A feature of the Adelaide Marathon Festival has been the celebration of those runners who have complete many of the Marathons. These are called Warriors and Legends. The records of their achievements are closely monitored by the SARRC historian Ian Hill. Questions on records should be address to him.
Once again we were fortunate that the Adelaide Marathon could take place, this time on its customary date in August 2022. There was an increase in
the number of finishers, including thirteen Warriors (two of whom are Legends), up from a total of ten last year. Once again Warrior-in-waiting
David Staehr from Victoria was unable to take part. The good news is that since the last update of the finishers' data base in 2019 another five
people have reached nine marathons finished. Let's hope that Shaun Morfey, Matthew Rees, Tim Horton, Chris Glacken (all 2021) and
Atsushi Ogai (2020) will all be able to join David in 2022 and boost the number of Warriors to 125.
Congratulations to Stephen Dunn for reaching 20 Adelaide Marathons finished. Stephen is very keen to be the 12th Legend (as opposed to 13th)
and has his work cut out in keeping those on 19 at bay! Also congratulations to Paul Carlsson for reaching 15 marathons completed. Returning
after a break were Legend Doug Kewley and Warriors Kelvin Jeanes and David Hill.
Vale John Twartz (1943-2021) - by Ian Hill
Legend John Twartz passed away on 3rd January 2021, aged 77 years. Amongst his numerous achievements in running was his determination to
give our group a name other than "those who have finished ten Adelaide Marathons"! In the 1998 marathon while running along Burbridge Rd
John and I had a conversation about this and the term "warriors" emerged although in later years we could not recall who had suggested it.
However during 1999 the "Warriors" came to be recognised by the SARRC and John is now credited for making it happen. John's occupation
was teaching high school mathematics and science and in 2016 he was featured in an Advertiser article after receiving an award from the
Education Department for becoming the longest serving teacher in SA, some 53 years! It speaks volumes for his popularity that several of his
former students gave tributes to him at the funeral, a rare occurrence. Also in attendance were his brothers Alan and Peter Twartz, both Warriors
and a third brother Keith who finished the marathon twice. I was honoured to represent the Club and spoke of John's career at the morning tea
afterwards. Former Club President Phil Higgs and other Warriors were also present.
FACTS
There are 119 Warriors, 11 of whom have gone on to become Legends.
Between them they have finished 1785 Adelaide Marathons, which is 8.9% of all finishers.
Warrior - 10 or more Adelaide marathons completed | Legend - 25 or more Adelaide marathons completed | |||||||||
Bold - finished in 2021 | 13 Warriors or Legends were successful in adding to their tally in 2021 | |||||||||
Red bold - new Warrior in 2021 | No new Warriors in 2021 | |||||||||
Blue bold - new Legend in 2021 | No new Legends in 2021 | |||||||||
Years | ||||||||||
