2008–09 Australian Athletics Championships
Dates	19–21 March 2009
Host city	Brisbane, Australia
Venue	Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
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The 2008–09 Australian Athletics Championships was the 87th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 19–21 March 2009 at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Brisbane. It served as a selection meeting for Australia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

Some long-distance events were staged separately. The 10,000 metres event took place at the Zatopek 10K on 11 December 2008 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, the men's 5000 metres was contested at the Melbourne Track Classic on 5 March 2009 at the Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne and the women's 5000 metres was held at the Sydney Track Classic on 28 February 2009 at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre in Sydney.^[1][2][3]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Josh Ross Victoria	10.34	Aaron Rouge-Serret Victoria	10.36	David Ambler  New Zealand (NZL)	10.41
200 metres (Wind: -2.0 m/s)	Aaron Rouge-Serret Victoria	20.95	Matt Davies Queensland	21.17	Josh Ross Victoria	21.17
400 metres	Sean Wroe Victoria	45.07	John Steffensen New South Wales	45.51	Kurt Mulcahy New South Wales	46.33
800 metres	Nicholas Bromley New South Wales	1:47.76	Lachlan Renshaw New South Wales	1:48.17	Werner Botha Queensland	1:48.24
1500 metres	Jeff Riseley Victoria	3:35.71	Jeremy Roff New South Wales	3:37.62	Craig Huffer Victoria	3:41.67
5000 metres	Collis Birmingham  Australia (AUS)	13:16.26	Andrew Baddeley  Great Britain (GBR)	13:20.99	Bernard Kiplagat  Kenya (KEN)	13:25.64
10,000 metres	David McNeill Victoria	28:03.02	Bobby Curtis  United States (USA)	28:06.74	Michael Shelley Queensland	28:08.96
110 metres hurdles (Wind: -0.6 m/s)	Tasuku Tanonaka  Japan (JPN)	13.92	Justin Merlino New South Wales	13.95	John Burstow Queensland	14.15
400 metres hurdles	Tristan Thomas Tasmania	49.26	Brendan Cole Australian Capital Territory	50.11	Dane Richter Western Australia	51.35
3000 metres steeplechase	Youcef Abdi New South Wales	8:38.65	Peter Nowill Queensland	8:40.91	Matthew Johnsen Victoria	9:00.98
High jump	Liam Zamel-Paez Queensland	2.23 m	Chris Armet Victoria	2.20 m	Naoyuki Daigo  Japan (JPN)	2.20 m
Pole vault	Blake Lucas Victoria	5.45 m	Joel Pocklington Victoria	5.20 m	Matt Boyd Queensland	4.90 m
Long jump	Fabrice Lapierre New South Wales	8.29 m (+0.8 m/s)	Mitchell Watt Queensland	8.10 m (+3.6 m/s)	Chris Noffke Queensland	8.00 m (+1.3 m/s)
Triple jump	Alwyn Jones Victoria	16.83 m (+0.8 m/s)	Joshua Lumley Queensland	15.84 m (+0.1 m/s)	Tomas Cholensky New South Wales	15.67 m (+1.1 m/s)
Shot put	Justin Anlezark Queensland	20.03 m	Dale Stevenson Victoria	17.59 m	Stuart Gyngell New South Wales	17.29 m
Discus throw	Bertrand Vili  France (FRA)	61.81 m	Scott Martin Victoria	59.10 m	Aaron Neighbour Victoria	55.98 m
Hammer throw	Mark Dickson New South Wales	64.71 m	Tim Driesen Victoria	64.63 m	Darren Billett South Australia	64.35 m
Javelin throw	Stuart Farquhar  New Zealand (NZL)	80.16 m	Park Jae-Myung  South Korea (KOR)	78.34 m	Benjamin Baker New South Wales	77.13 m
Decathlon	Brent Newdick  New Zealand (NZL)	7618 pts[4]	Stephen Cain Victoria	7137 pts[5]	Aaron Page Victoria	6415 pts[6]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: -0.1 m/s)	Sally McLellan Queensland	11.32	Melissa Breen Australian Capital Territory	11.61	Alicia Wrench-Doody South Australia	11.77
200 metres (Wind: +0.0 m/s)	Monique Williams  New Zealand (NZL)	23.74	Melissa Breen Australian Capital Territory	23.96	Alicia Wrench-Doody South Australia	24.33
400 metres	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	51.42	Monique Williams  New Zealand (NZL)	51.88	Madeleine Pape Victoria	53.08
800 metres	Madeleine Pape Victoria	2:02.57	Nikki Hamblin  New Zealand (NZL)	2:03.23	Katherine Katsanevakis Victoria	2:05.91
1500 metres	Sarah Jamieson Victoria	4:16.15	Kaila McKnight Victoria	4:16.27	Bridey Delaney New South Wales	4:16.58
1500 metres	Melanie Daniels Tasmania	9:34.76	Lauren McKillop New South Wales	9:40.99	Narelle Coady Victoria	9:46.85
5000 metres	Sarah Jamieson Victoria	15:54.64	Lisa Jane Weightman Victoria	15:58.92	Donna MacFarlane Tasmania	16:00.43
10,000 metres	Lara Tamsett New South Wales	32:56.19	Cassie Fien Queensland	34:34.16	Belinda Wimmer  New Zealand (NZL)	35:17.16
100 metres hurdles (Wind: -1.3 m/s)	Sally McLellan Queensland	12.74	Mami Ishino  Japan (JPN)	13.73	Veronica Torr  New Zealand (NZL)	13.99
400 metres hurdles	Tamsyn Lewis Victoria	56.27	Lauren Boden Australian Capital Territory	56.33	Lyndsay Pekin Western Australia	59.70
3000 metres steeplechase	Donna MacFarlane Tasmania	9:57.14	Ashlea Gilfillan Queensland	10:33.50	Andrea Ilakovac Australian Capital Territory	11:00.60
High jump	Petrina Price New South Wales	1.87 m	Ellen Pettitt Western Australia	1.84 m	Catherine Drummond Queensland	1.78 m
Pole vault	Alana Boyd Queensland	4.35 m	Amanda Bisk Western Australia	4.20 m	Vicky Parnov Western Australia	4.05 m
Long jump	Jacinta Boyd Queensland	6.40 m (+0.7 m/s)	Larissa Perry Western Australia	6.12 m (+0.1 m/s)	Stephanie Lockhart Victoria	5.98 m (+0.9 m/s)
Triple jump	Linda Allen Queensland	13.48 m (+2.5 m/s)	Fumiyo Yoshida  Japan (JPN)	13.02 m (+1.3 m/s)	Marissa Pritchard  New Zealand (NZL)	12.79 m (+1.7 m/s)
Shot put	Valerie Vili  New Zealand (NZL)	20.22 m	Ana Pouhila  Tonga (TGA)	16.94 m	Dani Samuels New South Wales	16.30 m
Discus throw	Dani Samuels New South Wales	60.05 m	Kim Mulhall Victoria	52.18 m	Alifatou Djibril South Australia	49.63 m
Hammer throw	Bronwyn Eagles New South Wales	61.75 m	Karyne Di Marco New South Wales	61.70 m	Gabrielle Neighbour Victoria	60.89 m
Javelin throw	Kim Mickle Western Australia	60.69 m	Laura Cornford New South Wales	55.88 m	Gim Gyeong-ae  South Korea (KOR)	53.02 m
Heptathlon	Lauren Foote South Australia	5697 pts[7]	Sarah Cowley  New Zealand (NZL)	5609 pts[8]	Rebecca Robinson Queensland	5136 pts[9]

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