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THE REAL CHAMPION OF AARHUSLAST weekend’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus had everything. From the breathless, blanket finish in the junior women’s event to the courageous comeback story of senior men’s winner Joshua Cheptegei, the day was full of brilliant races. In Anna Emilie Møller, the No.1 non-African in the women’s race, the host nation had someone to cheer. Against notoriously tough competition, British athletes rose to the occasion. Even the weather gods smiled through gloriously blue Scandinavian skies.

The biggest star of the day, though, was the course. Devilishly designed by the Danish hosts, it was an imaginative blend of old-school features such as mud, water and the mother of all hills up the roof of a museum, with the atmosphere enhanced by tented spectator zones, a Viking gauntlet and mass races for ordinary runners.

Olivia Mason, one of Britain’s under-20 competitors, described the hills as the toughest she’d ever faced – and she lives in Cumbria. Her GB junior team-mate Euan Brennan said the relentless, rollercoaster nature of the course meant it was tougher, in a way, than the European and world mountain running championships he’s competed in.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the images of an exhausted Jakob Ingebrigtsen lying on his back moments after he finished summed up how brutal it was. I even experienced the pain myself by running a mass race run over one lap of 2km toward the end of the day and my lungs were bursting after the opening, uphill charge alone.

The best World Cross in history? It’s certainly up there and surely the ingenious, hard-working folk from the Danish Athletics Federation should be given more events to organise in future. Let’s not forget, of course, they also staged the successful 2014 IAAF World Half-Marathon Champs in Copenhagen.

I would go as far as to suggest giving them a crack at staging the IAAF World Championships in future. As a city, Aarhus is twice as big as the 2021 host Eugene and its main stadium of Ceres Park is roughly the same size as Hayward Field. Aarhus aside, Denmark’s capital of Copenhagen would be an even more glamorous option.

Above: the Aarhus course had everything from mud and water to vicious hills, both up and down (Lars Møller)

Cover: Hellen Obiri wins in Aarhus, plus Joshua Cheptegei, and Kate Avery (Mark Shearman)

Jason Henderson, editor

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Euan Brennan said the relentless, rollercoaster nature of the course

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If a picture is worth a thousand

after the opening, uphill charge alone.

WORLD CROSS COUNTRY6 Denmark delivers in style8 Joshua Cheptegei finds redemption

as he wins the senior men’s title, while Patrick Dever is best of the Brits

12 Hellen Obiri triumphs in her first World Cross as Kate Avery leads home a successful British team

16 Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Matt Willis are top junior Europeans in a race won by Milkesa Mengesha of Ethiopia

18 Beatrice Chebet pips Ethiopian rivals in blanket finish while Grace Brock is Britain’s leading junior placer

20 Ethiopia streak to victory in mixed relay with strong final stage

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PREVIEWS56 ERRA National 12- and 6-Stage Road Relays at

Sutton Park plus a round-up of other road races including Prague Half-Marathon

RESULTS & FIXTURES42 Coverage from the World Masters Championships

and the Brecon Carreg Cardiff Bay 10km59 What’s On fixtures guide

REGULARS38 UKA VIEW Paula Dunn on para-athlete preparations for Dubai

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62 DIP FINISH East Kilbride’s tartan army hit Aarhus in force

STATISTICS32 In the second part of our end-of-winter cross-

country rankings, we look at the U17 age group

PERFORMANCE34 John Shepherd takes a look at drop jumps and

how they can help you improve36 Hannah Winter looks at the psychological links

with athletics injuries

NEWS24 Aarhus passes the baton to Bathurst25 IAAF eases fears over 5000m ‘disappearance’26 Next generation take the announcers’ mic27 Latest news from the national leagues28 Laura Muir to race Vitality Westminster Mile

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THERE was a very strong argument to be made that the 2019 IAAF World

Cross Country Championships had been a success even before a single footstep was run in anger.

Jakob Larsen, the man at the head of the local organising committee claimed the objective was “to turn heads”.

“This has not been about the production of a world championships,” said the Danish Athletic Federation director. “It’s been about designing an experience – for world-class athletes, mass participation runners, spectators and also for people watching on television for five seconds, for half an hour, or indeed for the entire event.”

The plan worked. Advance publicity which surrounded a course on the outskirts of Aarhus that was cleverly innovative and avoided crossing the line into cheap and tacky was nothing but deservedly positive.

The athletes knew as soon as they set foot on the Moesgaard Museum venue turf

that they were tackling something completely different – they had to run over a roof after all.

Here was a challenge which would test them to their very limits both physically and mentally. As the action began, that forecast came true. Just ask Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

“It gave you a lot to think about,” said British athlete

AARHUS RAISES THE ROOF

Full of ups and downs: the Aarhus course had a roof run, mud, sand and more


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Ollie Fox of the layout. “It meant you had to know exactly what your limit is and where your threshold is. It’s a good course for teaching you to be confident in yourself.”

Even though the test was distinctly more European, as expected African runners

were utterly dominant and Ethiopia

the standout nation as they took gold in the mixed relay and under-20 men’s race, only being denied a clean sweep of the team golds by Uganda in the senior men’s competition.

Yet there were no runaway winners. Each race went the distance and there were great battles, talking points and incidents in every contest.

The nature of the course meant no one was safe and the margin of error invisible.

There were European success stories, too – particularly in the form of Denmark’s Anna Emilie Møller delighting the home crowd and taking a brilliant individual 15th place, Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack coming 18th just six months after giving birth

and the British line-up finishing fourth in the senior women’s team standings.

Aarhus 2019 had it all – and undoubtedly gave cross country running the boost it so badly needed and so richly deserved.

The Australian city of Bathurst, hosts for the next edition in 2021, has got a hard act to follow.

INNOVATIVE DANES DELIVER A WORLD CROSS THAT WILL LIVE LONG IN THE MEMORYWORDS: JASON HENDERSON & EUAN CRUMLEY PICTURES: MARK SHEARMAN & LARS MØLLERAARHUS RAISES THE ROOF

Aarhus winnersSenior men: Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda)Team winners: UgandaSenior women: Hellen Obiri (Kenya)Team winners: EthiopiaU20 men: Milkesa Mengesha (Ethiopia)Team winners: EthiopiaU20 women: Beatrice Chebet (Kenya)Team winners: Ethiopia4x2km mixed relay: Ethiopia



Senior menTWO YEARS ago Joshua Cheptegei hit the cross-country equivalent of The Wall. Leading the men’s race at the World Cross on home soil at the Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala by 11 seconds with a lap to go, he suddenly went into meltdown. Geoffrey Kamworor shot past to claim his second consecutive title and Cheptegei staggered home, rubber-legged, in 30th place.

Last weekend in Denmark it was a different story. Two years older, wiser and stronger – and minus the pressure of being the host nation hope – the Ugandan runner powered to victory ahead of team-mate Jacob Kiplimo with Kamworor third.

Not only did Cheptegei bury the ghosts of Kampala but he did it while carrying a cold, too. Such was the strength of his surge in the closing stages, he beat Kiplimo by four seconds with Kamworor a further 11 seconds back.

Talking after the race, the 22-year-old casually mentioned he’d had “a problem with flu and cold in the last three days”. On his redemption from the Kampala implosion, he added: “If there was really anyone who wanted gold today, it was me.”

It was a phenomenal achievement to beat not only

2017 world junior cross-country champion Kiplimo into second and Kamworor into third but Aron Kifle of Eritrea, Selemon Barega of Ethiopia and Rhonex Kipruto of Kenya – a trio of world-class runners who completed the top six.

In Kampala he floundered in the closing stages on a flat course in warm temperatures and high humidity. But at the Moesgaard Museum, on the outskirts of Aarhus, Cheptegei handled the never-ending climbs and descents of this

rolling course to carve out a memorable win.

“Everything on the course is a killer,” said the winner. “I’d really prepared for this race. I don’t speak about my training before the race but now I will post details of it on my Instagram. The success is because of my manager Jurrie van der Velden and my coach Addy (Ruiter). They are my magicians.”

True to his word, his Instagram page later featured images of him charging across undulating ground in the Mount

Elgon National Park in eastern Uganda and it is fearsome sessions like this that gave him the strength to prevail in Aarhus.

A few months after his collapse in Kampala, Cheptegei won world 10,000m silver behind Mo Farah in London. As he prepares for the Virgin Money London Marathon, the Briton will no doubt have been among the thousands of keen spectators following the event online as Cheptegei claimed one of the few major titles that has eluded Farah during his great career.


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JOSHUA CHEPTEGEI LEADS UGANDAN ONE-TWO AS REIGNING CHAMPION GEOFFREY KAMWOROR FINISHES THIRD

REDEMPTION FOR CHEPTEGEI

Ugandan one-two: Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo beat defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor

Joshua Cheptegei: delighted to win


Cheptegei, who also won Commonwealth 5000m and 10,000m gold last year, attributed his success on Saturday to gaining more experience in the past two years. He also paid tribute to former training partners Kamworor and world marathon record-holder Eliud Kipchoge.

“A lot of things have changed between then and now,” he said, referring to Kampala 2017. “I had less experience back then. I have grown as a senior now and am stronger.”

As the race unfolded on Saturday afternoon in Aarhus, Africans were immediately to the fore. But as the race reached its climax the lead pack whittled down to just Cheptegei, Kiplimo and Kamworor and, as they negotiated the last of five laps, the Ugandan duo pulled away.

“I realised gold was possible in the last two kilometres and that I was in contention to win,” Cheptegei said. “It wasn’t easy for me with a lot of flu and cold but I had to endure.”

As Cheptegei strode up the

final climb on the museum roof for the last time, he glanced to his right to see the Kattegat Sea in the distance before sweeping down to the finish line to take Uganda’s first World Cross senior title. What’s more, he led Uganda to team gold thanks to Thomas Ayeko in seventh and Joseph Ayeko in 10th.

Silver medallist Kiplimo said: “I am a front runner and don’t like running behind. So I was trying to push the pace. I was not really expecting to win but wanted to be on the podium. In the last kilometre I was very tired and just followed Cheptegei.”

Cheptegei described Kiplimo as his brother and Kamworor as his friend and the Kenyan was equally polite. “The course was really tough, especially on top of the roof,” said Kamworor. “I’m satisfied with bronze. I was aiming for gold but I gave it all and I have to be happy with

that. There is always a next time so I will keep focused and move on to the next one.”

The Ugandan team easily beat Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Burundi to the team prize as Britain finished ninth, led home by Patrick Dever in 37th – the Loughborough student finishing three seconds behind leading American Shadrack Kipchirchir.

Mahamad Mahamad was next Brit in 44th, Adam Hickey was 51st, Ollie Fox was 58th, Ross Millington 64th and Luke Traynor 107th (see overleaf).

First European home was Robel Fsiha, an Eritrean-born athlete who moved to Sweden five years ago. Only 40th in the Euro Cross, the 23-year-old excelled on Aarhus’ rollercoaster course to place 17th. Close behind in the battle to be first European was Ouassim Oumaiz – the Spaniard placing 20th on his 20th birthday. JH



REDEMPTION FOR CHEPTEGEI

Winner Joshua Cheptegei with Jacob Kiplimo (left) and Geoffrey Kamworor (right)

One of the challenges included a short section of gloopy mud


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FOR a runner who has grown up in a relatively flat part of Lancashire and studied in the flattish market town of Loughborough, Patrick Dever revelled on the brutal undulations of the World Cross course in Aarhus.

The 22-year-old was the top Brit in the senior men’s race in 37th but says he did actually manage to get quite a lot of hill training done before the championships.

“I probably do more hills in Loughborough than when I’m at home,” he says. “There’s always hill training in our winter programme and I run in the nearby Outwoods, Beacon Hill and Bradgate Park.

“We do hill reps on Tuesday in winter and hill reps getting ready for the track season. And on the Saturday on the grass there are usually hills.

“So I felt my training was pretty decent although I didn’t realise the course was going to

be quite as hilly as it was. I thought there would be one hill over the museum and that the rest of it would be pretty flat. So I’m glad I did lots of hills in training.”

Dever is coached by Andy Bibby at Preston Harriers and trains in Avenham and Miller Park when he is at home in Leyland. But right now he’s in his fourth and final year of a retail, marketing and management degree at Loughborough and joins in coach George Gandy’s sessions along with housemates such as Jamie Williamson and Will Fuller.

On his World Cross experience, he said: “My first senior world champs is definitely the biggest event I’ve been to and hopefully the first of many. For my first one I don’t think I could have asked for it to go much better and the memories will live with me for the rest of my career – 100%.”

Dever was fourth in the trials at Prestwold Park, fifth in the European under-23 race in Tilburg in December and a very close runner-up to Emile Cairess at the BUCS Cross in February. But in Aarhus he excelled.

He hopes it will act as a springboard to a summer of PBs on the track, too. He goes to Portugal this week for a three-week warm-weather training camp and will return to race 1500m or 5000m at the BUCS Championships.

He’s too old to do the European Under-23s this summer so mainly wants to improve his PBs – especially

after missing last summer with a stress fracture of the metatarsal – and he has half an eye on the Highgate 10,000m in July with a dream of making the IAAF World Championships in Doha.

“I know I’ve got some big PBs in me and maybe heading abroad to target a fast 5000m and maybe the 10,000m at

Highgate, which looks like such a good event to do and I’ve been toying with doing it for the last couple of seasons,” he says.

“But I don’t want to step up in distance too early as I feel I’ve got a long career ahead and I think I can run some good times at 1500m and 5000m so I’d like to max out in them first.” JH

DEVER DELIVERS ONA DEVILISH COURSELOUGHBOROUGH MAN BEST OF THE BRITS IN TOUGH MEN’S RACE IN AARHUS

Patrick Dever: feels his World Cross

debut could hardly have gone better


BRITISH trials winner Adam Hickey had what his coach Eamonn Martin described as a “respectable run” in 51st and the Southend athlete produced one of the best quotes of the weekend at the pre-event press conference.

Laura Arcoleo of the IAAF introduced Hickey by reading his social media biography: “Husband, father, runner, fi refi ghter, run and fi tness coach, dad to two crazy boys, husband to an awesome wife ... You must be a really busy man!?”

Hickey replied: “Yes, this feels like a bit of a break, actually!” More seriously, he added: “It’s not quite a holiday but it’s good to get away for a competition.”

The 30-year-old, who was returning to the World Cross for the fi rst time since 2007, works shifts as a fi refi ghter where he does a couple of days from 7am to 7pm and a couple of days from 7pm until 7am and then has four days off, so he organises his harder sessions for those days.

Hickey is not the only runner who juggles a busy life either. Ollie Fox is in his fourth year of medical studies at Cambridge University and is also dealing with Crohn’s disease.

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MAHAMED MAHAMED ran solidly in his fi rst World Cross to fi nish second Brit home in 44th.

The English National champion and British Athletics Cross Challenge winner was pleased with his run and said: “It went really well. It’s my fi rst world championships so hopefully I can take lessons from here and try to develop myself.”

The 21-year-old Southampton runner added: “I have a long way to go. It’s all about experience for me but I’m really happy with my position.”

Close behind, Adam Hickey placed just outside his top 50 goal in 51st, Ollie Fox was 58th, Ross Millington 64th and Luke Traynor 107th.

Hickey said: “I felt relaxed at the start and tried to move through on the second lap but maybe I should have waited another lap or so. I didn’t feel too bad but then began to tire, maybe on the fourth lap, and that’s when Mahamed came past me.”

Fox said: “I think I set off a tiny bit too fast – not massively but enough just to feel it at the end. You couldn’t recover on the downhills – if you tried to do that then guys would just come fl ying past.”

He added: “It’s a great course and is exactly what we need to marry up the elite runners and the people who run (recreationally) every week.

“It’s a massive market for athletics which is untapped at the moment and that’s a massive shame but hopefully they’re seeing that now and starting to bring things together.

“It gave you a lot to think about and you have to use your brain a bit more. It means you have to know exactly what your limit is and where your threshold is. It’s a good course for teaching you to be confi dent in yourself.”

Hopefully the team will return in Bathurst 2021.

MAHAMED’S MARK

HICKEY’S RESPECTABLE RUN DURING HIS ‘AARHUS BREAK’

Adam Hickey: helped

the IAAF set the scene

for the event

MahamedMahamed:second Brit home

Ollie Fox:medical student enjoyed

a fine run on

a brutal course

Patrick Dever and Adam Hickey: Britons paced their races well to run

to their potential

Ollie Fox:medical student enjoyed

run on a brutal course


Senior womenHELLEN OBIRI felt this would be her one and only chance. If ever she was going to create history and become the first woman to win senior individual IAAF world gold medals indoors, outdoors and over cross country, it had to happen in Aarhus. And happen it did.

For someone who was making her debut in the global event, the 29-year-old looked like a seasoned veteran. Given her pedigree, and the fact that she had won all three cross country races she had competed in this year, including the Kenyan cross country championships in February, the reigning 5000m world and Commonwealth champion’s victory would hardly qualify as a surprise.

Even more so when she looked so at home in leading for so much of the senior women’s race on a course which was putting the abilities of the world’s finest under such serious scrutiny.

Obiri showed impressive control from the front of the 10.24km contest, pushing the pace just when she felt it was needed and maintaining her efforts on the strength-sapping uphills.

The winning time of 36:14 brought her home two seconds ahead of Ethiopian cross country champion Dera Dida, who was followed by her compatriot and twice junior world cross champion Letesenbet Gidey in 36:24.

“This win was very special to me,” said Obiri, who matched the same hat-trick achieved on the men’s side by Kenenisa Bekele. “It was easily the toughest race I have ever done and probably my last cross country race. That motivated me to run extra hard. The wind, the mud, the water – everything made the route tough but special.

“I decided to do the cross country because it was the only medal I was missing in my career and I said to myself

‘this is the last chance I have’. I decided to give all I can and I have won it, so I’m so happy.”

It was the Kenyan duo of Obiri and steeplechase world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech who were at the head of affairs early on and leading a large group when completing the first of five laps.

That contingent was whittled down to just five athletes during the course of the following lap, with Dida, Gidey and Ugandan Peruth Chemutai also making their presence felt.

Chepkoech was the first to drop away and, with Chemutai also beginning to falter ever so slightly, the three eventual medallists started to put a little daylight between themselves and the rest of the field.

Though never looking entirely comfortable on the climbs, and tackling them with an almost exaggerated forward lean, Obiri still appeared ready to respond whenever she was threatened and regular injections of speed kept her firmly on the front foot.


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HELLEN CREATES HISTORYAARHUS WIN COMPLETES A REMARKABLE HAT-TRICK FOR KENYAN OBIRI

Hellen Obiri: added the cross country title to her senior world indoor and outdoor wins


In the pre-event press conference, the Olympic silver medallist had pointed out that psychological strength would be just as crucial a factor as physical talent. She was proved to be entirely right.

Obiri could never entirely shake off her pursuers and there was very little to separate the leading trio as they entered the closing stages.

However, when she called on her finishing speed in the closing

stretch, the result was put beyond doubt as she charged down the straight to break the tape.

“The other ladies were very, very strong and as for me I was a bit poor with hill work,” admitted Obiri, who is set to make her first track appearance of the year in the 3000m at the Doha Diamond League in early May and whose main focus this year will be to defend her world title in the Qatari capital.

“I did not want to look up (on the climbs) otherwise I would get tired so I looked down.”

She added: “It was not about speed, it was all about the mind. I had to be patient and to focus. That’s all I needed.”

Behind her, the British-based European under-23 cross country champion and home favourite Anna Emilie Møller, who studies at St Mary’s, responded to the support of the Danish crowd and produced a superb

run to be the first European home, in 15th place, thanks to a strong finish.

One of the most impressive performances of the day, however, came from Ireland’s twice European cross champion Fionnuala McCormack, crossing the line in 18th just six months after giving birth.

In the team standings, gold went to Ethiopia, with Kenya winning silver and Uganda taking the bronze. EC



HELLEN CREATES HISTORY

Hellen Obiri: on top of the podium again alongside Dera Dida and Letesenbet Gidey

Hellen Obiri: crosses

the line to take the

women’s world crown

Anna Emilie Møller and Fionnuala McCormack: top Europeans in 15th and 18th respectively

Top three: Obiri won from Dera Dida and Letesenbet Gidey



WORLD CROSS CHAMPSKATE AVERY is turning her attention to reaching Tokyo 2020 after completing a cross country comeback season to remember in Aarhus.

The 27-year-old, who had been beset by injury problems in recent years, showed a return to form and fitness at the end of 2018 when she won the Milton Keynes Cross Challenge and then captained the British team for the European Cross Country Championships at which she helped the senior women to team silver.

She was to the fore once again at the World Cross Country Championships, coming home first for her country in 30th place as the side achieved an impressive fourth place in the team standings.

Avery was followed closely by Mhairi Maclennan, whose fine performance brought 32nd spot, while trials winner Jenny Nesbitt was 34th and team captain Jess Piasecki 36th to complete the scorers.

Emily Hosker Thornhill came 48th while 19-year-old Amelia Quirk was 79th on her senior British debut.

Avery’s thoughts will now turn to the track, with an appearance now planned at the Highgate Night of the 10,000m PBs in early July, but it is a longer-term goal which is at the top of her priority list.

“In my head I had (the aim of) top 30 and then I saw the course and I just didn’t know what to expect,” she said of her Denmark showing.

“My only concern was pacing it right. Generally in a cross country race you’ll get out hard, then you can relax, pick it up or whatever you need to do but that was just like…”

Avery is guided by coach Terrence Mahon and insisted the “brutally honest” American is helping her thrive.

AVERY’S TOKYO TARGET

TOP BRITISH FINISHER

IN AARHUS CAPS FINE

COMEBACK SEASON

Kate Avery: now targets Tokyo


“Training has gone up another notch,” she added. “At the start of the season we were very cautious because it was not worth pushing it due to my ultimate goal being the Olympics. If this season had been average then I would have known the reasons behind it but I’ve been really pleased about how everything has gone.

“Terrence is brutally honest, which I love, so we work really well together and I’m lucky enough with the coaches in Loughborough where I’m based – they allow me to jump in wherever it fits so I’ve been trying to do a bit with Millie (Courtney) predominantly and she’s been bringing me on.

“After my previous couple of years, I definitely have a different perspective and it is frustrating to be patient, but that’s what I’m trying to do.

“This year we’re just going to build again, because I’m still not back up to what I was doing previously. I’ll be trying to get back up to that.”

Piasecki, who competed at the world cross in Mombasa 12 years ago, has also enjoyed a return to the top level after health and injury issues.

She was delighted with the side’s performance.

“The team ran really well, which is what I’m most proud of,” she said. “As captain I wanted us all to run really strongly and pack really well, which we did again.”

She added: “I started running again as a way to keep fit. I just wanted to enjoy things again and to be here as team captain of the Great Britain squad is like nothing I would ever have dreamed of.

“Now I’m here, I always want more, I want to be on that world stage continuously – not 40th or 50th or whatever but amongst the best and hopefully I can keep building now.”

Maclennan showed real maturity to move her way steadily through the field and said: “I loved it – it was really, really fun and when it was hurting you just had to remember what an amazing experience it was and try to soak up the atmosphere as much as you could.

“Everyone’s hurting but you’ve just got to go ‘wow, this is a world stage. These girls are the best in their countries’ and it’s just phenomenal to be able to line up against them.”

PIPPA WOOLVEN admitted that missing out on selection for the British team had been ‘heartbreaking’ but she was delighted to gain her first experience of world championship competition after paying her own way to race in Aarhus and coming 35th.

The 25-year-old had been in fine form, coming ninth at the Euro Cross in December before a fourth place at the Simplyhealth Great Stirling XCountry, winning the Southern title and coming runner-up at the English National this year.

However, a cold meant she missed the Inter-Counties event that doubled as the world trials and, with the first six in the race ultimately selected, there was no place for her in the British team.

She still made her way to Denmark and instead represented world cross sponsors Mikkeller. Though her performance did not register in the official results, Woolven finished in between compatriots Jenny Nesbitt and Jess Piasecki.

“Unfortunately the selection criteria didn’t work in my favour,” said Woolven. “Instead of selecting on current form and past form in races this winter, it was based on the top six in the Inter-Counties which felt slightly hard done by.

“I’d worked all winter with a full-time job (in visitor experience for the National Trust), getting out there

in the dark, the morning and evening, putting my coach and family through the rigours of elite training so to not get picked was pretty heartbreaking.

“My coach (Matt Whiting) found a loophole in the sub-elite race and I got here representing Mikkeller, who were kind enough to take me on.

“I’ve got some world championship experience now so that’s great going forward. I have absolutely nothing against my team-mates who I see at races everywhere and they were so welcoming to me.

“Lots of people made me feel very welcome and it’s been worth doing. I’ve got a great set-up back at home and just came out here and ran as hard as I could and I enjoyed it.” EC



INVESTMENT PAYSOFF FOR WOOLVEN

Pippa Woolven: represented

Mikkeller

Jessica Piasecki:

captain of the GB team

Mhairi Maclennan:

second Briton

Jenny Nesbitt: trials winner

was 34th


Under-20 menJAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN’s surprise late decision to take on the east Africans in the junior men’s race ended in defeat but the Norwegian earned plaudits for being bold enough to try.

The 18-year-old gave it a brave shot – sitting prominently in the early stages before gradually fading to finish 12th – and he was a battered and bruised figure as he crossed the finish line, collapsing to the ground in exhaustion before being helped away by officials.

The Norwegian was defeated by the strength in numbers of a phalanx of east Africans who ensured the pace was relentless on the viciously rolling course on the outskirts of Aarhus.

Milkesa Mengesha took gold – he was only third in the

Ethiopian trials and was one of five Ethiopians to finish ahead of Ingebrigtsen, one of whom sped past the tiring European champion in the home straight.

However, Ingebrigtsen was not only first European but top non-African and later described it as a “fun” event. Only a few weeks earlier he had won the European indoor 3000m title in Glasgow and his tall, muscular build is probably more suited to track racing than cross country. “It was a tough race, course and competitors,” he added, “but all in all a good race and lot of experience.”

Behind, Matt Willis of Britain

ran superbly to be second European home in 25th. The east Africans were in a different league, though.

As well as five Ethiopians, there were three Ugandans and three Kenyans that finished in front of Ingebrigtsen. Mengesha and fellow Ethiopian Tadese Worku broke away in the final lap and the duo held on for an Ethiopian one-two as they led their country to a comfortable team victory.

In third, Oscar Chelimo led Uganda to the team silver as Kenya, in third, failed to win an individual medal in this race for the first time since 1984.

There was then a huge gap of 110 points between Kenya and fourth-placed Morocco, with Britain finishing eighth.

Mengesha, 18, clocked 23:52 with Worku two seconds behind and Chelimo only a further second in arrears as Leonard Kipkemoi Bett was the first Kenyan to finish in fourth and Ingebrigtsen clocking 24:39.

“It was a very difficult race,” said Mengesha. “It was an amazing experience and I would like to thank everyone out here including my team. We train very hard for this, so it is very nice to bring them the gold.” JH


AFRICAN JUNIORS RULEMILKESA MENGESHA LEADS AFRICAN DOMINATION AS JAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN AND MATT WILLIS FINISH AS TOP EUROPEANS

WORLD CROSS CHAMPS

Jakob Ingebrigtsen:exhausted in 12th

Mengesha won from team-mate Tadese Worku and Uganda’s Oscar Chelimo

Milkesa Mengesha: stormed to success

Ethiopians to the fore in the under-20 men’s race


MATT WILLIS utilised his gritty triathlon mentality and some smart race tactics to work his way into 25th place – the No.2 European behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

“I knew it was going to be a burner from the start,” he said, “and I tried to use my weight on the downhills and try to limit the damage going up the hills and pace it right – and I think I managed to get it right.”

The Loughborough student is the latest triathlete to excel against specialist runners and he proved his trials win was not a one-off with a brilliant run in Aarhus. Although he did not find it easy.

“The hardest bit for me was the sand at the top of the museum,” he said. “I was already going at about walking pace and then I hit these patches of sand. It makes you so sluggish when you hit bits like that. But I generally loved the whole thing – the challenges and the atmosphere and running up the museum. It was a crazy race.”

Willis’ position was the best by a Brit in this race since David Forrester’s 24th in 2008 and he equalled Mo Farah’s best place as a junior.

He added: “People were

shouting on the course that I was second European and that acted as motivation to keep me going. It’s a real shock to me.”

