Ringwood Athletic Club

The Victorian Masters Championships where held again at the Doncaster track over the weekend.  We had multiple medal winners and a few PB's along the way (if my records are correct).  Well done everybody.

The Australian Championships are well underway in Sydney with Ringwood Athletes taking a Gold and Silver so far and PBs galore.

Ben Voogd kicked off Day 1 in the U20 Hammer with a PB of 64.56 and second place, this also moves Ben up to second on the All Time lists for that event.  Tayleb Willis was outstanding on Day 2 taking out the U20 110m Hurdles in a PB of 13.48 with a legal wind of 0.1, this breaks his own U20 Club Record and this is the 3rd fastest All Time Australian and back to No 1 in the current World Rankings.

Eden Smith has produced 3 PB performances in the U15 Javelin, Discus and Shot Put and Amelia Smith ran a PB in the U16 90m Hurdles.  Ella Hose was 6th in the Womens AMB Discus final, her first of four events.

The Triple Jump battle continued with Evangaline Cheung competing in the U16 Triple breaking her own U16, U18 & U20 records with a jump of 11.73, this also claimed the Open tecord by 3cm on Wednesday.  Then on Thursday Kaelah Elvish jumped 12.01 in the  Open Prelim TJ rounds to break that one day old record.  This is also the first jump over 12 metres for the girls.

Massive PB to Heath Fox in the U14 Javelin.  Our newest member Jemma Whitaker threw 31.34 in the U14 Javelin to create a new Club Record with the 400gm Jav.

PBs to Nathan Philactides and Nicholas Filippis were finalists in the U17 110m Hurdles.  Nathan picked up the Bronze and Nicholas was 7th in a very tight final.  Nick Dyson had a season best in the Open Discus coming fourth.

Danielle Shaw and Jessica Payne made their 100m Hurdles and 200m Finals coming 8th and 5th respectively.  Danielle dipped under 14 seconds and in Jessica's 200m final it was a 0.73 second gap from 1st to 8th, very tight.

Athletics Australia hold a series meets for the countries best athletes.  Ringwood Athletic Club were again represented at the Melbourne and Canberra meets.

Apologies for the old image we have used today.

Another outstanding Championships for Ringwood Athletes with the standout performance being the U20 110m Hurdles Record set by Tayleb Willis running 13.69 into a -2.5m headwind.  The previous record was set by Gary Haasbroek of 14.19 in 2017.

Ben Voogd and Ben Sandilands backed up their 1st and 2nd in the Under 20 Hammer to go 2nd and 3rd in the Open hammer respectively.  And lots, lots more.

The 5k Championships were held at the Box Hill Track, Ben Reid ran in the D Grade race finishing 9th of 24 in the time of 17:55.4.

The Multi Event Championships were held in Bendigo over the weekend and looking at the wind readings in the results there were some tricky conditions.  Our sole representative was Natasha Kinder competing in the U16 age group.  Natasha scored a total of 3666 points finishing 7th of 12 competitors.  That gets Natasha within 212 points of the Ringwood U16 Club Record.

The Victorian Country Championships were held at Ballarat and a strong contingent of Ringwood athletes contested these.  No medals are awarded to Metro athletes, which is a bit ridiculous (ed opinion).