Historical Results

SUMMER 2009-2010

Katherine Katsanevakis is the National 800m Champion - Congratulations Katherine

Only 8 starters this year including life members Charmaine Smith and Murray 'Muzza' Harding.  The small field was all quality with the 2 lap victor being Yuan Chow Lui.

Full results were:

Fastest Time - William Sullivan 24:02

Fastest Female – Natalie Rule 25:10

Have a read of the attached AV media release.  Well done Ben!

http://www.athsvic.org.au/cache/NewsFile/4190MEDIA%20RELEASE%20-%20Successive%20silver%20for%20Adams%20at%20World%20University%20XC%20_AV%20Website_.pdf

read all about it here http://www.athletics.com.au/news/news/2010/march/willis_the_best

 Additional Post Season East Region Competitions

Results from Tuesday 9 March - CLICK HERE

Results from Tuesday 16 March - CLICK HERE    Results after the 2 rounds of post season competition - CLICK HERE

CONGRATULATIONS to our Open Women who won the Women's A competition.

 Results from National Junior Championships

 Handicap Events

It was a great turnout on Thursday evening for the running of the handicap events.  Provisional winners are:

Peter Ruff 100m handicap - George Barboutov

Tom Kelly 2000m steeple for women - Ashley Wahlburg

Ivan Harding 800m handicap for men - Mathew Woodgate

Adam Robertson javelin handicap - Mr Robbo has confirmed Breanna Large's 40.38m PB to be the winner.  Runner up was Andrew Duck 45.46m and Ed Vining 38.78m 3rd.

Full results will be published as soon as they are to hand.  101 photos are in the photo gallery and click on the link or photo to the  2010 handicap events.

 National Cross Country Trials

The Australian cross country trials to select a team to attend the world championships in Poland in March were held at Victoria's Brimbank Park.

Doncaster was represented in the Open Women's 8km race by Fiona Nash while Grace Thek lined up in the women's Under 20 6km event.  Grace finished 2nd in her race and was selected to represented Australia at the world championships.  This is Grace's first full National representation.

Fiona Nash looked extremely good passing through 4km in a lead group that included former world champion Benita Willis, Zatopek winner Elouise Wellings and several national representatives.  Shortly afterwards however Fiona stepped in a hole rolling her ankle and was then forced to withdraw from the race.

Congratulations to Grace who becomes the 3rd Doncaster athlete coached by Patrick Ashkettle to make an Australian world championship team in as many years.

 Shield Results

• Round 1 results are here - sorry they are a bit mixed up but I received them in an unusual format and had to save them to excel

• Link to Round 2 results here

• Round 3 results here

• Round 4 results here

• Round 5 results here

• Round 6 results here

• Round 9 results link here

• Round 10 results link here

• Round 11 results link here

• results from Shield Rd 12 - CLICK HERE

• Athlete Eligibility for Association final list is here.

• Rankings as at end of Shield Rd 12

• All ladders as at the end of Shield Rd 12.

• Lots of photos from Rd 9 in the photo gallery, click here - thanks Jenny Watson.  Saturdays Shield included the presentation of Association awards to four of our longest serving officials.  Well done to Ivan Harding (Life Membership), Ellen Perry, Di Pain and Barbara Rumble (Merit Awards)

WINTER 2009

 National Cross Country Championships Update and Insight

Emails from Patrick Ashkettle

Saturday 29 August 1:33p.m.

Just letting you know that about 30 mins ago Grace Thek (Doncaster AC) won the Under 20 women's 6km national cross country title in Nowra NSW.

Grace ran around 21.45 for the wet hilly 2 lap course with second place running around 22.20.

Saturday 7:35p.m.

After my perusal of results it looks like we had just 4 people at cross country nationals in Nowra NSW and everyone of them won a medal!!

Here are the results.  The girls U16 and U18 results aren't up yet.

Grace Thek, women's under 20 6km 1st place, 21.46

Joel Tobin-White, boys under 16 4km 2nd place, 13.12.25

Fiona Nash, women's open 8km, 3rd place, 30.22

Natalie Rule, women's under 14 3km, 3rd place, 10.42.36

We think that Joel's race had something at stake with a schools team being selected for an overseas competition.

Fiona Nash, who won the state cross country title at Bundoora this year, begins to put herself in contention for the Australian team to contest the world cross country championships in Poland next year.

Likewise for Grace.  Grace in fact finished 6th this year at the national trials in Canberra which meant that she had made the selection cut off.  However the selectors elected to just send a team of 4 instead of the expected 6.  So this is a good step towards selection.

Patrick
 

 Victorian Cross Country Team Named

Fiona Nash has been selected in the Victorian Open Women's cross country team for the National Cross Country Championships.

The Championships will be held in Nowra, NSW on Saturday 29 August.

Congratulations Fiona and good luck!

Everyone at DAC is very proud of your efforts.

