HANDBOOK OF RECORDS & RESULTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to the following for their support and contribution to Athletics Australia and the production of this publication. Rankings Paul Jenes (Athletics Australia Statistician) Records Ronda Jenkins (Athletics Australia Records Officer) Results Peter Hamilton (Athletics Australia Track & Field Commission) Paul Jenes, David Tarbotton Official photographers of Athletics Australia Getty Images Cover Image Scott Martin, VIC Athletics Australia Suite 22, Fawkner Towers 431 St Kilda Road Melbourne Victoria 3004 Australia Telephone 61 3 9820 3511 Facsimile 61 3 9820 3544 Email [email protected] athletics.com.au ABN 35 857 196 080 athletics.com.au Athletics Australia CONTENTS 2006 Handbook of Records & Results CONTENTS Page Page Messages – Athletics Australia 8 Australian Road & Cross Country Championships 56 – Australian Sports Commission 10 Mountain Running 57 50km and 100km 57 Athletics Australia Life Members & Merit Awards 11 Marathon and Half Marathon 58 Honorary Life Members 12 Road Walking 59 Recipients of the Merit Award of Athletics Australia 13 Cross Country 61 All Schools Cross Country 63 2006 Results Australian All Schools & Youth Athletics Championships 68 Telstra Selection Trials & 84th Australian Athletics Championships 15 Women 69 Women 16 Men 80 Men 20 Schools Knockout National Final 91 Australian Interstate Youth (Under 18) Match 25 Cup Competition 92 Women 26 Plate Competition 96 Men 27 Telstra A-Series Meets (including 2007 10,000m Championships at Zatopek) 102 Australian Under 20 & Under 23 Athletics Championships 29 Performances of Australian Athletes in International Competition 113 Women 30 Ekidens 114 Men 33 Marathons & Road Races 115 Telstra Australian Club Championships 36 Cross Country 116 Women 37 Track & Field 118 Men 39 Walks 132 Telstra Australian Club Relay Championships 41 Women 42 2006 Records 134 Men 43 Outdoor records as at December 31, 2006 135 Telstra Australian Combined Events Championships 45 Indoor records as at December 31, 2006 152 Australian Youth Combined Events Championships 48 Australian Athletes with a Disability Underage Championships 49 2006 Rankings 156 Women 50 Australian Rankings List – January 1 to December 31, 2006 157 Men 52 Australian All-Time List 249 Abbreviations Used 323 Statistical Publications 323 athletics.com.au Athletics Australia MESSAGES 2006 Handbook of Records & Results Thank you to all our sponsors and supporters, Kerryn McCann celebrates her gold medal especially our principal sponsor Telstra who has win in the women’s marathon at the supported athletics for many years and continues 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games to be a fantastic supporter of sport in Australia. Thanks also to our new footwear and apparel sponsor, Asics, and other supporters Accor and SBS. A special thank you to the Australian Sports Commission for their consistent and The Athletics Australia Handbook of Records growing support of athletics. Also thanks to the & Results is the definitive guide to Australian Australian Olympic Committee, the Australian athletics statistics, and is a valuable tool for Paralympic Committee and the Australian all statisticians, media, athletes, coaches, Commonwealth Games Association. administrators, and those with a general interest The 2006/07 domestic season features several in athletics. This publication includes results, National Series meets and the peak of the records and rankings for 2006 and is the 56th domestic competition, the Telstra A-Series, year of issue for the Handbook. concluding at the Telstra Selection Trials and President’s message Australian Athletics Championships. Our athletes will have to show extraordinary feats of physical Enclosed you’ll find the records and results from and mental endurance to chase selection to the 2006, a sensational year of athletics. Twenty-eight 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Australians were ranked in the top twenty - ten Japan, where they will be competing at a World who’d reached the top ten, thirteen personal bests Championships in our time zone for the first time produced over the European season and three in 15 years. Australian records broken, plus World Cup wins I wish all athletes, their coaches, family and to Craig Mottram and Steve Hooker and a World supporters all the very best for their athletics Athletics Final victory to Paul Burgess. goals in 2007. We certainly enjoyed much success at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games with some outstanding performances, an incredible Rob H Fildes OAM group of juniors coming through to lead us to President the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and beyond and Athletics Australia a medal tally that any country would be proud of. Australia was the number one country in athletics with 41 medals in total. 