Ringwood Athletic Club

Great turnout for the AGM and Trophy day held at the Club on Sunday.  The AGM saw Gus Puopolo stand down as Prsident after many uears in the Chair.  Lavinia Petrie wil takeover the role of President.  The full committe is:

President          Lavinia Petrie

Vice President  Gus Puopolo

Secretary          Kathy Green

Treasurer         Warwick Dellow

Minutes Sec     Jo Benifer

Committee       Anne Lord

                        Deb Voogd

                        Taylah Perry

                        Nick Dyson

                        Ben Reid

                        Tyran Heward

                        Nicole Johansen 

The Winter Season kicked off in typical winter fashion is cool and wet conditions.  We were a mixed bag with age groups in our teams so many thanks to our under age athletes for filling to help finish our teams.

Scott Benedict was our fastest in the Open Men and Lana Mooney our fastest in the U20 women.  Special mention to Sophie Stokes and Charlie Mrtin running their first Cross Country events for the Club.

Ringwood member Bethany Ludbrook has finished 9th in the 20-24 age group at the 2019 Pontevedra ITU Aquathlon World Championships (Spain). May 2 2019, Thursday.

Bethany was first of the Australian girls within that age group.

The event is a 1km swim followed by a 5km run. Bethany had a swim time of 17:37 and a 5km run time of 24:33, with her last 1200m being her fastest run split.

Great effort.

A lot of great performances over the Australian Masters held at Albert Park from our Senior athletes.

M35-39

10000m: Tim Norton 33:51.67 (1st)

5000m: Tim Norton 15:24.63 (1st)

1500m: Tim Norton 4:18.51 (1st)

F45-49

Weight Throw: Nicole Johansen 10.83m (4th)

Shot Put: Nicole Johansen 8.99m (4th)

Javelin: Nicole Johansen 31.04m (3rd)

Hammer: Nicole Johansen 33.05m (4th)

Discus: Nicole Johansen 33.64m (1st)

Throws Pentathlon: Nicole Johansen: Weight Throw: 10.68; Shot Put: 08.91; Javelin: 31.26; Hammer: 34.50; Discus: 31.69

M45-49

200m:Shane McKenzie 25.15 (5th); 25.10 (P) (1.4); Glen Pratt 27.05 (P) (1.4)

100m:Glen Pratt 13.01 (P) (3.3)

F50-54

Weight Throw: Angela Edwards 9.22m (5th); Debbie Voogd 8.10m (7th)

Javelin: Angela Edwards 20.99m (5th)

Hammer: Angela Edwards 27.65m (6th)

Pentathlon: Angela Edwards: Shot Put: 07.65; Long Jump: 02.87 (+0.0); Javelin: 24.97; 800m: 3:42.00; 100m: 17.33

M50-54

Throws Pentathlon: Patrick Carroll: Weight Throw: 12.45; Shot Put: 12.60; Javelin: 35.28; Hammer: 38.30; Discus: 35.56

Shot Put: Patrick Carroll 12.51m (4th)

Hammer: Patrick Carroll 38.13m (5th)

Discus: Patrick Carroll 36.94m (5th)

F55-59

200m: Kathy Green 34.74 (P) (2.0)

100m: Kathy Green 16.69 (P) (2.9)

60m: Kathy Green 10.14 (8th) (1.9)

F60-64

Weight Throw: Narelle Messerle 11.37m (4th)

Shot Put: Narelle Messerle 8.63m (1st)

Long Jump: Narelle Messerle 2.96m (2nd) (4.1)

Javelin: Narelle Messerle 17.31m (5th)

High Jump: Narelle Messerle 1.08m (2nd)

Hammer: Narelle Messerle 23.38m (6th)

Discus: Narelle Messerle 22.40m (3rd)

Throws Pentathlon: Narelle Messerle: Weight Throw: FOUL; Shot Put: 08.44; Javelin: 18.79; Hammer: 25.93; Discus: 21.92

F75-79

5000m: Lavinia Petrie 23:30.93 (1st)

M70-74  

Hammer: Gus Puopolo 25.07m (7th)

The Australian Track and Field Championships were held as a combined Senior and Junior event in Sydney from April 1 to April 8.

The Club were very well represented by 23 athletes who made 35 Finals for 5 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals.  Also along the way they created 5 new Club Records, 5 if we count Ethan Harris breaking his own U16 400m Hurdles record in the heat and again in the final.

Peter Costanzo was our biggest multiple medal winner with 3, Nathan Philactides won 2 along with Tayleb Willis and Ella Hose who also won 2 medals.

Tayleb Willis broke the U18 110m Hurdles record by 0.01, Ethan Harris set a new U16 400m Hurdles record as well as the flat 400m, Nathan Philactides set a new U16 200m hurdles record and Evangaline Cheung set a new U14 Triple Jump mark.

The Masters Championships were held at the Doncaster Track over the weekend (23-24) March.  Conditions were reasonably warm but not too hot.  Certainly not as hot as the number of medals the athletes won and PBs recorded.

We will also be recording Age Best performances on our All Time lists.  Give us time as this is a big project.

The Victorian Milers Club in conjunction with Athletics Victoria hold a number meets through the season.  These are well run and well graded and do provide a better more even standard of competition for members.

They also host the now very popular Victorian Open Mile Championships which are held at Melbourne Univertsity.

A number of athletes took advantage of these competitions to record PB.s