Road Racing Championship – Sandown

The road race at Sandown turned out to be another triumph for the Box Hill men’s team.

In wet, cold conditions, Box Hill had 24 men and 5 women line up for the 10km event plus 7 juniors running in the 3km race. Chris Hamer, Steve Dinneeen, Andrew White, Daniel Clarke and Steve Kelly and Barry Lynch all broke 31 minutes to help our Division 1 team to another victory following on from their triumph in the last event at Warragul. Box Hill also won the Division 3, Division 5, Under 20 and finished 2nd in the Men Over 40 and Women Under 18 competition.

In a high quality race with several top interstate runners taking part, Chris Hamer continued his outstanding form to finish 7th overall and 4th in the Victorian Championship in a PB of 29:36. Steve Dinneen also broke 30 minutes to finish 11th overall and 6th in the state championship.

Go to www.youtube.com/athsvictv to see the youtube coverage of the event

There were many great performances on the day but special mention to new members Kyle Martin-Alcaide who ran well to finish a close 5th un the under 16 race and Mitchell Dyer who came 4th in the under 14 event.

Results

10KM ROAD RACE

Men Division 1: Team Place: 1st
4. Chris Hamer          29:36
6. Steve Dinneen        29:58
9. Andrew White         30:17
11. Daniel Clark        30:36
13. Steve Kelly         30:52
16. Barry Lynch         30:57

Men Division 3: Team Place: 1st
37. Luke Yeatman        31:59
44. John Meagher        32:12
78. Paul Boxshall       33:41
91. Antony Van Eeten    34:08
105. Chris O’Connor     34:38

Men Division 5: Team Place: 1st
108. Adrian Vincent     34:42
113. Steve Griffin      34:52
122. Graeme Olden       35:12
243. Bill Dyer          38:40

Men Division 7: Team Place 4th
312. Scott Boxshall     41:30
331. Andrew Tunne       43:08
340. Adam Pepper        43:40
352. Barry Whittle      44:27
397 David Boyd          53:25

Men Over 40: Team Place: 2nd
4. John Meagher         32:12
13. Chris O’Connor      34:38
15. Graeme Olden        35:12

Men Under 20: Team Place: 1st
6. Josh De Stefanis     33:03
7. Mark Poli            33:28
11. Stuart Watson       34:39

Men Under 18
11. Michael Dowel       34:29

Women Division 1: Team Place: 9th
22. Rachel Johnson      37:52
45. Hayley Tomlinson    40:01
85. Talitha Crawford    44:00
89. Suzanne Andrews     44:14
107. Kerry Putt         46:14 

3KM ROAD RACE

Women Under 20
7. Harriet Hodgkinson   12:00

Women Under 18: Team Place: 2nd
6. Bridget Aughton      11:24
8. Emily De Luca        12:02
15. Ollie Turnbull      12:40

Men Under 16
5. Kyle Martin-Alcaide   9:44
21. Jonathon Tree       10:55

Men Under 14
4. Mitchell Dyer        10:49