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Page 28 — December 2007 VetrunnerBy Bryan ThomasAUSTRALASIANMASTERS GAMESThe inaugural Australasian Masters Games, Adelaide5 to 14 October, grew out of the success of the AustralianMasters Games that began in Hobart in 1987. For ten daysmore than 10,000 masters enjoyed themselves participatingin one or more of the 51 sports, socialising at variousorganised community activities and making good use of freepublic transport to travel anywhere throughout the cityand region. Adelaide turned on beautiful weather for theduration of the Games and the locals seemed genuinelypleased to have so many sports people wandering abouttheir attractive city.Softball with almost 1000 players was the largest sportwhile athletics had 643 participants (49 from overseas – 22from India, Sri Lanka 14, New Zealand 8, and one eachfrom Barbados, Canada, UK, Ukraine and USA).The athletics program consisted of four days of trackand field at the excellent Santos Athletics Stadium, an 8kmcross-country and 10km road walk conducted side by sidein Victoria Park (one of the city’s attractive parklands), astreet mile run along King William Street in the CBD and ahalf marathon made up of a three lap circuit along thepicturesque banks of the River Torrens.Although some fields were small all events were conductedefficiently and many winning performances were ofa high standard. Medal presentations were especially efficientand of course South Australian athletes had thelargest haul. The relatively small ACT contingent of onlynine athletes (Grant Edwards, Clive Glover, Geoff Moore,John Morton, Geoff Munro, Bryan and Trish Thomas,Barbara Tucker and Anne Young) also took home a goodcollection of medals – in fact every Canberran returnedwith at least one round metallic souvenir.It was no surprise that big Grant Edwards was one ofthe outstanding performers at the Games for he was onceone of the World’s strongest men having pulled jumbo jets,Manly ferries and even steam trains in the recent past.Grant easily won the M45 shot put, hammer, discus, heavyweight and throws pentathlon.Clive Glover took his bike to Adelaide anticipating hewould do some cycling between events but unfortunatelysuffered a bout of common cold that forced him to restricthis cycling and withdraw from the Street Mile. However hewon M65 bronze medals in both the 5000m and half marathon,in both events finishing behind two of the long distancestars of the meet, Peter Sandery (SA) and NorrisWyatt (NZ).Adelaide is where Geoff Moore grew up and commencedhis long and continuous involvement in athletics soit was a homecoming of sorts. Geoff ran the 5000m, crosscountryand half marathon. He was particularly pleasedwith his effort in the half (96.31) that earned him the M55bronze.It was good to see John Morton running so aggressivelyaround the track again after missing all of last season.He finished second to the same outstanding Tasmanianin both the M45 800m and 1500m in the excellenttimes of 2.09 and 4.38 respectively. All bodes well for BigJohn to enjoy another great season of track.Geoff Munro had entered several events but it seemshe only made it to the start line of the 8km cross-country.However he ran superbly to win the silver medal in thestrong M40 age group.M65 Bryan Thomas won his age group in all threewalk events (1500m, 5000m and 10km road walk) and javelin.He also won bronze medals in both the steeplechaseand Street Mile well behind that same pair of outstandingathletes that finished ahead of Clive in a couple of races.Bryan also made up the numbers in the shot put.Despite both shoulders requiring replacement TrishThomas threw some implements left handed and someright handed to win the W60 silver medal in all six throwingdisciplines (shot, hammer, discus, javelin, heavy weightand throws pentathlon). In all she was runner-up to prominentVictorian thrower Rhonda Dundas. However Trish’smost satisfying performances were in the sport of IndoorRowing where she won three gold medals (W60 2000m,1000m and 500m) and was second overall in the handicapped500m.Barbara Tucker wanted to experience another MastersGames before returning to New Zealand early in the newyear. Withdrawing from the race-walks because of injuryshe focused on the cross-country and half marathon andwas pleased with her W55 second place performance in thehalf.Like Geoff, it was also an opportunity for W70 AnneYoung to visit family and friends, as Anne is an originalKangaroo Islander. Anne was a little disappointed she wasoften the sole W70 in her events but her performances wereimpressive as she easily won the 800m (3.55), 1500m (7.56)and 8km cross-country well ahead of younger women.Cory Collins, Gwen Gleeson and Rad Leovic had alsoentered but unfortunately were unable to make it to Adelaide.Continuing their practise of attaching a holiday to competingin an athletics meet away from Canberra, Bryan andTrish enjoyed a trip to Darwin on The Ghan, a two day excursioninto Kakadu then a visit to family in Cairns and aday on the Reef.Next major veterans / masters track and field carnivalswill be the AMA Championships in Blacktown at Easter,the Oceania Championships in Townsville next July, the12 th Australian Masters Games in Geelong February 2009,the 18 th WMA Championships in Lahti, Finland August2009 and the 7 th World Masters Games in Sydney October2009.
TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS1 November 2007December 2007 Vetrunner – Page 29Age Name Result Age %HammerM50 Geoff Crumpton 36.76 52.6M55 Duncan Macnicol 22.77 34.1M60 Ray Green 37.40 65.0M80 Ewen Drummond 21.57 66.1W40 Jayne Hardy 39.76 75.8ShotM30 David Lane 9.61 41.6Brad Osborn 9.05 39.1M35 Zvonko Detoni 8.78 38.8Lachlan Granger 9.66 42.0M45 David Ashton 7.20 34.7M50 Geoff Crumpton 10.53 55.6M55 Rick Hatcher 4.79 28.9Duncan Macnicol 7.76 42.8M60 Ray Green 11.79 70.6Tim Gulliver 7.89 45.9M65 Robin Whyte 6.94 44.2M70 Colin Robbie 10.45 58.8W35 Bronwyn Calver 8.90 44.2W40 Jayne Hardy 9.71 55.2W60 Trish Thomas 6.88 53.3W65 Jan Banens 7.79 66.1Francis Harris 5.53 46.9JavelinM35 Brian Duval 40.77 45.2Peter Jugovic 34.36 38.7M45 David Ashton 29.33 36.6M55 Duncan Macnicol 18.91 27.0Robert Kennelly 14.32 21.7Rick Hatcher 11.94 18.5M65 Bryan Thomas 25.68 44.0Robin Whyte 25.50 42.7M70 Colin Robbie 25.29 44.8W60 Trish Thomas 12.81 32.060mM35 Paul Boschert 7.89 81.9M40 Ken Telfer 7.60 88.3Colin O'Reilly 8.28 81.0M45 Kevin Matthews 8.05 89.1Otto Karki 8.10 87.3Peter Sinfield 9.57 73.9M50 Nick Blackaby 12.05 61.2M55 Duncan Macnicol 8.79 85.1M60 Lawrie Kupkee 9.48 81.5M65 Kevin De Smet 10.71 76.0M70 Colin Robbie 10.40 79.2M80 Rad Leovic 11.23 80.1W30 Caroline Stevens 9.83 70.4Kate Mockerage DNFW35 Allison Gordon 10.34 66.9W70 Cory Collins 10.82 90.5400mM40 Ken Telfer 53.43 86.4M45 John Morton 1.00.73Colin Farlow 1.05.01Peter Sinfield 1.09.53M55 Duncan Macnicol 1.08.78Mick Saunders 1.19.17John Lamb 59.48 87.7M80 Rad Leovic 1.35.75W35 Emma Adams 1.11.45W45 Kerry Boden 1.07.56W70 Cory Collins 1.26.981500mM30 Brad Osborn 6.06.71M35 Lachlan Granger 6.28.83M40 Paul Torley 5.01.57M45 Bruce Graham 4.37.21Rod Lynch 4.55.25Mick Horan 5.02.07Jeffrey Symmes 5.11.56Bryce Anderson 5.25.72Nigel Coldrick 5.46.05Roger Pilkington 6.03.93Peter Sinfield 7.08.21M50 Phil White 5.11.04Gary Bowen 5.38.65Jamie Macgregor 7.10.31Nick Blackaby 8.20.36M55 Jim White 5.45.35Geoff Moore 5.52.90Neil Boden 6.12.98Mick Saunders 6.18.12M60 Lawrie Kupkee 7.05.44Alan Williams 7.09.07Michael Gardner 7.14.69M65 Tony Booth 7.06.51M80 Rad Leovic 7.46.23W30 Helen Mains 7.05.80W35 Emma Adams 5.27.54Bronwyn Calver 6.12.41W40 Katie Forestier 5.32.90W45 Debbie Cowell 5.51.65Carol Stevenson 6.15.99W55 Mary Ann Busteed 7.05.35W60 M’ret McSpadden 7.37.23Wendy Kupkee 7.59.12W65 Caroline Campbell 7.13.39300MHURM80 Rad Leovic 1.36.64W65 Francis Harris 1.11.624x100 RelayM35 Paul Boschert 50.71M40 Ken Telfer 50.71M45 David Ashton 50.71John Morton 50.71M50 Gary Bowen 1.00.56M55 John Lamb 1.00.56Jim White 1.00.56M65 Kevin De Smet 1.00.56W30 Caroline Stevens 1.01.03W35 Emma Adams 1.01.03Bronwyn Calver 1.01.03W45 Kerry Boden 1.01.03High