Australia wrapped up the Oceania Championships week with a strong win in the Australia-New Zealand Challenge Relays claiming 20 victories to New Zealand’s four to win the Alan Brown Memorial Trophy.  Despite the loss of Greta Knarston to injury, New Zealand maintained its dominance of the junior elite classes winning both M & W20E. It also won M60A and W65A classes.

Three non-Challenge Australian teams caused upsets by winning their classes, in W16A, W21E and M21E. The M21E class was the most competitive Championship class with only 74 seconds separating the victorious Canberra Cockatoos team of Andy, Hogg, Murray Scown and David Shepherd and the NSW Stingers team of Eric Morris, Glenn Meyer and Julian Dent who was the only man to break 40 minutes on the course. It also had the biggest field of 10 teams.

The closest finish across all classes was in W45B, with only 11 seconds separating the first two teams.