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www.vicmastersaths.org.au October - November 2018 All the Vic Results From Malaga Vale Ken Walters Final Browne Shield Results 2019 Membership now open “I Can Win This Carrying An Umbrella” 2 CONTENTS P.3-5 Masterpieces P.5 AMA 20k Walk P.6 Photos of Alex Rotas P.7 Results - Asia Pacific Games P.7-8 Results - VMA 10 Mile P.9 Ad & Rules - Doug Orr 880 yards Firstly, I’d like to thank all of our members P.10 Results The Sixty Minutes for paying their membership fees so that VMA could P.11-12 My Spanish Journey send me to the World Championships as a study tour. P.13-22 Malaga - Results & Photos Using a model that is popular in Local Government, P.23 Inter Venue Challenge I presented a case for me to enact an extremely P.24-27 Vale - Ken Walters busy itinery of meetings, interviews and studies that P.28-29 Clyde’s New Records Report may never prove useful to the operation of our club. P.29 Sure is Tough at the Top Further, I set out to disprove the theory that flying P.30-32 Browne Shield - Final Results Business Class and staying in a five star suite would P.33 2018 Membership Form enhance an athlete’s performance. I certainly proved P.34-36 Venues, Officials etc. that it is of no benefit. However, because of this experiment, your fees will quadruple for 2019. Hey, only kidding !!! I don’t know how we can do it, but the membership Thanks Stan fees remain the same again this year as they have Having served his full allowable term as President been for yonks. of World Masters Athletics Queenslands Stan Per- kins has retired and was made Honorary President The registration window is now open with the link on the next page or through the website. for Life. Germany’s Margit Jungmann was elected If you want a paper copy of the 2019 Membership as President at the Malaga World Championships. Form, it’s on Page 33 There has also been the change that brings W.A.’s I say it every time, but if you haven’t been to Lynne Schickert into the vacant position left by a World Masters Championship, you should do so. It’s Margit of Executive Vice-President. a great experience to compete, no matter how you go. You will see some amazing athletes and if time and money permit, you can tack a holiday on the end. Sadly, VMA lost one of it’s great characters and great contributors while I was away. Ken Walters - athlete, coach, organiser, raconteur, funnyman and terrific all round bloke, passed away. I thought the world of Ken. He was long term manager of Croy- don Venue, with his assistant and great mate Karen Archer, and he made the place so much fun. He helped coach me when I started racewalking, and did so much for our club. This edition has been very much a rush job, as I only got home a few days ago. So if I missed your result or got something else wrong, let me know. Home cooking is good, NAG FILE Athletes Moving into a New Age Group Russ Dickenson Our cover. Sorry. No time to do This was without doubt the photo of the Champion- NAG file this edition. ships. The relay baton seems to merge into the um- Will include October brella. It’s the start of Rob Italia’s Gold Medal relay and November next leg. Have you heard that Rob won a Gold Medal ? Where have you been ??? time 3 Masterpieces 2019 Membership is open You know the ropes by now. Renew your membership before 31/12/18 and it’s only $35.00. Having left it a bit late, I did try very After that it’s $40.00 hard to find out who the mystery French- man was in the East Burwood group Here’s the link : photo last edition. I can now reveal (although a lot of you would have known) https://www.registernow.com.au/se- that it is Horatio Diaz !! Sorry Horatio I cure/Register.aspx?E=31878 didn’t recognise you. What’s On Any queries on Browne Shield races can be directed to Peter Thorne on 0427 880 143 or [email protected] 2018 Oct 11 Doug Orr 880 yards Inter venue Final - East Burwood 7.30 pm Oct 13-20 Alice Springs Masters Games - www.alicespringsmastersgames.com.au/ Oct 21 2018 WMA Marathon Champs - Toronto Canada - www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com Nov 2-11 Pan Pacific Masters Games - Gold Coast - https://mastersgames.com.au/ppmg/ 2019 Feb 17 2019 VMA 5000m Walk Championship - Mentone Track - Enter on day March 23-24 Victorian Masters T&F Championships - Doncaster - Entry thru Aths Vic website March 24-30 World Masters Indoors Championships - Torun, Poland – www.wmaci2019.com April 26-29 2019 AMA T&F Championships - Melbourne Aug 31- Sept 7 2019 Oceania Masters Athletics Championships - Mackay, Queensland. 