AUTRA News Report 12-06-2025

AUTRA News Report 12-06-2025

Kate Dzienis • June 12, 2025
  • Ultra Perth, WA
  • Coffs Backyard Ultra, NSW
  • Adelaide 24 Hour Festival, SA
  • Upcoming Events


WEEKLY NEWS REPORT FOR 12-06-2025

As always, we're continuously on the hunt for your stories and reports, so get those race reports and photographs in to ultramag@autra.asn.au with the following information: 

  • Word document, single spaced
  • Include the name of the event, the date and the location anywhere in the report (just a bullet point at the top is great)
  • Please attach photographs to the email – do not put images in the body of your Word doc. You’ll just get me emailing you back asking for the photos sent in the correct way!
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  • No PDFs please

And remember, it doesn’t have to be about an AUTRA-listed event specifically! You just have to be an AUTRA member for the 2025 year. Also too, if you’ve run in a non-AUTRA listed event anywhere on home soil or internationally, we’d love to include your race results and experience in our Member Updates, so please do reach out to us via email to kate.dzienis@autra.asn.au

If any corrections need to be made in any of the results listed below, please alert me via email.


Ultra Perth, WA

The Ultra Perth was held on Saturday, 7 June along the South Perth foreshore starting at Sir James Mitchell Park. Hosted by Ultra Series, the two distances on offer were a 50km and a Half Marathon, with the option of relay teams either as duos or teams of 3 or 4.

In the Men’s 50km, top spots were awarded to Dean Menzies (2:55:37), AUTRA member Vlad Ixel who took 2nd Male with 3:02:44 and AUTRA’s Shaun Hall who claimed 3rd Male with a time of 3:07:52.

In the Women’s 50km, AUTRA’s very own Jacqui Kellerman won 1st Female, crossing the finish line in 3:44:00. Second and 3rd Female spots were taken by Kara Dougan (3:54:58) and Phoebe Hurliman (4:10:03).

Congratulations to all our members who ran in the 50km, including Phil Gore (3:19:43/4th Male), Simon Bennett (4:12:30), Willie Richards (4:24:47), Daniel Taborsky (4:32:51), Fay Wells (5:21:42), Jason Simpson (6:49:39) and Harmony Waite (6:57:18).

In the Men’s Half Marathon, podium finishes went to Luke Burrows (1:22:20), Karlos Aquino (1:22:24) and Kotaro Nihei (1:23:04).

In the Women’s Half Marathon, winners were Rachael Smyth (1:23:18), Lauren French (1:23:36) and Lauren Hyde-Cooling (1:24:09).

The full list of results can be found here on my.raceresult.com.

Images: Ultra series/facebook

Ultra-Trail Australia by UTMB, NSW

The 17th annual Ultra-Trail Australia by UTMB kicked off last weekend from 15-18 May, 2025 at Scenic World in Katoomba, NSW. One of the most highly anticipated events of the year, distances on offer included 100mi (304 finishers), 100km (1,280 finishers), 50km (2,203 finishers), 22km (2,271 finishers) and 11km (906 finishers).

In the Women’s 100mi, the top spot went to Meghann Coffey (21:52:24) whilst 2nd Female was awarded to AUTRA’s Cecilia Mattas (22:43:24) and 3rd went to AUTRA member Kellie Angel (23:14:05).

In the Men’s 100mi, winners were named Eric Conce (18:55:24), Quinton Gill (19:47:49) and Chris McAuliffe (20:22:06).

Congratulations to all AUTRA members who finished the miler, including Grant Brisbin (4th Male/20:53:50), Chris Stephens (21:49:38), Ben Wilson (23:50:19), Lou Clifton (24:44:01), Claire O’Brien-Smith (25:37:48), Olivia Hulbert (26:00:01), Ewan Horsburgh (26:35:09), Chris Beavon (28:01:20), Melissa Robertson (28:27:41), Luke Bartley (32:25:37), Lindsay Hamilton (32:49:10), Jackson Butler (34:36:27), Scott Heckmann (34:38:22), Adrian Whatmore (35:41:13), Akira Suzuki (35:51:15), Joshua Drake (36:51:43), Matthew Raguse (37:51:42), Jonathan Ennis-King (38:06:28), Shane Kelly (41:20:36), Kelvin Yip (42:14:13), Jasmine Kientzel (42:30:08) and Lesley Mason (44:15:08).

In the Women’s 100km, top spots went to Eve Moore( 10:55:19), Beth McKenzie (11:14:04) and Emily Brunt (11:25:29).

In the Men’s 100k, 1st Male went to Jiasheng Shen (9:26:02) whilst 2nd Male was claimed by AUTRA’s Mike Carroll who crossed the finish line in 9:48:56. Third Male went to Rhett Gibson (10:02:25).