Backing Willis up, Rory Leonard ran strongly in 37th. “It was the hardest race of my life but easily the best,” he said. “That was so satisfying because I’ve been unlucky in GB vests twice now. The first time I didn’t run well, the second time I had shoe issues.”

Leonard added: “I didn’t go out too hard because if you do that on this course then you’re not going to come back very healthy. I came wanting a top 50 place.

“It’s a crazy event – it’s just wild. You get the adrenaline for the first 200m/300m but you lose that pretty quickly!

“I take a lot of experience from that. It’s not a cocky thing to say I’m not used to running in 30th/40th place in domestic races so it was a case of trying to learn that, in an event like this, you’re not going to be racing at the front.

“You’ve got to understand that sometimes you just have to race in that kind of place.”

Euan Brennan showed his mountain running background to finish 50th on the hilly course, although he said mountain running championships with long, gradual climbs are very different to the rollercoaster nature of the Aarhus course.

“I’ve done world and Europeans on the mountains but they are completely different to here,” said Brennan. “At those events you have time to get into a rhythm and it’s more of a mental game where you know you have about 20 minutes of climbing to do whereas here (in Aarhus) the hills were short and fast and just keep coming at you.

“You see the likes of the Ugandans training on undulating terrain all the time so they get used to breaking their stride like that. One of the surprising bits of the course here was the sand. Every time I hit that it took so much out of my legs. Not so

much on the sand section but the small bits of sand on the museum hill.”

Josh Cowperthwaite finished 62nd and said: “The third and fourth laps were really tough and I really had to dig in to try and keep up with people. I did drop back but my legs just completely went.

“It’s a relentless pace from the gun. There’s no time for breathing or dropping back – you’ve just got to keep going and hang on for as long as you can.”

Just behind in 66th, Zak Mahamed said it was good experience given this was his first GB cross-country vest. “It was all right,” he shrugged.

“It’s probably the toughest course I’ve ever run on. My position is not what I expected but I’m happy I finished the race and it’s good experience for me and something I’ll never forget and I’ll take this, go home, train harder and come back stronger.”

Ben West did not finish. JH



WILLIS LEADS BY EXAMPLE

Rory Leonard: 37th place

Matt Willis and GB team-mate Josh

Cowperthwaite drive through the

water splash


Under-20 womenBEATRICE CHEBET held her arms aloft, thinking she had won. The finish to the women’s under-20 race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships had been incredibly tight but, to the naked eye, it looked like she had won, too. TV replays showed likewise.

And yet, due to the finishing tape having been held behind the line, confusion began to reign as Ethiopia’s Alemitu Tariku and Tsigie Gebreselama, who had given everything to chase down their Kenyan opponent and whose momentum had carried them past Chebet once the actual line had been crossed and the fabric broken, were initially announced in gold and silver medal positions respectively.

All three had been given the same finishing time of 20:50 after the three-lap contest of just under 6km and Chebet, it seemed, would have to settle for bronze.

The 5000m world junior champion couldn’t quite believe it but, after the photo finish footage was hastily reviewed,

Chebet was correctly placed at the top of the podium.

“At first I was disappointed, as I was told I was third and I thought I had won, but now I

am happy,” said the 19-year-old. “I am very proud to bring the gold to Kenya, and the team is also very proud. It was a very competitive course but, with the Ugandan runners and Ethiopian runners, it was great.”

It had indeed been a great contest, during which Uganda’s Sarah Chelangat, the 17-year-old Youth Olympic champion in the combined 3000m and cross country, held a slender lead at the head of a large pack going into the second lap.

She was still there at the bell, too, with Tariku close by alongside fellow Ethiopian Girmawit Gebrzihair, Chebet and Gebreselama, among others.

Chelangat had been doing all of the hard work, though, and it seemed like only a matter of time before someone took advantage and pounced.

Chebet and Tariku did just that but Gebreselama stuck with them, while Chelangat did her best to mount a charge. It would all come down to the downhill finishing straight and none of the athletes refused to give an inch, with the top three producing that remarkable finale.

Chelangat, for her part, was just a second behind in fourth.

Italy’s European Cross U20 champion – Nadia Battocletti – was the first European over the line in 23rd after overtaking


JUNIOR 5000m CHAMPION TAKES WORLD CROSS GOLD … EVENTUALLY

WORLD CROSS CHAMPS

IT’S WORTH THE WAIT FOR CHEBET

Beatrice Chebet takes it on the line but had a nervous wait for confirmed victory




Britain’s Grace Brock, who came 25th with a well-judged run, in the latter stages.

Britain were seventh overall in the team standings, Amelia

Samuels coming 35th on her GB debut, while Becky Briggs and Charlotte Alexander were 44th and 49th respectively.

Eloise Walker was two places behind while Olivia Mason’s fast start caught up with her as she finished 57th.

Team gold went to Ethiopia, with Kenya in silver, while Japan sprung a surprise to beat Uganda to the bronze medal by a single point.

For Brock, it was the end of a fine cross country season which had seen her win the Inter-Counties, finish second at the National, win the Cross Challenge in Dundonald and come 11th at the European

Championships as part of the British under-20 gold medal-winning team in Tilburg.

“It was amazing,” said the Cornwall AC athlete. “And the European champion only overtook me on the last bit. To make that jump from 11th at the Europeans and to be second European here is more than I could have asked for.

“It was an amazing atmosphere all around the course and that really spurred me on in the closing stages.

“I maybe didn’t kick quite as well as I would have liked at the end but I am really pleased – 25th place is a higher placing than I was expecting so I’m over the moon.

“There were constant challenges. You were either going up, down, through an obstacle and there were always

changes of pace the whole way but I felt I made my way up after quite a fast start.”

As a resident of Cumbria, Border athlete Mason is used to a hill or two. This, she admitted, was something entirely different, though.

“I set off really quickly and got a bit excited and thought the pace was easy but I really paid for it on the second and third laps,” she admitted. “The leaders carried on at the same pace but it was a hard pace for me so I really paid for it, especially with those hills.

“I thought I’d be quite prepared for the hills as the cross-country courses in the UK are tough but I think this was 100 times worse! There wasn’t one bit of flat.

“Generally I don’t mind hills. My legs turned to lead here.” EC

IT’S WORTH THE WAIT FOR CHEBET

Alemitu Tariku, Beatrice Chebet and Tsigie Gebreselama receive their prizes

Grace Brock:second

European

Amelia Samuels: 35th on GB debut

Becky Briggs: finished in a fine 44th place

The under-20 women’s field takes on the challenging Aarhus course


Mixed relayTHE first race of the day – the 4x2km mixed relay – was an intriguing chance to see how athletes would handle the course. Certainly, it did not quite prove the ‘leveller’ that some predicted as East Africans established the tone for the day by easing to the front straight away.

The mud pit, water splash and sand section did not appear to trouble the runners too much either – and the Runner’s Valhalla was largely bereft of Mikkeller beer-swilling fans as it was still mid-morning in Denmark – but the big hill near the end of each stage saw mini-breakaways on some of the stages. It was clear, too, the

relentless undulations would take their toll on anyone who failed to pace their effort well.

This happened to Winfred Mbithe – Kenyan’s female runner on the anchor stage – as she faded dramatically back to third place after her team had been neck and neck with Ethiopia for three quarters of the race.

In comparison, Fantu Worku enjoyed the ‘glory leg’ for the winning country as she blasted to victory, eventually carving out a winning margin of more than half a minute, which was remarkable given how close the early stages were.

Given the pedigree of the Kenyan team, the result was an upset. The Kenyan quartet began the race with Olympic and world men’s steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto but he found Kebede Endale of Ethiopia surging past him up the hill on the roof of the Moesgaard Museum toward the end of the opening 2km stage.

Not far behind, Soufiane El Bakkali kept Morocco in the frame for a medal with a strong run.

On the second stage, Bone Cheluke maintained Ethiopia’s narrow lead over Kenya’s Jarinter Mwasya.

This continued on the third stage as Teddese Lemi gave Ethiopia a small lead over the world 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi of Kenya as Morocco sat in third place, a few seconds adrift of the two leading countries, thanks to a strong run from former world indoor 1500m champion Abdelaati Iguider.

Halfway through the final stage, though, the race was decided as Worku pulled away from her Kenyan rival Mbithe to eventually claim the win by 33 seconds.

Mbithe endured a painful final few hundred metres, too, as she was passed by the fast-finishing Rabab Arrafi of Morocco in the fight for silver in a dramatic conclusion to the race.

About an hour after the race, Morocco was disqualified for handing over their wristband – the cross-country equivalent of a relay baton – before the start of the exchange zone. But they later filed a successful appeal against the decision and kept their silver medals.

Worku said: “It was a very hard course, and especially the roof was a challenge. But I was very happy for the downhill parts and it was good we had tested the route before the race. After silver at the last championships (Kampala 2017), we went home to train hard, and we are very proud to claim the gold here.”

In behind the first three were the United States in fourth, Uganda fifth, Spain sixth, Canada seventh, China eighth, Denmark ninth and Tanzania 10th, while Great Britain did not enter a team. JH


FANTU-TASTIC ANCHOR GIVES ETHIOPIA GOLDFANTU WORKU BRINGS ETHIOPIA HOME AS EMPHATIC WINNERS AS MOROCCO PIP KENYA FOR SILVER

WORLD CROSS CHAMPS

Teddese Lemi: leads from Elijah Manangoi on leg three of the mixed relay

Fantu Worku: anchored Ethiopia to victory after silver in 2017




RESULTSSenior men: 1 J Cheptegei (UGA) 31:40, 2 J Kiplimo (UGA) 31:44, 3 G Kamworor (KEN) 31:55, 4 A Kifle (ERI) 32:04, 5 S Barega (ETH) 32:16, 6 R Kipruto (KEN) 32:17, 7 T Ayeko (UGA) 32:25, 8 An Belihu (ETH) 32:29, 9 T Ndikumwenayo (BDI) 32:29, 10 J Ayeko (UGA) 32:32, 11 R Kwizéra (BDI) 32:37, 12 A Chemutai (UGA) 32:46, 13 R Yator (KEN) 32:51, 14 O Nzikwinkunda (BDI) 32:56, 15 A Fufa (ETH) 33:01, 16 P Mashele (RSA) 33:05, 17 R Fsiha (SWE) 33:06, 18 M Tuemay (ETH) 33:06, 19 B Yemataw (BRN) 33:08, 20 O Oumaiz (ESP) 33:10, 21 R Chumo (KEN) 33:11, 22 F Ande (ERI) 33:12, 23 A Rop (BRN) 33:15, 24 D Fikadu (BRN) 33:18, 25 E Mekonnen (ETH) 33:23, 26 A Kaya (TUR) 33:25, 27 M Rotich (UGA) 33:28, 28 A Habte (ERI) 33:32, 29 Y Hailesilassie (ERI) 33:33, 30 B Robinson (AUS) 33:34, 31 M Tsegay (ERI) 33:35, 32 J Tiophil (TAN) 33:37, 33 H Chani (BRN) 33:38, 34 S Kipchirchir (USA) 33:46, 35 S Kebenei (USA) 33:47, 36 N Solomon (SWE) 33:49, 37 PATRICK DEVER 33:49, 38 A Kirui (KEN) 33:53, 39 M Ramsden (AUS) 33:56, 40 B Dida (ETH) 33:57, 41 F Carro (ESP) 33:58, 42 R Teixeira (POR) 33:58, 43 N Hitimana (RWA) 33:59, 44 MAHAMED MAHAMED 34:01, 45 E Keitany (KEN) 34:03, 46 M Baxter (NZL) 34:03, 47 B Theophile (RWA) 34:08, 48 F Muhitira (RWA) 34:11, 49 D Lazaro Faraja (TAN) 34:12, 50 E Roudolff Lévisse (FRA) 34:12, 51 ADAM HICKEY 34:12, 52 M Marco (TAN) 34:14, 53 J Luis Rojas (PER) 34:15, 54 Hamid Ben Daoud (ESP) 34:17, 55 M Sesebo (BOT) 34:17, 56 H Summers (AUS) 34:23, 57 O Irabaruta (BDI) 34:25, 58 OLIVER FOX 34:27, 59 P Mthembu (RSA) 34:27, 60 H Bor (USA) 34:29, 61 F Damiano Damasi (TAN) 34:33, 62 S Tobin (IRL) 34:33, 63 J Rayner (AUS) 34:33, 64 ROSS MILLINGTON 34:35, 65 Y Bando (JPN) 34:35, 66 A Lamdassem (ESP) 34:42, 67 T Mosiako (RSA) 34:43, 68 A Hakin Ulad 34:43, 69 E Bor (USA) 34:43, 70 R Mphahlele (RSA) 34:50, 71 M Gras (FRA) 34:51, 72 TTewelde (ERI) 34:52, 73 L Korir (USA) 34:53, 74 Y Tamura (JPN) 34:54, 75 R Diphoko (BOT) 34:57, 76 M Ferlic (USA) 34:59, 77 B Preisner (CAN) 35:01, 78 Y Nakaya (JPN) 35:01, 79 J Pérez (ESP) 35:04, 80 K Yamaguchi (JPN) 35:04, 81 O Hesselbjerg 35:04, 82 R Linkletter (CAN) 35:05, 83 F Bruno (ARG) 35:07, 84 CTuyishimire (RWA) 35:08, 85 A Moham Jamal (ART) 35:09, 86 A Daud Roble (SOM) 35:11, 87 C Nyamutsita (ZIM) 35:12, 88 G G Geay (TAN) 35:16, 89 O Ramos (PER) 35:17, 90 Z Bacha (BRN) 35:18, 91 Y Sikubwabo (CAN) 35:21, 92 Y Komatsu (JPN) 35:24, 93 J Simonsen 35:24, 94 P Glans 35:26, 95 J Bruce (AUS) 35:32, 96 D Johnatas (BRA) 35:34, 97 E El-Sandali (CAN) 35:35, 98 P Wheeler (NZL) 35:38, (TOM WADE (gst) 35:40) 99 Y Nishiyama (JPN) 35:42, 100 M Moussaoui (FRA) 35:53, 101 A Hamdallah (EGY) 35:54, 102 J Gay (CAN) 35:58, 103 N Cuestas (URU) 36:04, 104 M Dahl-Jessen 36:06, 105 K Dooney (IRL) 36:09, 106 G De Carvalho (BRA) 36:10, 107 LUKE TRAYNOR 36:13, 108 M Tate (CAN) 36:14, 109 E Gniki (TAN) 36:18, 110 C Moody (NZL) 36:23, 111 R Andre (BRA) 36:28, 112 E Mwanza (ZAM) 36:28, 113 S Thomas (NAM) 36:36, 114 Q Juan (CHI) 36:50, 115 Peng Jianqi (CHN) 36:52, 116 T Nijhuis 36:53, 117 J Viškers (LAT)

36:56, 118 A Garcea (ROU) 37:03, 119 M Dookun (MRI) 37:29, 120 J Huamán (PER) 37:48, 121 G Silly (SEY) 37:53, 122 K Seboko (RSA) 38:14, 123 N Jaber (LIB) 38:14, 124 O Nait-Hammou (MAR) 38:23, 125 Mao Amu (CHN) 38:41, 126 V Koval (UKR) 38:44, 127 Z Kochkonbaev (KGZ) 38:52, 128 J Baan (NZL) 38:56, 129 S Sulaymanov (KAZ) 38:58, (MIKE BURRETT (gst/M40) 38:58); 130 I Moise (SEY) 39:01, 131 A Grech (MLT) 39:07, 132 O Antonio Aldana (ESA) 39:23, 133 C Shaobo (CHN) 39:29, 134 J Imad (LIB) 39:29, 135 Chun Wong Wan (HKG) 39:35, 136 Luo Yuxi (CHN) 39:52, 137 O Bachir (NIG) 40:05, 138 A Kumar Yadav (IND) 40:53, 139 Wayzani Ali (LIB) 41:08, 140 K Tholego (BOT) 41:51TEAM: 1 Uganda 20; 2 Kenya 43; 3 Ethiopia 46; 4 Eritrea 83; 5 Burundi 91; 6 Bahrain 99; 7 Spain 181; 8 Australia 188; 9 GBR 190; 10 Tanzania 194; 11 USA 198; 12 S Africa 212; 13 Rwanda 222; 14 Japan 297; 15 Denmark 336; 16 Canada 347; 17 NZL 382; 18 PR China 509 U20 men (8km): 1 M Mengesha (ETH) 23:52, 2 T Worku (ETH) 23:54, 3 O Chelimo (UGA) 23:55, 4 L Bett (KEN) 24:02, 5 T Kidanu (ETH) 24:07, 6 H Kiplangat (UGA) 24:08, 7 E Bett (KEN) 24:18, 8 S Masai (KEN) 24:19, 9 S Kibet (KEN) 24:29, 10 G Teklay (ETH) 24:34, 11 D Ayele (ETH) 24:36, 12 J Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 24:39, 13 Y Kifle (ERI) 25:06, 14 M Chekurui (UGA) 25:07, 15 C Katul Lokir (KEN) 25:09, 16 F Kibrom (ERI) 25:16, 17 R Abebe (ERI) 25:20, 18 C Kandie (KEN) 25:26, 19 D Chebet (UGA) 25:49, 20 I Sato (JPN) 25:51, 21 G Yetwale (ETH) 25:53, 22 D Cherotich (UGA) 25:55, 23 H El Azzaouzi (MAR) 25:56, 24 M Akkaoui (MAR) 26:00, 25 MATTHEW WILLIS 26:14, 26 Yan Wei (CHN) 26:16, 27 R De Villiers (RSA) 26:16, 28 M Chaymeton (RSA) 26:18, 29 S Aljabaly (USA) 26:18, 30 S Clifford (AUS) 26:25, 31 C Cheeseman (USA) 26:25, 32 N Matwebu (RSA) 26:27, 33 J Kasai (JPN) 26:29, 34 A Østdal 26:30, 35 J Chaupin (PER) 26:31, 36 J Sharp (AUS) 26:33, 37 RORY LEONARD 26:33, 38 J Palomino (PER) 26:34, 39 M Rousseau (USA) 26:35, 40 B Guyon (FRA) 26:35, 41 E Burke (CAN) 26:35, 42 J Lillesø 26:38, 43 C Getenet (AUS) 26:40, 44 P Bordeau (FRA) 26:40, 45 T Nakanishi (JPN) 26:44, 46 A Latam (MAR) 26:44, 47 V Viciosa (ESP) 26:46, 48 A Davies (CAN) 26:47, 49 F Lujan (PER) 26:48, 50 EUAN BRENNAN 26:55, 51 A Bouassel (MAR) 26:56, 52 R Mainguy (FRA) 26:57, 53 D McElhinney (IRL) 27:00, 54 E Daguinos (FRA) 27:01, 55 C Perry (USA)

27:07, 56 R Igawa (JPN) 27:07, 57 M Thiessen (CAN) 27:07, 58 M McIntyre (NZL) 27:08, 59 M Czeronek (POL) 27:08, 60 A Gervais (FRA) 27:12, 61 J Desouza (CAN) 27:12, 62 JOSHUA COWPERTHWAITE 27:13, 63 N Seoposengwe (RSA) 27:17, 64 J Pholoana (RSA) 27:18, 65 ZAKARIYA MAHAMED 27:21, 66 M Baidal (ESP) 27:21, 67 O Lghrissi (MAR) 27:22, 68 J Battle (IRL) 27:24, 69 A Quijada (ESP) 27:30, 70 T Shiratori (JPN) 27:32, 71 E Møller 27:33, 72 G Mudel (USA) 27:40, 73 D Chipana (PER) 27:41, 74 T Lephotho (RSA) 27:42, 75 I Kedir (USA) 27:44, 76 S Hofmeyr (NZL) 27:45, 77 M Kjeldsen 27:51, 78 O Raimond (AUS) 27:55, 79 N Mota (CAN) 27:55, 80 B Rubio (ESP) 28:02, 81 H Serroukh (ESP) 28:04, 82 Jaganatta Sanchez COL 28:08, 83 T Mbambo (NZL) 28:11, 84 T Gualter (AUS) 28:12, 85 T Campbell (AUS) 28:14, 86 K Hussein (USA) 28:15, 87 J Risvig 28:38, 88 T Kurowski (POL) 28:48, 89 V Sabunyak (UKR) 29:01, 90 I Yerkabayev (KAZ) 29:12, 91 M Siabwcha (ZAM) 29:14, 92 T Thull (LUX) 29:47, 93 Chun Yin Tse (HKG) 29:48, 94 J Shmysani (LIB) 30:19, 95 A Hamieh (LIB) 31:30, 96 A El Abiad (LIB) 32:35, 97 B Al Hayek (LIB) 32:39, 98 M Saoud Hammad (LIB) 33:45, BENJAMIN WEST DNFTEAM: 1 Ethiopia 18; 2 Uganda 32; 3 Kenya 34; 4 Morocco 144; 5 S Africa 158; 6 USA 154; 7 Japan 154; 8 GBR 174; 9 Australia 187; 10 France 190; 11 Peru 195; 12 Denmark 224; 13 Spain 262; 14 NZL 381; 15 Lebanon 382

Senior women (10km): 1 H Obiri (KEN) 36:14, 2 D Dida (ETH) 36:16, 3 L Gidey (ETH) 36:24, 4 R Chebet (UGA) 36:47, 5 P Chemutai (UGA) 36:49, 6 T Gemechu (ETH) 36:56, 7 B Chepkoech (KEN) 37:12, 8 E Cherono (KEN) 37:13, 9 D Samum (KEN) 37:18, 10 Z Fikadu Jebesa (ETH) 37:24, 11 F Tesfay (ETH) 37:29, 12 L Rengeruk (KEN) 37:35, 13 J Chekwel (UGA) 37:35, 14 E Chebet (UGA) 37:36, 15 A Møller 37:51, 16 F Abdi Matanga (TAN) 37:56, 17 H Feysa (ETH) 37:59, 18 F McCormack (IRL) 37:59, 19 S Eshete (BRN) 38:08, 20 G Lalonde (CAN) 38:10, 21 S Chesang (UGA) 38:14, 22 L Westphal (FRA) 38:18, 23 E Burkard (GER) 38:26, 24 D Mykhaylova (UKR) 38:41, 25 I Sánchez (ESP) 38:44, 26 M Duncan (AUS) 38:47, 27 N Weldu (ERI) 38:51, 28 D Mokonin (BRN) 38:51, 29 P Campbell (AUS) 38:52, 30 KATE AVERY 38:55, 31 B Mutai (KEN) 38:59, 32 MHAIRI MACLENNAN 39:05, 33 S Bruce (USA) 39:09, 34 JENNY NESBITT 39:12, (PIPPA WOOLVEN (gst) 39:15); 35 E Brichacek

(AUS) 39:18, 36 JESS PIASECKI 39:20, 37 C Nahimana (BDI) 39:21, 38 D Tesfu (ERI) 39:24, 39 N Tanaka (JPN) 39:27, 40 G Tejeda (PER) 39:27, 41 R Chelimo (BRN) 39:27, 42 K Molotsane (RSA) 39:31, 43 N Wodak (CAN) 39:42, 44 M Ponton (AUS) 39:43, 45 L Pompeani (AUS) 39:46, 46 R Kaseda (JPN) 39:48, 47 Y Ueda (JPN) 39:48, 48 EMILY HOSKER THORNHILL 39:50, 49 M Shauri (TAN) 39:52, 50 S Pagano (USA) 39:54, 51 A Blaney (USA) 39:55, 52 L Haitope (NAM) 39:55, 53 M Alm 39:56, 54 F Chevalier Garenne (FRA) 39:57, 55 E Nimbona (BDI) 40:00, 56 K Schweizer (USA) 40:04, 57 K Ayers (CAN) 40:05, 58 M Hall (USA) 40:12, 59 B Fernández (ESP) 40:14, 60 M Senechal (FRA) 40:15, 61 G Martin (ESP) 40:18, 62 M Bouchard (FRA) 40:19, 63 D Chesang (UGA) 40:26, 64 B Edao Rebitu (BRN) 40:26, 65 M Azucena Díaz (ESP) 40:27, 66 C Sumner (CAN) 40:33, 67 G Xaba (RSA) 40:41, 68 N Elisante (TAN) 40:41, 69 C Adams (AUS) 40:42, 70 M Stewartová (CZE0 40:43, 71 N Sulca (PER) 40:44, 72 J O’Connell (CAN) 40:45, 73 S Treacy (IRL) 40:50, 74 F Niyomukunzi (BDI) 40:51, 75 C Frerichs (USA) 40:59, 76 Zhang Deshun (CHN) 41:02, 77 Li Yuanfeng (CHN) 41:07, 78 A Daniel Tsere (BRA) 41:36, 79 AMELIA QUIRK 41:40, 80 A Kjær Pedersen 41:50, 81 S Glad 42:02, 82 R Cjuro (PER) 42:11, 83 E Roughan (NZL) 42:12, 84 L Brandt Pedersen 42:17, 85 I Melchor (PER) 42:20, 86 N Hawthorn (CAN) 42:23, 87 Xia Yuyu (CHN) 42:26, 88 F Chitoshi (ZAM) 42:33, 89 A van Graan (RSA) 42:33, 90 A Cintha (IND) 42:50, 91 A Bakhit (SUD) 42:54, 92 H Green (USA) 42:59, 93 Belén Casetta (ARG) 43:10, 94 Mayada Al-Sayad PLE 43:24, 95 Yui Yabuta (JPN) 43:25, 96 Zhang Xinyan (CHN) 43:40, 97 M Ahm 43:43, 98 R Sceats (NZL) 43:57, 99 A Mohamed (TAN) 43:58, 100 M Pía Fernández (URU) 44:21, 101 R Mhonderwa (ZIM) 44:47, 102 Zhong Xiaoqian (CHN) 45:01, 103 M Macías (CHI) 45:14, 104 L Bezzina (MLT) 45:53, 105 A Strausa (LAT) 46:32, 106 I Lizeth Delgado (ESA) 46:34, 107 M M. Gotswakgosi (BOT) 46:47, 108 Z Bazzi (LIB) 48:28, 109 M Tiango (BOT) 48:30, 110 N Ammar Saad Mohamed Abdelghany (EGY) 48:40, 111 J Makary (LIB) 48:41, 112 L Weiler (USA) 49:29, 113 L Zaarour (LIB) 52:39, 114 L Fallaha (LIB) 54:16, 115 R Jaafar (LIB) 55:06TEAM: 1 Ethiopia 21; 2 Kenya 25; 3 Uganda 35; 4 GBR 132; 5 Australia 134; 6 Bahrain 152; 7 Canada 186; 8 USA 190; 9 France 198; 10 Spain 210; 11 Tanzania 211; 132 Japan 227; 13 Denmark 229;

14 Peru 278; 15 PR China 336; 16 Lebanon 446 U20 women (5.7km): 1 B Chebet (KEN) 20:50, 2 A Tariku (ETH) 20:50, 3 T Gebreselama (ETH) 20:50, 4 S Chelangat (UGA) 20:51, 5 G Gebrzihair (ETH) 20:53, 6 B Kibet (KEN) 21:03, 7 M Alem Adane (ETH) 21:09, 8 W Kefale (ETH) 21:14, 9 J Chepwogen (KEN) 21:17, 10 L Cheruto (KEN) 21:44, 11 M Kahsay (ETH) 21:46, 12 M Chepkorir (KEN) 21:49, 13 M Jerop (KEN) 21:54, 14 A Kazama (JPN) 21:58, 15 R Hironaka (JPN) 22:00, 16 L Carey (AUS) 22:02, 17 K Rae (NZL) 22:02, 18 Z Yanli (CHN) 22:05, 19 E Chekwemoi (UGA) 22:11, 20 P Sekgodisa (RSA) 22:15, 21 C Kosakai (JPN) 22:18, 22 H Doi (JPN) 22:21, 23 N Battocletti ITA 22:24, 24 R Chelangat (UGA) 22:25, 25 GRACE BROCK 22:27, 26 A Chesang (UGA) 22:29, 27 C Prinsloo (RSA) 22:43, 28 D Sclabas (SUI) 22:43, 29 M Sakai (JPN) 22:45, 30 T O’Neill (CAN) 22:45, 31 M Fitzgerald (USA) 22:46, 32 A Mattevi (ITA) 22:53, 33 H Onishi (JPN) 22:54, 34 P McKnight (NZL) 22:55, 35 AMELIA SAMUELS 22:57, 36 Y Hennou (MAR) 22:57, 37 A Forsyth (CAN) 22:58, 38 L Crouch (AUS) 23:02, 39 G Coetzee (RSA) 23:04, 40 C Wood (CAN) 23:08, 41 A Dolomongo Ng’ombengeni (TAN) 23:08, 42 S Schiffmann (AUS) 23:11, 43 L Valgreen Petersen 23:12, 44 BECKY BRIGGS 23:12, 45 H Tiskart (MAR) 23:14, 46 D Verster (RSA) 23:17, 47 B MacDougall (CAN) 23:18, 48 A Yatzimirsky (FRA) 23:20, 49 CHARLOTTE ALEXANDER 23:20, 50 M Trapp (FRA) 23:21, 51 ELOISE WALKER 23:22, 52 H Ahteou (MAR) 23:28, 53 S Shaw (USA) 23:29, 54 E Girard (FRA) 23:32, 55 O Breza (POL) 23:32, 56 L Chelangat (UGA) 23:33, 57 OLIVIA MASON 23:34, 58 A Egler (FRA) 23:35, 59 C Du Preez (RSA) 23:45, 60 G Ping (USA) 23:45, 61 S Søefeldt 23:48, 62 H Goulamzi (MAR) 23:50, 63 A Lubuna Magelani (TAN) 23:51, 64 E Saura (ESP) 23:51, 65 Zeng Ting (CHN) 23:52, 66 M Smith (CAN) 23:54, 67 Kang Meiru (CHN) 24:01, 68 M Martinez (ESP) 24:03, 69 K Mygind Sørensen 24:04, 70 N Clermont (USA) 24:07, 71 D Flores (PER) 24:10, 72 A Caldwell (AUS) 24:12, 73 M Nieves Campos (ESP) 24:13, 74 H Nielson (USA) 24:13, 75 K Smith (USA) 24:15, 76 C Arce Pereira (ESP) 24:18, 77 M Pyka (POL) 24:22, 78 M Gonzalez (ESP) 24:26, 79 I Kukh (UKR) 24:30, 80 N Moore (AUS) 24:32, 81 A Mark Helwigh 24:37, 82 L Himi (MAR) 24:42, 83 M Lucineida Da Silva (BRA) 24:43, 84 R Rigdon (USA) 24:49, 85 Wang Jinyu (CHN) 24:57, 86 G Cosm Spiridon (ROU) 24:59, 87 I Huacasi (PER) 25:04, 88 T Hunt (NZL) 25:12, 89 A Marie Gronberg Christensen 25:13, 90 L Campos (PER) 25:16, 91 J Dos Santos (BRA) 25:33, 92 M Gam 25:45, 93 I Richardson (NZL) 25:50, 94 A Jimenez (COL) 25:51, 95 M Kerimova (KAZ) 26:11, 96 B Dos Santos (BRA) 26:12, 97 E Melki (LIB) 26:20, 98 D Yauri (PER) 26:29, 99 S Corbett (NZL) 26:38, 100 F El Tayar (LIB) 30:49.TEAM: 1 ETH 17; 2 KEN 26; 3 JPN 72; 4 UGA 73; 5 RSA 132; 6 CAN 138; 7 GBR 153; 8 AUS 168; 9 MAR 195; 10 FRA 210; 11 NZL 232; 12 CHN 235; 13 DEN 254; 14 USA 257; 15 ESP 281; 16 PER 346Mixed Relay: 1 ETH 25:49; 2 MAR 26:22; 3 KEN 26:29; 4 USA 27:01; 5 UGA 27:35; 6 ESP 27:47; 7 CAN 27:57; 8 DEN 28:47; 9 TAN 28:48

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SEB COE’s prediction that Aarhus 2019 would be a

watershed moment for cross-country running came true as the event lived up to the hype by delivering one of the most entertaining world championships for years on arguably the toughest-ever course, writes Jason Henderson.

