It was three years in a row for Angus Lyver bagging the national senior decathlon title, and coupled with the national junior title in 2022, four straight years in the 10 events programme.

Lyver admitted that day one was better for him than the second.

“I started off really good, the 100m and long jump and then kind of had a bit of a shocker, but we pulled through in the end.

“Overall it was an average couple of days, but good to know there is a lot more left in the tank and there is still a lot of room in a lot of events that I can improve on over the winter.

However Lyver was happy in equalling his PB in both the long jump and 110m hurdles and an overall PB.

Brianna Stephenson said it felt good to finally secure gold in the heptathlon, after taking the bronze in 2023 and the silver last year.

“I had a PB 800m and three PB’s on the first day, and an overall PB, which is the important one. It was also my fastest windy 200m.”

Achieving a total of 6000 points was in her sights, going into the 800m.

“I had times I needed to have, and I knew what time I needed to run, and I was just under a second off that. But all and all very happy to have over 200 point PB.”

Stephenson will head over to Europe, May, June and July, and do some of the gold heptathlons.

Defending champion Maddie Wilson had a PB high jump.

“I’ve been attempting 1.87 all season, so it was really nice to get that and also have some looks at 1.90.

“Three attempts at 1.87 and at 1.90, was quite hard and it took it out of me a bit.

“It was so cool to be competing against Brianna this year and it is good to finish all seven events and the body still mainly in one piece.”

Wilson has been invited to compete in the Götzis women’s heptathlon in Austria at the end of May, following her national title win last year.

“I’m super excited for that as it will be my first international heptathlon outside of Oceania, and all the big girls will be there.”

Wilson will follow up from Götzis with the World University Games in Germany in July.

“I’m looking towards to the middle of the year to hopefully be pulling out some bigger scores.”

Results:

Men

Senior decathlon: Angus Lyver (Christchurch OB) 7098 points PB (100m 10.73 -0.3, LJ 7.36m +2.0 =PB, SP 13.06m, HJ 1.87m, 400m 50.23, 110m H 15.62 +0.5 =PB, DT 37.92m PV 3.22m, JT 59.15m, 1500m 4:56.56), Junnosuke Tanaka (Japan) 5853, Luke Moffitt (Hill City Univ) 5771, Toby Martin (Hill City Univ) 5649.

Under 20 decathlon: Jonas Hannam (Australia) (11.83, 6.22m, 10.17m, 1.81m, 53.16, 19.87, 33.74m, 2.82m, 44.61m, 5:11.87) 5342, Benjamin Fairclough (Waitakere) 5033.

Under 18 decathlon: Connor Brady (Takapuna) 6793 (11.47, 6.23m, 15.12m, 1.78m, 51.28, 15.26, 44.57m, 3.42m, 51.68m, 4:56.17), Jacques Temarii (French Polynesia) 6256, Jayden Ng (Singapore) 5716, Ty Gonzales 5074.

Women

Senior heptathlon: Briana Stephenson (Hastings) 5985 points PB (100m H 13.34 0.0 PB, HJ 1.78m PB, SP 10.64m, 200m 23.81 +2.1, LJ 6.02m +0.6, JT 37.12m, 800m 2:13.05 PB), Maddie Wilson (Chch OB) 5629 (14.64, 1.87m PB, 12.08m, 25.03, 5.76m, 36.29m, 2:25.61), Lillian Bing (Waitakere) 3343 (17.03, 1.54m, 8.43m, 26.08, 4.68m 10.26m 2:51.60).

Under 20 heptathlon: Samantha Lascelles (Chch Avon) 4137, Lilla Faivre (Phoenix AC) 3363, Mulan Riseborough (Takapuna) 2857.

Under 18 heptathlon: Teresie Hess (Takapuna) 5148, Juliet McKinlay (Palmerston North) 4905, Reki Selita Roberts (Fiji) 4761, Jamie Fell (Hamilton) 4479, Charlotte Blake (Sth Canterbury) 4160.

Under 16 Pentathlon: Hinavai Janicaud (French Polynesia) 2526, Mya Riseborough (Takapuna) 2331, Fionnuala Free (Takapuna) 2126, Violet Ward (Lynndale) 1143.

Under 14 Pentathlon: Lace Patuki (NHB) 2126, Aleisha Jackson (Lynndale) 1230, Karen Kawada (Lynndale) 949.

Masters: M50 Roland Van der Tillaar (Norway) 3527. M80 David Anstiss (NHB) 5122, NZ M80 LJ record 3.62m.