Eleven-year-old Will Moloney became the youngest winner in the fifty-three-year history of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, after matching motors with more seasoned rivals in the five kilometre Barham Insurance Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. Deciding that he was fit and strong enough not to contest the one kilometre Sub-Junior scamper, the wiry Will lined […]
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Simon Gallagher is a runner with natural ability; a self-confessed “mountain goat” who doesn’t need to train to win. Justine Tracey is no natural; no stylist when she runs. Effort tells on her face with every stride she takes, but she does train, challenging her body each week to climb 4.5 kilometres up Mount Arapiles,
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Veteran athlete Stephen Baird, once a regular winner on the region’s track and cross country circuits but almost crippled by injury 18 months ago, ended a five year drought when he won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s three kilometre Chris Blake Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Baird tore his hamstring from the bone, “heard
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The mercurial Rhonda Rice enhanced her reputation as our most unpredictable runner by turning on the after burners to blitz her club-mates in the eight kilometre Lindsay Kent Memorial Handicap. At her previous start in the five kilometre David O. Jones Mitre 10 Handicap Rhonda finished 13th, two minutes and 18 seconds behind the third
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Horsham’s Gary Howden continued the unexpected dominance of male athletes over female in this Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a narrow win in the 10 kilometre Run for Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday. The club’s keen contingent of female runners have won more than half of the 40-odd races programmed by the club
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Reigning club champion Nathaniel Warren made giant strides towards winning a fourth title when he blitzed a field of determined chasers in the three kilometre Chris Blake Championship in the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. The race was made to order for Nathaniel, 25, who was having only his third start for the season and was
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The redoubtable Rhonda Clark performed a miracle far greater than a minor when she blitzed the biggest cross country field of the season to win the inaugural Seppelts Classic over eight kilometres in thick fog at Great Western racecourse on Sunday. Penalised 3.20 minutes for her three second win over the same distance at Ararat
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Bob Freeland, a “class of 1966” foundation member of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club sacrificed a week of “beer and biscuits” to win his first ever 16 kilometre Charlie Jones Handicap in the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. Freeland, 63, likes a beer but he is otherwise a dedicated adherent to a healthy diet and a
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On cumulative times, the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club retained the Lindsay Kent Memorial Shield over Stawell, but Peter Barham led the way for Stawell and was first on handicap. The 56-year-old insurance broker is back training five days a week and that was good enough for him to break through for his first
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The irrepressible Meggy Boan – a rare three time winner in her first season with our club last year – began her 2012 campaign with a stunning win in the five kilometre Dooen Engineering Handicap. When the waif-like Chinese expatriate made her cross country debut with the club in a 5km event last year she
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