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2011 saw the first 1200 km randonnees to be held in the same year as PBP Randonneur, in Australia, Belgium and 5 in the USA.
PBP Randonneur pre-registration in 2011 was preferentially available to riders that completed longer ACP-homologated brevets in 2010, followed by riders that have not completed any ACP-homologated brevets in 2010. Pre-registered riders still needed to complete a SR within the normal PBP entry period. In actuality, most countries did not fill their PBP entry quotas and 5002 started the 2011 PBP Randonneur. Amongst the 4068 finishers were 78 Australians. Leif Grimstveit of Norway and England's Jim Hopper collected their 8th PBPs but the USA's Thai Pham was killed by a vehicle.
New randonneur countries to finish PBP were Belarus (Alexey Lyashko), Finland (Karjalainen, Ilkka & Olli Korhonen, Linnanen, Makipaa, Pietila, Sainio, Jaakko and Jukka Salonen, Stedt and Vainikainen), Hong Kong (Chihung Kwok), Croatia (Ares Bursic, Ino Cvitesic, Darko Fojs and Alen Mose), Jersey (Charles Simmons), South Korea (Chulwoo Han, Soon Kwon Han and In Soo Park), Lithuania (Rimas Grigenas and Vidas Placiakis), Malaysia (Teck Meng Loh), Serbia (Jovan Erakovic, Pedja Popovic and Spasoje Spasojevic), Singapore (Ooi Khiang Heng) and Trindad and Tobago (Patrick Chin-Hong). New randonneuses came from Bulgaria (Bilyana Georgieva and Tanya Hristova), Brasil (Simone Barbisan Fortes), Hong Kong (Kwan Ni Wiwin Leung), Malaysia (Yee Ting Siaw), the Philippines (Carmela Serina), Slovenia (Tanja Kavcic) and Taiwan (Shu-Hsiang Hsu, Chia-Hui Ku, Yiping Lin and Chih Ying Tsai).
Two sessions of PBP Audax were held, in July and August. Several riders took a rare opportunity (the first time in 40 years) to ride PBP Audax and PBP Randonneur in the same month, including the first Australians to ride PBP Audax, Nick Dale and Dave Minter. Judith Swallow was the first Brit to do the double and she and France's Alexandrine Lamouller were the first women to captain PBP Audax.
ACP created the Randonneur 10000 award in 2011, requiring 2 series of 200+300+400+600+1000 BRMs, a Super Randonnee 600, Fleche Velocio, PBP Randonneur, a LRM 1200(+) brevet and sufficient ACP permanents and BRMs to total 10,000km within 6 years.
During 2013, RUSA's Vincent Muoneke completed 9 LRM brevets in Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Taiwan and the USA. LEL had 998 starters and 805 finishers with AUK's John Spooner collecting his 7th. The first elliptical bike riders to finish LEL were Idai Makaya and Alan McDonogh.
2015 PBP Randonneur abolished country quotas and had 4610 finishers from 5915 starters, which for the first time included women from Argentina (Ingrid Karen Guiller), Brazil (Rafaella Della Giustina and Silvia Oliveira), Belarus (Volha Minets), Hungary (Agi Palanki), Poland (Bozena Grabarczyk), Singapore (Khina Ong), Thailand (Sukanya Suwannaka and Sirisawat Yupin) and the Ukraine (Oleksandra Kyrllova and Maryna Moroz). There were also male finishers from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bijelic, Jonanovic, Keser, Ostojic, Stegic and Zivkovic), Camaroon (Robert Ndongue and Paul Tchakoute), China (An, Ding, Feng, Gu, Gui, Han, He, Hu, Huang, G Li, H Li, Liu, Qu, Ren, Shen, Si, Song, W Wang, Y Wang, Wong, Xaio, Xia, Yang, G Yu, H Yu, H Zhang, J Zhang, K Zhang and Zhou), Colombia (Alejandro Mejia and Andres Felipe Montoya), Czech Republic (Jorg Schuck and Tomas Vitvar), Indonesia (Edward Djauhari), Malta (Thomas Farruggia), Moldova (Alexandru Svidchi), Romania (Babes, Boarcini, Ene, Hodi, Nodea, Piciu and Socaci), Sri Lanka (Shan Perera), Thailand (Atiwattananon, Jantawan, Kijwattanakun, Klinnimnual, Navin, Ngamsang, Payungwong, Pianpak, Punnapradabkij, Suchantabut, Sukhochaiwanich, Thanthranon, Thongchai, Udomlaknoppado, Viwatburim and Wattanesen) and Uzbekistan (Rafkat Sulemin). The fastest finisher (sub-43 hours), Germany's Bjorn Lenhard rode unsupported, which is unprecedented in modern times. The first elliptical bike riders (S Blofeld, B Grace, I Makaya, A McDonogh, C Nanton and B Pinnell) and the first handcyclist finished PBP, Italy's Mirco Bressanelli.
Australia had 84 finishers with Rebecca Morton joining Sue Taylor (1999) on 3 PBPs and Jonathan Page’s 6th finish matching Peter Moore's 2011 result. Lois Springsteen (USA) completed her 7th PBP and countrymen Paul Bacho, Thomas Gee and Doug Kirby with Marcel Fieremans (Belgium) collected their 8th. Dierdre Arscott (Canada) and Nicole Chabirand (France) reached 9 PBPs and Francesc Porta Torras (Spain) and Frenchmen Henri Bourel, Jean-Claude Chabirand, Alain Collongues, Christian and Dominique Lamouller and Daniel Maitre joined compatriots Bernard Imbert and Daniel Ravet (both 2011) on 11 PBPs.