List of Oceanian youth bests in athletics

Oceanian youth bests are ratified by the Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) and comprise the all-time best marks set in competition by Oceanian athletes aged 17 or younger throughout the entire calendar year of the performance. OAA does not maintain official indoor bests. All bests shown on this list are tracked by statisticians not officially sanctioned by the governing body.

Outdoor

Key:   Awaiting ratification   Best not kept by OAA   Not ratified or later rescinded by OAA

h = hand timing
Mx = Mixed gender race

Boys

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
100 m	10.46 (-2.4 m/s)	Philip Chiodo	Australia	13 December 1991		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 64 days
200 m	20.90	Darren Clark	Australia	6 November 1982		Sydney, Australia
		Paul Greene	Australia	19 August 1989		Saga	16 years, 253 days
		Zane Branco	Australia	24 September 2017		Townsville, Australia
300 m	33.16	Paul Greene	Australia	26 January 1989		Canberra, Australia	16 years, 48 days
400 m	45.96	Paul Greene	Australia	19 August 1989		Saga, Japan	16 years, 253 days
800 m	1:47.24	Paul Byrne	Australia	11 December 1993		Canberra, Australia	17 years, 316 days
1000 m
1500 m	3:43.84	Ryan Gregson	Australia	1 December 2007		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 219 days
Mile
2000 m
3000 m	8:01.26	Ryan Gregson	Australia	10 November 2007		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 198 days
5000 m	14:07.92	Sam Clifford	Australia	14 November 2019		Box Hill, Australia
10000 m
Half marathon
Marathon
110 m hurdles (91.4 cm)	13.28 (+0.4 m/s)	Sam Baines	Australia	4 December 2008		Canberra, Australia	17 years, 300 days
110 m hurdles (99/100 cm)
110 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
400 m hurdles (84.0 cm)	51.75	Sasha Alexeenko	Australia	5 December 2008		Canberra, Australia	17 years, 301 days
400 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
2000 m steeplechase	5:43.73	Aaron Hunt	Australia	5 December 1988		Sydney, Australia
3000 m steeplechase
High Jump	2.29 m	Tim Forsyth	Australia	12 August 1990		Plovdiv, Bulgaria	16 years, 360 days
Pole Vault	5.35 m	Paul Burgess	Australia	25 August 1996		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 11 days
	5.40 m	Sasha Zhoya	Australia/ France	16 March 2019	Jandakot Airport Track Classic	Perth, Australia	16 years, 264 days	[1]
	5.56 m	Sasha Zhoya	Australia/ France	1 April 2019	Australian Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	16 years, 280 days	[2]
Long Jump	8.01 m (+0.5 m/s)	Darcy Roper	Australia	16 July 2015	World Youth Championships	Cali, Colombia	17 years, 107 days
Triple jump	15.84 m	Dylan James	Australia	23 November 1919		Perth, Australia
Shot put (5 kg)	22.53 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	5 August 2010		Stockholm, Sweden	15 years, 228 days
	24.45 m #	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	19 December 2011	Auckland Millenium Shot Put Invitational	Auckland, New Zealand	16 years, 334 days	[3][4]
	22.86 m #	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	11 December 2010		Hastings, New Zealand	15 years, 356 days
Shot put (6 kg)	22.31 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	5 December 2011		North Shore City, New Zealand	16 years, 350 days	[5]
Shot put (7.26 kg)	20.38 m	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	5 December 2011		North Shore City, New Zealand	16 years, 350 days	[6][7]
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	68.44 m	Werner Reiterer	Australia	2 November 1985		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 279 days
Discus throw (1.75 kg)
Discus throw (2 kg)	60.10 m	Werner Reiterer	Australia	21 December 1985		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 328 days
Hammer throw (5 kg)	81.44 m	Matthew Denny	Australia	9 June 2013		Brisbane, Australia	17 years, 7 days
Hammer throw (6 kg)
Hammer throw (7.26 kg)
Javelin throw (700 g)
Javelin throw (800 g)
Octathlon	6491 pts	Jake Stein	Australia	6–7 July 2011	World Youth Championships	Lille, France	17 years, 171 days	[8][9]
	11.52 (-0.5 m/s) (100 m), 7.22 m (+1.2 m/s) (long jump), 17.22 m (shot put), 51.32 (400 m) / 14.25 (-1.0 m/s) (110 m hurdles), 1.98 m (high jump), 59.65 m (javelin), 2:52.93 (1000 m)
Decathlon (Youth)	6062 pts #	Theo Watson	Australia	8–9 May 2015	Oceania Youth Championships	Cairns, Australia	17 years, 5 days	[10]
	11.89 (0.0 m/s) (100 m), 6.18 m (0.0 m/s) (long jump), 11.72 m (shot put), 1.72 m (high jump), 56.28 (400 m) / 15.54 (-0.9 m/s) (110 m hurdles), 38.58 m (discus), 3.50 m (pole vault), 51.02 m (javelin), 5:00.13 (1500 m)
3000 m walk	11:42.04	Troy Sundstrom	Australia	21 February 1998		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 297 days
	11:32.9 h #	Douglas Connolly	Australia	27 November 1999		Sydney, Australia
5000 m walk	19:58.64	Douglas Connolly	Australia	12 December 1999		Sydney, Australia
10000 m walk (track)	42:40.54	Douglas Connolly	Australia	6 November 1999		Sydney, Australia
10 km walk (road)	42:47	Troy Sundstrom	Australia	9 June 1996		Canberra, Australia	15 years, 40 days
20000 m walk (track)
20 km walk (road)
50000 m walk (track)
50 km walk (road)
4 × 100 m relay	40.48		Australia	14 March 2014
4 × 400 m relay	3:14.39		Australia	30 March 1984
Swedish medley relay

