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.

Summary of Championships

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1	1990	Suva	Fiji
2	1994	Auckland	New Zealand
3	1996	Townsville	Australia	November
4	1998	Nuku'alofa	Tonga	August
5	2000	Adelaide	Australia	August
6	2002	Christchurch	New Zealand	December
7	2004	Townsville	Australia	December
8	2006	Apia	Samoa	December 12-16
9	2008	Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	June 25 - 28
10	2010	Cairns	Australia	September 23 - 25

See also

• List of Oceania Athletics Championships records

External links

• Official Athletics Oceania website
• List of previous winners