The “Night of Fives”, ended with Leith’s Simon Cromarty and Hill City-University’s Rebekah Aitkenhead being first male and female to cross the line respectively. The A Race had 22 runners finishing.  The B Race had 29 runners finishing and the combined C, D Race had 38 runners finishing. A combined total of about 80 runners. Thanks to all the organisers from Leith and Athletics Otago for putting on this event and for the supporters too. 

Otago Championship Race (A Race)

Cromarty ( 15:06.47 Personal Best) and Jason van Kempen ( 15:08.10 Personal Best) had a titanic struggle from the get-go, with Cromarty leading all the way.  There were less than 2 seconds separating them in the end. Cromarty won the Gold in the Men’s 35-39 category.  Third across the line was Leith’s Dan Hayman (15:20.92 Personal Best) who earned the Senior Men’s Gold Medal as the first Senior Men’s registered runner to cross the line.  Van Kempen ran as an unregistered runner. Fourth across the line was the excellent Men’s 45-49 runner from Fiordland Athletics, Dwight Grieve, who thrilled everyone, including himself, with his Personal Best of 15:57.04.  He earned the Gold Medal in the Men’s 45-49 age category. There was a tussle between HCU sprint, 400m, 800m specialist Matthew Bolter (16:09.94 Personal Best) and Leith’s Otago Steeplechase champion Graham Fisher (16:11.97 Personal Best) for the Senior Men’s Silver medal with Bolter outlasting Fisher in a dash to the finish line with Fisher getting Bronze. Further age grade winners in the Men’s field were Leith’s Andrew Lonie 18:52.78 who won gold in the Men’s 50-54 category and Leith’s Legendary Ultra runner John Bayne who won gold in the Men’s 60-64 category in what can only be described as a superb 17:54.14 which was close to a world class age grading result of 87.61%. (90% is world class). Bayne’s time was just under 2 seconds off the Otago record of 17.52.82 set by Geoff Anderson (60) at the World Masters Games in Auckland on  23-Apr-17

In the Women’s category and running in the same race, was the excellent runner from Hill City-University Rebekah Aitkenhead who won the category outright and the Senior Women’s Gold in a personal best of 16:18.50.  Second Woman across the line was Eva Pringle from the Whippets Running Project – Canterbury in a personal best of 16:28.15.  Third and earning silver as the second Otago registered runner was Caversham’s Becky De La Harpe in 17:35.77.  Leith’s  Jessica Bray in a personal best of 18:12.75 won the Women’s Under 20 Gold medal. Next woman to finish was unregistered runner Juliet Downs in a personal best of 18:36.41. Next was Leith’s Olivia Sutherland who earned the Bronze in the Senior Women’s category in 18:43.60.  Caversham’s Lynne Kerr  won the Women’s 60-64 category in 36:47.51

Full Results of the Otago 5000m Champs

1.  Simon Cromarty 15:06.47aPB Leith
2.  Jason van Kempen 15:08.10aPB Unattached
3.  Dan Hayman 15:20.92aPB Leith
4.  Dwight Grieve 15:57.04aPB Fiordland AC
5.  Matthew Bolter 16:09.94aPB Hill City – University
6.  Graham Fisher 16:11.97aPB Leith
7.  Corey Lewis 16:39.17aPB Leith.
8.  Sam Bradbury-Leather 16:45.46aPB Leith
9.  McKay Watson 16:51.32aPB Leith
10. Sandor Toth 16:52.75aPB Leith
11.  Adrien Auvray Matyn 16:54.36aPB Leith
12.  Theo Atkinson 16:55.56aPB Leith
13.  Ben Pigou 16:57.53aSB Leith
14.  Leon Miyahara 17:31.19aSB Caversham
15.  John Bayne 17:54.14aPB Leith.
16.  Fraser Bailey 18:42.78aPB Leith
17.  Wayne Dyet 18:51.28aPB Unattached
18.  Andrew Lonie 18:52.03aPB Leith
19.  James Pemberton 19:27.09aSB Leith
20. Gordon Wong 22:02.63aSB Caversham

 

