Sport Herb Elliott track meet attracts top runners Plenty of medals for local surf lifeThe Athletics NSW-endorsed Herb Elliott Twilight Track Meet with $2,000 in prizes was held last Saturday at the Cavanbah Centre. ‘The event went really well and we attracted 116 competitors including Australian champions,’ Byron Bay Runners president Caroline Bailey said. The community-based club has been going since 2011 and Saturday’s event was the third running of the ‘Herb Elliott’. Herb Elliott donated the trophy for the signature race of the event, the 1500m Herb Elliott Perpetual Trophy. This event was won by Daniel Williams who won both the U/18 800m and 1500m national championships last year. Finn Crethar and Joseph Hein filled out the podium. ‘We are hoping Daniel will be a future Olympian,’ Caroline said. Top three finishers in the 1500m female were Matilda Duhig, Ruby Hughes and
savers at Country Championships
Young and old tested themselves at the Byron Bay Runners Cavanbah track meet last weekend. Photo Jason Crethar Wyana Pietramale Sewell. As a member of Athletics NSW, Wyana qualified for the Herb Elliott women’s trophy. Other distances on offer at the meet included 100m, 400m and 3000m runs. Other notable runners included former Australian representative Kyle McIntosh and Queensland’s Ruby Hughes. ‘We also had plenty of local, home-grown talent,’ Caroline said.
Other results 100m: (male) Aziz Marone, Campbell Harvey, Jaime Cascajares; (female) Skye Dogan, Amy Bailey, Milani Tighe. 400m: (male) Daniel Williams, Joseph Hein, Campbell Harvey; (female) Skye Dogan, Sienna Rooney, Alex Dogan. 3000m: (mixed) Liam McKenzie, Matt Stevenson, Ruby Hughes.
Volunteers wanted for Byron Bay’s ĎëżƐĶưĕ ƖſǕŕī !IJëŔżĶşŕƆIJĶżƆ The Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championships are set down for Byron Bay on 17-22 March this year, and organisers are calling for volunteers across various roles. Volunteers will be able to choose areas that align with their skills and interests but priority areas include: in-water support (helping competitors in the water and helping to get them back on the boards, for example); on the beach (transfers across the beach to the water, and in and out of wheelchairs) and the event site (set-up,
For the second year running the Cudgen Headland SLSC had to settle for second place in the NSW Country Surf Championships behind the hosts Warilla-Barrack Point, while Byron Bay came home with fifth place. The host club on the south coast had strong numbers and their win (1,396 competition points) came on the back of almost 200 individual and team medals. Cudgen headland finished on 1,244 points from a total field of 31 clubs. Yamba came third on 378 points ahead of Broulee Surfers (317) and Byron Bay (316). Joanne Kay was a multimedal winner for Byron Bay, winning the 50-59 female beach flags and board race. The Byron Bay B Team of Karen Irwin and Matthew Yopp won the 30+ mixed double ski. Other Byron successes included: Daniela Berti Carrabs winning the U/17 female ski, Delilah Warton winning the U/13 female sprints and flags and coming second in the board race, Tommy Pockley taking second in the U/13 board
U/9s hit the water looking for a paddle board win at the SLS Country Championships. Photo SLSNSW race with Otto Maiden coming third, Will Schmid winning the U/14 2km run, and Charlie Isaacson winning the U/9 flags and coming second in sprints. The U/9 swim relay team of Orlando Blandford, Remy Round, Hazel Tutt and Izaria Yopp collected bronze.
Lennox Head Lennox Head came 13th on the back of some strong individual efforts. Billy Stewart cleaned up the U/12 category – winning the male surf (swim) race, board race, iron, 1km beach run and was part of the
club’s junior cameron relay winning team (U11/U12). Amy Roberts of Lennox was also part of the U11/U12 junior cameron relay winning team, and she had two other wins; the U/12 female board race and the U11/U12 junior female board rescue.
Send us your sport stories! We would love to run all kinds of local sport on these pages so please send your photos and stories to sport@echo.net.au.
Veteran golfer had a special 2023
Some adaptive surfing from the ISA Para event at Huntington Beach, California last year. Photo Pablo Franco pack-down and managing food stalls and athlete needs). Saturday, 16 March will be the date for the the event site to be setup before the opening ceremony at 3pm
on Sunday 17 March. The competition runs from Monday 18 March until the closing presentation at 6pm on Friday 22 March. All the details are at adaptivesurfproaustralia.com.
Ben Sheck, a member of the Byron Bay Golf Club (BBGC) had a big year in 2023. Ben regularly competes in Northern Rivers Veterans Golf Association (NRVGA) open days, the veterans competitions each Monday as well as other competition days held by the BBGC. Ben excelled himself last year by not only winning both the Gross and the Nett BBGC Veterans Club Championships, held over two rounds in November,
Ben on his way to a great 2023. Photo supplied but he then went on to be crowned the NRVGA Nett Championship winner with a
score of 70. This event was hosted by the Ballina Golf Club.
ࠠ CCTV camera and locators ࠠ High pressure jet rodder ࠠ Electric eel ࠠ 1.7t excavator and 3m tipper truck Family owned and operated local business with 30 years of plumbing experience. Unblock Pipe Clearing has the latest technology and equipment for locating, eliminating and repairing all blockages – >ÌÌiÀ Ü >Ì Ì i à âi° iÌ Ì i L ` i À } Ì Ì i wÀÃÌ Ì it
Phone James on www.echo.net.au
0429 888 683
Lic 378040C
ࠠ Reliable local family run-business ࠠ Blocked drain specialist ࠠ Latest technology and equipment for locating, eliminating and repairing ࠠ 12 month guarantee on most jobs `ëŕƖëſƷ ǪǨǽ ǩǧǩǫ The Byron Shire Echo 35