Oly Trials Melbourne 2012

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DAY-1

Qantas Melbourne Track Classic - 2/03/2012 to 3/03/2012

Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne
100 metres Open Women Preliminaries
Heat 1: (w: -4.1) 1, Sally Pearson, AUS, 11.83Q. 2, Toea Wisil, PNG, 12.04Q.
3, Hayley Butler, AUS, 12.37Q. 4, Kendra Hubbard, AUS, 12.46q. 5, Sophie
Taylor, AUS, 12.62. 6, Monique Williams, NZL, 12.71. 7, Christine Wearne, AUS,
12.78. 8, Fiona Morrison, NZL, 12.88.
Heat 2: (w: -3.4) 1, Melissa Breen, AUS, 11.93Q. 2, Charlotte Van Veenendaal,
AUS, 12.11Q. 3, Elly Graf, AUS, 12.41Q. 4, Crystal Attenborough, AUS, 12.43q.
5, Alicia Wrench-Doody, AUS, 12.43q. 6, Angela Byrt, AUS, 12.51. 7, Rochelle
Coster, NZL, 12.53. 8, Ashleigh Whittaker, AUS, 12.55. 9, Katie Moore, AUS,
12.75.
100 metres Open Women Finals
. 1: (w: -2.3) 1, Sally Pearson, AUS, 11.67. 2, Melissa Breen, AUS, 11.91. 3,
Toea Wisil, PN! G, 12.16. 4, Charlotte Van Veenendaal, AUS, 12.27. 5, Kendra
Hubbard, AUS, 12.41. 6, Elly Graf, AUS, 12.42. 7, Hayley Butler, AUS, 12.43.
8, Crystal Attenborough, AUS, 12.48. 9, Alicia Wrench-Doody, AUS, 12.54.
800 metres Open Women
. 1: 1, Tamsyn Manou, AUS, 2:02.64. 2, Katherine Katsanevakis, AUS, 2:05.32.
3, Angela Smit, NZL, 2:05.60. 4, Eliza Curnow, AUS, 2:05.66. 5, Ruriko Kubo,
JPN, 2:06.82. 6, Erica Fountain, AUS, 2:06.94. 7, Sianne Toemoe, AUS, 2:07.53.
8, Alice Platten, AUS, 2:10.24. --, Kylie Harris, AUS, DNF.
5000 metres Open Women
. 1: 1, Emily Brichacek, AUS, 15:43.86. 2, Lara Tamsett, AUS, 16:04.40. 3,
Sophie Barker, AUS, 16:40.87. 4, Celia Sullohern, AUS, 16:45.70. 5, Melissa
Vanderwater, AUS, 16:56.43. --, Victoria Mitchell, AUS, DNF. --, Coreena
Cleland, AUS, DNF. --, Georgie Clarke, AUS, DNF. --, Melinda Vernon, AUS, DNF.
3000 metres Steeple Open Women
. 1: 1, Victoria Mitchell, AUS, 9:57.85. 2, Genevieve LaCaze, AUS, 10:14.86.
3, Milly Clark, AUS, 10:17.63. 4, Melanie Daniels, AUS, 10:23.43. 5, Fiona
Crombie, NZL, 10:41.20. 6, Miranda Middleton, AUS, 10:50.42. 7, Hillory Davis,
AUS, 11:11.52.
Triple Jump Open Women
