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Name	Country	Route	Time	Year
James Counsilman	USA	E-F	13:07	1979
Desmond Renford	Australia	E-F	13:48	1980
Michael Read	England	E-F	15:45	1981
Ashby Harper	USA	E-F	13:52	1982
Michael Read	England	E-F	14:31	1983
Rev. Robert Manning	USA	F-E	18:15	1984
Cyril Baldock	Australia	F-E	10:44	1985
Stanley Paris	New Zealand	E-F	12:59	1986
Clifford Batt	Australia	F-E	18:37	1987
Paul Anthony Jagasich	USA	E-F	12:26	1988
Vincent Pogachar	Canada	E-F	15:50	1989
Stephen H. Frantz	USA	E-F	16:57	1990
John Goodbody	England	E-F	15:40	1991
Hideo Kawakami	Japan	E-F	12:58	1992
Richard Barthels	USA	E-F	09:42	1993
Otto Thaning	South Africa	E-F	10:29	1994
John Selmer	USA	E-F	10:58	1995
Robert West	USA	E-F	15:35	1996
Klaus Stutzer	Germany	E-F	14:09	1997
James Campbell	USA	E-F	17:41	1998
Joe Smith	England	E-F	14:09	1999
Henry Eckstein	USA	E-F	14:24	2000
Kate Mason	England	E-F	14:00	2001
Michael Read	England	E-F	14:53	2002
Chris Gibbs	Barbados	E-F	11:30	2003
Michael Read	England	E-F	15:29	2004
Richard Haan	Czech Republic	E-F	14:07	2005
Geoff Taylor	England	E-F	12:06	2006
Jeryl Wiens	USA	E-F	14:56	2007
Benedikt Hjartarson	Iceland	E-F	16:01	2008
Andrea Gellan	Scotland	E-F	11:36	2009
Richard Child	South Africa	E-F	14:33	2010
Pat Gallant-Charette			15:57	2011

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