For our international visitors:<\/p>\n
You may have noticed that on our website www.UltraNed.org we
\nfollowed the Spartathlon ‘live’ by frequent telephone calls by the
\nparents of one of the participants from The Netherlands. These
\ncalls were forwarded by email by his wife (here in Utrecht) to the
\nUN editors. In the course of the race, it so happened that this
\nDutch guy Jeffry Oonk finished third! (in 27 hours).<\/p>\n
We understood only the nationality of the first two finishers: the
\nwinner was from Japan, and no 2 is from Austria (Oesterreich), (not
\nfrom Australia as Jef’s parents firstly thought). Sorry that we have
\nno names sofar. You could keep track on a possible more detailed
\nresult on both http:\/\/www.ultramarathonworld.com (hoping that
\nsomeone like Keith Ledgard will soon email something to David
\nBlaikie) and here at www.ultraned.org
\n NB UltraNed editor\/provider Tom Hendriks was a participant
\nhimself (but unfortunately had to quit after 118 km), so we hope
\nthat he will recover soon from the disappointment and will visit an
\ninternet cafe and supply some more info in the course of the day.<\/p>\n
The official Spartathlon website is http:\/\/spartathlon.webvista.net
\n but we guess that the organizers are still very busy with the race
\nitself (the cutoff is 36 hours) and we expect that complete results
\nwill not be published today.<\/p>\n
Some info on the Dutch runners:<\/p>\n
Jeffry Oonk (31) is the rookie among the five participants from The
\nNetherlands in this edition of the Spartahlon. But this spring he
\nalready delivered his visiting card by finishing second in the Jan
\nKnippenberg Memorial, the (nearly) 100 miles along the beach of
\nHolland. He also finished fourth in the ‘Trail du Menhirs’ 100 km in France this May.<\/p>\n
Wim-Bart Knol (38) was in fifth position in the Spartathlon this
\nmorning but had vanished from the course at the time that Oonk had finished and Dutch
\nsupporter Veron Lust and dropout Ron Teunisse went back on the
\nroute to look for Wim-Bart. It turned out that he quit the race after over 200 km.
\n Wim-Bart was three times winner of the Jan Knippenberg
\nMemorial (1997, 1998, 2000) and runnerup in the 120 km of Texel(1995).<\/p>\n
Experienced Ron Teunisse (50), in the past already twice runnerup
\nin the Spartathlon and also shared fourth with Wim Epskamp some
\nyears ago, quit the race last night. He is winner of the first editions
\nof the 120 km of Texel (1993, 1995) and of the first edition of the
\nJan Knippenberg Memorial (1996). He is still the national Dutch
\nrecord holder on the 24 hrs (261.475 km, Apeldoorn 1990). After
\nstaying out of competition for several years, Ron made a
\ncomeback this year, finishing third in the Jan Knippenberg
\nMemorial and second in the Frisian Eleven Cities 205 km.<\/p>\n
Rut Zoutman (43) was this years’ winner of the Jan Knippenberg
\nMemorial. Nearly three years ago, in the MillenniumRun 200 km
\naround part of the IJssel Lake, he was fourth behind Paul Beckers
\n(B; 18.13.26), Wim Epskamp (NL) and Anatoli Laputs (Rus), in
\n22.30.10.<\/p>\n
For Tom Hendriks (45) this was his debut in the Spartathlon (as it
\nwas for Jeffry and Rut). The longest race sofar for Tom was the
\nFrisian Eleven Cities 205 km (premiere June 2002), where he
\nbecame fourth.<\/p>\n
Responsible editor: Martien Baars, baars-kliphuis@hetnet.nl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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