Girls

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
100 m	11.20 (+1.2 m/s)	Raelene Boyle	Australia	15 October 1968	Olympic Games	Mexico City, Mexico	17 years, 113 days
200 m	22.74 (+2.0 m/s)	Raelene Boyle	Australia	18 October 1968	Olympic Games	Mexico City, Mexico	17 years, 116 days
400 m	51.80	Jana Pittman	Australia	12 December 1999		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 33 days
800 m	2:00.81	Keely Small	Australia	12 April 2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	16 years, 307 days	[11]
1000 m	2:43.08	Kayla Van der Linden	Australia	9 December 2019		Perth, Australia
1500 m	4:06.77	Georgie Clarke	Australia	30 January 2000	Optus Grand Prix	Hobart, Australia	15 years, 227 days
Mile	4:32.73	Susan Power	Australia	17 December 1992		Melbourne, Australia
2000 m	5:56.3	Angela Raines-White	Australia	27 November 1988		Brisbane, Australia
3000 m	9:02.11	Eloise Poppett	Australia	28 February 1999 [12]		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 111 days
5000 m	16:20.6	Nicole Chapple	Australia	5 March 1998		Melbourne, Australia	17 years, 24 days
	15:18.6 Mx	Eloise Poppett	Australia	18 October 1999		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 335 days
10000 m
Half marathon
Marathon
100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	13.14 (+0.5 m/s)	Sally McLellan	Australia	11 July 2003	World Youth Championships	Sherbrooke, Canada	16 years, 295 days
100 m hurdles (84 cm)
200 m hurdles	27.91	Jess Gulli	Australia	21 March 2003		Sydney, Australia	15 years, 2 days
400 m hurdles	56.23	Jana Pittman	Australia	18 December 1999		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 39 days
2000 m steeplechase	6:25.77	Melissa Rollison	Australia	1 May 2000		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 18 days
3000 m steeplechase	10:10.73	Melissa Rollison	Australia	25 February 2000	Australian Championships	Sydney, Australia	16 years, 318 days	[13]
High jump	1.96 m	Eleanor Patterson	Australia	7 December 2013	Australian All Schools Championships	Townsville, Australia	17 years, 199 days	[14]
Pole vault	4.40 m	Vicky Parnov	Australia	30 June 2007		Saulheim, Germany	16 years, 249 days
		Liz Parnov		17 April 2010		Perth, Australia	15 years, 343 days
		Nina Kennedy		24 July 2014		Eugene, United States	17 years, 110 days
	4.40 m	Olivia McTaggart	New Zealand	14 January 2017	Potts Classic	Hastings, New Zealand	17 years, 5 days	[15]
Long jump	6.55 m (+1.9 m/s)	Nicole Boegman	Australia	15 October 1983		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 224 days
Triple jump	13.25 m (+1.8 m/s)	Josie Nichol	Australia	18 March 2012		Sydney, Australia	16 years, 247 days
Shot put (3 kg)	17.54 m	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	2 June 2002		Hamilton, New Zealand	17 years, 239 days
Shot put (4 kg)
Discus throw	58.52 m	Dani Samuels	Australia	26 November 2005		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 184 days
Hammer throw (3 kg)	71.14 m	Alexandra Hulley	Australia	6 December 2014		Adelaide, Australia	17 years, 135 days
Hammer throw (4 kg)
Javelin throw (500 g)	61.47 m	Mackenzie Little	Australia	11 July 2013	World Youth Championships	Donetsk, Ukraine	16 years, 196 days
Heptathlon	5650 pts	Sharon Joklofsky	Australia	24 February 1985		Brisbane, Australia	16 years, 147 days
	100m H (wind) High jump Shot put 200m (wind) Long jump (wind) Javelin 800m
3000 m walk (track)	12:36.21	Natalie Saville	Australia	9 December 1995		Sydney, Australia	17 years, 153 days
5000 m walk (track)	21:39.03	Katie Hayward	Australia	22 October 2016		Brisbane, Australia
5 km walk (road)	22:44	Katie Hayward	Australia	30 July 2017		Brisbane, Australia
	22:39	Tanya Holliday	Australia	5 November 2005		Adelaide, Australia	17 years, 45 days	[16]
10000 m walk (track)
10 km walk (road)
20000 m walk (track)
20 km walk (road)
4 × 100 m relay	45.48	New South Wales Team O'Gready Thornton Geddes Kyriacou	Australia	14 March 2014		Sydney, Australia
4 × 200 m relay	1:38.41	New South Wales Team Gardner Bannister Turner Morton	Australia	9 December 2007		Sydney, Australia
Swedish relay	2:06.58	Jessica Gulli Olivia Tauro Megan Hill Jaimee-Lee Hoegbergen	Australia	17 July 2005	World Youth Championships	Marrakesh, Morocco	17 years, 120 days
4 × 400 m relay	3:42.47	Alton Babbage Hall Moroney	Australia	21 March 1982		Brisbane, Australia
4 × 800 m relay	8:57.62	Kajan Tomsett Neville Doyle	Australia	21 November 2005		Sydney, Australia
4 × 1500 m relay	18:22.47	Blacktown Team L. Harding-Delooze Evans Hopper A. Harding-Delooze	Australia	15 November 2015		Sydney, Australia

