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One of Victoria’s top distance runners in the 1950s, Davey ran the six-mile at the 1950 Empire Games in Auckland and is in the Bendigo Sports Star of the Year Basil Ashman Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
The Empire Games are now the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
One of the leading hopes for Bendigo in this edition of the 5km Frenzy will be University’s Avery McDermid who has a personal best of 14:15.<\/p>\n
A huge weekend for Athletics Bendigo begins with Friday night’s Memorials at Lar Birpa.<\/p>\n
Three new events have been added to the program which starts at 5.45pm.<\/p>\n
Highlights will be the Sally Conroy Memorial 200m, and the Richard Kitt Memorial 1600m.<\/p>\n
Both are run under handicap conditions.<\/p>\n
Fastest seeds for the 200m are Eaglehawk’s Felix Burgess and Wendouree’s Charlie Sullivan.<\/p>\n
The Richard Kitt field includes Bendigo Harriers’ Anne Buckley, Geoff Jordan, Hunter Gill and Rebecca Soulsby.<\/p>\n
A Masters 120m for those in the 40-plus category will be run.<\/p>\n
For the field enthusiasts there will be a long jump handicap and shot put handicap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SATURDAY night’s 5km Frenzy at Lar Birpa in Flora Hill caps a huge weekend of field and track action for Athletics Bendigo Region at its Retreat Road home. Athletes will vie for a share of the glory and prizemoney in the graded 5000m races at Saturday night’s meet. The Jack Davey 5000m championship for Bendigo […]<\/p>\n