Seth O’Donnell and Jessica Coyne took line honours over 12km at the first individual round of the Athletics Victoria winter season.
2022 Australian cross country champion Seth O’Donnell recorded a comfortable victory, clearly breaking away from the rest of the field before halfway to win by 29 seconds in 37 minutes, 29 seconds.
In second was Harry Norman (37:58) who prevailed in a close finish with Michael Kernahan, who clocked the same time.
In the women’s event Jessica Coyne and Bianca Puglisi ran together for much of the race before Coyne pulled away over the final stages for a 7 second victory. Coyne clocked 44:29 for the course.
Alice Oakley Kerr took the bronze medal in a time of 45 minutes, 6 seconds.
The course at Hanging Rock featured 5km and 2km laps, with deceptive climbs and undulations on a bush trail section of the course.
Winners of junior events were:
- Logan Tickell in the U20 men’s 7km (21:40)
- Gabrielle Vincent in the U20 women’s 7km (26:18)
- Jonathon Nethling in the U18 men’s 7km (22:50)
- Lucy Cleveland in the U18 women’s 5km (18:46)
- Eddy Franzke in the U16 men’s 5km (16:45)
- Rose Jarvis in the U16 women’s 5km (19:26)
- Jensen Wheeler in the U14 men’s 5km (18:10)
- Heidi Kuppler in the U14 women’s 5km (18:20)
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