tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10419972822037042122024-03-15T00:15:36.038+10:00Australian Ultramarathon HistoryAustralian Ultrarunning and Ultrawalking History from the 1800s t0 2010. From the famous Pedestrians through to Modern Legends.Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-9025477269247030672021-02-20T12:42:00.004+10:002021-02-20T12:42:37.175+10:00Statues Oz - 6hr and 12hr race - Adelaide 1998<p> A hastily arranged race in 1998 when the Sri Chinmoy team had to cancel their race at the last moment!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://statistik.d-u-v.org/getresultevent.php?event=75568&fbclid=IwAR31zq1v2DQE8i8cHwk0I6kud1j4h3ePgAxgnQp_9WxPtMH4tGMNJCDeo4U">12 hour</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://statistik.d-u-v.org/getresultevent.php?event=75569">6 hour</a></b></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-60829120486217346452021-02-18T19:53:00.005+10:002021-02-18T19:53:39.740+10:001966 Geelong to Melbourne 50 miles Road Race<p> Thanks Alexi for this second Gem!</p><p>Jim Crawford - 6h 10m 06s</p><p><b><a href="https://statistik.d-u-v.org/getresultevent.php?event=75528&fbclid=IwAR35If9QhSeAzPZjr3pmF4HAG-b1Y4Wgvrdz_8jicC3PhguMUfDOGlsgbpw">1966 VMC 50 Mile Road Race</a></b></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-79168235118776897872021-02-18T19:51:00.003+10:002021-02-18T19:51:16.784+10:001963 Geelong to Melbourne 50 mile Road Race<p> Thanks Alexi for this Gem of a find!</p><p><br /></p><p>Geoff Watt - 5hr 37m 40s</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://statistik.d-u-v.org/getresultevent.php?event=75527&fbclid=IwAR3KkNbahZsXkTIJ-pQP6DztLupcDWH-hKb-kBrEfAHP_X71siDdQuyc_Sg">1963 VMC 50 Mile Road Race</a></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-12776301976626902582021-01-23T16:12:00.006+10:002021-01-23T16:12:57.779+10:00The Day Run<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The Day Run</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">by Andy Milroy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“How far can a human run in the cycle of the sun” was the slogan of one
notable 24 hour event in the 1980s which<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>neatly encapsulated the essence of the event. The 24 hour race has a
natural quality to it that is missing from any other ultra event. The race
limits are not delineated by some artificial construct of the human mind, like
hours or kilometres or miles. The day has been an integral part of the cycle of
life for eons, affecting the existence of all living creatures and plants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The early history </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Man's running has always been tied to this daily cycle of the sun. In
the distant days of prehistory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hunters
would follow the trail of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their prey
until dusk, sleeping on the animal's tracks until sunrise when their pursuit could
continue. Until settlements grew up and running messengers were required to
carry urgent information between homesteads and villages actually running at
night was not necessary or desirable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The hemerodromoi of Ancient Greece was the most famous of these early
running messengers. The word “hemerodromoi” appropriately actually means<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"day runners".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It is from this period that come some of the earliest known records of
distances covered within a day. A Plataen named Euchidas ran from his home town
to Delphi, returning the same day, covering a distance of about 1,000 stades,
which is approximately 182km/113 miles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in 479 B.C. According to Pliny the Elder, some time around 325 B.C.,
Philonides, the hemerodromos of Alexander the Great, seems to have run the
1,200 stades (219km/136 miles) from Sicyon to Elis in a day,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>though the account of the run is not clear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A Manx walker, Alswith, son of Hiallus-nan-ard, took part in one of the
earliest challenges to cover a specific distance within a day . This took close
to 1300 years later , around the tenth century A.D., on the Isle of Man, a
small island situated between England and Ireland. Alswith undertook to walk
around all the churches on the island in one day. The roads were very rough and
there were many churches on the island. Alswith had almost completed his task,
having covered around 70 miles/112km, when he fell exhausted. Alswith’s feat is
commemorated annually in the Manx Parish Walk. Some two hundred years later in
1171 a shoemaker named Gilbert walked from Canterbury to London, 106.2km/66
miles in one day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The first successful 24 hour run, in something approaching modern
terms, took place in the fifteenth or sixteenth century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the running couriers, or peichs of the
Turkish Empire made a wager to run from Constantinople to Adrianople,
approximately 200km /125 miles, between two suns (i.e.within 24 hours). The
peichs were usually Persians by birth. They would normally carry messages
between the two cities in two days and two nights. These running couriers
always ran in bare feet. Their feet were reputed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be so hardened by this, that the peichs
reportedly had themselves shod, like horses, with light iron shoes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not recorded whether the peich
undertaking the wager<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wore iron shoes;
fortunately his win is, despite the heat of an August sun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Footmen and Pedestrians</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries modern competitive long
distance running began to develop in the British Isles. By the early eighteenth
century various running footmen in service to the nobility of the period had
reputedly covered more than 100 miles in 24 hours. Most notable among these
were Owen M’Mahon, an Irish footman, who was recorded as running the 112
miles/180km from Trillick to Dublin in about 1728, and Beau Nash's footman,
Bryan, who reportedly ran from London to Bath , 107 miles/172km,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more than once in 1732.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Perhaps the earliest British 24 hour match took place in June 1754. For
a "bett" of 50 pounds John Cook undertook to walk or run 100
miles/160km. He<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was taken ill after 12
hours and 60 miles/96km,and forced to forfeit the wager. However John Hague,
another Briton, was more successful eight years later when he completed 100
miles in 23 hours 15 minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The idea of the lone athlete in a match against time continued for many
years. Foster Powell, the great pedestrian of the eighteenth century, set out
from the Falstaff Inn, Canterbury, to go to London Bridge and back,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in September 1787, a distance of some 112
miles/180km in 24 hours. He won his wager with ten minutes to spare, despite
being given brandy instead of wine on the return journey,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The birth of the 24 hour race</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The first actual 24 hour race, to cover as great a distance as possible
in a day, was probably in October 1806. Abraham Wood and Robert Barclay
Allardice, the two greatest pedestrians of the day, faced one another for the
first and only time. Wood had run 40 miles in 4:56, in bare feet, wearing just
flannel drawers and a jacket, so quickly that few horsemen could keep up with
him. Allardice, his opponent, was better known as Captain Barclay, the name
under which he competed in athletic matches. He was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one of the greatest athletic figures of the
nineteenth century, who had walked 100 miles in 19 hours and run a quarter of a
mile in 56 seconds. Partly because Wood hadn't a backer willing to put up a big
enough stake, the gentleman Barclay was not keen to race the professional Wood.
