Round 7 of the Nowra Athletics Winter Cross-Country Competition was held at Willandra on Saturday, May 20.
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In the 1km Emily McLaren was first with Noah Dyball second and Lacey Baker third. The 2km Division 1 was taken out by Levi Wallis with Toby Dyball second in the fastest 2km time of 8min45sec and Cameron Harrison was third. Division 2 saw Ben Maher take the points from Charlee Baldacchino second and Zoe Baker third.
In the 3km it was Sam Maher who took line honours in Division 1 with Matthew Higham taking second. Cam Musgrove ran through from back marker to take third place in the fastest time of 11.24 whilst Ella Dyball ran the fastest female time of 15.20.
The medium course was won by Darcy Hopkins whilst Jasper Arnold took second. Dennis Smart clocked the fastest time of 16.26, finishing third. Crissy Suffolk was the fastest female over 4km finishing in 6th place clocking 17.58.
Saturday saw the introduction of a 10km race so many of the long course competitors chose the 10km option over the normal 8km event, reducing the contenders in the 8km to just 8 athletes. Taking out the Division 1 8km was Kieran Harrison. Graham Anderson crossing in second place with the fastest time of 38.49, and Michael Duncan crossed in third place. Annie Schofield was fourth with the fastest female time of 44.34.
Facing up to the 10km distance were 17 keen challengers. There were two winners with Daniel Wells and Scott Johnson crossing the line at the same time. Under the sealed handicap Daniel clocked 42.18 minutes and Scott 43.38 minutes but both scored themselves 50 points in the graded pointscore. Brad Sawyers ran in third in an adjusted time of 43.27 minutes.