Results: 2000 NZ Mountain Running Champs

Results: NZ Mountain Running Championships

08 April 2000

Altimarloch - Black Birch Range in the Awatere Valley, S. of Blenheim
Hawkes Bays Phil Costley made easy work of this year's championship held in ideal conditions on the slopes of Altimarloch in the Lower Awatere Valley. Costley was never under pressure over the demanding 12km course making easy of the rough terrain and cool temperatures to steadily pull away from Kawerau's Aaron Strong. Costley covered the 1696m vertical climb in an outstanding time of 1 hr 6 min. The battle for 2nd place was keenly fought between Strong and Taumaranui's Callum Harland with only 11 seconds separating the two positions. In a desperate dash for the line Strong managed to hold onto 2nd place in the face of a courageous challenge from Harland.

Burnham's Karen Murphy showed she is no stranger to mountain running leading home the womens field in an impressive time of 51.28 over the 7.5 Km. Murphy had close company for the duration however in the form of another Kawerau runner Megan Edhouse who finished 19 seconds back in 51.47. Wellington's Carline Macdonald took 3rd place in 54.43.

A strong field of Junior Men faced the starter with Wellington's Glenn Hughes showing the national selectors his ability, convincingly winning the event by nearly 1 min over fellow Wellingtonian James Coubrough. Hamilton athlete Stephen Smith took 3rd place.

A long trip from Thames proved profitable for Junior Woman Chris Tye winning her division comfortably in 55.53 over Jane Nalder from Nelson.

An excellent days racing in testing conditions which will benefit those athletes hoping to attain national selection.

Maurice Brown
Race Convenor

Men 12km - 1700m climb

RACE NO	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	TIME	CM	OM	VM
120	Phil	Costley	1 06 45	1	1
103	Aaron	Strong	1 09 02	2	2
118	Callum	Harland	1 09 13	3	3
108	Wayne	Atkins	1 09 49	4	4
110	Reon	Rollo	1 10 23	5	5
104	Michael	Wakelin	1 11 04	6	6
138	Paul	Forster	1 11 43	7	7
111	Patrick	Meffan	1 12 36	8		1
137	Andre	Reyer	1 14 10	9	8
123	Michael	Moreu	1 14 55	10	9
119	Alastair	Snowden	1 15 07	11	10
126	Martin	Macdonald	1 15 41	12	11
117	Paul	Morrow	1 15 58	13	12
124	Alastair	Monro	1 16 22	14	13
135	David	Rush	1 18 40	15	14
121	Andrew	Town	1 19 16	16	15
131	Philip	Sim	1 19 55	17		2
114	Allan	Sinclair	1 20 22	18		3
109	Chris	Morrissey	1 20 36	19	16
122	Brian	Adams	1 22 24	20	17
105	Stuart	Hodgkiss	1 23 43	21	18
112	Peter	Dick	1 24 26	22	19
129	Dennis	Patchett	1 26 13	23		4
116	Allister	Leach	1 26 49	24		5
128	Murray	Hart	1 28 41	25		6
113	Philip	Morton	1 31 03	26	20
106	Andrew	Barker	1 31 38	27		7
127	Elton	Merrin	1 37 31	28		8
115	Murray	Black	1 38 19	29	21
107	Steve	Markham	1 42 19	30		9
136	Greg	Forester	1 45 46	31	22
125	Steve	Prosser	1 46 14	32	23
132	Graeme	Andrews	1 47 59	33		10
134	Walter	Elder	1 48 33	34		11
139	Andrew	Wells	1 48 49	35	24
101	Alan	Holdaway	1 56 08	36		12
102	Don	Fockler	2 02 24	37		13
133	Mike	McManaway	DNF	38	25

Women 8km

RACE NO	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	TIME	CW	OW	VW
202	Karen	Murphy	0 51 28	1	1
201	Megan	Edhouse	0 51 47	2	2
206	Carline	Macdonald	0 54 43	3		1
204	Mary	O'Connor	0 56 18	4		2
205	Yvonne	Tapp	0 56 30	5	3
203	Susan	Aviss	0 59 37	6	4
214	Marg	McKenzie	1 00 24	7	5
210	Lyn	Moore	1 03 34	8		3
211	Helen	Chittenden	1 04 33	9	6
207	Brenda	Fortune	1 04 56	10		4
208	Elizabeth	Eskrick	1 13 49	11		5
213	Karen	Evans	1 16 36	12	7
209	Ros	D'Agnilli	1 17 55	13		6
215	Suzanne	Marfell	1 23 30	14		7
212	Alison	Brook	1 29 00	15		8

Juniors & Recreational Runners 8km

RACE NO	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	TIME	JM	JW	REC
303	Glenn	Hughes	0 47 33	1
307	James	Coubrough	0 48 16	2
312	Stephen	Smith	0 49 22	3
302	Graeme	Stone	0 50 30	4
306	Jason	Brown	0 53 26	5
305	Stuart	Kerr	0 54 29	6
301	Jason	Creswell	0 54 38	7
401	Chris	Tye	0 55 53		1
310	Christopher	Hart	1 00 25	8
309	Alex	Fletcher	1 01 59	9
308	Tristan	Rodway	1 04 06	10
502	Sandra	Steingrimsson	1 06 20			1
304	Shaun	Gribbon	1 06 53	11
311	Hamish	Macdonald	1 06 53	12
402	Jane	Nalder	1 13 45		2

Report and results supplied by: Geoff Handley