Nowra Athletics conducted Round 6 of the Winter Cross Country competition on Saturday 13th May at the picturesque Timberhills course. The round also served as The Bill McKinnon Memorial Run. This year it was the 2km Division 1 that was decided as selected distance with Cameron Harrison taking out the win and therefore the honours of the memorial trophy.Congratulations Cameron.
In the 1km race Emily McLaren took line honours with Ben Maher running in second and Harry Waterer coming third. Hot on Harry’s heels was Elsie Procter followed closely also by Noah Dyball and William Anderson.
These young champions are the future runners for the Club and Will Anderson is definitely practicing for this, walking the 4km course with his mum and testing out those famous Timberhill hills after completing his 1km run!
In the 2km event Cameron Harrison was the winner of Division 1 with Roxi Florance placing second and Thomas Duncan was third. Running the fastest over 2kms was Hamish McLaren in 8.22 minutes in fifth place whilst Bethany Dobson was the fastest female in 8.57 minutes placing sixth.
In Division 2 Elizabeth Davis was the winner whilst Katie Martin was second and Macarthur Davis was third.
3km Division 1 was claimed by Kingsley Smith. Matthew Higham clocked the second fastest time over this distance in 12.04 minutes as he crossed accordingly in second place and Kieren Harrison was third. It was Cam Musgrove who recorded the fastest time overall with a run of 11.18 minutes whilst Poppy Tay ran the fastest female time in 13.32 minutes with a ninth placing.
In Division 2 it was Tennille Wallis who took home the points for the win with Alastair Urquhart second and Darlene Musgrove third.
Rhys Flood was the first across the line in Medium course, winning Division 1. Darcy Hopkins was second and Jai Holland ran in third. Byron VanDyk was the quickest in 19.00 minutes and training partner Rumer Williams was the fastest female in 21.02 minutes.
Lucas Johnson was the taker of Division 2 with Darren Morris second and Dean Bryce third. Division 3 was won by Alex Arnold with Megan Fitt in second place and Gavin Urquhart in third.
Graham Anderson must have responded to son Will’s cheering, and stormed home to take the win in Long course Division 1. Peter Khourey ran in second followed closely by Kim Dobson. Elisha Bell ran in ninth clocking the fastest female time of 43.36 minutes whilst Troy Whittington showed his very strong form to clock the fastest time of the day over long course with a time of 36.19 minutes. Division 2 was taken out by Ming Leung with seasoned runners Milton Cox and Rob Woods running in second and third respectively.
Next week cross country will run at Willandra on Saturday 20th May with the following week seeing teams travel to Miranda for the cross country relays. Final decisions will be made about teams early this week so if anyone wants to run at the State Relays they need to contact Mel Mustapic or Peter Dooley asap.