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Season 10 Issue 1 OCTOBER 2016 The Track and Field Newsletter of MAWA The world comes to Perth More than 4000 entries received Winter Season review 1 World Championships puts brake on annual Patron’s Trophy event The MAWA committee has decided that due to the Perth2016 World Championships, the Patron’s Trophy will not be conducted this year. Current trophy holders, David Carr and Carol Bowman, will have another 12 months before they defend their titles. The event normally starts in October and the World Championships end on November 6. Following the World Championships in Porto Alegre the event started later. This is the first time in almost 40 years the prestigious event has not been held. The man behind the Swoosh Nike is one of the world’s most with Tiger, the two with a small staff recognisable brands. The history of this started Nike. Bowerman was always company is found in Shoe Dog, the thinking of ways to improve shoes at one memoirs of Nike founder Phil Knight. stage coming up with the idea of the Together with a group of running tragics “waffle” shoe after experimenting with his from Oregon, Knight founded Blue Ribbon wife’s waffle machine. Sports which went on to become Nike. One of America’s top distance runners, Knight was a middle-distance runner at Steve Prefontaine was an early Nike’s the University of Oregon in Eugene where sponsored athlete. Knight explains how he was coached by the legendary US coach Prefontaine bought an MG sports car with Bill Bowerman. his sponsorship funds, the car Prefontaine After finishing business school, Knight was killed in. wanted to pursue his “Crazy Idea” and with At the 1976 Olympic trials in Eugene, a loan from his father began importing Oregon, a number of Nike-shod athletes Tiger shoes to the west coast of the United qualified. One of these Nike runners was States. Frank Shorter. Knight was horrified when Bowerman and Knight were partners in Shorter ran the Montreal Olympic Blue Ribbon Sports with Bowerman marathon in Tiger shoes. coming up with new ideas to improve Tiger In the early days of the company Knight, shoes. Following a breakdown in relations an accountant, taught the subject at university while the company was continually stretched for money. ROLL OF HONOUR At one stage his bank refused to increase his credit and told him they did not want Rob Colling M45 100m 11.34 05/06/2016 AR him as a client. How the company survived Byrony Glass W35 Heavy Wt Pent 4655pt 25/06/2016 AR financially is a testament to Knight’s never Sarah Edmiston W40 Hammer 35.38m 28/06/2016 SR say die attitude. Peter Kennedy M95 1500m 23:44.1 28/06/2016 SR In the book, Knight explains how the Garry Hastie M55 10k road wk 55:27 03/07/2016 SR name Nike, the goddess of victory, came Sylvia Byers W80 10k road wk 82:09 03/07/2016 SR to one of his early employees in a dream, Sarah Edmiston W40 Discus 33.95m 05/07/2016 SR just days before the first shoes were to be Sue Coate W50 High jump 1.30m 19/07/2016 SR made. Knight wanted to call the shoes Peter Kennedy M95 3000m 48:37.4 26/07/2016 SR Dimension Six. Peter Kennedy M95 1000m 14:48.0 02/08/2016 SR With very little money, Knight asked a Peter Kennedy M95 1500m 20:30.8 16/08/2016 SR university student to design the famous Sarah Edmiston W40 Weight 11.67m 21/08/2016 SR Nike swoosh and she was paid US$35 for Sarah Edmiston W40 Hammer 38.19m 06/09/2016 SR her work. Bert Carse M75 5000m 21:40.8 22/09/2016 SR Review: Graeme Dahl 2 Walking in the wild Janne Wells ignores the floral backdrop as she presses on in the 10km walk at the Athletics Australia Roadwalking Championships in Canberra. Photos: CRAIG SEABOURNE In late August, nine Western Australian athletes competed in Athletics Australia's Road walking Championship in Canberra. Amongst the nine athletes who made the trip, there were two masters athletes, Karyn Tolardo and myself. We both competed in the women's open 10km. Our race started at 9:30am, and on the day it was not only windy but freezing cold. I KARYN and JANNE seriously considered racing with gloves and a scarf... managing to finish in third position and The course would have been okay if it securing a bronze medal for the open wasn't for the wind and the hills, but the category. She also received a silver medal conditions certainly made it all the more for the