Browse > Home /

Hargreaves wins Mount Gambier Gift

November 30, 2009

Victorian Shaun Hargreaves was the outstanding performer at the ninth annual Mount Gambier RSL Classic Carnival on Saturday.

The talented 21-year-old won the $10,000 120m final after earlier winning the 70m sprint handicap.

Hargreaves, who — by his own admission — had not won anything of note in his running career — had just centimetres to spare from the luckless Alex Saliu, who also ran second in the recent Whyalla Gift. Read more

Tags: ,   |  Leave a Comment 

Stawell champ favoured for Gift

November 27, 2009

Former Stawell Gift champion Adrian Mott will be the headline act at tomorrow’s ninth annual Mount Gambier RSL Classic Carnival at Vansittart Park.

Mott of the inner Melbourne suburb of Essendon, won the 2006 Stawell Gift as a 20-year-old running from 7.25m and stopping the clock 11.98 seconds. Read more

Tags: , ,   |  Leave a Comment 

Engler coming to Gift carnival

November 6, 2009

Newly crowned Australian marathon champion, Dale Engler — formerly of Mount Gambier — is a confirmed starter for the Mount Gambier RSL Gift Carnival later this month.

Engler (27) will be the drawcard runner in the 1600m backmarkers handicap, an event he has contested five times previously. Read more

Tags: ,   |  Leave a Comment 

Bigger purse for Mount Gambier Gift

October 20, 2009

The South Australian professional athletic season started last weekend and next month’s Mount Gambier Gift Carnival will take on a much higher level of prominence for most athletes this summer.

Scheduled for November 28, the one day carnival, which is now in its ninth year since undergoing a massive overhaul will carry the second biggest purse of the 14 pro carnivals on this summer’s roster. Read more

Tags: ,   |  Leave a Comment 

Emerging champ wins Gift

November 29, 2008

Emerging Victorian runner Aaron Rouge-Serret won the Mount Gambier Gift today with a near-perfect race in 12.20 seconds. Read more

Tags: ,   |  Comments Off 

Stawell champ eyes Gift title

November 28, 2008

Three-time Australian sprint champion and 2000 Athens Olympian, Joshua Ross has drawn arguably the toughest heat of all for tomorrow’s new look $10,000 Mount Gambier RSL Gift Classic.

Ross (27) is a dual Stawell Gift champion and the only Australian to win the event from scratch. Read more

Tags: ,   |  1 Comment 

Stawell Gift champ to run from scratch

November 25, 2008

Dual Stawell Gift champion, Joshua Ross will be spotting a 12 metre start to the outmarkers in this Saturday’s $10,000 Mount Gambier RSL Gift Classic.

Ross has been placed on the elite scratch mark. Read more

Tags: ,   |  Comments Off 

Fastest Aussie confirms for Gift

November 20, 2008

Next week’s Mount Gambier RSL Gift Classic has been given its greatest fillip yet with news that Joshua Ross — Australia’s fastest man on two legs — is a confirmed starter.

And coming with him is exciting Victorian 20-year-old sprinter, Aaron Rouge-Serrett, who earlier this year won the Backmarker’s Sprint at the Stawell Easter Carnival. Read more

Tags: ,   |  Comments Off