It seemed fitting that Colin Barnett, one of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most decorated runners, should win the race that marked the club’s 50th Anniversary at Stawell last Saturday; the race that carried the name of club founder, Keith Haymes. Barnett, 53, a club champion, veteran champion and aggregate winner on multiple occasions, has […]
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Former running heavyweight Tim Harris overcame a near disastrous navigational error on course to race away with the ten kilometre Stawell Sportspower Handicap last Saturday. After training up to 80 kilometres a week in preparation for the Adelaide Marathon on August 14 Harris could be forgiven for settling into a trance-like rhythm in the Stawell
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If the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap was a horse race the whimsical Irishman Sven O’Flynn would have started at odds of 100-1. Prince of Penzance proved that 100-1 outsiders do win races, even Melbourne Cups, but it’s fair to say that even the Prince before his big race had better form
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Kayleen Urquhart warmed up for a tilt at the Sydney Marathon in September by breaking through for her first-ever cross country win in the Stephen Baird five kilometre handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Urquhart, whose running goal is to finish a marathon in every state and territory in Australia, had won triathlons with Melbourne’s
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Inspired by husband Gary’s post-holiday win just three days after stepping off a plane from Los Angeles, wife Sharon Howden emulated his feat by winning the David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell exactly one week later. Sharon finished eighth, more than three minutes behind Gary in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre
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From the rolling hills of San Francisco, to the High Line of New York, to Mission Beach at San Diego Gary Howden ran everywhere he could while on a three week holiday and was rewarded with a win in the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap at Stawell last Saturday just two days after his return.
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Stawell Amateur Athletic Club champion Nathaniel Warren is on track for a tilt at a three hour Adelaide Marathon in August after his barnstorming finish to snatch victory in the five kilometre Axis Employment Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. Lying tenth with a kilometre to run, Warren was working hard and looked out of contention
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Phillip Cole estimated that he might be able to run five kilometres in 25 minutes when he made his debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club at Stawell last Saturday. He was handicapped accordingly. Imagine his surprise when he knocked nearly three minutes off that “guestimate” to win the Rupanyup Garden Centre Handicap by a
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There were times in Jess Cass’s life that the very thought of clocking milestones weighed like a millstone. Cass was 28 when she started running just 18 months ago. Until then she had never run a single kilometre in her life and, apart from dabbling in a few sessions of lawn bowls, had never played
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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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