An estimated 10,000 spectators flooded on to the grounds of the Moesgaard Museum under bright sunny skies last Saturday to watch the action unfold – including a number of British spectators who had made use of cheap flights to Denmark.

Jakob Larsen, the head of the local organising committee, said the event “proved that in Danish athletics we have something to offer to the rest of the world”.

He added: “By doing things our way, rather than trying to copy the biggest and best in a

traditional sense, we have again demonstrated that we can stage world-class events.”

Larsen described the day as “epic” and continued: “The reactions from the outside world are unambiguous – cross

country has entered a new era with Aarhus. If they are right, in a few years we may be able to look back and say that ‘it all started in Aarhus’.”

Lars Lundov, the director of Sport Event Denmark, said the

event was “all we had hoped for and more”, adding: “In the most beautiful sun and with the presence of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Denmark set new standards for the cross country. It became a World Championship for both the elite, the recreational runners and the spectators.

“We are already talking about the evilest, most beautiful and incredible course.

“Some have even started to dream about the return of the cross country to the Olympic program as especially the TV production at these championships has shown the great potential of the discipline.”

The World Cross baton now passes to Bathurst and organisers of the Australian event were in Aarhus last weekend to learn how to put on a great event.■ Comment, p4

REACTION IS THAT CROSS COUNTRY HAS “ENTERED A NEW ERA WITH AARHUS”

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WAS Aarhus the hardest World Cross course ever? Did it rival the mud, torrential rain and wind of Glasgow in 1978? Or the mud of Stavanger 1989, which AW described at the time as “the worst underfoot conditions in history”? Or the mud of Ostend 2001, when Paula Radcliffe triumphed in thick mud, or the muddy, hilly and windy event in Belfast 1999?

Lynn Jennings, World Cross winner from 1990-1992, felt Aarhus is the toughest course she has ever seen, saying: “The natural elements of this course are as authentic as they should be, the hills and undulations. Add in the extra elements of the mud and water and it is truly the best and the toughest

cross country course I have seen.”The American added: “Every single

year for eight straight years, I would go to World Cross with various levels of success, but it always served as the true foundation of the rest of my year.

“Cross country is not woman and man against nature but rather with it. It’s running on the grass, feeling the diffi culty. To me cross country was always that mirror I would hold up to myself and fi nd out exactly how strong my backbone was, exactly how robust my willingness was and how stout my heart was and I knew if I could place or medal or win at World Cross it gave me an indomitableness for the entire rest of the year.”

THE TOUGHEST WORLD CROSS IN HISTORY

The Aarhus event, with its challenging course, was a great success and, inset, the Bathurst team now receives the World Cross baton

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THE IAAF met with Kenyan and Ethiopian officials last weekend in Denmark to assure them their distance runners would not lose track racing opportunities following the controversial decision to make 3000m the maximum distance at the Diamond League.

The IAAF’s move has been criticised, with many feeling they are cutting the sport adrift from a huge market of potential spectators who tackle 5km or further regularly as ordinary runners.

But the IAAF went some way to easing the concerns last weekend as IAAF president Seb Coe and the global governing body’s chief executive Jon Ridgeon met Athletics Kenya president Jackson Tuwei to discuss the issues, while Ridgeon also met officials from the Ethiopian federation, including its president Derartu Tulu.

One important factor is that Diamond League organisers are still welcome to stage 5000m

races, but they will simply sit outside the 90-minute Diamond League programme period.

This means we are likely to see just as many 5000m races as usual during 2019 and beyond at top grand prix meetings.

Statistics also show that leading athletes do not race 5000m too often during the summer and in 2018 no leading athlete ran more than two 5000m races during the Diamond League season.

The 3000m distance was

therefore selected because it is likely to attract the best distance talent more regularly.

“We believe that ultimately these changes will be beneficial not only to Kenyan and East African distance runners, but to our leading athletes around the globe, because it will result in a stronger, higher-profile, commercially-successful annual showcase series for our sport,” Coe said.

“And it’s important to remember that the IAAF will be creating other continental competition opportunities outside the Diamond League as we redesign the global calendar.”

Tuwei said: “I am satisfied our athletes will receive sufficient opportunities to compete internationally in 2020 and I am reassured by the IAAF’s undertaking that the impact of these decisions will be considered again at the end of each season and member federations consulted about any changes that might be needed.”


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TOKYO 2020 unveiled their sport-specific mascots this week with the cat-like creatures running, jumping and throwing in various poses.

The Olympic one is called Miraitowa, which means ‘future’ and ‘eternity’, while the Paralympic one Someity is named after a type of cherry blossom and is linked to the phrase ‘so mighty’.

Created by Japanese artist Ryo Taniguchi, the mascots were selected from a competition process which took place in late 2017 and early 2018, with more than 2000 design applications.

Olympic mascots always become synonymous with the Games and the mascots for the London 2012 event were called Wenlock and Mandeville.

TOKYO MASCOTS START WARMING UP

Miraitowa: means ‘future’ and ‘eternity’

Someity: ‘so mighty’ Paralympic mascot



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ATHLETES Tom Bosworth and Beth Dobbin were among those to

take to the mic when England Athletics held an announcing day at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham recently.

Led by television commentator Rob Walker, who has been an IAAF commentator for the last 11 years, the assessment session formed part of the governing body’s wider announcer training project as they look to teach and mentor the next generation.

Tasks included commentating on national age-group 200m and 400m races, plus using the in-stadium PA system, while Walker shared great insight, advice and anecdotes featuring the likes of legendary sports commentator David Coleman.

“I was genuinely shocked by the high standard across the board in the tests we set,” said

Walker. “There was a fair cross section of athletics experience, including current athletes and coaches as well as freelance broadcasters.

“Athletics is continually battling to maintain its place in the public’s consciousness and the whole experience at an event – including the voices guiding you through the day – have to contribute to the occasion and atmosphere.

“We can no longer get away with being reliant on the same

few individuals, we need a bigger pool of announcers to choose from.”

Following the assessment day, the successful recruits will receive one-to-one tutoring from Walker and will take to the commentary box at England Athletics events throughout the summer.

“The first announcer’s assessment day, organised by England Athletics, went extremely well, with 11 strong candidates put through some

pretty tough tests,” said events manager Alison Potts. “It was a fun, inspiring and challenging day for all those involved.

“England Athletics launched this project to find new talent to develop and mentor in this area of the sport to enable quality announcing and commentary from grassroots to national competitions. We can’t wait to see how those who were successful develop in the coming months. It was amazing to see so much talent and enthusiasm in one room.

“Thanks to Rob for his time and commitment to this project – he has been pivotal in making this work and getting us to the positive position we now find ourselves.”■ For more information, see englandathletics.org/announcing

NEXT GENERATION READYTO TAKE THE MICBUDDING YOUNG COMMENTATORS ENJOYED VISITING BIRMINGHAM FOR A TRAINING DAY

BRIDGNORTH Athletics Club is folding just three years after being named England Athletics club of the year.

The Shropshire Star reports the club’s problem is a lack of volunteers and members will stage a farewell dinner this month.

The club has been going for almost 20 years and has a junior membership alone of more than 100 but club chairman Stuart Hamilton told the

newspaper: “We’ve lost the whole committee, which includes coaches. It’s a combination of things – retirements, work commitments, job changes, family changes.

“I’ve been involved for 19 years so to me it feels like a massive blow. But I’m 67 now and I can’t go on forever unfortunately.”

There is good news for nearby Telford, though, with the town’s

athletics track set to receive £100,000 for upgrades in anticipation of athletes fl ooding into the area for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

Paul Sanderson, secretary of Telford Athletics Club, told the Shropshire Star: “It is fantastic news that Telford & Wrekin Council is investing in the athletics track at Oakengates Leisure Centre.

“The resurface of the track combined with the upgrade of facilities for spectators will mean that not only can the facility continue to host local and regional events for many more years but also the experience of those attending to support athletes will also be much improved. With the next Commonwealth Games being held just down the road in Birmingham in 2022, it is exciting times for athletics in Telford.”

AWARD-WINNING SHROPSHIRE CLUB TO CLOSE

Rob Walker:experienced broadcaster passed on his knowledge

Tom Bosworth: UK race walks record-holder was among those at the event, picking up announcing tips and tricks


CONTROVERSIAL proposals to fine clubs that fail to provide a minimum number of officials for matches have been given the backing of the 36 member clubs of the British Athletics League and the 32 UK Women’s League clubs, although the original proposals have been watered down, writes Tom Pollak.

The number of officials to be provided at each match has been reduced to four with at least two of them being graded with one Grade 2, while the other two could be volunteers.

It brings the rules of both leagues into line and it was also agreed clubs would only need to provide four officials in joint matches where clubs had both men’s and women’s teams involved.

The meeting of club representatives from both leagues also agreed clubs could do a trade off where their teams were travelling a long way for a match. It means that where London clubs were competing in Scotland, officials could help out at other BAL or UKWL matches in the capital without their club being penalised.

While there was general

agreement on the officials issue there was virtually no consensus on the way forward to create a joint league. Although the meeting did agree to create a National Athletics League at the two leagues’ AGMs in November, the leagues will continue to operate separately until at least 2021.

“There was a long debate on the future composition of the leagues and the meeting instructed the two leagues to come up with a proposal which

would be acceptable to the clubs at their AGMs in November,” said BAL general secretary Andrew Jackson.

“It is intended that both leagues will hold their AGMs at the same time and place and then come together to discuss a way forward. It’s clear we can’t just disband the British Athletics League and UK Women’s League and replace them with a National League with joint teams as some clubs would be left out.”

■ At the start of Saturday’s meeting at Alexander Stadium there was a minute’s silence in memory of David Jeacock, the BAL secretary for 21 years until 2017, who died on March 19


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The UK mile record-holder told the Telegraph: “Modern society is not one which embraces the culture of our sport as it might have done 15 or 20 years ago, so athletics

clubs have to work harder to get youngsters those opportunities. It’s a harder sport for us to keep producing in because we are cutting the opportunities.”

Cram’s opinion will chime with many involved in grassroots athletics and he continued: “There are lots of

health and safety issues at schools and indeed athletics clubs and local authorities don’t want to build long-jump facilities and that kind of thing because people consider them unsafe.

“A lot of schools won’t do hurdles because it’s deemed unsafe.”

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BAL and UKWL work together but there will not be a joint league anytime soon

BAL and UKWL summer fixtures 2019Sunday May 12: BAL Premiership & Division 1 at Swansea. BAL Divisions 2, 3 and 4 at Bedford (no women’s matches)Sunday June 9: UKWL Premier & BAL Division 1 at Leigh. BAL Premiership & Division 4 & UKWL Division 1 at Allianz Park, Hendon. BAL & UKWL Division 2 at Chelmsford. BAL & UKWL Division 3 at BedfordSunday July 6: UKWL Premier & BAL Division 1 at Eton. BAL Premiership & UKWL Division 2 at Sheffi eld. BAL Division 4 & UKWL Division 1 at Stevenage. BAL Division Two & UKWL Division 3 at Kingston. BAL Division 3 at YeovilSaturday August 3: BAL Premiership & UKWL Premier at Birmingham. BAL & UKWL Division 2 at Scotstoun. BAL & UKWL Division 3 at BasingstokeSunday August 4: BAL & UKWL Division 1 at Wigan. BAL Division 4 Lee Valley

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A NEW concept that encourages families to exercise together will make its debut on July 27 in Durham.

The brainchild of marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe, ‘Paula’s Families on Track’ will give family groups the opportunity to work together to complete a set distance, in a secure setting and a format that allows everyone to contribute, no matter what their age or ability.

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Laura Muir: potentially has Laura Weightman’s mile record of 4:17.06 in her sights

LAURA MUIR will tackle the Vitality Westminster Mile on Sunday May

26 – and she could have the UK record of 4:17:06 set by Laura Weightman in New York a couple of years ago in her sights.

The race starts on The Mall and finishes in front of Buckingham Palace and doubles as the British one mile road championships.

“I ran the very first Westminster Mile in the early stages of my career and I really enjoyed it,” she said.

“Running in London is always very special and I’m really excited to be coming back to make my first appearance at the Vitality Westminster Mile since 2013.”

On that occasion she finished eighth in 4:46 in a race won by Hannah England in 4:31 from Lisa Dobriskey and Emma Jackson.

But since then Muir smashed the British 1500m record outdoors, took the European 1500m gold in Berlin last summer and last month won double gold at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow.

Muir’s best for a mile on the roads is 4:18.4, which she set when finishing runner-up to Jenny Simpson of the United States at the 5th Avenue Mile in 2016.

More than 8000 people are expected to take part in the Vitality Westminster Mile this year in waves held throughout the day for all ages and abilities, from families to adults, schools, wheelchairs, masters and Olympians.

Entry for adults is £8 and for 12-18-year-olds entry is £6 with a £1 reduction for Westminster residents. See vitalitywestminstermile.co.uk for more information.

MUIR’S EARLY TESTLAURA MUIR STARTS SEASON WITH VITALITY WESTMINSTER MILE IN LONDON

Olympic dream for crossTHE World Cross in Aarhus triggered renewed calls for cross country to be included in the Olympics and a Twitter poll conducted by AW’s editor saw 64% of votes calling for the sport to be in the Winter Games, 27% to be in the Summer Games and 9% for it not to be an Olympic sport.

National recognisedTHE English Cross Country Championships, which dates back to 1877, was among six events last weekend to be awarded an IAAF heritage plaque to mark its contribution to the sport’s history.

The others were the Cinque Mulini race in Italy, the USA Cross Country Championships, the La Coruna race walking event, Boston and Athens marathons. “These six races have over the decades caught the imagination of athletes and fans alike,” said IAAF president Seb Coe.

Thiam’s return in TalenceAFTER missing the European Indoor Championships due to injury, Olympic and world heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam will return to combined events action in Talence June 22-23. Heptathlon rival Katarina Johnson-Thompson is due to compete in Gotzis in late May.

SoccerAid athletesUSAIN BOLT and Mo Farah plan to return to play in the SoccerAid charity football game on June 16 with proceeds going to UNICEF.

Mum’s the wordSHOT put legend Valerie Adams has given birth to her second child – a boy called Kepaleli Tava Sydney Adams-Price. The New Zealand athlete’s first child, Kimoana, was born in October 2017.

London serves up an aceTWO-time Wimbledon tennis champion Andy Murray will start this month’s Virgin Money London Marathon.

Eritreans jump shipFIVE Eritrean athletes who were due to compete at the World Cross went missing before the event, according to the Copenhagen Post.

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Y EARS of training will have many pay-offs for your long-term wellbeing, including

cardiovascular health, muscle strength, bone mineral density and metabolic health that is far superior to that of the general population. However, even the fittest and fastest masters athletes are apparently not immune to one side-effect of ageing that can negatively impact performance and lifestyle: a loss of balance.

In studies funded by the European Union and the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), a team of researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) found that supreme levels of fitness and physical function were displayed in members of the British

Masters Athletics Federation whose ages ranged from 35 to 90. In some cases, their health parameters were similar to someone 30 years younger. However, Jamie McPhee, professor of musculoskeletal physiology and one of the researchers, says that when it came to tests of balance – which include the ability to stand on one leg, eyes closed – the older athletes achieved no higher score than sedentary people of the same age.

Balance matters not just for performance, but for longevity. According to NHS statistics, falls are among the major causes of debilitating injury as we age with one third of people over the age of 60 and around half of those in their 80s and over falling at least once a year. In their

20s and 30s, most adults can easily stand on one leg, eyes closed, for 30 seconds or longer whereas the average 70-year-old manages only 4-5 seconds.

You might expect the muscle strength and spatial awareness of the masters athletes to offset this sort of decline, but McPhee and his colleagues showed that even highly-trained older athletes could balance for only for around seven seconds, a time that is not significantly better than for the average population. It confirms that factors other than fitness and strength are involved in our ability to balance and a major new study by the MMU team is set to find out how athletes can maintain and improve their balance powers into later life.

In collaboration with AW, the

MMU researchers are looking to recruit a panel of 10 masters athletes to participate in a trial that will help to assess balance status and stem its decline. It is a unique opportunity that will hopefully provide ground-breaking results that will help you, and others, to develop strategies for balance improvement.


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world-class athletics now in full swing on the back of a memorable indoor season which saw sold out venues and the best-ever medal haul by a Great Britain & Northern Ireland team at the European Indoor Championships, you can secure your seat to see the best athletes in the world right here in the UK – including the best in Britain – this summer.

The first of British Athletics’ outdoor showpiece events will be the Müller Anniversary Games, which takes place over the weekend of July 20-21 at the London Stadium.

Founded in 2013 as a legacy to the unforgettable 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is a world-leading meeting which continues to attract the biggest and best track and field stars, with the likes of Usain Bolt, Sir Mo Farah, Laura Muir and Dina Asher-Smith all regularly competing at the event over the years.

The 2019 edition promises to light up the summer once more and showcase the world’s best athletes in the world’s best athletics stadium.

Having enjoyed incredibly successful years respectively in 2018, both Laura Muir and Dina Asher-Smith have confirmed they will be present this summer.

Fresh from winning double European indoor gold in Glasgow to be the first athlete in history to do the ‘double-double’ over

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significance to the Scot following her memorable British record run over 1500m back in 2016, Muir will return to the London Stadium once again this summer to take on the world’s best middle-distance athletes.

It’s a meeting which has a habit of producing record-breaking performances, with American Keni Harrison memorably running 12.20 to set new world standards in the 100m hurdles three years ago. Last year,

world records were also set at the London Stadium by Kare Adenegan in the women’s T34 100m (16.80) and Sophie Hahn (25.93) in the T37/38 200m respectively.

Meanwhile, for Asher-Smith the meeting will serve as a key event of her summer as the 23-year-old bids to make a name for herself once again at this October’s IAAF World Championships in Doha.

A triple European champion last summer in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m, the eyes of the world will be on Dina in her home city come the 2019 edition of the Müller Anniversary Games, with her event due to be confirmed in due course.

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Under-17 menTHIS was crystal clear as Sam Charlton won the English National, Inter-Counties, English Schools and Northern titles. His only blemish was Liverpool, where he competed against under-20s and was still second under-17.

Scottish champion Hamish Armitt also won at Liverpool and Stirling and followed Charlton home at Loughborough to take second ahead of Will Barnicoat, who was second in four main races. Mohamed Ali and Oliver Smart are difficult to rank, Ali could be brilliant, as in winning the Schools International, but was eighth in the South while Smart and David Stone saved their best for schools events.

n All athletes who made the following came into considerationNational/CAU/ESSB: top 20Milton Keynes: top 20 (10 U17)Liverpool/ESIB/SIIB/South/Cardiff/Dundonald: top 10North: top 5Midlands: top 3

1 Sam Charlton (Walls)1 CAU 18:48, 1 Nat 18:48, 1 ESSB 21:38, 1 Nth 19:13, 1 NE 21:19, 28 Liv (2 U17) 20:512 Hamish Armitt (Giff N)2 CAU 18:54, 1 Sco 21:04, 1 Stirl 16:15, 1 Liv 17:20, 7 Mil K (2 U17) 17:25, 7:53 ScR3 Will Barnicoat (AFD)2 Nat 18:57, 2 ESIB 16:51, 2 SIIB 18:19, 2 Sth 21:14, 3 SIC 15:28, 1 Holly, 1 Sy, 1 Sy Sch, 8:58 ECR4 Mohamed Ali (ESM)6 CAU 19:08, 4 Liv (1 U17) 17:12, 4 ESIB 17:02, 1 SIIB 18:07, 8 Sth 21:31, 1 Card 17:53, 42 Liv U20 20:58, 1 LYG, 1 Middx, 8:49 ECR5 Joshua Dickinson (Leeds)3 CAU 18:56, 8 Nat 19:17, 4 ESSB (3 U17) 22:01, 2 Nth 19:26, 18 Mil K (7 U17) 17:43, 1 Yks, 1 N Yks Sch, 9:11 ECR6 Oliver Smart (Tav)1 ESIB 16:43, 3 SIIB 18:23, 1 SWIC 17:51, 1 Dev 1 Dev Sch7 David Stone (SB)2 ESSB 21:47, 28 CAU 19:49, 27 Nat 19:51, 1 Sth 21:12, 3 Middx, 8:53 ECR8 Cameron Macrae (Inv EK)4 CAU 19:00, 7 Nat 19:11, 11 ESSB (5 U17) 22:17, 5 Sth 21:20, 5 SIC 15:32, 45 Liv 21:06, 7 Stekene 15:08, 3 Kent Sch, 7 Kt 15:08, 8:55 ECR9 Matthew Stonier (Inv EK)5 CAU 19:07, 6 Nat 19:08, 6 ESSB (4

U17) 22:03; 9 Mil K (4 U17) 17:29, 20 Liv U20 (1 U17) 20:39, 14 Sth 21:20, 2 Card 17:5410 Henry McLuckie (SB)3 Nat 19:02, 10 ESSB (5 U17) 17:30, 12 Sth 21:52, 10 Mil K (5 U17), 46 Liv U20 21:05, 11 Card 18:32, 1 Hants, 2 Hants Sch11 Charlie Brisley (Inv EK)7 CAU 19:09, 18 Nat 19:38, 12 ESSB (6 U17) 22:19, 11 Mil K (6 U17) 17:32, 6 Sth 21:23, 2 SIC 15:27, 34 Liv U20 20:53, 2 Kent, 1 Kent Sch, 8:54 ECR12 Ethan Hussey (Leeds)8 CAU 19:12, 4 Nat 19:06, 4 Nth 19:43, 33 ESIB 17:58, 8:52 ECR13 Matthew Mackay (Ross)9 CAU 19:16, 13 Nat 19:27, 3 Nth 19:33,

7 Liv 17:37, 8 Mil K (3 U17) 17:28, 7 Dund (1 U17) 19:34, 1 Lancs, 8:48 ECR14 Kieren Coleman Smith (Charn)11 CAU 19:19, 9 Nat 19:18, 44 ESSB 23:10, 15 Liv 17:56, 1 Mids 21:09, 1 Leics, 8:55 ECR15 Nicholas Harhalakis (C&C)5 Nat 19:07, 21 CAU 19:40, 10 Sth 21:48, 2 Liv 17:23, 21 Mil K (10 U17) 17:47, 5 Card 18:06, 11 Dund (2 U17) 2 Ang Sch 20:58, 6 SIC 15:33, 1 Cambs, 8:55 ECR 16 Liam Rawlings (Osw)16 CAU, 11 Nat 19:26, 11 ESIB 17:29, 2 Mids 21:15, 8 Liv 17:38, 11 ESIB 17:29, 1 Dave Sun 19:07, 1 Shrops, 1 Shrops Sch17 Archie May (Dart)20 Nat 19:42, 27 CAU 19:45, 4 Liv 17:30, 20 Mil K (9 U17) 17:45, 3 Card 17:55, 8 SIC 15:35, 8 Kt, 5 Kt Sch18 Benjamin Preddy (Prest)10 CAU 19:18, 24 Nat 19:46, 5 Liv 17:32, 19 Mil K (8 U17) 17:43, 68 Nth 21:54, 2 Lancs, 4 Lancs Sch. 9:10 ECR19 Harris Mier (Corn)12 CAU 19:20, 39 ESSB 23:05, 4 SWIC 18:06, 8 Card 18:17, 16 Liv 17:57, 2 Corn, 2 Corn Sch20 Ben Fitzpatrick (Walt)13 CAU 19:21, 13 Sth 21:59, 3 Sy, 9:20 ECR


STATISTICS CROSS-COUNTRY RANKINGS 2018-2019

STEVE SMYTHE CARRIES ON OUR END-OF-SEASON CROSS-COUNTRY MERIT RANKINGS WITH THE UNDER-17 AGE GROUP PICTURES: MARK SHEARMAN

WHO’S WHO ON THE COUNTRY

IN PART two of our annual cross-country merit rankings, we focus on the under-17

men and women. In coming issues, we will publish the older age groups.

They are not our guess of what would happen in a race but an assessment of the winter season’s form, primarily based on the two main races of the winter – the Inter-Counties and National.