. 1: 1, Linda Allen, AUS, 13.70m, w:4.1. 2, Nneka Okpala, NZL, 12.84m, w:2.1.
3, Josie Nichol, AUS, 12.82m, w:1.7. 4, Ellen Pettitt, AUS, 12.71m, w:3.0. 5,
Natalie Apikotoa, AUS, 11.76m, w:3.0.
Shot Put Open Women
. 1: 1, Kim Mulhall, AUS, 15.57m. 2, Taylah Sengul, AUS, 14.27m. 3, Prabhjot
Rai, AUS, 13.66m. 4, Rebecca Direen, AUS, 13.20m. 5, Lauren Foote, AUS,
12.82m.
Hammer Throw Open Women
. 1: 1, Gabrielle Neighbour, AUS, 65.82m. 2, Natalie Debeljuh, AUS, 60.43m.
3, Danielle McConnell, AUS, 57.60m. 4, Mikayla Genge, AUS, 54.92m. 5, Rebecca
Direen, AUS, 48.36m.
Javelin! Throw Open Women
. 1: 1, Karen Clarke, AUS, 50.18m. 2, Chelsea Dyer, AUS, 38.31m. 3, Jessica
Gallagher, AUS, 37.31m.
200 metres Ambulant Women
. 1: (w: -4.3) 1, Angelique Booth, AUS, 28.48. 2, Stephanie Schweitzer, AUS,
28.74. 3, Katy Parrish, AUS, 31.41. 4, Torita Isaac, AUS, 32.16. 5, Jamie
McInerney, AUS, 34.90. 6, Paige Greco, AUS, 37.33. 7, Rachael Dodds, AUS,
37.64. 8, Erinn Walters, AUS, 37.90.
Long Jump Ambulant Women
. 1: 1, Jessica Gallagher, AUS, 5.27m, w:3.9. 2, Stephanie Schweitzer, AUS,
5.13m, w:2.9. 3, Katy Parrish, AUS, 4.27m, w:1.7. 4, Jamie McInerney, AUS,
3.42m, w:0.9.
100 metres Open Men Preliminaries
Heat 1: (w: -2.2) 1, Anthony Alozie, AUS, 10.58Q. 2, Isaac Ntiamoah, AUS,
10.65Q. 3, Masashi Eriguchi, JPN, 10.69Q. 4, Nicholas Hough, AUS, 10.72q. 5,
Patrick Fakiye, AUS, 10.76q. 6, Joshua Ross, ! AUS, 10.84q. 7, Adrian Mott, AUS,
11.00. 8, Carl Van Der Speck, NZL, 11.02.
Heat 2: (w: -2.6) 1, Aaron Rouge-Serret, AUS, 10.79Q. 2, Jake Hammond, AUS,
10.82Q. 3, Andrew McCabe, AUS, 10.83Q. 4, Tim Leathart, AUS, 10.86. 5, Matt
Davies, AUS, 10.87. 6, Liam Gander, AUS, 10.97. 7, Ben Jaworski, AUS, 10.99.
8, Simon Greig, AUS, 11.03. 9, Daiki Gotoh, JPN, 11.08.
400 metres Open Men
Heat 1: 1, Steven Solomon, AUS, 46.29Q. 2, Sean Wroe, AUS, 46.38Q. 3, Matt
Lynch, AUS, 47.10Q. 4, David Burke, AUS, 47.14q. 5, Andrew Boudrie, AUS,
48.08. 6, Youki Yamaguchi, JPN, 48.45.
Heat 2: 1, John Steffensen, AUS, 46.59Q. 2, Ben Offereins, AUS, 46.73Q. 3,
Joel Bee, AUS, 47.05Q. 4, Kevin Moore, AUS, 47.26q. 5, Alex Beck, AUS, 47.28.
