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Commonwealth 10,000m bronze medallist Mara Yamauchi heads Great
Britain's challenge at the World Road-Running Championships in
Hungary on 8 October.

Yamauchi is joined by Susan Partridge, former Australian athlete
Natalie Harvey and Wendy Jones, who must first prove her fitness

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/5316462.stm

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IAAF Golden League
Sunday 3 September 2006

Berlin, Germany - Six athletes came away with a share of the $1
Million IAAF Golden League Jackpot in front of a crowd of 48,101
spectators during this afternoon's DKB-ISTAF Berlin, the finale of
the IAAF Golden League 2006. But there were one or two surprises
along the way especially the unexpected defeat of Tirunesh Dibaba in
the women's 5000m.

http://www.iaaf.org/GLE06/news/Kind=2/newsId=36058.html

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Brichacek smashes course record in Mt Ainslie Run Up, Tuesday 5 September

Emily Brichacek of Weston Creek Athletics Club today smashed her own
course record in finishing second outright in the Mt Ainslie Run Up
in Canberra. Brichacek, better known as a track athlete who last year
set a new Australian under 16 record for the 3,000m of 9:08, clocked
11 mins 48 secs to become the first female to better 12 minutes for
the 2.3km ascent of Mt Ainslie with an elevation gain of over 200m.
Two weeks ago she clocked 12:27 to cut a few seconds from Jackie
Fairweather's record in her debut run over the course.

Second fastest was Emily's mother Jenny in 14:20 and ultra distance
trail running champion Vanessa Haverd was third in 14:30.

Former Australian rogaining champion Adrian Sheppard was first in
11:31, equalling David Osmond's record of 25 wins in the run up.
Former Australian M45 duathlon champion Simon Claringbold was second
fastest male in 12:15 and Peter Young was third in 12:24.

Males: 1 Adrian Sheppard 11.31, 2 Simon Claringbold 12.15, 3 Peter
Young 12.24, 4 Scott Imhoff 12.36, 5 Trevor Jacobs 12.39, 6 David
Baldwin 13.13, 7 Norak Theam 13.21, 8 Paul Veldkamp 13.24, 9 Joel
Saunders 13.58, 10 Paul Blessington 14.10, 11 Anthony Olliffe 14.20,
12 Christophe Vial 14.24, 13 Ian Wright 14.30, 14 Trent Birkett
14.33, 15 Steve Appleby 14.52, 16 James Savill 15.46, 17 Alex Kearns
15.58, 18 Steve Barwick 16.31, 19 Tony Beasley 16.50, 20 Andrew
Bowman 17.23, 21 Geoff Barker 18.10, 22 Michael Burt 18.46, 23
Demetrios Pandouras 20.04, 24 Murali Nayudi 22.46.

Females: 1 Emily Brichacek 11.48 (record), 2 Jenny Brichacek 14.20, 3
Vanessa Haverd 14.30, 4 Julie Quinn 15.08, 5 Caroline Campbell 19.59.

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MS Fun Run/Walk Canberra

10.00am Sunday
10th September, 2006

http://www.ms.org.au/funrunwalk/index.htm

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Regards

Doug Fry

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