AUTRA News Report 23-01-2025

Kate Dzienis • January 23, 2025

6 Inch Trail Marathon, WA
True Blue Ultra, WA
Upcoming Events

WEEKLY NEWS REPORT FOR 23-01-225

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
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And remember, it doesn’t have to be about an AURA-listed event specifically! You just have to be an AURA member for the 2025 year. Also too, if you’ve run in a non-AURA 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.

6 Inch Trail Marathon (WA)

The 6 Inch Trail Marathon was the last race of 2024, held on 15 December along the Munda Biddi Trail in the south west of WA, near Dwellingup. The event offers a 6 Inch (47km) (206 finishers) and a 3 Inch (23km) (162 finishers).

In the Men’s 6 Inch, 1st Male was won by Gerry Hill (3:15:48) whilst 2nd Male was claimed by AUTRA’s Mike Carroll who crossed the finish line in 3:24:15. Third Male was won by Andrew Walker (3:55:39).

In the Women’s 6 Inch event, top spots went to Petra Jerejian (4:04:01), Katherine Stockwell (4:09:59) and Ayako Kusui (4:30:00).

Congratulations to all our members who ran in the 6 Inch event, including Kevin Matthews (4:05:19), Nathan Fawkes (4:16:42), Barbara Fieberg (5:13:48), Beck Hefferon (5:23:08), Daniel Taborsky (5:29:50), Kerriann Bresser (5:35:05), Ian North (5:51:35), Alexis Oosterhoff (5:57:34), David Martin (6:00:18), Graham Tottey (6:07:42), Fay Wells (6:29:39), Ian Nichol (6:31:42), Martyn Flahive (6:32:44), Andy Thompson (6:36:23), Mark Caldwell (7:01:30), Nicola Walters (7:05:46), Greg Benn (7:08:55), Jutta Kober (7:14:13), Del Thompson (7:14:14), Wayne McMurtrie (7:31:26), Rob Donkersloot (7:34:27) and Sue Robertson (7:53:16).

In the Men’s 3 Inch, top spots went to Rhys Crosswel (1:42:25), Alan Stabler (1:44:23) and Aaron O’Loughlin (1:48:41). In the Women’s 3 Inch, winners were Lauren French (1:48:59), Jess Reynolds (1:54:06) and Phoebe George (1:56:41).

The full list of results can be found here.

Images: JEFF GOTCHA running perth

TRUE BLUE ULTRA (WA)

The True Blue Ultra (formerly the Australia Day Ultra, or ADU) was held last weekend on Saturday, 18 January in Australind, WA. On offer were a range of distances on a fast, out-and-back course – 100km (19 finishers), 75km (3 finishers), 50km (30 finishers), 25km (47 finishers), 12.5km (54 finishers) and 6km (3 finishers).

AUTRA’s Michael Hooker took the win in the Men’s 100km, completing the distance in a time of 7:26:30. Second Male went to Shaun Hall (8:15:23) whilst 3rd Male was claimed by AUTRA member Colin Moulden, who finished the 100km in 8:27:11).

There were no female competitors in the 100km distance.

Congratulations to our members who raced in the 100km, including Simon Bennett (9:15:07/4th Male) and Kevin Matthews (9:45:47/5th Male).

In the Men’s 75km, top spots went to Levi Quinton (7:02:51) and Drew Mayhills (9:37:54).

In the Women’s 75km, the winner was named Genevieve Warriner (7:09:44).

In the Men’s 50km, the top three men’s positions went to Andre Pienaar (3:39:02), Jak Barnes (3:41:55) and Tony Smith (3:47:07).

In the Women’s 50km, podium finishes went to Dimity-Lee Duke (3:47:21), Raquel Rae (5:35:49) and AUTRA’s Pamela Williams who took 3rd Female with a time of 6:06:50.

Congratulations to AUTRA members Graham Tottey (5:05:39) and Alexis Oosterhoff (5:19:48) who finished the 50km.

In the Men’s 25km, winners were named Joshua Kuhn (1:47:24), John Foley (1:48:12) and Rob Collins (1:54:20).

In the Women’s 25km, AUTRA’s Claudia Seke secured the top spot with a finish time of 1:50:03. Second and 3rd Female spots were won by Caitlin Hindmarsh (1:58:12) and Heather Longworth (2:15:11).

In the Men’s 12.5km, winners were Radek Dzitkowski (00:48:00), Bryce Bevin (00:55:03) and Phillip Pelusey (00:56:57). In the Women’s 12.5km, they were Brodie Lowe (00:56:43), Sarah Lewis (00:58:03) and Anita Parsons (1:01:49).