When 61-year-old potato farmer Cliff Young — a teetotalling virgin who lived with his mother in Victoria's Otway ranges — won the 1983 Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon, he lodged himself so ...

In 1983, a 61-year-old Australian potato farmer entered the first ultramarathon between Sydney and Melbourne. Few bet on the farmer winning the race. Not only did Cliff Young have a strange ...

Inspired by Cliff Young’s error-ridden yet record-breaking ultramarathon, Owens, a professor of business ethics, detailed the events that led to Young’s unexpected win of the Sydney to Melbourne ...