Australian Underage Championships 2010 Sydney

Australian Junior Championships
Sydney 11th-14th March 2010
Sydney Olympic Park

The 11th to the 14th March in Sydney held host to the Australian Junior Championships. This was a chance for the junior athletes to shine, and shine they did. The U20 competition is primarily run in concession with the U23 Championships; however this year that changed as the U23 competition became an underage one, with athletes from 12-19 years old.

The Under 20 age group competition is always an exciting one as it is the selection trials for the World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada in July 2010.

Western Australia took a 135 athlete team, the biggest team we have ever taken to a National Championships and this team did not disappoint.

Matthew Cowie threw 18.18m a world junior qualifier in the Men’s shot put a week before his departure to Sydney. Matthew, although not throwing a world junior qualifier, finished second at the championships securing his top two placing within the U20 Men’s Shot Put.
Elizabeth Parnov after a few magnificent performances in Perth posting both A and B qualifiers for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, went to Sydney a firm favourite. She arrived back in Perth with gold around her neck and a world junior qualifier under her belt.

Once again Poppy Schwass would have had a few extra kilograms in her suitcase after taking out the U15 Girls 100m, 200m and 90m Hurdles and grabbed the silver in the High Jump and lead the 4x200m Team to silver along with Brooke Pires-Parenzee, Breanna Dixon and Mathilde Delorme.
The U16 400m girls came out in fine form with Brooke Pires-Parenzee finishing 2nd, Kyana Collard 3rd and Jade Bogle a close 4th.
Another strong performance came from throwing specialist Titilayo Wright, winning the gold in the U17 Girls Shop Put and bronze in the Discus Throw.

Michael Craggs a talented athlete in many disciplines came away with a medal in each colour, winning gold, silver and bronze in the U17 Boys 110m Hurdles, Long Jump and Javelin respectively.
The U16 Boys Long Jump proved to be an exciting one for Western Australia with 3 athletes making the final. Luke Chamberlain jumped away with the gold, Terrell McKenzie (TJ) the Silver and Rhys Tucker narrowly missed out on the bronze finishing 4th.

Overall the Western Australian team finished the championships with a complete medal tally of 54, the most we have brought home ever from junior championships. Not only did we bring home medals but many personal bests. Well Done!

Gold Silver Bronze
15 25 15
WA Medal Tally – Complete.