Key: BBO = Bucks, Berks, Oxon, CAU = Inter-Counties, Card = Cardiff, Char C = Charity Cup, Dave S = Dave Sunderland, Dund = Dundonald, ECR = English Relays, ESCF = English Schools Cup Final, ESJB/ESJG/ESIB/ESIG = English Schools, Liv = Liverpool, Mids = Midlands, LYG = London Youth Games, Mil K = Milton Keynes, Nat = National, Nth = North, Sco = Scottish, Sc ED, WD, ND = Scottish Districts, Sco Sch = Scottish Schools, SES = South East Schools, SIC = Southern Inter-Counties, SIJB, SIJG, SIIB, SIIG = Schools International, Sth = South, SWIC = South West Inter-Counties, Stirl = Stirling, Tri-C = Tri Counties, Wal = Welsh, World X = World Cross Country, WSAA = Welsh Schools

Not ranked: among those missing out are Schools internationals Fraser Gordon and Johnny Livingstone, Welsh champion Osian Perrin and Liverpool third-placer Archie Lowe

Under-17 men: Sam Charlton (2000) and Will Barnicoat (1603)

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WHO’S WHO ON THE COUNTRY WHILE not in great form initially, World Cross representative Olivia Mason is a clear No.1, winning the National and qualifying for Aarhus at Loughborough – and she improved during the season.

It is less obvious for second and English National runner-up India Pentland, who also won the Loughborough Inter-Counties race, gets the edge over Charlotte Alexander, who was consistent throughout and also qualified for Denmark and edges Scot Cera Gemmell.

Tia Wilson and Maya Todd McIntyre each performed at a high level throughout the season and complete the top six.

n Runners who made the following were considered for ranking:National/CAU/ESSG/ESIG: top 20Liverpool: top 20 (7 U17)Milton Keynes: top 15 (8 U17)South, SIIG: top 10North: top 5Midlands/Stirling/Scottish: top 3

1 Olivia Mason (Bord)57 World X 23:34, , 1 Nat 17:55, 3 CAU U20 (1 U17) 21:37, 1 Nth Sch IC 16:11, 13 Liv (4 U17) 15:31, 7 Mil K (2 U17) 16:54, 10 Elg 17:20 2 India Pentland (Darl)1 CAU 19:38, 2 Nat 17:57, 1 ESSG 14:58, 1 Nth 17:17, 27 Liv (9 U17) 15:543 Charlotte Alexander (Herne)49 World X 23:20, , 6 CAU U20 (2 U17) 21:56, 3 Nat 18:14, 8 Liv (1 U17) 15:19, 6 Dund 15:01, 2 Mil K 16:22 (1 U17), 8:47 ECR4 Cera Gemmell (E Loth)

10 Liv U20 (2 U17), 9 CAU U20 (3 U17) 22:10, 2 Sco 24:15. 5 Dund 14:54. 1 Stirl 18:33, 1 Sco SC 11:005 Tia Wilson (Bed)2 CAU 19:50, 4 Nat 18:16, 4 ESSG (3 U17) 15:20, 1 Sth 18:46, 20 Liv 15:43, 1 SIC 17:38, 9 Mil K 17:00 (3 U17), 1 Beds 22:216 Maya Todd McIntyre (Rush)5 CAU 20:08, 8 Nat 18:42, 19 Liv (6 U17) 15:42, 4 Rots 16:55, 3 Dund 14:51, 11 Mil K (5 U17) 17:23, 7 Card 16:30, 8:37 ECR 7 Lara Crawford (Sale)5 Nat 18:31, 5 ESIG (1 U17) 13:47, 13

SIIG 14:41, 47 Nth 18:29, 14 Ches (1 U17) 19:23, 36 Liv (11 U17) 16:03, 8:37 ECR8 Shannon Flockhart (C&C)3 CAU 19:53, 9 Nat 18:46, 4 ESSG (2 U17) 11 Liv (3 U17) 15:22, 2 Rots 16:40, 1 Ang Sch 14:59, 4 Elg 16:46, 12 Mil K (6 U17) 17:24, 9:02 ECR, 11 Card 16:439 Holly Smith (Vale R)6 Nat 18:35, 12 ESSG (6 U17) 15:41, 3 Nth 17:52, 16 Ches (2 U17) 19:43, 9:18 ECR 10 Phoebe Anderson (Herne)7 Nat 18:38, 13 ESSG (7 U17) 15:46, 2 Sth 19:08, 3 SIC 19:10, 1 Bucks 14:12, 9:01 ECR

11 Esther Rowe-Towie (Sheff&D)4 CAU 19:55, 9 ESIG (4 U17) 13:55, 2 Nth 17:25, 1 Yks 15:26, 38 Liv (12 U17) 16:05, 9:08 ECR12 Charlotte Buckley (TVH)8 CAU 20:27, 6 Sth 19:49, 6 SIC 18:28, 1 LYG 11:2913 Katie Goodge (Ton)6 CAU 20:10, 17 National 18:52, 10 ESIG (5 U17) 14:09, 9 Sth 19:52, 1 Kent 23:31, 3 Kent Sch 13:46, 1 Holly 19:1514 Ellie Sakaria (G&G)7 CAU 20:24, 7 Sth 19:49, 17 ESSG 15:49, 12 SIC 18:51, 2 Sy 22:00, 4 Sy Sch 13:5015 Jessica Humphreys (W&B)9 CAU 20:28, 1 Mids 20:17, 39 ESSG 16:12, 1 Shrops, 1 Shrops Sch16 Georgina Campbell (Strat)10 CAU 20:33, 28 Nat 19:20, 31 ESIG 14:25, 6 Mids 21:15, 1 Warks sch, 1 Warks17 Sian Heslop (Macc)7 ESIG (2 U17) 13:50, 4 SIIG 14:11 (1 U17), 1 Ches Sch18 Megan Keith (Inv)1 Sco 23:50, 2 Stirl 18:34, 1 Sco ND 21:0519 Pippa Carcas (Edin)11 CAU 20:36, 3 Stirl 19:04, 5 Sco ED 21:2420 Isla Calvert (Livin)14 CAU 20:40, 9 SIIG 14:28, 3 Sco 25:21, 2 Sco Sch 15:44, 16 Dund 15:23, 6 Stirl 19:34, 3 Sco ED 20:46, 3 Sco SC 11:20, 9:21 Sco Rel

Not ranked: just missing out are National top-10 placer Kirsten Stilwell, Schools International representative Freya Stapleton and Midlands runner-up Eden Schiller

Under-17 women: Olivia Mason (39), India Pentland (95) and Charlotte Alexander (129, extreme right)

Cera Gemmell (201) with Megan Keith

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DROP jumps, which involve an athlete jumping down from a platform with a

rebound for height or distance, are often credited to the former Soviet sports scientist and coach Yuri Verkhoshansky who began researching and using them in the training of athletes in the 1960s. Here we look at these jumps for athlete conditioning.

What makes drop jumps different?Verkhoshansky gave his plyometric method the somewhat catchy name “The Shock Method”. It’s all down to gravity, kinetic energy and the fall from height and the need for the body to absorb and then return initially heightened kinetic energy.

Much research has been done on the optimum height from which to perform drop jumps. The higher the drop, the greater the strength component of the exercise, the lower the greater the speed component.

Higher drop levels require more time to be spent on the ground transferring the downward momentum into upward momentum and this is why ground contact times are an important factor when programming plyometrics. It’s advised that these closely match those required of your athletic event or are even faster.

When I coach drop jumps I’m most times looking at the speed of reaction of the athlete and the quickness with which they leave the ground. If this slows then I may well stop the athlete

from doing more in a particular session as they will be training a sub-maximal response, or the height of the drop could be too great.

Verkhoshansky discovered that if drop jump training is aimed at increasing explosive reactive strength at the take-off then the height of the drop should be about 0.75m. However, if the goal is maximum strength at take-off from the drop, then the height should be circa 1.10m.

The speed and force of the transference from the eccentric to the concentric muscular actions of the landing and reaction produces a ‘coefficient of reactivity’, and Verkhoshansky through various experiments with loaded and unloaded jumps, found that the coefficient of reactivity was higher with

unloaded jumps and over the range of heights mentioned.

If you jump holding dumbbells, for example, that’s to say perform a resisted plyometric exercise, you will spend more time on the ground generating the force needed to get off the ground. Now, in the training that I do with my group of mainly horizontal jumps athletes, I will from time to time include loaded jumps.

There can be a misunderstanding as to their use, given what’s just been said and the previous comments about making ground contact times as fast as possible and keeping the coefficient of reactivity high. If you land and react from a drop jump with weights you’ll potentially be using more concentric muscular activity to do so as you ‘lever’

through the movement when your thighs extend – you’ll need to apply more force over a greater contact time.

Thus, for increasing concentric strength, perhaps as a requirement for sprint start power, then the use of loaded drop jumps can be justified. However, I would not make them the mainstay of training. Likewise, use of higher drop jump heights can be justified.

Why do drop jumps and other plyometrics work?They are seen to:n Increase the stretch-reflex capacity of the athlete and in doing so increase their rate of force development.n Develop greater leg stiffness – although measured in various ways, leg stiffness basically references the energy return


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capability of the muscles, ligaments and tendons. Stiffer joints can return more energy.n Enhance the athlete’s central nervous system and its ability to automatically react to, in the case of a drop jump, the ground.n Subject the body to greater loads, many times above which it would be able to handle when lifting weights. Dependent on drop height the force absorbed and returned will be many times body weight. And of course this force will be generated in milliseconds.

Assisted drop jumps Some coaches have experimented with accelerating

the eccentric element of drop jumps and other plyometric exercises. Probably the leading coach behind these jumps is the renowned Brazilian national coach Nelio Moura. He is well known for coaching the two Beijing long jump gold medal winners, Maurren Maggi and Irving Saladino.

In short Moura has experimented with elastic harnesses that pull the athlete more quickly from the amortization phase of the jumps.

As noted, much research indicates that resisted drop jumps and plyometrics have little benefits for improved performance.

Eccentric/isometric drop jumpsTHERE is another type of drop jump where there is no reaction to the ground in terms of an attempt to jump up or forward. These types of drops require the athlete to ‘block’ the landing and absorb force only – thus, the athlete will only perform the eccentric and isometric element (an isometric muscular action generates force, although there is no movement).

These jumps can develop an enhanced capacity to absorb and store energy and I include these relatively regularly in the training of the jumpers in my group. You can go higher with these than with reactive drop jumps. How do you know how high to go? Basically, I will look at the knee angle and the resultant thigh angle.

I’m looking for a reasonably shallow angle and little downward movement of the thigh on absorption of force, when hitting the ground. The athlete should land on their forefeet and then drop back onto their heels to comfortably absorb the impact.

What are plyometric exercises?PLYOMETRIC exercises are designed to develop power as measured by force x velocity. Not only do they include drop jumps, but also hops and bounding drills and numerous variations, which can be done linearly, singularly and in combination. It is also possible to do rotational plyometric drills (useful for the throws) and also upper body plyometrics, for example, jump press-ups and by using medicine balls.

When you jump from a platform and land and attempt to spring up for height or forward for distance, for example – the muscles of ankle, knee and hip (and other soft tissue, notably the tendons, but also the ligaments and fascia) go on stretch, performing an eccentric muscular action. There will then be a transference of this stretch into a recoil and specifically a muscle shortening concentric muscular action. The better an athlete becomes at absorbing, transferring and generating power as fast possible, everything else being equal, the more powerful and faster they will be.

The transition between the eccentric and concentric muscular action is known as amortization. Think about this, the harder you throw a ball against a wall, the faster it will return and with potentially more energy than with which it hit the wall at the instant of contact.

The harder the ball, or in the case of the subject matter of this article your legs and specifically the stiffer they are around the joints, the more power that will be generated. The difference between throwing a tennis ball versus a golf ball will display the analogy hopefully very vividly in terms of the point being made.

The eccentric-concentric paring of muscular actions is also known as the stretch-shortening cycle.

Height is of secondary importance

Step off platform to land on two feet

React as quicky as possible to contact

Keep legs virtually straight as you land

Try to mininise your knee bend on landing

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PERFORMANCE INJURY PREVENTION


WHEN athletes think about injuries they tend to focus on the

physical causes and what can be done physically to combat them. It’s rare to consider psychological factors.

Predisposition to injury Research suggests there are a number of psychosocial factors that predispose an individual to injury risk. The most widely accepted and researched model of injury is the stress-injury model from Williams and Anderson (1998). The model suggests that when sports participants are placed in a stressful situation, they will be more likely to evaluate it as stressful and at risk of injury if they:1. Have a history of stressors, for example, stressful life events2. Have a personality type that intensifies the stress response3. Have few or unhelpful coping resources (and are therefore unable to manage stress levels effectively)

So how do these psychosocial factors and the stress response manifest themselves in an increased risk of injury?

Research has shown how two key areas of the stress response have been the primary culprits in the stress-injury relationship.

Firstly, increases in muscle tension can lead to fatigue, poor flexibility, muscle inefficiency and motor-coordination difficulties, therefore creating a greater risk of injuries, such as sprains and strains.

Secondly, a narrowing of the visual field and/or auditory cues could result in an individual failing to detect or not responding quickly enough to relevant cues in the sporting environment, increasing the risk of injury.

There’s been a lot of research examining how significant the following three factors are in determining injury risk. Taking each in turn, lets discuss what the research suggests:1 Stressful life events: Stressful life events can range from everyday hassles to major life events. Does this mean everyday stress such as running late, or work stress can impact your risk of injury? According to the research, not really. However, studies have

shown support for the link between major life events and injury risk.

Major life events relate to the amount of change and upset experienced in a person’s life – for example, a relationship breakdown, moving house, losing a loved one or working in a continually high pressured environment.

Research has shown injuries tend to occur two to five times more frequently in athletes with high life stress compared to low life stress, with injury risk increasing in direct proportion to the level of life stress.2 Personality factors: Having certain personality characteristics can impact upon how stressful certain situations are perceived, impacting injury

risk. People high on anxiety related to their character – a tendency to view situations as threatening and to react with anxiety – have been linked to greater risk of injury and more severe injuries.

On the other hand, optimism (expecting more good things to happen than bad) and hardiness (when people feel really committed to the activities in their lives, feel a sense of control over events they experience and view change as an exciting challenge) are linked with fewer injury problems.3 Coping resources: Having effective coping resources can also act as a buffer between stress and injury risk by helping someone cope more effectively with stress when it occurs. Different coping resources could include, having a strong family/friend support network to talk to, as well as psychological coping skills such as, the ability to control arousal, think clearly, stay focused under pressure and using relaxation strategies to manage stress. In contrast ineffective coping strategies such as, avoidance and self-blame have been linked to increased injury risk.

Interventions to reduce injury riskWith all this in mind, how can athletes take steps to reduce the psychological risks for injury? Research has shown it is possible to reduce sports injury through psychological skills training. In one study, relaxation

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techniques during training sessions led to a reduction in injuries in 52% of swimmers and 33% of football players during the intervention period.

Research with gymnasts found those who took part in cognitive restructuring (outlined below) reported less stress and half the amount of time injured (five days compared to 10 days).

In addition, research with college athletes using a stress management intervention, involving relaxation and cognitive restructuring, found significantly less days were taken out for injury. Similar findings to these pieces of research have been found across a whole range of sports.

Interestingly, the findings just outlined have been discovered across athletes even when they were not identified as having a higher risk of injury due to the psychosocial factors. In one study which did identify people who were at high risk, 10 out of 13 athletes in the intervention condition remained injury-free, compared to just three of the 16 in the control group.

While this study used a small sample size, the success of the intervention suggests individuals

who are predisposed to injury risk due to psychosocial factors, may benefit from specific interventions designed to reduce this risk.

There are numerous skills and strategies that can be implemented to help counteract the psychosocial risks for injury. As with any new skill acquisition these techniques and skills take time and effort to become a new habit which lead to desired outcomes.

What works is specific to each individual. I’ve now outlined three strategies you could try to reduce potential muscle tension, improve attentional focus, and prevent unhelpful thoughts that may trigger stress. All of which will potentially reduce injury risk: 1 Progressive relaxation: this technique can be used to manage stress and decrease muscle tension – both of which are linked to injury risk. The idea behind this technique is to relax the body to facilitate a more relaxed mind.

This exercise involves tensing a specific part of the body, for example, your fists for 10 seconds, and then relaxing it for 10 seconds. You then progress

this exercise from one body part to the next, for example, your back, jaw, arms, thighs, feet and so on.

Practice this technique daily. This exercise shows us what an absence of tension feels like and that muscle tension can be reduced when given the appropriate focus. You can then become better at recognising more quickly unwanted tension in your body and can release the tension quickly in sporting situations reducing the risk of injury.2 Develop attentional cues and triggers: to prevent the effects of attentional disruption develop visual, verbal or kinesthetic cues to focus your concentration or re-focus once concentration has been lost.

The cues should help you centre your attention to the most important factors related to the task at hand, preventing distracting thoughts and feelings.

Cues should be individual for you. For example, when running they could involve focusing on your breathing, counting steps or having a word to bring you back to your running performance.3 Cognitive restructuring: this technique involves understanding any irrational beliefs which underlie stress and can result in self-defeating thoughts and feelings. First start by keeping a daily record about any upsetting thoughts and the resulting feelings and behaviours. For each situation, draw a table and record in column A the activating event

(that’s to say what happened). In column B note what your dysfunctional self-walk was. And in column C record the resulting emotional and behavioural consequences.

After this go back to column B and consider what your underlying belief is. Create a column D and look to create a more rational and helpful thought. Then practice saying the new statement until it is believed, for example, if your default is to think “I always screw up” when a mistake is made, it could be changed to “Relax! Everyone makes mistakes. Learn from it and move on”.

Lastly, it is important to note that not all people who are strongly predisposed to injury through psychosocial factors will experience injury, or that those who are low risk will never experience one. However, identifying whether you might be more at risk – through having had a number of stressful major life events, certain personality traits and/or few effective coping resources – can enable greater clarity on building in strategies to help mitigate a potential predisposition toward gaining a sporting injury.

Where coping skills are minimal and stress is high, you may want to consider professional support.

n To contact the author, see hannahwinter.co and in the next issue she discusses how you can cope with the psychological impact of injury

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“IN ONE STUDY WHICH DID IDENTIFY PEOPLE WHO WERE AT HIGH

RISK, 10 OUT OF 13 ATHLETES IN THE INTERVENTION CONDITION

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Tensing and relaxing your fists, followed by other parts of the body, can help to reduce tension



WITH only eight months to go until the World Para Athletics

Championships in Dubai on November 7-15, preparations are well underway and it was great to see athletes recently at our annual Paralympic World Class Programme (WCP) weekend in Loughborough.

British Athletics, alongside UK Sport, supports and invests in a weekend of activities for all the athletes on the Paralympic WCP, which provides those attending a chance to gather crucial information ahead of Dubai and the Tokyo Paralympics, interact with their team-mates and peers, and speak with a host of practitioners outside of their normal training environment and routine.

These events are always a positive and productive way for everyone on the team to discuss ideas, learn new things and for us to share information which will help them prepare for the next two major championships in this cycle.

This last weekend one particular highlight for me was the exercise where athletes were given a task to produce

their own ‘TED talk’ in groups which could be on any topic of their choice. The purpose of the exercise was to work as a team, build confidence and deliver a focused presentation in which they all contributed.

The athletes covered a variety of areas such as mental health, peaking for a November championship, their own journeys into the sport, the NHS and even cake! It can be daunting to speak in front of your peers, but they all delivered and shared very interesting presentations.

As head coach I was pleased to see that everyone contributed to their presentations. For some of our team, the thought of speaking in front of a room full of people does not come naturally, but I was proud of the work they did in sharing their stories and building their skill set.

This type of exercise is crucial. Not only will it help them become better public speakers and more comfortable during

their media commitments, but it helps to draw out the inner confidence of that individual, which can benefit them in the longer term both on and off the field of play.

The weekend also provided an excellent chance for the personal coaches to share ideas with one another in a session led by Keith Antoine, Aston Moore and Philip Peat. It is great to have so many coaches engaging with the WCP programme, sharing ideas and best practice, and engaging in round table conversation, so we are best prepared for Dubai and Tokyo. My thanks go to all those who contributed – and we have committed to continue with this engagement in future events.

On to Dubai, which we are expecting to send a strong team to just 10 months before we embark on the Paralympic Games in Japan.

In 2018 some athletes decided to take a ‘down’ year after a busy period of back-to-

back major championships, including the most successful World Championships ever in London, where Britain won 39 medals. I fully supported those athletes who took an opportunity to recharge, rehab, do external activities outside the sport or miss the Europeans, because I understand it is about being patient, sticking to the plan and learning from the outcomes. Everyone is now refocused on qualifying for British teams in Dubai and Tokyo, and preparations are well underway.

It is an incredible honour to be the Head Coach of the Para Athletics programme at British Athletics and I am excited about the journey in front of us over the next 18 months or so, and the work we have done throughout the cycle post-Rio.

However, I must also acknowledge, I am supported by an excellent team of support staff, practitioners and coaches, and we are working with a fantastic generation of athletes. Without their combined effort, dedication and commitment, we wouldn’t have achieved the success we have had in the past seven years.

I’d finally like to say thank you to UK Sport for their continued support of the Para Athletics programme at British Athletics, through to Dubai, Tokyo and beyond. It is vital we recognise that we are world leaders in many areas and much of that is as a result of a funding system that values para sport performance, and part of a governing body where both programmes are strongly championed.

PAULA DUNN, HEAD COACH OF THE PARA ATHLETICS PROGRAMME AT BRITISH ATHLETICS, LOOKS AHEAD TO DUBAI AND TOKYO

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T HE LATEST and quite possibly the most

advanced GPS and heart rate monitor on the market is designed to help you train smarter and recover quicker.

I’ve been using the Polar Vantage V for the last few months so let’s take a look at the features and benefits of this amazing piece of kit.

At first glance the watch looks similar to a whole range of GPS watches on the market right now, but on closer inspection you soon realise there’s more to this watch than meets the eye.

Feature packedFirst up, the rear of the watch which sits against the wrist features a combination of sensors that measure heart rate. Unlike many other watches, which simply rely on optical sensors (that can easily be affected by light and thus give erratic measurements), the Vantage V uses both optical and skin contact measurement sensors. This eliminates any disturbance from motion or light that could impact on the signal and provides a highly reliable reading.

The spikes in heart rate signal I’ve experienced with previous watches have become a thing of the past thanks to this feature which has proved very accurate in training, everyday use and when sleeping.

Sleep Plus is another useful

feature as it allows for the watch to constantly monitor your sleep pattern to detect the time and quality of sleep. These figures will help provide a further insight into your recovery over a period of time.

It’s recovery where the watch really comes into its own. As well as being a very technically advanced model, it’s the online software – a feature of the Polar Flow website (flow.polar.com) – that stores, measures and creates the bigger picture in terms of your training and its effects. Here charts, graphs

and every piece of recorded information can be compared and analysed to provide you with detailed insights into your performance and progress over a period of time.

One of the key features I found useful was the “Cardio Load Status Chart”. Okay, it’s available on the watch itself, however, it can be seen over a longer period of time on-line.

Having started to use the watch after a short break from training I quickly started to see the correlation between my training and its effect on the body. If the user is prepared to spend a little time getting used to the watch and allows it to monitor their training, and follows the guidance provided, I’m convinced it will help steer them toward performing more effectively.

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watch after a short break from training I quickly started to see the correlation between my training and its effect on the

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The most groundbreaking feature of the Vantage V is its use of power monitoring. A long-time metric used in cycling, this essentially tells you how much power you are generating whilst running. It’s important to note that this measurement works with the measurement of heart rate, and not instead of – this way you get a more complete picture of the effort and effect of your training.

Whist power is a very complex metric to explain, I try to think of it as a ‘complete figure’ to represent a collection of data. So, it’s a number that combines heart rate and speed together with GPS and barometric data.

The watch looks at the effort used in relation to the course you are running and this gives

it the ability to measure your effort and ‘advise’ on recovery. The power metric also reacts to change much quicker than heart rate, allowing you to monitor and maintain sustained effort more easily.

The “Training Load Pro” feature built into the Vantage V measures Cardio Load, Muscle Load and Perceived Load. Measuring your training and using quick feedback questions after a session the watch can build an in-depth insight into your training and over time use this to monitor strain and tolerance. This data is monitored over the previous seven days and shows how well the body

is adapting to training. Again, I found this to be very useful, as previously, especially when coming back from injury, I would just train with little reflection. Now, and on occasions, the watch suggested that I might be loading my system too quickly.

Thinking about it retrospectively I see the watch was correct, as ultimately it’s measuring and calculating more data than anyone could monitor on their own and it really does get to know you.

This data combined with the watch’s “Orthostatic Test” (a measurement of heart rate variance) quickly provides information on how well the body is recovered, helping the user to determine their training load for the day.

THE Polar Vantage V is available in three colour options and two wrist sizes.Price: £439.00 Stockist: polar.com

All the usual featuresTHE watch includes all the usual features we’ve come to expect from a heart rate monitor and GPS watch as well as those now found on smart watches. It’s easily programmable via a smartphone app and can accept notifications from your phone.

The watch has built in profiles for pretty much any sport you can imagine and will present their data in the most useful way on its touch sensitive, colour display.

Ultimately the Vantage V is the most technologically advanced training tool I’ve experienced. I really think with long term use it will be a massive advantage providing specific insights into my training and recovery.

Watch can monitor strain and tolerance

Vantage V: post-run analysis can provide in-depth insight into training

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OVERSEAS

BELGIUMAlphen Aan Den Rijn, March 24Men: 20km: 4 JONATHAN MELLOR 62:46. Women: 20km: 3 ELINOR KIRK 75:21

CHINAChongqing Marathon, March 31ABERU MEKURIA and Jimma Shambel claimed an Ethiopian double, clocking a PB of 2:24:30 and 2:10:28 respectively. Men Mar: 1 J Shambel 2:10:28; 2 E Koech (KEN) 2:10:28. Women Mar: 1 A Mekuria (ETH); 2 Li Zhixuan 2:27:56; 3 He Yinli in 2:29:14Chengdu, March 31Women: SP: 1 Song Jiayuan 18.12. JT: 1 Liu Shiying 63.19, DT: Feng Bin 62.27; 2 Su Xinyue 60.67. HT: Luo Na 72.87; 2 Wang Zheng 72.55.

DENMARKAarhus Open Cross Country Races, Aarhus, March 30Men 2km: 6 ETHAN FIORE (U15) 7:41; 16 DOM FIORE (V45) 8:25; 23 ANDY BUCHER (M50) 8:45; 72 JASON HENDERSON (M45) 10:21. 5km: 90 REECE MAYCOCK 22:44; 138 MARTIN BAILEY (M40) 24:37. 8km: 1 JAMES MCCRAE 30:35; 24 EUAN CRUMLEY (M40) 37:36; 60 TONY BARBAT (M55) 41:05. 12km: 5 CHARLIE OCKLESTON (U20) 52:10; 8 PETER MIDDLETON 52:47; 13 MICK HILL (M40) 55:02. Women: 2km: 9 ORLAITH KIRK (W35) 9:41; 47 EMILY EVANS (W35) 12:58. 12km: 2 PAULA RADCLIFFE (W45) 64:07

FRANCEValenciennes, March 31GILBERT KIKPORIR ran 27:52 to win the men’s race and Caroline Chepkemoi’s 31:09 narrowly won the women’s race.Men: 1 G Kikporir (KEN) 27:52; 2 E Bor (KEN) 28:06; 3 B Kimani (KEN) 28:24. Women: 10km: 1 C Chepkemoi (KEN) 31:09; 2 D Obse Abdeta (ETH) 31:13; 7 STEPHANIE BARNES 33:49

IRELANDIrish Life Health National Juvenile Indoor Championships, Athlone, March 30-31U19 men: 60: Ht1: 2 CONNOR CROWE 7.07. U18: 60: 4 LOUIS ALBROW 7.06.

