The weather was fine for the 2024 Chincogan Charge running race championships on Saturday 21 September.
The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce has published the winning results of the 344 participants.
Children under the age of twelve were invited to run from the race start point outside the Mullumbimby fire station to the bottom of Mount Chincogan and back.
Eighteen children ran in the race, with winners divided between girls and boys.
Molly Boyle won the girls’ race with a time of fifteen minutes and 37 seconds.
Flynn Rose won the boys’ race in fourteen minutes and 39 seconds.
Second and third places went to girls Rose Hayes and Zahli Thompson respectively and boys Grayson Rose and Vinnie Molenaar.
Rose beat Zahli by a mere second at sixteen minutes 59 seconds compared to Zahli’s seventeen minutes.
Grayson ran the race in fifteen minutes and five seconds while Vinnie took fifteen minutes and 38 seconds.
The open section featured 326 runners aged twelve and older.
Jack Gill and Courtney Gilfillan win open division
Jack Gill achieved the fastest time for the male division at 30 minutes and ten seconds.
The open section was a run from the same start point as the children but extending beyond the foot of the mountain, upwards, down again and back to the fire station.
Courtney Gilfillan won the female division in 36 minutes and ten seconds.
Second place in the male division went to Andy Crawley (33:25), followed nineteen seconds later by Joe Stokes at 33 minutes and 44 seconds.
Second and third place winners in the female division were even closer.
Sylvie Peart came second in 44 minutes and 43 seconds, with Annie Paart finishing eighteen seconds later.
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