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
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
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
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
Born-again sportswoman Selina Heard-Price continued her remarkable transformation into a competitive runner when she strolled to her second win of the season in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap, held near Stawell last Saturday. After spending most of her sporting life as a netballer, badminton and squash player, Selina joined a our running club for
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”
Spurred on by the embarrassment of a self-confessed bulging waistline, Bob Freeland, a foundation member of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, turned back the clock to win his first race in 14 months at Haven Hall, near Horsham, on Saturday. Suited by the fast and flat nature of the five kilometre course, the easiest on
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