Games mark met by 18 athletes
PA Wellington Eighteen athletes have achieved the selection standard set by the New Zealand track and field selectors for the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games. The New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association has released an .unofficial list of those who have so far met the standards in the October to March 30 qualifying period. Breaking the standards did not guarantee selection, nor did failure automatically preclude selection, said the N.Z.A.A.A.’s publicity officer, Derek Froude. Commonwealth Games
qualifiers are: Lorraine Moller (Auckland), marathon (2hr 30min 245), 10,000 (32min 40.65); Glenys Quick (Hamilton), marathon (2hr 31mln 445); Mary O’Connor (Christchurch), marathon (2hr 33min 41s); Trudy Painter (Dunedin), high jump 1.88 m; Lyn Osmers (Christchurch), heptathlon (5455 points); Paul Ballinger (New Plymouth), marathon (2hr 13min 475); John Campbell (Invercargill), marathon (2hr 12min 38s); Rex Wilson (Havelock North), 10,000 m (28min 22.395); John Bowden (Auckland), 10,000 m (28min 29.415); Simon Poeiman (Auckland) javelin (84m); John Staplyton-Smlth (Christchurch), javelin, (81.50 m Gavin Lovegrove (Hamilton), •javelin (80m); Peter Renner (Christchurch), 3000 steeplechase (Bmin 28.335); Grahaife Scatter (Christ3okm walk (2hr 21min f 47s);Shane ’Donnelly'
(Auckland), decathlon (7854 points); Mike O’Rourke (Auckland), 30km walk (2hr 17mln 395); Keith Olsthoom (Auckland), 30km walk (2hr 18min 575); Glenda Hughes (Auckland), shotput (16.43 m Marks recorded outside the qualifying period: Peter Pearless (Nelson), 800 m (Imin 46.225); John Walker (Auckland), 1500 m (3min 34.975); Dean Crowe (Wanganui), 5000 m (13min 32.045); Lynette Stock (Christchurch), 100 m hurdles (13.675); Terry Genge (Hamilton), heptathlon (5451 points); Moller, 3000 m (Bmln 53.485), 1500 m (4min 10.355). Seven athletes have qualified for the junior world championships at Athens in mid-1986. They are: Sonia Barry (New Plymouth), 3000 m, (9mln 33.395); Delwyn Britton (Hastings), 5000 m walk (27min 14s); Tracy Windmill (New Plymouth), 5000 m walk (27min 02.325); Gavin Lovegrove (Hamilton), javelin (80m); Jonathon Moyle (Auckland), long jump (7.50 m Tracey Phillips (Wanganui), high jump (1.83 m Andrea Stuart (Wellington), 800 m (2min 07.835).
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