Oceania Cross Country Championships

Oceania Cross Country Championships

Sport	Cross country running
Founded	2009
Continent	Oceania (OAA)

The Oceania Cross Country Championships are a biennial Cross country running competition organized by the Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) for athletes representing the countries of its member associations. They were established in 2009, and were held together with either the Australian or New Zealand national championships. Races are featured for senior and junior (U-19) athletes.^[1][2][3][4]

Editions

	Year	City	Country	Date
I	2009	Christchurch, Canterbury	New Zealand	August 1
II	2010	Brisbane, Queensland	Australia	August 21
III	2012	Hamilton, Waikato	New Zealand	August 4
IV	2014	Tumon, Tamuning	Guam	October 16

Results

Complete results can be found on the OAA,^[5][6][7] on the Athletics New Zealand,^{[3][4][8][9][10]} and the Athletics Australia webpages.^[11] Results for the juniors can be found on the World Junior Athletics History site.^[12]

Men's Results

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2009 (12 km)	Timothy Rowe  Australia	38:13	Andrew Davidson  New Zealand	38:13	Edwin Henshaw  New Zealand	38:25
2010 (12 km)	Martin Dent  Australia	36:49	Liam Adams  Australia	37:05	Jeffrey Hunt  Australia	37:20
2012 (12 km) ^†	James Nipperess  Australia	39:05	Samuel Wreford  New Zealand	39:36	Alex Parlane  New Zealand	40:29
2014 (12 km)	Nicholas Wightman  Australia	41:13	Callan Moody  New Zealand	41:34	Simbar Casper  Papua New Guinea	42:56

^†: Edwin Kaitany from  Kenya running as guest was 1st in 38:54.

Women's Results

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2009 (8 km)	Melinda Vernon  Australia	28:52	Fiona Crombie  New Zealand	29:07	Kellie Palmer  New Zealand	30:10
2010 (8 km)	Jessica Trengove  Australia	28:00	Clare Geraghty  Australia	28:28	Tamara Carvolth  Australia	28:38
2012 (8 km)	Celia Sullohern  Australia	29:33	Mikayla Nielsen  New Zealand	29:37	Nicki McFadzien  New Zealand	29:43
2014 (8 km)	Courtney Powell  Australia	28:55	Rachel Kingsford  New Zealand	29:37	Elodie Mevel  French Polynesia	33:25

Junior Boys' Results

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2009 (8 km)	Aaron Pulford  New Zealand	26:11	Alex Parlane  New Zealand	26:31	Michael Banks  New Zealand	26:38
2010 (8 km)	Ethan Heywood  Australia	25:18	David Ricketts  Australia	25:22	Rhys Jones  Australia	25:24
2012 (8 km)	Matt Baxter  New Zealand	26:20	Antoine Bonnet  New Zealand	26:30	Michael Sutton  New Zealand	26:45
2014 (8 km)	Avikash Lal  Fiji	29:22	Ravnil Kumar  Fiji	31:11	Magdano Marquez  Federated States of Micronesia	33:55

Junior Girls' Results

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2009 (6 km)	Hannah Newbould  New Zealand	21:35	Danielle Trevis  New Zealand	21:44	Olivia Burne  New Zealand	22:25
2010 (6 km)	Danielle Trevis  New Zealand	21:00	Grace Musgrove  Australia	21:42	Celia Sullohern  Australia	21:59
2012 (6 km)	Kara MacDermid  New Zealand	22:42	Georgie Grgec  New Zealand	23:28	Grace McConnochie  New Zealand	23:36
2014 (6 km)	Jenny Albert  Papua New Guinea	25:16	Aria Perez-Theisen  Guam	29:35	Mika Rosario  Guam	30:17

References

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2. Oceania Cross Country Championships - Saturday 01st, August 2009 - GENERAL INFORMATION, Guam Track and Field Association, August 1, 2009, retrieved March 17, 2013
3. 2009 Athletics New Zealand - Cross Country Championships - RESULTS > Halswell Quarry Park, Christchurch >> 1 August 2009, Athletics New Zealand, August 1, 2009, retrieved March 16, 2013
4. Athletics New Zealand Cross Country Championship, Athletics New Zealand, August 1, 2009, retrieved March 16, 2013
5. 2009 Oceania Cross Country Championships - RESULTS, OAA, retrieved March 16, 2013
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7. [http://www.athletics-oceania.com/index.php?id=18&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2512&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=ca15b87ccf Oceania Cross Country Championships], OAA, October 16, 2014, retrieved October 16, 2014
8. Athletics New Zealand & Oceania Cross Country Championships, Athletics New Zealand, August 4, 2012, retrieved March 16, 2013
9. 2012 Athletics NZ Cross Country Championships, Athletics New Zealand, August 4, 2012, retrieved March 16, 2013
10. 2012 Athletics NZ Cross Country Championships, Athletics New Zealand, August 4, 2012, retrieved March 16, 2013
11. Australian Cross Country Championships - 21/08/2010 - Oceania Cross Country - Bald Hills, QLD, Athletics Australia, August 21, 2010, retrieved March 16, 2013
12. CHAMPIONSHIP INDEX - 3 CROSS COUNTRY - OCEANIA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS OCXC, World Junior Athletics History, retrieved March 16, 2013