A spectacularly sucessful 2019 AV State Relay Championships was completed at Box Hill on Saturday 23rd November 2019. • 5 gold medals to equal the SKAAC haul from 2018, with a special performance from our Under 14 Girls 4×100 Relay with Talei, Abbey, Ella & Lulu becoming SKAAC’s first ever Gold medal winning female relay team. Well Done girls!! • Also Tristan Day joins some elite company (Peter Bol x 3 and Steve Knuckey x 1) in also becoming a multiple State Relay Open Gold medalist in the one year with his anchor runs in both the 4×1500 and 4×800. The success of the day probably comes down to the numbers, so here goes… 1… as in SKAAC’s first ever female State Relay Gold Medal for our Womens Under 14 4×100 Relay team. Talei Spowart, Abbey Vicino, Ella Tierney & Lulu Burney all etch their names into SKAAC’s history books. 2… Silver medals won by SKAAC teams (U18 Female Medley & 40+ 4×1500) 2… Bronze medals won by SKAAC teams (Open Male 4×100 & 4×1500) 2… teams qualified for Zatopek (Mixed Under 18 4×400 & Open Male 4×400) 4… races for the day’s busiest athlete, Bridie Hill (800 x 2, 100 x 2) 5… as in gold medals won by SKAAC teams on the day (U14 Female 4×100, Under 16 Male 4×100 & 4×400, Open 4×800 & 4×1500 5… athletes went home with two medals (Tristan Day, Matt Lynch, Gus Simpfendorfer, Jacob McGirr & Giancarlo Ferraro) 9… as is SKAAC teams that won a medal of some colour. 15… as in teams that represented SKAAC in the AV State Relays. 25… as in club records that were broken on the day. (which are all updated on www.skaac.com) 35.2… as in kilometres covered by our 16 teams as they progressed through their heats and finals 31.. SKAAC athletes went home with at least 1 medal. 40… as in SKAAC athletes that competed in at least 1 race. 41.54… as in the new Open 4×100 Male club record achieved by Harvey Connor, Darcy Roper, Jackson Bennett & Joel Bee 55.56… as in the time the Under 14 girls 4×100 ran to create some serious SKAAC history 77.5… as in the percentage of SKAAC athletes the competed on the day, going home with at least 1 medal. The full results can be seen below:- GOLD x 5 Women Under 14 4x100m Final: Talei Spowart, Abbey Vicino, Ella Tierney, Lulu Burney (55.56 1st); Men Under 16 4x100m Heat: Luke Baker-Hunter, Giancarlo Ferraro, Tom Coghlan, Gus Simpfendorfer (45.84 1st); Men Under 16 4x100m Final: Luke Baker-Hunter, Giancarlo Ferraro, Jacob McGirr, Gus Simpfendorfer (45.01 1st); Men Under 16 4x400m Final: Giancarlo Ferraro, Conor Lynch, Jacob Mcgirr, Gus Simpfendorfer (3:31.66 (1st); Men Open 4x800m: Felix Lonergan, Thomas Sellwood, Matthew Lynch, Tristan Day (7:52.19 1st); Men Open 4x1500m: Alexander Rowe, Ben Moynihan, Stephen Knuckey, Tristan Day (16:07.92 1st); SILVER x 2 Men 40+ 4x1500m: Joseph Lynch, Andrew Thomas, Luke Goodman, Aaron Little (18:44.24 2nd); Women Under 18 Medley 4x400m: Mia Destefanis, Sasha Feldmann, Madeleine Hume, Bridie Hill (4:18.09 2nd); BRONZE x 2 Men Open 4x100m Heat: Harvey Connor, Darcy Roper, Jackson Bennett, Joel Bee (41.54 1st); Men Open 4x100m Final: Harvey Connor, Darcy Roper, Jackson Bennett, Joel Bee (41.74 3rd); Men Open 4x1500m: Jonathon Gusman, Callum Day, Matthew Lynch, Tristan Mioni (17:29.46 3rd); Top 8 in Victoria x 6 Women Under 16 4x100m Heat: Bridie Hill, Sasha Feldmann, Lauren Mcgarry, Mia Destefanis (53.12 4th); Women Under 16 4x100m Final: Bridie Hill, Sasha Feldmann, Lauren Mcgarry, Mia Destefanis (53.18 8th); Women Under 18 4x800m: Ella Tierney, Bea Kellock, Abbey Vicino, Bridie Hill (10:14.14 7th); Men Under 16 Medley: Jack Bowen, Riley Ellett, Samuel Scroggie, Harry Bowen (4:04.15 (7th); Men Open 4x400m Heat: Conor Fry, Stephen Knuckey, Felix Lonergan, Joel Bee (3:20.09 (P); Men Open Medley: Conor Fry, Matt Dinan, Harvey Connor, Jonathon Gusman (3:43.37 4th); Mixed Under 18 4×400: Matt Dinan, Maddie Hume, Bridie Hill, Jacob McGirr (straight to Zatopek Final)
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