Statesmen update

Appears in 20 episodes, first in episode 1.

Every appearance

• Episode 389 - What's a Melidex?

  Prompted by Sarah being two events short of a WA statesman, TOC reads a tally compiled by Dawn: 24 statesmen in Victoria (111 events), 2 in Queensland, 63 in South Australia, 5 in Western Australia, 27 in Tasmania (22 events) and none at all in New South Wales; the ACT and Northern Territory are omitted for having too few events. He adds 324 members of the Peel Club (every state and territory) and 16 in the Aussie Pioneer Club (the first event in each state or territory). Mel is in the Pioneer Club and two events off the Successors (Rockingham and Nightcliff); TOC is one off his Aussie Pioneer (St Peters).

• Episode 340 - Homework

  Statesmen tally for the week: Victoria five (four of them new, including Mel, who regained statesmanship by completing Maroondah Dam), Queensland seven, New South Wales seven, Tasmania nine and Western Australia 15. Victoria is still bottom of the table; Sarah is one event short of regaining hers.

• Episode 339 - West Side Story

  Sarah Jefferson reads the current statesman ladder, South Australia leading on 34, Western Australia second on 15, New South Wales seven, Queensland seven and Victoria one. Melissa Ellis notes Victoria's triple launch means nobody has caught up yet, and announces she is heading to Maroondah Dam parkrun in Healesville the coming Saturday to regain her own statesmanship. (Earlier, Sarah had flagged Dan Baldwin regaining his WA statesmanship at Baxter, which is what prompts this later recap.)

• Episode 235 - Hi-Vis Heroes

  Delivered inside the Informant's rundown: eight new ACT Territorians (Kate Potter, Debbie Ho, Oscar Lindenmayer, Melanie Cooper, Joey Lindenmayer, John Poyton, Saranki Kargil, David Hughes); Fritz Radha, Shea Hattie and Mitch Wilson completed all three Northern Territory events; Peter Perry is a new South Australian statesman, completing the set at Port Lincoln; and Sarah Ganser became the 47th South Islander and 22nd Countryman in New Zealand after running at Invercargill.

• Episode 225 - Who let the dogs out?

  New statespeople rundown inside the Informant's bulletin: 10 this week, Philip Hogland, Michael Smith and Brian Thomas in the ACT (Coombs, Mount Ainslie, Gungahlin); Tracy Scarlett-Arundel, Neil Hewitt, Chris Gammon, Hilary Caldwell and Ricky Somerville at Wagga Bridge; Roger Hinton in the Northern Territory at Darwin; and Brendan Peel in Tasmania at Whitemark Wharf, noted as the only parkrunner holding statesmanship in three states (also ACT and NT).

• Episode 223 - Abigail

  Delivered inside the Informant's stats rundown rather than as a standalone bit: 10 new ACT territorians (Wayne Baylis, Emily Potts, Irene Bomacante and Paul Kelly at Coombs; David O'Kelly, Hayley Cuttle and Richard Dantas at Ginninderra; David Matthews, Derek and Linda Allen at Gungahlin), 4 new NT territorians (Aldo Conti at Darwin; Tanya Mace, Rebecca and Bruce Payne at Nightcliff), and Jonathan Morgan at Mount Barker rounding out new statesmen.

• Episode 221 - parkrun Royale

  New statespeople read out inside the Informant's report: John Woolard (ACT, Gungahlin); Edithia Bethania (Darwin), Bronte Ballett and Sinisa Bogdanovic (Palmerston) and Tracey Lakey (Nightcliff) in the NT; Chantelle Hosking, Rhianna Wick Amble, Cheryl Smit and Irene Bomaganti in Victoria; and in New Zealand Warwick Smith and Julian Paul Gordon as North Islanders at Trentham Memorial, plus Sarah Jantscher at Gisborne. Followed by the Most Aussie New Zealand Events ladder movers.

• Episode 220 - parkrun fun

  Read out inside the Informant's report. New statespeople in the ACT: Ashley Slomka, Brendan and Noah Codrington, Greg Lloyd, Jack Daniel, Elliot and Jared Webb, Alex McConnachie, Yvette Turner and Steven Jolliffe. Northern Territory: Ellen Lawson, who ran Nightcliff. Tasmania: Laurie and Neville Snook. Followed by the "Most Aussie New Zealand Events" mover list, Kevin Rogers 204 to 198, Kerry Holder and Araya Udungchai both 196 to 190. Melissa Ellis also notes that two Victorian launches have knocked her out of statesman status: "I am no longer a statesman."

• Episode 219 - Lauren Reid

  Run inside the Informant's report: "It has been a huge week for New States people." Nine new ACT statesmen (Rachel Horton, Catherine Santacuso, Sharon Ringland, Nina Myers, Erin Daugherty, Nicole Gallimer, Charlotte Harper, Veronica Murtagh, Daniel Zhu); Noel Lockwood, Melanie Hardwick and Charlie Marrington in the NT; Michael Arnott, Chantelle Hosking, Rhianna Wick Gamble, Cheryl Smit, Melissa Ellis, Parth Bommakanti, Irene Bomakanti and Suzanne Arnott in Victoria; Paul Firth in WA; and Chris Fraser in NSW, who joins Emma Zammett and Amanda Hardy on concurrent statesman status across three states and territories. Followed by the most-events list: Neil Barnett leads on 291 unique events, Bruce Purdy is the biggest mover (up eight to 139th after his 81st different event at Warringal Parklands), and Tony Jennings moves to 14th on 134 after running Kelvin Grove. Note that co-host Melissa Ellis appears in her own show's Victorian statesmen list.

