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Official Wrap Up

Andrew Connolly / 07.10.2007

Possibly the strongest adventure racing / multisport field ever assembled in Australia toed a start line featuring multiple World Champion Richard Ussher from New Zealand, Australia’s great hope and race favourite Guy Andrews, and winner of the 2006 sprint Australian Championships Jarad Kohlar. The elite field was deep though with as many as 10 competitors in the individual race a realistic chance of standing on the podium, not the least Gold Coast 4th placed finisher Simon Manson and local triathlete and multiple Gloucester Mountain Man winner Boyd Conrick.

The women’s field featured Christie Sym who had only been beaten once in the history of these races, and her conqueror on that day – Karla Gilbert at Lorne last year – was absent again, pregnant with her first child. Queensland’s Kim Beckinsale presented the only real obstacle in Christie’s path to the $5,000 winner’s cheque.

The format was new: back-to-back “normal� Anaconda Adventure Races, with cumulative times from the two days counting towards the overall time. Over 300 athletes converged on Forster for 10 stages over 2 days and 112km off the beaten track based in the spectacular Great Lakes region of Forster, NSW, Australia

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