Ht2: 3 ALBROW 7.12. HJ: 2 JOSHUA KNOX 1.85.U17: 60: Ht4: 2 TONY CRAIG 7.26. 800: 2 ODHRAN HAMILTON 1:59.59. 1500: 1 SEAN MCGINLEY 4:07.51. U16: HJ: 2 DANIEL SCOTT 1.83. U15: 800: 1 FINN O’NEILL 2:09.29. 60H: 4 ADAM COURTNEY 9.36.U14: 60: Ht3: 4 FINN CROSS 8.54. U19 women: 60: 3 ANNA McCAULEY 7.66. Ht1: 2 McCAULEY 7.71. 400: 2 RACHEL McCANN 56.47. Ht1: 1 MCCANN 56.99. 60H: 1 McCAULEY 8.83. PV: 1 ERIN FISHER 3.30. LJ: 1 McCAULEY 5.53. U18: 800: 1 MURPHY MILLER 2:14.10; 3 AELA STEWART 2:18.60. U17: 60: 1 KATIE MONTEITH 7.65. Ht1: 1 MONTEITH 7.74. 200: 1 MONTEITH 24.75. Ht1: 1 MONTEITH 25.44. 800: 2 CARA LAVERTY 2:15.03. 1500: 2 LAVERTY 4:50.65. U16: 200: 2 JENNA BREEN 25.52. 800: 1 VICTORIA LIGHTBODY 2:13.01. Ht2: 1 LIGHTBODY 2:21.52. U15: 60: Ht2: 3 LUCY KERR 8.27. U12: 60: 3 ERIN FRIEL 8.75. Ht3: 1 FRIEL 8.56

ITALYTurin Half-Marathon, March 31DICKSON SIMBA won in 62:39, while Mary Wangari completed the Kenyan double as she took the women’s title in 72:45.Men: HM: 1 D Simba (KEN) 62:39. Women: HM: 1 M Wangari (KEN) 72:45

POLANDPZU Warsaw Half Marathon, March 31THERE was a Kenyan double in Warsaw as Gilbert Masai and Gladys Kipkoech took the titles in respective times of 61:43 and 70:19.Men: Mar: 1 G Masai 61:43; P Kirui (KEN) 61:57, Women: HM: 1 G Kipkoech (KEN) 70:19

SPAINMalaga, March 24Women: HM: 3 RACHEL DOHERTY 82:03; 6 JO-ANNE BARFOOT (W40) 87:41Oviñana, March 23Men 10km: 17 ROGER FARRINGTON (M55) 35:39

USAAtlanta, March 30Men: 5000: r1: 7 SAM LLOYD-PERKS 15:32.85. Women: 800: r1: 1 EMILY KEARNEY 2:12.46. 1500: r1: 1 KEARNEY 4:24.45Texas Relays, Austin, March 27-29USA’s 2012 Olympic champion Jenn Suhr cleared a world-leading 4.91m in the pole vault before attempting 5.01m.

There was a Grenada record as Anderson Peters won the javelin with a throw of 86.07m.

In the relays, the men’s LSU 4x100m team ran 38.41 over Houston with 38.45, while the women’s US Blue team of Kendra Harrison, Jenna Prandini, Kori Carter and Tawanna Meadows ran 43.12 over the USA White quartet of Sharika Nelvis, Ashley Henderson, Morolake Akinosun and Tori Bowie with 43.68.

In the 100m, 19-year-old Sha’Carri Richardson ran a windy 10.91 (+4.3 m/s).Men: JT: 1 A Peters (GRN) 86.07 (rec) 4x100: 1 :SU 38.41; 2 Houston 38.45. Women: 100 (4.3): 1 S Richardson (U20) 10.91. PV: 1 J Suhr 4.91. 4x100: 1 US Blue 43.12; 2 USA White 43.68Men: TJ: 3 ADE MASON 16.37/2.1. HT: B: 6 BAYLEY CAMPBELL (U20) 66.27; 9 FELLAN MCGUIGAN 62.00; 10 EDWARD JEANS 61.23. Dec: 5 HARRY MASLEN 7304 (11.03w, 7.19w, 12.15, 1.89, 50.32, 14.74, 38.81, 4.50, 47.11, 4:46.05). Women: 100H: Ht11 (3.0): 4 EMMA NWOFOR 13.58. Ht13 (3.3): 3 OLIVIA OKOLI 11.84. 400H: Ht3: 5 ORLA BROTHERS 61.02. PV: 5 LUCY BRYAN 4.40. TJ: 14 SIMI FAJEMISIN 12.70/1.8. HT: 4 AMY HERRINGTON 63.69. A: 6 REBECCA KEATING 61.88Cape Girardeau, March 29Women: HT: A AMBER SIMPSON 61.03Daytona Beach, March 29-30Men: 800: r1: 5 MICHAEL PARRY 1:53.33. 1500: r1: 2 PARRY 3:55.45Fullerton, March 30Men: TJ: 5 AIDAN QUINN (U20) 14.36/1.6. Women: HJ: eq 2 ADA’ORA CHIGBO 1.71Gainesville, March 28-30BRITAIN’S Adam Gemili ran a windy 10.14 (+2.6m/s) in the 100m to win his race ahead of Trentavis Friday with 10.15.

A Canada quartet of Gavin Smellie, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse clocked 38.34 to win the 4x100m, while a Pure Athletics team clocked 3:01.46 to win the 4x400m.

In the women’s 4x100m, Pure Athletics ran 42.92 to win, while there was a 4x400m victory for the USA High Performance team in 3:26.29.

Grant Holloway ran 13.28 (-0.5m/s) to win the 110m hurdles and was also second in his 200m race, running a PB of 20.66 (-0.7m/s) behind Rod Rowe with 20.60.Men: 100: r1 (2.6): 1 ADAM GEMILI 10.14. TJ: r2: 5 DANIEL IGBOKWE 15.61/2.7. DT: A GREGORY THOMPSON 61.13. Women: 400: r6: 2 AMELIA

REYNOLDS 56.32. 800: r2: 4 GEMMA FINCH 2:08.99. 1500: r1: 8 JODIE JUDD 4:21.87; 16 CHARLOTTE CROOK 4:31.55. r2: 4 ELLIE WALLACE 4:33.17. SP: B: 4 MICHELLA OBIJIAKU 15.22. HT: B: ALICE BARNSDALE 59.35. A: 10 MICHELLA OBIJIAKU 52.56.Mount Olive, March 30Men: JT: LUKE MILLER 58.60. Women: HT: 1 CANDY LOCKETT 55.87Raleigh Relays, North Carolina, March 29-30Men: 400: r1: 2 OWEN RICHARDSON 46.40. 1500: r9: 11 BEN POTRYKUS 3:51.19. 5000: r5: 1 DANIEL WALLIS 14:12.51. r7: 20 WILLIAM BATTERSHILL 14:12.18; 22 EUAN MAKEPEACE 14:22.54. 10,000: 18 MICHAEL WARD 29:16.20; 23 BRADLEY WATTLEWORTH 29:26.32; 37 DANIEL HAYMES 29:56.41; 38 LUKE GREER 29:57.76. 3000SC: r3: 2 AIDAN THOMPSON 8:59.16. r4: 2 HARAN DUNDERDALE 8:50.95; 10 DECLAN McMANUS 9:12.86. HJ: 4 PATRICK O’CONNOR 2.05.Women: 800: 4 CHARLOTTE CAYTON-SMITH (W) 2:07.71.1500: 13 KATHRYN GILLESPIE 4:23.24; 10 MILLIE HOWARD 4:30.33. 5000: 6 JULIA PATERNAIN 16:06.67. r1: 23 SHONA BLADES 18:01.57. 3000SC: r2: 6 LUCY JONES 10:49.89. LJ: A: 3 OLIVIA JONES (U20) 5.35/0.4Orem, March 29Women: SP: A: SOPHIE MERRITT 14.73.Palo Alto, March 29-30MATT LEACH rane a notable 10,000m in 28:51.05.Men: 800: r3: 1 MAX WHARTON 1:50.14. r6: 2 MICHAEL WILSON 1:48.77; 3 THOMAS STAINES 1:48.96.1500: r1: 1 WILLIAM PAULSON 3:42.53. r5: 9 SCOTT HALSTED 3:55.78. 5000: 5 CHRISTOPHER OLLEY 13:47.92; 18 SCOTT BEATTIE 14:09.95.10,000: 4 MATT LEACH 28:21.05; 15 JACK ROWE 28:50.22.3000SC: 10 JONATHAN GLEN 9:06.60. Women: 100 (-0.1): 7 IMMANUELA ALIU (U20) 11.95. r4 (-0.1): 1 ALIU (U20) 11.94. 200: r4 (0.1): 1 ALIU (U20) 24.31. 800: r2: 1 REBECCA CROFT 2:07.18.1500: r5: 12 HANNAH NUTTALL 4:31.88; 13 MEGAN DAVIES 4:33.39. 5000: 10 POPPY TANK 16:07.55; 18 SCARLET DALE 16:43.33. 10,000: 28 PHILIPPA BOWDEN 33:35.63.100H: r1 (0.2): 3 HOPE SARTI 14.48.Pueblo, March 28Men: 800: r1: 1 THOMAS STAINES 1:48.54. 1500: r1: 4 PADDY ROBB 3:59.56.Richmond, March 29Women: DT: RACHEL FORDER 35.53San Francisco, March 28-29Men: 1500: r5: 1 IOLO HUGHES 3:53.80. 5000: r1: 4 JORDAN ROWE 14:02.83; 9 IAN CROWE-WRIGHT 14:20.51. r2: 3 ISAAC AKERS 14:21.70; 5 FREDDIE HESSIAN 14:22.48. 3000SC: r1: 9 MATTHEW ARNOLD 8:59.23. Women: 5000: r1: 8 BELLA WILLIAMS 16:27.41; 9 REBECCA HOWARD 16:29.60; 20 CATRINA THOMAS 17:22.76. r5: 3 KATIE BUCKLEY 17:21.52; 7 JULIE EMMERSON 17:38.21. 10,000: r2: 24 KATY WHITEOAK 37:56.85San Marcos, March 28-29Men: 100: r4 (2.3): 1 ADAM CLAYTON (U20) 10.82. 200: r4 (5.1): 1 CLAYTON (U20) 21.61. Women: 3000SC: r2: 13 JESSICA FOX 12:07.82. HT: D: 6 AMY HERRINGTON 61.49; 10 ANNA PURCHASE 56.28

OVERSEASRESULTS

Steve Smythe, results editor

WORLD CHAMPSOBVIOUSLY the real world championships was in Denmark and hopefully it will boost cross-country for the future.

My earliest memory of the World Championships were David Bedford winning the equivalent International Championships in 1971 and then Ian Stewart winning the title in 1975 in Rabat.

This was before the Kenyan and Ethiopian domination and in recent years many European countries have seemingly given up at cross country.

Even in Denmark there were very few Portuguese, who were once vying with Britain as top European team and Germany and Italy, two other nations with a great former endurance pedigree, also were without teams.

I personally, with one eye on Aarhus, was in Torun at the World Masters.

There were far more athletes there than at Aarhus and GB had a strong team but not in most of my events as I was able to be leading Briton in my age-group in both the cross-country and half-marathon, albeit with modest performances.

In vets athletics, there is no selection. You just pay an entry (the fee itself was well into three figures) and pay for travel and accommodation, which means a lot of the best athletes can’t afford it.


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TRACK & FIELD

MARCH 31BOURNEMOUTH AC OPEN, BournemouthMixed events: 100: r4: 2 V Taylor (B’mth, M55) 13.7; 3 M Ellery (B&W, M55) 13.7; 4 R Wheeler (Poole, M55) 13.7; 7 P Hine (W’borne, W55) 15.7. 200: r4: 1 R Wheeler (Poole, M55) 27.5; 2 M Ellery (B&W, M55) 27.6. r15: 1 F Odofin (Ports, U13W) 28.1; 2 J Collinson (Poole, U13W) 28.5; 3 P Northcott (Ply, U13W) 28.5. 300: r4: 1 S Blake (Ports, U15W) 42.9. 800: r2: 4 P Northcott (Ply, U13W) 2:22.9; 5 O Ewen Matthews (B’mth, U13) 2:23.9. LJ: B: 1 S Sommerseth (B’mth, U13W) 4.58. D: 1 L Hill (W’borne, U15W) 5.26; 3 L Sullivan (B’mth, U15W) 5.08. E: 1 C Ayton (W’borne, U20W) 5.46; 2 R Jerges (Craw, U17W) 5.39; 3 L Blake (B’mth, U17W) 5.34; 17 P Hine (W’borne, W55) 4.03. TJ: B: 1 L Blake (B’mth, U17W) 11.28; 2 H Winton (W’borne, W) 11.08; 3 A Warre (Swin, U15W) 11.02; 4 F Mansell (Poole, U17W) 10.90; 5 L Hill (W’borne, U15W) 10.72; 6 L Sullivan (B’mth, U15W) 10.44. DT: A: 1 M Ferne (Soton, M70) 34.81 Men: SP: B: 2 A Sheerin (B’mth, M45) 10.43. SP: B: 1 P Evans (Woking, M50) 10.54; 3 S Dobson (B’mth, M55) 9.99. DT: A: 1 D Aladese (B&B) 40.41. DT: B: 1 A Chesterman (Rad, U17) 40.01; 3 P Evans (Woking, M50) 33.79 U17: SP: B: 1 E Evans (Ports) 12.47; 2 A Chesterman (Rad) 12.08. JT: C: 1 C Taylor (Ports) 54.42; 2 B Jenvey (Soton) 52.88 U13: 75H: 1 M Chater (W’borne) 13.5 Women: 400H: 1 C Hunt (Yeov O, W40) 71.2. WT: 1 D Broom (B’mth) 13.53; 2 I Shepherd (B’mth, U20) 12.54; 3 M Bird (Chelt) 12.04. DT: C: 1 P Dowson (B’mth) 56.05; 2 C Payne (Newb, U20) 43.87; 3 D Broom (B’mth) 43.29; 4 M Bird (Chelt) 40.14; 5 E Sharpe (N Dev, U20) 36.09; 6 E Lovett (Ports, U17) 31.92. HT: B: 1 C Payne (Newb, U20) 55.80; 2 D Broom (B’mth) 51.06; 3 C Thomas (Ports, U20) 48.18; 4 A White (W’borne, U20) 41.13; 6 I Shepherd (B’mth, U20) 37.28; 7 E Sharpe (N Dev, U20) 37.15. JT: B: 1 O Galloway (B’mth, U20) 34.12 U17: 80H: 1 W Gibb (SG) 12.0; 2 Y Bridet (B’mth) 12.1. 300H: 1 A Lovering (W’borne) 45.4. HT: A: 1 P March (Ports) 44.83; 2 J Bennett (Soton) 44.62; 3 B Matthews (And) 39.11; 5 E Lloyd (Ports, U15) 31.27; 6 Z English (Dor, U15) 26.30; 8 E MacDonald (And, U13) 22.44. JT: B: 1 L Wilkinson (Salis) 35.31 U15: JT: D: 1 O Busher (Win) 34.39 U13: 70H: r2: 1 G Weeks (Win) 12.1. SP: C: 1 E MacDonald (And) 9.06. DT: D: 1 E MacDonald (And) 26.74

NOTTS AC SPRING SPRUCE OPEN, NottinghamU17 mixed events: SP: A: 1 E Kynoch (Shef/Dearn, U15W) 10.31 U20: JT: A: 1 J Brown (Amber, U20W) 35.39 U13: JT: A: 1 M Young (Mans) 34.21; 2 I Fellows (C’field, U13W) 32.86 Mixed events: 100: r7 (2.5): 1 M Palmer (Charn, U17W) 12.28; 3 E Brown (Charn, U17W) 12.67. r10 (4.7): 6 P Clayton (Notts, M60) 13.99. r12 (5.0): 1 S Baffour (Cov, U17) 11.20. r13 (5.3): 1 A Orpwood-Colton (Notts, U20) 10.88. 200: r4 (2.5): 1 M Palmer (Charn, U17W)

25.69. r8 (2.6): 1 J Vernon (Hallam, U17) 22.70. r9 (2.0): 1 S Baffour (Cov, U17) 22.89. r10 (2.8): 1 A Cooper (Notts, U17) 22.30. r12 (3.4): 2 D Pigott (Notts, M50) 26.38. 400: r3: 1 J Dickenson (Amber, U20) 49.77; 2 T Evans (Newk, U20) 50.13. 800: r1: 1 A Nicholson (Notts, U13W) 2:29.11. r3: 1 S Huxham (Hallam, U20W) 2:15.21. 1500: r1: 1 A Chrispin (Newk, U15W) 4:54.80; 2 J Hughes (Notts, U15W) 4:56.78; 3 T Hinxman (Der, W45) 5:07.49. r2: 8 A Wetherill (Mans, M60) 4:56.46. HJ: A: 1 I Laugharne (Amber, U13W) 1.40; 2 N Need (Notts, U13W) 1.40. B: 1 D Duruaku (Notts, U20) 1.90. PV: A: 2 I Crameri (Tam, U17W) 2.80; 3 L Pinchess (Charn, U15W) 2.70. B: 1 J Clark (Notts, U20) 4.30. LJ: A: 4 D Davenport (Notts, M45) 5.70. TJ: 4 B Mortiboy (Notts, W) 11.79; 6 D Arulanandam (VoA, W) 11.16; 7 C Yates (Amber, U17W) 10.62; 8 J Lake (Mans, U17W) 10.40; 9 M Yalekhue (Notts, U15W) 10.38. SP: B: 1 K Francis (Notts, U20W) 12.00; 4 B Bowley (Burt, M70) 8.41 Men: 110H: 1 J Mitchell (SinA) 16.0 U20: SP: B: 1 L Byng (Strat) 17.81. HT: A: 1 H Ilyk (Notts) 57.84 U17: 100H (2.7): 1 G Toom-Smith (Notts) 14.83. DT: A: 1 S Tarbit (Der) 38.57. JT: A: 1 A Lloyd (Tel) 50.09 U15: 80H (1.9): 1 J Minshull (Cov) 11.47 M60: SP: B: 1 B Renshaw (Roth, M65) 8.83. HT: A: 1 A Mitchell (SinA) 35.75 M65: HT: B: 1 B Renshaw (Roth) 28.23 Women: HT: A: 1 A Crossdale (Notts) 61.09; 2 H Ahlgren (Notts) 44.82; 3 R Denton-Snape (WSEH, U20) 44.50; 4 P Bean (Notts, U20) 42.81 U17: 80H (3.8): 1 N Lannie (Donc) 11.76; 2 A Briggs-Goode (Notts) 11.88; 3 C Yates (Amber) 12.12; 4 K Smith (Cov) 12.25; 5 O Fowler (C&N) 12.27. 300H: 1 J Lake (Mans) 45.69; 2 A Briggs-Goode (Notts) 45.97. SP: B: 1 E Sheppard (Mans) 11.04. HT: B: 1 A Findlay (Rush, U15) 27.70 U13: 70H (3.0): 1 I Laugharne (Amber) 12.23

SCUNTHORPE & DISTRICT AC WINTER WARM UP OPEN, ScunthorpeMixed events: 5000: 3 C Hubbard (Newk, W) 17:02.2; 10 M Casey (Barns, M70) 20:25.5 Men: HT: 1 G Perkins (Roth, M35) 45.01; 2 G Pell (Scun, M45) 32.26 M45: SP: 1 G Pell (Scun) 11.35 M50: SP: 1 T Balko (B’burn) 11.24. HT: 1 T Balko (B’burn) 37.18 M60: HT: 1 I Cooley (Roth) 39.26 Women: 150: 1 M Hoult (KuH) 19.5; 2 S Santos (KuH) 20.0. SP: 4 J Wilson (Read, W55) 8.63. HT: 1 H Blood (Sale, U20) 49.45; 2 S Robinson (Scun, U20) 44.99. HT: 1 L Forrest (Roth, U17) 49.85; 2 L Welton (Scun, U17) 44.05; 3 E Lockett (Scun, U17) 41.31; 4 J Wilson (Read, W55) 31.81 U13: 80: 1 E Kendrick (Louth) 11.6; 2 Z Smith (Newk) 11.7. Ht3: 1 E Kendrick (Louth) 11.5. 150: 1 E Kendrick (Louth) 20.9; 2 T Haynes (Louth) 21.0; 3 Z Smith (Newk) 21.2. Ht1: 1 T Haynes (Louth) 21.7; 2 Z Smith (Newk) 21.8. Ht2: 1 E Kendrick (Louth) 21.1

CARDIFF THROWS OPEN, CardiffU17 mixed events: HT: 1 C Grimwade (Swan, U17W) 46.70; 2 M Harvey (FoD,

U17W) 40.96; 4 S Miller (Rhon, U15W) 29.08 Mixed events: SP: 1 E Witchell (Card, U15) 11.78; 2 G Lewis (Swan, U20W) 10.23. HT: 1 F Palmer (Card, U20W) 52.01; 2 C Smith (Swansea, W) 40.91 U17 women: SP: 2 A Fettis (Newp, U15) 10.16

SOUTH LONDON ATHLETICS NETWORK UAG TROPHY OPEN, CarshaltonU20 mixed events: 100: r1 (0.7): 1 A Obijiaku (S Lon, U17W) 12.51. r8 (2.8): 1 R Edwards (Herne H) 10.96. 200: r1 (0.5): 1 A Obijiaku (S Lon, U17W) 25.49; 2 J Smith (Sutt, U17W) 25.59. r7 (-0.4): 1 D Baldock (Sutt) 22.19; 2 R Edwards (Herne H) 22.29. 1500: r2: 7 H Kande (Herne H, U15) 4:28.18 U20 men: 800: 1 Z Crowther (Herne H, U15) 2:09.67. HJ: 1 J Ennis (Croy) 2.03; 2 I Bakare (Croy, U17) 1.85. DT: 1 R Vaughan (Croy) 45.23 U15: DT: 1 A Chernolesskiy (Sutt) 34.13 U20 women: 800: 1 K Sethna-McIntosh (Croy, U17) 2:17.82; 2 L Pearson (E&E, U17) 2:19.32; 3 J Newman (Sutt, U13) 2:29.66. DT: 1 J Barnaby (S Lon) 33.18 U17: 300H: 1 F Taylor (E&E) 46.76. HJ: 1 M Smith (Herne H) 1.65 U15: HT: 1 P Broadhead (Croy) 33.90

WOODFORD GREEN OPEN, WoodfordU20 mixed events: SP: 1 O Okereke (WG&EL, W) 11.11. HT: 1 L Taylor (SNH, U20W) 41.42 U13: JT: 1 T Rutter (HAWC) 41.03 Mixed events: 100: r8: 1 E Rock (VoA, U15W) 12.57. r9: 4 W Odele (Camb H, M50) 12.67. r11: 1 I Smith-John (Craw) 10.98; 5 A Nunn (S’end, U15) 11.93. r12: 1 J Pascall-Menzie (NEB, U17) 10.80; 2 M Adum-Yeboah (WG&EL, U20) 11.01. 200: r8 (0.4): 2 E Rock (VoA, U15W) 25.39. r9 (0.4): 2 A Nunn (S’end, U15) 24.11. r10 (0.3): 1 J Pascall-Menzie (NEB, U17) 22.08; 2 M Adum-Yeboah (WG&EL, U20) 22.49. 300: r2: 1 L Chivers (Thurr, U20) 36.39. r4: 1 M Adum-Yeboah (WG&EL, U20) 36.36. 800: r3: 2 C Sharp (Central P, W) 2:17.60. r4: 3 C Sharp (Central P, M40) 2:04.05; 6 A Clark (WG&EL, W) 2:09.83. 1500: r2: 3 H Watson (Chelm, U15W) 4:53.98. r3: 1 H Tullett (Chelm, U20) 4:03.19; 4 B Sloan (WG&EL, U17) 4:10.86; 10 N Toft (B&B, U17W) 4:45.45 Men: 110H: r1 (0.6): 1 B Reed (Chelm) 15.23. DT: 1 S Woodley (Herts P) 52.27. HT: 1 S Thurgood (Herne H, M40) 50.30. HT: 1 S Illsley (Worth, U20) 54.19; 2 R Perkins (M&M, U20) 40.56; 1 F Harford (WG&EL, M50) 30.69 U17: DT: 1 T Pattison (Ports) 38.64. HT: 1 K Wright (WG&EL) 44.21 U20 women: DT: 1 P Hamilton (WG&EL) 32.91 U17: HT: 1 S Sikiru (WG&EL) 46.93; 2 O Simon (Col H, U15) 42.10. JT: 1 C Brand (Thurr, U15) 31.53 U15: 75H (-0.9): 1 S Gammell (Wat) 11.86; 2 J Self (Thurr) 12.17

MARCH 30BRACKNELL AC YOUNG ATHLETES OPEN, BracknellU17 men: 100: r1 (2.7): 1 L Turner (Brack) 11.20. 200: r2 (-0.2): 1 B Brownlee (Hill) 22.60; 2 J Nelson (Ports) 22.90. 100H (1.3): 1 M Ogunbanjo (Hill) 14.16. HJ: 1 J Cox (Read) 1.85. SP: 1 Z

Davies (Brack) 12.89. JT: 1 B East (Team K) 67.57; 2 C Taylor (Ports) 52.47 U15: 100: r1 (1.2): 1 S Over (AFD) 11.90. 200: r1 (0.6): 1 S Over (AFD) 24.10; 2 T Bennett (Slough J) 24.28. 1500: 1 L Birdseye (WSEH) 4:29.14. 80H (0.8): 1 S Ball (Read) 12.14. LJ: 1 S Over (AFD) 5.74; 3 H Christian (Woking, U13) 5.10. JT: 1 L Cawley (Ports) 49.99; 2 H Domingos (Read) 42.55 U13: 100: r3 (-0.5): 1 A Lamb (Read) 12.92. 200: r1 (0.9): 1 A Lamb (Read) 26.82. 600: r1: 1 N Rollins (WSEH) 1:42.50. 1000: r1: 1 B Dewar (WSEH) 3:08.57. 75H (-0.6): 1 K Nneke (Read) 13.23; 2 W Harris (Team K) 13.48 U17 women: 100: r1 (0.1): 1 A Sillett (Brack) 12.67. r2 (1.3): 1 M Smith (Hill) 12.46; 2 K Treglown (Read) 12.53. 200: r3 (-0.4): 1 E Morris (Brack) 25.94. 300: r1: 1 E Morris (Brack) 40.73. 80H (0.9): 1 L Watkins (Brack) 11.80; 2 A Masquelier (WSEH) 12.30. LJ: 1 L Chalmers (Slough J) 5.26. SP: 1 G Russell (Walton) 11.55. JT: 1 P Hoaen (Team K) 39.45 U15: 100: r1 (3.1): 1 E Ibiama (Woking) 12.78. r2 (1.7): 1 A Cole (BMH) 12.33; 2 D Belgrave (Swin) 12.73. 200: r4 (-1.1): 1 A Cole (BMH) 26.12. 800: r1: 1 K Marsh (Swin) 2:20.16. 1500: 1 C Terry (Cookham) 4:55.24. 75H: r2 (0.3): 1 A Walsh (Read) 11.75; 2 N Reddyhough (Brack) 11.86. LJ: B: 1 D Belgrave (Swin) 5.09. JT: 1 A Palmer (Brack) 34.18; 2 J Larsen (Soton) 33.11 U13: 75: r3 (3.1): 1 L Belgrave (Swin) 10.59. r6 (1.3): 1 I Marshall (Woking) 10.21. 150: r1 (-0.1): 1 A Adams (Woking) 21.72. r2 (-0.7): 1 A Jonkers (Read) 21.82. r3 (0.3): 1 R Carr (Swin) 21.35; 2 C Southgate (Hill) 21.61. r4 (0.1): 1 S Imeson (Swin) 21.83. r5 (0.5): 1 I Marshall (Woking) 20.35; 2 Z Allen (Team K) 21.77. 600: r1: 1 H Bond (Ports) 1:45.31. r2: 1 I Thorpe (Brack) 1:47.29. r3: 1 K Fraser (Brack) 1:47.49. 1000: 1 J Bailey (Brack) 3:14.83; 2 F Davidse (Swin) 3:15.82; 3 E Spencer (Swin) 3:18.33; 4 J Heller (Cookham) 3:22.32; 5 M McCalla (Swin) 3:22.97; 6 M Fergusson (Brack) 3:23.56; 7 M Fieldsend (Brack) 3:24.55. 70H: r1 (1.5): 1 A Jonkers (Read) 11.91

KETTERING OPEN THROWS, KetteringMixed events: SP: 2 A Jenkins (Nene V, W40) 9.31. DT: 1 E Beardmore (Harrow, W) 35.04; 2 A Jenkins (Nene V, W40) 34.96; 3 A Sharples (Linc W, U20W) 32.83; 4 M Reynolds (N’pton, U17W) 31.04; 11 L Foster (RSC, W55) 22.58. HT: 1 A Jenkins (Nene V, W40) 43.11; 2 K Lawrence (Nene V, W) 40.14; 3 J Surridge (K&S, U20W) 33.83. HT:1 K Gibson (Kett, U15W) 44.94; 2 H Telling (K&S, U15W) 31.74; 4 L Brookes (Diss, U15W) 28.03; 5 L Foster (RSC, W55) 26.35 Men: HT: 1 M Bell (Kett, M40) 44.77 U17: SP: 1 A Williams (W Norf) 12.99 Women: SP: 1 L Oakley (Ryst, U15) 10.52; 6 L Foster (RSC, W55) 8.13. JT: 2 L Foster (RSC, W55) 29.28

MARK CAWTE MEMORIAL MEETING, SwindonMen: DT: 2 B Broadbridge (Newb, M55) 39.14. HT: 2 B Broadbridge (Newb, M55) 36.66 Mixed events: TriWtU20M: 1 J Ricketts (Swin) 1868 (48.91, 14.16, 13.43) U17: TriWtU17M: 1 H Ricketts (Swin)

1557 (44.33, 7.43, 14.08) U15: JT: 1 T Spurrell (Yate) 38.86 U13: TriWtU13M: 1 B Dickinson (Swin) 1246 (30.34, 8.11, 11.21) M55: TriWtM55: 1 S Pomeroy (Abing) 2104 (35.85, 11.44, 13.04) Women: HT: 1 C Payne (Newb, U20) 58.18; 2 E Thrall (Glouc) 46.04 U20: LJ: 1 R Ellison (Bath) 5.22; 2 E Hammond (Bath, U17) 4.90 U15: LJ: 1 E Francis (Bath) 5.12. JT: 1 H Lewington (Swin) 33.56

MARCH 29HERCULES WIMBLEDON 5000m MOB MATCH, WimbledonTHIS could more appropriately have been called Night of 5000m PBs as 24 of the 33 runners who took part in the two races achieved PB times, Tom Pollak reports.

