Julian Dent made it a clean sweep of victories in Oceania Championship week by winning the Long Distance event at Boboyan Divide on Saturday. It was not his most convincing effort, but with his most likely challengers, Dave Shepherd and Simon Uppill, also having poor runs, it was good enough to win by a minute. Kerrin Rattray was second in the best elite result of his career so far, with Uppill in third place.

As they had done in the ACT Long Championships the previous weekend, less than a minute separated Grace Elson and Jo Allison, and once again Elson emerged victorious. They were comfortably clear of the rest of the field, with Tracy Bluett making up the placings five minutes back.

Lizzie Ingham continued the New Zealand domination of W20, but an excellent run by Morten Neve gave the locals joy in M20 for the first time this week.

Australia took out the Individual Challenge over New Zealand by 20 classes to 4. New Zealand took out M20, W20, M60 and W60 but Australia were victorious in all other classes.

The competition week finishes tomorrow with the Oceania Relays, which will also be the Australia-NZ Relay Challenge.