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Defending Australia Post Stawell Gift champion Matthew Wiltshire is eagerly awaiting the chance to return to the stomping ground that twelve months ago changed his life. Wiltshire, who took out the 131st running of the Australia Post Stawell Gift from 8m, has been pulled back approximately 4m (taking into account

Former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell will start from scratch in the 132nd running of Australia’s richest and most famous footrace, the Australia Post Stawell Gift. The Jamaican, with a personal best of 9.72 seconds, will become the fastest runner ever to race at Stawell and is searching to

One of Stawell’s perennial favourites, Tamsyn Manou (formerly Lewis), will run at Central Park for the final time in 2013. A long time supporter of the Australia Post Stawell Gift festival, Manou first made the journey to Central Park in 1994 and has missed competing just three years since. 2013

Josh Ross will return to Central Park this Easter with his eye on an unprecedented third Australia Post Stawell Gift crown. Ross will join former world record holder Asafa Powell on the start line for one of the most anticipated Gift’s in the long history of Australia’s richest and most

The Stawell Athletic Club will rename the Backmarkers Invitation Handicap in honour of 1982 Gift winner Chris Perry. Perry tragically passed away in October last year at the young age of 53. The 120m Backmarkers Invitation Handicap event has been won by some of the fastest sprinters on the planet,