASTINGS
New Zealand Long Distance Road Walking Championships
Quentin Rew added the New Zealand 50km road walking to the 10km title after an almost solo performance in Hastings on Sunday.
Rew recorded 4h 52m 55s, with the only other finisher defending champion David Sim crossing the finish just a tick over six hours.
Matthew Holcroft retained his M16 10km title in 55m 49s, four and half minutes faster than his winning time last year.
Alana Barber added the senior women’s 15km title to the 10km won in Dunedin last month.
Marlene White set a New Zealand 60-64 20km record of 2h 14m 15s, beating record holder Shirley Barber by seven minutes.
Results:
Men.-
Senior 50km: Quentin Rew (Hastings) 4h 52m 55s 1, David Sim (Akld) 6h 0m 24s 2.
M16 10km: Matthew Holcroft (Ham) 55m 49s 1, Phillip Wyatt (Roskill) 57m 18s 2, Phillip Meikle (Cant) 1h 0m 15s 3.
Women.-
Senior 15km: Alana Barber (ACA) 1h 23m 55s 1, Kate Newitt (Cant) 1h 30m 30s 2, Susan Hoskin (Pal Nth) 1h 34m 30s 3.
W16 10km: Sarah-Amy Drummond (Pak) 1h 12m 40s 1.
Masters 20km.-
60-64: Marlene White (Taranaki) 2h 14m 15s (record) 1, Shirley Barber (Akld) 2h 21m 13s 2.

WELLINGTON
New Zealand W16 long jump champion Bobbyrose Girvan Russell won the long jump with 5.26m. Sarah Hosegood won the 100m in 12.61s. Michael Wilson won the senior 100m in 11.00s and the 200m in 22.06s. Jackson Smith was the M16 sprint winner with 11.26s over 100m and 23.81s in the 200m. Anne Hare recorded 4m 48.69s in the W45 1500m while Grant McLean ran 4m 12.88s in the M40 1500m. Daniel Fake and Regan Standing both cleared 1.95m in the high jump with Fake also winning the M19 triple jump with 13.12m.

CHRISTCHURCH
Kelsey Berryman (17) third in last season’s W16 national 100m final and second in the W16 long jump won the 100m in 12.75s (+0.7), the 200m in 26.07s (+0.3) and the long jump 5.32m (-0.2). Tim Jones won the 100m in 11.23s (-0.1) and the 200m in 22.77s (-0.4). Todd Mansfield won the 400m in 49.30s. Benn Loh was over the high jump at 1.95m. Tim McKee cleared 4.30m in the M19 pole vault. Hayden Hall won the M16 discus with 48.34m. Angela Smit won the W18 1500m in 4m 44.07s and Lucinda Shaw won the W16 2000m walk in 10m 32.08s.

DUNEDIN
Jerram Huston won the shot put with 13.53m. In the M19 javelin Guy Archibald was out to 53.14m and Arthur Green won the senior javelin with 54.71m. Lauren Wilson won the W19 100m in 12.79s (-1.3) and the 200m in 26.05s (-1.1). Toby Flett was the M19 sprint winner with 11.61s (-0.8) in the 100m and 23.12s (-2.8) in the 200m. Daniel Balchin won the M19 300m in 8m 46.83s with Alex Gorrie second in 8m 48.74s. Oliver O’Sullivan won the senior 3000m in 8m 54.29s. National W16 cross country and road champion Anna-Lisa Uttley won the W19 3000m in 10m 16.33s. Gemma Radford, runner up in the national championships last season won the 400m hurdles in 64.60s. Callan Moody won the senior 800m in 1m 56.05s.