Standout performances delivered a powerful medal haul for New Zealand on day two of the Oceania Athletics Championships in Darwin, Australia, yesterday.
Dash star Zoe Hobbs declared her Commonwealth Video games ambitions of “a medal” after claiming gold within the senior ladies’s 100m, on Might 19.
Gold medal performances got here thick and quick, led by Hobbs on the observe and Jacko Gill within the senior males’s shot put, whereas Ben Bidois claimed victory within the senior males’s 1500m.
Para athletes additionally impressed, says Athletics New Zealand, with Danielle Aitchison profitable the senior ladies’s para 200m, and Mitch Joynt taking gold within the senior males’s para 200m.
Within the underneath‑18 ranks, Kingston Ryan gained the boys’s 1500m, main in a Kiwi podium sweep with Alex Macbeth in silver and Ronin Dickens in bronze locations respectively.
Rianco Haggard claimed the 400m hurdles, Casey Day secured lengthy soar gold, and the U18 ladies’s 4x100m relay workforce of Jordan Viljoen (of Pakuranga Faculty), Emkhe Joubert, Sayde Kawau and Maddie Early mixed for a dominant win.
Depth throughout center‑distance and discipline occasions was underlined by a powerful assortment of silver medals, with Jake Lomas second within the senior males’s 1500m, Nick Palmer added one other podium end within the senior males’s shot put, whereas Imogen Skelton cleared her technique to runner-up within the senior ladies’s excessive soar.
Bronze medals rounded out the prize haul, together with Paige Dobson within the U18 ladies’s 1500m, Daequan Su within the U18 lengthy soar, and the U18 males’s 4x100m relay workforce of Connor Brady, Alex Walker, Reiley Thomas and Haggard.
One of many meet’s defining moments got here within the senior males’s 400m, the place Lex Revell‑Lewis completed fourth however rewrote the nationwide report books, stopping the clock in 45.82 seconds to set a brand new New Zealand report.
When requested submit‑race about objectives for the upcoming Commonwealth Video games, Hobbs stored the message easy and emphatic, stating the aim was “a medal”.
