2018 Mintel Kimberley Gift

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October 24, 2018

presents

The 2018 Mintel Kimberley Gift

at the

Father McMahon Sports Field (Broome Recreation Aquatic Centre)

6pm-9pm on

Saturday 1st December 2018

FROM KIMBERLEY TO STAWELL – The Journey Video

⬇️Event Director Tim Mason on ABC GRANDSTAND 25/11/2018⬇️

DASH GIVE INDIGENOUS TALENT SHOT AT BIG-TIME: Broome Advertiser 10/12/2018

Lynch Cooper – Stawell Gift Winner 1928

Background

History – Indigenous Winners of the Stawell Gift

There is a long history of successful Aboriginal runners in the Stawell Gift (Australia’s most famous footrace) from Robert Kinnear, the first Aboriginal runner to win the Stawell Gift in 1883 through to champions like Tom Dancey, an Aboriginal stockman and boundary rider won Australia’s most famous footrace in 1910. Lynch Cooper, a Yorta Yorta man, was born in the early 1905 at Moira Lake near Tocumwal and was educated at Mulwala State School. Cooper was the first Aboriginal sprinter to win the World’s Sprint Championship. He won the Stawell Gift in 1928 and Josh Ross the two times winner of the gift in 2003 and 2005 (right).

In 2018 three Indigenous athletes from the Kimberley’s in Western Australia were provided the opportunity to travel from their communities from Broome (Alex McKenzie) and Derby (Solomon and Quarnie Peumorra) to participate in the prestigious professional athletic events, the Parkdale and Stawell Gifts.

The aims of the project are to:

Connect Communities’ from the Kimberley to Communities in Melbourne
Connect with business
Connect with talent
Connect with opportunities for employment, sport and personal development

The concept was supported by former professional runners Tim Mason, Scott Grigg and the last Western Australian to win the Stawell Gift Dean Capobianco in 1990. Fantastic corporate and private support from Moorabbin Airport, Paul Ferguson, CCB Envico, Rick Smith allowed this project to come to fruition.

In 2019 the program wishes to engage with the wider Indigenous community and the concept to run the Kimberley’s Gift for both Men and Women has been created.

The Kimberley Gift will allow a process to identify Indigenous Talent across the Kimberley’s Region, create an event of significance and interest and provide the opportunity to participate in both the Parkdale Gift on February and Stawell Gift in April 2019.

The Kimberley Gift both is a 100m race for both Men and Women is:

Open to Indigenous Males aged 15 years and over (free entry)
Open to Indigenous Females aged 15 years and over (free entry)
Distance 100m
Heats, semi-finals and final on the day
Registrations can be taken prior or on the day
No registration fee for athletes required
Prize money of approximately $1,500 for the Males race and $1,500 Females Race
Sash and Trophy for winners
Saturday 1 December 6.00pm-9.00pm
Venue: Father McMhanon Oval (BRACS), Broome WA.
Invitational race inviting the Best Western Australia’s Pro Sprinters both Male and Female in a handicap race over 120m to Broome for the Kimberley Gift.
Organised under the West Coast Athletic League Inc.
Managed and delivered by Tim Mason – Organiser of the Parkdale Gift (parkdalegift.com) in conjunction with West Coast Athletic League Inc. and Dean Capobianco.
Significant Corporate support has already been secured including Mintel, CCB Envico and Moorabbin Airport will allow this project to continue in 2019.
Winners of both the Male and Female plus a selected Wildcard (an athlete that may show potential) will win:
- Prize money for winning the Male and Female Kimberly’s Gift
- Sash for winning the Male and Female Kimberly’s Gift
- Fully paid for airfares, transport, accommodation, entry fees and supervisor
  - Broome – Melbourne – return (Feb 1-3) to complete at the Parkdale Gift
  - Broome – Perth – return (mid March) sprint coaching sessions with 2017 World Medalist Coach and 5 x WCAL Trainer of the Year Paul Edmiston
  - Broome – Melbourne – return (April 19 – 22) to compete in the Stawell Gift
- Meet with key stakeholders St Kilda Football Club, local Kingston Indigenous community, media, local business e.g. Moorabbin airport, mentoring and coaching from leading national athletes and coaches.

Contact: Tim Mason – Parkdale Gift (M: 0456 985201) | E: Timmason1965@gmail.com

Mintel Kimberley 120m Invitation Open Gift Handicap Draw

Aaron Bresland (SCR) RED
Josh Ross (1m) WHITE & BLACK
Sasha Zhoya (2m) BLUE
Adriaan Pelser (6m) YELLOW
Virginia Stasyszyn (20.75m) PINK

Congratulations to our 2018 Indigenous Women’s Gift winner Reshinta Bradshaw, Open Invitation winner Aaron Bresland and Indigenous Men’s Gift winner Tyrone Cox. Reshinta & Tyrone will compete at the Parkdale Gift on Sat Feb 2nd and Stawell Gift on April 20-22nd.

Kimberley Gift Full Results