Best of the bunch was the host club’s Jonny Cornish who, in his first track race of the year, smashed his PB by 11 seconds in finishing ahead of Alex Crossland who took 15 seconds off his previous best.

Although there were no pacemakers, the leading six runners took turns at the front for the 12 and a half laps. Cornish emerged from that leading group at the bell and pulled ahead to win by around 15 metres.

Most impressive improvement was achieved by university student Niki Faulkner in finishing sixth in 14:54.2. His time bettered his previous best of 15:39.62 set at a London Universities meeting in Battersea Park last MayMen: 5000: r1: 1 A Thomas (Fulham, U20) 15:58.4; 4 D Grima (HW, M40) 16:02.2. r2: 1 J Cornish (HW) 14:47.7; 2 A Crossland (High) 14:49.3; 3 C Haywood (High) 14:49.9; 4 J Allchin (Kent) 14:51.0; 5 R Wilson (High) 14:51.3; 6 N Faulkner (High) 14:54.2; 7 C Eastaugh (HW) 15:05.9; 8 P Chambers (High) 15:12.9; 9 M Strain (High, M35) 15:19.7; 10 J Earl (HW) 15:20.0; 11 M Mitchell (Fife) 15:24.3; 12 A Hobley (Herne H) 15:27.2; 13 L Bowen (Kend, U20) 15:30.6; 14 W De Doncker (High) 15:32.2; 15 S Renfer (High) 15:33.9

MARCH 27NORTHUMBERLAND SCHOOLS MINORS CHAMPIONSHIPS (FIELD EVENTS ONLY), GatesheadU13 boys: LJ: 1 J Chrisp (Blyth) 4.97

MARCH 24CAMBRIDGE & COLERIDGE AC YOUNG ATHLETE OPEN CHALLENGE SERIES, CambridgeU17 men: 200: 1 M Bowen (C&C) 22.9 U15: 100: 1 C Heal (Camb Sch) 11.9. SP: 1 B White (C&C) 13.40. HT: 1 B White (C&C) 42.36 Women: SP: 1 S McGrath (C&C, W45) 8.84 U17: SP: 1 S Browne (C&C) 45.66

CHARLES STUART MEMORIAL OPEN, MiddlesbroughU17 mixed events: 300: 1 T Anderson (Dur, U17W) 41.03 Women: SP: 1 K Enderwick (M’bro) 11.10; 2 K Carmichael (M’bro, U20) 10.20 U17: SP: 1 E Robson (M’bro) 12.01 U15: 300: r2: 1 L Creasey (M’bro) 42.37


SPENBOROUGH AC SPRING OPEN, CleckheatonMen: PV: 1 A Edwards (Wake, U17) 3.70; 2 J Simms (Wake, U17) 3.40. SP: 1 G Pell (Scun, M45) 12.12. SP: 1 T Balko (B’burn, M50) 11.08. HT: 1 R Martin (Bed C, M35) 51.04; 2 C Bainbridge (GAC) 47.54; 3 T Balko (B’burn, M50) 37.83; 5 P Garner (GAC, M55) 35.61; 8 G Pell (Scun, M45) 32.02. JT: 7 P Garner (GAC, M55) 29.42U20: 200: 1 R Osuoha (O&R) 22.4U17: HT: 1 M Heywood (B’burn) 45.74; 2 A Mould (KuH) 44.17U15: 100: r1: 1 B Lawton (Spen) 11.9; 2 Z Howson (Leeds C) 12.0U13: 80: r1: 1 S Marshall (York) 10.9Women: PV: 1 G Dyson (Wake, U20) 3.10. SP: 1 L Holmes (Wake) 11.93; 2 K Buckley (Traff, W35) 9.60; 6 S Pickersgill (Long, W60) 5.89. HT: 1 J Crosby (Bing, W40) 33.50; 2 K Buckley (Traff, W35) 31.52; 3 C Gentleman (Spen, W50) 25.94U20: HT: 1 H Blood (Sale) 47.35; 2 S Robinson (Scun) 41.72; 3 C Stuchbury (Wig D) 40.32; 4 M Leach (Bing) 34.03U17: HT: 1 L Forrest (Roth) 52.20; 2 A Leigh (Burnley) 44.05; 3 T Fayle (Manx) 38.83; 4 E Lockett (Scun) 38.78U15: PV: 1 A Hunt (Wake) 3.00; 2 E Hunt (Wake) 2.40U13: 80: r1: 1 T Haynes (Louth AC) 11.2. r2: 1 N Marshall (York) 11.7. r3: 1 S Campbell (Bing) 11.4; 2 O Doyle (KuH) 11.5. 150: r1: 1 T Haynes (Worc) 21.0; 2 C Musgrave (Hallam) 21.3. r2: 1 S Campbell (Bing) 21.8. 1200: 1 A Tolley (Hallam) 4:03.6; 2 G Brown (Hallam) 4:05.0; 3 C McCloy (Mat) 4:14.6

SWINDON MARK CAWTE MEMORIAL OPEN, SwindonMixed events: 150: r3 (-0.5): 2 T Iannetelli (Swin, W) 19.37; 4 D Belgrave (Swin, U15W) 20.01. 300: r5: 1 S Blake (Ports, U15W) 42.87. 600: r1: 1 J Blundell (Bath, U20W) 1:40.47; 2 R Sykes (Swin, W) 1:41.66; 3 A Skittrall (Swin, U17W) 1:43.98. r2: 1 K Lee (Yate) 1:23.59; 2 E Doughty (Swin, U20) 1:24.45; 3 B McIntyre (Swin, U20) 1:25.38; 4 M Davis (Avon VR, U20) 1:25.70. 1000: r1: 1 M Davis (Avon VR, U20) 2:39.77; 2 W Morris (Lav Ath, U17) 2:42.15; 4 T Yokoyama (Swin, U15) 2:52.37. r2: 1 F Buglass (Avon VR, U15W) 3:03.87. r3: 4 E Spencer (Swin, U13W) 3:24.14; 5 F Davidse (Swin, U13W) 3:25.56; 6 M McCalla (Swin, U13W) 3:26.02U17 men: 300H: 1 A Martin (Swin) 41.95

MARCH 23BLACKPOOL WINTER WARM UP OPEN, BlackpoolMen: 100: r1: 6 T Buraimo (Prest, M45) 12.2. 200: 5 T Buraimo (Prest, M45) 25.6. SP: 1 D Upton (R&Z, M40) 12.38. DT: 1 D Upton (R&Z, M40) 36.48; 2 D Brown (Liv PS, M50) 29.43. HT: 3 D Upton (R&Z, M40) 35.20; 5 D Brown (Liv PS, M50) 30.90U20: SP: 1 A Kent (B’burn) 12.83. DT: 1 A Kent (B’burn) 46.89U17: 100H: 1 D Pedro (Sale) 14.5; 2 D Naylor (C&N) 14.8. DT: 1 H Miles (Bord H) 38.35. HT: 1 A Bernstein (Prest) 59.83; 2 M Heywood (B’burn) 46.08; 3 D King (Bord H) 42.20U15: HT: 1 A Holliday (Cope) 38.70U13: 75H: 1 C Rigby (Prest) 13.6; 2

D Smith (B’burn) 13.7. HJ: 1 M Smith (B’burn) 1.50Women: SP: 1 L Marshall (WG&EL, W35) 10.83. DT: 1 J Pyatt (Liv PS) 39.55; 2 A Thompson (Bord H, U20) 34.16; 3 L Marshall (WG&EL, W35) 32.02. HT: 1 L Marshall (WG&EL, W35) 55.53; 2 T Simpson-Sullivan (Wig D, U20) 52.98; 3 H Blood (Sale, U20) 47.95; 4 Z Price (Liv H, U20) 43.89; 5 C Stuchbury (Wig D, U20) 43.09; 6 E Vickers (Prest, U20) 36.85; 7 R Lowe (Prest, U20) 35.91U17: 80H: 1 A Taylor (Carl) 12.5. SP: 1 B Roche (S’port W) 13.65. HT: 1 B Roche (S’port W) 54.01; 2 A Leigh (Burnley) 45.12; 3 H Garrett (Annan) 41.49; 4 T Fayle (Manx) 39.03U15: 100: r1: 1 E Noblet (Prest) 12.8. 75H: r1: 1 M Corker (Warr) 11.4; 2 A Hughes (S’port W) 12.2; 3 E Rankin (Prest) 12.3; 4 E Noblet (Prest) 12.4. HT: 1 E Harrison (Prest) 29.99; 2 J Richardson (Sale) 25.93U13: 100: 1 C Allen (Prest) 13.5. 70H: r2: 1 E Schofield (Warr) 12.4. LJ: 1 C Allen (Prest) 4.50

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER RAC OPEN GRADED MEETING, LeicesterTWO GB competitors from the European U18 Championships, Sabrina Sinha and Ben Thomas, got their outdoor season underway at this event, which also provided chances of impressing university selectors for BUCS.

Sinha, a silver medallist over 1500m in 2016, produced a sub-4:30.00 performance.

Thomas, a finalist over 2000m steeplechase, competed a thousand metres further for the first time, finishing second in 9:24.9 behind Tom Horton, who now leads the event’s rankings with 9:07.0. Other impressive steeplechase performances came from Remi Adebiyi (9:27.7) and Jordan Wood (9:28.7) in the men’s 3000m and Lauren Cooper (6:50.3) and Hannah Knights (7:27.3) in the women’s 2000m event.

In the 400m hurdles, Loughborough University’s Bailey Stickings put himself in contention for BUCS selection with 54.40, leading the event’s rankings.Mixed events: 1500: 4 S Sinha (Camb H, W) 4:27.73. HJ: 3 A Taylor (Notts, W) 1.65Men: 400H: 1 B Stickings (B&B) 54.40. 3000SC: 1 T Horton (Shef/

Dearn) 9:07.00; 2 B Thomas (Carm, U20) 9:24.90; 3 R Adebiyi (Newp, U20) 9:27.70; 4 J Wood (C&C) 9:28.70. DT: 1 T Napiorkowski (Leic U) 41.06. JT: 2 C Brown (Liv H, U20) 48.43U17: JT: 1 S Parrott (Charn) 54.26Women: 2000SC: 1 L Cooper (Parc BB) 6:50.30; 2 H Knights (G&G) 7:27.30

LONDON UNIVERSITES & COLLEGES CHAMPIONSHIPS, Parliament HillMen: 100: r1 (1.9): 1 S Boldizsar (Harl) 10.65. 200: r1 (2.5): 1 S Boldizsar (Harl) 20.89. 400: r1: 1 D Ryan (Herne H) 49.52. 110H: 1 D Ryan (Herne H) 15.50; 2 H Hillman (Card) 15.80. 3000SC: 1 G Groom (SB) 9:38.6. 4x100: r1: 1 Brun U 42.67. r2: 1 Brun U 42.93. 4x400: 1 Brun U 3:25.91. SP: 1 D Cork (Newp) 14.64. JT: 2 M Dzandu (Read, M40) 41.77Mixed events: 5000: r1: 1 C Allan (H&P) 15:19.96; 2 W Stockley (Bath) 15:26.05; 3 R Hoyte (Phoe) 15:35.50; 4 A Gill (Leic C) 15:41.53; 5 L Bowen (Kend, U20) 15:53.78; 9 I Fry (Newb, U20W) 17:02.33; 13 G Curry (TVH, W) 17:35.57. 10000: 1 H Hart (TVH) 33:22.4; 2 C Timinis (E&H) 33:40.5; 3 W Marshall (Kings C) 34:38.9; 9 M Wilson (High, W) 37:11.9Women: 2000SC: 1 E Moyes (AFD) 6:49.68; 2 M Grice (AFD, U20) 6:56.40; 3 K Hughes (AFD) 7:16.56. 4x400: 1 Brun U 4:13.33. HJ: 1 S Arewa (TVH) 1.65. JT: 1 D Partridge (Brain, U20) 34.18

OXFORD CITY AC JUMPS & THROWS WARM UP OPEN, HorspathU15 mixed events: LJ: 1 O Barton (Oxf C, U15W) 5.13U15 girls: SP: 1 L Martin (Oxf C) 10.51

MARCH 20BRISTOL & WEST AC YOUNG ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT OPEN, WhitehallU15 boys: SP: 1 J Schrijver (B&W) 11.97U17 women: 800: 1 D Sinclair (B&W) 2:21.9. JT: 1 J Lewis (B&W) 40.61U13: JT: 1 M Barratt (B&W) 27.69

GLASGOW TAXIS CUP, ScotstounMen: 100 (2.8): 1 K Aiken (SB) 10.89; 2 E Stewart (Cors) 10.92Women: 4x100: 1 Glas U 51.98#

INDOOR

MARCH 20INDOOR HIGH JUMP COMPETITION, AberdeenMen: HJ: eq 3 J Macgregor (A’deen, M50)/A Davis (Ork, U20W) 1.61

MARCH 17SOUTH YORKSHIRE OPEN SERIES, SheffieldU13 boys: 800: r1: 1 B Nutter (Barns) 2:23.21. HJ: 1 J Boyer (Donc) 1.47U15 girls: 200: r1: 1 N Kihuyu (Hallam) 25.58. 300: r1: 1 N Kihuyu (Hallam) 41.01; 2 I White (Long) 41.95. HJ: 1 C Coates (Donc) 1.60U13: 150: r1: 1 E Darlow (Hallam) 21.47; 2 J Lord (Stock H) 21.56; 3 E Hartley (Shef/Dearn) 21.86; 4 L Salter (Stock H) 21.99. 200: r1: 1 C Musgrave (Hallam) 28.20. 800: r1:1 A Tolley (Hallam) 2:28.40; 2 G Brown (Hallam) 2:29.00. HJ: 1 S Redfern (Stock H) 1.40

MARCH 16-17TRICOUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIPS, Lee ValleyMen: 60: K: 1 K Awe (Inv EK) 6.81; 2 J Lennard (Ton) 6.97; 3 M Heavens (Inv EK) 6.99. Kh1: 1 J Lennard (Ton) 7.00. Kh2: 1 K Awe (Inv EK) 6.92; 4 J Appiah (Kent, M45) 7.55. 200: K: 1 J Lennard (Ton) 21.86. 400: Ht: 2 P Benedickter (Bed C, M50) 57.55. K: 4 W Odele (Camb H, M50) 58.06. M: 2 R Datnow (TVH, M45) 57.94. 800: K: 4 C Sharp (Central P, M40) 2:06.21. 1500: HtM: 1 J McMurray (St Alb) 3:48.47. K: 4 C Sharp (Central P, M40) 4:17.99; 6 M Preston (Camb H, M45) 4:33.65. 60H: M: 1 F Vogel (TVH, M35) 8.72; 2 E Thompson (E&H) 8.82. HJ: 1 L Okosieme (Camb H, U20) 1.95; 2 P Gleadall (B&B, U20) 1.90; 5 H Griffiths (Wat, M50) 1.60; 6 I Crawley (Ton, M55) 1.55. PV: 1 E Thompson (E&H) 4.50; 2 A Prenn (Belg) 4.30; 3 E Breen (Herts P, U20) 4.20; 4 D Noel (Inv EK, U20) 4.10; 5 T Snee (K&P) 4.00; 5 S Vilga (TVH, M35) 4.00. LJ:18 I Crawley (Ton, M55) 4.57. TJ: 7 W Odele (Camb H, M50) 10.51U20: 60: Ht: 1 D Ogali (D&T) 6.97; 2 T Ogunkanmi (Wat) 6.98. K: 1 M Knight (B&B) 6.97; 2 A Bachorski (Ton) 7.03; 3 R Edwards (Herne H) 7.05; 4 M Fagbenle (Bexley) 7.06. Kh1: 1 M Knight (B&B) 7.02. Kh2: 1 A Bachorski (Ton) 7.10; 2 R Edwards (Herne H) 7.14; 3 M Fagbenle (Bexley) 7.18. M: 1 J Mensah (Houns) 7.19. 200: K: 1 M Knight (B&B) 22.1; 2 M Fagbenle (Bexley) 22.3. Kh1: 1 M Fagbenle (Bexley) 22.36; 2 A Bachorski (Ton) 22.42. Kh2: 1 M Knight (B&B) 22.28. 60H: HtK: 1 R Williams (SB) 8.87; 2 D Fullbrook (Ton) 9.00. SP: 1 E Metcalfe (SNH) 12.21U17: 60: Ht: 1 R Bagai (SB) 7.39; 2 N Savva (SB) 7.44. K: 1 Z Nwogwugwu (Ton) 7.09; 2 O Briars (B&B) 7.25; 3 H Whichello (B&B) 7.28; 4 O Jones-Gayle (Camb H) 7.36; 5 W Heathcote (M&M) 7.38; 6 O Segun (Kent Sch) 7.41; 7 M Kinsambwe (Bexley) 7.48. Kh1: 1 Z Nwogwugwu (Ton) 7.14; 2 O Briars (B&B) 7.26. Kh2: 1 W Heathcote (M&M) 7.41; 2 O Segun (Kent Sch) 7.42. Kh3: 1 H Whichello (B&B) 7.31; 2 O Jones-Gayle (Camb H) 7.44; 3 M Kinsambwe (Bexley) 7.45. M: 1 L Liston (High) 7.10; 2 E Sesay (TVH) 7.15; 3 N Shaw (SB) 7.17; 4 D Bazuaye (VP&TH) 7.24; 5 R Klein

(SMR) 7.26; 6 N Ndukwe (SB) 7.33; 7 C Onuora (SB) 7.34. Mh1: 1 L Liston (High) 7.12; 2 N Shaw (SB) 7.27; 3 D Bazuaye (VP&TH) 7.38. Mh2: 1 E Sesay (TVH) 7.25; 2 R Klein (SMR) 7.26; 3 C Onuora (SB) 7.33; 4 N Ndukwe (SB) 7.35. 200: K: 1 K Samwell-Nash (Ashf) 22.25; 2 O Briars (B&B) 22.77. 60H: HtM: 1 M Ogunbanjo (Hill) 8.53; 2 W Lawler (SNH) 8.73; 3 N Richards (TVH) 8.73; 4 N Odejimi-Riley (SNH) 8.93. K: 1 G Seery (Thanet) 8.75; 2 M Alajiki (Ashf) 8.89. HJ: 1 D Bazuaye (VP&TH) 1.90. PV: 1 J Rugg (E&H) 3.70; 2 B Corry (B&B) 3.60; 3 J Cohen (SB) 3.50; 4 E Kitteridge (B&B) 3.40; 5 T Ashton (D&T) 3.30; 6 W Ashton (D&T) 3.20; 6 B Platt (B&B, U15) 3.20; 8 J Oyetti (Kent Sch, U15) 3.00. TJ: 1 K Stephens (SB) 13.30; 2 J Byfield (B&B) 12.83U15: 60: K: 1 B Nolan (Ton) 7.46; 2 I Farrow (M&M) 7.52. Kh2: 1 I Farrow (M&M) 7.60. M: 1 R Earle (TVH) 7.11; 2 A Tyrrell (Harrow) 7.44; 3 U Bennett-Tabi (SMR) 7.47; 4 T Kidd (Track Ac) 7.50; 5 M Amadi (SB) 7.60; 6 K Harris (VP&TH) 7.63; 7 P Hegba-Mbayen (VP&TH) 7.66. Mh1: 1 R Earle (TVH) 7.12; 2 P Hegba-Mbayen (VP&TH) 7.63; 3 J Nash (E&H) 7.67. Mh2: 1 U Bennett-Tabi (SMR) 7.61; 2 M Amadi (SB) 7.61; 3 C Jacinto (Track Ac) 7.62. Mh3: 1 A Tyrrell (Harrow) 7.46; 2 T Kidd (Track Ac) 7.51; 3 K Harris (VP&TH) 7.57; 4 O Bakker (High) 7.59; 5 A Latonne-Cruz (VP&TH) 7.62; 6 B Ukpetenan (SB) 7.70. 200: K: 1 I Farrow (M&M) 23.93. Kh1: 1 D Goriola (Dartf) 24.31. M: 1 R Earle (TVH) 23.58; 2 A Tyrrell (Harrow) 23.59; 3 K Harris (VP&TH) 24.01. Mh1: 1 R Earle (TVH) 23.46; 2 A Tyrrell (Harrow) 24.02. 800: Ht: 1 T Gaunce (D&T) 2:09.80. 60H: K: 1 D Goriola (Dartf) 9.10; 2 B Nolan (Ton) 9.13. Kh1: 1 D Goriola (Dartf) 8.98; 2 B Nolan (Ton) 9.15. HJ: 1 N Mahmoud (TVH) 1.83; 2 D Webb (E&H) 1.75. SP: 1 B Nolan (Ton) 12.25; 2 A Johnson (S Factor) 11.97Women: 60: K: 1 A Davies (B&B) 7.65; 4 K Taylor (Dartf, W40) 8.53; 5 L Sole (Thanet, W55) 10.12. M: 6 R Zeffertt (SB, W55) 9.66. 800: K: 1 K Sutton (Dartf) 2:15.39; 3 C Elms (Dulw, W55) 2:22.40. 60H: KM: 1 A Broadbelt-Blake (TVH) 8.79. HJ: 1 R O’Brien (Ton, U17) 1.65; 2 S Stubbs (Ton, U17) 1.60; 2 E Fonteyne (SB, U17) 1.60; 2 A Rhodes (SNH, U17) 1.60. PV: 1 C Moore (B&B) 3.35; 1 E Thomas (Dartf, U20) 3.35; 1 S Semeraro (E&H, W35) 3.35; 1 L Edwards (Soton) 3.35; 5 E Breen (Herts P) 3.20; 6 G Baydar (Lon Hth, W35) 2.65; 9 H Leadbetter (ESM, W35) 2.55; 13 R Zeffertt (SB, W55) 1.70. LJ: 1 M Tabe (M&M, U20) 5.73; 2 E Harvey (Dartf, U20) 5.60; 3 Z Martial (B&B, U20) 5.22; 12 R Zeffertt (SB, W55) 3.57; 13 L Sole (Thanet, W55) 3.53. TJ: 1 A Barrett (TVH) 12.75; 2 E Harvey (Dartf, U20) 12.43; 3 J Oni (B&B, U20) 12.34; 4 K Harris (B&B, U20) 11.16; 7 R Zeffertt (SB, W55) 7.94. SP: 2 D Adebayo (Harrow, U20) 11.99; 3 L Farley (B&B, U20) 11.03; 4 H MacAulay (B&B, U20) 10.63; 6 M Berndt (Bexley, W40) 9.98U20: 60: Ht: 1 D Apoola (SB) 8.04. K: 1 M Tabe (M&M) 7.97; 2 S Brock-Walters (Camb H) 8.02; 3 C Cole (Dartf) 8.09. Kh1: 1 M Tabe (M&M) 8.08; 2 C Cole (Dartf) 8.10. Kh2:1 S Brock-Walters (Camb H) 8.09. M: 1 A Ellis (E&H) 7.67; 2 A Babalola (WSEH) 7.72; 3 C Iwunze (SB) 7.80; 4 E Modeste (E&H) 7.80; 5 A


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Hillier (Hill) 7.90; 6 B Aban-Owusu (ESM) 8.05; 7 V Gomes-Bassangue (VP&TH) 8.10. Mh1: 1 A Ellis (E&H) 7.75; 2 E Modeste (E&H) 7.75; 3 C Iwunze (SB) 7.81. Mh2: 1 A Babalola (WSEH) 7.73; 2 A Hillier (Hill) 7.90; 3 B Aban-Owusu (ESM) 8.08. 400: K: 1 A Root (Ton) 57.57 U17: 60: Ht: 1 M Jessop (D&T) 7.93; 2 E Afari (Herts P) 8.06; 3 C Murray (Wat) 8.17. K: 1 S Farrell (Dartf) 7.66; 2 Z Thomas (B&B) 7.71; 3 K Young (Dartf) 7.74; 4 T Haynes (B&B) 7.94; 5 E Elston (Ton) 8.03; 6 S Teale (Ashf) 8.12. Kh1: 1 K Young (Dartf) 7.85; 2 T Haynes (B&B) 7.93; 3 M Savage (B&B) 8.15. Kh2: 1 H Mpassy (B&B) 7.82; 2 S Teale (Ashf) 8.12. Kh3: 1 S Farrell (Dartf) 7.76; 2 Z Thomas (B&B) 7.94; 3 E Elston (Ton) 8.05. M: 1 S Wright-Taipow (Serp) 7.82; 2 M Jervier (Harrow) 7.90; 3 M Smith (Hill) 7.95; 4 A Adeyanju (Harrow) 8.06; 5 R Omamuli (Harrow) 8.16. Mh1: 1 S Wright-Taipow (Serp) 7.95; 2 M Jervier (Harrow) 8.11. Mh2: 1 M Smith (Hill) 7.99; 2 A Adeyanju (Harrow) 8.06. Mh3: 1 B Harding (BFTTA) 8.00; 2 R Omamuli (Harrow) 8.09; 3 Y Mwanyo (E&H) 8.14. 200: K: 1 K Young (Dartf) 24.67; 2 H Mpassy (B&B) 24.67. Kh1: 1 H Mpassy (B&B) 25.13. Kh2: 1 K Young (Dartf) 25.15. 300: K: 1 E Newnham (Dartf) 41.41. Kh3: 1 K Rose (Ton) 41.94. 800: Ht: 1 B Wraith (HAWC) 2:14.60. K: 1 M Sawyer (Inv EK) 2:21.77. M: 1 K McKenzie (WG&EL) 2:17.87; 2 E Fryer (SMR) 2:19.19. 60H: Ht: 1 M Jessop (D&T) 8.87. K: 1 Z Thomas (B&B) 9.11; 2 S Teale (Ashf) 9.15; 3 J Kelvin (Bexley) 9.17; 4 E Frimpong (Bexley) 9.21; 5 S Stubbs (Ton) 9.35; 6 I Harding (Inv EK) 9.37; 7 K Lacey (Ton) 9.42. Kh1: 1 S Teale (Ashf) 9.32; 2 J Kelvin (Bexley) 9.34; 3 K Lacey (Ton) 9.45. Kh2: 1 Z Thomas (B&B) 9.22; 2 E Frimpong (Bexley) 9.24. M: 1 Y Uwakwe (E&H) 8.71; 2 Y Mwanyo (E&H) 9.45. PV: 1 L White (Ton, U15) 3.00. LJ: HtM: 1 M Alaphilippe (High) 5.19. K: 1 K Young (Dartf) 5.30; 2 S Teale (Ashf) 5.19. TJ: 1 E Jackson (Camb H) 11.28; 2 S Farrell (Dartf) 11.24; 3 L Turbutt (Ashf, U15) 10.83; 4 R Otaruoh (TVH) 10.80; 5 S Teale (Ashf) 10.71; 6 M Groombridge (Dartf) 10.43. SP: 1 N Gyedu (Camb H) 15.56; 2 Z Obamakinwa (M&M) 12.16; 3 M Joseph (Harrow) 11.47; 4 A Stewart (Camb H) 11.23 U15: 60: Ht: 1 L Norwood (D&T) 7.82; 2 M McIntosh (D&T) 7.87. Hth1: 1 M McIntosh (D&T) 7.90; 2 L Norwood (D&T) 7.95. Hth2: 1 A Gittens (Herts P) 8.22. K: 1 E Kerr (B&B) 8.15; 2 C Cooper (Camb H) 8.28. Kh1: 1 E Kerr (B&B) 8.22. Kh3: 1 C Cooper (Camb H) 8.30. M: 1 T Khambai-Annan (Houns) 7.65; 2 E Quaye (E&H) 7.82; 3 N Akintokun (SB) 7.89; 4 V Granada (Houns) 7.98; 5 M Wamba (VP&TH) 8.08; 6 T Jokosenumi (SB) 8.13. Mh1: 1 E Quaye (E&H) 8.01; 2 O Obadagbonyi (VP&TH) 8.30. Mh2:1 N Akintokun (SB) 7.91; 2 M Wamba (VP&TH) 8.13. Mh3: 1 T Khambai-Annan (Houns) 7.75; 2 V Granada (Houns) 8.05; 3 T Jokosenumi (SB) 8.12. 200: Ht: 1 A Parker (D&T) 25.88. Hth1: 1 A Parker (D&T) 26.00. M: 1 E Quaye (E&H) 25.49; 2 N Akintokun (SB) 25.66; 3 M Wamba (VP&TH) 25.88. Mh1: 1 E Quaye (E&H) 25.89; 2 M Wamba (VP&TH) 25.90. Mh2: 1 N Akintokun (SB) 25.71. 300: K: 1 A Sibley (B&B) 42.51. M: 1 T Fajuice (VP&TH) 42.31. Mh2: 1 T Fajuice (VP&TH) 42.18. 1500: 1 A Sibley (B&B)