Indoor

Boys

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
50 m
60 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1000 m
1500 m
Mile
2000 m
3000 m
5000 m
50 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
50 m hurdles (99/100 cm)
50 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
60 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
60 m hurdles (99/100 cm)
60 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put (5 kg)
Shot put (6 kg)
Shot put (7.26 kg)
Heptathlon (Youth)
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m
Heptathlon (Junior)
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m
Heptathlon (Senior)
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m
5000 m walk
4 × 200 m relay
4 × 400 m relay

Girls

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
50 m
60 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1000 m
1500 m
Mile
2000 m
3000 m
5000 m
50 m hurdles (84 cm)
60 m hurdles (76.2 cm)
60 m hurdles (84 cm)
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put (3 kg)
Shot put (4 kg)
Pentathlon (Senior)
	60m H High jump Shot put Long jump 800m
3000 m walk (track)
4 × 200 m relay
4 × 400 m relay

References

General

• Oceania Records 29 September 2020 updated

Specific

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3. "Athletics: NZ shot putter Jacko Gill breaks world record". The New Zealand Herald. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
4. Ben Stanley (19 December 2011). "Jacko Gill topples another shot world record". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
5. "Gill improves on his New Zealand senior shot put record". IAAF. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
6. "Athletics: Gill grabs Olympics qualifier". nzherald. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
7. "Gill improves on his New Zealand senior shot put record". IAAF. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
8. "Octathlon Results". IAAF. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
9. David Martin (7 July 2011). "World Youth bests by Gill and Stein in - Lille 2011 - Day 2, Evening Report". IAAF. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
10. "Decathlon Results". qldathletics.org.au. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
11. "800m Round 1 Heat 1 Results" (PDF). gc2018.com. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
12. 20 February 1999 by IAAF source
13. "Australian Track & Field Championships - 1999-2000". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
14. "#Townsville2013: Records a plenty as Patterson excels". Athletics Australia. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
15. Matt Tewhatu (15 January 2017). "Olivia McTaggart breaks Eliza McCartney records at Potts Classic". Newshub. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
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