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Hunt wins 25th Three Peaks and weekend roundup

New Zealand performances locally and from around the world

DUNEDIN
Tom Hunt won the 25th anniversary running of the Three Peaks Mountain Race. Hunt recorded 2h 4m 51s for the 26km tough hilly course over Flagstaff, Swampy Summit and Mt Cargill. Axel Reiser was second with Mike Wakelin third.
Sue Cuthbert won the women's section in 2h 24m 35s.
Aaron Strong holds the race record of 1h 53m 16s set in 1995, while Sarah Chisnall set the women's record of 2h 9m 4s last year.

BEIJING
Tony Sargisson finished 12th in the 50km road walk in Beijing. Sargisson, aiming for the Olympic Games selection time of 3h 57m, recorded 4h 15m 10s.
Sargisson was in control of the race up to 32km and was on target to achieve a qualifying time. However the conditions and hard surface, meant that most of the competitors ended up walking slower than their estimated times.

ZURICH
A week after winning the New Zealand mountain running title, Jonathan Wyatt finished 15th in the Zurich marathon in 2h 23m 6s. Wyatt, aiming for the Olympic selection time of 2h 15m, was through the half-way in 1h 9m 21s. The Zurich marathon was won by Oleg Kulkov of Russia in 2h 11m 15s.

WALNUT - CALIFORNIA
Top performances posted by New Zealand athletes at the Mt Sac Relay meeting at the Hilmer Lodger Stadium were Jason Woolhouse 13m 35.71s 5000m, Fiona Crombie 10m 3.06s 3000m steeplechase, Max Smith 3m 45.94s 1500m, Hayden McLaren 3m 46.39s 1500m, Liza Hunter-Galvan 33m 48.09s 10,000m, Dana Hastie 34m 14.53s 10,000m, Tim Hodge 14m 10.50s 5000m, Edwin Henshaw 14m 19.50s 5000m, Dale Summerville 14m 27.92s 5000m, Holly Van Dalen 16m 32.63s 5000m and Daniel Wallis 3m 55.40s 1500m.

FAYETTEVILLE - ARKANSAS
Napier's Ashley Aitken, representing Tulsa, finished fifth in the 800m in 2m 8.83s at the John McDonnell Invitational meeting. This run qualified her for the NCAA Midwest Championship in May.

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