by nzadmin | Jun 7, 2013 | Featured, News, Walking
Lesley Cantwell, a member of the Athletics New Zealand team at the Oceania Area Athletics Championships in Tahiti has died in a Papeete Hospital. Cantwell (26), from Te Anau won the Oceania women’s 5000 metres race walking title on Tuesday and while she was waiting...
by nzadmin | Jun 3, 2013 | Featured, News, Track, USA
IAAF Diamond League, Prefontaine Classic Eugene Oregon – 31 May 2013 Double Olympic and triple world shot put champion Valerie Adams started her IAAF Diamond League season with a win in the shot put at the prestigious Prefontaine Classic meeting. In her first major...
by nzadmin | May 21, 2013 | 1500m, Featured, News
IAAF Diamond League, Shanghai – 18 May 2013 Nick Willis’ chance of a top three placing was thwarted by a fall at the top of the finishing straight, to end his winning streak of eight straight wins. Willis was moving out from the pole line with 80 metres to run...
by nzadmin | May 6, 2013 | Featured, Marathon, News, Rotorua
49th Lion Foundation Rotorua Marathon – 4 May 2013 Hamilton triathlon coach and personal trainer Erin Furness won the women’s Rotorua Marathon race in 2h 57m 25s, a two minute improvement on her fourth placing last year. Wellington’s Gabrielle O’Rourke, second last...
by nzadmin | Apr 5, 2013 | Featured, News, Pre event, Track
Fourteen New Zealand athletes have secured starts in the prestigious IAAF World Challenge event in Melbourne on Saturday evening. The meeting is the first of the IAAF 2013 series of fourteen Diamond League and fifteen World Challenge international events. The group...