AUTRA News Report 27-06-2025

Kate Dzienis • June 27, 2025

Dead Cow Gully, Qld
Cape2Cape, WA
Heaven & Hell Runningworks Trail Marathon, WA
Backyard Ultra Trial Series - Sheppaton, Vic
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WEEKLY NEWS REPORT FOR 27-06-2025

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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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.

Dead Cow Gully, Qld

Dead Cow Gully Backyard Ultra was held from Saturday, 21 June and continued until there was just one runner left standing, that day being Thursday, 26 June 2025.

This year’s LOS was AUTRA’s Phil Gore, who secured himself 119 laps or a total of 798km – this being a new World Record in the backyard format.

The Assist for the 2025 edition was New Zealand’s Sam Harvey.

Congratulations also to AUTRA’s Holly Ranson, who secured a new Australian record as the last woman standing, completing a total of 62 loops.

We will provide a list of all our AUTRA members once results are made available.

Images: DEAD COW GULLY/FACEBOOK

Cape2Cape, WA

The inaugural Cape2Cape Ultra Marathon kicked off last weekend on Saturday, 21 June 2025 and offered distances of 100mi (33 finishers) and 50mi (31 finishers) from Augusta to Eagle Bay in WA.

In the Women’s 100mi, AUTRA’s Jen Millum secured top spot with a finish time of 25:33:22, and AUTRA member Melissa Robertson took 2^nd Female position with a time of 26:26:37. Katy Anderson claimed 3^rd with 27:50:52.

In the Men’s 100mi, podium positions went to Ethan Stirrat (10:18:32), Matthew Maberly (23:14:15) and Peter Butler (25:42:47).

Congratulations to all our members who completed the 100mi including Matthew Salinovich (28:23:48), Kevin Matthews (28:23:48), Glen Smetherham (28:23:48), Andy Thompson (28:23:48), Jagpawan Singh Dhillon (29:50:01) and David Martin (31:16:27).

In the Women’s 50mi, 1^st Female was awarded to AUTRA’s very own Ahnika Lennie, who finished the distance in a great time of 11:54:00. Second and 3^rd Female spots went to Jaymee-Lee Quarmby (13:04:39) and Jess Krempp (15:24:16).

For the Men’s 50mi, podium finishes went to Jess King (10:58:11), Paddy Millington (11:11:11) and Daniel Mackerill (12:20:39).

Congratulations to all our members for their efforts in the 50mi, including Harmony Waite (17:22:05), Jutta Kober (17:22:06) and Aaron Young (18:03:22).

For the full list of results, you can click through here to the event’s MyRaceResult page.

Images: various, outback paparazzi photography, ultra series

Heaven & Hell Runningworks Trail Marathon, WA

The inaugural Heaven & Hell Runningworks Trail Marathon was held on Sunday, 22 June 2025 in Kelmscott, WA with options for a 10km or 6km run, a half marathon, and a MICO Marathon.

It was a tough and challenging event with the marathon having more than 2500m of elevation.

In the Women’s Marathon, top spots went to Petra Jerejian (3:48:37), Julie Gibson (4:46:11) and AUTRA’s Beck Hefferon who took 3^rd Female with a finish time of 4:47:41.

In the Men’s Marathon, winners were named Mitchell Clarke (3:48:52), Dominic Mattes (4:20:01) and Sam Gliddon (4:20:02).

For the Women’s Half Marathon event, 1^st Female was awarded to AUTRA member Claudia Seke who secured the position with a brilliant 2:06:10. Second Female went to Jessica Smith (Time Not Listed), whilst 3^rd Female went to Caroline Fenton (Time Not Listed).

In the Men’s Half Marathon, podium spots went to Luke Munro (1:54:57), Mark Waller (2:03:22) and Brian Madigan (2:07:37).

Women’s 10km winners were Jodie Evans (57:50), Georgie Smith (1:00:02) and Alicia Cawood (1:00:09) and Men’s 10km winners were Kalen Bennet (47:57), Nick Golding (54:47) and Tony Pfaff (55:10).

Women’s 6km winners were Jill O’Brien (42:42), Liane Martyn (50:33) and Alexa Glovac (51:13) and Men’s 6km winners were Levi Quinton (30:10), Alek Narozny (33:49) and Gabriel Timar (42:41).