Winning the Stawell Toyota 8km handicap, was the icing on the cake for 18-year-old Monaghan. A clear victory with a 90-second lead over second place getter Simon Edge and two minutes clear of third placer, Drew Christian. Elise has put a lot of time into her running recently and ran a sub 6 minutes in […]
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Jess Cass could hardly have picked a better time to celebrate her first win from twelve starts this season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, just two days after her thirty-fifth birthday and with wedding preparations well underway. In the wake of a brace of race cancellations, due to COVID, her win rounded off a
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Hardened by a tough run in the 21.5 kilometre Run Melbourne on July 27, Vicki Tyler led an all-girl charge for the second time this season to win the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Back in May it was Tyler, Jess Cass and Naomi Hunter who shared the spoils
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Graeme Eldridge is proof positive that everyone can run, even those who say they can’t. After winning the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap at Stawell on Saturday, the fifty-eight-year-old Eldridge couldn’t believe what he had just achieved. “I’ve always been a walker, but never a runner,” he said. Eldridge started to jog 18
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From the rolling hills of San Francisco, to the High Line of New York, to Mission Beach at San Diego Gary Howden ran everywhere he could while on a three week holiday and was rewarded with a win in the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap at Stawell last Saturday just two days after his return.
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Ultra-marathoner Kieran Ryan returned to the roots of his running career with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club to outclass club-mates in the Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap last Saturday. Fresh from a “life changing” trek along the 96 kilometres of Papua-New Guinea’s iconic Kokoda Trail, Ryan “shook out the cobwebs” for the Ironbarks race by
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Dave Hunter’s rush to get to Melbourne for the Kangaroos clash with the Demons at Etihad last Saturday helped propel him to a fighting win in the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap, his second of the season. “It wasn’t much of a game as it turned out but the (two) girls hadn’t been down to
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Meggy Boan cast aside an old enemy and ended a frustrating sequence of second placings when she led yet another all-girl charge to win the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Warned in advance that the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club event would not be easy, the irrepressible Meggy, already a
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In the 48 year history of our club, no race has been so dominated by female athletes than last Saturday’s Stawell Toyota Handicap in which seven of the first eight to finish were women. Employing “catch me if you can” tactics, the mercurial Rhonda Clark led the assault on masculine pride, turning into the 400
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