It’s taken four years, including twelve months recovery from a ruptured Achilles tendon, and a lot of self-doubt for Naomi Hunter to finally achieve her maiden cross country win last Saturday. Hunter’s gutsy effort in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap completed an unprecedented hat-trick of wins for Stawell Amateur Athletic club rookies in the […]
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Halls Gap chef Bal Sukhpreet emulated the feat of Halls Gap masseuse Tina Baker a week earlier when he won his first ever competitive foot race at Stawell last Saturday. Sukhpreet finished with a withering burst to overwhelm Luke Baker (Tina’s husband) in the last 100 metres of the 6.5 kilometre Advance Bricks and Pavers
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Halls Gap masseuse Tina Baker has completed six half marathons in her twenty years of recreational running but never in her life had won a competitive foot race until she romped away with the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Baker was favourably handicapped in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club
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Whiskered warrior Gary Saunders spoiled the birthday party for Kayleen Urquhart when he staged a massive form reversal to win the Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. Having finished near the tale of the field (fifteenth and twelfth) at his previous two starts, Saunders, at seventy-five the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s oldest
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Forced to quit A-grade netball and basketball due to a knee reconstruction, an overweight Amy Yole laughed at her doctor’s advice that she should take up cross country running. “It was something I had never given a moment’s thought to. To me, the suggestion came so far from left field that I just thought it
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This time last year trail and endurance runner Matilda Iglesias wondered if she would ever regain the level of fitness that made her the most regular of winners on the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club cross country calendar. Struck down with a severe cold in October 2016, Iglesias bulged a disc in her back during a
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INJURY-plagued veteran Gary Howden needed to “run like a grandma” to win the opening race of Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s cross country season at Stawell last Saturday. In the two years since his last win with the club, the 58-year-old has missed more than half a season and been uncompetitive due to nagging hamstring strains.
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At the start of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s cross country season in April, Colin Barnett’s unlikely goal was to compete in all twenty-one races. It seemed like a futile target. The fifty-four-year-old Horsham veteran had endured a long and frustrating sequence of calf strains and niggles and had not completed a full season since
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Plagued with nagging foot problems for most of 2017 and thinking his fifty-year career would end, veteran runner Bob Freeland thought he would finish the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season in a whimper but instead has ended it in a bang. His win in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Big Hill Handicap at Stawell on
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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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