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DEAF athlete Cristine Suffolk has continued her amazing medal winning performances, picking up five medals, including four gold at the 2006 Masters Games in Alice Springs.
Suffolk dominated the 35-39 year age group at the titles.
The 36-year-old won gold medals in the 800m, 1500m and 3000m on the track and in the five kilometre cross-country and picked up silver in the Masters Mile, which was staged on the main street of Alice Springs.
Competing in Central Australia was certainly a new experience for Cristine - races were either staged very early in the morning or late in the evening to try and beat the oppressive heat in the middle of the day which ranged from 32 to 38 degrees.
In fact she was up and around at 4.30am and made her way to the cross-country course in preparation for the 6am start.
"It was weird getting up in the dark to go and run an event," she said.
"But I was glad we did, it was cold when we started, but by the time we finished the heat was already up."
And the race wasn't without some controversy - Cristine was the leading female and followed the male runner in front of her, who unfortunately led her the wrong way - she recovered remarkably to be second female runner overall and take out her age divisions.
"It would have been nice to be the first woman home, but it wasn't to be,' she said.
And Cristine would have made a clean sweep of her events had it not been for Victorian Sharon Hunter who won the mile, which attracted a field of 131 runners.
"It was a great race, they closed off the main street of the city and we ran through it at about 6.30pm at night,' she said.
"I had previously beaten Sharon in the 1500 and 3000m, so I suppose she wanted some revenge - next time I'll get her," she said with a wry smile.
Cristine even featured on the front page of the NT News at the start of the mile race.
Her latest medal haul takes her impressive tally to 195, which includes 111 gold, 48 silver and 36 bronze and she doesn't appear set to slow down any time soon.
She has celebrated 20 years of running with the Nowra Athletics Club and is a proud life member of the local club.
Her next major assignment will be the New Zealand Masters Games in Wanganui from February 15-19 next year.
Unfortunately there will be no cross-country at these games, so she will contest her favoured longer track events.
She also has an eye on the Australian Masters Athletic Championships in Hobart from April 6-8; the Trans Tasman Masters Games in Newcastle April 14-21 and the Australian Masters Games from October 5-14 in Adelaide.
Further down the track she is also hoping to represent the Australian team at the 2nd World Deaf Cross-Country Championships to be held in Sydney in 2009 and the 7th World Masters Games which will also be staged in Sydney in October 2009.
DEAF athlete Cristine Suffolk has continued her amazing medal winning performances, picking up five medals, including four gold at the 2006 Masters Games in Alice Springs.
Suffolk dominated the 35-39 year age group at the titles.
The 36-year-old won gold medals in the 800m, 1500m and 3000m on the track and in the five kilometre cross-country and picked up silver in the Masters Mile, which was staged on the main street of Alice Springs.
Competing in Central Australia was certainly a new experience for Cristine - races were either staged very early in the morning or late in the evening to try and beat the oppressive heat in the middle of the day which ranged from 32 to 38 degrees.
In fact she was up and around at 4.30am and made her way to the cross-country course in preparation for the 6am start.
"It was weird getting up in the dark to go and run an event," she said.
"But I was glad we did, it was cold when we started, but by the time we finished the heat was already up."
And the race wasn't without some controversy - Cristine was the leading female and followed the male runner in front of her, who unfortunately led her the wrong way - she recovered remarkably to be second female runner overall and take out her age divisions.
"It would have been nice to be the first woman home, but it wasn't to be,' she said.
And Cristine would have made a clean sweep of her events had it not been for Victorian Sharon Hunter who won the mile, which attracted a field of 131 runners.
"It was a great race, they closed off the main street of the city and we ran through it at about 6.30pm at night,' she said.
"I had previously beaten Sharon in the 1500 and 3000m, so I suppose she wanted some revenge - next time I'll get her," she said with a wry smile.
Cristine even featured on the front page of the NT News at the start of the mile race.
Her latest medal haul takes her impressive tally to 195, which includes 111 gold, 48 silver and 36 bronze and she doesn't appear set to slow down any time soon.
She has celebrated 20 years of running with the Nowra Athletics Club and is a proud life member of the local club.
Her next major assignment will be the New Zealand Masters Games in Wanganui from February 15-19 next year.
Unfortunately there will be no cross-country at these games, so she will contest her favoured longer track events.
She also has an eye on the Australian Masters Athletic Championships in Hobart from April 6-8; the Trans Tasman Masters Games in Newcastle April 14-21 and the Australian Masters Games from October 5-14 in Adelaide.
Further down the track she is also hoping to represent the Australian team at the 2nd World Deaf Cross-Country Championships to be held in Sydney in 2009 and the 7th World Masters Games which will also be staged in Sydney in October 2009.