SOUTHLAND ATHLETICS NEWS No 669, Feb 7th, 2017 Clubs, please print this and pass on to your members or send their email address to
[email protected] so more in our sport can be added to the circulation list Lindsay"Ginger" Redman 3.10.1931 to 30.1.2017. Gore Athletic club lost one on its Life Members last week. Ginger aged 85, was a LIfe Member of the Gore Club and had received a Long Service award from the Southland Centre for Athletics. He was heavily involved in athletics during the 1970s-80s while daughter Pam Flaus (nee Redman) competed as a coach and committee member of the Gore club. He was always seen with a stop watch in his hand on the finish line at Surrey Park on Saturdays at competitions. He continued to have an interest in the Gore club into the early 2000s. (This is a heap of important information in this issue – make sure you are up with requirements by noting details from page 4 on) Records and Success for Southland Athletes from All Over! It was a bit of here, there and everywhere for Southland athletes over the week, with Southland and New Zealand records included. 1. Surrey Park Friday evening. With more than a dozen Southlanders intent on competing at the New Zealand Combined Event Champs in Dunedin in two weeks the modified CE competition of quadrathon and pentathlon was an ideal sharpener, although the blustery weather didn’t help much. Anna Skerret continued her good form from recent Colgates with an impressive total for four events that included an excellent shot put while Tim Baker’s total from five events was outstanding.