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OFFICIAL PROGRAMME Saturday 27 February 2021 The Trusts Arena, Auckland
CONTENTS
Welcome 2
About the Event 3
Key Athlete Profiles 4
Programme 11
Start Lists 12
Results Access Information 16
Tokyo Entry Standards 17
NZ Track and Field Champs 19
Sir Graeme Douglas International 2020 20
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WELCOME ABOUT THE EVENT
On behalf of Athletics New Zealand, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the The Sir Graeme Douglas International: Bronze Level Meet
Douglas Pharmaceuticals Sir Graeme Douglas International, presented by
Now in its seventh year, the Sir Graeme Douglas International has become a highlight of the New
Harcourts Cooper & Co. Zealand track and field season with international competitors taking on a line-up of world-class Kiwi
athletes.
We are delighted you are joining us for one of the leading athletics meetings in New Zealand and
hope that you enjoy the experience.
This year the Sir Graeme Douglas International again features as part of the World Athletics
Continental Tour, which is one step below the Diamond League.
Special thanks to Douglas Pharmaceuticals and the Douglas family for supporting this meeting in
honour of Sir Graeme Douglas.
Last year’s event marked the first time a World Athletics meet of this level had been held in New
Zealand and gave our athletes the chance to experience an international-level meet on home soil.
We are also pleased to welcome Harcourts Cooper & Co on board this year and wish to extend our
gratitude for their support.
While international athletes are unfortunately not able to take part in 2021 due to the pandemic,
the competition retains its high-level status and holds the distinction of being just the second
At Athletics NZ, we are passionate about providing opportunities for athletes to achieve their full
Continental Tour meeting to take place anywhere in the world this year.
potential, from children just starting out through to the world-class performers you will see today.
The Continental Tour is one of the main pathways to qualification for major world events and, in
As a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze level meet, the points on offer at the Sir Graeme
2021, that means the big ones – the rescheduled Olympics and Paralympics.
Douglas International are among the highest available in the Oceania region.
Nine Kiwi athletes have already met the qualifying standards for Tokyo with 1500m runner Sam
Nine Kiwi athletes have already met the qualifying standard for the Olympic Games but many more
Tanner recently joining Tom Walsh, Jacko Gill, Dame Valerie Adams (all shot put), Zane Robertson,
are still hoping to do so and this evening provides them with an ideal opportunity to take a step
Malcolm Hicks (both marathon), Camille Buscomb (5000m/10,000m), Quentin Rew (race walk) and
towards Tokyo.
Lauren Bruce (hammer).
While we unfortunately cannot welcome international athletes this year due to the pandemic, we
Walsh, Gill, Adams and Buscomb are all taking part this evening and will be joined by a host of the
are lucky in this country to have some world-class stars of our own and many will be in action this
country’s other top athletes across a wide range of disciplines.
evening.
Proudly supported by Douglas Pharmaceuticals and Harcourts Cooper & Co, the event is named in
That list is headed by the likes of Olympic and world champion Dame Valerie Adams and fellow
honour of Sir Graeme Douglas.
world champion and Olympic medallist Tom Walsh but there is no shortage of talent elsewhere in a
very strong field.
Douglas Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1967 by Sir Graeme, a West Auckland chemist who
dispensed prescription medicines. In 1980, he turned his hand to manufacturing and, by the 1990s,
The Douglas Track and Field at Trusts Arena is one of New Zealand’s finest athletics venues and we
he was successfully researching and developing his own products for the domestic and international
are looking forward to a memorable evening.
markets.
Welcome once again and we hope you enjoy watching our top athletes in action. Thanks for your
Today, Douglas is New Zealand’s largest family-owned healthcare company, employing over 700
support and we hope to see you again next year.
people and exporting to 40 countries around the world.
Peter Pfitzinger
Sir Graeme was knighted in 2010 for services to philanthropy and athletics. He passed away in 2016
Chief Executive Officer
at the age of 87 and Athletics NZ is proud to host an event of this standing in his honour.
