TELSTRA Australian Mountain Running Championships
Mt Tennent, ACT
Saturday 29 April
Weather: Overcast, still, about 16 degrees.
World long distance mountain running champion Emma Murray won her first Australian mountain running title with a three minute victory in today's Telstra Australian Mountain Running Championships on Mt Tennent near Tharwa in the ACT. Murray clocked a world class 49 mins 27secs for the 8.3km course with 850m in elevation gain. The surprise of the race was her South Canberra Tuggeranong clubmate Jessamy Hosking who finished second in 52:32 after running hot on Murray's heels during the first few kilometres. Third was Sydney runner Cindy King of Randwick Botany in 53:01.
North Canberra Gungahlin Athletics Club's Scott McTaggart successfully defended his 2005 Australian title when he took out the men's 12 kilometre race in 54:50. Sydney's Jeremy Horne was second in 56:23 and Wollongong's Stephen Brown third in 58:10. McTaggart led the field in last year's world championship for the first kilometre before fading to 28th.
Wollongong's Ryan Gregson blitzed the Junior Men's 8.3kms in 44:54, with Gosford runners David Mainwaring and Dominic Perry next in 45:34 and 46:30 respectively.
The Junior Women's 6kms was won by Victorian Triathlon Squad member Charlotte McShann in 44:02. Canberra's Hillory Davis was second in 45:33 and Alice Shann of Geelong Grammar School was third in 46:06.
Veterans’ results:
M35 12kms: 1 Stuart Doyle 58:13, 2 Richard Roberts 62:30, 3 Raoul Lescher 65:12
M40 12kms: 1 Anthony Scott 61:14, 2 Geoff Monro 69:15, 3 Tony Swan 77:52
M45 12kms: 1 Mick Corlis 72:20, 2 Frank McShane 73:27, 3 Paul Blessington 77:48
M50 6kms: 1 Trevor Jacobs 36:11, 2 Graham Barralet 37:52, 3 Milton Valentine 39:11
M55 6kms: 1 Peter Clarke 42:46, 2 Kevin Wills 42:51, 3 John Kennedy 44:16
M60 6kms: 1 Bruce Wilson 46:41
M65 6kms: 1 Lachlan Lewis 65:49
M70 6kms: 1 Robert Chapman 51:42, 2 Ludwig Herpich 53:45, 3 Tony Krantzcke 58:09
M75 6kms: 1 Max Scherleitner 75:09
W35 8.3kms: 1 Emma Adams 65:41
W40 8.3kms: 1 Hubertein Wichers 56:36, 2 Colleen Beven 61:17
W45 8.3kms: 1 Carol Harding 65:57, 2 Prue Bradford 78:05
W50 6kms: 1 Michele Davis 47:07, 2 Anne McNeill 53:59
W55 6kms: 1 Kay Pendlebury 47:48
W60 6kms: 1 Caroline Campbell 55:21
Released by:
John Harding
President
Australian Mountain Running Association
42 Stanley St
Hackett ACT 2602
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