JumpM30 Brad Osborn 1.70 72.6M35 Brian Duval 1.75 77.4Lachlan Granger 1.44 62.6M45 Roger Pilkington 1.25 61.3M55 John Lamb 1.30 71.0Duncan Macnicol 1.30 68.8M70 Colin Robbie 1.20 76.4M80 Rad Leovic 0.92 68.1Ewen Drummond 0.80 63.0W55 Margaret Taylor 1.25 84.5JavelinM35 Lachlan Granger 41.91 45.1M60 Ray Green 32.29 51.7Tim Gulliver 24.13 37.8W35 Bronwyn Calver 19.86 28.4W40 Jayne Hardy 31.90 52.9W65 Francis Harris 20.04 55.0Jan Banens 20.03 55.0Triple JumpM35 B Hoogendoorm 9.36 54.2Brian Duval 11.01 63.1M50 Nick Blackaby 6.06 41.9M55 Duncan Macnicol 8.49 60.4M80 Rad Leovic 5.97 66.0ADLER SERIES 5 LAP 1 November 2007Place Name Age Gp GAct Start Gross T Net T Points Elig % New Gp Comment1 Kate Black W40 12 01:55 12:10 10:15 0 N 0 32 New Starter2 Ashok Dhawan M50 20 03:15 13:51 10:36 0 N 3 30 New Starter3 Brad Osborn M30 24 24 04:00 14:09 10:09 50 Y 6 32 Above 30%4 Helen Mains W30 20 03:15 14:18 11:03 0 N 9 27 New Starter5 Margaret Taylor W55 19 19 03:05 14:37 11:32 49 Y 12 24 Above 30%6 Bev Forbes W55 18 02:55 14:44 11:49 0 N 15 22 New Starter7 Mary Ann Busteed W55 28 04:40 14:47 10:07 0 N 18 33 New Starter8 Tony Booth M65 27 27 04:30 15:01 10:31 48 Y 21 30 Above 30%9 Ted Walsh M45 34 34 05:45 15:10 09:25 47 Y 24 36 Above 30%10 Roger Pilkington M45 35 35 05:55 15:15 09:20 46 Y 27 37 Above 30%11 John Lamb M55 38 38 06:25 15:18 08:53 45 Y 30 40 2 above 40%12 Kathy Sims W55 32 32 05:20 15:19 09:59 44 Y 3313 Robin Whyte M65 20 20 03:15 15:22 12:07 43 Y 3614 Peter Cullen M40 46 46 07:45 15:23 07:38 42 Y 39 47 2 above 40%15 Bronwyn Calver W35 35 35 05:55 15:25 09:30 41 Y 4216 Bryce Anderson M45 44 44 07:25 15:27 08:02 40 Y 4517 Jim White M55 42 42 07:05 15:29 08:24 39 Y 4818 Ruth Baussmann W55 30 30 05:00 15:29 10:29 38 Y 5119 Gary Bowen M50 41 41 06:55 15:32 08:37 37 Y 5420 Michael Gardner M60 28 28 04:40 15:33 10:53 36 Y 5721 Peter Sinfield M45 35 35 05:55 15:34 09:39 35 Y 6022 Judy Forbes W75 14 02:15 15:37 13:22 0 N 63 14 New Starter23 Geoff Moore M55 42 42 07:05 15:38 08:33 34 Y 6624 Jeff Symmes M45 47 47 08:00 15:41 07:41 33 Y 6925 Neil Boden M55 39 39 06:35 15:43 09:08 32 Y 7226 Mick Saunders M55 40 40 06:45 15:49 09:04 31 Y 7527 Bryan Thomas M65 33 33 05:30 15:54 10:24 30 Y 7828 Caroline Campbell W65 33 33 05:30 16:03 10:33 29 Y 81 30 Below 80%29 Nick Blackaby M50 27 27 04:30 16:04 11:34 28 Y 84 24 Below 80%30 M’ret McSpadden W60 29 29 04:50 16:09 11:19 27 Y 87 25 Below 80%31 Katie Forestier W40 42 42 07:05 16:19 09:14 26 Y 90 37 Below 80%32 Ken White M50 44 44 07:25 16:26 09:01 25 Y 93 39 Below 80%33 Richard Hatcher M55 15 15 02:25 16:28 14:03 24 Y 96 10 Below 80%34 Nigel Coldrick M45 41 41 06:55 16:32 09:37 23 Y 100 35 Below 80%
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