B Grade Race

1 73 Lars Winther 35 M 18:03
2 108 Sean Galdeman 22 M 18:42
3 75 Jared Brenssell 27 M 18:44
4 80 Simon Perry 47 M 19:01
5 89 Sebastian Potgieter 33 M 19:02
6 98 Sean R Santellanes 30 M 19:06
7 76 Hayden Scorringe 56 M 19:30
8 99 Aly Craigie 41 F 19:33 1st F
9 84 Meg McDonald-Page 20 F 19:38 2nd F
10 93 Georgina Benson 13 F 19:41 3rd F
11 88 Richard Benson 39 M 19:42
12 81 Alice Cuthbert 27 F 19:43 4th F
13 79 Armin Burgmeier 39 M 19:43
14 77 Christopher Holmes 51 M 19:43
15 83 Jess McNeilly 19 F 19:48 5th F
16 78 Richard Campbell 43 M 19:49
17 92 Logan Bosworth 19 M 20:15
18 101 Kleff Tan 23 M 20:40
19 87 James Dickson 10 M 20:48
20 107 Nic Daniels 26 M 20:49
21 96 Alena Cooney 13 F 20:57 6th F
22 102 Barry Purton 65 M 21:35
23 86 Ryan Parkin 23 M 22:09
24 106 Vincent Walters 20 M 22:12
25 105 David Liddell 36 M 22:38
26 100 Stephanie Wilson 27 F 22:38 7th F
27 94 Aleksandra Cooney 42 F 23:18 (missed last data point) 8th F
28 103 Kirsty Nicholls 31 F 25:39 9th F
29 104 Meg Shuker 20 F 27:39 10th F

C Grade Race

Times at 4600m: C Grade Race Results

(the programming error meant the automated timing completed the race at 12 instead of 13 laps!) As you will see my estimates approximate personal times fairly accurately unless you “sprinted your last lap”.

+ estimate based on your previous lap = (estimated 5km Time) and/or your Personal recorded Time

