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Relaxed Martin chasing Stawell dream in Powercor Women’s Gift Despite growing up surrounded by Stawell Gift history, Halle Martin insists she isn’t putting extra pressure on herself ahead of this year’s Powercor Women’s Gift. For the Ballarat sprinter, Easter at Central Park has always felt like a natural part of

Forty years ago, on Easter Monday 1986, Glenn Chapman crossed the line at Central Park and etched his name into the history of the Stawell Gift. The image of that moment, chest forward, arms in the air, remains one of the enduring photographs in the Stawell Gift Almanac. But behind the

As Easter approaches and the professional running circuit turns its attention to Central Park, one interstate squad is quietly building serious momentum. The S Squad from the NSW Central Coast, coached by Daniel Sammut and based out of Mingara Athletics Centre in Tumbi Umbi, is enjoying a dream season and

Fifty years ago, Allen Pollock arrived at Central Park for the first time. He left as the 1976 Stawell Gift champion, in what was to be one of the big upsets in the race’s long and storied history. “It was my first visit to Stawell,” Allen recalls. “I wasn’t there

Sixty years on from that Easter Monday in 1966, Bill Howard can still see it all. “I can remember every detail of that race as if it were yesterday,” he says. “The race and the noise of the crowd are still very clear in my mind.” William (Bill) Howard was