Athletics NZ
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KEY ATHLETE PROFILES
DAME VALERIE ADAMS CAMILLE BUSCOMB
36, Shot Put 30, Distance
Pakuranga Athletics Club/Auckland Hamilton City Hawks/Waikato-Bay of Plenty
PB: 21.24m 1500m PB: 4:13.47
• A four-time world champion, four-time indoor • Has already met the qualifying standard
world champion, two-time Olympic gold for the Tokyo Olympics in the 5000m and
medallist and three-time Commonwealth 10,000m distances
Games gold medallist • A versatile runner, she has run mainly in the
• Named as World Athlete of the Year in 2014, 800m and 1500m this summer
she was just the third woman to ever win world • In good form after earning three
titles at junior, youth and senior level in any wins in a row – the New Zealand Mile
event Championships, International Track Meet
• Chosen as New Zealand Sportswoman of the 800m and Porritt Classic 1500m
Year seven times in a row from 2006, she holds • Recently got engaged to a fellow athlete
the Commonwealth, Oceania and national who is also competing this evening, 400m
records, as well as the World Championships hurdles national record holder Cameron
and World Indoor Championships records French
• A sibling of basketball star Steven Adams and
Para athlete Lisa Adams, and proud mum to
daughter Kimoana, three, and son Kepaleli, one
TOM WALSH HOLLY ROBINSON
28, Shot Put 26, Javelin (F46)
South Canterbury Athletic Club/Canterbury Athletics Taieri/Otago
PB: 22.90m PB: 45.73m
• The greatest male shot putter New Zealand • A familiar face to many sports fans after
has produced, his massive PB is one of the acting as New Zealand’s flagbearer at the
world’s top throws of all time Rio Paralympics in 2016
• Won bronze at the Rio Olympic Games in • Won silver at both the Rio Paralympics and
2016 with 21.36m and claimed the World the Commonwealth Games two years later
Championships title the following year with • Has also won two silvers and a bronze at the
22.03m World Championships
• Has also won two World Indoor • Born in Hokitika, she has a twin brother and
Championships titles and two medals at the her father represented the West Coast in
Commonwealth Games – gold in 2018 and rugby
silver in 2014
• Is the reigning national record holder
but is currently facing a challenge to his
supremacy from the on-form Jacko Gill
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KEY ATHLETE PROFILES
ZOE HOBBS HAMISH KERR
23, Sprint 24, High Jump
North Harbour Bays Athletics/Auckland Christchurch Old Boys United/Canterbury
100m PB: 11.35s, 200m PB: 23.19s PB: 2.30m
• Has reset the 100m resident record three • Joint holder of the national record with
times in the last two years, including a Glenn Howard
scorching 11.35s • With a best this season of 2.27m, he is
• The long-standing national record of aiming for the Olympic qualifying mark of
11.32s, set by Michelle Seymour in 1993, is 2.33m
in her sights • Moved south from Auckland to come under
• Has represented her country at the the guidance of Terry Lomax and is now
World Youths, World Juniors, World regularly jumping in the mid-to-high 2.20s
University Games and the senior World • Attended the 2019 World Championships
Championships in both the 100m and 200m and 2017 World University Games, missing
• Originally from Taranaki, now based in out on qualifying for the final at the latter by
Auckland under coach James Mortimer the narrowest of margins
EDDIE OSEI-NKETIA BEN TUIMASEVE
19, Sprint 31, Shot Put (F37)
North Harbour Bays Athletics/Auckland Papakura Athletics/Auckland
100m PB: 10.19s, 200m PB: 20.76s PB: 12.65m
• Son of 100m national record holder Gus • Made his international debut at the Oceania
Nketia (10.11s) Championships in Australia two years ago
• Still only a teen, he is one of the world’s • Has also represented New Zealand at
most exciting young sprint talents physical disability rugby league, taking part
• Holds many national junior sprint records, in an international tournament against an
including the U-20 200m at 20.76s Australian team in 2017
• Has been engaged in an enthralling battle • On a hot streak after improving on
with rival and friend Tiaan Whelpton this his national record twice in the same
summer competition at the recent Porritt Classic
• Nicknamed Benza by a cousin, he
performed under that alias as a casual
singer and rapper and the name stuck
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KEY ATHLETE PROFILES
JACKO GILL TORI PEETERS
26, Shot Put 26, Javelin
Takapuna Athletic and Harrier Club/Auckland Hamilton City Hawks/Waikato-Bay of Plenty
PB: 21.52m PB: 62.04
• A teen prodigy, he usurped Usain Bolt as the • Originally from Gore, she moved to
youngest ever world junior champion at just Dunedin to study and is now based in
