AUTRA Race Report 19-6-2026

Kate Dzienis • June 19, 2026

Coffs Backyard Ultra, NSW
Cape2Cape, WA
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WEEKLY RACE RECAP FOR 19-6-2026

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 2026 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.

Coffs Backyard Ultra, NSW

Coffs Backyard Ultra was held from 6-8 June at Coffs Harbour Showground in NSW offering participants the backyard format of 6.706km loops on the hour, every hour until there is only one person left.

There were 492 entrants.

The last one standing for the 2026 edition of Coffs Backyard Ultra was Oliver Sheekey, who completed a total of 33 laps. The assist was AUTRA member Clare Palmer, who finished with 32 laps, which was a new course PB and age record according to the official results, linked below.

Well done to all our members who raced at the event, including Stephen Parker (27 laps), Kasimir Gregory (24 laps), Clayton Talbot (16 laps), Nic Dodd (10 laps), Matt Newhouse (9 laps), Annabelle Swainston (8 laps) and Teresa Salerno (8 laps).

The full list of results can be found here.

Images: Henry Higgins, Mendilahatxu Enea.

Cape2Cape, WA

The Cape2Cape was held from 6-7 June on the Cape to Cape Track in the south-west town of Augusta to Yallingup in WA with runners offered distances of 100mi and 50mi.

The top three finishers in the Women’s 100mi were Nancy Shaw, Ruth Murdie and Lucy Spanswick.

In the Men’s 100mi, winners were Will Hooper, 2^nd Place went to AUTRA’s Shane Aris, and we are still awaiting news on 3^rd.

Winners in the Women’s 50mi were Darlene Dale, Kate Ashfaq and Lisa Jefferson.

Top spot for the Men’s 50mi was Grayson Wilson.

We are still awaiting results to be made available to check through for our members’ results.