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CROATIA IAAF Continental Cup, Split – 4/5 September 2010 4 September: Nikki Hamblin is on target for a bold showing at the Commonwealth Games, following a personal best 800m run at the IAAF Continental Cup meeting in Split Croatia.
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Sam Wreford of Canterbury could well be the surprise package at the New Zealand road running championships to be staged at Spencer Park in Christchurch on Saturday.
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ITALY IAAF World Challenge Meeting, Rieti – 29 August 2010 Adrian Blincoe was ninth in the 3000m in a personal best 7m 46.38s.
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LONDON UK Aviva London Grand Prix and Diamond League, Crystal Palace – 13 August 2010 Olympic and world shot put champion Valerie Vili suffered her sixth straight loss to Belarussian Nadzeya Ostapchuk at the Diamond League meeting in London.
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Alex Parlane put the hammer down at the half way shook off his opposition and swept to victory in the senior men's 12,000m at the New Zealand cross country championships at Waikanae on Saturday.
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WAIKANAE — Six times New Zealand cross country champion Phil Costley faces strong challenges from the younger brigade as he chases his 31st national running title at the New Zealand cross country championships in Waikanae on Saturday.
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New Zealand's six times world champion Jonathan Wyatt won the annual event in 1h 0m 33s, just over two minutes ahead of Robert Krupicka of Czech Republic.
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Jacko Gill made athletic history in becoming the youngest ever to win a World Junior Championships Gold Medal with a world stunning performance on day three of the Championships, surpassing Usain Bolt as the youngest winner.
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One of the most significant administration changes in more than 100 years of New Zealand athletics was made at the sport’s annual meeting in Wellington this morning.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Ron Cain of Otago, who has an outstanding record of 66 years involvement in the sport was honoured with Life membership of Athletics New Zealand in Wellington today (Friday).
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Athletics New Zealand and ASICS have announced an agreement that will see ASICS become the official apparel and footwear sponsor for Athletics New Zealand.
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Nikki Hamblin, in her build up to the Commonwealth Games, set a New Zealand 1500m record of 4m 5.93s at the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden-Zolder Belgium.
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Alex Parlane continued his dream run this cross country season posting another win at the annual North Harbour meeting at the Long Bay Regional Park on Saturday.
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New Zealand Secondary Schools Cross Country Championships, Waikanae – 19 June 2010 Rebekah Greene returned, after finishing third last year, to win the senior girls’ title over 4km in 14m 25s.
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Olympic and World champion Valerie Vili returned to the winners circle with victory in the shot put at the Diamond League meeting in New York yesterday
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Some of the biggest names in New Zealand sport have been named to the New Zealand Commonwealth Games Team today.
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Valerie Vili won the shot put with 20.24m, beating Taiwan's Lin Jia-Ying who was out to 15.51m and Korea's Lee Mi-Young with 15.47m.
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Brent Newdick added 20 points to his personal best after finishing 12th with a score of 7935 points at the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge.
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Valerie Vili was beaten by her arch rival Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai.
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HUNTLY — Two new national half marathon champions will emerge from the Huntly half marathon on Sunday.
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IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Chihuahua – 15 May 2010 Daniel Lord, finished 28th out of 30 finishers in the junior men's 10km recording 51m 24s. Eider Arevalo of Columbia won in 42m 13s.
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Stuart Farquhar of New Zealand won the men's Javelin Throw with 82.41m, more than a metre ahead of Russian Ilya Korotkov, who threw 81.16m. The World Championship bronze medalist Yukifumi Murakami of Japan was a disappointing fifth with 77.66m.
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Dale Warrander recovered from a bout of cramping five kilometres from the finish to storm through over the closing stages to grab his fourth Rotorua marathon title.
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ROTORUA — Local Rotorua roofer Steven O’Callaghan, run down in the closing stages of last year’s Rotorua Marathon by Scott Winton, has returned to finish off the business this Saturday.
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Kimberley Smith sliced over a minute off the New Zealand women's marathon record in finishing eighth in 2h 25m 21s in London yesterday.
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MOTUEKA — Six times world mountain running champion will make a rare appearance in New Zealand when he tackles the New Zealand mountain running championship at Mt Campbell Motueka on Saturday.
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Australian Commonwealth Games Selection Trials Invitational Combined Events 9-10 April 2010 – Griffith University
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Athletics New Zealand has announced it’s largest ever team to compete at a World Junior Track & Field Championships.
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<p>CHRISTCHURCH – QEII STADIUM – 3 April 2010<br /> National M19 800m champion Glen Ballam of Invercargill secured a second B qualifying time for the World Junior Championships, after recording 1m 50.15s on Saturday.
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Ten years at the top of one’s sport is a long time, but for Valerie Vili there is, no doubt, still many more years to go.
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Olympic Games 1500m silver medallist Nick Willis finished second to Australia's Jeff Riseley over 800m at the International Track meeting in Christchurch on Thursday evening.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The best 800m field seen in New Zealand since the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games will assemble in Christchurch this Thursday to race the feature More FM event at the International Track Meet.
