Dallas Bowden followed up his second placing in the 1500m on day one of the track and field competition at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney with a second in the 800m on day two of competition.

Bowden's time of 1m 53.72s gave him a further world youth championships qualifying time.

Te Rina Keenan set a New Zealand national women's 16 discus record with her throw of 49.58m. This betters her pending record of 48.54m set in Auckland in mid November. Keenan has thrown further than the world youth champs selection standard of 42m in all of her competitions this season.
Keri Tongalea was second in the men's shot put and third in the discus with 54.17m. Tongalea's discus exceeds the standard of 54.00m and qualifies him for selection to the world youth champs.

Other second placings went to Sinisa Zaorac in the men's pole vault and Mariah Ririnui in the women's long jump. Camille Buscomb was third in the 3000m.

New Zealand performances from day two:
Bethany Struthers hammer throw 6th 37.46m
Sinisa Zagorac pole vault 2nd 4.20m
Mariah Ririnui long jump 2nd 5.71m (+0.6)
Keri Tongalea shot put 2nd 16.88m, discus 3rd 54.17m
Te Rina Keenan discus 2nd 49.58m (NZ national W16 record)
Angie Smit 800m 5th 2m 18.57s
Dallas Bowden 800m 2nd 1m 53.72s
Matthew Robinson 200m 5th 22.38s (+2.9)
Andrea Koenen 200m 5th 25.24s (+4.1)
Elizabeth Lamb high jump 4th 1.69m
Camille Buscomb 3000m 3rd 10m 6.13s
Daniel Brooks long jump 6th 6.37m (NWI)
Daniel Wells 3000m 6th 9m 23.77s
Kate Newitt 5000m walk 5th 27m 11.01s
4 x 400m relay men: New Zealand (Matthew Robinson, Dallas Bowden, James Doyle, Brendon Spencer) 4th 3m 25.71s
4 x 400m relay women: New Zealand (Tracey Hale, Angie Smit, Bethany Struthers, Sophie Healey) 6th 4m 00.38s.