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Athletics Australia Season Guide 2001 1 2001 Season Guide Telstra Athletics Grand Prix & Telstra Australian Track and Field Championships Incorporating the 50th year of Records and Results The 2001 Season Guide was produced by the Athletics Australia Marketing and Communications Department Producers: Julian Murphy & Tina Folmer Media Manager: Stephen Lock Marketing Manager: Chris Green Publications and PR Manager Jilian Mulally Acknowledgments: Telstra, IAAF, Paul Jenes, Dan Suchy, Ronda Jenkins, Peter Hamilton, David Tarbotton, ATFS Athletics Annual 2000, Australian Paralympic Committee Photos: All Sport Phone: (61 3) 9329 2344 Sporting Images Phone: (61 7) 3852 5099 Official Photographers: Sport The Library Phone: (61 3) 9646 9050 Design/Printing: Imaging Power Phone: (61 3) 9562 6044 Cover Images (L to R) : Dmitri Markov, Tatiana Grigorieva, Jana Pittman, Jai Taurima, Louise Sauvage, Justin Anlezark, Cathy Freeman. 2 Athletics A ustr alia Season Guide 2001 CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA ................................................................................ 3 MESSAGE FROM TELSTRA ........................................................................................................ 4 CONTACT DIRECTORY ................................................................................................ 5 AUSTRALIAN ATHLETICS FEDERATION (AAF) ......................................................................... 6 MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS ........................................................................................................... 7 STATE INSTITUTES & ACADEMIES OF SPORT - ATHLETICS .................................................. 8 MEDIA CONTACTS ....................................................................................................................... 9 WEBSITE & EMAIL INFORMATION SERVICE ............................................................................ 9 CALENDAR ................................................................................................................... 11 AUSTRALIAN ATHLETICS EVENTS ........................................................................................... 12 INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ATHLETICS FEDERATION EVENTS ........................................... 16 TEAMS SELECTION CRITERIA 2001 ........................................................................ 17 ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA GENERAL SELECTION POLICY ....................................................... 18 AUSTRALIAN SEASON 2001 ........................................................................................ 35 TELSTRA ATHLETICS GRAND PRIX INFORMATION ............................................................... 36 GENERAL RULES AND ATHLETE AWARDS ............................................................................. 38 ALLOCATION OF EVENTS ......................................................................................................... 42 SEASON PREVIEW .................................................................................................................... 43 MEDIA AWARDS ........................................................................................................................ 50 PAST GRAND PRIX WINNERS .................................................................................................. 51 MEET RECORDS ....................................................................................................................... 53 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS WINNERS 1987 - 2000 ........................................................ 60 RESULTS 2000................................................................................................................ 71 AUSTRALIAN OPEN & UNDER 20 TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS ................................ 72 AUSTRALIAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS .................................................................................... 83 AUSTRALIAN UNDERAGE TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS ............................................. 86 AUSTRALIAN COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS ........................................................... 92 AUSTRALIAN UNDER AGE COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS ..................................... 96 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR ATHLETES WITH A DISABILITY ................................. 98 TELSTRA ATHLETICS TRIALS ................................................................................................. 104 AUSTRALIAN ALL SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS .................................. 110 ALL SCHOOL ATHLETES OF THE MEET AWARDS - 2000 .................................................... 123 SCHOOLS KNOCKOUT ............................................................................................................ 124 ROAD, WALKS, CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS ........................................................ 130 2000 GRAND PRIX SERIES RESULTS ................................................................................... 130 1999 ZATOPEK CLASSIC - MELBOURNE ............................................................................ 138 2000 ZATOPEK CLASSIC ........................................................................................................ 158 2001 SYDNEY YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL ........................................................................... 158 MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS 2000 ...............................................161 RECORDS AS AT 31st DECEMBER 2000 .................................................................. 173 RANKINGS....................................................................................................................191 WORLD TOP 50 RANKED AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES IN 2000 ............................................... 191 AUSTRALIAN ALL-TIME LIST .................................................................................................. 193 AUSTRALIAN 2000 OPEN LISTS ............................................................................................. 230 AUSTRALIAN 2000 JUNIOR LISTS .......................................................................................... 277 ATHLETE PROFILES ................................................................................................ 287 AA LIFE MEMBERS & MERIT AWARD RECIPIENTS ......................................... 415 PUBLICATIONS .......................................................................................................... 419 Athletics Australia Season Guide 2001 3 MESSAGE FROM ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA The year 2001 represents the start of a new era for Australian athletics. Following the success of the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games and the continued progress towards the unification of athletics in this country, this year looms as one of the sport’s most important in its history. Later this year the world’s focus will once again be on Australia as the Goodwill Games come to Brisbane and Melbourne hosts the prestigious IAAF Grand Prix Final. While the world’s best athletes will be in town for those events in September, Athletics Australia’s annual showpiece is the Grand Prix Series which continues to expand in 2001. From 2001, Australia’s leading telecommunications company Telstra will be the major sponsor of Athletics Australia. We are excited at the prospect of working with Telstra particularly in the presentation of the Telstra Athletics Grand Prix and Australian Championships. Australia’s top athletes including Olympic medallists Cathy Freeman, Jai Taurima and Tatiana Grigorieva, Paralympic medallists such as Louise Sauvage, Tim Sullivan and Neil Fuller, and World Junior medallists Jana Pittman, Georgie Clarke and Aaron Fish are set to take part in their bids to earn selection for Australia at the 2001 World Championships. This year three regional centres will host national athletics events as Athletics Australia acknowledges the abundance of talent in athletes and officials, and the increasing number of venues in non-metropolitan areas. The first Grand Prix of the year will be held in Newcastle, the Australian Youth Championships take place in Bendigo while the Selection Trial for the World Cross Country Championships is in Ballarat. Fox Sports continue their tremendous association with Australian athletics and will once again feature the Telstra Athletics Grand Prix and Australian Championships with free-to-air right’s holder Nine Network. Athletics Australia acknowledges the outstanding contribution of its associate sponsors, New Balance, Ansett Australia, TNT, Mannatech, print media partner News Limited, the Australian Sports Commission, and the state institutes and academies of sport. In another initiative for the sport, Athletics Australia is proud to present this expanded Season Guide in 2001 - a combination of the annual Handbook of Records and Results and Media Guide. This resource will be an invaluable guide to the domestic season and provides the latest statistics for the avid athletics fan or those wanting to learn a bit more. 2001 should be another milestone in Athletics Australia’s history, and we hope you enjoy the Telstra Athletics Grand Prix and Telstra Australian Championships and witness many Australian athletic feats throughout the year. Andrew Forrest Chairman 4 Athletics A ustr alia Season Guide 2001 MESSAGE FROM TELSTRA This year’s Telstra Athletics Grand Prix Series is an important program in Australia’s sporting calendar and one that promises exceptionally high quality track and field performances. It also comes at an exciting time for athletics in