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Last weekend a dozen very keen Piranhas tackled the ACT Duathlon Championships at Stromlo Forest Park.

Both the Standard and Sprint distance races were qualifying events for the Australian team bound for the 2024 Multisport World Championships in Townsville.

Sprint distance 2.5km run, 20km bike and 5km run

Sam Bayada       1^st in M12-15     1:10:30

Will Robinson       2^nd in M12-15      1:22:02

Tess McKeown      1^st in F12-15      1:29:57

Will Ward         2^nd in M16-19     1:16:07

Amy Robinson      2^nd in F16-19     1:31:12

Liesel Haberecht    4^th in F20-24      2:08:28

Tristan Harrison     3^rd in M30-34     1:24:03

Sue Dean          2^nd in F45-49     1:23:07 (5^th female overall)

Tim Robinson       2^nd  in M45-49      1:08:07 (4^th male overall)

Shona Hart           5^th in F50-54        1:29:31

Bianca de Swardt    Unfortunately a DNF but was in top 3 for 2/3^rd of race before a bike malfunction

Standard distance 5km run, 40km bike and 10km run

Sonia Commins     2^nd in F50-54      3:03:04

A number of OTC Members ran the various distances or helped out the Lonely Mountain Ultra on Saturday last weekend (Mt Canobolas and surrounds).

On offer was the gruelling 104km, 50 mile, 50km, 30km, 22km, 11km, 4km and 2km with over 1000 runners registered.

The best performance for our club was Emma Fessey in the 22km event, who took out 1^st place in her age group and 3^rd female overall in 2:04:19

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Congrats to all of our Piranhas!

Now is a good time to become a member of Australia Triathlon and Orange Tri Club by following this link to membership – the earlier you join the more value you get from your membership! We have another duathlon on 05 Nov and then Mudgee Interclub on Sun 19 Nov. Join now and no entry fees for the rest of the season!

Regular readers will note a different lok for the weekly newsletter – we are having a small technical issue with our newsletter distribution. We are working on the fix, so it has a slightly different look as we send out manually.

Thanks, Dave