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.
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
