Author: John Purcell
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Denise Boyd Shield 2024
A very pleasant afternoon at the first meet of the new club season the Denise Boyd Shield at the University of Sunshine Coast this afternoon with friendly rivalry between Aidan Dallinger and Andrew Pfeffer from past seasons continuing in the 100m B heat with Aidan 2nd in 11.34 ahead of Andrew’s 11.61. Aidan also teamed…
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State Primary & Secondary Schools Championships 2024
Medal Summary Gold (7) 10 years Boys 800m Patrick Reid10 years Boys 1500m Patrick Reid (Meet Record 4:45.31)12 years Boys 4 x 100m Relay Sam Shaw15 years Boys Javelin Cooper Lofts18/19 years Triple Jump Isaac Roach18/19 years Boys 400m Joel Drew18/19 years High Jump Cristian Kuenzel Silver (10) 12 years Girls 100m Kaley Croot12 years…
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Rangers vs Harriers 2024
Certainly an epic Toowong Ashgrove meet at Jack Cook Park this evening where the level of action lifted a lot compared to last year. Toowong with a fuller team and a bit more consistency proved too good once again for us winning the meet 315 points to 202. There were some strong wins from our…
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Club Handicap 2024
What a top morning it was with a strong turnout at the Flying Four this morning for the 49th running of the Club Handicap and Winter Season presentations. Major Trophy winners were: Open Club Handicap: Glenn KerrisonU18 Club Handicap: Kristina KerstenU14 Club Handicap: Harry BrayBest Performance Winter Season: Elliott StannardMost Improved Winter Season: Sahara RyanMichael…
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Australian XC Championships 2024
All previous scales relating to extreme National Cross Country events were obliterated as damaging winds, heavy rain and a course that was flooded in parts put our juniors through the toughest test imaginable at Launceston and they all showed tremendous courage. U15 Girls 4k Laura Bray 46th 19.36U17 Girls 4k Lara Wannenburgh 20th 17.43U17 Boys…
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Queensland Cross Country Championships 2024
A really tremendous day of consistently strong effort from our athletes and helpers at the Queensland Cross Country Championships today at Victoria Park. In the 44 years that I have been involved in local Qld Athletics Cross Country two brutal courses always stood out – the old ankle-busting Mt Cotton farm course with nine creek…
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ASR Gift 2024
I always regard the Ashgrove Rangers Gift as a great barometer as to how well the club is going in Track and Field.With our biggest roll up since the year 2000 at tonight’s 34th running at The Gap High School it augurs well for us given we had 36 competitors in the Gift and 30…
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Cross Country 2024 Individual Points
The Brisbane Cross Country Series Individual Pointscores have been published and congratulations are in order for all nine of our athletes in the arena who were in contention with results as follows: Gold Lynda Bateson Masters 50 plus 6kTheres Schulze Open 6kDaisy Carter U20 6kLara Wannenburgh U18 4kKitty Stannard U10 1k Silver Andrew Carkeet Open…
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Brisbane XC Series 2024 #9 – Minnippi Parklands
The annual call to outgreen Club President Ken Hastie seemed to promote an incredible amount of club energy today at the final round of the Brisbane Cross Country Series at Minnippi Parklands Tingalpa hosted by Thompson Estate.Certainly our best rollup in many years to a south side venue suggests that Sundays aren’t quite as problematic…