Twenty- | Age | BIB NUMBER | between | |||||||
Number | Name | First | Tenth | Fifth | Latest | Span | at Tenth | Warrior | Legend | 9th & 10th |
36 | Ian Hill | 1979 | 1988 | 2009 | 2021 | 10 | 34 | W 001 | L 07 | 1 |
35 | Peter Worley | 1979 | 1988 | 2003 | 2018 | 10 | 41 | W 011 | L 03 | 1 |
32 | Susan Worley | 1981 | 1990 | 2006 | 2018 | 10 | 42 | W 033 | L 06 | 1 |
32 | Lester Smith | 1985 | 1995 | 2011 | 2018 | 11 | 44 | W 056 | L 08 | 1 |
31 | Doug Kewley | 1984 | 1997 | 2012 | 2021 | 14 | 47 | W 069 | L 09 | 1 |
28 | John Bannon * | 1979 | 1988 | 2003 | 2006 | 10 | 45 | W 002 | L 01 | 1 |
27 | John Twartz * | 1990 | 1999 | 2016 | 2018 | 10 | 56 | W 073 | L 11 | 1 |
26 | Peter Slagter | 1979 | 1988 | 2003 | 2004 | 10 | 41 | W 010 | L 02 | 1 |
26 | Richard Davie * | 1980 | 1989 | 2004 | 2005 | 10 | 38 | W 023 | L 05 | 1 |
25 | Len Freeth | 1979 | 1988 | 2003 | 2003 | 10 | 44 | W 013 | L 04 | 1 |
25 | Doug Smart | 1979 | 1996 | 2013 | 2013 | 18 | 53 | W 064 | L 10 | 1 |
24 | Terry Buxton | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 2002 | 10 | 48 | W 007 | .. | 1 |
24 | Euan Downing | 1983 | 1992 | .. | 2012 | 10 | 54 | W 040 | .. | 1 |
23 | Ross Martin * | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 2001 | 10 | 58 | W 008 | .. | 1 |
22 | Barry Biggs | 1980 | 1989 | .. | 2001 | 10 | 46 | W 016 | .. | 1 |
21 | John Auld | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1999 | 10 | 45 | W 009 | .. | 1 |
21 | Andrew McComb * | 1982 | 1992 | .. | 2006 | 11 | 61 | W 037 | .. | 1 |
21 | John Bennett | 1990 | 2000 | .. | 2012 | 11 | 57 | W 077 | .. | 1 |
20 | Phillip O'Connell | 1991 | 2001 | .. | 2011 | 11 | 48 | W 082 | .. | 1 |
20 | Kym Williams | 1986 | 2005 | .. | 2018 | 20 | 48 | W 090 | .. | 1 |
20 | Stephen Dunn | 1986 | 2010 | .. | 2021 | 25 | 44 | W 101 | .. | 2 |
19 | David Kuhne | 1983 | 2010 | .. | 2021 | 28 | 53 | W 099 | .. | 1 |
19 | Peter Kotsoglous | 1984 | 2011 | .. | 2021 | 28 | 55 | W 104 | .. | 1 |
19 | Colin Brooks | 1985 | 2012 | .. | 2021 | 28 | 59 | W 109 | .. | 1 |
18 | Albert Culbertson | 1983 | 1992 | .. | 2000 | 10 | 51 | W 038 | .. | 1 |
18 | Kelvin Jeanes | 2003 | 2012 | .. | 2021 | 10 | 52 | W 107 | .. | 1 |
17 | Richard Sjoerdsma * | 1981 | 1990 | .. | 1998 | 10 | 60 | W 028 | .. | 1 |
17 | Ray Berresheim | 1996 | 2005 | .. | 2013 | 10 | 49 | W 089 | .. | 1 |
17 | Mandy Towler | 2001 | 2010 | .. | 2018 | 10 | 43 | W 098 | .. | 1 |
17 | David Billett | 1998 | 2012 | .. | 2021 | 15 | 41 | W 106 | .. | 2 |
16 | Guy Schubert | 1979 | 1989 | .. | 2015 | 11 | 38 | W 020 | .. | 1 |
16 | Simon Lewis | 1984 | 1993 | .. | 2006 | 10 | 42 | W 043 | .. | 1 |
16 | Susan Bardy | 1985 | 1996 | .. | 2003 | 12 | 63 | W 066 | .. | 1 |
16 | Peter Proud | 1989 | 2009 | .. | 2015 | 21 | 55 | W 096 | .. | 1 |
15 | Terry Boswell | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1994 | 10 | 44 | W 006 | .. | 1 |
15 | Constantin Parouchais | 1979 | 1989 | .. | 2002 | 11 | 54 | W 021 | .. | 1 |
15 | Roger Williams | 1980 | 1989 | .. | 1994 | 10 | 49 | W 022 | .. | 1 |
15 | Graham Venus | 1981 | 1990 | .. | 1995 | 10 | 47 | W 032 | .. | 1 |
