AUTRA News Report 12-06-2025

Kate Dzienis • June 12, 2025

Ultra Perth, WA
Coffs Backyard Ultra, NSW
Adelaide 24 Hour Festival, SA
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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!
As many photos as possible. With our new website, it’s now easier than ever to include a nice gallery in each race report
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 2^nd Male with 3:02:44 and AUTRA’s Shaun Hall who claimed 3^rd Male with a time of 3:07:52.

In the Women’s 50km, AUTRA’s very own Jacqui Kellerman won 1^st Female, crossing the finish line in 3:44:00. Second and 3^rd 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 (3:19:43/4^th 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

Coffs Backyard Ultra, NSW

The Coffs Backyard Ultra was held on Saturday, 7 June at Coffs Harbour Showground in NSW. Hosted by Coffs Trail Runners, the backyarder saw 173 participants do 6.7km laps until one individual was left standing.

The winner of this year’s Coffs Backyard Ultra was AUTRA’s very own Oliver Sheekey, who finished a total of 37 laps, equalling 248.122km. The Assist for 2025 was Matthew Whatman with 36 laps, or 241.416km.

AUTRA’s Clare Palmer was the LOS Female, who secured 25 laps, or 167.650km.

Well done to all our members who raced in the event, including Joshua Duff (30 laps/201.180km), Annabelle Swainston (24 laps/160.944km), Theresa Evans (15 laps/100.590km), Karl Phillips (10 laps/67.060km) and Matt Newhouse (8 laps/53.648km).

Images: Coffs backyard ultra/Facebook

Adelaide 24 Hour Festival, SA

In its 16^th 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, 1^st Male was won by AUTRA’s David Billett, who finished 75 laps for a total of 163.437km. AUTRA member Simon Wildes secured 2^nd Male having completed 53 laps for a total distance of 115.275km. It was a tie for 3^rd 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 1^st Female (66 laps/144.824km), Hoang Ly took 2^nd Female (59 laps/128.343km) and Natalie Blacker took 3^rd 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 1^st Female with 26 laps for a total distance of 56.746km. Second and 3^rd 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.