96 Final Standings

The 8th Annual
Ontario Ultra Series
Final Standings for the 1996 Series

Standings at the completion of the eight race series with results from the Ganaraska 50 Mile/50 Km, Sulphur Springs 50 Km Trail Run, Sri Chinmoy Kingston 6 Hour, Niagara 100km/50Mile/50Km, Bruce Trail Survival 33 Km Trail Run, Haliburton 100Mile/50Mile/50Km, Ottawa Sri Chinmoy 24 Hour, and the Slough of Despond 50 Km Road Race.

In the Men Under 50, Ron Gehl took his fourth title in five years, completing two 100 milers in the Series (Haliburton and Ottawa) to put him out of reach at the start of the last race.

Veteran Sherry McLean took on the Series this year with good result, smashing the women's all-time points record, with the speedy Deanna Lindsay close behind, once again demonstrating that you must do more than win races in the Series, you must also do a lot of races.

Jim Moses reclaimed his title from '93 and '94, also doing back to back 100 milers in the Series and living to complain about it. Ed Ciesielski, recovering from major eye surgery in 1995, came back with a vengeance to take second, perhaps only because his vision prevents him from running at night, so he ran the shorter event at Haliburton.

And the Women's 50+ division doubled its participation from three to six, as the legendary Barb McLeod blew away the previous high total for this category, followed by last year's under 50 winner Helen Malmberg.

Last year's Ironman Award was renamed the Norm Patenaude Award in memory of the legendary runner, race course measurer, race organizer, president of the Ontario Roadrunners Association, etc. who was killed while cycling this past summer. The recipients are listed below.

The total number of individual runners at all races was 236, down slightly from 248 in 1995, but slightly ahead of the 233 in 1994. Since there were fewer events this year, all races either held their own, or were up significantly.

MEN UNDER 50:            Points  No Events 
1.  Ron Gehl              1234       7
2.  Scott Turner          1120       7
3.  Geoff Sheppard         924       5
4.  Howard Parker          908       8
5.  Chris Wytyczak         771       6
6.  John Cookson           752       6
7.  Les Michalak           688       4
8.  Giles Malet            664       5
9.  Luke Hohenadel         608       4
10. Tom Restoule           600       6
11. Elliot Aronoff         555       6
12. Mike Gehl              555       5
13. Gord England           477       4
14. Jess Heroux            466       8
15. Rand Freeman           458       3
16. Rob Kalovsky           445       3
17. Paul Raymond           437       4
18. Doug Barber            430       3
19. Terry Boese            429       3
20. Greg Bohuslawsky       423       4
21. Peter Suomela          399       2
22. Grant Campbell         364       4
23. Gord Harthun           310       3
24. Mark Tarnopolsky       282       2
25. Brad Jones             261       1
149 Contestants

WOMEN UNDER 50:          Points  No Events
1.  Sherry McLean          670       7
2.  Deanna Lindsay         641       5
3.  Aimee Runge            572       5
4.  Karen Shorty           377       3
5.  Kim Campbell           187       3
6.  Jane Ballantyne        179       1
7.  Linda Hodkin           145       2
8.  Christine Gibbons      145       1
9.  Susan McAuley          140       1
10. Karen Dickson          139       1
11. Suzanne Gagnon         134       1
12. Stephanie Graham       124       1
13. Bonita Neglia          121       1
14. Teresa Lau             112       1
15. Joan Bulgin            111       1
33 contestants

MEN 50+:                 Points  No Events
1.  Jim Moses              1176      8
2.  Ed Ciesielski          1040      8
3.  Ab Kampstra            802       8
4.  Colin Kingsford        562       4
5.  Joe Cleary             560       6
6.  Odino Soligo           555       5
7.  Ed Alexander           453       5
8.  Paul DeBiasi           441       3
9.  Herb Connell           399       5
10. Alfred Koehn           396       4
11. Rolly Portelance       396       3
12. Bruce Hilton           375       4
13. Terry Martin           317       2
14. Charles Upshall        276       2
15. William Dickie         253       1
48 contestants

WOMEN 50+:               Points  No Events
1.  Barbara McLeod         503       4
2.  Helen Malmberg         302       4
3.  Bernice Goy            172       2
4.  Marg Potter            100       1
6 contestants

Points were awarded on the basis of a first place finish receiving 100 with all other finishers receiving a proportion of 100 based on the number of starters. One additional point was awarded for each kilometer of each race completed.

NORM PATENAUDE AWARD
Howard Parker      8      Jim Moses          8
Jess Heroux        8      Ed Ciesielski      8
Ab Kampstra        8

One point was awarded for each race completed in the Series.

Alfred Koehn, Series Statistician
Ed Alexander, Series Co-ordinator