Victorian Championship Results

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The first Victorian racewalking Championships for men were held in 1892 - 130 years ago . VRWC Life Member Bert Gardiner accumulated much of the information on these men's races during his long involvement as a statistician and this forms the basis for much of what appears in these pages.

AV Life Member Marion Patterson did similar research into the early Victorian Championships held for women. The first such event was held in 1931 and the distance was a miniscule 440 yards. The prevailing view of the day was that longer distances were bad for women. Luckily, pioneering women pushed the limits of what was socially acceptable and now women compete with men over equal distances and with equal stature.

I produced these results sets some years ago and have been maintaining them since then and chipping away around the edges.

Some time ago, Athletics Victoria uploaded all their Victorian T&F Championships results archives (men and women) to https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9qaxfvtrk7cheuu/AAAfbAM2FwF7bkPNk6UQsJH6a?dl=0.

This presented a fantastic new treasure trove that I worked my way through. I then added in whatever Victorian men's racewalk championship results were missing, to complete a full set, spread over 3 documents.

I then completed a similar exercise for the women's Victorian walk championships, discussed in the following 2 documents.

Tim Erickson

Last updated 18 May 2022

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