2020 TBA World Masters Athletics T&F Championships - Toronto - www.wmatoronto2020.com/ 2021 TBA WMA Indoor Championships - Edmonton, Canada 2022 August 17-27 WMA Outdoor Championships - Gothenburg, Sweden 4 Masterpieces WANT TO BE PART OF MELBOURNE 2019 ? We are looking for people to help out in two key areas in the lead up to us hosting the Nationals in Melbourne next year. Merchandise Do you have expertise in the design or procurement of garments that we will be offering for sale ? We need an extra helper or two in this important area. Sponsorship This is one of the critical areas in making the event a success. Do you have contacts within Government or the Private Sector or are you confident that you could approach these bodies and put our case for funding or advertising ? We would love to hear from you if you could help. Victoria’s Sinead Diver has set a new World Masters 40+ record of 1:09.20 in winning the Aus- tralian Half Marathon Champi- onships on the Sunshine Coast. Congrats Sinead !! WMA MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 - SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 TORONTO CANADA This event will be held with the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Sunday October 21 2018. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded to the first three male and first three female finishers in each age group from M35 and W35. To enter and get information go to the website; www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com/register/ Entrants in the WMA section of this event must be registered with their national masters/veterans athlet- ics body and athletes are required to wear a singlet or vest that is approved their national masters/veter- ans body. Bob Schickert WMA Marathon Sub Committee May 15 2018 5 Master pieces NEWS FROM EAST BURWOOD Inaugral Hawley Thomas Memorial Relay Hawley Thomas was a great supporter of masters athletics both at East Burwood and the VMA. We thus thought it was appropriate to organize an event in his memory. He preferred distance running so we settled for a 3 x 2,000 metre relay. The first one recently held was a great success. Croydon had the winning women’s team with Tania Neale, Jessica Dux and Pam Tindal. Home ground advan- tage helped East Burwood to be the men’s winners with Stephen Day, Christopher Worsnop and Paul Earle. The Thomas family fielded six runners aged 13 to 54 with granddaughter Kirsten Thomas (18) running 8:37, shading the first masters athlete Pam Tindal who was the fastest masters woman in 8:40. Jessica Dux was second in 9:11, and Michelle Quan (Knox) was third in 9:27. Andrew Egginton (Croydon) was the fastest in 6:57 with Gary Zuccala (Doncaster) second in 7:15, and a Thomas grandson Braden Halemoulis (18), third in 7:32. Grant Murfett (Croydon) was third masters athlete in 7:52. East Burwood 4 km Age Graded Championship It was a cold, windy and wet September night for this race. There was no sign of Spring despite the venue having a special yellow night to try to entice some warmer weather. It was a close race between Geoff Wheeler and Christopher Worsnop. Geoff took off quickly in the first lap leaving Worsnop about 30 metres behind. They both steadied and ran the next four laps at an even pace with the gap unchanged. Worsnop picked up the pace in the second half and had caught Geoff with two laps left. They ran together for a lap, then Worsnop finished strongly just ahead in 19:30, with Geoff at 19:45. However being age adjusted, and being two years older, Geoff got the gold medal by less than 1 %. Doug Orr Heats In preparation for the Doug Orr Intervenue Final, east Burwood have a series of heats over the 880 yards with each runner handicap themselves in the same way as the final. Those running 4.00 seconds or more faster than their nominated time are disqualified. Quite a few have been struggling with this, but Ros Lord- ing has run superbly and consistently to win every heat so far. She ran 3:11 in the first heat. RESULTS - AMA 20km Roadwalk Championships Held in Adelaide. 5th August 2018 W80 1 Margaret Beaumont VIC 3:17:34 78.82% W55 1 Marie Maxted SA 2:24:06 71.03% M80 1 Rodger Barber SA 2:42:49 75.15% 2 Ian Beaumont VIC 3:17:35 61.92% M75 1 Bryan Thomas ACT 2:27:15 76.65% 2 Gunther Ilgoutz VIC 2:30:51 74.82% M70 1 George White SA 2:12:55 79.25% M65 1 Frank Prowse VIC 2:20:35 70.59% 2 Viddy Jermacans SA 2:42:05 61.23% M60 1 Colin Heywood NT 1:54:18 82.48% 2 Ross Hill-Brown SA 3:01:44 51.87% M55 1 Kevin Cassidy VIC 1:53:38 79.36% 2 Paul Moritz VIC 2:25:56 61.80% 6 THE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS OF ALEX ROTAS While I was in Malaga I dis- covered this lady’s photos on Facebook.