27 Apr 2025
Central Coast
Beginner-friendly event for ladies. 10 km ride, 4 km run, 2 km kayak
East Gippsland Challenge Results 2017
The severe weather forecasts split the field into two halfes - the one that turned up, and the other one that did not. AJ team took calculated desicion to run event, and it was great success. Luckily competition did not get less fierce as all the main competitors were in the first half of the field.
Event was taken over by relay team Tri-X Performance, with young gun and raising star Tom Fisher demolishing the bike leg. First individual across the line was local elite adventurer Tim Boote. He was not short of competition with Rob Preston from Traralgon and Ian Franzke from Mt Beauty hot on his heels taken second and third. Wendy McAlpine blasted through the course ahead of most of the male field to win innaguaral East Gippsland Adventure Challenge
O-Duathlon as predicted had main heat in females race, with multiple mountain bike orienteering world champion, Carolyn Jackson vs local adventure star and foot orienteering Australian team member Kathryn Preston. Carolyn Jackson managed to secure the overall win leaving Kathryn with close second
See results details and splits here>>
Multisport event
| Bib | Team Name | Category | Division | Name | RACE TIME | Overall position |
Category Position | Division Position |
| 14 | Tri-X Performance | Relay team | Male | Brad Fisher Tom Fisher John Morton |
3:15:15 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | Individual male | Open | Tim Boote | 3:15:41 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 42 | Individual male | Open | Rob Preston | 3:26:17 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| 40 | Individual male | Veteran (over 40) | Ian Franzke | 3:33:14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| 22 | Individual male | Open | Jarrod Peachey | 3:44:58 | 5 | 4 | 3 | |
| 21 | Individual male | Veteran (over 40) | Paul Young | 3:57:33 | 6 | 5 | 2 | |
| 39 | Individual male | Veteran (over 40) | Alan Leenaerts | 4:04:28 | 7 | 6 | 3 | |
| 45 | Individual male | Open | James Rush | 4:04:30 | 8 | 7 | 4 | |
| 23 | Individual male | Open | Rodney Smith | 4:09:48 | 9 | 8 | 5 | |
| 31 | Individual female | Open | Wendy Mcalpine | 4:11:47 | 10 | 1 | 1 | |
| 36 | Individual male | Vintage (over 50) | Simon Vandestadt | 4:15:27 | 11 | 9 | 1 | |
| 41 | Individual male | Vintage (over 50) | Eric Van Doorn | 4:24:45 | 12 | 10 | 2 | |
| 35 | Individual male | Open | Paul Smith | 4:34:51 | 13 | 11 | 6 | |
| 33 | Individual male | Veteran (over 40) | Wayne Davey | 4:48:45 | 14 | 12 | 4 | |
| 15 | Allan & Kirsty | AR Duo | Mixed | Kirsty Garlick Allan Flick |
5:01:27 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
| 32 | Individual male | Vintage (over 50) | Rick Whitehouse | 5:02:08 | 16 | 13 | 3 | |
| 12 | Sara & Kate | Relay team | Female | Sara Morse Kate Elphic Kate Elphic |
5:07:54 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| 37 | Individual male | Open | Michael Ponting | 5:09:52 | 18 | 14 | 7 | |
| 26 | Individual male | Veteran (over 40) | Matt Young | 5:25:01 | 19 | 15 | 5 | |
| 13 | Old Mate Racing - A | AR Duo | Male | Chris Brady Michael Brady |
6:23:28 | 20 | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | Old Mate Racing - B | AR Duo | Male | Malcolm Stone Greg Stannard |
6:23:28 | 21 | 2 | 1 |
O-Duathlon
| Bib | Category | Division | Name | RACE TIME | CP Penalties | CORRECTED TIME | Overall position |
Category Position | Division Position |
| 46 | O-Duo | Female | Carolyn Jackson | 2:28:00 | 0:00:00 | 2:28:00 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 54 | O-Duo | Female | Kathryn Preston | 2:35:57 | 0:00:00 | 2:35:57 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 53 | O-Duo | Female | Tegan Belfrage | 2:59:10 | 0:00:00 | 2:59:10 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 58 | O-Duo | Male | Tim Boote | 2:59:13 | 0:00:00 | 2:59:13 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 47 | O-Duo | Male | Ash Crawford | 3:28:32 | 0:00:00 | 3:28:32 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 50 | Foot | Male | Misha Svyatitskiy | 3:16:19 | 2:20:00 | 5:36:19 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 52 | Foot | Male | Nick Svyatitskiy | 3:16:28 | 2:20:00 | 5:36:28 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
