Month: April 2018

    AURA STATEMENT – 50kms National Championships results decision Friday, 20 April 2018 The Australian Ultra Runners Association (AURA) has worked closely with Fairfax, the race organiser of the Australian Running Festival this past week, to come to a resolution regarding the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the 50km race, which was also the 2018 AURA 50kms Road National Championships, whereby a number of participants mistakenly took a wrong turn on the course. It must first be clarified that the three males to place officially stayed on course whilst following the lead bike, and therefore received their podium finishings accordingly. AURA sought clarification from the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) and based on this, provided advice to Fairfax on how to move forward with the results as well as how to manage the outcome of the 50kms National Championships. We express our upmost empathy to all participants, especially those who were chasing PBs and qualifying times for other events. AURA understands the circumstances during the race were an isolated event, however any and all inaccuracies made will be recorded, and lessons learnt, which will then be passed on to other race directors to try and prevent this from happening again. AURA has also come to an agreement within its committee that it will do all it can to encourage future National Championship events and their race directors to include a...