Captain’s Report

Consisting of the following five rounds

10 K  Track

8 K Cross Country

10 K Road

10 Miles Road

Half Marathon Road

the Browne Shield is contested throughout the Winter Season of the Victorian Masters Athletics competition calendar. After each event points are allocated to each finisher according to their score on the World Masters Athletics Age-Graded Percent-of-World-Record scale. The highest three scorers from each venue are then totalled to determine the winning VMA Venue for each round.

The winner for all eight years since the Browne Shield’s inception, in 2015 Knox Venue was unable to field three finishers in Round 1 (10K Track), resulting in 2015 being the closest competition in the history of the event. Entering Round 2’s 8K Cross Country in fifth position, Knox Venue moved its way back up the rankings throughout the season to return to second place at the end of Round 4’s 10 Miles Road; leaving only the final Half Marathon of Round 5 to determine the winner between Knox and Aberfeldie Venues. Knox secured the win with the highest combined total of any of the events contested throughout the 2015 Season.

We hope that next year’s competition will be as exciting as this year. It just goes to show that you need as many athletes as possible from each Venue to compete and therefore put the Venue in with a chance of success… unfortunately not all Venues were able to have the required 3 competitors this year.

Points for the Individual Male and Female winners are taken from each athlete’s four best four best Age-Grade Percentages, dropping the lowest scoring round if all five were completed. This year, Greg Moore (M65)  from Aberfeldie pipped Michael Bishop (M40)from  Mentone  at the post, so to speak, and Lavinia Petrie was the clear winner for the Females.

Lavinia Petrie
VMA Club Captain

Historical Results