6, Alexander Carew, AUS, 47.87. 7, Joshua Ralph, AUS, 48.90.
1500 metres Open Men
. 1: 1, Ryan Gregson, AUS, 3:38.51. 2, David Torrence, USA, 3:39.32. 3,
Nicholas Willi! s, NZL, 3:39.77. 4, Jeff Riseley, AUS, 3:40.50. 5, Asbel Kiprop,
KEN, 3:42.52. 6, Brenton Rowe, AUT, 3:42.68. 7, Ryan Foster, AUS, 3:45.89. 8,
Hamish Carson, NZL, 3:45.95. 9, Mark Blicavs, AUS, 3:46.11. 10, Josh Wright,
AUS, 3:46.46. 11, Paul Robinson, IRL, 3:48.97. 12, Brett Robinson, AUS,
3:49.92. 13, Jordan Williamsz, AUS, 3:58.60. --, Andrew Rotich, KEN, DNF.
400 metres Hurdles Open Men
. 1: 1, Brendan Cole, AUS, 49.39. (A qual) 2, Tristan Thomas, AUS, 50.23. 3, Michael
Bultheel, BEL, 51.30. 4, Mowen Boino, PNG, 51.35. 5, James Mortimer, NZL,
51.84. 6, Kazuaki Yoshida, JPN, 53.79. 7, Ollie Wurm, AUS, 55.37. --, James
Roff, AUS, DQ.
High Jump Open Men
. 1: 1, Liam Zamel-Paez, AUS, 2.18m. 2, Brandon Starc, AUS, 2.15m. 3, Chris
Armet, AUS, 2.10m. 4, David Snowdon, AUS, 2.05m. 5, Nick Moroney, AUS, 2.05m.
6, Josh Lodge, AUS, 2.! 00m. 7, Daniel Cobern, AUS, 1.90m.
Pole Vault Open Men
. 1: 1, Jackson Bews, AUS, 5.00m. 2, Brodie Cross, AUS, 5.00m. 3, Stephen
Cain, AUS, 4.85m. 3, James Filshie, AUS, 4.85m. 5, Max Mishchenko, RUS, 4.85m.
6, Cameron Sherry, AUS, 4.70m. 7, Christopher Clegg, AUS, 4.70m. --, Joel
Pocklington, AUS, NH.
Triple Jump Open Men
. 1: 1, Henry Frayne, AUS, 17.34m, w:2.4. 2, Tosen Oke, NGR, 16.85m, w:3.0.
3, Alwyn Jones, AUS, 16.14m, w:1.6. 4, Adam Rabone, AUS, 15.74m, w:4.2. 5,
Callan Rauchfuss, AUS, 15.36m, w:2.2. 6, Joshua Lumley, AUS, 15.30m, w:1.8. 7,
Ben King, AUS, 15.24m, w:4.4. 8, Ben Cox, AUS, 15.13m, w:1.8.
Hammer Throw Open Men
. 1: 1, Tim Driesen, AUS, 70.76m. 2, Simon Wardhaugh, AUS, 66.08m. 3, Huw
Peacock, AUS, 62.45m. 4, Will Higgins, AUS, 60.58m.
200 metres Ambulant Men
. 1: (w: -1.5) 1, Evan O’hanlon, AUS, 22.22. 2, Simon Patmore, AUS, 22.84. 3,
Gabe Cole, AUS, 23! .68. 4, Tim Sullivan, AUS, 25.05. 5, Jack Swift, AUS, 25.45.
6, Lachlan Cates, AUS, 26.55. 7, Sean Roberts, AUS, 27.91.
Long Jump Ambulant Men
. 1: 1, Tim Foster, AUS, 5.80m, w:3.0. 2, Mitchell Pink, AUS, 5.31m, w:2.0.
3, Sean Roberts, AUS, 5.03m, w:3.7.

