PNG Air National Athletics Championships

The championships are being used as a platform to finalize the team for this year’s Pacific Games in Honiara.

The championships which started on Friday 11^th August concluded on Sunday 13^th August with the medal presentations held at the Sir John Guise Stadium.

Approximately 70 athletes from various clubs and including Para athletes had competed at the event.

It is also the official airline carrier of Athletics PNG and provide flights and logistical support for athletes and officials to important local track and field competitions.

Through Athletics PNG's regularly scheduled competitions and meets, new and promising talents have been identified and pushed into elite training and representation, following in the likes of Pacific Sprint Queen Toea Wisil and others.

Seventeen-year-old Scholastica Herman, a Grade Nine student at Malahuna Technical Secondary in East New Britain won the women’s 1500m in 5 minutes, 10 seconds on Saturday afternoon and followed this up with an impressive run in the 3000m on Sunday.

The crowd was entertained to a fine race in the 3000m with early leader Mary Tenge being overhauled by both Herman and crowd favourite, the diminutive Dominica Kakapa from WNB in the closing stages.