4:52.18; 2 H Clark (B&B) 4:55.69. 60H: Ht: 1 S Gammell (Wat) 9.24; 2 A Parker (D&T) 9.55. HJ: 1 L Fellows (SMR) 1.65; 1 K Walters (Camb H) 1.65; 2 R Wheeler-Henry (SB) 1.55. LJ: HtM: 1 L Fellows (SMR) 5.06. K: 1 L Turbutt (Ashf) 5.03. SP: 1 C Lovelock (WSEH) 10.18

FELL

MARCH 31WINTER LEAGUE ELTERWATER, LangdaleOverall (4.7km/396m): 1 M Lamb (Kesw) 22:39; 2 M Elkington (Amble) 22:43; 3 C Ing (Calder V) 24:07; 4 M Knowles (L&M, U21) 24:23; 5 J Wright (Amble) 24:40M40: J Helme (Amble) 25:11. M50: S Waller (Helm H) 31:25. M60: G Britton 35:47Women: 1 H Horsburgh (Kesw) 27:02; 2 B Dyer (Helm, H, W40) 30:44; 3 K Baxter (Dark Pk) 30:52W50: N Geere (Spen) 34:08U17 (2.3km/180m approx): O Sanders (Helm H) 12:29U17 women: B Raven 14:58U15 (1.4km/110m approx): W Hall (K&C) 9:21U15 girls: A Lane (Wharf) 9:47U13 (1km/70m approx): A Peaker (K&C) 7:13U13 girls: O Swarbrick (C’land F) 8:51

WREKIN, Wellington Overall (8.8km/519m): 1 W Gardner (R&N) 38:05; 2 D Connolly (Mercia) 38:31; 3 J Agnew (Mercia) 39:37; 4 S Cale (Mercia) 40:39M40: K McKenna (Aval) 41:14. M50: J Atyeo (Mercia) 43:18. M60: E Davies (Mercia) 48:55. M70: R Tyrer 58:39Women: 1 R Parker (Mercia) 43:05; 2 M Price (Mercia, W45) 45:24; 3 L Higgins (Hale) 48:39W50: V Swingler (Shrops S) 55:17. W60: K Braznell (Mercia) 58:06

LLANBEDR TO BLAENAFONOverall (25.4km/1341m): 1 A Murray (Horw, M40) 2:23:02; 2 C Lowther (Mynydd D, M40) 2:23:48; 3 M O’Keefe (MDC) 2:27:12; 4 E Bailey (Chipp) 2:28:05Women: 1 H Jarvis (Mynydd D) 2:32:28; 2 A Nixon (FoD, W60) 2:43:11; 3 L Wraith (T Bath) 2:46:52

MARCH 30DONARD COMMEDAGH, Donard ForestOverall (10.9km/1050m): 1 S Lynch (Newc) 63:56; 2 M Stephens (Newc) 64:25; 3 Z Hanna (Newc) 65:29; 4 T Johnston (Mourne) 66:22M45: C Bailey (Mourne) 74:22. M50: P Grant (Newc) 75:25. M55: P Le Blanc (Newry) 82:37. M60: M Donaldson (Mourne) 91:03. M70: R Cowan (Mourne) 1:54:41Women: 1 E Dickson (Newry) 75:33; 2 S O’Kane (Lagan, W50) 84:10; 3 C Largey (Omagh) 85:34W60: M Mackin (Drom) 1:42:22

CLOUGH HEAD JUNIORS (FRA championships counter), KeswickU20 (4.9km/280m approx): 1 M Knowles (L&M) 22:27; 2 T Himphries (L&M) 24:05; 3 S Soles (Bux) 24:19 U20 women: 1 E Pannone (Eden)

26:54; 2 F Royal (Chorley) 28:52; 3 E Jnes (Wharf) 29:02U17 (4.1km/230m approx): 1 R Reagan (Eden) 20:44; 2 B Odowd (Eden) 21:08; 3 E Corden (Stock H) 21:15U17 women: 1 C Rylance (Amble) 24:18; 2 L Bednall (Bux) 24:26; 3 L Greg (Ross) 25:01U15 (3.6km/160m approx): 1 J Bowen (Ambe) 16:09; 2 W Hall (K&C) 16:13; 3 A Poulston (Wirr) 16:25U15 girls: 1 E Whitaker (Harr) 16:50; 2 A Lane (Wharf) 17:25; 3 H White (Clay) 17:28U13 (2.9km/60m approx): 1 A Peaker (K&C) 12:07; 2 L Carrington (E Ches) 12:11; 3 J Lamb (Chorley) 12:20U13 girls: 1 P Midgely (K&C) 13:14; 2 L Picklus (Barl) 13:40; 3 I Andreassen (Horw) 14:30

SLOOBY DHOO, BallaughOverall (8km/750m): 1 O Smith (Western) 57:29; 2 T Cringle (Manx F) 59:42; 3 J Bond 67:09; 4 A Huxham (Manx F) 67:34M40: I Goatman (Manx F) 69:58. M50: R Sellors (Manx F) 74:20. M60: I Callister (Manx H) 91:02Women (all Manx F): 1 E Miklos 71:18; 2 E Gawne 80:26; 3 R Craine (W40) 81:29W50: I Kneale (Horw) 89:06. W60: R Hooton (Manx F) 1:43:43

MARCH 27RPMRT’S PENDLE HILL NIGHT RACE, BarleyOverall (9.25km/350m, age not declared): 1 D Mirfield (Barl) 40:47; 2 D Poole (Barl) 40:54; 3 P Oldham (Traw) 43:49; 4 A Collins (Barl) 44:10; 5 S Chew (Barl) 44:33Women: 1 V Mousley (B’burn) 47:56; 2 D Gowans (Acc RR) 52:15; 3 J Collins (Barl) 52:45

MARCH 23MIDDLEFELL, Nether WasdaleOverall (10.6km/518m): 1 S Russell (Amble) 55:32; 2 S Holding (C’land F) 58:01; 3 B Gard-Story 58:26M40: D Ryder 61:17Women: 1 A Mason (L&M) 65:56; 2 K Aubrey (Helm, H, W55) 74:49; 3 J Naylor (Bowl, W55) 78:16

LLANTYSILLIO, LlangollenOverall (6.2M/2100ft): 1 R Samuel (Eryri) 50:30; 2 J Ross (Staffs M) 55:11; 3 L Taggart (Manx F, M40) 5:18; 4 J Brown (Buck, M40) 55:45M50: D Baugh (Denbigh) 69:13. M60: E Davies (Mercia) 71:22Women: 1 S Fourie (Ches TC, W40) 70:04; 2 B Law (Eryri) 70:59; 3 V Swingler (Shrops S, W50) 72:54

MULTI-TERRAIN

MARCH 31TREE HOUSE 10km, CholseyOverall: 1 M Suggate (Didcot) 36:14; 2 C Norris (W Horse) 37:36; 3 L Day 37:36Women: 1 T Wise (Didcot, W35) 43:19; 2 S Francis (Compt, W35) 43:52; 3 J Hewlett (Wit) 44:20

CLEEVEWOLD 14, WinchcombeOverall: 1 D Wight (Chelt) 96:57; 2 R Walsh (Worc, M35) 98:08; 3 B Jones (Worc) 98:29

Women: 1 R Cary (CLC, W35) 1:56:48; 2 H Knight (CLC, W35) 2:00:59; 3 K Heyrman (CLC) 2:01:35

EPSOM DOWNS SPRING 5km / 10km, EpsomOverall (5km): 1 R Wayne (Purb R, M40) 22:07; 2 M Ralph 22:48; 3 A Walter (Unatt, M50) 23:05 Women: 1 E Lousie 24:12; 2 S Illingworth 28:22; 3 M Claxton 33:41 Overall (10km): 1 A Gibb (Unatt, U20) 37:48; 2 S Spitari 37:56; 3 J Bowles (E&E, U20) 39:12 Women: 1 E Winn (Eps A) 48:36; 2 M Anderson 49:37; 3 E Smith (Eps A) 51:08

FORESTRY 100 SERIES BEDGEBURY PINETUM 10km, GoudhurstOverall: 1 A Uren (W’bury) 36:51; 2 J Davies (Hastings Athletics, U20) 37:15; 3 E McDaid (Rane) 37:30 Women: 1 E Baxter 42:23; 2 B Phillips (Serp, W35) 45:23; 3 Y Dore (Dulw, W45) 45:26

LILLESHALL MONUMENTAL 10km, LilleshallOverall: 1 C Ashford (BRAT, M35) 35:40; 2 H Cork (Unatt, SW) 35:55; 3 J Egleston (Tel) 35:55 Women: 1 Cork 35:55; 2 K Butler (Unatt, S30) 42:54; 3 R Langley (Newp&D, W55) 43:17

MEL’S MILERS 10km, HorshamOverall: 1 R Sherwood (Horsh J) 32:44; 2 J Cann (Horsh BS, U20) 33:39; 3 K Barnes (Ling) 35:34 Women: 1 E Turner (Horsh BS, W50) 37:53; 2 C Nash (Amphibians Triathlon Club) 41:02; 3 M Valencia (Fitt, W40) 43:11

NICE WORK RICHMOND PARK SPRING 10km, RichmondOverall: 1 S Mitchell (FullPotent) 36:11; 2 A Biere 37:58; 3 F Bundy (Vegan) 38:35 Women: 1 H Aitken (Unatt, W35) 40:46; 2 L Rock 43:05; 3 C Smith (Clap C) 44:28 Overall (5km): 1 C Spelina (FullPotent) 20:07; 2 K Pyne (Unatt, W) 21:05; 3 S Brett (Vegan) 22:03 Women: 1 Pyne 21:05; 2 E Crastes 26:56; 3 C Hendrikx 27:21

ROON THE PARK 5km, Dean Castle Country ParkOverall: 1 M Porter (Bella H) 18:34; 2 S Rice ( , U20) 18:37; 3 O McWilliams (Irv) 19:13 Women: 1 N Murphy ( , U20) 20:45; 2 A Street (N Ayr, U20) 21:20; 3 O Warboys (Kilmarnock Harrier & Athletic Club, U20) 21:22

THAXTED MARATHON, ThaxtedOverall (HM): 1 C Dawson (T’tree) 1:40:15; 2 R White (Saff, W35) 1:45:25; 3 N Hammond (Fram, M45) 1:47:37 Women: 1 White 1:45:25; 2 K Jordan (Mid E) 1:55:38; 3 L Ferguson (Mid E) 1:55:38 Overall (Mar): 1 N White (Saff, M35) 3:05:11; 2 A Lager (With RC, M45) 3:52:12; 3 S Hinshelwood (Camb T, M50) 3:53:55 Women: 1 S Wilson-frost (TRA) 4:15:40; 2 M Lennox (100MC) 4:21:30; 3 M Narey (Sud J) 4:23:35

TIGER BEETLE 10km, AinsdaleOverall (10km): 1 F Rafferty (S’port W, M50) 38:00; 2 J Ellis (Kirkby Milers, M35) 40:03; 3 J McLaren (Knows, M35) 40:11 Women: 1 H Sahgal (Liv PS, W35) 41:44; 2 D Searle (Northwich, W40) 45:04; 3 T Allan (S’port W, W35) 46:05 Overall (10km): 1 S Marczycki (Vegan, M35) 45:16; 2 A Boulger (Kirkby Milers, M45) 45:21; 3 D Rooney (Unatt, M50) 45:51 Women: 1 O Wiggans (R Rose) 47:38; 2 G Lord (Unatt, W50) 53:38; 3 L Phillips (Unatt, W35) 54:09 Overall (10km): 1 M Kovacs (Prest, M35) 42:25; 2 M Barber (Unatt, W40) 45:02; 3 M Cunningham (S’port W, M55) 49:43 Women: 1 Barber 45:02; 2 L Mainwaring 54:41; 3 G Mckenna (Unatt, W45) 57:11

MARCH 30GRANTHAM CUP 10km TRAIL, LincolnshireOverall: 1 W Tucker (Granth RC) 36:46; 2 A Harris (RAF) 38:13; 3 P Massingham (Stamf, M40) 40:50Women: 1 E Johnston (Helm) 44:53; 2 E Wilkes (Norw RR) 46:44; 3 J Biltcliffe (Wake) 46:47

JOHN MUIR WAY 50km, DunbarOverall (age not declared): 1 S Heward 3:38:04; 2 A Simpson 3:40:59; 3 T Hood 3:42:38; 4 D Limmer 3:44:11; 5 R Laucht 3:44:32; 6 A Coakley 3:45:00Women: 1 N Duncan 3:47:27; 2 H Anderson 3:58:09; 3 F Watt 4:17:49; 4 E Luke 4:18:30TEAM: 1 Buckley Millar 3:32:18; 2 Wright Anderson (W) 3:45:34; 3 Kiprakis Smeaton 4:03:02

RUN RICHMOND PARK 10kmOverall: 1 S Robinson (M40) 36:34; 2 L O’Neil 37:54; 3 A Hurdobro (M40) 38:29Women: 1 L Marlow (Brack) 41:43; 2 A Makela 43:51; 3 C Caton 44:43

MARCH 28DINTON CHALLENGE SPRING 6-HOUR, HurstOverall: 1 C Maclean 63.7; 2 D Jones 63.7; 3 R Summers 53.1 Women: 1 S Clough 50.1; 2 L Wilkinson 42.2; 3 C Oakes 42.2

MARCH 27BRENDA & COLIN ROBINSON’S COWM 5km, WhitworthOverall: 1 K Knott (M’ton) 16:34; 2 C Merchant (Roch, M45) 16:50; 3 R Stirzaker (Roch) 17:20M55: M Fowler (Wilm) 18:07. M75: R Blakeley (Tod) 24:33Women: 1 F Williams (Roch) 20:26; 2 C Duffield (Tod, W45) 21:21; 3 J Mitchon (L’borough, W40) 21:34W55: C Haynes (Roch) 22:25. W65: S Exon (Traff) 25:18

MARCH 24BIG CHEESE 15, CheddarOverall: 1 C McMillan (Weston) 98:09; 2 B Renshaw (B’port, M35) 1:42:30; 3 G Williams (S’ville) 1:46:07 Women: 1 M Menon (Ilfracombe, W35) 1:49:04; 2 L MacAlister (B&W, W40) 1:49:50; 3 J Faram (S’ville) 1:56:08


MARCH 24-30WORLD MASTERS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, Torun, PolandIT WAS no surprise Germany, using local advantage and a big squad, easily topped the medal table. They gathered 100 golds and 262 medals but it was very close for second between USA, Poland and Britain. USA had a lot less overall medals than the Poles but edged them by two golds, with Britain level on golds with the hosts but down on other medals.

That the British team were so competitive with the clear world’s number one athletics nation (at non vet categories) is quite remarkable.

While UK masters get no help and are ignored by UKA, USA’s masters are funded by USAT&F by $40,000 a year which means high-ranked athletes get up to $1000 towards their travel costs and are rewarded with money for medals.

British runners did exceptionally well – especially in the over-40 to over-65 ranks – and they had a great last day winning an astonishing nine golds at the 1500m but falling short of their rivals in most field events other than the pole vault.

At one stage, Britain won four successive golds in under half an hour as they monopolised the M55 to M45 races to bring back memories of the period when Britain ruled the roost at the metric mile and won very global or continental outdoor title from 1978 to 1986.

Overall it was a highly successful championships, mostly very well organised (Britain providing a number of officials) and the quality of performance was very high, apart from in the very youngest age group.

Clearly while most of the leading older master athletes support the championships, those of a higher standard who are nearer 35 are used to being paid to go to major athletics meetings rather than the cost involved.

However, it was good to see a few former Olympic medallists competing including Francis Obikwelu, James Beckford and Kaarlo Maaninka.

It was actually the older athlete performances that created the most stir

including M70 sprinter Charles Allie, who runs times that beggar belief.

His four golds were matched by Britain’s multi world record breakers Angela Copson and Clare Elms, though both suffred rare championship losses.M65-plusWORLD masters athlete of the year Charles Allie might not have been the fastest male sprinter in action but for most observers the M70 was the most impressive.

He won the 200m by an astonishing two seconds, the 71-year-old’s time of 26.11 obliterated his own age group world indoor record of 26.45 and he pointed to the clock as soon as he finished to let everyone know it was a record.

From a distance, by his style and cadence you could mistake him for 30 years younger.

Such was Allie’s speed that the USA moved down to the M65s for the 4x200m relay and he helped them set a world record 1:47.29 well clear of GB’s 1:51.66.

Two years ago, Allie had narrowly lost to the much younger Bill Collins in the M65s, but since hitting the 70s he currently looks unbeatable.

He had earlier won the 60m by four metres in 8.18 and the 400m in 60.48 after attacking his world record at 200m in 28.80 but easing off on the second lap.

There were world records at the distance though as Mongolian M85 Radnaa Tseren won his 400m battle with Japan’s Hiroo Tanaka in 80.65 and Spain’s Marcos Bermejo of Garcia’s M90 win in 1:43.08.

Tony Bowman won the M80 hurdles gold with a clear win in 11.77, well ahead of USA’s Roger Vergin.

Britain had expected more success in the M75 60m with five finalists though Charles Isetts fell and Barry Ferguson injured himself. Allen Long was mightily impressive though as he won in 8.91, two metres up on team-mate Ian Foster, who ran 9.14.

Long later finished second in the 200m (30.10) to USA’s Larry Barnum (29.73).

Another American in form was Thomas Jones, who won a M65 sprint double in 7.91 and 26.04.

The oldest men’s 60m race (M90+) was won by Greece’s Konstantinos Chatziemmanouil in 13.06 but the standout run came from Pekka Pentilla of Finland, who set a M95 world record of 14.09.

Third overall and taking M90 silver was Britain’s Dalbir Singh Deol, who ran 14.11.

It was the World Masters Championships 5000m winner Victor Shirley who was the first Briton to strike gold at 1500m.

Up against his 800m conqueror Albert Walter of Germany, and with two silvers already in the bag, Shirley won by a second in 6:08.00 from Walter courtesy of a 62 last 300m in a very slow tactical race.

He won a medal later in the day as part of the M75s relay team as Britain were second in 2:20.58 to Germany’s 2:10.42.

Another to kick to victory was Ireland’s M65 Joe Gough, and he won at both 800m and 1500m (4:51.39) with Kevin Archer running well to take bronze each time.

In the latter, in sixth place was Finland’s double 1980 Olympic medallist Kaarlo Maaninka who finished behind Miruts Yifter but ahead of Lasse Viren in Moscow.

Over 400m Adrian Essex picked up a M65 bronze in 65.07 after two of his opponents were disqualified while Ireland’s John MacDermott won the M75 race in 67.28.

In the M75 pentathlon Germany’s

Willi Klaus (4540) and Rolf Geese (4443) both broke the previous world record.

Over 800m M80 Manuel Alonso of Spain (3:04.64) impressed as did M85 Hiroo Tanaka of Japan (3:56.21) and M90 Marcos Bermejo Garcia of Spain (4:21.01). The latter also won over 200m in 44.85 with Tanaka successful in 33.90.

World record-holder Bob Lida won the M80 200m in 31.14 to defeat probably the greatest masters athlete in history, Guido Mueller, who ran 32.67.

Mueller, did though win at 400m, using all his 40 years of experience and winning at masters athletics by pipping his compatriot Hermann Beckering on the line to win by 0.04 of a second in 77.83.

After winning at cross-country and medaling at 3000m Richard Pitcairn-Knowles won further medals in the 800m and 1500m.

Anthony Wells finished second in the M70 60m hurdles with 10.31, a metre down on Slovak Milan Beliansky.M65: 60: 1 T Jones (USA) 7.91. SF2: 3 CHRIS MONK 8.35; 4 JOHN BROWNE 8.36; 6 ADRIAN ESSEX 8.66. 200: 1 Jones 26.04.SF2: 3 SIMON BARRETT 28.28; 4 ESSEX 28.56. SF3: 4 WALLY FRANKLYN 28.49; 5 BOB DOUGLAS 29.39. Ht2: 3 MONK 29.21. Ht3: 3 DAVID HINDS 29.43. Ht4: 2 BARRETT 28.13. Ht5: 2 FRANKLYN 28.40. Ht7: 2 ESSEX 28.45; 3 DOUGLAS 28.53. 400: 1 R König (GER) 60.68; 3 ESSEX 65.07. 800: 1 J Gough (IRL) 2:22.06; 3 KEVIN ARCHER 2:25.52. Ht3: 3 ARCHER 2:30.66. 1500: 1 Gough 4:51.39; 3 ARCHER 4:53.68. Ht2: 5 ARCHER 5:20.94. 60H: 1 T Wilson (USA) 9.68. 60H: P3: 1 ESSEX 11.50. PV: 1 W Ritte (GER) 3.35; 7 DAVID BLUNT 2.90. TJ: 1 C Marchetti (ITA) 10.77. SP: r2: 1 Q Torbert (USA) 15.07. PenI: 1 H Baseda

(GER) 3990; 5 ESSEX 3253 (11.50, 4.02, 8.78, 1.30, 3:53.34); 11 DUNCAN TALBOT 2647 (12.32, 3.36, 7.11, 1.39, 4:26.89).M70: 60: 1 C Allie (USA) 8.18; 4 VICTOR NOVELL 8.69. 200: 1 Allie 26.11. SF2: 3 NOVELL 29.48.Ht1: 2 NOVELL 29.35. Ht4: 3 BRUCE HENDRIE 31.10. 400: 1 Allie 60.48. 800: 1 A MAYFIELD (AUS) 2:31.16. Ht1: 7 BRUCE HENDRIE 2:49.15. 1500: 1 Mayfield 5:15.50. 60H: 1 M Beliansky (SVK) 10.15; 2 TONY WELLS 10.31. Ht1: 3 WELLS 10.35. PV: 1 V CELA (LAT) 3.10. TJ: 1 Cela 10.27. SP: r2: 1 A Nurm (EST) 14.61. PenI: 1 Cela 4309.M75: 60: 1 ALLAN LONG 8.91; 2 IAN FOSTER 9.14; 4 ANTHONY TREACHER 9.44. Ht1: 1 LONG 9.08; 2 CHUCK ISETTS 9.97. Ht2: 1 FOSTER 9.33; 2 TREACHER 9.39; 5 BARRY FERGUSON 9.87. 200: 1 L Barnum (USA) 29.73; 2 LONG 30.10; 4 TREACHER 32.41. Ht1: 2 LONG 30.37. Ht3: 2 TREACHER 31.42. 400: 1 J Mac Dermott (IRL) 67.28; 4 TREACHER 76.49. 800: 1 A Walter (GER) 2:56.40; 2 VICTOR SHIRLEY 2:58.17. 1500: 1 SHIRLEY 6:08.00; 5 PHILIP BRENNAN 6:18.75. PV: eq1 H Booth (USA) & J Halder (GER) 2.50. TJ: 1 E Linke (GER) 9.46. SP: 1 C Roszczak (POL) 12.04; 9 JOHN WATTS 10.13; 10 JAMES SLOAN 9.70. PenI: 1 R Geese (GER) 4443.M80: 60: 1 B Lida (USA) 9.30. Ht2: 3 TONY BOWMAN 9.84. 200: 1 Lida 31.14. 400: 1 G Mueller (GER) 77.79. 800: 1 M Alonso (ESP) 3:04.64. 1500: 1 Alonso 6:16.34. PV: 1 Z Kurunczi (HUN) 2.40. TJ: 1 R Vergin (USA) 7.63. SP: 1 R Heiler (GER) 13.61. PenI: 1 W Klaus (GER) 4540.M85: 200: 1 H Tanaka (JPN, M85) 33.90; 4 RICHARD PITCAIRN-KNOWLES 50.25.400: 1 R Tseren (MGL,) 80.65; 4 PITCAIRN-KNOWLES 2:13.35. 800: 1 Tanaka 3:56.21; 3 PITCAIRN-KNOWLES 5:11.04.SP: 1 A Laus (EST) 9.54. PenI: 1 W Jankovich (USA) 2917. 1500: 1 M Herbert (GER) 8:49.41; 2 PITCAIRN-KNOWLES 10:09.12M90: 200/400: 1 M Bermejo Garcia (ESP) 44.85; 3 D SINGH DEOL (56.82. 400: 1 Garcia 1:43.08; 3 SINGH DEOL 2:26.40. 800: 1 Garcia 4:21.01. SP: 1 F Gries (GER) 9.30. M95: 60/200//LJ/SP: 1 P Penttilä (FIN) 14.09 (WR)/62.03/1.80/4.98


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Medal tableCountry G S B TotalGermany 100 79 83 262USA 62 48 49 159Poland 60 64 58 182GBR 60 58 48 166Spain 46 35 33 114France 32 23 23 78Finland 23 27 30 80Italy 22 23 30 75

Guido Mueller: narrow M80 400m win


M50-M65GUY BRACKEN started the golden half-hour of 1500m gold in the M55 race. Just as he had run away from the opposition in the 3000m, the North Easterner controlled it from the front after a 71.49 opener then with a 70.85 second lap powered away to win by over two seconds in 4:24.43 from Canadian Paul Osland to ensure he is now world champion indoors and out.

While Bracken was coming from the longer distance victory, Mark Symes was following up from 800m gold and he again proved too fast over the closing laps as he too followed his win in Malaga last summer with victory in 4:17.49.

After a slow start, Symes put in a 65 third quarter and then a 46 last 300m.

He was followed in by his team-mate and Spanish-based Dave Cowlishaw in 4:19.21 while Adrian Haines made it three Britons in the first five.

In the 800m Symes had powered away on the last lap to win comfortably in 2:02.14 for a one-second win over Germany’s Hubert Leineweber.

Another to strike gold was M55 Donald Brown, who had already won medals in the 60m and over the hurdles he set a PB over the M50 specification of 9.02 as he beat off the challenge of Netherlands’ Wan Bakx and fellow Brit Neil Tunstall (9.17).

Also striking gold was Jonathan Tilt, who made his move at 200m in 26.49 to ease past exceptional bearded American David Pitts on the inside and then repelled all challenges on the last lap to stay strong and win in 55.17 from Canadian Michael Sherar’s 55.63 and Pitts’ 55.66.

