WARRNAMBOOL'S contingent of runners at Stawell Gift may not have come away with any medals but all have had a experience to remember.
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Twenty-two athletes represented the south-west over the annual Easter weekend event with three making finals.
Jesse Suter was one of those finalists finishing sixth in the 100 metre little athletics boys final after starting from the 4.75-metre mark and chasing a frontmarker at 21.25 metres.
To get to the final he ran second in his heat and fourth in the semi-final. He also finished fifth in his heat of under 18 boys 100 metre.
Layla Watson and Grace Kelly stormed to a girls little athletics finals. Watson would end up placing fourth in her 400 metres, while Kelly ran from scratch in the final to also finish fourth in the 100 metres.
Watson, who also finished fourth in her under 18 and little athletics 100 metre races, missed out on a podium in her final by 0.7 of a second.
Kelly, who on her way to the final won her opening heat and stormed to a third in the semi-final, had to chase down a 19.25 frontmarker to have a chance of scoring a medal.
She also finished third in her under 18 100 metre run with only the winner progressing through the next round.
Hannah Duynhoven, the region's only starter in the main women's 120-metre gift, would go on to finish fifth in her heat.
The Melbourne-based sprinter also placed fifth in her open 200-metre heat and second in her 70-metre run to miss out on the next round bu 0.08 of a second.
Other results
VAL
Jai Perry - 200 metre open - second in heat, 400 metre backmarkers - fourth in heat
Jacob Densley - 300 metre masters - seventh
Natalie Densley - 1600 metre women's-masters - 13th, 800 metre women's - fifth
Josh Drysdale - 100 metre masters - fifth, 300 metre masters - ninth
Carl McMeel - 1600 metre frontmarkers - 21st, 1600 metres women's - masters 300 metres masters - 18th
Chad Ryan - 400 metres backmarkers - third in Heat, 550 metre open - third in heat
Richard Wearmouth - 100 metre masters - third in heat, 300 metre masters - sixth
Richard Wade - 1600 metre frontmarkers - 18th, 1600 metre restricted - 17th, 1600 metre women's-masters - 14th
Little Athletics
Grace Carter - 100 metre girls - fifth in heat, 400 metre girls - eighth in heat
Hudson Downes - 100 metre boys - sixth in heat
Amber Ferguson - 100 metre girls - DNS
Hannah McMeel - 100 metre girls - fifth in heat, 400 metre girls - 13th in heat
Callum Wade - 100 metre boys - seventh in heat, 400 metre boys - 12th in heat, 800 metre boys - 12th in heat
Aubery Watson - 100 metre boys - fourth in heat just missed out on semi
Eliza Watson - 100 metre girls - eighth in heat
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