Congratulations to all AUTRA members who ran in the 100km distance at Ultra-Trail Australia by UTMB, including those who finished in the top 300: Matt Crehan (4th Male/10:08:11), Benn Coubrough (12:11:47), Nicole Paton (12:13:38), Anna Pillinger (12:27:22), Tia Bool (12:50:59), Ellen Bradley (13:34:39), Anne-Marie Cook (14:09:22), Kyle Druery (14:48:40), Piera Kohout (14:50:36), Adam Darwin (15:16:18), Jake Pearce (15:27:22), Amy Armstrong (15:28:33), Joshua Devall (15:33:31) and Skipp Humphreys (15:56:47).

In the Women’s 50km, 1st and 2nd Female spots were won by Caitlin Fielder (5:02:27) and Alison Wilson (5:06:35) whilst AUTRA’s very own Demi Caldwell took 3rd Female with a finish time of 5:07:47

In the Men’s 50km, top spots were claimed by Daniel Jones (4:01:19), Miguel Benitez (4:11:38) and Sam Rout (4:19:28).

Well done to our members who raced in the 50km, and to those who finished in the top 300: Toby Sparkes (4:24:37), Vlad Ixel (4:25:08), William O’Mealley (4:45:09), Jessica Jason (4th Female/5:24:03), Greta Truscott (5:52:00), Kasimir Gregory (6:08:20), Kerri Clayden (6:09:32), Gill Fowler (6:12:01), John Claridge (6:24:55), Tony Williams (6:38:12), Patrick Hyland (6:44:35), Peter Scott (6:44:44), Matt Blundell (6:47:09) and Bernadette Miller (7:07:11).

In the Men’s 22km, 1st Male went to Leo Peterson (1:40:47) whilst 2nd Male was awarded to AUTRA’s Benjamin Duffus who crossed the finish line in a speedy 1:40:59. Third Male went to Nathan Pearce (1:44:52).

In the Women’s 22km, podium finishers included Jessie Speedy (1:57:27), Bridie Temple (2:01:17) and AUTRA’s Sara Levett who secured 3rd Female with 2:02:36.

In the Men’s 11km, top spot went to Elijah Gosby (1:04:09) and AUTRA member Brodie Nankervis took out 2nd Male with 1:04:57. Third Male went to Alton Freeman with 1:05:09

In the Women’s 11km, Simone Brick took 1st Female (1:17:32), Rose Boyn 2nd (1:22:27) and Jamie Delaney 3rd (1:23:37.

The full list of results for each distance can be found here at the UTA’s website.

Images: Coffs backyard ultra/Facebook

Adelaide 24 Hour Festival, SA

In its 16th year, the Adelaide 24 Hour Festival was held from Saturday, 7 June to Sunday, 8 June along the ‘uni loop’ at War Memorial Drive in North Adelaide, SA. On offer to participants were the 3hr (9 finishers), 6hr (8 finishers), 12hr (15 finishers) and 24hr (10 finishers) events.

In the Men’s 24hr, 1st Male was won by AUTRA’s David Billett, who finished 75 laps for a total of 163.437km. AUTRA member Simon Wildes secured 2nd Male having completed 53 laps for a total distance of 115.275km. It was a tie for 3rd Male, with the position awarded to both Leandre Scheepers and Andrew Meagher with 46 laps, or 100.05km.

In the Women’s 24hr, Kirsty Wilson took 1st Female (66 laps/144.824km), Hoang Ly took 2nd Female (59 laps/128.343km) and Natalie Blacker took 3rd Female (57 laps/125.141km).

In the Men’s 12hr, top spots went to Joshua Trinchini (49 laps/108.22km), Dennis Lakides (46 laps/100.878km) and Luke Barker (39 laps/85.928km).

In the Women’s 12hr, the winners were Alana Sharman (44 laps/96.212km), Bek Robinson (31 laps/68.915km) and Rebecca D’Amico (30 laps/65.266km).  

Well done to AUTRA’s Justin Halejko who finished 31 laps for a total of 68.401km.

In the Men’s 6hr, podium finishes were awarded to Joe Hedges (22 laps/49.461km), Cody Ball (20 laps/45.511km) and Timothy Horton (20 laps/44.640km).

In the Women’s 6hr, AUTRA member Amy Goodridge claimed 1st Female with 26 laps for a total distance of 56.746km. Second and 3rd Female spots went to Gizelle Wilson (25 laps/56.455km) and Erika MacDonald (20 laps/45.335km) respectively.

Moving onto the Men’s 3hr, wins were awarded to James Peet (14 laps/30.530km), John James (12 laps/27.015km) and Adam Forte (12 laps/26.100km, but not eligible for podium due to an early start according to results posted on the event’s website).

In the Women’s 3hr, spots went to Kelsa Reign (16 laps/34.865km), Nadene Gillett (13 laps/29.195km) and Jasmin Cottnam (11 laps/24.661km).  

The full list of results can be found on the adelaide24hourfestival.com.au website.


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