One of New Zealand's fastest female sprinters has returned to farm work during her off-season from West Texas A & M University & is turning heads in a Te Awamutu gym with her uniquely tailored workouts. Leah Belfield was born & raised on a dairy farm in rural Waikato. She represented the province in a host of different sports as a youngster but a sprint double in the 2015 NZ Secondary Schools Championship in Timaru propelled the Arohena arrow down an athletics course that is still...

Javelin thrower Tori Peeters furthered her national record in Japan recently but the girl from Gore is far from satisfied with being the best in this country. As the world stage beckons Tori talks pointedly about success, failure, disappointment & delight.

Eliza McCartney leapt into our lives in 2016 with a brilliant Olympic bronze as a 19-year-old with a smile as wide as the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Two years later she soared to what is still the world's fifth highest women's vault of all time but there were warning signs of injury troubles which would ultimately cost her a trip to Tokyo & see her effectively start from scratch. Now a rebuilt & renewed athlete has ripped up the runway in 2023 already armed with a ticket to Budapest...

It may have been eight years since Josh Hawkins had set the New Zealand 110m Hurdles record in Brisbane but when he returned to the same venue in early April the signs were flashing neon that he was in the right shape to shave more from his own national mark. So it proved & now the eight times senior champion can look to the remainder of 2023 with optimism that even faster times are within his stride.

From Boston to Bathurst, the Wanamaker to Wellington, Tauranga terrier Sam Tanner has ripped into 2023 with the vigour you'd expect from New Zealand's leading middle distance man. With the national mile & 1500m titles locked away for the Summer, Tanner takes time out to Chew the Fat with one eye out the window on the tempting surf. At the tender age of 22 he already has Olympic, Commonwealth & World Championship experience that sets him up beautifully for a massive 18 months ahead.

Music to the ears of New Zealand Athletics fans are the performances of some of our finest young exponents of running, jumping & throwing. From Bell to Beamish, Kerr to Elliott & the Olivier brothers it has been an amazing month of rewritten records. Tony & Mark examine the breath-taking feats from our fastest feet in this Summer review of action both home & abroad as one of the most anticipated National Championships in years looms large on the Wellington horizon.

We are back for 2023 and we’re joined by big shot Tom Walsh. The Nice Guy of NZ Field & Track chats to us about what makes this Timaru tin thrower tick. He tells us how he went from being average at a lot of things, to a World Champion. His love of smoothies and dislike of broadcast microphones.

As the year comes to an end, we chew over a massive 2022 for New Zealand Field & Track. Then the hosts are put in the hot seat as we learn a bit more about Tony and Mark and share a few laughs along the way. Thank you to everyone who has listened, shared and been a part of the show this year. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did making it. See you all in 2023!

From eastern Southland to the capital city via Texas & New Mexico the story of Hannah Miller is a complex one but when it comes to running, the longer the race the simpler it is for a young woman who has nailed four national titles in 2022 from 10k through to the marathon.

Off the back of a super successful track career of his own that has him high in all-time New Zealand best performances across four sprint disciplines, James Mortimer is plying his craft as a coach. With some of the country's top tearaway talent under his tutelage...think Hobbs, Hulls, Bing, Neal & more...James is jumping every hurdle to ensure that our next generation of speed has the tools to succeed.

In the middle of this year James Preston became the third-fastest Kiwi of all time over 800m. In his sights are two Knights, Sir John Walker & the late Peter Snell. What's his back-story & what does the immediate future hold for the Karori kid?

Commonwealth champion & multiple medallist Julia Ratcliffe gives a glimpse inside the dark arts of the Hammer throw, an athletic discipline that has taken her from a back yard cage in Hamilton to all parts of the world over the last dozen years, driven by her Dad, Dave. Julia outlines her juggle with training & work as an economic analyst for the Reserve Bank & describes her Covid battle on the brink of Birmingham. It was a cloud with a silver lining for the Kiwi golden girl of...

Gear up to for a Marathon episode as we're are joined by Rod Dixon, 50 years on from his bronze medal at the Munich Olympics. He runs us through the highs and lows of his career from boyhood to boycotts and the beers inbetween.

We reach new heights this episode as we're joined by Commonwealth Games gold medalist Hamish Kerr. He tells us how the he went from the bottom of the south Island to the Top of the podium in Birmingham, what's next and why he enjoys "the lazy mans" discipline so much.

Chewing the FAT review the highlights and action with an ABC focus on Athletes, Birmingham and Cali. Mark and Tony discuss the results at the Commonwealth Games and World Under 20 Championships with some interesting recaps & interviews across Throws, Jumps and Track. Who performed and who didn’t and how did our medals table stack up?

As we countdown to the Athletics kicking off in Birmingham we talk to Stephen Hollings. The self-professed Track Field statistics guru from Auckland ‘s North Shore is well qualified to ‘Chew the Fat’ with us on NZ Team performances at Oregon 2022 and what we can expect from the Commonwealth Games.

On July 7, 1982, British runner David Moorcroft stunned the athletic fraternity by smashing the 5000m world record in Oslo, Norway. In a remarkable front-running performance Moorcroft took nearly six seconds off the previous mark & 20 seconds off his personal best leaving the former holder in his wake. In this episode of Chew the F.a.T, Dave, a close personal friend of host Tony Rogers, talks about the night everything clicked 40 years to the day after the incredible event. Throw in two...

Born to NZ sporting royalty and schooled along side some of our country's finest, it's no wonder Julian Oakley has torn up the track both here and abroad. He takes us through his journey from Tauranga to Rhode Island and back, reflects on some of his greatest races and looks towards the future. July is going to be a huge month for Field and Track, we can't wait for what's ahead.

Maia Ramsden was born in New York, has won age-group titles in New Zealand & Fiji, lived in the Solomon Islands & Ethiopia, and now is being educated at Harvard for which she recently earned Second Team All-American Honors after qualifying for the 1500m final at the NCAA Championships. Her time of 4:12.46 places her inside the top 15 of all time for a New Zealander behind a host of Olympians. This remarkable 20-year-old takes us on a global tour to tell her story thus far & gives...

Author Angela Walker walks us through the writing of "Ideals are Like Stars" the Dame Yvette Williams Story which intimately details the 1952 Olympic champion's sporting & personal life.

In this Marathon episode we talk just that as the team reviews the recent rebooted champs. Then they're joined by throwing guru Shaka Sola, who throws out some good one-liners and spins a few tall tales, as we Chew the F.a.T around the success of the New Zealand throwing scene.

The Chew the F.A.T team bring you a triple treat from across the globe on the South African high veld for this episode. They speak with kiwi born teenager Ethan Olivier who along with his brother Welre, are following in their father’s triple footsteps as they both keep hop, step and jumping up the NZ all time ranking lists while eclipsing NZ age group records

Tony & Mark cast an eye stateside noting a host of recent encouraging results for Kiwi athletes & speak to a young Wairarapa woman now based in Vancouver, Alison Andrews-Paul, who has burst into prominence this year with a series of PBs including New Zealand's fifth-fastest 800m of all-time.

The Bay to Bays success of Laura Nagel. Chew the F.a.T chats with Laura who gives some insights on parts of her journey from the Hawkes Bay via USA to 2022 success from North Shore Bays. As well as a recap of the NZ middle distance season.

On the back of a wonderful week when Kiwi women wowed across the sprints in Sydney, former coach Chris Williams reflects on his time mentoring daughter Monique who still holds the national 200 metre record.