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Great excitement surrounded the 132nd running of the Powercor Stawell Gift with the entry of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games gold medalist, Asafa Powell. The former world 100metres record-holding Jamaican had broken 10 seconds for the 100m more times than any other athlete in history. Josh Ross, the Australian 100m

Sydney sprinter Hamish Lindstrom is feeling confident ahead of this year’s Powercor Stawell Gift, he would just like to find a track that isn’t waterlogged to train on! The Terang Gift winner who is “looking forward to the atmosphere at Stawell, there are no other competitions like it,” was hoping

Torrie Lewis, Australia’s Number 1 female junior athlete, is looking forward to competing in the Change Our Game Women’s Gift at Easter. The 17-year-old school student from Brisbane is not only having a fantastic season on the track but enjoys mixing it up with professional runners on the circuit too.

On an icy cold and wet Easter Monday, Australian national 100m champion Melissa Breen created history when she won the Strickland Family Women’s Gift from the scratch mark.  The Open Gift was won by 20-year-old Ballarat student Matthew Wiltshire. The 2003 World 100m champion Kim Collins from St Kitts &

Stawell Gift Event Management (SGEM), promoters of the iconic Powercor Stawell Gift carnival, has announced a strategic partnership with Athletics Australia, the national governing body for the sport of athletics. While some of Australia’s best amateur athletes have long participated at Stawell, this is the first formal partnership between Athletics