However the race was arranged on the Newmarket to London Turnpike on a roped
off mile when a Spitalfield publican came up with 150 guineas. The match was
for 600 guineas a side and Barclay was allowed a generous handicap of 20
miles/32.1km. In other words Wood had to win by over 20 miles!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Arguably the first 24 hour race was the most successful yet seen in
terms of the number of spectators who were determined to see the event. The
race attracted the greatest crowd of people ever seen at Newmarket, which was a
town<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well known as a venue for horse
racing, and thus used to large crowds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Carriages from barouche and four to the dicky cart, and the
horsemen and pedestrian exceeded all accurate calculation." A guinea was
refused for a bed, all the inns were full, and even stables and haylofts were
used profitably for accommodation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the period leading up to the race Wood had been 100 to 90 in the
betting but at the start Barclay was five to two favourite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both men were dressed in the appropriate garb
for such a race in that period, in flannel with no legs to their stockings. In
the first hour Wood covered eight miles/12.8km to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barclay’s six/9.6km. He had clawed back four
of the 20 miles/32.1km he had given Barclay by the end of the third hour, and
at 24 miles/40km stopped for refreshments. Some 16 miles/25.7km later, after just
40 miles/64km he retired from the match, amid great controversy. Apparently,
after he had run 22 miles, some of his handlers had deliberately given him
liquid laudanum, a form of opium. The `mastermind’ behind this fixing of the
race is perhaps easy to work out. Wood’s Spitafield backer had never risked
even 20 pounds on anything less than a certainty, and on the day of the race
was betting on Barclay to win!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Potentially one of the great 24 hour races had become one<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of its<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>greatest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>anticlimaxes. It was a
classic match between a faster runner over shorter distances pitted against a
known stayer. Abraham Wood had run 50 miles in seven hours while in training,
but had stopped in the dangerous, wet conditions while still fresh to avoid
injury. However, the knowledgeable experts of the period <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>considered that it was very likely<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Barclay would have covered 135
miles/216km. This would have forced Wood to cover 155 miles/248km to win which
would have been beyond him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It was to be left to a hostler named Glanville to achieve the greatest
distance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 24 hours in this period, not
Barclay or Wood. Glanville agreed to walk 142 miles/227.2km in 30 hours for a
wager of 80 guineas. (It was acceptable in those days<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for a walker to run occasionally to ease
cramp so his walk/run was described as "go-as-you-please.") He set
off at a brisk pace and later broke into a shuffling "walk" of six
miles/10km an hour. Despite great difficulty, he eventually won his wager, on
the way covering 117 miles/187.2km in 24 hours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Napoleonic Wars, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, had been<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a golden age<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the gentleman walkers and runners.
However as the new century progressed their premier challengers, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pedestrians, as the professional athletes
were now known, had the field to themselves. This was to be so for the next 25
years or more, but the pedestrians often found the financial<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rewards were small. In 1823 Russell, a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>young Irishman<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>undertook a match<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to cover a specific distance within<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The interesting thing about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this
performance was that he had to cover<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>100
Irish miles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(an Irish mile being 2,240
yards/2048 metres). He reportedly succeeded, thus covering 127 miles 480
yards/204.825km.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Only one pedestrian was reported to have surpassed this mark, as far
as I know, prior to the great revival of ultra-walking and running in the
1870s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Helston road in Cornwall,
well away from the gaze of the knowledgeable, a professional named Swain was
said to have achieved 130 miles/209.2km in 24 hours 5 minutes in 1856, this
merely for a collection, not even a substantial wager.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The First Women 24 Hour Performers</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">There is very little recorded of early female performances in the
event, though obviously women also had to cover long distances on foot as part
of their ordinary lives from earliest times. Women first appear in the history
of the 24 hour in the mid eighteenth century<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>when in July 1765, a young woman went a distance of 72 miles/115.8km
from Blencogo to within two miles of Newcastle in one day. Later, in May 1827,
on a half-mile stretch of the Carlisle Road,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mary McMullen,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>apparently about
60 years old, set out to walk 92 miles/148km in 24 hours. She subsequently made
good that challenge, covering the distance with 31 minutes to spare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The 6 Day Boom</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Russell's walk had been around the Basin in Dublin, a 529 yard/483
metre course, and all the previous 24 hour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>marks had been set on the road. One man was to be responsible for the
event<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moving to the track. American
Edward Payson Weston<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in December 1874
succeeded in accomplishing a feat which had been long regarded as impossible,
of covering 500 miles/804.6km in 6 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His success generated so much interest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>that the era of the professional<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>6 day racing was born.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Success had not come easily to Weston. Prior to his December walk he
had failed to cover 500 miles three times in 1874. Reputedly he had failed to
cover l00 miles/160km in 24 hours 47 times in the 1860s before finally
succeeding! However in his earlier failures to cover 500 miles, Weston had
covered 112 and 115 miles [180.2km and 185km], on the first day of his
attempts, to set new world 24 hour track bests. Riding on the interest
generated by the 6 day racing boom, other walkers were to improve on this.
Briton Harry Vaughan reached 120 miles/193.1km in a 24 hour race, and in a 26
hour event fellow countryman Billy Howes produced a daily split of 127
miles/204.3km.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The 24 hour record began to really take on a modern look when British
runners George Hazael and subsequently<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charles Rowell took the best mark<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>from 133 miles/214km to 150 miles 395 yards /241.763 km in the first day
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6 day races. Rowell’s style was well
suited to such a event, being described as an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>incessant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“dogtrot”. His 24 hour
mark is even more remarkable in that he only took 22:28:25. If he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had continued for the full 24 hours at the
same speed he would have gone over 160 miles/257km. This was perfectly feasible
because after a mere three and one half hours of sleep, he went to subsequently
set new world bests at 48 hours of 258 miles/415km and 72 hours, 353
miles/568km later in the race!.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Female pedestriennes were keen to get in on the act too, and ultra
walking events for women were not uncommon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1877 Mary Marshall achieved 90 miles/144.8km in Boston in a 100 mile
match against time, to set what may have been the best female 24 hour track
mark of the century</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The great interest in professional long distance endurance contests
inspired amateur athletes to tackle such events<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Britons John Fowler-Dixon and F.M. R. Dundas contested a 100 mile
walking match in August 1877, in which the former became the first amateur to
cover 100 miles in 24 hours. In the United States J. Bruce Gillie, a Scotsman ,
improved on this with 108 miles/173.8km, and then another British walker
Archibald Sinclair covered 120 miles/193.1km at Lillie Bridge in London<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 1881. Yet another Briton, James
Saunders,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>came over to New York the
following year, and in a race in the American Institute Ring, ran 120m 275
yards/193.372km, apparently non-stop. The final word by the walkers, at least
in absolute best terms, was 131 miles 580 yards /211.354 km by Tommy Hammond of
the Britain in 1908.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Arthur Newton<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Wally Hayward</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hammond’s walking mark was to stay as the best mark by an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>amateur<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>for over 40 years, and for an even longer period the professional best
remained with Rowell. It was Arthur Newton, the greatest ultrarunner of the
1920s, who was to take up the 24 hour challenge. Newton had made his name with
wins in the early days of the Comrades Marathon in South Africa, before coming
over to Britain to set road bests for the London to Brighton and the Bath Road
100 Miles. He then turned professional and attempted to exploit his fitness in
the 1928 Trans-continental Pyle race across the United States. He was hit by
injuries in that race and in the subsequent event in 1929. Along with other
veterans of the two races he remained in training, and made a limited career as
a professional athlete in 500 mile relays, snowshoe races, and even 6 day races
