Oceania Athletics Championships

The Oceania Championships is an athletics event run by the Oceania Athletics Association which is held every two years. It began in 1990 as an area championships for the IAAF member countries of Oceania. Initially conceived as a quadrennial event, the championships change to a biennial format in 1996. The event had junior events until a merger with the Oceania Youth Championships occurred in 2000. Both senior and youth events are now held at the championships in a unified competition. Athletics New Zealand and Athletics Australia generally send weakened teams due to the small size of the other competing nations.

After the year 2010, there were significant changes in the format of the competition being now held as Oceania area championships.

Summary of Championships

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1	1990	Suva	Fiji	July 11-14	National Stadium	38
2	1994	Auckland	New Zealand	February 23-26		41
3	1996	Townsville	Australia	November 28-30		42
4	1998	Nuku'alofa	Tonga	August 27-28	Teufaiva Stadium	39
5	2000	Adelaide	Australia	August 24-26	Santos Stadium	40
6	2002	Christchurch	New Zealand	December 12-14	Queen Elizabeth II Park	39
7	2004	Townsville	Australia	December 16-18	Townsville Sports Reserve	38
8	2006	Apia	Samoa	December 12-16	Apia Park	38
9	2008	Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	June 25 - 28	Oleai Sports Complex	42
10	2010	Cairns	Australia	September 23 - 25	Barlow Park	42

Oceania Area Championships in Athletics

In the year 2011, the sub-regional Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian Championships were replaced by the new Oceania Regional Championships, using the new "East–West" format. Medals are now awarded for athletes from both the Eastern and the Western Region by separating the results correspondingly (see here for the regional classification). From 2012 on, the format was also adopted for the Oceania Championships with a name change to Oceania Area Championships (resulting in doubling the number of medals), now being held annually.

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1	2011	Apia	Samoa	June 21 - 23	Apia Park
2	2012	Cairns	Australia	June 27 - 29	Barlow Park
3	2013	Papeete	French Polynesia	June 3 - 5
4	2014	Rarotonga	Cook Islands	June 25 - 27
5	2015	Auckland	New Zealand	June 24 - 26

Sub-Regional Championships

Between 2000 and 2009, sub-regional championships were held for three regions.

Melanesian Championships

Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu competed for the Melanesian Championships.

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1	2001	Suva	Fiji
2	2003	Lae	Papua New Guinea	April 25-27
3	2005	Lae	Papua New Guinea	April 22-24	Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium
4	2007	Cairns	Australia	August 14-19	Barlow Park
5	2009	Gold Coast	Australia	August 4-8	Griffith University

Micronesian Championships

Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Northern Mariana Islands, and Palau competed for the Micronesian Championships.

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1	2003	Koror	Palau
2	2005	Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	December 14-15	Oleai Sports Complex
3	2007	Yona	Guam	December 14-15	Leo Palace Resort
4	2009	Gold Coast	Australia	August 4-8	Griffith University

Polynesian Championships

American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu competed for the Polynesian Championships.

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1	2000	Apia	Samoa
2	2005	Papeete	French Polynesia	December 14-15
3	2007	Rarotonga	Cook Islands	October 16-17
4	2009	Gold Coast	Australia	August 4-8	Griffith University

See also

• List of Oceania Athletics Championships records

External links

• Official Athletics Oceania website
• List of previous winners