By Campbell McLennan

It was a massive win for Doncaster on the last round of Shield, which ensures we will move into Premier division next year and fight for the Division 2 flag in two weeks’ time.

It was also a big win for the Men’s 40+ team, but the surprise of the round was the efforts of the three members of the Women’s 40+ team. They only went down by five points to Diamond Valley.

By including the points for the relays, David Firth was the athlete scoring the most points this week with 1492. Darryl Kilmartin scored 1274, Paul Mierisch 1224, Graham Ford 1205, Charmaine Smith 1157 and Will McCombie 1148.

Coming to the pointy end of the season there were numerous records, but the big one was Will McCombie’s 300 metres hurdles. Running for only the second time he knocked over three seconds of the record he set the week before, pushing Victorian record holder, David McConnell. He also broke his 200 metres record.

All athletes competing in the finals need to register online. Registrations will open on Wednesday at noon, as usual but invitation athletes will not be able to register until the following Monday, so no one should miss a spot in the field events.

The expectation is that the program will struggle to cope with the number of athletes, so if you can avoid it, don’t plan to go out on Saturday night and try to enter the earlier field events.

Results:

Grade

Discipline

Distance

Name

Performance

Points

Notes

F40

Run

200

Laura Mclennan

36.34

(173)

 

F40

Run

200

Kathryn Gawthorn

43.46

(144)

(New Record)

F40

Run

800

Kathryn Gawthorn

3:39.2h

(168)

 

F40

Hammer

 

Laura Mclennan

18.86m

(312)

 

F40

Hammer

 

Kathryn Gawthorn

10.72m

(179)

(Record)

F40

Hammer

 

Charmaine Smith

20.20m

(329)

 

F40

High Jump

 

Laura Mclennan

1.15m

(179)

(Eq Record)

F40

High Jump

 

Charmaine Smith

1.15m

(179)

(Eq Record)

F40

Shot Put

 

Laura Mclennan

7.11m

(325)

 

F40

Shot Put

 

Kathryn Gawthorn

6.04m

(303)

 

F40

Shot Put

 

Charmaine Smith

8.22m

(400)

(Record)

F40

Triple Jump

 

Laura Mclennan

7.65m

(198)

 

F40

Triple Jump

 

Charmaine Smith

7.78m

(206)

 

M40

Run

100

Paul Mierisch

12.13

(395)

 

M40

Run

200

David Firth

25.43

(405)

 

M40

Run

200

Will McCombie

28.43

(436)

(Record)

M40

Run

200

Darryl Kilmartin

30.66

(236)

 

M40

Run

200

Mark Purser

29.91

(265)

 

M40

Run

400

Paul Mierisch

56.12

(410)

 

M40

Run

800

David Firth

2:26.3h

(271)

 

M40

Run

800

Will McCombie

2:55.5h

(261)

 

M40

Run

800

John Curry

2:48.8h

(222)

 

M40

Run

800

Leighton Kearney

2:46.7h

(189)

 

M40

Run

5000

John Curry

21:36.7h

(246)

 

M40

Run

5000

Roderic De Highden

19:04.5h

(377)

 

M40

Run

5000

Leighton Kearney

21:03.5h

(199)

 

M40

Hurdles

300

Will McCombie

54.38

(379)

(Record)

M40

Relay

800

Doncaster

02:07.2

(173)

 

M50

Relay

800

Doncaster

02:03.9

(287)

 

M40

Discus

 

Paul Mierisch

33.27m

(419)

(Record)

M40

Hammer

 

David Firth

37.38m

(448)

 

M40

Hammer

 

Darryl Kilmartin

16.81m

(246)

 

M40

Hammer

 

Graham Ford

18.64m

(377)

(Record)

M40

High Jump

 

Graham Ford

1.15m

(378)

 

M40

Shot Put

 

Campbell Mclennan

8.26m

(393)

 

M40

Shot Put

 

David Firth

8.01m

(325)

 

M40

Shot Put

 

Darryl Kilmartin

8.01m

(401)

 

M40

Shot Put

 

Graham Ford

7.92m

(450)

 

M40

Triple Jump

 

Darryl Kilmartin

8.93m

(319)

 

Ladders:

Men’s 40+

Doncaster

DAC

8,507

Collingwood

COL

7,319

Diamond Valley

DIV

5,253

Richmond

RIC

2,830

Preston

PRE

2,367

Ivanhoe

IVH

750

Women’s 40+

Diamond Valley

DIV

2,927

Doncaster

DAC

2,922

Preston

PRE

1,295

Collingwood

COL

1,275

Richmond

RIC

262