1 3 Jimmy Flanagan 28 M 19:09 + 1.34 = (20:42)
2 45 Jordan Reid 22 M 19:10 + 1:35 = (20:45) 20:10 PB by + 3min
3 37 Colin Tocher 39 M 19:34 + 1:28 = (21:02) 20:59 not a PB but benchmark!
4 63 Charlie Benson 11 M 19:54 + 1.48 = (21:19)
5 27 Chris Harvey 60 M 20:06 + 1:50 = (21:50)
6 59 Nicklos Duncan 9 M 20:16 + 1:54 = (22:10)
7 61 Jessica Hughes 22 F 20:22 + 1:45 = (22:07)
8 51 Adam Clarke 45 M 21:00 +1:47 = (22:47) 22:45 (last km 4:23)
9 62 Zach Sutton 9 M 21:07 + 1:51 = (22:58)
10 12 Ian Morison 65 M 21:14 +1:55 = (23:09) 23:07
11 36 Lily Woodhouse 22 F 21:29 + 2:02 = (23:31)
12 47 Gurjeet Singh Baidwan 36 M 21:34 + 2:00 = (23:34)
12 14 Sophie Dourthe 50 F 21:44 + 1:57 = (23:41) 23:34
12 13 Rodolphe Mary 50 F 21:45 + 1:57 = (23:41) 23:34
15 52 Andy Smith 51 M 21:51 + 1:50 = (23:41) 23:39
16 57 Owain Wright 43 M 22:10 +1:50 = (23:59) 23:54
17 50 Sarah Wilson 22 F 21:56 + 2:02 = (23:58)
17 20 Rich Williamson 11 M 22:08 +1:50 = (23:58) “about 24” close to a PB
19 17 Sue Hendry 58 F 22:14 +1:55 = (24:09) 24:02
20 2 Craig Walters 46 M 23:06 +2:02 = (25:08) 24:53
21 19 Christine Montgomery 59 F 22:55 +2:03 = (24:57)
22 1 Claire Charleton 31 F 23:14 +2:04 = (25:18) 25:16
23 53 Amy McMullan 43 F 23:34 + 2:04 = (25:38)
24 35 Duncan Trickey 46 M 23:47 +2:10 = (25:57) 25:59
25 44 Ella Cone 20 F 24:22 + 1:44 = (26:06)
26 56 Jade Lee 50 F 24:42 + 2:05 = (26:47)
27 46 Caitlin Stoneman 20 F 24:37 + 2:15 = (26:50)
28 43 Anna Ory 48 F 24:46 +2:15 = (27:00) 26:53
29 49 Linda van der Kroef 51 F 24:54 +2:07 = (27:01) Stopped at 12
30 24 Donna Tumaru 59 F 24:56 + 2:08 = (27:04) 26:30 PB (5:24 last km)
31 28 James O’Neill 11 M 25:14 + 2:17 = (27:31)
32 9 Harry Rennie 31 M 25:35 + 2:00 = (27:35)
33 11 Sandy Weltan 65 F 26:20 +2:20 = (28:40) 28:35
34 21 Eva Dourthe 16 F 26:43 + 2:00 = (28:45)
35 32 Robyn O’Neill 47 F 26:42 + 2:15 = (28:57)
36 39 Tom Heath 59 M 27:25 + 2:26 = (29:51)
37 25 Dalise Sanderson 70 F 27:56 + 2:25 = (30:11)
38 40 Lis Heath 58 F 29:53 + 2:27 = (32:20)
39 22 Andrew Bosworth 59 M 30:29 + 2:29 = (32:58)
40 30 Riordon Dickson 40 M 30:38 + 2:31 = (33:09)
41 60 Marva Bakhtiari 24 F 31:53 + 2:27 = (34:20)
42 34 Ellie Pattillo 8 F 32:24 + 2:39 = (35:03)
43 33 Lydia Pattillo 38 F 32:28 + 2:42 = (35:12)
44 55 Calan McDermott 20 M 23:40 (4200m)
45 29 Ailish O’Neill 9 F 26:21 (3800m)
46 58 Edwaid Dickson 8 M 30:35 (3800m)
47 54 Bethany Tocher 9 F 27:38 (3400m)
48 26 Jocelyn Springthorpe F 4:07 (600m)

 

Athletics New Zealand Track and Field Championships, 5 to 8 March 2026

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We congratulate Leith’s Stephen Johnson who competed in the Senior Men’s 800m for Otago in this event. Stephen competed well in the prelims running close to his PB, however this results was not enough for him to qualify for the finals

Leith Results

Men 800m Senior Prelims
2026 NZ T&F Champs | Mar 5 – 8, 2026 | Sat 9:30 AM

14th   Stephen Johnson  Otago  1:57.63  H2 • #501 • Yr: 30

Full Results >> Track and Field Results 2025/26

Photo Chris Sole: The 10 000m Start

L to R: Steve Smith, Marc Boulle, Ian Morison, Adrien Auvray Matyn, Mark O’Neill, Bryan Staunton, Jason Van Kempen, Cristian Nita, Sam Bradbury-Leather, Evelyn Armstrong, Jess Bray

Leith dominated the numbers in the Otago 10000m Champs today. Run in hot and almost windless and sunny weather, Leith’s Adrien Auvray Matyn finished second overall but won the Otago Senior Men’s title in 36:20.37.  Leith’s Jessica Bray won the Women’s title in an excellent 40:55.37

Performance of the day has got to be Leith’s superb master’s athlete Steve Smith who smashed the Otago 10000m M75-79 record (set by Leith’s Jim Flynn in 2009) by over 4 minutes. His time was an excellent 55:34.07 despite having been stung by a wasp a few days before. The old record was 59.35.43

 

Leith Results

#19 Men’s 10,000 Meters Open Otago Championships Finals
Heat 1
1 Jason van Kempen 34 UNATTACHED 34:04.20
2 Adrien Auvray Matyn 20 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 36:20.37  (Winner  Otago Senior Men Champs)
3 Cristian Nita 21 HILL CITY – UNIVERSITY ATHLE 37:15.94  (Second Otago Senior Men Champs)
4 Sam Bradbury-Leather 30 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 38:24.93  (Third Otago Senior Men Champs)
5 Bryan Staunton 35 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 39:25.15  (Winner Otago MM35-49 Champs)
6 Ian Morison 66 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 50:37.36  (Winner Otago 65+ Champs)
7 Marc Boulle 72 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 54:59.57
8 Steve Smith 76 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 55:34.07 (Otago M75-79 Record)