15 Cambridge under the expert tutelage of
• After suffering a string of injury and health- Debbie Strange
related setbacks, he has re-emerged as one • Enjoyed a breakthrough season last year,
of the stars of the Kiwi athletics scene this re-writing the national record on numerous
summer occasions, including a stunning 62m-plus
• Having previously not beaten his idol for nine throw in Sydney
years, he has now triumphed over Tom Walsh • No stranger to injury setbacks due to
four times consecutively in the most recent competing in such a physically demanding
meetings between the pair discipline, her ultimate goal is the Olympic
• Currently in career-best form after throwing qualifying mark of 64m
his PB distance in successive competitions • Works at St Peter’s College coordinating
the sporting excellence programme and
also has a diploma in massage
OLIVIA MCTAGGART TIAAN WHELPTON
21, Pole Vault 31, Sprint
North Harbour Bays Athletics/Auckland Christchurch Old Boys United/Canterbury
PB: 4.55m 100m PB: 10.30s, 200m PB: 21.28s
• One of the country’s most promising young • Born in South Africa and spent his young
talents, has enjoyed a strong summer so far childhood in the country of his birth before
and is now consistently jumping over 4.50m also living in England and New Zealand, now
• First broke the 4.50m mark just before considers himself a proud Kiwi
Christmas and equalled that feat at the Potts • Gained New Zealand citizenship last year
Classic in the new year before notching her PB and dreams of wearing the black singlet at
in her home city earlier this month the Olympics and Commonwealth Games
• Now second on the all-time New Zealand list, • PBs have dropped significantly in recent
she was previously a competitive gymnast for times, with his competition with friend
10 years and switched to pole vault after a Eddie Osei-Nketia driving both on
back injury • A keen rugby player in his youth, he is
• Has represented her country at the a part-time model and is studying for a
Commonwealth Games, World Juniors and Bachelor of Science in geology
World University Games
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WE CANNOT PROGRAMME
CONTROL
THE WIND Qualifying and Pre-Meet
BUT WE CAN 5:00 400m Hurdles (non-Continental) M
DIRECT THE
5:15 200m Para (non-Continental) W
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5:20 200m Para (non-Continental) M
5:30 100m Heats x2 W
5:40 100m Heats x3 (1 Para) M
Main Programme
6:00 Pole Vault M
ad 6:15 Triple Jump W
6:15 Shot Put W
6:30 100m Hurdles W
Let us take the helm and 6:40 110m Hurdles M
help steer your home to 7:00 Javelin W
7:10 800m (non-Continental) W
a successful sale 7:15 High Jump M
7:20 800m M
7:30 Pole Vault W
7:30 100m W
7:35 100m M
7:45 Shot Put M
7:50 400m (non-Continental) M
8:00 Long Jump M
8:00 400m M
8:05 400m W
8:15 Sir John Walker Mile Junior Men (non-Continental) JM
8:30 1500m W
* Please note that the timetable and start lists are subject to change based on final accepted entry numbers.
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START LISTS
Qualifying and Pre-Meet Main Programme
5:00 400m Hurdles - Men Hinewai Knowles
6:00 Pole Vault - Men 6:40 110m Hurdles - Men
Cameron French Selena Gee
Ettiene Du Preez Justin Menezes
Justin Menezes Samantha Korck
Max Attwell Tom Moloney
Noah Rogers Briana Irving
James Steyn Noah Rogers
Maxine Chappell
Josh Hawkins
5:15 200m Para - Women
6:15 Triple Jump - Women Max Attwell
Anna Steven 5:40 100m Heats - Men
Anna Thomson
Paddy Walsh Eddie Osei-Nketia
Sarah Cowley-Ross 7:00 Javelin - Women
Gabrielle Wright Tiaan Whelpton
Diana Ismagilova Victoria (Tori) Peeters
Geena Hill Joseph Millar
Jayne Iwunze Stephanie Wrathall
Cody Wilson
Elena Edgar-Nemec Brianna Tirado
5:20 200m Para - Men James Guthrie-Croft
Maxine Chappell Para
Mitch Joynt Zachary Saunders
Holly Robinson
Joe Smith Tommy Te Puni
6:15 Shot Put - Women
Jaxon Wooley Hayato Yoneto
Maddison Wesche 7:10 800m - Women
Jaden Movold Oliver Krijnen
Kaia Tupu-South Stella Pearless
Zachery Orbell Abhijeet Parmar
Natalia Rankin-Chi Tar Sophie Atkinson
Nick Ash
5:30 100m Heats - Women Nadja Kumerich Krystie Solomon
John Lee
Zoe Hobbs Dame Valerie Adams Peyton Leigh
Gulab Singh
Natasha Eady Para
Mark-Anthony Sikuvea
Georgia Hulls Jess Gillan 7:15 High Jump - Men
Para
Rosie Elliott Catlin Dore Hamish Kerr
Ethan Rangi
Livvy Wilson Claire Keefer Jayden Williamson
Jaxon Woolley
Abby Goldie Sionann Murphy Marcus Wolton
Zachary Orbell
Symone Tafuna’i Josh Inger
Jaden Movold
Jordyn Blake 6:30 100m Hurdles - Women Tom Moloney
Nadia Evans Amy Robertson
Marielle Venida Hinewai Knowles
Briana Stephenson Angelina Zickert
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START LISTS
7:20 800m - Men 7:50 400m - Men 8:15 Sir John Walker Mile - Junior Men
