Thank you to all our ITM athletes, partners, trust, funders, RFN5k entrants, officials, volunteers, suppliers, spectators and supporters for helping ITM24 raise the bar.
ITM is currently ranked 3rd best Athletics Meet in 2024 - from 48 competitions around the globe... (link in comments)
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Video of Imogen Skelton setting an ITM Meet Record in the Mainland Foundation Women's High Jump with a perfect comp to set a new PB of 1.87m (to edge Japan's Nagisa Takahashi who also cleared 1.87m to claim a new PB), and Douw Botes winning the U20 Men's Javelin in the Pre Meet with 68.62m and exceeding the performance standard for World Juniors in Peru.
Fantastic to have Lawrence Okoye, Great Britain at ITM24. He was last in NZ to play rugby and made himself available for the Crusaders as a late sub. Having spent 7 years in the NFL he would be an asset.
Lucky for Track and Field this Diamond League Final winner and Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist was in action at ITM24 in the Spectrum Print Men’s Discus.
Lawrence improved his Season’s Best with 63.30m to place second behind Commonwealth Games Champion Matt Denny (Aus) who broke Connor Bell’s ITM Meet Record with a 65.79m throw.
We hope to see both Lawrence and Matt back at ITM with a match up against Connor Bell. Speaking of being back at ITM, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Spectrum Print who have been an incredible partner to ITM since 2010. Thank you.
ITM Superstar Georgia Hulls is looking for her 3rd win from 4 ITM starts!
She will today with the 4th best Season’s Best time in the Christchurch Casino Women’s 200m where Georgia seeks to give her one year old PB a new birthday!
Ethan Olivier, NZ Triple Jump record holder competes in NZ for the first time today!
PB 16.67m his goal is to beat his brother. Collect the NZ Resident Record, and beat the excellent Australians, Japanese and Malaysian athletes who also boast PB's over 16m.... the Newstalk ZB Men's Triple Jump is hot!
Catch the action today from 1pm!
It's fantastic to have Ethan and Welre in NZ they will also compete in Auckland at the Sir Graeme Douglas International and NZ Champs which will no doubt provide plenty of action.
Japan's Tomohiro Shinno PB 2.31m will be looking for Hamish Kerr's International Track Meet Record of 2.20m at 1.30pm today in the REPRESENT Footwear Men's High Jump.
Tomohiro leads a 26 Japanese Athlete Squad who are all looking for valuable World Athletics Ranking Points in their quest for this years Paris Olympics and to set up their 2024 season.
Welcome to Christchurch, welcome to New Zealand, it is great to have you here and we wish all athletes the very best today in their road to Paris and for their wider season.
Thanks to all the athletes who came out to NZME Christchurch, Newstalk ZB for the ITM 2024 Press conference this afternoon. Hosted by Sarah Cowley Ross we got insights from some of the 90 internnational athletes, representing 16 nations.
1pm this Saturday! ITM24.
Come along and watch Track and Field at its best in NZ.
Show your support and help create the experience.
Please share. Ngā Puna Wai, Christchurch, 1pm Saturday, 24th Feb.
Reminder. Entries for the RFN5k close midnight Monday 19th of Feb 2024.
Enter now and support ITM (International Track and Field Meet)
This is a key fundraiser for ITM. Entry into the RFN5k also give entrants admission to ITM24.
With ITM24 being NZ’s biggest ever one-day International Track Meet there has never been a better time to lace up and run 5k for a worthy cause.
REPRESENT Footwear 5k,
12pm Sat 24th Feb 2024
International Track Meet,
1pm Sat 24th Feb
Ngā Puna Wai, Christchurch
Enter at thefastfive.nz
The FAST Five Highlights, 19th Feb 2023, Ngā Puna Wai, Christchurch, New Zealand.
5km Road Race. Certified course. Individual and Teams of Three, scored on cumulative time.
Supporting event to the World Athletics Continental Tour International Track Meet, held the same day.
The FAST Five is YOUR opportunity to compete. Entry is open to anyone who can complete 5km within 45 minutes.
Held one hour before ITM, The FAST Five is the ultimate way to participate in the International Track Meet weekend of activities.
Rosie Elliott 200m NZ Record
Rosie Elliott W200m NZ Record ITM23 Full Noise! International Track Meet 2023, ITM23 Full Noise delivered a host of Meet Records, Stadium Records, Personal Bests and Seasons Bests at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze event.
The highlight of these performances was the New Zealand Women’s 200m Record set by Rosie Elliott. Having first competed at ITM13 as a fifteen-year-old in the W100m at Christs College, Rosie emerged as a headline athlete in 2023 after narrowly being the runner up over 200m at ITM21 and ITM22.
This year she won not one event, but two taking the honours in the W100m equalling her personal best before setting a NZ Record 40 minutes later over 200m, pushed all the way by defending ITM Champion and good friend Georgia Hulls. Hulls also went under the old record.
The team at International Track and Field Trust wish Rosie Elliott all the best in achieving the 400m record in addition to her 200m record. We are thrilled to have Rosie as a second-generation ITM Poster Athlete to benefit from the International Track Meet pathway from talented teen to world class athlete! Congratulations Rosie.
Tom Walsh 2023
We caught up with Tom Walsh - Shot Put today, who looks to be in cracking form for the International Track Meet 2023. We will post YouTube links tonight for the Livestream, spectators are free (donations appreciated). 12pm start, with The FAST Five 2023 5km race starting at 11am. See you there!
International Track meet press conference
We catch up with athletes Anna Percy, Tiaan Whelpton, Keeley O'Hagan, Tom Walsh - Shot Put & Rosie Elliott to find out how they're approaching Sunday's International Track Meet 2023.