 More of James competing internationally for Malta

 Bill Chambers Cross Country Handicap

 Another DAC athlete competes Internationally . . . . for Malta

James D'Alfonso wasn't at the AGM and Presentation Night because he is currently overseas competing for his families nationality of origin - Malta.

James came 3rd in the Men's 400m, 9th in the 100m and Malta defeated France and Northern Athletic UK in the 4x400m relay at the Malta Invitational Track & Field Meet on April 18.

Picture of James receiving his medal in the 400m.

SUMMER 2008-2009

 Vic U14, U16, U18 Track & Field Champs and Open & U20 Relays

Congratulations to all competitors last weekend.  Medal winners and finalist were:

U16 Women's Long Jump - Steph Lachimea - 5th

 Vic Open & U20 Track & Field Champs and U14, U16, U18 Relays

Congratulations to all competitors.  Medal winners and finalist were:

 Shield Results

Round 1 - 18 October 2008

Round 2 - 25 October 2008

Round 3

Round 4 - 15 November 2008

Round 5 - 22 November 2008 (washed out)

Round 6 - 29 November

Round 7 - 6 December

Round 8 - 13 December (washed out)

Round 9 - 10 January

Round 10 - 17 January

Round 11

Round 12

WINTER 2008

 Bill Chambers Handicap

Congratulations Nick Hiruma on winning this years event - full results available soon.

It was great to see over 30 athletes turn out for this annual event.

SUMMER 2007

 Vic Youth Track & Field Champs and Open and U20 Relays

 Vic Open & U20 Track & Field Champs and U14, U16, U18 Relays

WINTER 2007

 Club Records for Ben

On Tuesday 14th August, training at the Doncaster athletic track took on a heightened atmosphere with Ben Ashkettle having a crack at the Australian 1 hour and 20,000m track records.  That is 50 laps.  Ben needed to run consistently under 77 seconds per lap to extent the 1 hour record and managed to add almost another 400m to the record.

To summarize on Bens performance (and still unofficial), he ran the following splits:

5000m in 15.53, 8km in 25.19, 10km in 31.41, 15km in 47.21, 20km in 62.46 (10km splits of 31.41 and 31.05)

At the 1 hour mark, Ben passed through 19,074km.  Previous mark was 18,678km by Tony Bart (SA) run on 29 Aug 1973 in Adelaide.

The 20,000m record was held by Max Little (TAS) at 70.03.8 run in Melbourne on 5 Oct 1968.

Two very old (and rarely attempted) records, but both eclipsed by fair margins.  Unfortunately, AA wouldn't ratify these records however they stand as club records.

 2007 Australian Cross Country Championships

Congratulations Samantha Carberry - 9th in the final of the 2000m Steeplechase.  Sam's time is a PB and a new National Record 6:38.68

 Ex Member Stars in World Cup Rowing

Congratulations to ex athlete and committee member Kim Crow who, earlier this month, won the women's pairs final at the Rowing World Cup in Linz, Austria.  Kim was also a member of the women's eight that came 5th.

Kim had to retire from athletics due to stress fractures and was spotted on a rowing machine by the rowing staff at the VIS.  A couple of years later Kim is now winning world cup rowing events.

Coached by our Tommy Kelly, Kim was a talented athlete winning a silver medal at the World Junior Championships a few years back.

Well done Kim....your old mates at Doncaster are very proud of you.

 Bill Chambers Handicap

Congratulations to the 13 athletes who contested the 2007 Bill Chambers Handicap over 6km at Ruffey Lake Park.

This years winner was Ben Aw-Yeong with runner up and first woman to finish Grace Thek.  Fastest time was Matt Carr in 20:50.

In the 3km fun run for juniors, Alex Lyster beat home her sister Rachel with Nick Watson 3rd.  Thanks to the 6 athletes who competed and made this event a success.

                          Winner Ben

SUMMER 2006 - 2007

 2007 World Cross Country Championships

Staging the world cross country championships in Kenya was heralded as 'cross country coming home'.  Not that Kenya had any role in founding the origins of this event but that so many champions have originated from this tiny country.  In fact, over the past 20 years Kenya have accounted for more than half of all possible medals from these championships.

Held in the coastal port of Mombassa, the sea breeze did little to the conditions as temperatures soared up towards 40 degrees leading into the event and humidity levels hovered up in the 90's.  Making a mockery of any winter traditions for cross country running, race day temperatures were in the mid 30's and humidity in the mid 80's.  There were four races held, a junior women's and junior men's, and a senior women's and senior men's.

he first race of the day was the junior women's race with Kenya running in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 7th to take out the teams event and taking all 3 individual medals up for grabs.  Best of the Australian trio was Frankston's Rachel Green in an impressive 29th.  In the junior men's race Kenya finished an impressive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 11th, producing the best possible score of 10 points from their first four across the line.  First Australian home in the junior men's was Ben Guest, an impressive 51st.  Only a handful of non-African continental runners finished ahead of Ben and some of those from the likes of Qatar and Europe had familiar African rings to them.  Ben Ashkettle (Doncaster AC) ran 76th after passing the first 2km lap in 88th and slowly making his way forward of this part of the field.  Ben had been ill just a couple of days prior to the race so made a good recovery to get through the demanding 8km circuit.  Australia did not place in the teams event as the two other Australian competitors succumbed to the heat and did not finish.  There were 455 competitors at these championships and 85 of them pulled out somewhere around the journey, most as a result of the heat and humidity.