James Preston Stephen Thorpe Sam Berry
Alex Beddoes Liam McKellar Ben Bidois
Dominic Devlin Matthew Eady Ronan Codyre
James Harding Para Logan Cowie
Rhys Bishop Jaden Movold Jude Darby
Max Karamanolis Christian de Vaal
Hector Farmer 8:00 Long Jump - Men Zane Powell
Dylan Forde Matthew Wyatt William Taylor
Dominic Ondieki Felix McDonald Jahko Tohaia
Noah Macdermid Max Attwell
Reserves Standby Abhijeet Parmar 8:30 1500m - Women
William Johnston Mark Anthony Sikuvea Camille Buscomb
Jean-Paul Biladi Katherine Camp
8:00 400m - Men Rebekah Greene
7:30 Pole Vault - Women Cameron French Kara Macdermid
Imogen Ayris Dominic Ondieki Charli Miller
Jessica Strick Hamish Gill Maiya Christini
Hannah Philpott Luke Mercieca Bella Browne
Lilli Bing Michael Goldie Susannah Lynch
Olivia McTaggart James Robertson Peyton Leign
Nick Ash Kimberley May
7:45 Shot Put - Men Anneke Grogan
Jacko Gill 8:05 400m - Women Chloe Browne
Tom Walsh Jordyn Blake Brigid Dennehy
Nick Palmer Holly Rule Amanda Holyer
Nikolas Kini Stella Pearless
Liam Ngchok-Wulf Elena Edgar-Nemec
Para Samantha Korck
Ben Tuimasave
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RESULTS ACCESS INFORMATION TOKYO ENTRY STANDARDS
Automatic Qualification Standards - Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Results from the Sir Graeme Douglas International are available to follow as they - Tokyo 2020 (Postponed to 2021)
come in via Athletic LIVE.
The entry standards below were approved by World Athletics Council in March
Head to the competitions section of the Athletics New Zealand website and click 2019 in Doha.
on the Sir Graeme Douglas International event to access the results link.
Webpage: athletics.org.nz/competition/events/ Men Event Women
10.05 100m 11.15
Results link: live.athletic.net/meets/7270
20.24 200m 22.80
You can also access the results directly by using the below QR code. 44.90 400m 51.35
Just open the camera app on your smartphone and make sure the QR code is 1:45.20 800m 1:59.50
inside the camera’s viewfinder. A pop-up will then appear, which you will need to 3:35.00 1500m 4:04.20
tap to be directed to the results page.
13:13.50 5000m 15:10.00
27:28.00 10,000m 31:25.00
13.32 110m/100m Hurdles 12.84
48.90 400m Hurdles 55.40
8:22.00 3000m Steeplechase 9:30.00
2.33 High Jump 1.96
5.80 Pole Vault 4.70
8.22 Long Jump 6.82
17.14 Triple Jump 14.32
21.10 Shot Put 18.50
66.00 Discus Throw 63.50
77.50 Hammer Throw 72.50
85.00 Javelin Throw 64.00
8350 Decathlon/Heptathlon 6420
1:21:00 20km Race Walk 1:31.00
3:50:00 50km Race Walk
2:11:30 Marathon 2:29:30
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CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021
The Hawke’s Bay will play host to world-class athletics next month when the Jennian Homes New
Zealand Track and Field Championships come to town.
The prestigious event will take place at Mitre 10 Park in Hastings over three days from 5 March and
is set to attract over 600 of the country’s finest athletes.
It is always among the highlights of the sporting year but the 2021 meet promises to be even more
special as it takes place only a few months before the rescheduled Olympics and Paralympics,
meaning many of the competitors will be at their best as they look to peak for a shot at glory in
5 - 7 MARCH 2021
Tokyo.
All the big names of New Zealand athletics are likely to descend on Hastings, meaning locals and
MITRE 10 PARK visitors will be treated to the likes of Dame Valerie Adams, Tom Walsh, Jacko Gill and Eddie Osei-
Nketia all strutting their stuff on home soil.
HAWKE’S BAY A host of Paralympians will also be on show, including Holly Robinson, Anna Grimaldi, Jess Hamill
and William Stedman, who all won medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, and world-record holder Lisa
Adams.
“It’s a great opportunity for the Bay and for athletics to be brought there,” says Dame Valerie
Adams, one of the most iconic figures in New Zealand sport after winning two Olympic gold medals
and four world championship titles in shot put.
“It’s a lovely place to compete – I have competed there before and I absolutely love it,” she adds.
“Everyone will be able to see athletes performing to the highest of their ability, especially with it
being an Olympic year.”
And it’s not just spectators at Mitre 10 Park and on the live streaming who will be in for a treat.
With visitor spend estimated at nearly $1.8 million, over 10,000 bed nights, significant media
coverage across New Zealand and live streaming worldwide, the Hawke’s Bay region – which will
also play host to the 2022 nationals – is set to benefit greatly by hosting one of the marquee events
on the New Zealand sporting calendar.
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