The 2019 National Masters were held at Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne from 26-29th April. These were the 47th edition of the National Masters Athletics Championships. A record 959 athletes entered the competition and each athlete entered an average of 3.5 events – which meant a colossal 3,380 individual entries over the four day program. Nowra’s superstar …
Match 1 of the McCaffrey Challenge 27.4.19
Round 3 of Nowra Athletics cross country competition was held at Timberhills on Saturday 27th April in conjunction with Match 1 of the McCaffrey Challenge against Kembla Joggers. Unfortunately, Kembla were too strong for the home club and the bragging rights went to the visitors. There were 12 competitors representing Nowra in the 1km event. …
Easter Saturday running at Timberhills
Round 2 of the Nowra Athletics Cross Country competition was held on Saturday 20th April at Timberhills. Easter Saturday saw plenty of runners out to spy the Easter bunny amongst the trees of Timberhills; or perhaps they were just eager to run in order to win Easter chocolate rewards. In the 1km there were 8 …
Longreach XC Round 1 2019
Cross Country Round 1 kicked off at Longreach on Saturday 13th April. In the 1km event there were 10 competitors. Evie Smart was first across the line in 5.35 minutes followed closely by Dean Osgood in 5.36 and then Rowan Brignell was third in 5.41. Next to cross was Tom Smart, then Hannah Vonk, Alba …
National Representatives.
The 2019 Australian Athletics Championship were held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre over the week of 1st April to 7th April 2019. More than 3500 track and field athletes competed in the Championships. It was an impressive eight days of athletic competition; the largest annual athletics event in Australia and Oceania- Pacific region. The …
Cross Country starts at Hollyhill 6.4.19
The Preliminary Round of cross country 2019 season was held at Hollyhills on Saturday 6th April. The Committee were elated to have over 100 runners turn up and compete across the distances at the newest course. A huge thank you to the Havadjia family for providing the club with the use of their property for …