WYNDHAM Track and Field athletes’s hit paydirt when they competed in the Victorian Country Championships.
The one-year-old athletic club won three gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal and achieved four personal best performances at Ballarat.
The medal tally would have almost certainly been higher had the club been able to field a 4×100 squad in the open men’s division.
Club coach Errol Hart was satisfied with the result from the eight man, one woman squad in light of enforced absences by a number of its senior athletes.
“The Country Championships were a good competition for the club – Chris Mitrevski was outstanding, two gold and one silver medal, really putting the club on the map after just a year’s existence.”
Mitrevski won the under-20 men’s long and was dominant in the under-20 men’s 200m with a PB of 21.9 seconds. He only missed out on the 100m gold by the width of his singlet after a sluggish start.
Wyndham’s competition manager Peter Gavaghan added: “Our other gold medal was won by Darius Lewis in his first season as a shot putter. His gold came in the under-20 division.
“Bronze was won by Dana Delaney in the under-20 long jump. She was only 3cm short of the silver medal and only 6cm from repeating that effort in the under-20 women’s triple.
“Her efforts over the carnival were excellent given that she had struggled to balance the pressure of studies for Year 12 with the demands of training.
“One of our associate members, Mitchell Fontaine, who belongs to the Williamstown Club, won silver in the open men’s long.
“When you consider we had nine athletes doing 21 events our record at the championships was excellent.
Wyndham Track and Field’s chances of a medal in the 4x100m were scotched when Andrew Gavaghan did a hamstring while second in heat one of the open men’s 100m event.
Gavaghan recorded 12 seconds in a 4.3 strong headwind after coasting over the last 30 metres because of the leg problem.