against horses! The professional 24 hour world best attracted Newton, and he
decided to have a crack at it even if he had to pay for the privilege, which in
the end he did.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He promoted an indoor 24 hour in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada in April
1931, at the age of 47.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The track was
specially built but was small, with 13 laps to the mile, but its design
incorporated square corners to offset dizziness. The early pace was cut out by
a fellow veteran of the Pyle races, Australian Mike McNamara, who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>picked up world bests for 30 and 40 miles
before he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continued on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to 100 miles in a little over 14 hours. At
this point McNamara<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stopped for a bath
while Newton continued to circle the small track until the Australian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>returned. His return was to be delayed for
some 20 minutes because McNamara was seized by cramp. Newton felt he was honour
bound to take the same length of time off the track<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>over his bath. This gesture, in fact, served
no useful purpose since McNamara retired from the race soon after. Thus Newton
was left well in the lead, aiming "to travel with the most perfect
rhythm" he was capable of achieving. He had covered 152 miles 540 yards
/245.113 km<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the time the full 24 hours
had elapsed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The women's 24 hour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was to be
raised to new heights by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>another South African
based runner. Geraldine Watson was a very tough individual who would set off on
very long walks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- 200 miles/320km<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was quite an ordinary sort of distance for
her -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with only a small automatic pistol
for protection. Watson<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had run the
Comrades in 1932 and '33, and then decided to enter a 100 mile road race<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>organized at Durban in 1934 .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The race was held on a circular road course,
in perfect weather<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the first nine
hours. The event was then hit by rain and gale force winds. Despite these conditions,
Watson clocked 22 hours 22 minutes to become the first woman ever to cover 100
miles in 24 hours..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Arthur Newton moved to Britain permanently after the Second World War
and persuaded the Road Runners Club to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>promote<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an amateur<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24 hour event. The great South African
runner<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wally Hayward had come to England
with the intention of setting new records for the Brighton and Bath Road races.
After he had successfully completed these tasks, Newton persuaded him to stay
on and tackle the RRC 24 hour.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The 24 hour was new territory for all the runners who lined<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up at the start of the Motspur Park
event<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in November 1953. It had been
initially suggested that Hayward should be opposed by paarlauf teams of two,
running as a relay,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Road Runners Club decided to make it a
straightforward race. In the Hamilton indoor race Newton had reached<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 100 mile point<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in less than 15 hours; in the Motspur Park
race<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hayward blazed through the same
distance in 12:46:34. It had been planned that Hayward would take a brief rest
of ten minutes at this point but he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was
so tired that he wanted to come off the track for a shower and a massage. It
was only after half an hour that he finally rejoined the race. By then he had
stiffened and was cold. He was forced to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>run differently, he walked, then ran, then walked again before he
finally got into a laboured running rhythm. He was to struggled on like this to
the end. He described it later as running “like a pig with its snout to the
ground”. Hayward had apparently been aiming for 170 miles/270km but he still
finished with a very credible 159 miles 562 yards /256.400 km. Derek Reynolds,
the 50 mile record holder, took<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>second
place, also passing Newton's mark with 154 miles 1,226 yards /248.960 km. The
Motspur Park race was also remarkable for the fact that the average age of its
three finishers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was 44 years!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The Revival of the 24 Hour</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hayward's<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24 hour mark was to
remain as a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sporting novelty for over a
decade before a stalwart of the RRC, Don Turner,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>began lobbying for the club to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>revive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the event. A 24 hour race was originally scheduled for October 1969 but
by general agreement this was changed to a 100 mile event instead. However eventually
in November 1973, the RRC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>put on the 24
hour event at the Walton track.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Since 1953 there had been other 24 hour races elsewhere in the world.
New Zealander Denis Stephenson had run 142 miles/228.5km along the Auckland
waterfront in 1963 and then subsequently had covered 131 miles/210.8km on the
track the following year. In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1971
another pioneer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Italian Enzo
Boiardi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had covered 211,831 km/131.6
miles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the track at Piacenza, and
earlier in 1973 Armando<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Germani, another
Italian, had run over 221.479km/137.6 miles at Trieste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later that year, in South Africa, Alan
Ferguson covered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>222.2km/138 miles . The
time was ripe for a revision of the world best in the event..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The 100 mile track races that had been promoted by the RRC in the late
60s and early 70s had given British runners some experience of the stresses
likely to be faced in a 24 hour race. It was a veteran of such races, a 41 year
old Tipton miner, Ron Bentley, who seemed best prepared mentally. Passing 50
miles in 6:08:11 and 100 miles in 13:09:32 he did not stop at the latter
distance, unlike Hayward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bentley only
began to falter when he reached Derek Reynold's British record of
248km/154miles.. With three and a half hours to go Bentley strained a muscle in
his right leg and that, together with the torrential downpour of rain that
happened<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about the same time, reduced
him to walking, then running slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The drive and concentration which had pushed him to break Hayward’s mark
evaporated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on reaching the South
African’s world best. In the last hour he just limped around the track with a
blanket around his shoulders. He was only able to add two miles/three
kilometres in that last hour, ending up with 161 miles 545 yards/259.603km.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It is interesting to speculate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>what Newton, Hayward and Bentley could have achieved in a second or
subsequent 24 hour races. Since these runners set their records, it has become
obvious that competitors usually improve as they gain experience in the event.
Jean-Gilles Boussiquet, for example,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>improved with each of his first three track runs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Following Bentley’s run there was no sudden great explosion of
interest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From 1973 until 1977 the 24 hour event<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was still confined to just<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Italy and South Africa until Tom Roden ran
156 miles/251km at the Crystal Palace in London in 1977, the best mark in the
world since Bentley's run. Then, gradually, 24 hour races began to appear all
over the globe, in the United States, France, Rhodesia, and Czechoslovakia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the United States 24 hour races in the late 1970s were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>often low-key affairs with informal lap
recording. It was such<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>deficient recording
that twice denied<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Park Barner’s efforts
from receiving due recognition, on the first occasion nullifying a U.S. record,
and then subsequently in 1979 a possible world best with over 162 miles/261km.
However, this confusion over recognition of world bests was to be eventually
resolved when the following year one of the great figures of the event appeared,
Frenchman Jean-Gilles Boussiquet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">J</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">ean-Gilles Boussiquet</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Boussiquet had formerly been</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">soccer player, and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">had been
running less than two years when in November 1979 he tackled the 257 Km /159
miles Millau-Belves race. Boussiquet</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">tied for second place in the race in 28:15:30. Three weeks later he
tackled his first 24 hour,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">on the road
at Niort, where he was second with 139 miles/224km. He learned swiftly, and
five months later at Coetquidan covered 162 miles /261km. This mark was not
recognized for record purposes because no lap times were taken.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Boussiquet traveled to England<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to ensure that the next time he set a world best it would be recognised.
