This Friday - 28th December is the 126th running of South Australia’s biggest professional foot race, the Bay Sheffield.
Basically, it’s a handicap event over 120m - SA’s eqivalent to the Stawell Gift.
It is the second most prestigious race in Australia next to Stawell with a firt prize of $17,000.
There are 87 entrants this year including 6 time national 100m champion Josh Ross and the controversial Nigerian 400m runner Bola Lawal who returned this year from a two year drug ban.
Athletes and handicaps are below.
A form guide profiling every athlete is available on ProTrack.
(Need to be a ProTrack member to access it; membership is free.)
http://protrack.easyforumlive.com/f16-2012-bay-sheffield-form-guide
The 2009 Bay Sheffield final is on Youtube at the bottom of this post.
120m Open Bay Sheffield
Joshua Ross 0.00 m
Bola Lawal 1.00 m
Jordan Caldow 1.25 m
Todd Bateman 3.75 m
Sam Jamieson 3.75 m
Khan Marr 4.00 m
Adrian Mott 4.00 m
Clay Watkins 4.25 m
Wallace Long-Scafidi 4.50 m
Alex Bubner 5.75 m
Corey Baker 6.50 m
Alex Saliu 6.50 m
Ben Koschade 6.75 m
Tim McGuire 6.75 m
Harry May 7.00 m
Tom Sclanders 7.00 m
Ollie Wurm 7.00 m
Chris Innes-Wong 7.25 m
John Jakeman 7.25 m
Patrick McDonald 7.25 m
Brett Richards 7.25 m
Sebastian Baird 7.50 m
James Cibich 7.50 m
Jarrod Sims 7.50 m
Cole Unasa 7.75 m
Connor Verrall 7.75 m
Deng Bulabek 8.00 m
Ardyn Foy 8.00 m
Damien Nicholls 8.00 m
Tjimarri Sanderson-Milera 8.00 m
Mathew Short 8.00 m
Peter Spence 8.00 m
Michael Bolton 8.25 m
Paul Cracroft-Wilson 8.25 m
Josh Dawkins 8.25 m
Isaac Dunmall 8.25 m
Alex Glorie 8.25 m
Paul Tancredi 8.25 m
Edward Ware 8.25 m
Valentino Yuel 8.25 m
Dean Dobric 8.50 m
Samuel Gill 8.50 m
Doug Greenough 8.50 m
Dale Lyons 8.50 m
Dylan Panizza 8.75 m
Nicholas Cross 9.00 m
Adrian Harris 9.00 m
Sam Osmond 9.00 m
Matthew Eddy 9.25 m
Josh Tiu 9.25 m
Lyall Weir 9.25 m
Liam Wright 9.25 m
Adam Coote 9.50 m
Tim Johnson 9.50 m
Chad Ryan 9.50 m
Ryan Camille 9.75 m
Jarrad Dartnall 9.75 m
Chris Diegan 9.75 m
Dylan Hicks 9.75 m
Bradley Letton 9.75 m
Benjamin Clark 10.00 m
Matthew Harvey 10.00 m
Adam Moore 10.00 m
Nickolas Berry 10.25 m
Ryan Hancock 10.25 m
David Gross 10.50 m
Noddy Angelakos 11.00 m
Luke Buchanan 11.00 m
Shane Ezard 11.00 m
Craig Foley 11.00 m
Tyson Hancock 11.00 m
Ben Hardy 11.00 m
Aaron Harrison 11.00 m
Mark Hignett 11.00 m
Ryan Hoffman 11.00 m
Aldis Jaunzems 11.00 m
Glenn Ross 11.00 m
Shaun Ryder 11.00 m
Brad Schutz 11.00 m
Kelly Sheldrick 11.00 m
Christopher Simpson 11.00 m
Paul Taylor 11.00 m
Neil Thomas 11.00 m
Clint Tobin 11.00 m
Zhen Wang 11.00 m
Troy Welfare 11.00 m
Darren Whittaker 11.00 m