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>Canberra Half Marathon

>From: "kene" <kene@...>
>
>Good Afternoon All,
>
>Our results guru Mick Corlis is working hard to get the results out as
>quick as possible. We just have a few checks to make and all should be okay.
>
>We had 414 finishers and the top five men were:
>Anthony Haber 67.46; John Winsbury 72.09; Gareth Halverson 75.13; Dave
>Osmond 75.55; and Adrian Sheppard 77.10.
>
>Top five Lades were;
>Kirra Rankin 81.44; Michelle Wu 85.09; Vanessa Haverd 87.21; Narelle
>Patrick 88.32; and Kim Rowe 89.23.
>
>Veteran Categories
>W35 Kim Rowe 1.29.23; W40 Narelle Patrick 1.28.32; W45 Miriam McCarthy
>1.38.32; W50 Maria O'Reilly, W55 Margaret McSpadden 2.02.23; W60 Norma
>Lindemann 2.09.55 and W65 Jenny Odgers 2.15.38.
>Male> M40 Anthony Perry 1.17.27; W45 Geoff Hawke 1.18.33; W50 Trevor
>Jacobs 1.17.40; M55 Bob Harlow 1.28.34 (Alan Towill did same time in same
>age cat but was just behind bob at finish); M60 Colin Bridge 1.28.25; M65
>Peter Kallio 1.27.55; M70 Marco Falzarano 2.00.10 and M75 Michael Freer
>2.03.45. Prizes not presented on the day will be awarded in due course.
>
>NB.
>Peter Kallio broke the 1990 M65 record by just over 2 minutes. Peter is
>about 13 months of turning 70. Most age records are broken by vets
>entering the new category. Peter's time equates to about 4 minutes 15 per
>kilometre. Peter now holds the M55, M60 and M65 records.
>Peter finish 55th outright.
>
>Cheers, best wishes and thank you to all our competitors,
>
>Ken Eynon
>Race Director

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De Reuck wins USA 25km Championship
Sunday 15 May 2005

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=29371.html

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Saturday, 14 May, 2005

Former Olympic 5,000m champion Gabriela Szabo has announced her retirement
from competitive athletics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4546811.stm

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Ocean race a winner
Ron Reed, 16may05,

TO THE surprise of nobody, the Kenyans cornered the cash from yesterday's
first Great Ocean Road international marathon, and they'll be back for more
next year.

http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15300452%255E14822,00.html

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German sets Fremantle to Sydney running record
May 15, 2005 - 4:33PM

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/German-sets-charity-run-record/2005/05/15/11\
16095844453.html?oneclick=true

(Thanks to Mike Hurst for drawing attention to this item.)

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New Zealand Mountain Running Championships
15 May 2005

Race Report

Wellington's Melissa Moon and Christchurch's Phil Costley claimed the first
spots for the New Zealand team in the World Mountain Running Trophy to be
held in Wellington when they dominated the national championships in the
Capital today.

http://www.mountainrunning.org.nz/news.html#111613569255460027

Results

http://www.mountainrunning.org.nz/results.html

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Regards

Doug Fry




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