On Saturday 27th August, the SAAC gathered in Halls Gap for the Lois Trimble King of the Mountain event. Lois has been a valued sponsor for many years and presented the winning sashes to Jess Maffescioni and Nathan Baker. Leon Monaghan won the event after handicaps were applied. “I try to run 5km three times […]
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Keith Lofthouse’s barren season of cross country running with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club came to an abrupt halt last Saturday when he staged a dramatic form reversal to win the five kilometre King of the Mountain race at Halls Gap. In fourteen starts with the club in 2019 Lofthouse had not finished closer than
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Simon Edge hated cross-country running as a schoolboy but the Halls Gap school-teacher was telling a different story after he won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s five kilometre King of the Mountain at Hall’s Gap on Saturday. “I’ve played footy in Queensland, cricket and competed in triathlons, but never in my life before have a
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Champion schoolboy athlete Tom Walker added yet another feather to his colourfully plumed cap when he brilliantly won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain at Halls Gap last Saturday. During the week, the sixteen-year-old speedster had smashed peer-group runners to win the 800, 1500, and 3000 metres events at the Great Western
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The cream rose to the top on the foothills of Halls Gap when the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s elite fought out the finish of the five kilometre King of the Mountain last Saturday. In a breathtakingly tight contest, rookie Rob Blythman broke through for his maiden win in the prestigious handicap event finishing the downhill
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A random venture to Bacchus Marsh in 2011 for a cross country carnival with a boy who loves to run culminated in a family double at Halls Gap last Saturday when a father and son snatched a unique double in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain. Much like the excursion at Bacchus
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Flushed with the success of dual victories in professional ranks already this season, 70-year-old running phenomenon Gary Saunders returned to amateur ranks at Halls Gap last Saturday for an astounding win in the handicap section of the prestigious King of the Mountain. The man from Deep Lead with the bushy grey beard traditionally gains momentum
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Horsham iron-woman Susie Ellis kept her vice-like grip on the Lois Trimble Queen of the Mountain title when she out-gunned many potential Kings in the gruelling three-kilometre hill climb at Halls Gap on Saturday. Skimming over the jagged rocks and loose stones as if they were pebbles on the treacherous rise above Tandara Road, “Super”
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A grimly determined Rhonda Clark reversed recent narrow defeats, with a slender victory in the handicap section of the Advance Bricks-sponsored King of the Mountain, held at Halls Gap last Saturday. Gritting her teeth for the punishing three kilometre climb after being pipped at the post by Col Barnett at Stawell last start, and going
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Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Nathaniel Warren made short work of the club’s annual Advance Bricks King of the Mountain last Saturday, charging up the steep 3km Mount Rosea course in just under 13 minutes. Held as a sealed handicap, all runners started together, with first runner home taking the King of the Mountain title,
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