Athletics NZ Sprints & Relays

09/01/2021

Results from today’s Lovelock Classic - Timaru.

22/12/2020

World University Selection Policy Released!

18/12/2020

NIGHT OF 5's -

Zoe on song in season opener -

New Zealand’s fastest woman Zoe Hobbs opened her season in blistering form to win the women’s 100m.

The 23-year-old national 100m and 200m champion was a class apart in a quality domestic field, making a rapid start out of the blocks before stamping her authority on the field in the second half of the race.

With her main goal the Olympic qualification marks of 11.15 for the 100m and 22.80 for the 200m, her debut appearance was a good opportunity to blow the cobwebs away in the expectation of performing better later in the season.

“I’m coming off a big heavy training cycle, it’s been a pretty full-on winter, so I’m stoked to get my first race underway,” she said. “The first half felt a little bit heavy but the last half felt a bit better.”

Fast Eddie stays composed

Eddie Osei-Nketia overcame a mid-race wobble to defeat his training partner Joseph Millar in the 100m and maintain bragging rights as New Zealand’s pre-eminent sprinter.

The 19-year-old national 100m champion, who last week also captured the national secondary schools senior boys 100m title, was far from at his fluent best but showed a champion’s instincts to find a way to win, stopping the clock in 10.49 – 0.09 clear of Millar who was awarded second in a photo-finish from Hamish Gill.

“I had a wobble around 30 metres,” Eddie explained. “I thought I was going to fall over and do a roly-poly. But I just then focused on the race and I’m quite proud of the way I held myself together to win and defeat Joseph.

“I love training with Joseph, he calls me out on a couple of things, but he is great to train with and I hope to improve from there.”

Womens 100m - +1.1
Zoe H - 11.48
Nadia E - 11.93
Georgia H - 12.03
Symone T - 12.10
Anna Percy - 12.25
Samantha K - 12.90
Selena G - 13.08

Mens 100m +0.6
Eddie ON - 10.49
Joseph M - 10.58
Hamish G - 10.58
James GC - 10.77
Mogammad S - 10.92
Tommy TP - 11.02
Zachary S - 11.10
Michael G - 11.25

16/12/2020

2021 World Athletics U20 Championships Policy released.

https://athletics.org.nz/2021-iau-24-hour-champsionships-2021-world-athletics-u20-championships-selection-policies-released

Athletics NZ is pleased to announce the release of the 2021 IAU 24 Hour Championships selection policy as well as the release of the rescheduled 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships selection policy.

12/12/2020

Congrats to the senior 4x100m girls on their quick time in difficult conditions last night!

44.68sec
(Zoe Hobbs Nat Eady Georgia Hulls Symone Tafuna’i Brooke Somerfield)

Thanks to NZSS Athletics to allow the girls to run.

02/12/2020

Some great sprint events have been added to the Night of 5's in 2020. Enter below:

This years event is proudly sponsored by: Friday 18th December 2020 *Entries opening soon* Daikin Night of 5’s 2020 DRAFT SCHEDULE Friday, 18 December 2020 * Age as 31.12.2020 Field Programme 4:30p…

13/09/2020

The sprints results from today’s ANZ Spring Series in Hawkes Bay.

19/08/2020

Athletics NZ Hawkes Bay Spring Series entries close this Friday 21st August.

Entries and events will be confirmed early next week.

Please enter online HERE:

When completing your expression of interest please ensure you are noting the qualification mark for the event (if applicable)

30/07/2020

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New Zealand’s fastest men have joined forces in a “make or break” move Joseph Millar hopes will see them both qualify for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.

25/07/2020

The senior and junior women’s 4x100m squads getting some changes going this morning.

09/04/2020

Great warm up meet for Commonwealth Games!

The World Athletics Championships in Oregon have been rescheduled to 15-24 July in 2022, following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

24/03/2020

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/world-u20-championships-nairobi-2020-postpone

It is with regret that World Athletics, together with the Government of Kenya and Athletics Kenya, have made the decision to postpone the World Athletics U20 Championships Nairobi 2020 (7-12 July), due to the ongoing challenges posed by the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) internationally.