Sharon Howden still managed a win despite taking a tumble near to the finish 5 seconds ahead of Vicki Tyler and coming in third Colin Barnett who was the winner of last week’s 10 kilometre race. Sharon said that was good to make amends for running an extra kilometre in last week’s race. “I had Vicki […]
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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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The cream rose to the top for the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday when schoolboy champion Tom Walker and multiple times club champion Col Barnett fought out the finish of the five kilometre Horsham Physiotherapy and Podiatry Handicap at Stawell. In Walker’s first full season with the club, the sixteen-year-old flyer finally shook off
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The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club staged its very own Clash of the Titans when orienteering giant Andrew Barnett and schoolboy champion Tom Walker fought out the finish of the five kilometre One More Step for Ray at Stawell last Saturday. Under the handicap conditions of the race, which honours the memory of club legend Ray
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All the elements fell into place for Stawell geologist Rob Blythman last week when he accepted a transfer to the Northern Territory and then scored a timely win in the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap on Saturday in what may be his last race with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. Blythman held on
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It was a race for the ages (and ages) when three rising septuagenarians fought out the finish of the five kilometres David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell last Saturdaykilometres Jenkins, seventy in August, staved off the challenges of “youngsters” Stephen Baird, 66, and Keith Lofthouse, 68, to win his first race with the
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David Hunter is a changed man since he began running the competitive cross country with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2013. In that time he has won “three or four “races; has stepped up from half-marathons to run his first full marathon last year, won the club aggregate in 2016 and above all has
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Col Barnett, a veteran campaigner and one of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most decorated runners, benefited from the “blind” handicaps of the Advance Bricks and Pavers race at Stawell last Saturday to snatch victory from rising teenage star, Tom Walker. A blind or “sealed” handicap is one where the entire field of runners start
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Rob Blythman warmed up for his first tilt at the Great Ocean Road Marathon in May by dispatching one of the hottest fields the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club could boast in the season opener at Stawell last Saturday. Built like a sprinter but training for long distance, Blythman, from a favourable handicap, made up for
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Endurance specialist Matilda Iglesias scored one of the luckiest wins in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s 50-year history when she pipped greybeard Gary Saunders on the post in the five kilometre Horsham Physiotherapy and Podiatry Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, the 74-year-old club Methuselah, had stopped a few metres short of the line, losing
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