15 | Dave Elliott | 1983 | 1992 | .. | 2008 | 10 | 42 | W 041 | .. | 1 |
15 | Mervyn Honeychurch | 1983 | 1995 | .. | 2000 | 13 | 44 | W 057 | .. | 1 |
15 | Jerry Zukowski | 1991 | 2000 | .. | 2005 | 10 | 48 | W 076 | .. | 1 |
15 | George Bennett | 1994 | 2003 | .. | 2009 | 10 | 55 | W 085 | .. | 1 |
15 | Paul Rugless | 1996 | 2008 | .. | 2014 | 13 | 59 | W 092 | .. | 1 |
15 | Paul Greenwood | 2003 | 2012 | .. | 2017 | 10 | 41 | W 105 | .. | 1 |
15 | Paul Carlsson | 2002 | 2015 | .. | 2021 | 14 | 51 | W 110 | .. | 2 |
14 | Prince White | 1980 | 1989 | .. | 1993 | 10 | 55 | W 025 | .. | 1 |
14 | David Standeven | 1982 | 1991 | .. | 2002 | 10 | 39 | W 035 | .. | 1 |
14 | Trevor Skewes | 1980 | 1993 | .. | 2012 | 14 | 48 | W 044 | .. | 1 |
14 | Peter Gray | 1984 | 1993 | .. | 2004 | 10 | 28 | W 046 | .. | 1 |
14 | David Ashfield * | 1985 | 1994 | .. | 2001 | 10 | 48 | W 054 | .. | 1 |
14 | Rob King | 1986 | 1997 | .. | 2001 | 12 | 42 | W 067 | .. | 1 |
14 | Tim Kersten | 1989 | 2001 | .. | 2019 | 13 | 45 | W 080 | .. | 2 |
14 | John Richards | 1991 | 2001 | .. | 2005 | 11 | 50 | W 083 | .. | 1 |
14 | Jane Bennett | 1994 | 2004 | .. | 2009 | 11 | 53 | W 088 | .. | 1 |
14 | Robin McBride | 2000 | 2009 | .. | 2018 | 10 | 49 | W 094 | .. | 1 |
13 | Allan Fox | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1991 | 10 | 44 | W 004 | .. | 1 |
13 | Barry McDermott * | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1991 | 10 | 43 | W 005 | .. | 1 |
13 | David Groat | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1993 | 10 | 66 | W 014 | .. | 1 |
13 | Peter Quigley | 1983 | 1993 | .. | 2000 | 11 | 34 | W 042 | .. | 1 |
13 | Ron Schubert | 1984 | 1994 | .. | 2000 | 11 | 41 | W 052 | .. | 1 |
13 | Lloyd Roberts | 1985 | 1996 | .. | 1999 | 12 | 42 | W 063 | .. | 1 |
13 | Thomas Bradley * | 1988 | 1998 | .. | 2001 | 11 | 57 | W 070 | .. | 1 |
13 | Dean Elliott | 1981 | 2007 | .. | 2018 | 27 | 54 | W 091 | .. | 1 |
13 | Cliff Pannell | 1997 | 2009 | .. | 2013 | 13 | 48 | W 095 | .. | 1 |
13 | Alan Twartz | 1986 | 2010 | .. | 2016 | 25 | 56 | W 097 | .. | 1 |
13 | Rob Robinson | 2009 | 2018 | .. | 2021 | 10 | 56 | W 117 | .. | 1 |
13 | Stan Trzepacz | 2007 | 2018 | .. | 2021 | 12 | 54 | W 118 | .. | 1 |
12 | Ken Graham | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1990 | 10 | 47 | W 003 | .. | 1 |
12 | Dick Crotty | 1979 | 1989 | .. | 1998 | 11 | 59 | W 024 | .. | 1 |
12 | Colin Trengove | 1980 | 1990 | .. | 1992 | 11 | 52 | W 029 | .. | 1 |
12 | Ken Down | 1984 | 1993 | .. | 1995 | 10 | 40 | W 048 | .. | 1 |
12 | Jacky Whitting | 1986 | 1996 | .. | 2000 | 11 | 53 | W 061 | .. | 1 |
12 | Owen Lloyd | 1988 | 1999 | .. | 2002 | 12 | 60 | W 074 | .. | 1 |
12 | Ian Kennett | 1991 | 2000 | .. | 2002 | 10 | 50 | W 078 | .. | 1 |
12 | Jack Donkin | 1992 | 2002 | .. | 2006 | 11 | 49 | W 084 | .. | 2 |
12 | John Gibbie | 2002 | 2011 | .. | 2014 | 10 | 57 | W 102 | .. | 1 |
12 | Liam Hanna | 1980 | 2015 | .. | 2018 | 36 | 71 | W 111 | .. | 1 |
12 | Mark Bloomfield | 2006 | 2016 | .. | 2018 | 11 | 49 | W 112 | .. | 1 |
