1997–98 Australian Athletics Championships

The 1997–98 Australian Athletics Championships was the 76th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 13–15 March 1998 at the Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne. It served as a selection meeting for Australia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. The 10,000 metres event took place separately at the Zatopek 10K on 18 December 1997 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne. The combined track and field events were held at the Hobart Grand Prix from 20–22 February 1998.[1][2]

1997–98 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates13–15 March 1998
Host cityMelbourne, Australia
VenueOlympic Park Stadium

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(Wind: -3.4 m/s)
Matt Shirvington
New South Wales
10.47 Deji Aliu
  Nigeria (NGR)
10.50 Paul Henderson
New South Wales
10.68
200 metres
(Wind: -2.0 m/s)
Damien Marsh
Queensland
21.34 Matt Shirvington
New South Wales
21.37 Patrick Johnson
Australian Capital Territory
21.42
400 metres Declan Stack
Western Australia
45.55 Patrick Dwyer
New South Wales
46.44 Jason Schmidberger
Western Australia
46.77
800 metres Noah Ngeny
  Kenya (KEN)
1:46.85 Brendan Hanigan
Tasmania
1:47.00 Grant Cremer
New South Wales
1:47.12
1500 metres Martin Keino
  Kenya (KEN)
3:40.91 Hamish Christensen
  New Zealand (NZL)
3:41.17 Holt Hardy
New South Wales
3:41.42
5000 metres Shaun Creighton
Australian Capital Territory
13:24.84 Mizan Mehari
Australian Capital Territory
13:36.81 Lee Troop
Victoria
13:41.16
10,000 metres Luke Kipkosgei
  Kenya (KEN)
27:29.44 Julius Kiptoo
  Kenya (KEN)
27:30.04 Robbie Johnston
  New Zealand (NZL)
28:07.80
110 metres hurdles
(Wind: -2.0 m/s)
Kyle Vander-Kuyp
Victoria
14.00 Kimihiro Asami
  Japan (JPN)
14.40 Manabu Tomita
  Japan (JPN)
14.48
400 metres hurdles Rohan Robinson
Victoria
49.28 Zid Abou Hamed
New South Wales
49.79 Blair Young
Queensland
50.57
3000 metres steeplechase Chris Unthank
Victoria
8:41.88 Scott Faulkner
Victoria
8:51.13 Stephen Thurston
South Australia
8:55.41
5000 metres walk Nicholas A'Hern
New South Wales
19:12.92 Dion Russell
Victoria
19:39.62 Scott Nelson
  New Zealand (NZL)
20:11.05
4 × 100 m relay   New Zealand (NZL)
Nick Cowan
Chris Donaldson
Robert Bruce
Mathew Coad
40.06   New South Wales (NSW)
Paul Henderson
Matt Shirvington
Kieran Noonan
Toluta'u Koula
40.25   Western Australia (WA)
Sam De Vries
Rod Mapstone
Robert Colling
James Matson
40.94
4 × 400 m relay   Japan (JPN)
Hideaki Kawamura
Jun Osakada
Yoshiho Terashita
Shigekazu Ōmori
3:08.12   New South Wales (NSW)
Daniel Stolp
Kieran Gallagher
Matthew Beckenham
Robert Medlicott
3:09.68   Victoria (VIC)
Justin Clark
Matthew Griffin
Bryce Barnwell
Mark Moresi
3:10.10
High jump Tim Forsyth
Victoria
2.32 m Glenn Morante
New South Wales
Lee Jin-taek
  South Korea (KOR)
2.10 m Not awarded
Pole vault Dmitri Markov
South Australia
5.50 m James Miller
Victoria
5.50 m Paul Burgess
Western Australia
5.40 m
Long jump Shane Hair
New South Wales
8.09 m
(+2.2 m/s)
Jai Taurima
Queensland
7.92 m
(+1.4 m/s)
Leigh Stuart
Victoria
7.81 m
(+2.2 m/s)
Triple jump Onochie Achike
  Great Britain (GBR)
16.79 m
(+2.1 m/s)
Andrew Murphy
New South Wales
16.19 m
(+2.2 m/s)
Mohd Zaki Sadri
  Malaysia (MAS)
15.86 m
(+1.7 m/s)
Shot put Justin Anlezark
Queensland
18.73 m Clay Cross
New South Wales
18.01 m Aaron Neighbour
Victoria
17.43 m
Discus throw Ian Winchester
  New Zealand (NZL)
58.77 m Gerard Duffy
Australian Capital Territory
53.08 m Chris Gaviglio
Queensland
51.02 m
Hammer throw Stuart Rendell
Australian Capital Territory
75.15 m Patrick Hellier
  New Zealand (NZL)
66.55 m Paul Carlin
South Australia
66.54 m
Javelin throw Andrew Currey
New South Wales
78.46 m Adrian Hatcher
New South Wales
76.86 m Erin Bevans
  New Zealand (NZL)
76.32 m
Decathlon Jagan Hames
South Australia
7868 pts[3] Leslie Kuorikoski
Queensland
7542 pts[4] Matthew McEwen
Queensland
7126 pts[5]