• Episode 218 - Alison King

  Delivered inside the Informant's rundown: all six Victorian statespeople lost their status due to the Lake Boga Foreshore launch; Jessie Delaney, Kayla Fuller, Ash Pei and Kim Thompson joined the Northern Territory list; Flynn Kelly, Kay Salara, Jennifer Eddy, Jared Spence and Paul Hospins joined the ACT list; Amanda Hardy and Emma Zammett rejoined the NSW list and became the only two Triple Statespeople, having completed all of NSW, the Northern Territory and the ACT. Mel notes that she will regain her own statesmanship at Lake Boga next Saturday.

• Episode 217 - The Informant

  Follow-up to the previous week's statesmanship discussion. Oliver Spake reads a listener message from Aaron Hardy, who confirms COVID wrecked everyone's statesmanship plans and who has now become the New South Wales statesman after visiting an event that had run only three times last year. The hosts invite the other statesmen to report in on "regaining your crown". The Informant's segment later in the episode extends the same theme with new ACT, Northern Territory and (self-declared) New Zealand statesman lists.

• Episode 216 - Zoom zoom

  Current statesmen/Territorians counts by state: Northern Territory 3 events / 466 people; ACT 9 events / 335; Tasmania 18 events / only 3; South Australia 35 events / 17; WA 40 events / 11; Queensland ('the greatest state') 86 events / 6; and none at all in New South Wales or Queensland's eastern-seaboard tally. Melissa Ellis notes she lost her own Victorian statesmanship - one event short after the bushfire season and the pause - and the hosts invite listeners who have dropped off to write in with their plans to win it back.

• Episode 193 - Podding in the Rain

  Hosts reveal what TOC was too humble to mention in his own report: he and Jacqui completed all 82 Victorian events at Bright to become Victorian statesmen, after their Christmas plan to pick up Bright was thwarted by the fires and the town's evacuation, forcing a 500-plus kilometre return trip to the Alpine area. Ellis reflects on her own statesman chase and Erbacher jokes the record won't last long, "It's all about the chase, isn't it?"

• Episode 186 - J.O.G.I

  Craig Lawrence is congratulated for joining the list of Western Australian statesmen, having completed every parkrun in WA in 2019 bar Wandoo Prison, finishing at Tamworth. Mel notes WA currently has 38 events, "almost a year of adventuring", and Lyndell notes the sheer distance involved, from Kununurra to Mount Clarence.

• Episode 104

  Nested inside Lyndell's roving report, she flags it explicitly: "It's a parkrun launch in Queensland. It's time for a Statesman update." Schulze reports there is currently no statesman in Queensland (he missed Plantation and Cardwell), that Forest Lake is Queensland's 85th event with Cardwell making 86, and that he plans a trip to Mount Isa to close the gap.

• Episode 76

  Delivered from the field rather than the studio this week, inside Lyndell's Greenbank report. At "the question always comes up at parkrun launches. Are there any statesmen?" She tracks down "our three remaining statesmen who have maintained that status today", Michael, Rasheen and Alan, and interviews them on what it takes to keep the status; Alan and Rasheen are also doing their 100th different Australian parkrun that day. Recapped "three people who kept their Queensland statesmanship today".

• Episode 63

  Discussion of the George Town launch's effect on Tasmanian statesmen, a lot of people lost their statesman title with the new fourth Tasmanian event, including "international statesmen" who will need to make trips over the strait to reclaim it.

• Episode 59 - Nicola Forwood

  Within the Ian Hay segment, Mel asks "what the current state of play is with statesmen". Counts by state: ACT 241, Northern Territory 217, Tasmania 82, New South Wales 3, South Australia 8, Victoria 5, WA 8, Queensland 1, almost 500 all up. Mel notes Weipa has "broken many" aspiring statesmen. Ian adds that, excluding the three small territories/states, only one statesman has never volunteered.

• Episode 2 - Norm Phillips

  Corrections and updates to last week's statesmen talk. Queensland's current statesman is Michael Schultz on 55 events, who was at the Sirromet launch to maintain it; Cathy Rae is the new New South Wales statesman having done all 36 NSW events (and is also one event off statesman in the ACT); and Brendan Peel is confirmed as the show's only multi-statesman, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

• Episode 1

  Prompted by the show's first listener email, from Jez in Western Australia, reporting that Abdul Rayouf Mohamed Issa has become the parkrun statesman for WA, all 17 WA parkruns, and he has also volunteered at every one, making him a volunteer statesman. Scott credits the term to the earlier parkrun show AU hosted by Robbo and Russ. The hosts then discuss how hard a Queensland statesmanship would be (50+ events) and note Alan and Rasheen held it as recently as mid-2015.