Weekly News Report 24-01-2024

Kate Dzienis • January 24, 2024

Australia Day Ultra, WA
Dusk to Dawn 6/12, Vic
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WEEKLY NEWS REPORT FOR 24-01-2024

As always, we're continuously on the hunt for your stories and reports, so get those race reports and photographs in to ultramag@aura.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)
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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 2024 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@aura.asn.au

If any corrections need to be made in any of the results listed below, please alert me via email.

AUSTRALIA DAY ULTRA (WA)

The Australia Day Ultra was held last weekend in the coastal town of Australind, about 160 south of Perth, and is known to be a flat and fast course where many can chase PBs in their running careers.

On offer was a 100km (5 Male, 2 Female), 75km (5 Male, 2 Female), 50km (8 Male, 6 Female) and 25km (33 finishers).

In the Men’s 100km, top spot went to Dennis Devereaux (8:27:40) whilst 2^nd and 3^rd went to AURA members Brian Lyons from Devonport, Tas with a time of 9:00:06 and Kevin ‘BK’ Matthews from Perth, WA who finished in 9:34:21.

For the Women’s 100km, 1^st and 2^nd Female went to Caitlin Hindmarsh (10:09:17) and Casey Edlington (10:51:34) respectively.

In the Men’s 75km, winners were named Ashley Edlington (7:40:42), Shaun Crane (8:32:34) and Craig Hutcheson (8:32:34) whilst in the Women’s 75km it was Ellen Hardwick (8:13:50) and Lily Moore (9:42:42).

For the Men’s 50km, podium finishers were awarded to Justin Kelly (3:42:04), Jacques Meyer (4:02:51) and Irwin Swinny (4:28:21) and for the Women’s 50km top spots went to Laura Firth (4:46:16), Raquel Rae (5:16:27) and Hannelie Evans (5:54:08).

Congratulations to our AURA members who raced in the 50km including Alexis Oosterhoff from Butler who finished 4^th Male in 5:17:58, Graham Tottey from Bunbury who completed his distance in 5:19:09 to claim 5^th Male, and Louise Wallace from Secret Harbour who successfully finished in 7:35:34.

In the Men’s 25km, AURA’s Nathan Fawkes from Waikiki secured 1^st Male with a speedy 1:38:51 with 2^nd and 3^rd Male going to Radek Dzitkowski (1:39:54) and Thomas Chrsitiner (1:56:18) respectively. For the Women’s 25km top spots went to Dimity-Lee Duke (1:38:40), Deirdre McPhee (1:44:13) and Ana Mance (1:57:39).