2012 LetsRun.com London Prediction Contest Winners
By LetsRun.com
September 19, 2012
The London Olympics are in the rear view mirror and the gold medals awarded. The real winners, the winners of our $200,012 LetsRun.com Prediction Contest have not been given the accolades they deserve.
The winner of the $200,012 London Prediction Contest was 21 year-old Josh Clouthier. Josh runs track and XC for the university of Victoria Vikes where he is hoping to go sub 8:30 in the 3000m this year. His claim to fame is a 6:07 beer mile. Not a world record time, but Josh has a winning streak going. "I have run a 6:07 beer mile, but have only been racing to win thus far, not for time," he said.
If the University of Victoria sounds familiar, it is because Josh's teammate Clifford Childs was a winner in our 2012 Puma Marathon Trials Prediction Contest. Guess this proves Canadians are smarter than Americans.
In case you had any doubt Canadians are smarter than Americans, second place was another Canuck Brian Walker. Brian is a chartered accountant from Winnipeg, "just north of North Dakota" he informed us. Actually we take back our comment about Canadians being smart. Living north of North Dakota is nuts. Brian ran track at the University of Manitoba where his wife and twin brother competed.
Brian's twin brother actually won a pair of autographed Usain Bolt spikes on LetsRun.com.
Third place in our contest was Donal O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan will always be a legend on LetsRun.com. In 1996, as an unheralded runner at Brown he pulled off an incredible Where Your Dreams Become Reality feat, as he won the Heps 3k and 5k at the indoor conference meet (defeating LetsRun.com's Wejo in the process in the 5k). It was one of the most impressive and surprising doubles in Heps history.
If that wasn't impressive enough, Donal finished fourth (or second if you count our DQ) in our Beijing 2008 prediction contest. In addition to looking forward to pushing his new daughter Rita Ruby in a baby jogger, Donal is finishing up his PHd in Mineral and Energy Economics, and now in heavy training for our 2016 Rio contest.
Congrats to everyone who played. Congrats to Josh, Brian, and Donal for coming out on top. The top 3 get some cold hard cash from LetsRun.com.
If you played you can check your scores here (link fixed).
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