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DAY-2

Qantas Melbourne Track Classic - 2/03/2012 to 3/03/2012
IAAF World Challenge
Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne
Women 200 metres Open
. 1: (w: 1.0) 1, 11 Sally Pearson, AUS, 23.02, A. 2, 29 Monica Brennan, AUS,
23.93. 2, 3 Hayley Butler, AUS, 23.93. 4, 16 Toea Wisil, PNG, 23.97. 5, 12
Charlotte Van Veenendaal, AUS, 24.32. 6, 15 Monique Williams, NZL, 24.75.
Women 400 metres Open
. 1: 1, 44 Joanne Cuddihy, IRL, 52.37. 2, 49 Tamsyn Manou, AUS, 52.77. 3, 52
Caitlin Pincott, AUS, 53.65. 4, 53 Caitlin Sargent, AUS, 53.75. 5, 55 Pirrenee
Steinert, AUS, 53.98. 6, 51 Lyndsay Pekin, AUS, 54.33. 7, 56 Sheena Steinert,
AUS, 54.39. 8, 54 Jaimee-Lee Starr, AUS, 55.09.
Women 400 metres B RACE Open
. 1: 1, 46 Abbey de la Motte, AUS, 54.83. 2, 335 Trudy Davidson, AUS, 55.69.
3, 368 Rebecca Pile, AUS, 55.78. 4, 43 Catriona Cuddihy, IRL, 55.83. ! 5, 50
Stephanie Mollica, AUS, 56.01. 6, 57 Tabitha West, AUS, 56.30. 7, 358 Rebecca
Luke, AUS, 56.38. 8, 359 Beth Vanderwaal, AUS, 56.64.
Women 1500 metres Open
. 1: 1, 74 Kaila McKnight, AUS, 4:10.52. 2, 68 Zoe Buckman, AUS, 4:10.62. 3,
70 Bridey Delaney, AUS, 4:15.74. 4, 76 Amanda Paulin, AUS, 4:17.26. 5, 72
Susan Kuijken, NED, 4:17.84. 6, 67 Jenny Blundell, AUS, 4:18.38. 7, 69 Camille
Buscomb, GBR, 4:19.66. 8, 77 Abigail Regan, AUS, 4:21.43. 9, 75 Hannah
Newbould, NZL, 4:23.96. 10, 71 Melissa Duncan, AUS, 4:24.50. 11, 73 Anna
Laman, AUS, 4:28.95. --, 59 Erica Fountain, AUS, DNF.
Women 100 metres Hurdles Open
. 1: (w: 0.8) 1, 11 Sally Pearson, AUS, 12.49C, A. 2, 329 Yvette Lewis, USA,
13.22. 3, 3 Hayley Butler, AUS, 13.47. 4, 330 Fiona Morrison, NZL, 13.88. 5,
86 Michelle Jenneke, AUS, 14.05. 6, 90 Abbie Taddeo, AUS, 14.26. 7, 328! Nicole
Anskaitis, AUS, 14.29. 8, 91 Virginia Trad, AUS, 14.43.
Women 400 metres Hurdles Open
. 1: 1, 100 Lauren Boden, AUS, 56.01. 2, 102 Tessa Consedine, AUS, 59.05. 3,
103 Jess Gulli, AUS, 59.16. 4, 101 Sarah Carli, AUS, 59.34. 5, 104 Sara Klein,
AUS, 59.83. 6, 105 Kate Ryan, AUS, 59.88. 7, 336 Chloe Jamieson, AUS, 62.12.
8, 335 Trudy Davidson, AUS, 62.16.
Women High Jump Open
. 1: 1, 114 Elizabeth Lamb, NZL, 1.83m. 2, 116 Ashleigh Reid, AUS, 1.80m. 3,
112 Jane Doolittle, AUS, 1.75m. 4, 113 Lauren Foote, AUS, 1.75m. 5, 115
Kaitlin Morgan, AUS, 1.75m. 6, 117 Denise Snyder, AUS, 1.70m. 7, 111 Emily
Crutcher, AUS, 1.70m.
Women Pole Vault Open
. 1: 1, 144 Elizabeth Parnov, AUS, 4.45m. 2, 140 Alana Boyd, AUS, 4.45m. 3,
145 Vicky Parnov, AUS, 4.15m. 4, 143 Paris McCathrion, AUS, 3.90m. 5, 142
Rebecca Marchant, AUS, 3.90m. --, 146 Jana Tankosic, AUS, NH. --, 141
Charmaine Luco! ck, AUS, NH.
Women Long Jump Open
. 1: 1, 132 Kerrie Perkins, AUS, 6.41m, w:-2.4. 2, 131 Jessica Penney, AUS,
