{"id":75114,"date":"2026-05-05T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/75114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:12:35","slug":"atkinson-wins-200-mile-delirious-west-epic-as-denmarks-winter-is-sixth-woman-kylie-bell-fifth-in-100-miler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/75114\/","title":{"rendered":"Atkinson wins 200-mile Delirious WEST epic as Denmark\u2019s Winter is sixth woman; Kylie Bell fifth in 100-miler"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably have to be delirious even to start the race, but 32 runners ran through the night and across challenging terrain to complete the 200-mile ultramarathon Delirious WEST, which finished in Albany on April 12.<\/p>\n

Only 18 of the 50 starters failed to finish after setting off from Northcliffe on April 8, with another 47 completing the 100-mile course, snatching rest and snacks whenever they could in a personal challenge for the ages.<\/p>\n

The race takes in sand, bush tracks, forest tracks and a jet ski ride across the water at Peaceful Bay before heading to Muttonbird and Lights beaches and a finish in Albany.<\/p>\n

\"RunnersCamera IconRunners with head torches at dawn on Mandalay Beach in Walpole. Credit: Astrid Volzke<\/p>\n

Home first in the 200-mile epic was Queenslander Chris Atkinson, just over four hours ahead of WA\u2019s first man home, Perth\u2019s Kevin Matthews.<\/p>\n

Atkinson crossed the line at 2.30am on April 11 after taking two days, 19 hours and 30 minutes to reach the South Coast Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade base on Frenchman Bay Road.<\/p>\n

Mathews completed the job in 2d. 23hr. 47min. 35sec. reaching the finish line at 6.47am on April 11.<\/p>\n

\"DenmarkCamera IconDenmark 200-mile runner Becky Winter strides along Frenchman Bay Road on her way to the finish line. Credit: Astrid Volzke<\/p>\n

The first woman was South African Carien Du Toit, who was third overall in 3:02:01.34, less than three hours behind the runner-up in a mammoth effort.<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s Becky Winter completed the 200 miles in 18th place overall, and as the sixth woman to finish.<\/p>\n

Her time was 4:01:44.00, reaching the finish line on Sunday, April 12 at 8.44am.<\/p>\n

She covered 88.6km on the first day, moving for almost 16 hours, and followed that effort by completing 77.99km on day two, stopping for less than an hour along the way.<\/p>\n

A stint of more than 18 hours on the move on day three covered 71km, leaving her with 30km to complete the challenge on day four.<\/p>\n

The top six finishers in the 100-miler were all from WA, with Justin Mulhair leading them home in 1:00:32.04, just under two hours ahead of Shane Aris, whose time was 1:02:19.42.<\/p>\n

\"Albany\u2019sCamera IconAlbany\u2019s Kylie Bell and her dog Moet. Credit: Astrid Volzke<\/p>\n

Dominic Mattes was third home five hours later, arriving on the morning of April 11 at 2.30am.<\/p>\n

Bekka Staal was the first woman, and fifth overall, with a time of 1:08:25.37.<\/p>\n

Albany\u2019s Kylie Bell was the fifth female finisher, and 12th overall.<\/p>\n

She took 01:11:27.23 and crossed the finish line at 6.27am on April 11.<\/p>\n

The oldest competitor in the field was Albany\u2019s Sue Robertson, who came 34th in the 100-miler, finishing in 2:02:08.01.<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe jet ski crossing in Peaceful Bay. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"200-mileCamera Icon200-mile Runner Gabe Alves at Mandalay Beach in Walpole. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"RunnersCamera IconRunners on the out-and-back section at Monkey Rocks in Denmark. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"Albany\u2019sCamera IconAlbany\u2019s Kylie Bell takes a breather. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"100-milersCamera Icon100-milers start their race at 7pm near Conspicuous Cliffs on April 8. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"TheCamera IconThe start line of the 200-mile race in Northcliffe. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"RunnerCamera IconRunner Molly Bennett passes the wind farm. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"RaceCamera IconRace director Scott Bunny takes a nap at the finish. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"100-milerCamera Icon100-miler Jason Phillips at Monkey Rocks, Denmark. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"GlenCamera IconGlen Smetherham runs along the Bibbulmun Track near Northcliffe. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"Jet-skiCamera IconJet-ski Crossing in Peaceful Bay. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"100-mileCamera Icon100-mile runner Del Thompson at Lights Beach. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"200-mileCamera Icon200-mile runner Georgia Sunshine passes the Windfarm. Credit: Astrid Volzke\"200-mileCamera Icon200-mile runners start their race in Northcliffe. Credit: Astrid Volzke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You probably have to be delirious even to start the race, but 32 runners ran through the night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33196,27,26,22049,40333,38,6444,2807],"class_list":{"0":"post-75114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-albany-advertiser","9":"tag-danmark","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-great-southern","12":"tag-great-southern-sport","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-regional","15":"tag-sport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116521674297791899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}