#18 Women’s 10,000 Meters Open Otago Championships Finals
Heat 1
1 Jessica Bray 19 LEITH HARRIER AND ATHLETIC C 40:55.37  (Winner Otago Champs)
2 Evelyn Armstrong 56 CAVERSHAM HARRIER AND ATHL… 52:07.14  (Winner Otago Women 50-64 Champs)

 

Caledonian Ground, Logan Park Drive, Dunedin

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Leith’s Corey Lewis, making a welcome comeback to the track, won the Otago Men’s Open One Mile title in 4:54.98. Corey controlled the race from the outset surging into a significant lead over fellow Leith athlete Sam Bradbury-Leather. He never faltered keeping up the same pace throughout the race to win the title with Sam second in 5:07.72.  In the women’s race Leith’s Claudia Sole got silver in 5:55.01.  Well done to all the Leith athletes in a race run in perfect conditions – Still and cool. Thanks to all the supporters out there too and the officials who gave of their time to put this meeting on at short notice

Leith Results

Mens Open 1 Mile

1  Corey Lewis  4:54.98  PR • Yr: 29
2  Sam Bradbury-Leather  5:07.72  Yr: 30

Womens Open 1 Mile

2  Claudia Sole  5:55.01  SR • Yr: 29

 

 

#2 Men’s 800 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
1 Graham Fisher  Yr34   2:05.51

#6 Men’s 3000 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
1 James Pemberton  Yr54  10:29.73

#8 Women’s 200 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
3 Alice Cuthbert  Yr28   29.40 (wind reading -0.7)

#11 Men’s 3k Steeplechase Senior (914mm) Finals
Heat 1
1 Graham Fisher  Yr34  10:35.40

 

#86 Men’s 3000 Meters Masters 50-54 Finals
Heat 1
1 James Pemberton  Yr54   10:28.64

#87 Men’s 3000 Meters Masters 65-69 Finals
Heat 1
1 Ashley Dustow  Yr69   12:52.18

#91 Women’s 3000 Meters Masters 40-44 Finals
Heat 1
1 Tessa Molloy  Yr45   12:12.18

#119 Men’s 800 Meters Masters 50-54 Finals
Heat 1
2 James Pemberton  Yr54   2:32.89

#125 Women’s 800 Meters Senior Finals
Heat 1
1 Caitlin O’Donnell  Yr24   2:17.26
2 Alice Cuthbert  Yr28   2:29.01

#39 Women’s 400 Meters Senior Finals

1 Alice Cuthbert  Yr28   1:03.53

 

Otago Interclub Modified Twilight, Thursday 5 Feb 2026

Caledonian Ground, Logan Park Drive, Dunedin

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Leith Results and Report

#5 Women’s 3000 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
1 Olivia Sutherland  Yr22   11:09.42

#6 Men’s 3000 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
3 James Pemberton  Yr54   10:59.78

#45 Women’s 1500 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
1 Caitlin O’Donnell  Yr24  4:48.07
4 Alice Cuthbert  Yr28  5:06.35
6 Olivia Sutherland  Yr22  5:13.08
7 Claudia Sole  Yr29  5:13.23

#46 Men’s 1500 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
5 Graham Fisher  Yr34  4:19.48

#49 Women’s 400 Meters Open Finals
Heat 1
4 Alice Cuthbert  Yr28  1:04.83
5 Claudia Sole  Yr29  1:14.78

