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Edwin Flack Reserve
Home to:Berwick Football ClubBerwick Cricket ClubBerwick Village Little Athletics ClubBerwick Bowling Club The Berwick Recreational Reserve was renamed on 16 June 1996 to honour Australia’s first gold medal Olympian – Edwin Flack.The reserve’s oval and athletics track are lined with plaques commemorating Australia’s gold medalists from every modern Olympic Games together with a tree that…
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Spyridon Louis Statue
Spyridon Louis Statue plaque Transcription Spyridon “Spyros” Louis 12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940 Spyridon Louis was modern Greece’s first Olympic gold medalist at / the 1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Spyridon Louis and local athlete Edwin Flack competed against each / other in the men’s marathon at the summer Olympics, with Louis /…
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Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc.
Address: 110 High Street, Berwick, Victoria, Australia
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