This week was the Victorian Relay Championships, and the Doncaster 40+ teams did well. The women were the standouts, being the only DAC team to win. Competing against a strong team from Chilwell, Renee Reardon  pulled back a 40 metre deficit and burst through down the final straight to give Laura McLennan a 30 metre lead. Against a much faster opponent, Laura was then able to hold on for a courageous win. The women also picked up two bronze medals.

The men found the opposition much stronger this year. Essendon had a much stronger team than last year in the 40+, and DAC did well to come away with two silvers. Box Hill had been recruiting this year, and ended up breaking the Victorian record for the 50+ 4×400. Our 50+ team had only one sprinter, and marathon runner, Rod De Highden, made a valiant effort to try and catch the third place team in the 4×100 to pull a hamstring, and so was unable to complete his leg in the distance medley.

 

F40

4x100m

68.87

(3rd)

 

(Renee Reardon, Kim Peak, Wendy Smith, Laura Mclennan)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=15750s

   

F40

4x400m

05:21.25

(1st)

 

(Wendy Smith, Kate Downward, Renee Reardon, Laura Mclennan)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=10943s

   

F40

Distance Medley

17:30.83

(3rd)

 

(Laura Mclennan, Allison Parrott, Renee Reardon, Kate Downward)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=22096s

   

M40

4x100m

50.23

(2nd)

 

(David Firth, Mark Howard, Adrian Patti, Paul Mierisch)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=16286s

   

M40

4x400m

04:01.53

(2nd)

 

(David Firth, Adrian Patti, Mark Howard, Paul Mierisch)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=11500s

   

M40

Distance Medley

13:22.94

(4th)

 

(David Firth, Paul Mierisch, Jason Merrett, Adrian Patti)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=20717s

   

M50

4x100m

58.24

(4th)

 

(Graham Ford, Darryl Kilmartin, Mark Purser, Roderic De Highden)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=16051s

   

M50

4x400m

04:44.69

(4th)

 

(Mark Purser, Darryl Kilmartin, Roderic De Highden, Graham Ford)

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFFOqqi88w&t=10311s

   

 

Victorian Country Championships – 28/1/2022 to 30/1/202

Three Doncaster athletes went to Bendigo on the weekend for the Country Championships and did Doncaster proud. Jim Poulter, having equalled the Australian pole vault record recently, now has it to himself.  Of course he was competing in the M60 section.


Grade

Discipline

Distance

Name

Performance

Wind

   

M40+

Run

100

Paul Mierisch

12.83

-3

2nd

 

M50+

Run

800

Navid Rashid

02:35.3

 

4th

 

M80+

Pole Vault

 

Jim Poulter

2.00m

 

3rd

(Australian Record)

 

AVSL is at Aberfeldie and Casey this week, so make sure you get your entries in!