6.38m, w:1.3. 3, 134 Brooke Stratton, AUS, 6.29m, w:-1.4. 4, 338 Talissa
Scott, AUS, 6.17m, w:-0.9. 5, 347 Linda Allen, AUS, 6.12m, w:-0.1. 6, 128
Chelsea Jaensch, AUS, 5.77m, w:-0.8. 7, 130 Corinna Minko, AUS, 5.71m, w:-1.1.
8, 149 Ashleigh Hamilton, AUS, 5.67m, w:-0.1.
Women Discus Throw Open
. 1: 1, 110 Dani Samuels, AUS, 61.30m. 2, 109 Kim Mulhall, AUS, 54.75m. 3,
106 Alifatou Djibril, TOG, 48.51m. 4, 312 Chelsea Dyer, AUS, 36.06m.
Women 100 metres Ambulant
. 1: (w: 0.6) 1, 18 Stephanie Schweitzer, AUS, 13.27. 2, 19 Angelique Booth,
AUS, 13.37. 3, 138 Katy Parrish, AUS, 14.82. 4, 21 Torita Isaac, AUS, 15.05.
5, 26 Jamie McInerney, AUS, 15.99. 6, 25 Kelly Cartwright, AUS, 16.54. 7, 23
Rachael Dodds, AUS, 17.33. 8, 2! 4 Michelle Errichiello, AUS, 17.93. 9, 27 Paige
Greco, AUS, 18.04. 10, 22 Erinn Walters, AUS, 18.24.
Men 100 metres Open Finals
. 1: (w: NWI) 1, 170 Isaac Ntiamoah, AUS, 10.35. 2, 161 Masashi Eriguchi,
JPN, 10.46. 3, 172 Aaron Rouge-Serret, AUS, 10.47. 3, 159 Anthony Alozie, AUS,
10.47. 5, 169 Andrew McCabe, AUS, 10.51. 6, 162 Patrick Fakiye, AUS, 10.56. 6,
308 Joshua Ross, AUS, 10.56. 8, 165 Jake Hammond, AUS, 10.59. 9, 166 Nicholas
Hough, AUS, 10.62.
Men 200 metres Open
. 1: (w: 0.7) 1, 169 Andrew McCabe, AUS, NT. 2, 170 Isaac Ntiamoah, AUS, NT.
3, 184 Craig Burns, AUS, NT 4, 172 Aaron Rouge-Serret, AUS, NT,
5, 167 Tim Leathart, AUS, NT. 6, 166 Nicholas Hough, AUS, NT.
7, 307 Ben Jaworski, AUS, NT. 8, 160 Matt Davies, AUS, NT.
Men 400 metres Open Finals
. 1: 1, 208 John Steffensen, AUS, 45.74. 2, 206 Ben Offereins, AUS, 45.96. 3,
207 Steven Solomon, AUS, 46.37. 4, 211 Sean Wroe, AUS! , 46.74. 5, 204 Matt
Lynch, AUS, 46.89. 6, 205 Kevin Moore, AUS, 47.31. 7, 202 David Burke, AUS,
47.44. --, 201 Joel Bee, AUS, DQ.
Men 800 metres Open
. 1: 1, 226 David Rudisha, KEN, 1:44.33, A. 2, 348 Jeff Riseley, AUS,
1:45.62. 3, 222 Lachlan Renshaw, AUS, 1:46.06. 4, 217 James Gurr, AUS,
1:46.45. 5, 228 Nick Symmonds, USA, 1:48.03. 6, 218 James Kaan, AUS, 1:48.31.
7, 339 Alexander Rowe, AUS, 1:48.70. 8, 230 Jordan Williamsz, AUS, 1:54.93.
–, 340 Sammy Tangui, KEN, DNF.
Men 800 metres B RACE Open
. 1: 1, 221 Johnny Rayner, AUS, 1:49.63. 2, 227 Darcy Sutton, AUS, 1:49.74.
3, 327 Andrew Rotich, KEN, 1:50.06. 4, 219 Brad Mathas, NZL, 1:50.16. 5, 326
Joel Hogarth, AUS, 1:50.41. 6, 214 David Bradney, AUS, 1:51.14. 7, 229 Edward
Vining, AUS, 1:51.45. 8, 215 Tom Fawthorpe, AUS, 1:51.68. 9, 216 Andy Giam,
AUS, 1:5! 1.76. --, 237 Mark Blicavs, AUS, DNF.
Men 5000 metres Open
. 1: 1, 260 Craig Mottram, AUS, 13:18.58, A. 2, 250 Collis Birmingham, AUS,
13:22.30. 3, 267 Ben True, USA, 13:26.56. 4, 261 Jake Robertson, NZL,
13:29.71. 5, 266 Andy Vernon, GBR, 13:33.52. 6, 257 Will Leer, USA, 13:36.15.
7, 245 Brenton Rowe, AUT, 13:36.80. 8, 265 Harry Summers, AUS, 13:42.78. 9,
