Author: John Purcell
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Brisbane XC Series 2024 #2 – Biambi Yumba Park
A tremendous opening Brisbane Cross Country Series Event with a real buzz about it put on by Toowong Harriers at an excellent new course with an ideal grass surface and undulations at Biambi Yumba Park at Fig Tree Pocket. After some of the pre-race build-up with Toowong President Ross Anderson I was quite concerned to…
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Nundah Criterium Relay 2024
Great to see a successful competition Relay comeback from injury by Deborah Davis today at the Nundah Criterium Relay on Anzac Day. Once again the event provided a great experience with many teams from around South-East Queensland involved.I thought our teams ran very well in particular the Under 16 Mixed Category winners Kristina Kersten, Lewis…
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Australian Athletics Championships 2024
Day 1 A very good first day of Open Heptathlon competition for Tiana Solley who won her 200m heat in 25.59 to sit in 5th place overall and 4th Australian. A PB of 14.34 in the 100m Hurdles, 1.69m High Jump and 3rd place in 12.29m in the Shot Put made it an excellent day…
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Petfield Shield 2024
What a fantastic event the Petfield Cross Country Challenge is with so many present and past colourful Ashgrove running identities combining today at Dorrington Park Ashgrove to help organise an event that a very enthusiastic bunch of emerging local Primary School youngsters seem to thrive on. Teams Trophies went to The Gap State School for…
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QLD Track and Field Championships 2024
Day 1 Not sure of Paul Circosta’s recent form in the Javelin after some tips from Adrian Keen at Masters but Adrian himself continues to be a factor in the Throws with 34.41m for 12th in Open Discus at the State Track and Field Championships at QE2 tonight. This was despite a misguided Masters Long…
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Sally Pearson Shield 2024
A very meritorious 5th place out of 40 clubs for us as the QE2 Kookaburra as is traditional was on hand to declare the Track and Field Shield season closed at today’s Sally Pearson Shield. Certainly comments I was getting today from the wider athletic community show the general contribution from our members who have…
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Cathy Freeman Shield 2024
With some clashes with other events this week with the Cathy Freeman Shield at QE2 today we were never going to quite ascend the lofty heights of the podium like last week from an overall team perspective. However despite yet another different set of tricky conditions with constant drizzle and humidity I was very happy…
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Dane Bird-Smith Shield 2024
Although strong headwinds often made sprint PBs close to impossible, it was definitely our best Shield meet of the season so far with a great team effort at the Dane Bird-Smith Shield Meet today at QE2. Wins went to Tate Van Camp in Heat 2 of the 800m in a PB of 1:58.88, Sam Shaw…
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Norma Croker Shield 2024
It might have been tricky conditions in the wet for a lot of our athletes but once again an excellent effort overall for 6th out of 36 clubs at today’s Norma Croker Shield at QE2. When I look at the calibre of people involved in many of those clubs we compete against and what they…