Daniel Greig, Josh Lose and Sophie Muir, along with Kiwi Wayne Begg competed in various distances with good results.
Josh finished 8th in the 1500M in a personal best time of 1:54.37, improving his previous best by a second. He then finished 9th in the 5000m with another PB time of 6:54.72. This was more than a 3 second improvement on his last 5000m time.
Sophie and Daniel both competed in the sprint events.
Daniel skated two personal best 500m, managing to break the 38 sec barrier to skate a 37.58 on the Saturday and back it up with a new PB of 37.22 on Sunday. Daniel finished 11th and 5th respectively.
Daniel's first 1000m race saw him skate a new PB of 1:15.71 but Sunday saw him disqualified in the second 1000m.
Sophie skated the 4 sprints events, skating a 1:22.74 first 1000m, placing her 6th.
Sunday saw her skate a new PB 1000m of 1:21.61, which was also a new national record, placing her 4th. Sophie's second 500m saw her place just outside a podium finish with a 40.86.
Wayne Begg (NZ) skated in Saturday's sprint events skating a 38.34s 500m and 1:15.69 1000m to finish 14th and 8th respectively. these times were only marginally outside Wayne's PB times.
Team Goldrush looks well placed for a strong 2009/2010 season after some very promising first seasons from Australia's newest long trackers with several national records broken during this season. Desley is clearly doing something very right with these skaters and the Australian skating community is excited about next season.
Another Team Goldrush member, Elma De Vries (NED) cometed in the World Cup Final held in Salt Lake over the weekend, finishing 12th in the 3000m and 8th in the 1500m, skating personal best times in both events.
Shane Dobbin (NZ) has the 10000m event at the World Single Distance Championships coming up this weekend in Vancouver and he posted a Mid Week Update on his blog.
Desley is clearly doing something very right with these skaters
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