In October of that year at Blackburn, he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>officially broke Bentley's record with 164 miles 192 yards /264.108 km.
Obviously not content with that, a month later he returned to Niort to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>set a new road best of 255km/158 miles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lausanne in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Switzerland in 1981
was the first major international 24 hour race<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and saw a classic confrontation between Boussiquet, the 24 hour runner
and perhaps the top 100km runner on the Continent, the Czech<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaclav Kamenik. This match was reminiscent of
that between<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Barclay and Abraham
Wood<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>close on two hundred years earlier.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kamenik naturally went out fast, clocking 7:34:58 for 100km<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 12:28:16 for the 100 miles, the fastest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>such split time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seen up until then in a 24 hour. The Czech
had over-reached himself. Running a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>beautifully paced race, Boussiquet surpassed all the other contenders
and took the world best to new heights, adding eight kilometres/ five miles to
the world best with a distance of 272.624 km/169 miles 705 yards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">1981 was perhaps the year that saw the event come of age. Three
different runners covered more than 260km/162 miles in three different races
that year. One such mark was by the 21 year old Mark Pickard, who set a
new<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>British<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>record<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of 263km/163 miles. Fourth in that race was Dave Cooper making his 24
hour debut,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the start of his remarkable
career in the event.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Women take the 24 hours seriously</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Women were encouraged to enter longer running events by the rise of the
feminist movement in the United States in the early 1970s. Miki Gorman, a
Japanese-American, clocked 21:04<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
running a 100 miles in 24 hours in an indoor race in Los Angeles, setting a new
track best.. Gorman<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>subsequently to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>drop down to shorter distances, running the
second fastest marathon ever in 1976 of 2:39:11 and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dominated the American marathon scene in the
'70s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gorman's world 24 hour mark did
not remain on the record books for long; the following year a South African
grandmother, Mavis Hutchison, ran 106 miles 736 yards /171.2 km. Hutchison had
a subsequent career as a journey runner, and still holds the women’s best for
the Trans-USA run.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Eight years later Marcy Schwam, one of the most prolific of the early
female ultrarunners, extended the world track best to 113 miles/182.9km, taking
en route new world bests at 50 miles, 100 km, and 100 miles. Other Americans
Sue Ellen Trapp and Sue Medaglia continued to move the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>world mark ever upwards in the early '80s; in
1981 the latter covering 203.4km/126 miles</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The British enter the fray.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">That year had also seen one of the most competitive road 100 mile races
of alltime when Briton Martin Daykin just beat his fellow countryman Dave
Dowdle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by some 23 seconds (12:16:46 to
12:17:09)!. Dowdle had actually finished that race in fairly good shape but had
just been unable to withstand Daykin’s finishing kick. It<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was decided to promote a 24 hour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>track race the following year to enable the
two runners to compete in a longer event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>World and British record holders Boussiquet and Pickard were also
invited to the race.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Weather conditions were wet and sometimes windy, but the fierce<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>competition did much to mitigate this. Mark
Pickard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was an early leader, with Daykin
and Dowdle a little way back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daykin
then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>began to push on with the intention
of setting a new 200km best.. Boussiquet unfortunately had been taken ill soon
after 100 km. Daykin retired at 200km, and Dowdle was left alone in the lead.
He overcame a bad patch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and rallied as
the 24 hour time limit approached. Even a late, very heavy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rain squall did not slow his determined drive
to the finish. During<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his bad patch, Ron
Bentley and Jean-Gilles Boussiquet were seen urging him forcibly back on to the
track<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dowdle’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>final distance of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>274.480 km/ 170 miles 974 yards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a new world best.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dowdle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had trained hard for the
event, his training peaking at 240 miles/380km<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>a week. His life prior to the race had consisted for many months of just
running, eating, and sleeping, apart from when he was not putting in a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>full day's work as well. The race took place
in May, and as part of preparation he had covered over 3000 miles/4800km since
the previous Christmas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result this
training he was able to complete the race without significant breaks,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moving at nine minute mile/5.6 minute kilometre<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This race was also significant for another reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behind<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dowdle was a battle between Lynn Fitzgerald and Ros Paul<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two women had contested the previous
year's London to Brighton race<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with
Fitzgerald<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>emerging<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eventually as the winner. It was the first
occasion British women had run<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a track
ultra. Fitzgerald was to dominate the women’s race, setting new world bests at
50 miles and 100 km. She had problems at 100 miles, but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rallied to set a final distance of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>214.902 km/ 133 miles 939 yards, a new world
best. Paul tracked her all the way, and also surpassed the previous world best
with 129 miles/208km.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Three months later Ros Paul broke Fitzgerald’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mark, covering<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>216.648 km/ 134 miles 1089 yards. Most
remarkably this performance was set on day one of a 6 day race! Paul was to
continue to set new world bests at 48 hours, and 6 days, too. Her performance
was watched by an interested spectator, a certain Eleanor Adams.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dowdle’s mark was to be surpassed on the road later that year at Niort
by Bernard Gaudin of France, who recorded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>274.715km/ l70 miles 1231 yards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>A Greek dominates the day run.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You may recall<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the day runners
of ancient Greece, the hemerodromoi who appeared earlier in this story of the
24. Perhaps this where the story comes full circle. Most famous of the
hemerodromoi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was Philippides, better
known to history as Pheidippides. Philippides had run.from Athens to Sparta in
490 B.C to ask for the Spartans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to help
fight against<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the invading Persians. His
Athens-Sparta run appears to be a historical fact, unlike the later run from
Marathon to Athens, which was added to the story many years afterwards.
Philippides’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>famous run from Athens to
Sparta was to become the basis for a race, the Spartathlon. In 1983 the first
Spartathlon was won with great ease, by an unknown Greek named Yiannis Kouros.
Since this unknown runner had managed to beat several very experienced 24
hour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>performers and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cover the tough 245km/152 mile course in
under 22 hours,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sceptical were
convinced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that he had cheated. Kouros
was subsequently invited to compete in a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>multi-day stage race along the Danube. There he proceeded to show his
true credentials, decimating the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>elite
field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1984, the following year he
was invited to take part<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the New York
6 day race.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kouros' first ultra track
race, he</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">covered 262km/163 miles the
first day, 165km/103 miles the second, and 146.4km/91 miles the third. The
knowledgeable members of the ultrarunning world waited for his inevitable
retirement, but it did not happen. Yiannis Kouros shattered George
Littlewood’s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">96 year old</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6 day record by 12 miles/20km!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kouros<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>returned to the United
States later that year to compete in a 24 hour road race at Queens, New York.
