Prizegiving took place at Mt Smart after the 5k Road Champs on the 19th September. It was a good chance to celebrate our achievements over the winter ... and start scheming for next year! Lots of medals and certificates were given out on the day for the various competitions contested over the winter. Athletics is THE sport if you want to win lots of medals - there are so many opportunities both for individuals and in teams. You don't need to be the fastest or even the fastest

Results, pictures and a big thank you to everyone who came along as an athlete, an official or as helper - you all helped to make the event a huge success. Thanks to our sponsors - Brunton NZ, Barfoot & Thompson and Davis Food Ingredients and our partners Wesley Community Centre and the team from Athletics Auckland. The weather was good and we had more teams than ever before out on the course. Great to see so many clubs represented - ACA, Oratia, The Y, Lynndale, Glen Eden, N

Well done to all the Owai athletes who made the trip down to Christchurch for the New Zealand Cross Country Champs at the weekend. What an amazing turn out from the club and some really good performances in cold, muddy, slippery Christchurch conditions! Liz, Mariano and Nick all came away with individual medals but lots contributed to strong Auckland team performances. It's always a great event - a good chance to race against the top cross country runners in your category an

Race report: 2026 Matariki King & Queen of the Mountain. A quiet Puketāpapa with only a handful of kite-flyers atop, blue skies stretching out over the Wesley neighbourhood and a gentle nor’westerly greeted runners on Matariki afternoon for the 2026 iteration of Owairaka Athletics Club’s King and Queen of the Maunga event.

20 June 2026 - What a great night on the track! A cool, calm winter's night - perfect time trialling conditions and this was borne out by 21 new PBs set tonight. Fastest man was Anton Weatherhead with a blistering quick 15:21 (a new pb). Katrina Andrew was the fastest woman with 16:57. There is a good story behind the Time Trial Trophy pictured here. It was last awarded in 1966 and has been missing since then - yes for 60 years. Then it resurfaced in Whangarei when a relative

President's address, delivered by Tim Morrison at the Owairaka Athletics AGM, 19 May 2026

Two of our members, Keith Burrows and Ketina Chivasa recently took part in this event representing New Zealand. And they did very well! Ketina completed 191.285 km and came 24th overall. Keith, who is current national champion for this discipline, finished the 24 hours with 225.161 km coming 17th and was the top performing Kiwi runner. Well done to both of them. I think you will agree that they have more than earnt their place on the wall of national reps in the club rooms!

Jo, Kathleen and Dion ran London and had heaps of fun.

Meet the winners - the age group and special category winners at our 2025/26 junior athletics prizegiving

Owairaka had a strong team of junior athletes representing Auckland at Nationals this weekend, across jumps, throws, sprints and distance events, with some outstanding performances, especially in the steeplechase and triple jump.

Mt Smart 28th Feb and 1st March 2026 Well done to all the athletes who competed and all the parents and coaches who supported! Some super efforts over the two days - heaps of medals and personal best performances. Go Owai! Long Jump Girls 9 Grade: Jessy Fantaza 3.67m; Addison Kluts 2.81m Boys 9 Grade: Tommy Rimmer 3.81m Girls 11 Grade: Madison Lui 3.22m Girls 12 Grade: Evelyn-Rose Findlay 3.77m Boys 12 Grade: Luther Papali'i 4.16m Boys 13 Grade: Ben Lui 5.45m Boys 14 Grade: C

Last Wednesday it was our very great pleasure to officially reopen the newly resurfaced Lovelock Track.

It's our first junior club night of the year tomorrow, Wednesday 28 January. We thought you might have some questions. We've answered some common ones here, so you know what's happening and what to expect. We're looking forward to seeing you all at the Lovelock Track tomorrow! What time should I arrive? Our programme starts at 6pm. Plan to arrive a bit before that, so you're ready to get into it at 6pm. And anytime from 5pm if you want to buy uniform. Which leads us to the ne

To celebrate the re-opening of the Lovelock Track, we are holding a junior athletics club night, then some 4 x 400m relays and there will be a chance to win a certified piece of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Track. You can register to come to the event on this page: https://www.owairakaathletics.co.nz/events-1/lovelock-track-grand-re-opening-celebration The piece of track is one of only 1000 in existence anywhere in the world. It was donated to us by Bobby Chen who is a long-term

What a weekend! Competing in hot conditions across three full on days, our 12 athletes competed with determination and fantastic team spirit at this year's North Island Colgate Games in Tauranga last weekend.

Updated with a progress report and some pics - 19/12

A big club turn out and Anthony Lo's race report The Auckland Marathon weekend is always a big focus for the club with lots of athletes targeting the various race distances. Well done to everyone who took part. Running marathons requires a huge investment of training and to run a good one, a lot of things have to go right in the build up and on the day. Great to see so many out on the roads again this year. For seniors, the event also doubles as the Athletics Auckland Maratho

FIVE race reports from all our teams racing down in Halcombe last wekend. We had five teams down in Halcombe this year for the New...

Since we started running our King and Queen of the Mountain race on Matariki Friday, it has grown every year as an event and as a celebration of our community - athletes, volunteers, young and old - all coming together to run up our maunga.

Meet the winners - the age group and special category winners art our 2024/25 junior athletics prizegiving