Tassie Tossers

18/02/2026

18/02/2026

16/03/2025

Throws Comp today 💪. Provisional State Records to Sue Westbrook (W80) and Stuart Morse (M35).

Many thanks to Michael Brideson & Daimon Casey for your assistance today, it was greatly appreciated.

Next comp will be 56lb, 100lb & Single-arm throw - date TBA.

30/01/2025

Liam Shelton enjoyed a successful trip to Brisbane last weekend to compete in the World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger meet on Sunday. Liam took the win with a third round throw of 69.60m 🚀

For those wondering, Liam's throw of 72.10m at Interclub on the 11th of January does not appear in the World Rankings as it was not a World Ranking meet. The next World Ranking meet will be the Athletics South Showcase meet on the 8th February, which features Men's Javelin (sponsored by Tassie Tossers/UTAS Athletics Club) and Women's Discus (Sponsored by RSM Insurance Brokers).
Following the Hobart meet, there will be two World Ranking meets in Launceston on the 15th and 22nd of February.
15/02/2025 Program B - Men's & Women's Javelin
22/02/2025 Program C - Men's & Women's Javelin & Discus
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01/06/2024

Today's Heavy Weight Pentathlon at the Domain produced some terrific results, with five new TMA State records established. Michael Mullarvey led the Men's comp with an impressive 2813 points, with Bec Direen leading the way for the women with 2307 points.

Tasmanian records were set by Helen Direen (W60), Rebecca Lodge (W30), Greg Mann (M60), Michael Mullarvey (M50) and Michael Higgs (M40), with Bec & Mullarvey setting inaugural club records also.

The next comp with be on Saturday 29th June.

*TMA records subject to ratification.

24/01/2024

5️⃣0️⃣ Xavier Davie & Sebastian Hardinge 5️⃣0️⃣

The Launceston runway was lit up Wednesday night, with Xave & Seb cementing their places in the 50m club. Seb broke the NTA U15 record with his 50.84m throw, while Xave improved his UTAS Athletics Club U16 record with his best of 51.88m ⚫️⚪️🔴

Congrats to both boys and super coach Luke.

24/01/2024

Hey Tossers! North West Athletics Club are hosting the David Chettle meet this Friday, which includes Shot Put & Javelin on the program. Hamish Peacock & Liam Shelton will be making the trip l, hoping to take advantage of the big Westerly winds forecast for the day 💨

Shot Put starts at 1:15, Javelin at 2:00. Make sure you arrive at least 30 minutes prior to start time to sign in ✍️

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15/01/2024

Welcome to a new year of rankings!

2024 has kicked off well for the Tossers, with a World Athletics Javelin event in Hobart on Saturday. The event bought out the best with the Tossers, with Liam Shelton (61.74m), Caleb Kirkpatrick (47.94m) and Oliver Vince (43.15m) all throwing PB’s in the event. Hamish Peacock took the win with an impressive 73.72m. At the other end of the ground Shot Put was on, in the Open age group, Kaity Fassina throwing 13.40m to kick her year off, while Oliver Vince backed up his personal best in Jav with a PB in Shot, throwing 12.19m.

While this was going on in Hobart, the State Combined Event Championships was held in Launceston, where Xavie Davie was jumping up a weight to the 5kg Shot, and he barely missed a beat, throwing 12.11m, followed by a solid 47.38m in Jav.

Hammer is where the competition has really heated up in recent weeks, with Jackson Mellor now declaring himself a dual Discus/Hammer thrower and lighting up the circle. Jacko opened the year with a 54.23m bomb, but the challenge was answered, with the cannonball Caleb throwing a PB of 56.16m. These two giants are guaranteed to deliver some ripper results as we head to the pointy end of the season.

Our Master Tossers are busy preparing for the Nationals in Hobart at the end of March. Cathy McKeown has delivered some great results in Hammer (38.83m), Shot (10.86m) and Discus (30.31m) in the lead up to the Masters Championship events, which get underway with the State Throws Pentathlon Championships on the 11th February. And how good is it to see Michael Mullarvey back in action! Mullarvey missed the 2022-2023 season due to elbow surgery (the fate of the aging Javelin thrower), but he’s back in action this season and working hard on getting the tip of that 700g Jav to land 😊

For the Tossers this week, Interclub is on in Launceston Wednesday night, with Hammer & Shot on the program, while in Hobart there’s Javelin, Shot & Discus kicking off at 9am Saturday.

10/12/2023

Tassie's newest 50m Tosser!

Congratulations to Xavier Davie on throwing 50.04m at the Australian All Schools in Perth. Xavier has improved his Javelin a whopping 14m over the past 12 months to become our latest 50m thrower. Not too bad at all for a multi-eventer 😉

18/03/2023

A couple of tossers competing in the open hammer champs