Cliff Young

Cliff Young was a Legendary Ultra Runner, and much loved Australian, who 1st came to the publics notice in the 1983 Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon.

This clip is from the Channel 9(Australia) special: "20 moments which stopped Australia".

Sorry, I forget what year it was broadcast, probably about 2005.

Of interest, in the other 20 moments, is the 1987 American Cup win by the Perth/Bond Syndicate, and the 1969 Moon Landing, which will give some indication of how Australia's loved Cliffy

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[4nathaniel]

Wow!!! I heard about this but i thought it was a myth...

[Grave22digger]

Cliffy wasn't a myth, and you are obviously too young to have lived through the running scene of the 1980's.

Cliffy seemed to be on TV every other week running somewhere.

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[Grave22digger]

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I have lots of 'Cliffy Story's"(as do most people who came across him), but I only meet and spoke to him onced.

At one Melbourne Marathon, I was struggling somewhere around the 35km mark, and this old guy in tracksuit pants with holes cut in them came past, and just keep on going. I ran about 3-08, so he run faster. I didn't know who it was, but 6 months later he won the Sydney to Melbourne, so running close to 3hrs at 60 years of age, is not a bad days work.

[boomn]

It was a 875km ultra-marathon, not a regular 42km marathon. The slow but consistent shuffle is what won him the race

[reemanwells37f]

I want this video on my MIO 8390 unit.

[alenblake38g]

This video went viral on Algiers

[ilovecakelots88]

i watch this nearly all the time, im a nurse and its become of people like cliff young that i choose to work with older people. It may be harder work but that generation is just beautiful and its sad to think that in a few years it will be lost

[792247]

auzzie version of terry fox? man this guy is awesome

[Bolgi]

Cliff Young was a vegetarian. A true Aussie who had respect for animals. Rare in Australia and very inspiring.

[toby099]

nah he did, ive read his book , he ran like 3:10 or something marathon.

[drrrerr]

well he didnt run a 3hour marathon you ham doctor

[Stolptute]

Amazing.

[toby099]

what a true aussie legend, wish i could have met him and spoke to him. Its strange in this video and all the others I have seen, they all have him doing his slow shuffle but to run a 3 hour marathon you gotta be at a pretty good pace( e.g a shuffle would be too slow)