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| Sharon Howden |
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Sharon Wins Telstra
Shop Handicap
Stawell Amateur Athletic
Club held the Telstra Shop Handicap on Saturday
in fine but cold conditions. A field of 28
senior runners lined up for 6.5 km race, held
along
the banks of the Wimmera River in Horsham.
Starting
near the Sound Shell runners proceeded downstream
to the Weir, around the board walk and back
again. making a very pleasant Saturday afternoon
run.
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Sophie
Alexander |
Alexa
Duke, who has been running with the club for
two years, seemed
to be suited to the flat course and looked
to be the one to beat with 1km to go, but it
was
race sponsor and Telstra Shop owner Sharon
Howden who produced a strong finishing burst
over the
last 500m to grab the lead and win, from the
fast finishing Susie Ellis, with Alexa Duke
holding on to third position.
Susie Ellis, fresh
from winning her age group in the Geelong Half
Marathon only two weeks ago, ran the fastest
female time of 26min 46sec. Colin Barnett
was the fastest male with a time of 22min 42sec.
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| Georgia Barnett |
The junior race was
run over 3km's and saw Sophie Alexander having
her first race as a junior, stepping
up from the sub-junior ranks last year.
She may
be a handicappers nightmare, after winning by a clear 40 seconds over
an ever improving Harry Steggall, with Marcus
Scott running third.
Marcus Scott
produced the fastest junior time of 11min 16sec with Naomi Jamieson the
fastest junior girl in a time of 12min 48sec.
The
sub-juniors ran a 1km dash with 6 year old
Georgia Barnett just overtaking Abbey Steggall
in the
last few meters of the race, to win by just
1 second
in a very exciting finish. Daniel Op de Coul came in third.
Liam Scott
ran an excellent race to finish with the fastest
time for the boys of 3min 42sec with Elly Barnett
the
fastest
girl
in a
time
of 4min 19sec.
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