This is a collection of various newspaper articles about Cliff over the years.  There is a lot more to add.

Cliff Young’s Legacy holding fast

Mr Young goes to town

Cliffy retires – 86 Westfield

Cliff Young in Perth – 1992

Cliff Young – Newspaper articles in 1993

Cliffy – Youve had a good run

Cliff Young dies at 81

Cliff runs last lap

Fond farewell for Cliff

Otway Shuffler rose to fame

Legend forever Young

Old shuffler saved from himself

Now Cliffy wants to take on the horses

Now Cliff should give it away

Cliff hangs up his shoes

Shuffling for the Salvos

Links to further newspaper articles on Cliff Young:

http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2003/11/07/1068013395051.htm

http://www.bordermail.com.au/newsflow/pageitem?page_id=649877

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/03/1067708115813.html

http://www.ultramarathonworld.com/news_2003/n02no03d.htm

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7751335%255E1702,00.html

http://www.coolrunning.com.au/news/1997n026.shtml

http://www.dinkumaussies.com/MISCELLANY%2FCliff%20Young.htm

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/02/1051382094097.html

http://www.pastornet.net.au/jmm/alpt/alpt0297.htm

http://www.corporatetrends.com.au/mitchell11.html

Cliff Young Running Around Australia at Age 75
2 March 1997

Cliff Young, the potato farmer who became a household name after winning the 1983 Sydney to Melbourne race, has just set off on another jaunt.

At 75 – his birthday was February 9 – he plans to become the oldest person to run more than 16,000 km around Australia. In 1983, Ron Grant ran 13,383 km around Australia, minus Tasmania, in 217 days. (Nobby Young, a letter carrier who is not related, walked around Australia in 1993 and 1994 and has recently begun a walk around the world.)

Cliff Young says he’s fit enough and age has never been an issue : “I’m pain free you could say. I can get back from a 20km and I stand on my head. I’ve got a lot of energy you know.”

He also has a crew to match his enthusiasm. He started from Adelaide with Helen and John Powers of Wollongong, their twin daughters Paula and Bridgette and Trixi, the Chihuahua, and they will all share a motor home for eight or nine months.

Young’s reason for running around Australia is to raise money for street kids. Sponsors fund the trip but money raised when the group puts out buckets in towns will go to City Missions in each State (Rotary in the Northern Territory).

Cliffy, as he is affectionately known, aims to run 65km to 75km a day, heading clockwise. His nickname became the title of his biography, Cliffy’s Book, published in 1995.

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