master's category and finished off difficult for a PB. Luckily it didn't rain, with a silver medal in the team but the cold made it hard to get warmed competition. I was happy with my up. I had a bad start for some reason and performance. I didn't get a PB but was also ended up in 10th position around the first lucky enough to receive a silver medal in kilometre. After a while, I managed to the team's competition. pass another competitor, but the We had time to do a little sightseeing on competitor who held eighth proved Saturday, and the highlight for myself difficult to pass. Every time I got close to and my daughter was when we visited her and tried to pass her, she would speed the parliament building. We hired a car up...and so we kept this up until the final for the weekend and found it fairly easy lap when I finally managed to get past her to navigate around Canberra. Having in one of the hills. said that, we did manage to get lost a With approximately 500m to go, I couple of times when the GPS on my huffed and I puffed as best as I could phone stopped working, and only just because there was no way I was going to managed to get to the airport and the let her pass me again. Luckily I managed gate five minutes before boarding on the to keep her behind me and claimed the way home. Lesson learned for next time eighth position. Karyn did extremely well, ....book a later flight home! KARYN TOLARDO 3 Pre World’s Mini Meet – September 24 Athletes warm-up Words and photos by CARMEL MEYER With a month before the World Championships 53 athletes took advantage of a mini track meeting at Ern Clark Athletic Centre on Kathy Lawson Saturday, September 24.. crosses the The day started cold and dreary for the brave finish line in the few who arrived early to run the 800m, cheer or 100m to record officiate. However, the weather improved and an identical time the sun shone for much of the morning. Meet of 14.6 secs to organiser Barrie Kernaghan must have put in a Rachel special order. Sherbourne (out Carol Bowman and Jackie Halberg deserve of picture) with high praise for the rapid organization of officials Jane Lockwood and keeping everything running smoothly. next in 15.3 Starter Tom Lenane and assistant Andrew secs. Cuthbertson got everyone on their way. Colin Smith helped make set-up and pack-up quick and easy. It was wonderful to see so many new faces, although learning their names in a hurry gave the recorders a headache. We hope to see all the new-comers again soon. Michael Byrne visited from Margaret River. Giovanni Puglisi arrived from Brisbane in the early hours. David Solomon fought off the flu to be there. Chris Neale, Maxine Santich and Lorraine Lopes made a successful return to the track following injury. John Lim left the track with an injury- get better soon John! Derry Foley (85-89) and Arthur Carbon (95- 99) ran strongly and showed their championships preparations are going well. All who attended the MAWA Mini-Meet participated with good humour and enthusiasm. Keep that up over the next few weeks and all will be well. 800m David Solomon M50 14.8 Bernie Riviere M50 26.1 Steven O Halloran M50 2:28.8 Steven O Halloran M50 14.9 Rob Cassian M50 27.0 Andrew Spratt M40 2:31.2 Geoff Brayshaw M65 14.9 Owen Richards M40 27.0 David Solomon M50 2:35.8 Barrie Kernaghan M75 15.3 Martyn Cavanagh M50 26.4 Henri Cortis M70 2:52.5 Allan Billington M55 15.9 Jan Peyper M45 27.6 Allan Billington M55 3:06.5 Fred Nayler M75 18.9 Michael Byrne M65 29.5 Jane Lockwood W35 2:40.1 Derry Foley M85 24.1 David Solomon M50 29.8 Maxine Santich W60 3:11.8 Kathy Lawson W50 14.6 Steven O Halloran M50 30.0 100m Rachel Sherbourne W35 14.6 Barrie Kernaghan M75 30.6 Daniel Stolp M40 12.0 Jane Lockwood W35 15.3 Kathy Lawson W50 30.3 Bernie Riviere M50 12.3 Juliana Kelly W50 15.4 Jane Lockwood W35 30.6 Colin Smith M50 12.8 Nicolette Whittington W55 15.5 Rob Cassian M50 12.9 Layla Cassian Vis 17.7 Juliana Kelly W50 31.1 Nicolette Whittington W55 33.7 Owen Richards M40 12.9 200m Jan Peyper M45 13.4 Layla Cassian Vis 35.0 Daniel Stolp M40 23.5 Martyn Cavanagh M50 13.0 Chris Neale M45 24.1 Mike O Reilly M75 39.5 Garry Ralston M60 13.3 Colin Smith M50 25.7 Arthur Carbon M95 87.6 4 Pre World’s Mini Meet – September 24 Daniel Stolp eases up as (from left to right) Colin Smith, Rob Cassian, Owen Richards (yellow) and Bernie Riviere fight for placings.