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On an icy cold and wet Easter Monday, Australian national 100m champion Melissa Breen created history when she won the Strickland Family Women’s Gift from the scratch mark.  The Open Gift was won by 20-year-old Ballarat student Matthew Wiltshire. The 2003 World 100m champion Kim Collins from St Kitts &

Stawell Gift Event Management (SGEM), promoters of the iconic Powercor Stawell Gift carnival, has announced a strategic partnership with Athletics Australia, the national governing body for the sport of athletics. While some of Australia’s best amateur athletes have long participated at Stawell, this is the first formal partnership between Athletics

In 2011 for the first time the Open and Women’s Gift finals at Central Park were run on the Tuesday as a result of Anzac Day falling on Easter Monday. The Stawell Athletic Club had assembled a number of class athletes to compete including the 2003 100m World champion Kim

2010 A year of controversy      The 2010 pro running pre-season was marked by a series of events which nearly saw the Stawell Gift moved to Ballarat until then Victorian Premier John Brumby announced: “under no circumstances will the Stawell Gift be leaving Stawell.”  This was much to the

Congratulations on your new appointment as Executive Officer of the VAL.  How did the role come about and what are you hoping to achieve? When I saw former CEO Tom’s role advertised it felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge myself and expand my career in a sport that I’m