Nick Willis chance of a top three placing was thwarted by a fall at the top of the finishing straight, to end his winning streak of eight straight wins.

Kimberley Smith won the 5000m in the fastest time in the world this year for women of 15m 2.56s.

Hamilton triathlon coach and personal trainer Erin Furness won the women’s race in the Rotorua Marathon in 2h 57m 25s, a two minute improvement on her fourth placing last year.

Sam Wreford dominated the 49th Lion Foundation Rotorua Marathon today, while Erin Furness won the women’s race.

The Rotorua Marathon has had 86,590 pairs of running shoes fronting up on the start lane over the last forty eight years including three thousand who didn’t get a chance to get around the lake in 1999 because of severe flooding and damage to the course.

Olympic Games 1500m silver medallist Nick Willis won the mile at the Drake University relay meeting in 3m 55.70s beating American Miles Batty who ran 3m 58.96s and Peter van der Westhuizen from South Africa who clocked 3m 59.06s.

Athletics New Zealand has announced a large, competitive team for the Oceania Area Championships to be held in Papeete, Tahiti in June.

Hawera’s Dougan Butler won back his New Zealand Mountain Running title in Wellington today while Hamilton's Helen Rountree won her first.

Wins for javelin thrower Stuart Farquhar and hurdler Fiona Morrison highlighted the New Zealand performances at the first IAAF World Challenge series meeting for 2013 in Melbourne on Saturday night

Sam Wreford is the owner of the fastest marathon time in New Zealand on a certified course for the past 20 years and will be starting in the Lion Foundation Rotorua Marathon on Saturday 4 May

Fourteen New Zealand athletes have secured starts in the prestigious IAAF World Challenge event in Melbourne on Saturday evening

Athletics NZ statement regarding 2014 Track & Field Championships

A new version of the Athletics New Zealand Rankings Lists website containing a host of improvements and additions, of the Rankings Lists website was launched over the Easter weekend

Athletics New Zealand has announced the athletes selected to compete at the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine in July

Athletics New Zealand has announced the initial selection of four athletes for the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia in August.

Lucy Van Dalen and Hamish Carson won the prestigious 1500 metres titles on the final day of the New Zealand Track & Field Championships.

Valerie Adams provided a big series of consistent world class throws to win her twelfth national title in the shot put, reaching out to a best of 20.37 metres.

The titles of the fastest New Zealanders were decided on day one of the New Zealand Track & Field Championships at Mt Smart in Auckland, and both went to athletes from the Waikato Bay of Plenty team.

A health scare has dashed Alex Jordan’s hopes of winning the 400m title for the third year in a row at this weekend’s New Zealand Track and Field Championships.

Nick Willis and Valerie Adams headlined the Sydney Track Classic on Saturday with commanding performances, but there were three other New Zealand winners and further quality results in Sydney.

Olympic medallists Valerie Adams and Nick Willis will be among fourteen New Zealand athletes crossing the Tasman to compete at the prestigious Sydney Track Classic on Saturday.

Olympic silver medallist Nick Willis showed some handy form at the end of a solid block of training in New Zealand, winning a 1500 metres race in Auckland tonight in 3 minutes 36.51 seconds.

Jacob Priddey and Audrey Gregan winners at Newe Zealand junior 3000m champs in Nelson

New Zealand Half Marathon titles won by Hamish Carson and Alex Williams at Wellington Round the Bays

Potia Bing and Scott McLaren win senior titles at New Zealand Combined Events Champs at Waitakere

Shot put star Tom Walsh and miler Nick Willis ride fantastic crowd support to emphatic victories at the International Track Meet in Christchurch

Trevor Spittle, Athletics New Zealand top athletics official and only ITO has been appointed to the position of IAAF Technical Delegate for the Melbourne World Challenge meeting

Nick Willis and Camille Buscomb have won the New Zealand 3000 metres titles at the Capital Classic meeting in Wellington.

Nick Willis showed he is still king of Kiwi milers with an emphatic victory in the main event at the Cooks Classic meeting in Wanganui tonight.

The New Zealand Track & Field team competing at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney on Saturday will return with a haul of three gold medals and a further 21 medals.

A strong contingent of thirty track and field athletes will be part of the New Zealand team to compete at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney 16-20 January.