Ringwood Athletic Club

In perfect weather conditions we ventured back out to Lardner Park for the first individual championship race of the Cross Country season.  Starting with the juniors over a challenging 2km course up to our seniors who ran an 8km course of two 4km laps.  Best performance was Ben Reid running a PB for the course along with Mitchell Graham.

Thanks also to our official helpers Anne Lord and John Walker.

The following is a list of trophy winners for all of our well deserved athletes. 

Open Age winners of Trophies

Women

100m               Danielle Shaw

200m               Kaelah Elvish

400m               Natasha Kindler

800m               Natasha Kindler

long jump        Evangeline Cheung

triple jump      Evangeline Cheung

high jump        Natasha Kindler

walk                 Debbie Voogd

100m hurdles  Lateisha Willis

400m hurdles  Kaelah Elvish

Discus              Gemma Johansen

Javelin            Nicole Johansen

shot put           Nicole Johansen

hammer          Ayesha Palangasinghe Kodith

Men

100m               Tayleb Willis

200m               Jordan Drescher

400m               Hamish Hopkins

400m Hurdles  Blake Dobay

800m               Noah Thorpe

1500mMitchell Graham

5000m             Benjamin Reid

110m hurdles  Lachlan Lamb

discus Vishnu Ravi

long jump        Tayleb Willis

triple jump      Hamish Hopkins

Beryl Shearer Memorial Trophy                    Evangeline Cheung

Age groups Winners of trophies

Apologies for the formatting.

The Winter Season kicked off today in perfect sunny conditions with the opening run being the Jells Park Cross Country Relays. Due to a new playground being constructed this was new course with the long hill going but more repeat hills being added.  This is a pretty tough course as a lot of it is on very soft grass.

Ben Reid had a PB on his opening leg in the Open Men 6k and Mitch Graham was close to his PB from 2019.  No CC racing last year due to Covid.

Two new junior members made their debut for the Club today with Tom Linnett leading out the U14 mens team in the very smart time of 11.49.  The U14s run one lap of 3km.  Erin Marriner was our other new member and ran 11.59 for her 3k lap.  A big thankyou to Chloe Linnett who helped the U14 team to a finish by filling in that empty spot, Chloe at 10, going on 11 ran 13.29.

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.