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Perfect conditions greeted the thousands of runners on Sunday for the Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival. We had two members tackle the Nike Marathon; Ben Rowse...
The 2022 XCR season came to an end with the running of the Tan Relays. Congratulations to Damien Bruneau for taking out the M45+ XCR...
The annual relay was run on Sunday with Keilor St Bernard's edging out our gallant team. The 4km around the "two bridges" course, starting at...
Over the weekend seven of our athletes took on the challenge of running the Burnley Half Marathon. Congratulations to Charlotte Wilson (1:21:25), Abere Belay (1:05:18),...
Whilst the majority of us were sleeping in after the festivities of the 125th Anniversary Dinner, ten of our athletes were competing at the Australian...
Thank you to all our past and present members as well as our special guests for attending our 125th Anniversary Dinner. We’d like to especially...
Only a handful of brave members ventured to Ballarat for the 15Km road championship, run around Lake Wendouree. Our women's Premier division team had no...
Our next generation of athletes got their first taste of international competition with the World Athletics U20 Championships, which took place at the beautiful Pascual...
A flat, fast course as well as near perfect conditions welcomed a field of about 900 runners to Lakeside early on Sunday for the 10Km...
After a week of adrenaline and excitement the Commonwealth Games has come to a close. From epic marathons to relay heartbreak these Games delivered it...
Congratulations to Ian Williams who was last night inducted as an Athletic Victoria Life Member. Ian first joined the Essendon Amateur Athletic Club in 1955...
Our Men's Div 2 team had one of its best results at Bundoora. With Abere Belay showing the way with 6th place and a great...
Last week the 25th CPISRA Frame Running Development Camp and International Cup took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Our very own Maz Strong was selected to...
This weekend marked the beginning of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, with both Chris Mitrevski (long jump) and Linden Hall (1500m) featuring on Day...
Congratulations to John Cooper who was yesterday inducted as an Athletics Essendon Life Member at our AGM. Whilst John's cumulative membership is about 20 years,...
Matthew Millington The 2022 World Masters Athletics Championships were held from the 29th of June to the 10th of July in Tampere, Finland, the land...
This weekend saw our XCR squad head out east to compete at the Sandown Relays and the red & black army were out in force...
The sun was shining but the icy wind was in full force as our 31 athletes took on the challenging XCR course. There were plenty...
Twenty one Essendon members travelled down the highway to run at Cruden farm over distances ranging from 5 to 12K. Our Premier women's team was...
Our athletes shined brighter than the Queensland sun during last week’s Oceania Athletics Championships in Mackay. Thirteen Essendon athletes competed across nine different events. They...
The Gold Coast Invitational over the weekend provided a solid opportunity for some performances for the Australian Junior Team, who were on a training camp...
We welcomed two new members to the club on Saturday and they can both be proud of their performances. Campbell Johns finished 17th in the...
About 90 members, guests and family came together at Buckley Park Bowls Club to celebrate another successful track & field season. Our numbers were down...
The XCR season got under way at Jells Park, with a slightly different but still challenging course. Thanks to Adrian Fitzgerald, Mitch Brown & James...
