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Oceania Cross Country Championships

The Oceania Cross Country Championships are a biennial international cross country running competition. Organised by the Oceania Athletics Association, it is the area championships for the region and participation is for its member federations.

The championships were inaugurated in 2008 in Saipan and the venue for the championships changes every two years. It was initially conceived as an annual event; however, after the third edition in 2010, the championships changed to a biennial event.

Unlike the World Championships for the sport, the Oceania Cross Country Championships consists of races in age categories, with separate senior, under-20, and under-18 races for both male and female athletes.^[1]

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Countries	No. of Athletes	Ref
1st	2008	Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	25 June	Laolao Bay Golf Resort			[2]
2nd	2009	Christchurch, Canterbury	New Zealand	1 August				[3]
3rd	2010	Brisbane	Australia	21 August				[4]
4th	2012	Hamilton, Waikato	New Zealand	4 August				[5]
5th	2014	Tumon, Tamuning	Guam	16 October				[6]
6th	2016	Auckland	New Zealand	7 August				[7]
7th	2018	Maleny	Australia	25 August	Maleny Golf Course			[8]
8th	2022	Mangilao	Guam	25 June	George Washington High School			[9]

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008 (6 km)	Aunese Curreen  Samoa	21:05	Brendan Whelan  Australia	21:09	Lavi Sam  Vanuatu	21:14
2009 (12 km)	Timothy Rowe  Australia	38:13	Andrew Davidson  New Zealand	38:13	Edwin Henshaw  New Zealand	38:25
2010 (12 km)	Martin Dent  Australia	36:49	Liam Adams  Australia	37:05	Jeffrey Hunt  Australia	37:20
2012 (12 km) †	James Nipperess  Australia	39:05	Samuel Wreford  New Zealand	39:36	Alex Parlane  New Zealand	40:29
2014 (12 km)	Nicholas Wightman  Australia	41:13	Callan Moody  New Zealand	41:34	Simbai Casper  Papua New Guinea	42:56
2016 (10 km)	Nicholas Wightman  Australia	33:00	Jonathon Jackson  New Zealand	33:05	Daniel Balchin  New Zealand	33:12
2018 (10 km)	Andrew Buchanan  Australia	32:15.00	Riley Cocks  Australia	32:29.00	Edward Goddard  Australia	32:48.00
2022 (10 km)	Ryan Matienzo  Guam	34:41.80	Arthur Toves  Guam	35:08.63	Derek Mandell  Guam	35:30.42

^†: Edwin Kaitany from  Kenya running as guest was 1st in 38:54.

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008 (3 km)	Salome Dell  Papua New Guinea	11:08	Marie Benito  Guam	12:20	Nicole Layson  Guam	12:31
2009 (8 km)	Melinda Vernon  Australia	28:52	Fiona Crombie  New Zealand	29:07	Kellie Palmer  New Zealand	30:10
2010 (8 km)	Jessica Trengove  Australia	28:00	Clare Geraghty  Australia	28:28	Tamara Carvolth  Australia	28:38
2012 (8 km)	Celia Sullohern  Australia	29:33	Mikayla Nielsen  New Zealand	29:37	Nicki McFadzien  New Zealand	29:43
2014 (8 km)	Courtney Powell  Australia	28:55	Rachel Kingsford  New Zealand	29:37	Elodie Mevel  French Polynesia	33:25
2016 (10 km)	Laura Nagel  New Zealand	38:08	Rosa Flanagan  New Zealand	38:28	Karinna Fyfe  Australia	39:02
2018 (10 km)	Madeline Hills  Australia	37:32	Caitlin Adams  Australia	38:49	Lara Hamilton  Australia	39:23
2022 (10 km)	Ongan Awa  Papua New Guinea	41:55	Denise Meyers  Northern Mariana Islands	43:45	Ayuri Sugahara  Guam	50:54

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008
2009 (8 km)	Aaron Pulford  New Zealand	26:11	Alex Parlane  New Zealand	26:31	Michael Banks  New Zealand	26:38
2010 (8 km)	Ethan Heywood  Australia	25:18	David Ricketts  Australia	25:22	Rhys Jones  Australia	25:24
2012 (8 km)	Matt Baxter  New Zealand	26:20	Antoine Bonnet  New Zealand	26:30	Michael Sutton  New Zealand	26:45
2014 (8 km)	Avikash Lal  Fiji	29:22	Ravnil Kumar  Fiji	31:11	Magdano Marquez  Micronesia	33:55
2016 (8 km)	Cameron Avery  New Zealand	26:51	Matt Prest  New Zealand	27:09	Harry Ewing  New Zealand	27:13
2018 (8 km)	Haftu Strintzos  Australia	26:42	Chekole Getenet  Australia	27:04	Jackson Sharp  Australia	27:20
2022 (6 km)	Hugh Kent  Guam	20:20.00	Rynier DiRamos  Guam	21:07.10	Alexander Clark  Guam	21:07.30

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008
2009 (6 km)	Hannah Newbould  New Zealand	21:35	Danielle Trevis  New Zealand	21:44	Olivia Burne  New Zealand	22:25
2010 (6 km)	Danielle Trevis  New Zealand	21:00	Grace Musgrove  Australia	21:42	Celia Sullohern  Australia	21:59
2012 (6 km)	Kara MacDermid  New Zealand	22:42	Georgie Grgec  New Zealand	23:28	Grace McConnochie  New Zealand	23:36
2014 (6 km)	Jenny Albert  Papua New Guinea	25:16	Aria Perez-Theisen  Guam	29:35	Mika Rosario  Guam	30:17
2016 (6 km)	Hannah Miller  New Zealand	23:49	Grace Wood  New Zealand	23:57	Jess Kikstra  New Zealand	24:09
2018 (6 km)	Ella Heeney  Australia	23:07	Brielle Erbacher  Australia	23:15	Rose Davies  Australia	23:26
2022 (6 km)	Jordan Baden  Guam	24:05	Patricia Miclat  Guam	28:06	Bekah Tavarez  Guam	28:13

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008 (3 km)	Gregory Fosailafu  Solomon Islands	10:16	Christopher Magtoto  Guam	10:30	Jeofry Limitaco  Guam	10:54
2009
2010
2012
2014
2016 (6 km)	Isaiah Priddey  New Zealand	20:25	Kalani Sheridan  New Zealand	20:31	Trent Dodds  New Zealand	20:38
2018 (6 km)	Murdoch McIntyre  New Zealand	20:14	Matthew Rankin  Australia	20:27	Jude Thomas  Australia	20:30
2022

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008 (3 km)	Laura Nagel  New Zealand	10:49	Danielle Trevis  New Zealand	11:30	Jackie Gatland  Norfolk Island	12:06
2009
2010
2012
2014
2016 (4 km)	Hannah O’Connor  New Zealand	14:48	Tessa Webb  New Zealand	15:26	Liliana Braun  New Zealand	15:38
2018 (4 km)	Nikita Moore  Australia	14:40	Keely Small  Australia	14:55	Kirstie Rae  New Zealand	14:59
2022