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Inaugurated. 1990. Most recent. 2024. Organised by. Oceania Athletics Association. Website. athletics-oceania .com. The Oceania Athletics Championships is an athletics event organized by the Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) for the World Athletics (WA; formerly the IAAF) member associations of the Oceania region.
Masters athletics. Masters Athletics managed by World Masters Athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of 35 years of age and over organized by World Masters Athletics. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair competition).
Athletics Australia (AA) was originally the Athletic Union of Australasia, an amateur group founded in 1897. In 1928, New Zealand broke away to form its own national body, leaving what was known as the Amateur Athletics Union of Australia (AAU). In 1932, an Australian Women's Amateur Athletics Union (AWAAU) was instituted and remained ...
The Australian Masters Games is a biennial sporting event and the largest multi-sport participation sporting event in Australia. Garry Daly as President of the Confederation of Australian Sport proposed the concept of Masters Games to the Northern Territory government. [1] It went on to establish the Central Australian Masters Games in 1986.
Below is a list of current Australian records in athletics as ratified by the national governing body, Athletics Australia.There are two types of Australian records. An Australian record is the best time recorded anywhere in the world by an athlete or team holding Australian citizenship whilst an Australian All Comers record is the best time recorded in Australia by an athlete or team.
The Australian Athletics Championships have been conducted since 1890. The most successful athlete at the Championships has been thrower Warwick Selvey who won 19 championships events. Below is a list of Australian champions in athletics by event. Through 1965, the distances run were in Imperial units (yards).
The World Masters Athletics Championships are the biennial championships for masters athletics events held under the auspices of World Masters Athletics, formerly called the World Association of Veteran Athletes, for athletes 35 years of age or older. [1] [2] : 75 Masters athletes are divided into 5-year age groups.
The Oceania Masters Athletics ( OMA) is a regional body of World Masters Athletics , [1] responsible for organizing masters athletics championship competitions for athletes from the countries of Oceania. It was founded in 1984 as Oceania Association of Veteran Athletes ( OAVA) or Oceania Association of Master Athletes ( OAMA ); [2] the name was ...