Kiri Artz discovered her niche in competitive sport when she turned to running and broke through for her maiden win in the three kilometre Chris Blake Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Artz had struggled to find interest in any kind of sport until she placed second in a Stawell Secondary College cross country and realised […]
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Stawell mum Naomi Hunter capped an unforgettable year of cross country running by winning the three kilometre Chris Blake Handicap on the North Park Athletic Track last Saturday and then receiving her first ever club award at the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s post-race presentation night. Returning from injury at the start of the year, uncertain
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Perhaps inspired by his son’s cracking attempt on the three kilometre record at Stawell’s state-of-the-art running track last Saturday, the Wimmera’s oldest competitive runner, Gary Saunders, broke through for his first win in almost forty starts this season in the Chris Blake Handicap. Running on invitation in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race, Philo Saunders,
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Almost to the day after breaking a five year drought in winning the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s Chris Blake Handicap last year, injured veteran Stephen Baird scored back to back wins in the same race at Great Western racecourse last Saturday. Baird, once a regular winner on the region’s track and cross country circuit, was
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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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Enigmatic runner Sven O’Flynn bemoaned the fact that he’d found the form so late in the season that enabled him to win a race last Saturday – his first with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club since 2010. O’Flynn runs for both the Stawell club (Saturdays) and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club (Sundays) but
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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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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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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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Stawell policeman Nathaniel Warren doesn’t lay claim to being the fastest in the force but would back himself if ever he gave chase to an offender attempting to escape the law. A gifted runner, with a pugnacious style, Nathaniel won his first race with the club since saluting in the same event two years ago
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