• The Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon was an annual ultramarathon foot race held between 1983 and 1991. It was sponsored by the Westfield Group...
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  • Cliff Young (athlete) (category Australian ultramarathon runners)
    he became notable for his unexpected win of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61 years of age. Young was born the eldest son...
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    Yiannis Kouros (category Australian ultramarathon runners)
    running. Kouros came to prominence when he won the Spartathlon in 1984 in record time and the Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1985 in a record time...
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    An ultramarathon is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 mi 385 yd). The sport of running ultramarathons is...
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  • (Sussex), football club in Westfield, East Sussex Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon, a former marathon race Westfield Group, a retail property...
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    farmer who won the 1981 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultramarathon at age 61 because he didn't realize the other runners would be stopping to sleep. Finke River –...
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  • Peter Quirk (category Australian ultramarathon runners)
    previous week, when Sydney scored 201 against the West Coast Eagles. He finished third in the 1990 Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon. Holmesby, Russell;...
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  • Cliff Young Australian 6-day race (category Ultramarathons in Australia)
    of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Westfield's Ultramarathon in May 1983. After Cliff Young (a potato farmer) won the ultramarathon in 1983, the City...
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  • 81, Australian potato farmer and long distance runner, won Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61, cancer. Derk Bodde, 94, American sinologist...
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  • inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon using an interesting running method now nicknamed "the Cliff Young Shuffle". Hill was noted to be acting erratically...
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  • backdrop to life in the bush". R.M. Williams Outback (68): 30–44. Retrieved 1 January 2016. Oxford Companion to Australian sport (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford...
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  • Multiday races are ultramarathon running events which are typically either segmented into daily events of a specified distance or time, or staged so that...
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    Australian potato farmer and ultramarathon runner who finished first overall to win the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at the age of 61...
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    Bearer for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and the recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2002 for services to Ultramarathon Running and...
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  • Eleanor Robinson (category British ultramarathon runners)
    1947) is a British former ultramarathon runner and two-time winner of the IAU 100km World Championships. She was the first woman to run over 150 miles in...
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    by Europeans. Each year in December, an ultramarathon running race called the Coast to Kosciuszko ascends to the top of Mount Kosciuszko after starting...
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    Yuki Kawauchi (category Japanese ultramarathon runners)
    (averaging a marathon per month) ranging in distance from the 1500 m to the 50 km ultramarathon. Among his better performances are victories at the Boston Marathon...
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  • Association (formerly the UltraMarathon Cycling Association). Tommy Godwin rode 8,583 miles (13,813 km) in July 1939, on his way to setting the World Endurance...
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  • Sydney’s Host City Marathon, a trial event prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2007, he claimed his first marathon title by winning the Melbourne Marathon...
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    Andrew Leigh (category Sydney Law School alumni)
    education were in Sydney, Melbourne, Malaysia and Indonesia before completing secondary education at James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, New South...
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  • ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup Continental Men: Fan Zhendong Women: Zhu Yuling 6–16 Ultramarathon 2018 Marathon des Sables International Men: Rachid El Morabity Women:...
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  • David Gething (category Australian ultramarathon runners)
    ultramarathoner based in Hong Kong. He was born in Melbourne but raised in Sydney before moving to Perth for university. Relentless is the story of his...
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    just four months before. This feat has since been eclipsed by Irish ultramarathon runner Richard Donovan who in 2009 completed seven marathons on seven...
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    cast included the ultramarathon runner Samantha Gash, who formed a relationship with Wales during filming. This proved detrimental to both competitors—being...
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  • barrier". The Age. Melbourne: Fairfax Media. Retrieved 15 April 2014. Magnay, Jacquelin (6 May 2003). "9.93: Johnson dashes into history". Sydney Morning Herald...
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    2010). Road access to town is via the Great Alpine Road connecting to the Melbourne to Sydney Hume Freeway about 75 kilometres (47 mi) to the northwest or...
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  • in the Kimberley Ultramarathon, an endurance cross country footrace. The Wilderness Society has led a campaign to protest a proposal to industrialise the...
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    Australian rules footballer, born and raised in Warwick Dion Leonard, ultramarathon runner and international bestselling author, grew up in Warwick Patrick...
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  • National Football League (NFL) - 2× Super Bowl champion Dean Karnazes - ultramarathon champion, writer, businessman Alex Karras - NFL player with the Detroit...
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    Deborah De Williams (category Australian ultramarathon runners)
    October 2003, De Williams left Melbourne, Victoria to attempt to become the first female to walk around Australia and to break the longest continuous walk...
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