Athletics Vanuatu

Long distance athlete, Simon Charley grabbed Vanuatu's first medal, a bronze in the 10,000m event.

Merick sisters, Chloe and Claudie finished 5th & 6th respectively in 100m event in the U18 category.

Jack Nasawa made his final throw on day 1 competition in the Javelin men's Open category with a throw of 60.77 meter to finish 5th in the final round.

The competition ends today.

The association’s president, Rex Issachar said most of the athletes trying out for the final national squad have just resumed training after two months of lockdown.

“There is no local competition planed yet since all 6 and 2 municipal athlete clubs just resumed their training as well as many disturbances for athletes in school.”

“2022 was a challenging year for all athletes and other sport organisations for trainings as we all waited for the approvals of the Ministries of Health and Youth and Sport, now athletes have resumed training from where they have left off.”

The date has been sealed and agreed by AV and the Port Vila City Council.

In 2018 and again in 2019, AV passed in one of its executive’s meeting the proposal to organize a youth annual event in the country through road race projects such as half Marathon, Cross country race, mountain run and many more.

AV said, “This Project will be launched in early January bringing together all different stake holders including government officials, foreign embassies in Port Vila, donor partners and business houses to join in the historical launching of the project.”