He went through 100 km in 6:54:43 and 100 miles in 11:46:37, and achieved a
finishing total of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>284 km/177 miles,
this despite taking a very leisurely 27:50 over his final<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mile. Kouros<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>had added six miles/10km<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the
24 hour road best!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The following year the French Montauban 48 hour was endorsed as a
championship event. Kouros was invited since he had broken the 48 hour record
en route in his 6 day run in New York. He did not make any concessions to the
fact that he had a second day to run. In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>23 hours<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he covered 283.6 km/176
miles 388 yards. He then stopped for an hour’s rest, having easily broken the
world track best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then continued to
complete 281 miles /452 km to set a new world 48 hour best.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tougher opposition faced him later in the year when he returned to New
York, Hurricane Gloria. The Queens 24 hour one mile loop</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">was battered by five hours of 60 mph/100kmph
winds, driving rain, and falling debris. In order to surpass</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">his previous road best set on the same
course, Kouros was forced to use the whole 24 hours. His final total was</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">178 miles /286.463 km, another world best.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Fierce Female Rivalry </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When Ros Paul broke the 24 hour track record in 1982, as I have said,
it was under the watchful eye of Eleanor Adams. Adams herself took the record
three years later with 138 miles 777 yards/222.8 km but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wanted to go further, to 140 miles. At
Honefoss in Norway<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the following year
she<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just missed out on breaking her own
world best, but the indoor loop and tough marble slabs of Milton Keynes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave her the opportunity to achieve her
ambition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her most serious competition in the race would come from fellow
countrywoman Hilary Walker. Walker</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">had
set a new road best of 137 miles/220km in 1986</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">match between the two women was viewed with
great anticipation They were only ten minutes apart at 100 km, but Walker was
forced</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to slow through a back injury.
Adams pushed on to set a new absolute best of 141 miles 375 yards /227.261 km
at the indoor venue. At Feltham on the road three months later Walker added
three kilometres/two miles to that total, recording 143 miles 527 yards/230.618
km, and in 1988 improved her road best to 146 miles /236 km. Meanwhile the
track best had been edging upwards; Belgian Angela Mertens</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">moved the world mark to</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">140 miles /226 km in the same year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Adams was to have
the final word in her competition with Walker. In 1989 she</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">traveled to Melbourne in Australia for a
track 24 hour. There she averaged ten km every hour to finish with 149 miles
411 yards /240.169 km, her greatest 24 hour performance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>International Championships</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In 1990 the first International Championship was held at Milton Keynes
in Britain on an 890 metre loop indoors around the shopping mall. The Milton
Keynes venue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>offered protection from the
vagaries of the weather,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but its
merciless marble surface was very hard on the feet and legs. Perhaps the greatest
24 hour field<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assembled up until that
point contested the race. Don Ritchie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>was among these runners. He<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was
widely regarded as one of the great 100 km runners, but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had a poor record at 24 hours. That was to
change. He ran away from the rest of the field, passing 100 miles in 12:56:13
and 200 km in 16:31:08, achieving a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>final distance of 166 miles 429 yards /267.543 km, a new indoor best.
Eleanor Adams made a similar impact on the women's race. She reached the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>200km in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>19:00:31,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the fastest yet on any
surface, and her final distance of 147 miles 1408 yards /237.861 km<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was second only to her own track record.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Kouros Returns To Set His Greatest Mark</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">At Surgeres, France in
1995, after a brief retirement, Yiannis Kouros returned to the ultra scene,
this time as an Australian. He set a new world track best of 285.363km/
177m555y in the first day of the 48 hour. The following year, feeling in
excellent form, he moved the world best onwards at the Coburg track in
Australia<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to greater heights<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>294.104km/182m1316y <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Kouros’ long stated aim
had been to run </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">300 km in 24 hours. He was thwarted in
this ambition in his next 24 hour
by the very wet weather conditions in Canberra in March 1997,
but still managed to set another
world track best of 295.030 kilometers/183.3 miles. Still intent on 300km, and
on hearing of the possibility of better
weather conditions for the Coburg race six weeks later, he made another
attempt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Until the 200km mark he</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">was
moving well, but was then affected by back and knee injuries and forced to
settle for a</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">final total of</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">266.180 kilometers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He returned to</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Surgeres in
France for another attempt on the 48 hour best</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">but this was also hampered by injury. Sensibly he now took the time to
fully recover from his injuries, staying in Europe during the summer. By
October Kouros felt he was as ready as he would ever be. He entered the annual
Sri Chinmoy 24 hour event in Adelaide. He was to there achieve his masterpiece</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">303.506km/188m 1308 yards. After the race</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kouros stated emphatically that he expected
his world mark to last for centuries and that he would never race over 24 hours
on the track again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He could be right about his record lasting for centuries. His new world
record is 17 miles/27.3 km greater than the next best 24 hour distance on
record, a dominance perhaps matched only in athletics by Tomoe Abe’s 6:33:11.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lomsky and Reutovich</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The women’s 24 hour had been developing meanwhile. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sigrid Lomsky, a former stalwart of the German
100km team, set a new world road best of 151m706y/243.657km at Basle in 1993 to
win the European Challenge<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the age
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>51.. Her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mark was to be the undisputed world absolute
best until Elena Siderenkova ran 248.901km/ 154. 6 miles in an indoor race at
Podolsk in Russia in 1996. However this latter mark cannot be ratified..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">In 1998 another Russian woman, Irina Reutovich,
surpassed the world track best with</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">242.624km/150m1336y</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">in the
national</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">championships in Moscow in</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">May.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Reutovich</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">established herself as
the dominant female performer at the turn of the millennium. Howver a new
performer was to emerge. Winner of the World 100km, Edit Berces moved up to the
24 hours and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">forced the world best up to
250km on the track in 2002.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">In May 1998,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Kouros had returned to the 24 hour event, this time on the road.. He ran
290.221km/180m589y at Basle in Switzerland, to set a new world road best. Then
in Marquette, France in August that year Belgian Lucien Taelman ran the greatest
distance yet seen in an international championships 267.626km/166m519y. In 1999
Kouros ran 269km/167 miles and 262km/163 miles one week apart. Perhaps on
recent form it could be argued that as he begins to move towards his 50</span><sup style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
birthday</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">his margin of superiority over
other runners will naturally start to</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">decline. As yet however there is no one who looks likely to challenge
his dominance. One interesting feature of the 2004 season has been the
dominance of the Japanese. Will they have the organisation and talent to close
the gap on Kouros?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The Future</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">As to the future?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For years t</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">op female ultrarunners have
thought that 160 miles (258 km) is within their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>capabilities. With good<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>competition and conditions such a distance could well be feasible in the
next few years. Bearing in mind how effectively the rivalry between Adams and
Walker drove up the record in the 1980s, perhaps two well matched adversaries
could provide the necessary competitive drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Closing the huge gap between the top male 24 hour performers and Kouros’
world track best is a much tougher task. To achieve this regular truly global
competition is necessary, perhaps over many years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>The Appeal and Challenge of the 24 Hour</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The 24 hour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>event<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is far more, however, than just the history
of its record holders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A 24 hours is more difficult<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
organize than a 100 km for example, yet there are around 200 day races held
each year, which indicates its<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>popularity. The fact that a day is natural block of time, familiar to
all, means that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the idea of running for
a whole day appeals to many people. To run for a few seconds, or a minute, or
even for an hour offers no real challenge, but to run for a whole day, that is
something quite different. In his book, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ultramarathon </i></b>Jim Shapiro said, that
the 24 hour race seemed a good tool "to pick up and use, to pry myself
open to see what I am made of."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
