Sarah’s Running Achievements

  • Ten New Zealand Championship titles in track, cross country, and road running

  • Represented New Zealand in track, cross country, road and mountain running:

  • World Cross Country Championships

  • World Mountain Running Championships

  • Commonwealth Mountain Running Championships (team medalist x2)

  • Ekiden relays in Japan and South Korea

  • Australian Track and Field Championships (junior medalist 3000m)

  • Australian Cross Country Championships (junior medalist x2) Oceania Track and Field Championships (junior medalist – 1500m silver, 3000m gold)

  • Top 20 finishes in major international marathons, including Chicago, Rotterdam, Nagano and Melbourne (3rd)

  • Marathon personal best 2:39:17 (IAAF Olympic “B” standard, Rotterdam, 2012)

  • Winner of the Round the Bridges 10k road race

  • Winner Taniwha Ultramarathon

  • 3rd Thyon-Dixence Mountain Race, Switzerland

  • Commonwealth Mountain Running team medalist, x2

  • Top 10 in a World Sky Running Series Event (Pikes Peak Marathon/USA Mountain Running Championships)

  • NZ Under 20 5km record holder

  • Oceania Championships Under 20 3000m record holder

  • Course records – Whangamata Half Marathon 1:15:22, Sanatorium Hill Climb (Cambridge), Kawerau Half Marathon and others

  • Winner of the 30th Anniversary Buller Gorge Half Marathon, 2012.