In the senior men's, Doncaster winter athlete David McNeill came home in 63rd place after passing the through the first 2km lap on the other side of 100th place.  David was also second Australian home while the senior men's team finished a credible 9th overall.  Eritrean 20km road world champion Tadesse upset pre-race favorite Bekele while Kenyan runners came home in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th.  Not surprisingly taking out the teams title.  It was an outstanding world cross debut for McNeill who qualified as a junior two years ago but did not make the trip after officials elected to not send a junior team.

The best placed Australian at the championships was Anna Thompson of Glenhuntly who placed 18th in the senior women's race.  Anna was followed home by Victoria Mitchell (37th), Lisa Jane Weightman (42nd), Sarah Salmon (57th) and Kristy Villis (64th).  The Australian women's team came home in a highly credible 6th place.  Lisa Jane Weightman of Knox has a close association with Doncaster as she dates leading Doncaster senior Lachlan McArthur.  The senior women's winner was former Kenyan Lorna Kiplagat of Netherlands who completely dominated the field from early into the race.  Ethiopia won the teams battle with Kenya in second.

 Australian Interstate Youth Match

Congratulations to two DAC starlets who have been chosen to represent Victoria in the Australian Interstate Youth Match.  Sam Carberry in the 2000m Steeple and Alex Lavale in the 400m, 800m and medley relay.  Good luck girls and well done!

 Vic Open & U20 Track & Field Champs and U14, U16, U18 Relays

Results here

 2007 U20 National Championships (Hobart)

Congratulations Ben Ashkettle and Tom Morrison who returned from Hobart last week as U20 National Champions.  Ben in the 5000m and steeplechase and Tom in the long jump - well done boys, simply outstanding.

 2007 Vic Youth T&F and Open Relay Championships

 Handicap Events

Congratulations to the winners of this years handicap events.

• Mick Gallacher was sensational off a modest handicap to win the Peter Ruff 100m

• Samantha Carberry continued her outstanding interclub form to romp in the Tom Kelly 2000m Steeple, and

• Patrick Ashkettle outsmarted the handicapper to win the Adam Robertson Javelin

 All Schools Nationals - National Record to Samantha Carberry

Most outstanding were our U16 Girls steeple chasers.  Samantha Carberry (6:42.00) beat home DAC teammate Grace Thek (6:52.54).  I understand that Sam's time is a new national record.

Another result just to hand - Kelsey McCloskey-Huckin won Gold in the U/15 Long Jump, with a new club record (pending approval).  Kelsey also was part of the Bronze Medal U/16 4x100 relay team.

WINTER 2006

 World Juniors 2006 - Ben Ashkettle

Well done Ben.....results attached.    

 Victorian Half Marathon Championship

Rod de Highden

 Bill Chambers Handicap

The Bill Chambers Handicap has been run and won for another year.  Congratulations to the winners:

Overall winner - Kate Myers : Fastest time - Grant Schmidlechner

SUMMER 2005 - 2006

 Doncaster Athletes Gain Commonwealth Games Selection

Congratulations Sonia Brito and Libby Allen on your selection in the Australian Team for this years Commonwealth Games.

Sonia is selected in the 400m Hurdles after her win in the National Championships and the 4x400m relay, while Libby is selected in the 800m after her 3rd in the Nationals.  Congratulations also to Sonia's and Libby's support staff, especially Sonia's fiancee and coach, Murray Harding and club Treasurer/Registrar and proud parent, Phil Allen.

Other ex Doncaster athletes to be selected are Mark Fountain and his fiancee Erica, Lauren Shelley (Marathon), now of WA and Natalie Harvey who will be competing for the UK.

Other interesting facts are that Lib, Nat and Lauren are all physiotherapists and Tom Kelly has coached Sonia, Libby, Erica, Mark, Lauren and Natalie at some stage.  Adam Robertson has also played his part in the strength and conditioning of most of these athletes.

Sonia Britto    Libby Allen

 Peter Ruff Handicap, Tom Kelly Steeple, Adam Robertson Javelin

Well done to the winners.

Peter Ruff 100m handicap - Ben Ashkettle

Tom Kelly 2000m Steeple - Grace Thek

Adam Robertson Javelin handicap - David Firth

 Successful State Multi Championships

Congratulations Harry George on your win in the Victorian Championships U18 Decathlon last weekend.  Adam Watson also performed well to place 3rd.