264 Ben St Lawrence, AUS, 13:48.79. 10, 258 Nick McCormick, GBR, 13:58.41. 11,
251 Mitchel Brown, AUS, 13:59.71. 12, 238 Hamish Carson, NZL, 14:00.73. 13,
243 Brett Robinson, AUS, 14:03.72. 14, 254 Chris Hamer, AUS, 14:04.44. 15, 255
Steve Kelly, AUS, 14:06.39. 16, 253 Lee Emanuel, GBR, 14:20.46. 17, 249 Liam
Adams, AUS, 14:25.18. 18, 259 David McNeill, AUS, 14:47.14. --, 256 Jairus
Kipchoge, KEN, DNF. --, 341 Tyson Popplestone, AUS, DNF.
Men 110 metres Hurdles Open
. 1: (w: -0.2) 1, 273 Siddhanth Thingalaya, IND, 14.13. 2, 270 Ben Khongbut,
&n! bsp;AUS, 14.29. 3, 346 Mitchell Tysoe, AUS, 14.42. 4, 269 Greg Eyears, AUS, 14.55.
5, 272 Brent Newdick, NZL, 14.85. 6, 274 Pan Tong, AUS, 15.10.
Men 3000 metres Steeple Open
. 1: 1, 333 Youcef Abdi, AUS, 8:35.29. 2, 284 Peter Nowill, AUS, 8:35.76. 3,
283 James Nipperess, AUS, 8:41.94. 4, 281 Chris Discombe, AUS, 8:55.68. 5, 280
Daryl Crook, AUS, 8:56.06. 6, 277 Marvin Blanco, VEN, 9:00.50. 7, 282 Jordan
Nelson, AUS, 9:05.01. 8, 285 Brett Tingay, NZL, 9:12.56. 9, 279 James Coleman,
AUS, 9:25.40.
Men Long Jump Open
. 1: 1, 425 Henry Frayne, AUS, 8.09m, w:+0.0. 2, 404 Fabrice Lapierre, AUS,
8.00m, w:-0.3. 3, 420 Robbie Crowther, AUS, 7.86m, w:0.2. 4, 426 Chris Noffke,
AUS, 7.66m, w:0.1. 5, 421 Frederick Erin, FRA, 7.39m, w:0.2. 6, 422 Shaun
Fletcher, AUS, 7.33m, w:+0.0. 7, 423 Kurt Jenner, AUS, 7.14m, w:0.9. 8, 419
Tim McGuire, AUS, 6! .87m, w:NWI.
Men Shot Put Open
. 1: 1, 343 Dale Stevenson, AUS, 20.16m. 2, 432 Emanuele Fuamatu, SAM,
19.46m. 3, 344 Tom Walsh, NZL, 18.11m. 4, 433 Stuart Gyngell, AUS, 15.91m. 5,
300 Huw Peacock, AUS, 14.95m.
Men Discus Throw Open
. 1: 1, 299 Julian Wruck, AUS, 61.54m. 2, 295 Benn Harradine, AUS, 60.51m. 3,
4341 Scott Martin, AUS, 54.67m. 4, 325 Aaron Neighbour, AUS, 52.20m. 5, 294
Marshall Hall, NZL, 50.60m. 6, 296 Graham Hicks, AUS, 50.57m.
Men Javelin Throw Open
. 1: 1, 361 Jarrod Bannister, AUS, 82.97m, A. 2, 416 Stuart Farquhar, NZL,
80.97m. 3, 334 Joshua Robinson, AUS, 78.97m. 4, 418 Hamish Peacock, AUS,
76.83m. 5, 412 Luke Cann, AUS, 73.88m. 6, 410 William White, AUS, 71.54m. 7,
413 Brett Castle, AUS, 69.99m. 8, 411 Luanga Andria, AUS, 69.89m. 9, 417
Matthew Outzen, AUS, 66.27m.
Men 100 metres Ambulant
. 1: (w: 0.7) 1, 191 Evan O’hanlon, AUS, 10.88. 2, 178 Simon Pa! tmore, AUS,
11.20. 3, 318 Gabe Cole, AUS, 11.40. 4, 181 Tim Sullivan, AUS, 12.42. 5, 301
Tim Foster, AUS, 12.55. 6, 180 Jack Swift, AUS, 12.62. 7, 183 Lachlan Cates,
AUS, 12.77. 8, 428 Mitchell Pink, AUS, 12.89. 9, 309 Sean Roberts, AUS, 13.26.
Men 800 metres Ambulant
. 1: 1, 235 Matthew Silcocks, AUS, 1:56.98. 2, 232 Michael Roeger, AUS,
1:57.22. 3, 231 Sam Harding, AUS, 1:58.24. 4, 236 Ian Speed, AUS, 2:02.05. 5,
233 Brad Scott, AUS, 2:03.90. 6, 234 Andrew Semmens, AUS, 2:09.51.

