Dominant win by Staufenburg in Otago 5000m champs
JANUS Staufenburg put in a dominant performance to claim one of several Otago titles on offer at the Caledonian Ground at the weekend.
The 20yearold ran 15min 02.95sec to claim the Otago 5000m championship, leading the seven men in the field by over a minute.
Hill CityUniversity’s Oliver O’Sullivan was second in 16min 13.78sec.
HCU claimed the women’s title when Georgia Mitchell ran 20min 11.33sec, beating 62yearold Julie Wilson by 1min 30sec.
In the Otago combined events championships, South Canterbury’s Christina Ryan put on a strong showing to win the senior women’s heptathlon with 4389 points.
She beat Taieri’s Rosie Elliott, who was second with 3702 points.
HCU’s Cameron Moffitt was the only competitor in the under18 men, although he put on a classy display, nevertheless.
His total of 5639 points rates highly in comparison to the top youth decathletes in the country in recent years.
Likewise, Taieri’s Isabella Henderson was the only under18 women to compete in the heptathlon and won with 2455 points.
Taieri’s Cole Gibbons claimed the under16 boys octathlon title from Luke Moffitt and Jamin Miller.
In the masters grade, Ariki’s Carolyn Wills accumulated 3980 points to secure the 3549 grade heptathlon title in her final year in the grade.
Elsewhere on the track, HCU’s Jake Paul and Fiona Centers ran 11.05sec and 12.48sec win to the men’s and women’s 100m respectively.
Barry Baxter was another to impress, the 77yearold running 14.97sec to set an Otago masters 75grade record.
Paul and Centers were the fastest men and women in the 200m as well — running 22.45sec and 25.21sec respectively.
Cameron Miller (HCU) won the 400m in 52.27sec, while Sophie Napper (HCU) was the fastest woman in 57.60sec.
Ariki’s Phil Napper kept up his recordbreaking ways, taking the Otago men’s 65grade masters 400m record in 66.10sec.
Leith’s Nathan Hill won the 1500m in 4min 06.42sec, a second ahead of Aspiring’s Gregor Findlay, while Rebekah Greene (HCU) was the fastest woman — and sixth overall — in 4min 26.08sec.
In field events, Taieri’s Ben Baines claimed the national para men’s 16andunder F38 discus record of 20.26m.
Zharna Beattie (Taieri) won the women’s open discus with 37.09m, while Jade Zaia (Taieri) was the best of the men with 42.09m.
Zaia also won the men’s senior shot put with 13.35m, while Beattie threw 11.89m to win the under18 women’s event.
Taieri’s Emma McKay jumped 10.51m to win the triple jump in the most notable jumping result.