12 | Graham Tottey | 2008 | 2017 | .. | 2019 | 10 | 48 | W 114 | .. | 1 |
12 | Tak Chau | 2010 | 2019 | .. | 2021 | 10 | 39 | W 119 | .. | 1 |
11 | John Murfitt | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1991 | 10 | 38 | W 012 | .. | 1 |
11 | Morris Allen | 1979 | 1990 | .. | 1991 | 12 | 43 | W 026 | .. | 2 |
11 | Raymond Roberts | 1981 | 1990 | .. | 1991 | 10 | 57 | W 034 | .. | 1 |
11 | Goran Bergqvist | 1981 | 1992 | .. | 1995 | 12 | 43 | W 039 | .. | 1 |
11 | Adrian Pearce | 1983 | 1993 | .. | 1994 | 11 | 53 | W 050 | .. | 1 |
11 | Piet Crosby | 1979 | 1994 | .. | 2010 | 16 | 45 | W 051 | .. | 2 |
11 | Helen Bridges | 1982 | 1995 | .. | 2000 | 14 | 44 | W 058 | .. | 1 |
11 | Robert Wiese * | 1984 | 1996 | .. | 1997 | 13 | 49 | W 060 | .. | 1 |
11 | Les Boulton | 1987 | 1996 | .. | 1997 | 10 | 51 | W 065 | .. | 1 |
11 | Peter Twartz | 1990 | 1999 | .. | 2000 | 10 | 40 | W 072 | .. | 1 |
11 | Christine Lubcke | 1986 | 2003 | .. | 2004 | 18 | 40 | W 086 | .. | 2 |
11 | Steve Martin | 1992 | 2004 | .. | 2006 | 13 | 37 | W 087 | .. | 1 |
11 | Paul Cecchin | 1999 | 2016 | .. | 2018 | 18 | 56 | W 113 | .. | 1 |
11 | David Hill | 2004 | 2018 | .. | 2021 | 15 | 43 | W 116 | .. | 1 |
10 | Bruce Abrahams | 1979 | 1988 | .. | 1988 | 10 | 48 | W 015 | .. | 1 |
10 | Wilfried Lamprecht | 1980 | 1989 | .. | 1989 | 10 | 45 | W 017 | .. | 1 |
10 | Anthony Bridges | 1980 | 1989 | .. | 1989 | 10 | 42 | W 018 | .. | 1 |
10 | David Edyvean | 1979 | 1989 | .. | 1989 | 11 | 50 | W 019 | .. | 1 |
10 | Rod Martin | 1981 | 1990 | .. | 1990 | 10 | 51 | W 027 | .. | 1 |
10 | Edward Trojanowski | 1981 | 1990 | .. | 1990 | 10 | 42 | W 030 | .. | 1 |
10 | Larry Matwijczuk | 1980 | 1990 | .. | 1990 | 11 | 45 | W 031 | .. | 1 |
10 | Phillip Parkin | 1982 | 1991 | .. | 1991 | 10 | 42 | W 036 | .. | 1 |
10 | Geoff Howard | 1984 | 1993 | .. | 1993 | 10 | 43 | W 045 | .. | 1 |
10 | Malcolm Edmonds | 1984 | 1993 | .. | 1993 | 10 | 48 | W 047 | .. | 1 |
10 | Kenneth Minne | 1981 | 1993 | .. | 1993 | 13 | 53 | W 049 | .. | 1 |
10 | Ken Patterson | 1985 | 1994 | .. | 1994 | 10 | 58 | W 053 | .. | 1 |
10 | Peter Sandery | 1980 | 1995 | .. | 1995 | 16 | 54 | W 055 | .. | 3 |
10 | Colin Spall | 1983 | 1996 | .. | 1996 | 14 | 47 | W 059 | .. | 1 |
10 | Robert Bennett | 1987 | 1996 | .. | 1996 | 10 | 52 | W 062 | .. | 1 |
10 | Mike Nolan | 1982 | 1997 | .. | 1997 | 16 | 47 | W 068 | .. | 1 |
10 | Mal Quorn-Smith | 1982 | 1998 | .. | 1998 | 17 | 47 | W 071 | .. | 1 |
10 | Sharon Sharpe | 1985 | 1999 | .. | 1999 | 15 | 52 | W 075 | .. | 1 |
10 | Michael Tompkins | 1989 | 2001 | .. | 2001 | 13 | 54 | W 079 | .. | 1 |
10 | John Backhouse * | 1992 | 2001 | .. | 2001 | 10 | 61 | W 081 | .. | 1 |
10 | Corrie Davel | 1997 | 2008 | .. | 2008 | 12 | 52 | W 093 | .. | 1 |
10 | Colin Hall | 1985 | 2010 | .. | 2010 | 26 | 60 | W 100 | .. | 15 |
10 | Gary Thompson | 1993 | 2011 | .. | 2011 | 19 | 57 | W 103 | .. | 1 |
10 | Peter Field | 1984 | 2012 | .. | 2012 | 29 | 54 | W 108 | .. | 1 |
10 | Brian Chandler | 1981 | 2017 | .. | 2017 | 37 | 73 | W 115 | .. | 16 |
* deceased | Span = number of years to become a Warrior | |||||||||