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KK,

Whats the plan for the boys now? It had to have been a great overall experience for them.

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Someone has to be a little red faced kk they got no times in the 200m…

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An absolute disgrace that the timing failed. Its 2012 and that embarressing scenario occurs at an Olympic trials. Here they are expecting athletes to turn up be ready to go in ordinary conditions at ridiculous times and then they can’t even get the timing to work!! The young kid who won most definitely ran a B and quite possibly an A. If it had been the women’s 200m it would have been front page material instead it has simply been pushed aside. On a positive note the two QLD boys who were first and 3rd represent an exciting new breed of 200m specialist who will hopefully start filling the void in that events for the Aussie men’s sprinters. great job to them and their coaches and let’s hope the young fella who won runs a qualifier in the next few months and makes the team.

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It gets even better…

NWI = men’s 100m

Amateur hour

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“Jake Hammond, AUS, 10.59”

I’ve had some very interesting conversations with this guys coach.

also, didn’t josh ross retire from athletics? or is this that other josh ross I have heard about vaguely??

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Jake’s coach is a great believer in Charlie’s coaching systems and concepts.
Josh Ross changes direction like he changes his underwear, frequently. He did go to the US to have a go at making an NFL team through the draft (?) but then returned to Australia. He’s attracted some headlines but has not run much better than 10.5 so far this Oz summer. But he’s trimming down and he is a really nice guy, if a bit of a wanderer.

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Plan is the same for every sprinter in Australia except for Sally Pearson: keep on competing through to the Ausdtralian national championships in mid-April. Unfortunately the nationals are also in Melbourne where by mid-April the weather can be very cold and pretty feral - gee, come to think of it, just like it was at the Trials last weekend!

There will definitely be a men’s 4x4 relay team nominated for London to the Australian Olympic Committee whose team it ultimately is. The AOC will decide on the way they see the merits as to whether to endorse Athletics Australia’s nominations to the relay. But the selectors did not name anyone to the relay - not even John Steffensen, the only man to date with even an Olympic B-qualifying time to his credit. The selecftors will meet again on June 7 to reflect on performances at the Nationals and presumably then will name names. Therefore the only option is for Olympic hopefuls to reload and reset for the run up to the Nationals and hope that, without the artificial and inappropriate constrictions of having to compete in three obligatory meets (Adelaide, Perth & Sydney, plus the Trials in Melbourne) they and their coaches can properly plan to train and race when it suits the individual. One thing though is that they dare not leave their qualifying time effort for the Nationals due to the likely poor weather conditions. They need to regroup and take a crack at a fast one within the coming four weeks, imho.

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Can relays be nominated if their participation is based on a top 16 ranking at the beginning of July and / or the IAAF cut off? Or can a team be nominated subject to be in the top 16 at the cut off period.

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Really? I was under the impression he uses high volumes of intensive tempo with junior sprinters. He has produced a substantial number of very fast junior sprinters (for Australian standards), but none of them ever seems to improve much beyond the age of 18 or so. Hornblower, what do you know about his coaching methods?

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KK, any feeling for why there has been such a drop off in standard this year in the 400m in Oz? It seems all the top men are way off their pbs…

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yes, and he had quite a bit of one on one time with him. the good thing is that jake himself is a great believer in his coach, even if many in the establishment aren’t…

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ah, yes. I never did get back to you on that one, did I?

I get the impression that the other coach at that club tends to use high volumes of intensive tempo, from speaking to a couple of the younger guys there. jake’s coach is very much on the CF method. when he told another coach about how he trained his young athletes to be so successful the response was “if you don’t want to tell me, then don’t tell me. just don’t bulls**t me!”, and he walked off!

he’s had success at junior level and masters (ernie is a speedster and rarely runs further than 80m at training), but not quite in between yet. he’s invested a lot in jake, so hopefully he can be a bit of a trailblazer for him. there’s another kid in his stable not too far behind, though. a couple of years younger but also putting up some great times for a youngster…

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Mens 5km has some serious depth in that race.
David pushed the guys to a decient 800m time