Men’s Masters 40-44 1500 Meters

1st  Mark O’Neill, Leith Harrier and Athletic Club, 4:59.23a, Yr: 44

Men’s Masters 50-54 1500 Meters

1st  Craig Iversen, Athletics Invercargill, 4:46.22a, SR • Yr: 13

Men’s Masters 65-69 1500 Meters

2nd  Ash Dustow, Leith Harrier and Athletic Club, 6:29.71a, SR • Yr: 68

Men’s Masters 40-44 3000 Meters

1st  Mark O’Neill, Leith Harrier and Athletic Club, 10:49.57a, Yr: 44

Men’s Masters 50-54 3000 Meters

1st  Craig Iversen, Athletics Invercargill, 9:57.87a, PR • Yr: 13
2nd  James Pemberton, Leith Harrier and Athletic Club, 10:35.22a, SR • Yr: 53

Men’s Masters 65-69 3000 Meters

2nd  Ash Dustow, Leith Harrier and Athletic Club, 13:18.29a, SR • Yr: 68

 

 

Perfect weather prevailed with many PBs in the mile. Leith athletes recorded a win in the Men’s Mile from Stephen Johnson and the Women’s Mile from Caitlin O’Donnell.  Three Leith teams entered the 5000m relay finishing 2nd, 3rd and 4th to the strong Hill City-University team.

Leith Results and report

Men’s 1 Mile Open – Finals
1. 29 Stephen Johnson 4:29.02
2. 29 Sam Bradbury-Leather 4:52.26  PR  Personal Best
4. 28 Corey Lewis 4:55.64  PR
5. 53 James Pemberton 5:30.39

Women’s 1 Mile Open – Finals
1. 23 Caitlin O’Donnell 5:04.25  PR  Personal Best

Mixed DMR 5000m Open – Finals
2. Leith  16:12.25
3. Leith  16:21.71
4. Leith 16:29.53

Direct to results >> Results Otago Senior Interclub, Sat 6 December 2025

Leith Results and Report

R to L: (inside lane) Becky Del La Harpe (21), Stephanie Wilson (27), Ben Pigou (37), Graham Fisher (33), Jono Ryan (46), Nathan Hill (25), Corey Lewis (2?), Sean Latimer, Tadhg Ryan Charleton (33), Bryan Staunton (34), Simon Cromarty (35), Matthew Wilson (24)

Simon Cromarty led from start to finish in win the 5000m. He ran a personal best (first time on the track) of 15:21.58 in doing so.  Graham Fisher also had an excellent run finishing 2nd in 16:16.36. Corey Lewis in a welcome return to track running posted 17:08.82 to start off his season. Stephanie Wilson (18:33.95) won the Women’s 5000m

In the 1500m Leith’s Alice Cuthbert (4:57.29) prevailed over Caversham’s  Eve Kelleher (5:00.15) for another excellent win

Thanks to all the Leith team and families for helping with the lap counting and supporting the runners

Men’s 400 Meters Open – Finals
3. 29 Stephen Johnson 53.79  PR
6. 33 Graham Fisher 57.45  SR

Women’s 1500 Meters Open – Finals
1. 27 Alice Cuthbert 4:57.29  SR

Men’s 5000 Meters Open – Finals
1. 35 Simon Cromarty 15:21.58  PR  (Personal Best)
2. 33 Graham Fisher 16:16.36  PR
3. 37 Ben Pigou 17:00.00  SR
5. 28 Corey Lewis 17:08.82  PR
6. 25 Nathan Hill 17:12.85  PR
7. 24 Matthew Wilson 17:21.67  PR
8. 33 Tadhg Ryan Charleton 18:13.13  PR
10. 34 Bryan Staunton 19:13.97 

5000 Meters Open – Finals
2. 27 Stephanie Wilson 18:33.95  PR

Otago Senior Interclub Track and Field, 8:45am-12:00pm Saturday 29 November 2025

Leith athletes competed in a number of events, starting with the 10,000m at 8.45am. The weather was perfect, sunny and warm, with a mild North Westerly breeze which offered relief from the increasing heat. We also thank Chris Sole for being out there supporting the runners and providing time progress reports through all the races at the 200m start mark corner  

10,000m Field photo by Chris Sole
Cristian Nita (HCU), Bryan Staunton (Leith), Marc Boulle (Leith), Jason van Kempen (Unattached), Sam Bradbury-Leather (Leith)