appeal to many is intellectual as much as it is physical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are so many variables in running a 24
hours making it very difficult, if not near impossible to get everything right,
the pace, the food, the most suitable clothing, the correct permutation of
running/walking strategies, all this before the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>environmental variables, such as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>weather, road and track surfaces etc , are even considered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Few people have mastered the event. Too often success is followed by
failure. The race is so complex that consistency is very difficult to
achieve.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dave Cooper of Britain ran his
first 24 hour in 1981 but he was denied a fine debut by a forced retirement at
22 hours. However he had found an event at which he could excel. He became
acknowledged as the expert on the event after completing thirty-five 24 hour
races</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">at a remarkable average of 134
miles/215.6km. His greatest period was in 1989. In a l2 month period he ran
seven 24 hour races, each over 140 miles/225.3km, with an average of 144
miles/231km. The following year he set a personal best of 155 miles/250km for a
new world over 55 best, this after nine years in the event</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps significantly this last mark was
achieved with negative splits…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet despite all this success, Cooper then</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">hit real problems which he found hard to
handle despite his vast experience. For many, this is the true fascination of
the event. Nothing can be taken for granted, no assumptions can be made. If a
runner emerges from a</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">24 hour race
unscathed, is it simply because he or she did not push hard enough, did not go
close enough to her or his physical limits?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The correct pacing is crucial in a 24 hour run. Looking at performances
of 260km/160 miles, there are</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">two
schools of thought as to the best way to tackle the 24 hour monster. Dowdle,
Barner, and Boussiquet favoured the even pace approach . (At Lausanne
Boussiquet's 50-km splits were 4:08:27,4:16:42, 4:15:13, 4:14:16, and 4:54:38)
The other option is the fast 100 mile approach of Hayward, Kouros, and Ritchie.
Most opt</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for the middle ground, with
splits at</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">100 mile in the range of 13:05
to 13:15,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">compared to 14 hours plus for
Barner and 13:30 for Boussiquet and Dowdle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Interestingly Kouros himself has adopted different strategies over the
years. The blazing pace of his early career, sub seven hours at 100km and
sub</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">12 hours at 100 miles, have latterly
been tempered to a much more even paced formula. His schedule is now so closely
defined that errors in lap recording can be deduced from it</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps responding to his experiences in the
Westfield race, he would</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">reach 100 miles
in around 12:10</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">200 km in around 15:20 - 15:50</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">before</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">pushing on to 280km</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is worth
noting however that his more even pace schedule was still based on a faster
start than either Hayward or Ritchie.. Significantly</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">when Kouros</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">went for broke, to get his long cherished 300km, he reverted to the fast
start. Although he only reached 100km in 7:15, the 100 miles took just
11:57:59, and 200km</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">15:10:27. His final
100km was close to nine hours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To get on terms with Kouros’ road best, using an even pace
schedule,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">a faster average speed than
Boussiquet or Dowdle</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">would be</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">required - around say 12:30 for 100 miles and
under 16 hours for 200km.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">However for elite 24 hour performers seeking to run the optimal
performance there can be further complications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Championships at national and international level. The 24 hour as an
ultrarunning chess game, where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
rooks, bishops and pawns are one’s mental and physical resources, becomes even
more complex with the additional pressures of maintaining the optimal pace in
sometimes difficult conditions whilst sustaining an adequate drinking strategy.
Then add to that the need to take into account the needs of your national team!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Since the first amateur<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24 hour
race back in 1953 the event has come a long way, from a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>test of survival to a test of self-knowledge,
tactics, and experience. However, the 24 hour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>remains a knife-edge run; the modern hemerodromoi strain to achieve
their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>optimal speed, whilst risking the
ever-present possibility of the crash into the abyss of fatigue, injury, and
exhaustion. That is the fascination and the attraction of the 24 Hour race. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-28839098543207835002021-01-23T14:21:00.006+10:002021-01-23T14:22:17.496+10:0026hr in Perth - 1908<p> Still not sure if this was a typo</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eaKQe_kIj22Uktv6xXXO-nC4oYP_0n1K9SIHN30-pWPoktyODO13rdS7ljSbcYpNZdhkdfNhGh60Mf5ZKOCI3rU3prCR7zCJ5quCMaQhJ_JqWmqS-cyAHoZ4LHqkrwazOgtAu1K8kdo/s263/26hrperth1908.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="263" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eaKQe_kIj22Uktv6xXXO-nC4oYP_0n1K9SIHN30-pWPoktyODO13rdS7ljSbcYpNZdhkdfNhGh60Mf5ZKOCI3rU3prCR7zCJ5quCMaQhJ_JqWmqS-cyAHoZ4LHqkrwazOgtAu1K8kdo/w400-h396/26hrperth1908.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-460482240713502482021-01-23T14:19:00.000+10:002021-01-23T14:19:01.479+10:00World 24hr Road and Track rankings - 1986<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1002.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">G
Manix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">France</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">963.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">R
Zabalo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">France</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">954.4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">J
Kocourek<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1999<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Czech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">925.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">D
Mravlje<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yugoslavia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">914.4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">S Bauer</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">907.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">906.4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1992<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">904.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">J
Kocourek<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1998<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Czech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">901.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Top Ten Females<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: 4.55pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 652px;">
<tbody><tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">E Adams</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">UK</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">866.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">S Barwick</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">860.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">E Adams</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1987<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">UK</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">838.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">38<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">E Adams</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1986<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">UK</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">808.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">42<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">E Adams</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">UK</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">806.4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">45<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">D
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hudson</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1987<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">USA</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">785.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">50<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">D
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hudson</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">USA</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">775.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">63<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">E Adams</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">UK</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">751.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">73<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">C
Cameron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">738.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">97<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">S
Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">701.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">FEMALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Top Ten Australians<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: 4.55pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 652px;">
<tbody><tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Y
Kouros<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1023.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1002.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">906.4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1992<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">904.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">M
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Taylor</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">NSW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">894.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">J
Record<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1987<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">WA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">890.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 87.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="116">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 43.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 65.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">B
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1991<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="93">
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="height: 12.75pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">878.4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">18<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">D
Standeven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1988<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">SA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">860.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MALE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">G
Perdon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Victoria</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">841.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">J
