Nine young athletes from across the region will compete in five events at the gift meeting.

Dimboola Little Athletics club members Remi and Millie Kuhne and Harper Harradine, Horsham's Jordan Nitschke, Nina Denhan and Anna Bush, Stawell's William Carter and Ararat's Keelan Perry will all compete.

Goroke's Duncan Cameron is not a Little Athletics participant, but will run in the under-17 youth handicap 100 metres and the novice Bill Howard Handicap 100 metres.

Cameron recently broke Collingwood football champion Bill Picken's 41-year-old 100-metre sprinting record at Hamilton's Monivae College.

Most of the Dimboola and Horsham athletes train with coach Ricky Price at Dudley Cornell Park.

Price said some of the athletes would travel to Stawell for a final training session tomorrow. "It's a great experience for them to run at the Stawell Gift and it's pretty exciting," he said.

Junior Wimmera athletes competing in Stawell

Bill Howard Handicap 100m: Duncan Cameron, Goroke, 4.5-metre handicap.

Fishers Boys Under-17 Handicap 100m: Duncan Cameron, Goroke, 7.5m.

McDonalds Little Athletics Boys Handicap 100m: William Carter, Stawell, 15m; Harper Harradine, Dimboola, 21m; Jordan Nitschke, Horsham, 22m; Keelan Perry, Ararat, 22m.

McDonalds Little Athletics Girls Handicap 100m: Anna Bush, Horsham, 1.25m; Remi Kuhne, Dimboola, 7.50m; Nina Denham, Horsham, 9.75m; Millie Kuhne, Dimboola, 19m.

McDonalds Little Athletics Handicap 400m: Remi Kuhne, Dimboola, 46m; Nina Denham, Horsham, 53m; Harper Harradine, Dimboola, 80m; Jordan Nitschke, Horsham, 80m.

McDonalds Little Athletics Handicap 800m: Nina Denham, Horsham, 58m; Jordan Nitschke, Horsham, 140m.