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A fresh New Zealand and Oceania indoor record of 20.49m could only secure the silver medal for the Olympic and World shot put champion Valerie Vili at the world indoor championships in Doha Qatar.
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Otago runners Val Muskett and Matthew Bixley have been selected to represent New Zealand at the Eighth IAU 24 hour world challenge in Brive France in mid May.
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MELBOURNE Track Classic – 4 March 2010 Olympic and World shot put champion Valerie Vili continued her winning form collecting the shot put at the Melbourne Classic meeting last Thursday evening.
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Valerie Vili steps up for her third outing this season in Melbourne on Thursday evening.
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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Kimberley Smith carved over two minutes off her New Zealand record in finishing second in the New Orleans half marathon yesterday in 1h 7m 55s.
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Maria Hassan of Christchurch has been appointed the Athletics New Zealand National Event Coach for Middle Distance.
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BIRMINGHAM UK Aviva Indoor Grand Prix Nick Willis broke John Walker’s 31 year old indoor 1500m record in finishing fifth in 3m 35.80s at the Aviva Indoor Grand Prix meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.
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WAITAKERE CITY — Athletics Test Matches don’t happen very often in New Zealand, so when they do, there is bound to be a lot of interest.
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HAMILTON Porritt Classic Valerie Vili made an emphatic statement to the world that she is on target to again dominate the shot put this year with a record equalling toss of 20.25m at Hamilton’s Porritt Stadium last evening.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Former world discus champion Beatrice Faumuina is the latest international superstar to confirm an appearance at the International Track Meet on March 18th at QEII Stadium in Christchurch.
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HAMILTON — A score of over 6000 points by Rebecca Wardell and over 5000 by Portia Bing as well as a Commonwealth Games cementing performance by Brent Newdick should hold plenty of attention at the New Zealand Combined Events Championships in Hamilton this weekend.
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Athletics New Zealand has named the team to contest the Trans Tasman 21 Test Match against Australia on Saturday 20 February at Douglas Track & Field in Waitakere, Auckland.
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UNITED STATES Boston Reebok Boston Indoor Games.
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Valerie Vili was named Sportswoman of the year for the fourth year in a row and collected the coveted Supreme Award for the third consecutive year at the prestigious Halberg Awards dinner in Auckland last evening.
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New Zealand will be sending a team of nine to contest the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz Poland on 28 March 2010.
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AUCKLAND Portia Bing of North Harbour set a New Zealand W16 heptathlon record of 4947 points in winning the Northern Regional championship over the weekend.
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NEW YORK NEW BALANCE INDOOR GAMES Adrian Blincoe finished fourth in the indoor mile at the Armory in New York on Saturday in 3m 58.53s.
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The following coaches have been named to take up positions supporting the Rio 2016 Performance Project.
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New Zealand team to the Trans Tasman race walking test match.
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AUCKLAND NORTH ISLAND COLGATE GAMES Over 1600 athletes from throughout the North Island enjoyed three days of outstanding athletics at Mt Smart Stadium.
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Rees Buck and junior Aaron Pulford battled out a great finish to the national 10,000m championship at the Tauranga Domain on Tuesday evening.
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Danielle Trevis, the New Zealand W19 5000m champion, went tantalisingly close to the world junior champs qualifying time, after running a personal best 16m 30.17s 5000m at the Bays distance series at Sovereign Stadium last Wednesday.
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Valerie Vili will defend her world indoor shot put title at the World Indoor Championships in Doha Qatar in March.
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TIMARU New Zealand Secondary Schools T&F Championships, Aorangi Park Day one, Saturday 12 December Tom Walsh of Timaru Boys’ High highlighted day one of the New Zealand secondary schools T&F championships in Timaru with a New Zealand M17 shot put record of 20.21m.
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New Zealand will compete against international race walking powerhouse Australia in a Test Match in Hobart early next year.
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TIMARU — The New Zealand Secondary Schools Track & Field and Road Race championships will be held this weekend in Timaru.
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MT EVEREST New Zealand’s Anna Frost conquered Mt Everest in record breaking time, setting a women’s record of 4h 35m 4s for the Everest Marathon on Friday.
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NORTH SHORE Nikki Hamblin, semi-finalist in the 1500m at the world championships in Berlin in August, recorded 2m 18.44s over 800m at the Bays middle distance meeting at Sovereign Stadium last Tuesday evening.
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WORLD ATHLETES OF THE YEAR At Monte-Carlo over the weekend 23 year old Jamaican Usain Bolt and USA’s 24 year old Sanya Richards were crowned as the male and female world athletes of the Year 2009.
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John Tylden of Hamilton will manage the New Zealand track and field team to the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October next year.
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WAITAKERE CITY — The event list for the TT21 Match against Australia being held at Douglas Track & Field, Waitakere, on Saturday 20 February 2010 has been announced.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Norm Coop, a Life Member of Athletics New Zealand, died yesterday aged 84.
