It was a chilly but sunny morning that greeted runners for the Keith Haymes Championship. Hodges Track in the Ironbark’s proved once again to be a fitting challenge for the championship with 11 runners takingon the 5km course. Less than a minute separated first and third in the fiercely contested championship race. Sienna Santuccione claimed […]
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The first run on the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club syllabus saw 48 runners tackle the 5km, 3km and 1km distances across the senior, junior and sub-junior categories. The Iron Bark Forest provided some shade to runners on an unseasonably warm March day. Leon Monaghan attributed training on Big Hill to his win by nearly 3
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The President and Committee of Stawell Amateur Athletic Club extend to all members and officials, a warm welcome to season 2023 of cross-country running. We welcome new sponsors this year and we would like to thank all of the past sponsors for their support. We have added a team relay race as a result of
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The Chris Blake 3km Championship event’s final race of the season was run in perfect conditions Saturday 10th September in the Ironbarks. Col Barnett 12:10 stormed home to claim the fastest time followed by Drew Christian at 12:20, an the third fastest was Nathan Baker at 12:47. Jess Maffescioni at 13:37 was the fastest female
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It’s been over 4 years since Matilda has experienced a win with the club. Her last was the 5km Rupanyup Garden Centre in April 2018. With two years of COVID and changes to her work schedule, Matilda hasn’t been able to attend as many SAAC events as she would have liked. The 42-year-old mum hasn’t
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The S & K Watson handicap marked the 7th SAAC race of the season with 14 races to go. Thanks so much to Stan and Karen for their sponsorship and for coming along to support the race. Drew Christain claimed victory by 7 seconds over Elise Monaghan and then 4 seconds back was Claire Davies.
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On a true Autumn day, the SAAC cross country runners met at the Bonnie Dundee track for the Stephen Baird Handicap, with the infamous uphill finish. Drew Christain claimed victory in a fast time of 23:31 ahead of Claire Davies and Peter Hilbig. It was Drew’s second SAAC win from 2 seasons of running. He
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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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A feat never seen in the 56 years of SAAC races, 60+-year-old runner Terry Jenkins bags his third race victory for the season from four starts. Terry’s last win was back in 2018 in the Run for Ray handicap. Training almost every day of the school holidays leading up to the run, Terry had a
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Inspired by the words of our living legend and founder of the club, Keith Haymes. Terry Jenkins won the 5km race in a time of 27:05. It’s an honour to win the Keith Haymes Championship Terry Jenkins Due to a leg injury, Terry almost missed the race because he didn’t train all week. “I don’t
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