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New members will be registered from date of registration through to 31/12/23

Member enquiries:  Ewen Wilson 
registrar@vicmastersaths.org.au

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Masters Athletics offers fitness, fun and fellowship across a range of athletic activities for men and women aged 30 and over. Victoria boasts a membership approaching a thousand, whilst the total for all Australian state clubs is over 3,500.The philosophy of the Masters movement is PARTICIPATION.

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May/June Footprints

FEATURE ARTICLES

  • NEW VMA Organisation “Revamp”
  • VMA Gift
  • The Landy Trophy Rises Again  
  • “The Elephant in the room” Body Image & Masters Athletics
  • News from East Burwood
  • Doncaster Summer Series
  • .VMA 30+  3000m track Championship
  • […]

To find out what's ahead and catch up on recent results download the latest edition of Around the Grounds

VMA 30+ 8/6km Cross Country Championship

 8:30 for 9:00am Sunday 11 June  2023 Collingwood Athletics track
Entries  close Tuesday 6 June 23:59

Medals presented for each 5 year age group for both female and male
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VMA news

Perpetual trophy winners listing

Wal Sheppard Memorial Over 60 800m winner

 

   

Mike O’Neill Memorial trophy
Best 1500m Performance Track & Field Championship (Age graded)

Click Here to view listing of previous winners

Listing located in the Record/Results tab of website

2023 AMA Winter Throws Championship – Mt Gravatt Qld
Sat 30th  Sept to Mon 2nd Oct  2023
Location: ASAC Kessels Road Mt Gravatt Qld
For further details
www.australianmastersathletics.org.au 

Victorian Masters 30+ 10,000m Track Championship Results

Tuesday 16 May 2023 
Collingwood Athletics track George Knott Reserve Heidelberg Rd Clifton Hill

Click HERE to go to results

 
A record night of racing (90 entrants) with three heats and 79 finishers. The best results for many years and the first time electronic timing was used. Another World record goes to Lavinia Petrie. 

The third heat was a tight tussle all the way with Shane Grund  (M40+ ) putting the pressure on a couple of laps from the finish coming in first in an excellent time of 31:10.9  (88.2% age graded AG) closely followed by Tim Bryant (M40+)  31:23.4 (87.6% AG) and Abdi Rhoble 31:33.9 (83.3% AG) third.

Lavinia Petrie (W75+) collected another World record with a time of 49:54.5  (92.4% AG).

Other excellent performances were Celia Massie-Bertei (W55+)42:07.1 (83.0% AG), Liz Lowther  (W70+) 49:36.5 (82.9% AG), Sho Waller (M30+) 32:34.5 (80.7% […]

Victorian Masters 30+ 3,000m Track Championship Results

The VMA 3,000m Track championship was held in ideal  conditions at Duncan McKinnon Reserve on  Sunday  30th April 2023.  A significant increase in registrations with 58 entrants (34 last year) meaning 3 heats were run this year.  Congratulations to the record breakers on the day,  Susan Howell, Nathan Davies, Allan Long and Lavinia Petrie.

Five year age group results can be accessed at HERE  

Start of heat 2

Lap counters heat 1 — ready to go
        
Fastest time Nathan Davies                  Lavinia Petrie
M35+  9:34.4                                           W75+ Aust record

Three Victorian and Victorian Championship records were set on the day by:
W60   3000m Susan […]

Future events

VMA 8/6km Cross Country Championship

June 11 @ 08:00:00 AEST - 12:00:00 AEST

VMA 8/6km Cross Country Championship Enter at: https://emlsports.com/registration/vma-30-6-8km-cc-champ-2023

VMA 2023 10KM race walking championship  Middle Park Online entries are accepted until Friday 11.59pm 2.00pm     10km    VMA Championship                   Masters Men/Women

AMA Winter Indoor Throws Championship 2023

August 19 @ 08:15:00 AEST - August 20 @ 08:15:00 AEST

Saturday 19 August to  Sunday 20 August  2023 Argentille Equestrian Centre Hunter Valley

VMA 5km racewalking championship 2023

September 2 @ 08:15:00 AEST

Venue: Mentone athletic Track Online entries only accepted and close Friday 11.59pm Event start: 2.15pm    5km    VMA Championship       Men/Women The link to the walks online calendar is https://vrwc.org.au/wp1/ (from VRWC's site).

AMA 2024 T&F Championship

29 March 2024 @ 10:30:00 AEDT - 1 April 2024 @ 12:00:00 AEDT

Friday 29 March to  Monday 1st April  2024 Location Domain Athletic Centre Hobart 

Interstate & National News

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2023 AMA Winter Throws Championship – Mt Gravatt Qld
Sat 30th  Sept to Mon 2nd Oct  2023
Location: ASAC Kessels Road Mt Gravatt Qld
For further details
www.australianmastersathletics.org.au 

2024 AMA Track & Field Championship – Hobart
Friday 29 March to  Monday 1st April  2024

Location Domain Athletic Centre Hobart 

2024 AMA T&F Championship website link

Registration for the championships is […]

AMA News  March 2023

AMA News  February 2023

AMA managers for Bathurst & Torun announced

Amanda Coombes Has been appointed manager for the AMA team competing at the World Masters Cross Country Championship in Bathurst February 18, 2023.

Steve McGugan has […]