Record<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1992<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">WA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">840.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-9179026931521693922021-01-02T09:42:00.005+10:002021-01-02T09:42:39.099+10:00Tom Gillis Interview - 1977<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">MAY 1977<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AUSTRALASIAN
ATHLETICS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PAGE 11<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TOM GILLIS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NSW State 50-mile champion & 'Australasian Athletics'
photographer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">interviewed by Mike Agostini on January 24, 1977<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tom, our readers
don't know enough about you. How old are you?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">36.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How long have you been
running?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I started serious running when I was about 31 or 32.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What were you doing
before that?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing—no active sport, 'cos I had asthma, see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is that why you took up running?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes. I was on tranquillisers then to relax me a bit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What made you choose
running?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, this friend of mine who used to play football said,
'You're too small for football' (I did try to play football) 'Why don't you
take up running?' Just jog 5 miles a day, he said—but it took me two years to
get up to 5 miles! I thought I'd never run 10 miles!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And how many are you
doing a day now?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over Christmas I was running 20 miles a day, 7 days a week.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">When did it first
become serious with you?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first club I ever joined, I met a fellow down at
Rushcutters Bay; I was doing my 5 miles a day—we didn't know each other, we
just used to sort of race secretly against each other, you know! And one day we
got talking and he said, 'Why don't you join Eastern Suburbs?' andsaid 'Jeez,
I'd love to!' 'cos I was getting interested by then. And he said, 'Oh, by the
way, there's a race on Saturday'—this was Thursday! So I said, 'Oh. I'm fit
enough for that, I'm running 5 miles a day.'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, the race was the annual Sydney to Lithgow relay and
of course my first run was from Katoomba—and oh boy, that's when I first
started training! Nearly killed me! I was wearing Bob Talay's shoes—I never had
any proper shoes —and they were much too small. I lost both toenails!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob and Terry Magee, I used to idolise them boys.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So let's see, you
really started at 29 years of age just working up over two years to 5 miles a
day. Yeah, that was just to get off the medical drugs<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and the smoking and drinking.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You were smoking and
drinking as well? In other words, you were a typical Percy Cerutty case—a man
sending himself downhill by his lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was a typical Australian, you could say. But even as a kid
I was always keen on sport; Emil Zatopek was a great idol of mine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Whereabouts in
England were you born?</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Blackburn in Lancashire.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How long did you live
there?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, my mother was sick so I was put in a Dr. Barnardo's
home when I was only two weeks old; then we came out here when I was 13 or 14,
with the home that was, and we went to a home at Picton.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But the homes in them days never encouraged sport.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I started running 'cos a prefect said,
'You'd be a good runner' or something, and came 2nd in our school for the mile.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then in the '56 Olympics they wanted people from different
towns to run the sections with the torch and I was doing the best time at that
stage—but I missed out for being a bad boy! But I didn't know what athletics
was all about then. I never trained, and you've got to really work at it to be
a good runner.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tom, what have you
done—besides winning the State 50-mile championship?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I came 7th in the State marathon last year; I was in the St.
George winning team.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you think you've
hit your peak yet?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh no, not by a long way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Are you aiming to be
like Jack Foster and compete at top level in your 40's?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I won't be as good as that but I want to keep getting better
as I get older. I train different to Jack Foster. I don't believe in speed work
all the time. I'm an LSD (long slow distance) man myself; haven't got much
natural speed ability but I try to be sensible. I've learnt a lot in the last
five years; you never finish learning.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let's have your
height and weight.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I'm about 5ft 9in and usually average about 10% stone—but I
think I could get under 10 stone if didn't eat so much! See, I never take
running too seriously; I train hard but I'm past the stage where I'm trying to
be a world champion. I enjoy the good things in life; I mean I don't go out
drinking and smoking but I have a drink now and then, sociable. When we go out
to tea I have a red wine, and we went to Tony Vassallo's place the other night
and had a beautiful time; great social night.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your resting
heart rate?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I've never had it tested, never got around to it, though I'd
love to go to Perce Russo and have it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">done. In England doctors come along to marathon runs and do
tests but they seem to be more interested in joggers here.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Before we start
talking about your training, what's your present occupation?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hairdresser, men's and ladies', mixed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And that's something
you've just learnt as you went along as well?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh yes. I've been everything; coalminer,builder's labourer,
sheep and wheat station-hand, dairy farmer—Jack of all trades I am! I was in
the film industry too; used to take the newsreels on a bike from Wynyard
Picturette to the State Theatre swopping the movies over—that got me fit! I
went into hairdressing 'cos I thought it'd be easy so that I could keep up the
training—but I made a blue! You're on your feet all the time and it's very
tiring.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But I don't sleep more than 6 hours a night; go to bed at 12
(I work in the darkroom evenings) and get up at half past 5, 6 o'clock. Even
when I was training for the 50-miler I might go to bed early one night in the
week if I'm tired, then I'm right.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Where do you do your
training?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On a Sunday I always go up with Ernst Krenkels and we do one
long run-24 or 25 miles at about 8-minute pace. Then the rest of the week I
usually average about 12 to 14 miles a day, in the morning, depending on how I
feel. But about six weeks before a big event I step it up, doing about 14 in
the morning and maybe a hard 3 or 4 at night.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you have a few
days off before competing?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I never have a day off but I always ease down, say 10 on the
Sunday, 5 on the Monday, 3 on the Tuesday .. .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What were your times
for the 50-mile?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6h 21m 8s in '75; 6h 6m in '76.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Any reason for the
difference?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, I wasn't fit for it in '75. The idea was Angelo Jones'
and he said, 'I can't run 'cos I'm away,' so I said, 'Well one of us has got to
finish.' There was 9 starters and after 27 miles I was the only one left, but
it was the first 50-miler and to kick it off we'd got to finish, so I finished!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">thought I'd never run again, but in fact I found that I got
very strong after that run, mentally and physically.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">/ remember reading
that you were hallucinating at one stage.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well you do, I think. You get to a stage where you know
you're going to finish but you've got to get away from it all. This year
Lindsay ran a half mile with me sometimes—he was my second —and he said, 'What
do you want to talk about?' I said, 'Look, don't talk to me, just be there.'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Actually I'd rather no one to be there, but in a 50-miler
you've got to have a second because the runners are so strung out. When I
finished in '76 the last bloke came in something like 2 hours after me!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is that the longest
race you've ever run?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So far, yes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you plan to do a
100-miler eventually?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I'm building up to it, yeah. A fellow asked me to do a
24-hour run but I said no. When it comes it comes. Takes years to build up. The
VMC are talking about a 100km next year and I'm going in that. I'm still
developing; I'm not fully extended yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tom, obviously you've
had your injuries but you ignore them generally, don't you.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, who doesn't! I'm still like most runners, don't do
enough stretching exercises and abuse the experts by not taking their advice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What about diet? What
do you normally eat</b>?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, when I'm
training for the 50-mile I think your stomach sort of calls out for food. If
I'm back early enough I'll have porridge for breakfast. You never eat before a
run?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No never; even before the 50-mile I won't eat; just might
have some honey, something like that. Milk and sugar with the porridge?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Honey usually, but I never drink milk. I like it but it
makes me sick.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Any fruit?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not a great deal; not enough in fact. For lunch I'll have
sandwiches or potato rolls. I'm a funny eater; might live on potato rolls for a
week! Tea'smy biggest meal—plenty of vegetables; and a couple of times a week I
buy one of them big apple pies and I'll eat all that too! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hobbies—besides
photography?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Running of course; and I like music.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you play any
instruments?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No, I'd love to play the piano. I've still got that to come
yet!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So as you go along,
you're developing the older you get.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yeah. As a kid I never had much, so I think I'm still
growing. Like the photography; I always wanted to when I was a kid but I didn't
start till I was about 30.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course I was an alcoholic; used to drink bottles of rum
at 14 or 15, play up quite a bit. You don't have any family in Australia then?