Leith Results and Report

Leith performance of the day has got to be Caitlin O’Donnell’s exciting win in the Women’s 800m in 2:19.66 over HCU’s Eva Mclean (2:20.68). 
In another “thriller in the half miler” the Men’s race produced a titanic finish between HCU’s emerging talent, Matt Bolter ( 2:00.03) and Leith’s rejuvenated Stephen Johnson (2:00.63). The young 20 year old Bolter edged out Johnson by just fractions of a second. Johnson later in the meet ran the 400m in 55.00 finishing third.
Leith’s Sam Bradbury-Leather (36:02.42) was finished second in the grueling 10,000m race which due to the small field resulted in all the runners having to do it on their own under the relentless morning sun over the 25 laps. Not content with the 25 laps, he added another 3.5 laps later in the meet finishing 3rd in the Men’s 1500m in 4:45.37.

Mens Open 10,000 Meters
2nd   Sam Bradbury-Leather  36:02.42  PR  Yr:29
4th    Bryan Staunton  39:57.50  SR   Yr:34
5th    Marc Boulle  52:05.51  SR   Yr: 71

Men’s 400 Meters Open – Finals 
3rd  Yr:29 Stephen Johnson 55.00  PR

Men’s 800 Meters Open – Finals 
2nd   Yr:29 Stephen Johnson 2:00.63

Women’s 800 Meters Open – Finals
1st   Yr:23 Caitlin O’Donnell 2:19.66  PR

Men’s 1500 Meters Open – Finals  
3rd   Yr:29 Sam Bradbury-Leather 4:45.37   SR

#14 Women’s 1 Mile Open Ness Cup Finals
(actual times first, finish times in brackets)
4 Alice Cuthbert 27   5:30.89 (6:40.89)
6 Stephanie Wilson 27   5:31.18 (6:56.18)

#21 Women’s 400 Meters Open Finals
4 Alice Cuthbert 27   1:04.16

 

Women 1500m Open

1st   Caitlin O’Donnell  4:41.41  H1 • Yr: 23
7th  Alice Cuthbert  5:16.07  H1 • Yr: 27
9th  Tessa Molloy  5:36.25  H1 • Yr: 44

Women 400m Open

7th  Alice Cuthbert  1:06.08  H1 • Yr: 27

Men 4x400m (Open – Club/Secondary School)

1st  Leith Harrier and Athletic A   4:06.73 
Caitlin O’Donnell (23), Stephen Johnson (29), Alice Cuthbert (27), Graham Fisher (33) 
2nd  Leith Harrier and Athletic B  4:56.28
Mark O’Neill, Ben Pigou, Tess Molloy, James Pemberton
3rd  Leith Harrier and Athletic C  6:26.64
Marc Boulle (70), Glenda Norris (70), Jade Lee, Ian M Morison (65)

 

 

Well done to Craig and Kimberley Iverson who competed on Saturday in windy conditions

Leith Results

1500m 

4th (1st MM) Craig Iverson  4:37.02

14th (1st W20) Kimberley Iverson 5:21.74

2000m Steeplechase

3rd (1st MM) Craig Iverson 7:22.20

400m

5th (1st W20) Kimberley Iverson 1:23.79

200m

3rd (1st W20) Kimberley Iverson 37.07

 

Leith Results

Race 1:  Women’s 3000m

4 Olivia Sutherland  21  Leith  11:02.08
7 Claudia Sole  28  Leith   11:26.67
8 Kelly Toth  32  Leith  14:59.17
9 Glenda Norris  72  Leith  19:27.73

Race 1: Men’s 3000m  B Grade

2 James Pemberton  53  Leith  10:43.30
3 Chris Bisley  45  Leith  10:44.40

Race 2:  Men’s 3000m  A Grade

2 Grayson Westgate    Leith  8:46.29
3 Stephen Johnson  29  Leith  8:56.17
9 Mckay Watson  21  Leith  9:39.76
10 Sam Bradbury-Leather  29  Leith  9:44.72

Photos of the Action

Women’s and Men’s B Race 2

Men’s A Race 1