Archive for 2012

The countdown is on to the 132nd edition of the Australia Post Stawell Gift. Lock the 2013 Easter dates into your diary now – March 29 to April 1.

Re-live the highlights of the 2012 Australia Post Stawell Gift Finals Day by purchasing the official DVD for just $35 (GST inclusive). Click here to download the order form. Hosted by Network Ten senior sports reporter Ian Cohen, renowned sports broadcaster Peter Donegan called his 16th Gift, and was joined

Twenty-year-old business sports management student Matthew Wiltshire from Ballarat has won the 2012 Australia Post Stawell Gift. Douglas Greenough from East Bentleigh was second, with AFL boundary umpire Adam Coote of Elwood third. Running from a mark of 8 metres, Wiltshire won by a tenth of a second in 12.22

Winning the Australia Post Stawell Gift can take years of preparation and training. With the runners in the main event having today off ahead of tomorrow’s semi-finals and final, it was the next generation of athletes in the limelight today at Central Park, Stawell. Among them was Queensland’s Tim Delahunty.

Jamaican sprint sensation Michael Frater, the flamboyant John Steffensen, engineering student Josh Tiu, school teacher Kevin Brittain and AFL boundary umpire Adam Coote all feature in tomorrow’s 2012 Australia Post Stawell Gift semi finals, the prelude to the grand finale at 2:45pm. The 2012 Australia Post Stawell Gift is a