8 athletics.com.au 9 Athletics Australia 2006 Handbook of Records & Results The Commission works closely with a range of sports, state and local governments, schools and community groups to ensure sport is well run and accessible, so that everyone can participate and enjoy the benefits. The Commission also works through the Australian The Australian Sports Commission is proud Institute of Sport and the respective state and to support Athletics Australia. territory institutes and academies of sport, to The Australian Government is a strong develop Australia’s elite sportsmen and women. supporter of Australian sport. The Australian The Australian Sports Commission strives to Sports Commission is the government body that uphold the integrity of sport through innovative develops, manages and invests in sport at all 2006 programs that promote ethical sporting practices levels in Australia. and improvements in access to quality sporting In 2006-07, the Australian Government, through opportunities for all Australians. the Australian Sports Commission has allocated AWARD WINNERS 2006 was an outstanding year for Australian nearly $5 million to Athletics Australia in support athletics and I congratulate all concerned, for of its programs, including high performance, sport the enormous steps taken by the sport. development, Indigenous sport and the Australian Institute of Sport Athletics program. In addition, $306,000 has been allocated to Australian track Mark A Peters and field athletes under the Australian Government Chief Executive Officer Sports Training Grants scheme. Australian Sports Commission 10 11 Athletics Australia AWARD WINNERS 2006 Handbook of Records & Results ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA RECIPIENTS OF THE MERIT AWARD OF ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA (Formerly the Australian Athletic Union 1982-1989) (Elected by the AAU of A 1968-1978) (Formerly the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia 1927-1982) Mr JD Bailey AM Q 1976 Mr TF Hantke † W 1968 (Formerly the Amateur Athletic Union of Australasia 1897-1927) Mr JB Barlow † Q 1968 Mr WW Huxley † Q 1973 Founded 1897 Mr EW Barwick † T 1968 Mr HJ Lowe † S 1970 MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETICS FEDERATIONS Mr FJW Budge † S 1977 Mr PS McCavanagh † S 1969 Affiliated with: Australian Olympic Committee and Australian Commonwealth Games Association Mr HG Carruthers MBE † N 1970 Mr AH McIvor † S 1976 Mr R Clemson † V 1968 Mr E Moore † V 1974 MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS Mr JW Cook † Q 1973 Mr CHF Morgan † S 1968 Australian Capital Territory Athletics Mr RC Corish BEM † N 1970 Mr FW Napier OAM † W 1977 Athletics New South Wales Mr TB Dodds † S 1968 Mr JL Patching AO OBE V 1968 Northern Territory Athletics Mr JE Draper † V 1971 Mr AE Robinson † V 1968 Queensland Athletics Mr HJ Eastaughffe † Q 1968 Mr FA Rose † T 1968 Athletics South Australia Mr ED Eastham † V 1978 Mr NJ Ruddock AM T 1975 Athletics Tasmania Mr JK Faulkner † S 1968 Mr VB Sharp MBE † S 1968 Athletics Victoria Mr RC Frith OAM † N 1975 Mr GB Stringer † V 1970 AthleticA (Western Australia) Mr CH Gardiner QJM † V 1968 Mr WC Thompson † Q 1968 Mr ER Goodwin † Q 1974 Mr FT Treacy OBE † W 1968 HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Mr ER Graham † S 1978 Mr PD Walsh † N 1971 Mr JH Hanman † N 1972 Mr RPB White † N 1970 (Elected by AAU of A) (Elected by AWAAU) (Elected by the A.W.A.A.U. 1971-1978) Mr Hugh R Weir CBE † (1957) Miss Gwen Bull OAM † (1962) Mrs P Andersson V 1971 Mrs N Greenham OAM S 1973 Mr C Ronald Aitken CBE † (1965) Miss Nell Gould OAM BEM † (1962) Mrs E Armstrong † V 1971 Mrs J Harmey N 1971 Mr Arthur J Hodsdon MBE † (1965) Mrs Doris Magee AM MBE † (1962) Mrs D Barnes † S 1976 Mrs A Kennedy BEM † V 1971 Mr Norman G Hutton † (1968) Miss Lillian Neville OAM † (1962) Mrs I Bennett V 1974 Mrs N Keily † V 1974 Mr Leonard B Curnow OBE † (1968) Mrs Doris Willson † (1964) Mrs G Bergman N 1978 Mrs Y Lanyon-Owen Q 1971 Mr Robert E Graham OBE † (1968) Mrs Mavis Ebzery OAM † (1967) Mrs L Berzinski † V 1974 Mrs E McBeth † V 1971 Mr F Theo Treacy OBE † (1969) Mrs Maisie McQuiston BEM † (1971) Mrs J Bonwick OAM Q 1971 Mrs S McMinn AM JP Q 1971 Mr George Soper † (1969) Mrs Margaret Cahill OAM † (1972) Mrs A Burow V 1974 Mrs M McQuiston BEM † V 1974 Mr C Herbert Gardiner QJM † (1974) Mrs Mabel Robinson MBE † (1973) Mrs M Cahill OAM † S 1972 Mrs P McWillie † W 1973 Mr H George Carruthers MBE † (1977) Mrs Joyce Bonwick OAM (1978) Mrs L Cavanagh † S 1971 Mrs D Magee AM MBE † N 1971 Mrs G Chester † W 1973 Miss E Morris † V 1974 (Elected by Athletics Australia) Mrs D Clarke † N 1971 Miss L Neville OAM † V 1971 Mr Thomas C Blue AM BEM † (1980) Mr George W Tempest (1994) Mrs E Clay † W 1975 Mrs Y Neasbey † N 1977 Mr Clive D Lee AM (1984) Mr John Bailey AM (1995) Mrs M Cuthbert † N 1978 Mrs BJ Pearl OAM S 1976 Mrs Flo Wrighter OAM