WE go back through the Bendigo Advertiser files to unearth some track and field and distance running starts from the early 1990s.
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ALL SMILES: Wolf Heiden after his victory in the Eaglehawk to Bendigo.
Those featured include Olympic and Commonwealth Games race walker Duane Cousins; marathon champion Steve Moneghetti; Anne Cross, a five-time of the Bendigo Bank Dragon Mile; Olympic gold medalist Glynis Nunn; and Kerang's Ian Prendergast.
Also in the gallery are Neil Macdonald, Wendy Ryan, Frank Cornish, Wolf Heiden, Darren Paull, the Stringers and more.
SPRINT STAR: Darren Paull, then 22, after winning the Maryborough Gift on New Year's Day in 1995.
MEMORIES: Frank Cornish admires the trophy he won for being the Bendigo Thousand champion in 1979. This picture was taken in the lead-up to the 1994 Bendigo Madison athletics-cycling carnival.
FAMILY TIES: Ian Stringer and his father Lloyd, hold a picture of Lloyd, his father Bert and brother Bob from racing many summers earlier.
TOP GUN: Marathon champion Steve Moneghetti and Emma, four months, at Lansell's, now the All Seasons Hotel, in 1994.
HARD YAKKA: Neil Macdonald trains at the Tom Flood Sports Centre in the lead-up to a racing campaign in England.
MULTIPLE WINS: Anne Cross won the Bendigo Bank Dragon Mile women's open race on five occasions.
GOLD RUSH: Wendy Ryan with the medals she won at the Australian Veterans athletics championships in 1993.
MULTI-TALENTED: Glynis Nunn, gold medallist in the heptathlon at the 1984 Olympics, during a promotional visit to Bendigo.
CLASSY COMPETITOR: Duane Cousins, then 20, racing at Epsom in 1993. Cousins went on to contest the walks at two Olympic Games and also competed at Commonwealth Games level.
TITLES SPREE: Rick Ermel with the swag of awards won in the 1993 cross-country season.
VICTORY: Anthony Hill wins the men's open title in the 1995 Bendigo Bank Dragon Mile run before the Easter procession.
YOUNG GUN: Kerang's Ian Prendergast with some prizes earned in the 1992 season.
WALK ON: Angela Cousins competes at the old Epsom track.
