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The Australia Day Ultra was held last weekend in the coastal town of Australind, about 160 south of Perth, and is known to be a flat and fast course where many can chase PBs in their running careers.
On offer was a 100km (5 Male, 2 Female), 75km (5 Male, 2 Female), 50km (8 Male, 6 Female) and 25km (33 finishers).
In the Men’s 100km, top spot went to Dennis Devereaux (8:27:40) whilst 2nd and 3rd went to AURA members Brian Lyons from Devonport, Tas with a time of 9:00:06 and Kevin ‘BK’ Matthews from Perth, WA who finished in 9:34:21.
For the Women’s 100km, 1st and 2nd Female went to Caitlin Hindmarsh (10:09:17) and Casey Edlington (10:51:34) respectively.
In the Men’s 75km, winners were named Ashley Edlington (7:40:42), Shaun Crane (8:32:34) and Craig Hutcheson (8:32:34) whilst in the Women’s 75km it was Ellen Hardwick (8:13:50) and Lily Moore (9:42:42).
For the Men’s 50km, podium finishers were awarded to Justin Kelly (3:42:04), Jacques Meyer (4:02:51) and Irwin Swinny (4:28:21) and for the Women’s 50km top spots went to Laura Firth (4:46:16), Raquel Rae (5:16:27) and Hannelie Evans (5:54:08).
Congratulations to our AURA members who raced in the 50km including Alexis Oosterhoff from Butler who finished 4th Male in 5:17:58, Graham Tottey from Bunbury who completed his distance in 5:19:09 to claim 5th Male, and Louise Wallace from Secret Harbour who successfully finished in 7:35:34.
In the Men’s 25km, AURA’s Nathan Fawkes from Waikiki secured 1st Male with a speedy 1:38:51 with 2nd and 3rd Male going to Radek Dzitkowski (1:39:54) and Thomas Chrsitiner (1:56:18) respectively. For the Women’s 25km top spots went to Dimity-Lee Duke (1:38:40), Deirdre McPhee (1:44:13) and Ana Mance (1:57:39).
For the full list of results, click
here.
We are still awaiting results on the GoodRunnings Dusk to Dawn 6/12 that was held on Saturday, 20 January.