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(Wind: -2.7 m/s)
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
New South Wales
11.34 Nova Peris-Kneebone
Northern Territory
11.62 Lauren Hewitt
Victoria
11.68
200 metres
(Wind: -2.2 m/s)
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
New South Wales
22.53 Lauren Hewitt
Victoria
23.01 Nova Peris-Kneebone
Northern Territory
23.17
400 metres Cathy Freeman
Victoria
51.26 Susan Andrews
Tasmania
51.55 Lee Naylor
Victoria
51.65
800 metres Tamsyn Lewis
Victoria
2:02.93 Lynette Saint-John
Tasmania
2:03.46 Melanie Collins
Australian Capital Territory
2:04.16
1500 metres Liz Miller
New South Wales
4:14.59 Sandra Dawson
Queensland
4:15.09 Anna Brzezińska
  Poland (POL)
4:15.76
5000 metres Anne Cross
Victoria
15:28.73 Samukeliso Moyo
  Zimbabwe (ZIM)
15:46.03 Kylie Risk
Tasmania
15:46.53
10,000 metres Natalie Harvey
Victoria
32:21.58 Kylie Risk
Tasmania
32:22.33 Clair Fearnley
Victoria
32:24.17
100 metres hurdles
(Wind: -1.8 m/s)
Debbi Edwards
New South Wales
13.78 Jacquie Munro
New South Wales
13.81 Rachel Rogers
South Australia
13.90
400 metres hurdles Stephanie Price
New South Wales
58.47 Evette Cordy
Victoria
58.83 Nicola Kidd
  New Zealand (NZL)
59.75
5000 metres walk Kerry Saxby-Junna
New South Wales
21:57.74 Jane Saville
New South Wales
22:21.79 Natalie Saville
New South Wales
22:48.54
4 × 100 m relay   South Australia (SA)
Tatiana Grigorieva
Tania Van Heer
Paula Lehmann
Rachel Rogers
45.60   New South Wales (NSW)
Sharon Gyselhart
Nicole Buchanan
Victoria Piggin
Elona Reinalda
45.83   Western Australia (WA)
Sharon Sutherland
Jodi Lambert
Kylie Reed
Gill Ragus
46.05
4 × 400 m relay   Victoria (VIC)
Jennifer Marshall
Sally Ogilvy
Lee Naylor
Tamsyn Lewis
3:38.48   New South Wales (NSW)
Veronica Boyd
Kylie Watkins
Stephanie Price
Rosemary Hayward
3:38.77   Tasmania (TAS)
Kirilee Buonaccorsi
Lynette Saint-John
Emily Bell
Susan Andrews
DQ
High jump Alison Inverarity
Victoria
1.90 m Lisa Bruty
Victoria
1.86 m Kim Brown
  New Zealand (NZL)
1.82 m
Pole vault Emma George
Victoria
4.58 m Tatiana Grigorieva
South Australia
4.15 m Rachael Dacy
Victoria
3.90 m
Long jump Nicole Boegman
New South Wales
6.81 m
(+2.9 m/s)
Chantal Brunner
  New Zealand (NZL)
6.65 m
(+1.5 m/s)
Jane Jamieson
New South Wales
6.47 m
(+1.8 m/s)
Triple jump Connie Henry
  Great Britain (GBR)
13.86 m
(+0.5 m/s)
Nicole Mladenis
Western Australia
13.51 m
(+1.4 m/s)
Mariklud Viduka
Victoria
13.44 m
(+3.2 m/s)
Shot put Beatrice Faumuina
  New Zealand (NZL)
16.96 m Helen Toussis
Queensland
15.97 m Lisa-Marie Vizaniari
Queensland
15.83 m
Discus throw Beatrice Faumuina
  New Zealand (NZL)
63.80 m Lisa-Marie Vizaniari
Queensland
61.41 m Alison Lever
Queensland
53.90 m
Hammer throw Deborah Sosimenko
New South Wales
66.72 m Brenda MacNaughton
New South Wales
62.49 m Karyne Perkins
New South Wales
60.69 m
Javelin throw Louise McPaul
New South Wales
62.34 m Bina Ramesh
  France (FRA)
49.05 m Cecilia McIntosh
Victoria
45.54 m
Heptathlon Jane Jamieson
New South Wales
5943 pts[6] Simone Purvis
Victoria
5060 pts[7] Lisa Kovacs
South Australia
4767 pts[8]

References

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  1. ^ Australian Track & Field Championships - Men 1997–98. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2020-01-14
  2. ^ Australian Track & Field Championships - Women 1997–98. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  3. ^ (11.05 (+0.7), 7.22 m (-0.9), 14.48 m, 2.12 m, 50.20, 14.35 (+2.1), 46.67 m, 4.60 m, 57.23 m, 5:18.65)
  4. ^ (11.20 (+0.7), 6.77 m (-0.1), 14.85 m, 1.88 m, 50.49, 15.02 (+2.1), 42.92 m, 4.50 m, 64.11 m, 4:58.86)
  5. ^ (11.18 (+0.7), 6.62 m (+1.1), 14.07 m, 1.88 m, 49.34, 15.50 (+2.1), 40.65 m, 4.20 m, 56.77 m, 5:15.02)
  6. ^ (14.46 (-2.2), 1.84 m, 13.79 m, 25.97 (-1.6), 6.12 m (-0.5), 43.54 m, 2:21.92)
  7. ^ (13.94 (-2.2), 1.78 m, 10.21 m, 26.33 (-1.6), 5.24 m (+0.5), 35.06 m, 2:36.86)
  8. ^ (14.91 (-2.2), 1.63 m, 8.19 m, 27.08 (-1.6), 5.55 m (-0.1), 36.78 m, 2:29.09)
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