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The process around entries for Athletics New Zealand Championship events and in particular how late entries are handled has been reviewed, and the following will apply for events held after 1 January 2010.
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New Zealand’s world shot put champion Valerie Vili has been shortlisted for the 2009 World Athlete of the Year award.
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INVERCARGILL Gale force winds favoured the sprinters but hampered competitors in all other events at Surrey Park on Saturday.
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Alice Mason has been forced to withdraw from the New Zealand team for the Great Australian Run 2009 due to injury.
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New Zealand will not be hosting an International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) permit meeting this athletic season.
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Athletic competition between New Zealand and Australia has been re-kindled by Athletics New Zealand with a test match between the Trans Tasman rivals to be staged at Waitakere in February.
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New Zealand Half Marathon Championship Matt Smith of Christchurch won the New Zealand half marathon title with the women’s title going to Otago’s Shireen Crumpton, held in Auckland yesterday.
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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.
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Alice Mason returns to the scene of her outstanding second placing last year as a member of a four strong team selected to represent New Zealand in the Great Australian Run.
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AUCKLAND – 18 October 2009 Sir Barry Curtis 10km Road Race Jason Woolhouse easily retained his Sir Barry Curtis 10km road race title with a convincing win in the annual event from Musick Point to Lloyd Elsmore Park in Pakuranga yesterday.
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BIRMINGHAM UK – 11 October 2009 World Half Marathon Championship Kimberley Smith finished an outstanding seventh in the world half marathon championship in Birmingham UK on Sunday.
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Kimberley Smith will be making her first half marathon debut on Sunday October 11 at the half marathon championships in Birmingham, UK.
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AKAROA — Canterbury University look set to join University of Auckland, New Brighton and North Harbour Bays in winning the senior men’s national road relay title three years in a row.
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BERGEN, GERMANY, 27 September 2009 36th Hochfelln Berglauf Jonathan Wyatt notched up his seventh victory in the annual Hochfelln Berglauf mountain race over 8.9km rising 1001m.
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WAIPU Takapuna Harriers make it a clean sweep in the annual Waipu Relays, which incorporated the Northland Road Relay Championships, taking the first three placings in the 4 x 6.1km event.
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TIMARU — Kevin O'Sullivan of Timaru has been appointed by Athletics New Zealand as a cross country and road selector.
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DUNEDIN — Athletics Otago stalwart Les Bradshaw died in Dunedin on 7 September aged 87.
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AUCKLAND Lydiard Legends Marathon and Arthur's Half Marathon Sam Wreford travelled up from Timaru to tackle the toughest marathon in the country, the Lydiard Legends race on Saturday, and carried off the winning purse of $5000 in style.
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Former New Zealand high jump champion and record holder Terry Lomax has been appointed Performance Coordinator with Athletics New Zealand.
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THESSALONIKI, GREECE - 13 September 2009.
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Valerie Vili is a clear favourite, in the shot put, going into the World Athletic Final in Thessaloniki Greece this weekend.
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CAMPODOLCINO, ITALY - 6 September 2009 25th World Mountain Running Championships Michael Banks finished 12th in the junior men's 8680m +550m, in 41m 55s.
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DUNEDIN — Andrew Davidson will be seeking to join an elite list of runners who have won the New Zealand cross country and road crowns in the same season.
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New Zealand's world mountain running champion Jonathan Wyatt will compete in the Commonwealth mountain running championships in Keswick England in two weeks time.
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Valerie Vili followed up her world title win in Berlin with two further victories over 20 metres in Germany over the weekend.
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John Bowden has resigned from his position of cross country and road selector with Athletics New Zealand.
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CAMBEWARRA, NOWRA, NSW - 29 August 2009 Australian Cross Country Championships Aaron Pulford finished second and Michael Banks third in the Men under 20 Australian cross country championship on Saturday.
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New Zealand Olympic Marathon runner Liza Hunter Galvan faces a two year ban from sport following a Sports Tribunal of New Zealand ruling earlier today.
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CARDIFF, WALES - 15 August 2009 Alice Mason ran a personal best 5000m in a women only race finishing second in 16m 28.51s at the BMC Cardiff meeting.
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New Zealand runner Michael Aish was more disappointed than anyone else when he pulled out of the World Championships marathon in Berlin.
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Mary Davies in only her second marathon knocked nearly four minutes off her inaugural time in leading New Zealand to eighth place in the marathon world cup at the World Athletic Championships in Berlin.
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Stuart Farquhar finished 14th overall in the javelin throw with his third attempt in the qualifying rounds of 78.53m.
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Nikki Hamblin gave it everything in the 1500m semi-finals, finishing sixth in the second and slower of the two semi-finals.
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Brent Newdick started day two of competition in the decathlon at the World Athletic Championships in Berlin with a 14.82s (-0.1) clocking in the 110m hurdles.
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