AURA ULTRA PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017

Rob Donkersloot • Jan 16, 2018

The “AURA Ultra Performance Of The Year Award” is now open for voting by AURA Members. Nominations were received from 1 January, and these were short listed to the top five nominations as judged by the AURA Committee. The “AURA Ultra Performance Of The Year Award” will be announced on Australia Day.

Nomination 1: Lucy Bartholomew Ultra Trail Double

Lucy won both the Ultra Trail Australia and Ultra Trail Cape Town events in 2017, setting new race records for both. Great young up and coming female who has shown that she can run with the big names on the international circuit
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Nomination 2: Jess Baker’s 238km and sixth position at World 24 Hour Championships

Jess ran a massive total of 238.7km for her first international representative event and only second ever 24 hour race at the World 24 Hour Championships in Belfast in July. Jess finished in sixth position against the world’s best 24 hour female runners.
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Nomination 3: David Giles completing the Destination Trail 200 Mile Triple Crown

David completed all three 200 mile races in the Destination Triple Crown in a 2.5 month period. The races included the Big Foot 200 in Washington, the Tahoe 200 in Nevada & California and the Moab 200 in Utah.
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Nomination 4: David Von Senden 60+ age category winner at Comrades

David ran the Comrades Marathon in 7hrs and 52mins. He won his age category (60+) making him as far as the person nominating him can determine from searchable records the first Australian male to ever win a category at this prestigious event in its 92 year history.
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Nomination 5: Kellie Emmerson’s fifth position at Ultra Trail Mont Blanc

Kellie ran herself from 11th into 5th place at UTMB on her 100-mile debut. Conditions were horrendous with athletes so cold at high points early in the race that their fingers were unable to operate zippers, pockets, gel packets and bottles. UTMB is the world’s most competitive 100-mile field, given the restrictive conditions of entry (mainly event capacity) at Western States, so not only did Kellie’s gutsy debut (4-minute km pace over the closing mile to edge from 6th into 5th) warrant attention for being the highest placing yet for an Aussie at UTMB, 5th at this event is, in its own right, a massive achievement.
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Rules & Process

AURA members nominating performances should provide an accurate and truthful outline of the nominated performance. The same AURA Member may nominate more than one performance.
Ultra Performances or Milestones are not restricted to AURA events and any achievement that incorporates ultra running may be considered. Performances at Australian or International events / locations qualify. Potential nominations may include but are not limited to:
Breaking of a world or national record
Completion of a significant multi day run such as trans Australia
High level performance at an overseas event such as Hard Rock, MDS, Badwater etc
The achievement of a milestone number completions of the same event
Performance at a World Championships event
Breaking a record at an Australian Ultra Running event
The person nominated for achieving the nominated performance must have been a member of AURA at the time of the performance
The person submitting the nomination must be an AURA member at the time of making the nomination
People voting for the short listed nominations must be an AURA member. Only one vote per member is permitted.
AURA members will vote on the short listed performances by ranking them in order from 1 to 5, 1 being the performance they see as being most worthy of winning. Points will be allocated as follows:
Each number 1 ranking will receive 5 votes
Each number 2 ranking will receive 4 votes
Each number 3 ranking will receive 3 votes
Each number 4 ranking will receive 2 votes
Each number 5 ranking will receive 1 vote
The performance with the most points in total will be declared “AURA’s Ultra Performance of The Year”
The voting process will be through an online form found on the AURA website.
Nominations open Sunday Tuesday January 2 2018 and close Sunday 14 January.
The AURA Committee will select the five short listed nominations by Wednesday 17 January
Voting will commence through an online form on the AURA website on Thursday 18 January, and will close at 11:59pm Wednesday 24 January.
The winner of the 2017 “AURA Ultra Performance of the Year Award” will be announced on Australia Day 26 January 2018.