Athletics New Zealand – News – Brent Newdick collects his fifth NZ decathlon title

Delhi Commonwealth Games decathlon silver medallist Brent Newdick  collected his fifth New Zealand decathlon title at Tauranga over the weekend.

With the title the main factor and the score irrelevant Newdick completed a satisfactory two days of competition scoring a total of 7296 points for the ten events.
This is well short of his personal best of 8091 which ranked him 18th in the world last year.

“I’ve come through 100 per cent, it was a good blow out I got the title and it was an enjoyable weekend,” said Newdick.
“It reminded me of why we are there, I’m now into the sharp stuff as I’m three months away from when I really want to compete,” he added.

Newdick said that he tried the rotation technique in the shot put for the first time.
“I will improve with that technique,” said Newdick who had the shot out to 13.45m.
His best performance came in the long jump with a leap of 7.01m (0.0) for 816 points. His next best was the 110m hurdles clocking 15.47s (-0.7) for 794 points.
Former national champion Scott McLaren of Counties was second with 7036 points with Callum McConachy of Palmerston North third with 5433.

Sarah Cowley  won her third national women’s heptathlon title with a score of 5752 points. Portia Bing was second with 4885 points.

Results
Men Decathlon.-
Senior: Brent Newdick (NHB) (100m 11.32s 791 points, long jump 7.01m 816, shot put 13.45m 695, high jump 1.89m 705, 400m 51.10s 765, 110m hurdles 15.47s 794, discus throw 43.29m 732, pole vault 4.40m 731, javelin throw 53.09m 634, 1500m 4m 47.63s 633) total 7296 1, Scott McLaren (CM) 7036 2, Callum McConachy (Palm/Nth) 5433 3.

M19: Thomas Cody (Marlb) (11.36s 782, 6.22m 635, 11.74m 591, 1.95m 758, 50.39s 797 17.23s 600, 33.18m 527, 2.90m 333, 45.53m 523, 4m 58.93s 566) total 6112 1, Pascal Kethers (NHB) 5757 2, Phil Simms (Ham) 5705 3.
M16 Octathlon: Luke Davison (Tga) (100m 11.94s 663, long jump 6.10m 608, shot put 13.49m 697, 400m 53.15s 675, 110m hurdles 16.88s 637, high jump 1.85m 670, javelin throw 53.28m 637, 1000m 2m 44.56s 823) total 5410 1, Haugh Mackenzie (Otago) 4889 2, Alex Colvin (Tga)  4722 3.

Women Heptathlon.-
Senior: Sarah Cowley (NHB) (100m hurdles 14.10s 964, high jump 1.75m 916, shot put 12.93m 723, 200m 25.58s 834, long jump 6.03m 859, javelin throw 37.15m 613, 800m 2m 18.58s 843) total 5752 1,  Portia Bing (NHB) 4885 2, Tracey Hale (Ham) 4233 3.
W19: Vianca Du Toit (NHB) (16.88s 610, 1.60m 736, 6.44m 299, 27.91s 638, 4.80m 506, 19.90m 287, 2m 47.43s 491) total 3567 1.
W16: Paige Harwood (Pak) (15.73s 748, 1.63m 771, 10.17m 541, 27.02s 710, 5.20m 614, 27.72m 434, 2m 33.59s 649) total 4467 1, Davina Hamann (Germany) 4229 2, Ashleigh Sando (Taupo) 4007 3.

 Murray McKinnon
Communications Advisor
Athletics New Zealand
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murray@mckinnon.co.nz

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