Sauvage's Winning Streak Over
26 January 2000Paralympian Louise Sauvage's run of victories has ended at today's Oz Day 10-K in Sydney. She has won the women's race for seven years in a row but missed out on title number eight this morning, coming in 2nd to Japan's Wakako Tsuchida. Defending champion Heinz Frei broke his own course record to win the men's event .
Louise Sauvage, 1999 International Female Athlete of the Year, was expected to lead the way in the Summer Down Under series comprising the biggest field in the 11 year history of the event and features 95 athletes from 17 countries.
The Paralympian qualified second fastest for the Oz Day 10k, on Australia Day, following time trials on Monday 24th. Japan's Wakako Tsuchida was 0.6 of a second faster than Sauvage in the one kilometre prologue in Centennial Park.
