Lance Mann

Lance Gibson Mann (12 July 1930 – 13 March 2015 ) was a professional footrunner and a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Lance Gibson Mann (12 July 1930 – 13 March 2015 ) was a professional footrunner and a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). ===1952=== Trained by Pat Kennedy, aged 21, Mann won the Wangaratta Gift on Monday 28 January 1952, running off 8½ yards in 12.1 seconds. He started the final as 5-to-4-on favourite, having been a 20/1 outsider before the first heat. On Monday, 14 April 1952, he won the 75th [ ] Stawell Gift in 11 14/16 seconds, running off a handicap of . On Wednesday, 16 April 1952, he also won the Bendigo Easter Gift by in 11.8 seconds, running off a handicap of . Mann was the first athlete to win the Wangaratta Gift, the Stawell Gift, and the Bendigo Gift treble in the same year. It is also significant that his Essendon team-mate, Norm McDonald, running off , ran second to Mann in the finals of both the Stawell Gift and the Bendigo Gift. ===1958=== On Monday, 10 March 1958, and running off 4½ yards, he ran second in the Bendigo Thousand (130 yds); the feat was all the more remarkable as Mann had broken down during his heat the year before (1957) with a thigh injury so severe that he had to be stretchered from the ground. ==References== Evans, S., "Sport star survives bypass, heart attacks, transplant", The Border Mail, Monday, 12 July 2010. Riley, M., "Footballers and the Tradition of Professional Foot-Running", Boyles Football Photos, 3 May 2013. Wells (Samuel Garnet Wells (1885–1972)), "Stawell Stalwarts", The Age, (Monday, 14 April 1952), p.12. ==External links== Lance Mann, at Boyles Football Photos.

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