AUTRA News Report 29-04-2025

Kate Dzienis • April 29, 2025

Delirious WEST 100 & 200 Miler, WA
MelbOURne Frontyard Ultra, Vic
Backyard Ultra Trial Series - Everton, Vic
Upcoming Events

WEEKLY NEWS REPORT FOR 29-04-2025

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.

Delirious West 100 & 200 Miler, WA

The Delirious WEST 100 & 200 Miler was held along the Bibbulmun Track, from Northcliffe to Albany in WA, kicking off last Wednesday, 8 April and finishing up Sunday, 13 April 2025.

In the Men’s 100 Miler, top spots to complete the distance were Joel Gray (20:57:01), Oakie Diggins (21:59:00) and Daniel Hannford (29:27:00).

In the Women’s 100 Miler, AUTRA’s very own Camille Nicholls claimed 1^st Female with an incredible finish time of 32:22:00. Second and 3^rd Female positions were awarded to Kylie Bell (36:30:00) and Holly Kirk (37:52:00) respectively.

Congratulations to all AUTRA members who ran in the 100 Mile event at Delirious WEST, including Andrew Smith (34:47:00), Ian North (37:35:00), Brad Halls (42:04:56), David Martin (47:04:41) and Fay Wells (52:18:10).

In the Men’s 200 Miler, top spots went to Tim Pullin (63;54:59), Trevor Bosveld (66:26:00) and Craig Jeffrey (69:49:00).

In the Women’s 200 Miler, they were Kate Jenour (73:56:00), Lucy Butler (84:10:50) and Hester Naude (86:55:51).

Well done all our members who ran in the 200 Mile event, including Kevin Matthews (74:37:22), Doug Bartlett (83:16:15), Glen Smetherham (91:32:36), John Herzfeld (96:35:14), Simon Bennett (97:13:59), Andy Thompson (98:06:30), Del Thompson (98:06:30), Michelle Frost (99:02:54) and Sue Robertson (101:27:00).

Images: astrid volzke

MelbOURne Frontyard Ultra, Vic

The inaugural MelbOURne Frontyard Ultra kicked off on Saturday, 26 April 2025 at Yarra Bend National Park in Vic and closed off with the LOS announced on Monday, 28 April.

AUTRA’s Ben Nicholls claimed the LOS title, having completed 58 yards after Mathieu Dube resigned with the Assist at the start of the yard, and finishing a total of 57 yards. Congratulations Ben!

We will have a list of all our members who raced at the MelbOURne Frontyard Ultra as soon as they become available.

Images: supplied/facebook

Backyard Ultra Trial Series – Everton, Vic

The Backyard Ultra Trial Series – Everton was held on Sunday, 27 April 2025 at Everton Railway Station in Vic, and was hosted by North-Vic Backyard Ultras.

Seven runners reached the 8 yard point of finish, each completing 53.76km, including AUTRA’s very own Kevin Muller as well as Mark Beddell, Brendan King, Phil Hamer, Tim Donald, Rhys Holland and Lee Webber.

Fourteen runners participated in the event, congratulations to all.