No; I've never seen my mother or my father. think that's maybe why I'm sort of
a funny fellow. I've got no ties; just a loner. I think you could say quite a
lot of runners are anti-social, doing their own thing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So you're not running
for the fame, you're not running to win medals, you're doing it for yourself.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That's right, Mike. When I first started I used to like to
be there to win that trophy; even if it was a team event I wanted to be in the
winning team. But now I don't. I never got a trophy for the 50-miler. The thing
for me was I won it, I organised it, I put the thing together, and that pleased
me and I was pleased to see so many people finish, but I wanted to give them
something.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We spent a lot of money on that race and a lot of it come
out of my own pocket. Four hundred dollars it cost us all told, and I put about
$150 or $200 into it. We gave them all singlets—this is where we made a
mistake. When we started we said, no one's to run it unless they've run a
marathon and when they read there was a singlet involved they were happy. It
only cost them $2.50 and singlets are near $4! Next time everyone that finishes
gets a singlet; 3rd of October it is, the holiday weekend. And they all got a
medallion; same as the City-to-Surf type, not those cheap ones you get at State
Championships.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What's the course?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Start from the Town Hall and goes to Stanwell Tops near
Helensburgh—last year, that is. It's 30 miles 500 metres to there, then you
turn round and finish at Sylvania Waters track.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What's your best
marathon time?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.37.46, last year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A marathon must be
easy for you now!<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not easy, no! I went in the Canberra one and boy, that was
hard; 2.56 I did. No, nothing's easy, Mike—you know that yourself. Some days
it's easy and some days it's hard. They're different races, you know. In the 50
I ran better halfway than I did in the Canberra marathon; a bit under 2.56 I
was, and it was a lot hillier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You must be looking
forward to turning 40 when you can run in the veterans.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That's what I'm really looking forward to. A lot of runners
give it up; they say, 'What's the use?', but not me. I've built my way up from
being nothing when I started and now I'm at the stage where I'm in between and
I just want to keep it going.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What do you think
distance running of the kind that you do needs in Australia most of all?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It needs promotion;
and I think there's too much red tape. That 50-miler we put on there was no
officialism; it was a friendly, basic thing—and that's what athletics should
be.<o:p></o:p></p>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-81530824368544250452021-01-02T09:38:00.000+10:002021-01-02T09:38:00.456+10:00Coburg 24hr - 1992<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOB5AE5hlNXFiXljjT-PICOSexv5dLQVy87hx0FeQ5f_lkWwYi-7goym7xOOJxeCSX5bpQ9Xp9u4-kHYyHXAo4y9E8-BucKtwTd7KPdYHtFQO_8gKwNhbB6cUGMgcxyhbzI9DOoqw8tMw/s1417/coburg92c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1417" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOB5AE5hlNXFiXljjT-PICOSexv5dLQVy87hx0FeQ5f_lkWwYi-7goym7xOOJxeCSX5bpQ9Xp9u4-kHYyHXAo4y9E8-BucKtwTd7KPdYHtFQO_8gKwNhbB6cUGMgcxyhbzI9DOoqw8tMw/w640-h426/coburg92c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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white-space: pre-wrap;">Australia’s First Plus 100 Mile Race - Tasmania in 1840 – by Phil Essam The first recorded 100 mile plus race between two or more competitors in Australia can be traced early 1840 when Launceston Surveyor, Felix Wakefield and Launceston Solicitor, Edmund Stillwell raced from Launceston to David Solomon’s property over 60 miles away and return . The race took over forty hours and fifteen minutes with ten hours and eight minutes being deducted for a break. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is not known what led to this race occurring, but it appeared that Wakefield was struggling with his Surveying work at that time and Had taken up gambling to make ends meet. Not much was known of Stillwell at the time, from my research he was appearing to be a fairly busy Solicitor with the work he was getting at the time. Perhaps they met in a Public House where Wakefield was boasting on what he could achieve and Stillwell thought he could beat him. </span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">The race commenced at 3am on the Monday morning from Launceston and it was quite good to see the accurate timing for the stops on the way along the Midlands. The half way point was at David Solomon’s property and was reached in just over 20 hours. Stillwell retired from the race at Thornhills which is about the 100 mile mark and Wakefield went on to finish the effort in just over 40 hours and 15 minutes to a packed crowd waiting for him at the finish line.</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is not known how much money exchanged hands for this effort, but it is believed that another race was held a week later as Stillwell was not happy with the result and the same result was to occur with Wakefield winning in a very similar time and Stillwell withdrawing before the end. 100 pounds was exchanged over the result of this match. Betting and gambling was to become a familiar theme in Australian Pedestrian History.</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">What became of Wakefield and Stillwell ? Felix Wakefield was to leave Tasmania a few years later in disgrace and return to England before having his passage paid to New Zealand and it is believed that Stillwell became a pastoralist in Tasmania and passed away about two decades later.</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">Even though the walking rate was comparatively slow even for established pedestrian results of the time ( in England and America), these two are credited for staging the first known Ultra race on Australian soil</span></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: #242526; clear: both; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5f9aTcElbpwIv9XnxI1PiX-0-pvgGyqE2DZ5Nc2KXwSyWiIwysLTluFfM53Pq92zlhofW1dPn_X4WIko54ruFcOed2lniel83PkpQKdmjkn-7reGTobbQBf3FLUC7Hzg1BbNcZN-OV4/s320/72380244_10157497584277207_5906352103911063552_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit;"><br />soil which was plus 100 miles as well.</span></div></div>Australian Ultramarathon Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667326759141761586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041997282203704212.post-58416802825548800822020-12-31T11:20:00.006+10:002020-12-31T11:20:53.389+10:00Melbourne 50 mile track Fun Run - 1980<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik5ITgiiGcMy7gcrYVuoJHfyN5bCTdnEnTe4XOtlqFkqxMcWh4zhK2I1N3-84Mfj6SwhMa4ZQBzhHSkSBD_V4I172KzYgeix1lJo4SgXI45M-qX5EY8lfda-GmbnoC39x1J5YMcWLJUVc/s1113/50miles1980.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="1113" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik5ITgiiGcMy7gcrYVuoJHfyN5bCTdnEnTe4XOtlqFkqxMcWh4zhK2I1N3-84Mfj6SwhMa4ZQBzhHSkSBD_V4I172KzYgeix1lJo4SgXI45M-qX5EY8lfda-GmbnoC39x1J5YMcWLJUVc/w640-h114/50miles1980.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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