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A poor start to New Zealand's campaign at the World Track and Field Championships in Oregon

A record-breaking team of 20 New Zealand athletes will compete at the World Athletics Championships this month in Eugene, Oregon.

Nearly three dozen athletes, volunteers and World Athletics staff kicked off their day at El Hail North Beach in Oman on Thursday to help out with a beach clean-up and show their support to the UN Clean Seas campaign.

Nearly three dozen athletes, volunteers and World Athletics staff kicked off their day at El Hail North Beach in Oman on Thursday to help out with a beach clean-up and show their support to the UN Clean Seas campaign.

Winning time of 1:27:27 takes 17 seconds off previous continental record

Sam Tanner heading to the Tokyo Olympics Sam Tanner. Photo: Supplied. Tauranga’s Sam Tanner has been selected to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. The ex-Bethlehem College student broke the University of Washington collegiate record in the 1500 meter race in February, running the race in a time of 3:34 seconds, qualifying him for the Tokyo Olympics. Fifteen athletes have been conditionally named in the athletics team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, announced yesterday at the AUT Millennium track by...

ANDREW CORNAGA/PHOTOSPORT There was no messing with Dame Valerie Adams on the day she was named to take part in her fifth Olympic Games. You know Dame Valerie Adams is in a good headspace around her historic fifth Olympic Games selection for Tokyo because of the merciless ribbing she dishes out to the pair of male reporters unlucky enough to catch her near the end of Friday’s media session at Auckland’s Millennium training facility. Dame Valerie was very much the headline act at the announ...

Friday, 16 April 2021, 11:13 am Fifteen athletes have been conditionally named in the athletics team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, announced today at the AUT Millennium track by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC). The initial athletics team for Tokyo 2020 is: Dame Valerie Adams, shot put (Pakuranga Athletic Club/Auckland), coached by Dale Stevenson Connor Bell, discus (North Harbour Bays Athletics/Auckland), coached by Mike Schofield Lauren Bruce, hammer (South Canterbury Athletic Club/Can...

Tokyo Olympics: 15 athletes named in conditional New Zealand athletics team for 2021 Games 16 Apr, 2021 12:00 AM 6 minutes to read New Zealand Olympians gathered at The Cloud with 100 days to go before Tokyo 2021. Video / Jed Bradley New Zealand Olympians gathered at The Cloud with 100 days to go before Tokyo 2021. Video / Jed Bradley NZ Herald Fifteen athletes have been conditionally named in the New Zealand athletics team for the Tokyo Olympics in July. The team is made up of an exciting mix ...

Press Release – NZOC Fifteen athletes have been conditionally named in the athletics team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, announced today at the AUT Millennium track by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC). The initial athletics team for Tokyo 2020 is: Dame Valerie Adams, shot put (Pakuranga Athletic Club/Auckland), coached by Dale Stevenson Connor Bell, discus (North Harbour Bays Athletics/Auckland), coached by Mike Schofield Lauren Bruce, hammer (South Canterbury Athletic Club/Canterbury),...