Paul Fletcher finished third in the M60 1500m with 4:50.27 to edge team-mate John Thomson as Italy’s Alfredo Bonetti narrowly won in 4:48.26.

In the M50 400m, Britain won two more medals. Michael Gardiner pulled a hamstring on the first lap but both Mark Ward (54.04) and Dominic Bokor-Ingram (54.12) finished strongly and took the minor medals behind Andrew Wilcox of Australia’s 53.44 after Germany’s Bernd Lachmann blasted a suicidal 24.23 first lap but took over 31 seconds for his second and faded to fifth.

John Nicholls won M50 bronze in the shot with a 15.03m throw as Poland’s Miroslaw Witek won with a 15.57m effort.

Mark Phills won bronze in the M50 60m race in 7.49 though he only did so by three thousandths of a second. The gold went to USA’s Kamell Vickers with 7.29.

The M60s relay team took bronze in 1:51.70 which was matched by Ian Crawley in the M50 pentathlon with 3717 points.

In the M60 800m, former 1:45.66 800m runner Paul Forbes finished sixth in a very tight race won by Poland’s Jan Czastka in 2:18.31.

Mark Johnson fought all the way in the M50 pole vault but while he cleared 4.20m third time, his rival Francisco Hernandez Rivero did it on his first and won on countback. Glyn Price won bronze with a 3.90m leap.M50: 60: 1 K Vickers (USA) 7.29; 3 MARK PHILLS 7.49. SF3: 1 PHILLS 7.48. 200: 1 B Lachmann (GER) 24.00.SF1: 5 MICHAEL OSUNSAMI 26.21. Ht1: 3 CONRAD KENNEDY 26.57. Ht3: 2 OSUNSAMI 25.91. Ht5: 2 LEEROY GOLDING 26.25. Ht6: 2 GARY CLARE 25.97. 400: 1 A Wilcox (AUS) 53.44; 2 MARK WARD 54.04; 3 DOMINIC BOKOR-INGRAM 54.12. 800: 1 MARK SYMES 2:02.14; 6 STEVE ATKINSON 2:05.68; 7 DAVID MATTHEW 2:06.90; 9 ADRIAN HAINES 2:07.13. Ht1: 1 SYMES 2:08.38; 3 MATTHEW 2:09.96; 6 ANDREW RONALD 2:16.32; 7 PETER BENEDICKTER 2:17.69; 8 GRAEME GEMMELL 2:19.74. Ht2: 5 ANDY COLEMAN 2:13.27. Ht3: 2 HAINES 2:09.03; 3 STEVE ATKINSON 2:09.50. 1500: 1 SYMES 4:17.49; 2 DAVID

COWLISHAW 4:19.21; 5 HAINES 4:25.72; 8 ATKINSON 4:29.19. Ht1: 2 HAINES 4:29.84; 6 ANDREW RONALD 4:35.25; 9 MARK CHAMPION 4:44.57. Ht2: 1 COWLISHAW 4:29.62; 2 SYMES 4:29.65; 5 ATKINSON 4:31.74; 12 STEWART FOUNTAIN 4:48.54. 60H: 1 M Garrigues (FRA) 8.53; 5 BARRIE MARSDEN 9.11. Ht1: 1 MARSDEN 9.05. Ht2: 6 KEITH NEWTON 9.88. PV: 1 F Hernãndez Rivero (ESP) 4.20; 2 MARK JOHNSON 4.20; 3 GLYN PRICE 3.90; 8 DAVE GORDON 3.45. TJ: 1 J Escalera (PUR) 13.30; 9 KEITH NEWTON 11.94. SP: r1: 1 M Witek (POL) 15.57; 2 GARETH COOK 12.59. r2: 2 JOHN NICHOLLS 15.03. WT: 1 G Misevicius (LAT) 19.43; 9 COOK 16.07. PenI:

1 T Stewens (GER) 4272; 20 MARC JUFFKINS 2513 (12.03, 4.50, 8.99, 1.45, 3:36.70); 25 DEREK WARN 2320 (11.10, 4.66, 8.77, 1.36, 4:17.04).M55 60: 1 A Bancod (FRA) 7.42; 3 DONALD BROWN 7.60. SF1: 4 PAT LOGAN 7.69. SF2: 3 BROWN 7.71. 200: 1 P Soini (FIN) 24.33; 4 LOGAN 25.15.SF3: 1 LOGAN 25.02. Ht1: 4 DION PANAMBALANA 27.98. Ht3: 3 ROBERT GREW 26.60. Ht6: 1 LOGAN 25.25. Ht9: 2 RONNIE HUNTER 26.47. 400: 1 JONATHAN TILT 55.17. 800: 1 G Ugolini (ITA) 2:08.02; 8 ANDY GANNAWAY 2:15.98; 9 JED TURNER 2:16.33. Ht1: 4 GANNAWAY 2:15.85. Ht3: 3 TURNER 2:16.85; 4 BRETT DAVIS 2:17.92; 5 IAN FITZPATRICK 2:18.75.


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BRITAIN WIN 60 GOLDS IN WORLD MASTERS

Don Brown: winning the M55 60m hurdles

Mark Symes: wins the M50 800m then later won the 1500m

Jonathan Tilt: wins the M55 400m goldGB winnersIndividual and relay medalsEvent G S B Total60m 4 4 5 13200m 1 4 4 11400m 3 4 6 13800m 5 4 4 131500m 9 4 3 163000m 5 2 1 (860H 4 3 3 103000W 1 0 1 24x200 4 4 3 1110km 2 1 2 5HM 0 2 2 210km W 1 1 1 3XC 4 2 2 8HJ 1 1 3 5PV 3 3 2 8LJ 0 3 2 5TJ 0 4 1 5SP 0 1 1 2DT 2 0 0 2HT 2 0 1 3JT 1 0 0 1WT 1 0 0 1Pent 1 2 2 5



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Ht4: 3 CHRIS IRELAND 2:18.65. 1500: 1 GUY BRACKEN 4:24.43; 7 ROB MCHARG 4:30.48; 9 IRELAND 4:41.30. Ht1: 1 BRACKEN 4:39.25; 4 TURNER 4:46.67; 5 GANNAWAY 4:46.78; 6 TONY ROPER 4:47.61; 8 JONATHAN BURRELL 4:49.52. Ht2: 1 MCHARG 4:37.96. Ht3: 4 IRELAND 4:39.68. 60H: 1 BROWN 9.02; 3 NEIL TUNSTALL 9.17; 7 GLEN REDDINGTON 10.09. Ht1: 1 TUNSTALL 9.11. Ht2: 1 BROWN 9.06; 4 IAN CRAWLEY 10.41. Ht3: 2 REDDINGTON 10.17. PV: 1 A Achtelik (GER) 4.00; 7 JOHN ANDREWS 3.50; 10 RON TODD 3.35; 12 IAN CRAWLEY 3.05; 15 WAYNE MARTIN 2.75. TJ: 1 J Quinaliza (ECU) 12.45. SP: 1 B Petersson (SWE) 15.54; 6 ALLAN LEIPER 12.67; 12 MICHAEL HAUSLER 11.94. WT: 1 L Kowalski (POL) 19.15. PenI: 1 D Blakemore (USA) 4225; 3 IAN CRAWLEY 3717 (10.40, 4.92, 9.97, 1.57, 3:10.08); 12 PAUL GUEST 3056 (10.11, 5.24, 8.30, 1.42, 4:18.64); 16 PETE STEPNEY 2807 (10.82, 4.26, 5.93, 1.36, 3:23.86).M60: 60: 1 C Perochon (FRA) 7.71. SF1:

8 SCOTT PAGET 8.70. SF2: 8 RICHARD BLACKWELL 8.89. 200: 1 G Zorn (GER) 25.30.SF1: 3 IVARS LICIETIS 26.92; 5 CLEM LEON 28.68. SF3: 4 ADRIAN DAY 29.00. Ht1: 1 LICIETIS 26.90. Ht6: 3 DAY 28.53. Ht7: 4 LEON 28.99. 400: 1 Zorn 56.39. 800: 1 J Czastka (POL) 2:18.31; 6 PAUL FORBES 2:20.36; 7 PAUL FLETCHER 2:20.72; 9 STEVE TAYLOR 2:25.18. Ht1: 1 TAYLOR 2:24.75. Ht2: 1 FLETCHER 2:19.76; 3 FORBES 2:20.24. Ht3: 5 PETER MOUNTAIN 2:27.13. 1500: 1 A Bonetti (ITA) 4:48.26; 3 FLETCHER 4:50.27; 4 JOHN THOMSON 4:50.84. 1500: Ht1: 2 FLETCHER 4:54.07; 6 PETER MOUNTAIN 4:58.92; 7 TAYLOR 4:59.32. Ht2: 2 THOMSON 4:51.49. 60H: 1 H Kreiner (AUT) 9.50. Ht3: 4 IAN SCHOLES 10.15. PV: eq1 M Bajner (SVK) & D Eckardt (GER) 3.35. TJ: 1 A Tefre (NOR) 11.55. SP: r2: 1 K Westerlund (FIN) 15.51; 8 JOHN MORELAND 12.44. PenI: 1 W Musial (POL) 4204; 4 BRIAN SLAUGHTER 3865 (9.89, 4.73, 10.74, 1.42, 3:22.89).

M35-M45JASON CARTY was the dominant athlete in the M45 60m winning in a fast 7.01 to go close to Mario Longo’s 6.97 world record, easily breaking his own British record.

He won by two metres from American Jeff Laynes with, Ciaran Harvey picking up British bronze in 7.30.

The most famous 60m sprinter in action (and the fastest) was Portugal’s 2004 Olympic 100m silver medallist and multiple European champion Francis Obikwelu.

He won M40 gold but had to come from behind to win in 6.90 from Sweden’s Lion Martinez’s 6.94.

Tamunonengiye-Ofori Ossai (also known as TJ!) won bronze in 7.02 ahead of GB team-mate Dominic Bradley.

Also at M45s, Michael Coogan was the UK star one-lapper as the reigning European Masters indoor champion and world outdoor runner-up looked in control throughout and at the finish he

could celebrate with a clear win in 23.16, three metres up on France’s Marc Ozier’s 23.46.

Carty and Coogan won further gold in the relay along with Harvey and Richard Rubenis, as they won by two seconds from Hungary in 1:34.75.

Britain’s M40 relay team did even better as they set a world record 1:30.97 to trim USA’s 1:31.05. Bradley, Brett Rund, Richard Beardsell and Ossai combined for a clear victory while the M35 team took bronze in 1:35.05.

Further M45 British gold went to European champion Joe Appiah, who equalled his M45 British 60m hurdles record of 8.31 as he won by two metres from Switzerland’s Thomas Keller, and to Dean Richardson at 1500m.

Richardson had had to settle for second in Malaga and was out of the medals in the 800m. But this time he ran a much better tactical race, forcing the pace from the gun (65.16 first lap) and then accelerating on the last lap

with a 45.41 last 300m he won in a fast 4:05.18, a second ahead of Juan Jose Crespo Rincon of Spain.

Spain were also the challengers to the Brits in the M40s.

Welshman James Thie had dominated the M35s five years ago in Budapest and was now in a new age group, and focusing on just one event probably his biggest scare was almost missing the declaration the day before the heats and missing out on running entirely.

In the event itself, he had to take on six Spaniards and they eventually provided three of the first four but Thie showed his past senior international and now top coach nous, winning in 4:07.33 by less than a second from 800m champion Antonio Juan Gil, courtesy of a 43-second last 300m.

While Aaron Brown could not maintain the runs of win’s in the M35s, he had been mightily impressive in the earlier 800m.

Dean Richardson: wins the M45 1500m

Britain’s world record-breaking 4x200m team with Francis Obikwelu’s Portugal quartet

Jason Carty: victory in the M45 60m

James Thie: takes the M40 1500m against a strong Spanish presence




There he made a bold move at the start of the last lap and then held his form well and repelled all challenges and was able to celebrate gold before the line in 1:58.70 even though France’s Jeremie Nattes was only 0.06 behind.

800m champion Aaron Brown finished fifth in the M35s.

Dave Awde was second in the M35 400m in 50.94, five metres down on USA’s Romain Marenin’s 50.31 and Britain had looked for a better medal in the 400m but Beardsell overdid his first lap of 23.00 and tied up in the straight and faded to fourth in 50.69 as Spain’s Ricardo Menendez Gonzalez won in 49.98 though GB still won a medal as David Brown paced himself better and passed his compatriot to take third in 50.36.

In the M45 shot, Gintas Degutis won a silver with a 14.44m throw behind winner Ralf Mordhorst of Germany in 15.02m, while Robert Wolski of Poland won the M35 high jump with a 2.10m leap

Laurence Ramm finished second in the M45 pentathlon with 3793 points as Sweden’s Mattias Sunneborn won with a score of 3812 .

Britain had four of the six finalists in the M40 200m race but Sweden’s Martinez proved the strongest and won in 22.47 from the UK’s Gavin Stephens (22.66) and Bradley (22.70).

M40 Mensah Elliott was second in the 60m hurdles in 8.27, well behind Germany’s Jan Schindzielorz who ran 7.94.

Belgium’s Damien Boothaerts impressed as he won the M35 hurdles in 7.97 and followed that up with a clear 200m victory on the same evening in 22.13.

M35: 60: 1 C Marthinusssen (NOR) 6.91; 200: 1 D Broothaerts (BEL) 22.13. 400: 1 R Marenin (USA) 50.31; 2 DAVID AWDE 50.94. 800: 1 AARON BROWN 1:58.70. Ht1: 2 BROWN 1:58.68; 3 COLIN WELSH 1:59.51. 1500: 1 R Vila (ESP) 4:03.58; 5 BROWN 4:05.84. 60H: 1 Broothaerts 7.97. Ht1: 3 MICHAEL LOUISE 8.61. 4x200: r2: 1 USA M35 TEAM 91.34. HJ: 1 R Wolski (POL) 2.10. PV: 1 M Menz (ITA) 4.60. TJ: 1 A Beraz (GER) 14.57. SP: 1 M Gasiorowski (POL) 16.15. WT: 1 G Paas (EST) 17.20. PenI: 1 M Chalabala (POL) 3733.M40 60: 1 F Obikwelu (POR) 6.90; 3 TAMUNONENGIYE-OFORI OSSAI 7.02; 4 DOMINIC BRADLEY 7.06; 6 AH ELLIOTT 7.16. SF1: 5 GLEN SCULLION 7.49. SF2: 1 BRADLEY 6.98; 2 OSSAI 7.01. SF3: 2 ELLIOTT 7.13. 200: 1 L Martinez (SWE)

22.47; 2 GAVIN STEPHENS 22.66; 3 BRADLEY 22.70; 5 OSSAI 22.90; 6 RICK BEARDSELL 23.15.SF1: 1 STEPHENS 22.39; 3 BRETT RUND 23.55. SF2: 2 OSSAI 22.69. SF3: 1 BRADLEY 22.51; 2 BEARDSELL 22.60. Ht2: 3 SCULLION 24.32. Ht4: 1 OSSAI 23.26. Ht6: 1 BEARDSELL 22.74; 2 RUND 23.35. Ht8: 1 BRADLEY 22.81. Ht9: 1 STEPHENS 22.64; 4 DARREN TOWART 24.76. 400: 1 R Menéndez Gonzälez (ESP) 49.98; 3 DAVID BROWN 50.36; 4 BEARDSELL 50.69; 6 RUND 51.62. 800: 1 F Gil (ESP) 1:58.56; 5 CHARLIE THURSTAN 1:59.56.Ht2: 1 THURSTAN 2:02.69; 3 BROWN 2:03.12. 1500: 1 JAMES THIE 4:07.33. Ht3: 1 THIE 4:11.50. 60H: 1 J Schindzielorz (GER) 7.94; 2 ELLIOTT 8.27. Ht2: 1 ELLIOTT 8.14. HJ: r2: 1 N Portemer (FRA) 2.00; 5 CLINT NICHOLLS 1.75. PV: 1 A Kolasa (POL) 4.75; 4 JAMES ROBINSON 4.15; 5 DOUGLAS GRAHAM 4.15; 7 IAN PARKINSON 4.00. TJ: 1 A Olszewski (POL) 14.04; 6 GRANT STIRLING 12.48. SP: 1 A Dittmar (GER) 17.32. WT: 1 G Bottier (FRA) 15.18. PenI: 1 O González (ESP) 3872; 6 NICHOLLS 3417 (9.08, 1.81, 9.71, 5.63, 3:02.20).M45 60: 1 JASON CARTY 7.01; 3 CIARAN HARVEY 7.30; 5 JOE APPIAH 7.38. SF1: 3 MARK COLLINS 7.61; 7 CRAIG BEECHAM 7.89. SF2: 1 CARTY 7.13; 6 JULIAN IONS 7.63. SF3: 1 HARVEY 7.32; 2 APPIAH 7.34; 6 RICHARD RUBENIS 7.61. 200: 1 MIKE COOGAN 23.16; 6 HARVEY 24.42.SF1: 1 COOGAN 23.29. SF2: 3 HARVEY 23.71. SF3: 4 COLLINS 24.68. Ht1: 1 DAVID SHORTRIDGE 25.95. Ht2: 1 COOGAN 24.08. Ht5: 3 STEPHEN TERRY-SHORT 25.88. Ht6: 1 HARVEY 23.83. Ht7: 3 COLLINS 24.40; 4 RUBENIS 24.82. Ht9: 3 IONS 25.08. Ht10: 3 BEECHAM 25.87.

400: 1 G Martinez Funes (ESP) 52.04. 800: 1 A Franco (ESP) 2:01.01; 5 DEAN RICHARDSON 2:02.07; 7 RICHARD SCOTT 2:03.39. Ht1: 3 SCOTT 2:04.49. Ht2: 4 CHRISTOPHER WESTCOTT 2:06.06. Ht3: 2 RICHARDSON 2:04.89; 4 TONY JAMES 2:09.47; 6 DAVE COBB 2:11.24. 1500: 1 RICHARDSON 4:05.18; 8 CHRISTOPHER WESTCOTT 4:16.72. Ht1: 5 WESTCOTT 4:19.53. Ht2: 3 RICHARDSON 4:19.59; 11 MATTHEW PRESTON 4:28.88. 60H: 1 APPIAH 8.31; 4 GARY SMITH 8.58; 6 PETER DAVEY 9.29. Ht1: 1 SMITH 8.72. Ht2: 1 APPIAH 8.47; 3 DAVEY 9.20. HJ: r2: 1 G Varanauskas (LTU) 1.90. PV: 1 J Asplund (SWE) 4.35. TJ: 1 R Michniewski (POL) 13.53; 12 BEECHAM 11.55. SP: 1 R Mordhorst (GER) 15.02; 2 GINTAS DEGUTIS 14.44. WT: 1 M Walczak (POL) 18.10. PenI: 1 M Sunneborn (SWE) 3812; 2 LOZ RAMM 3793 (8.84, 1.66, 5.62, 11.00, 3:02.23)

Women W35-W45WHILE some of the successful older British women were in action almost every day, after winning 3000m gold on day one, Zoe Doyle had a long break to the last day of action when she contested the 1500m where there were straight final in all women’s events.

Just as in the 3000m, Doyle sat back and enjoyed the ride as 800m champion Judicaelle Calif of France and former worldchampion Louise Rudd fought for the elad at the front.

Calif led through 800m in 2:31.34 but it was Doyle who led went it mattered as a fast last lap contributed to a 51 last 300m and she eventually won easily in 4:41.02 from Ireland’s Mary Leech (4:43.07).

In the 800m, Ireland also won silver

as Annette Quaid did well to challenge Calif after a heavy fall at 100m after a collision with Sweden’s Eleanore Gavsten who suffred a fracture.Rudd, did well to take bronze while far from at peak fitness in 2:21.43 as Calif won easily in the end in 2:17.57.

Ireland did gain a gold in the W35 200m as Snezhaba Bechtina won a modest standard event in 25.68.

Poland’s Aneta Lemiesz dominated the W35 800m to win gold in 2:10.12,.

Britain’s one W35 gold was won by Jodie Albrow, who had a clear win in the W35 age group pentathlon as her 3433-point score gave her a 47-point lead over Poland’s Magdalena Szczepanska. She finished with a win in the 800m with 2:31.63.

Additional British gold went the way of W40 60m winner Claire Spurway was the model of consistency. She equalled the British record in her heat with 6.96 and then matched that in the final.

It took all her effort though and she appeared to injure herself as she dipped. Monique Perry of Australia was second in 7.99.

The fastest runner on view was W35 winner Esther Dankwah of the Netherlands who won in 7.69. The former Ghana 4x100m African champion won by two metres.

Germany’s Heike Martin won the W45 60m in 7.93 as Britain’s Michelle Thomas just missed out silver by 0.02 and bronze by 0.01 of a second in fourth with a British record 8.05 clocking.

She fared better in the 200m but Poland’s Joanna Balzarak pipped her in 26.28 to 26.41 after the Briton had set a UK mark in the heats of 26.33.

The hosts also denied the Brits in the

next W40 race as Malgorzata Gasowska beat Susie McCloughlin 25.99 to 26.11.

W35 Catriona Pennett won 60m hurdles silver in 9.08, close behind Dedah Erawati of Indonesia while further British silvers went to Claudia Cubbage in the W45 pole vault with a 2.20m leap and GB’s W35 team who ran 1:49.88.W35: 60: 1 E Dankwah (NED) 7.69. Ht3: 3 NAANA ADUSEI 8.25; 7 LYNSEY BROWN 8.74. 200: 1 S Bechtina (IRL) 25.68. SF1: 5 ADUSEI 27.30. 400: 1 A Lemiesz (POL) 55.97. 800: 1 Lemiesz 2:10.12; 6 ALINA STEPANCHUK 2:21.99. 1500: 1 A Rostkowska (POL) 4:35.02; 5 STEPANCHUK 4:59.13. 60H: 1 D Erawati (INA) 9.00; 2 CATRIONA PENNET 9.08. Ht1: 3 PENNET 9.20. 3000W: 1 M Marcos Valero (ESP) 14:26.18. PV: 1 A Wrona (POL) 3.50; 3 CAROLINE PARKINSON 3.20. TJ: 1 L Brãzdilovã (CZE) 11.79. PenI: 1 JODIE ALBROW 3433 (9.56, 5.00, 9.38, 1.54, 2:31.63).W40: 60: 1 CLAIRE SPURWAY 7.96. Ht1: 4 TRACEY MILWARD 8.60. Ht2: 2 SPURWAY 7.96. Ht4: 2 JOANNE FROST 8.11. 200: 1 M Gasowska (POL) 25.99; 2 SUSIE McLOUGHLIN 26.11.SF1: 3 SPURWAY 27.00. SF2: 1 MCLOUGHLIN 26.37. SF3: 3 MILWARD 27.20. Ht2: 1 McLOUGHLIN 26.65. Ht4: 2 MILWARD 27.23. 400: 1 C Monteleone (USA) 58.17; 4 McLOUGHLIN 60.55. 800: 1 J Calif (FRA) 2:17.57; 3 LOUISE RUDD 2:21.43; 4 LIZZIE AMOS 2:24.86; 5 JACQUELINE ETHERINGTON 2:25.25.Ht1: 1 ETHERINGTON 2:26.57; 2 RUDD 2:26.59. Ht2: 4 AMOS 2:24.94. 1500: 1 ZOE DOYLE 4:41.02; 4 RUDD 4:47.36; 5 ETHERINGTON 4:52.38. 60H: 1 A Funck (GER) 8.80. PV: 1 I Jerkovic (CRO) 3.40; 2 JEMMA EASTWOOD 3.20; 6 CARINE MUIR 2.40. TJ: 1 S Kramer (GER) 12.42. PenI: 1 R Guest (USA) 3636.W45 60: 1 H Martin (GER) 7.93; 4 MICHELLE THOMAS 8.05; 6 GIA SKERVIN 8.25. Ht3: 1 THOMAS 8.15. Ht4: 1 SKERVIN 8.20; 5 DEBORAH RICCI 9.00. 200: 1 J Balcerzak (POL) 26.28; 2 THOMAS 26.41.SF1: 6 SKERVIN 28.40. SF2: 1 THOMAS 26.33. Ht3: 2 SKERVIN 28.10. Ht4: 1 THOMAS 26.66. 400: 1 L Dendy (USA) 59.74. 800: 1 S Friend-Uhl (USA) 2:17.40; 4 CLARE CONSTABLE 2:23.91; 7 ANA RAMOS-VILLAVERDE 2:30.57. 1500: 1 M Hayakari (JPN) 4:38.27; 11 RAMOS-VILLAVERDE 5:20.59. 60H: 1 E Nagel (GER 9.30. PV: 1 J Rosén (SWE) 2.70; 2 CLAUDIA CUBBAGE 2.20. TJ: 1 A Szirbucz (HUN) 11.66. PenI: 1 T Schilling (GER) 4289.

Claire Spurway: wins the W40 60m

Carl Bell: first at Stretton Hills

Zoe Doy;e: celebrates her W401500m gold

Mike Coogan: wins the M45 200m Zoe Doyle: celebrates her W40 1500m gold

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W50-W65This section saw Britain fare particularly well.

In the pole vault Irie Hill won W50 gold thanks to a 3.51m world record vault.

The Briton entered the competition at 3.10m, long after all her opponents had exited, and then cleared 3.30m, 3.40m and then the record 3.51m all with her second clearances.

Alison Murray gained a bronze with a 2.80m leap. Teresa Eades won a share of the W60 title with a 2.30m leap to match Rita Hanscom of the USA.

Another record breaker was Virginia Mitchell who succeeded at 800m.

First she had to contest the 400m against Sue McDonald who had set a 64.50 US record in the previous day’s heat ahead of her but this time Mitchell went out aggressively and controlled the race through 200m in 30.81 while McDonald clashed with Sigrid Gutierrez of Costa Rica at the break and lost ground.

Mitchell pulled further away in the straight and won impressively in 63.21 – her fastest indoor time for three years.

Gutierrez was second in 64.14 while

McDonald improved her record to 64.38.Mitchell was exactly a second outside

Caroline Powell’s world mark but she made no mistake at 800m in one of the most anticipated clashes of the championships in Torun, Poland.

The reigning world and European champion was facing her first ever race against world record-holder Elms, who instead of warming up for the race with two 400m race slike her rivals had previously won the 3000m and cross-country golds in Torun.

Elms, who had set eight world marks prior to the Championships had been unwell after the cross-country and had thought about missing the race and waiting for the 1500m but felt sufficiently better after winning the 800m heat to give it a go.

With no one willing to take it on after the break, Elms surged into the lead and ran laps of 35.08, 35.27 and 35.45 and during the third lap, she opened a gap on Mitchell, who admitted that it is the third lap where she has a weakness.

On the final back straight, with the gap now over a second, Elms stopped going away and began to tire and gradually Mitchell closed and they entered the straight pounced and eased past and won by a few metres.

The winner’s time was 2:22.34 to break Elms’ previous record of 2:22.40 by just six hundredths of a second, though Mitchell thought the record was just 2:25.66 as the previous record was wrongly listed by the World Masters Association.

Mitchell’s previous best this winter was 2:26 but she said it was the first time she has had a real race this year and said she gained confidence from her 400m win and realised she could catch her rival with 100m to go when she was starting to close.

Elms finished second in 2:23.10 while MacDonald set an American record of 2:27.58 in third.

Britain had four of the top five as Christine Anthony and Anne Howie followed the American home for the best British event of the championships.

Elms had the 1500m to try and win more medals and after a slow first lap, she pushed on strongly and at 1000m in 3:13, she was up on her world record

schedule, but still not 100 per-cent after her virus and with 15 runners in the field and having to lap a number of them in lanes two or three, she decided to ease off completely though her 4:54.97 was still inside what was the record prior to a few months ago when she started her record spree.

Ten seconds back, Esther Pedrosa Carrette followed Elms home as she had in her other two victories while Britain took three of the first four places as Anne Howie (5:17.22) pipped Anthony for third.

In the W60 60m hurdles, Jane Horder dominated and won the title in 10.03, well clear of runner-up Robyn Suttor of Australia.

Horder also won W60 bronze in 9.14 in a race won by Spain’s Loles Vives in 8.99.

Horder also won gold in the relay together with Joan Trimble, Hilary West and Eades as they ran 2:10.73 to defeat USA’s 2:12.01.

The W55 team took bronze in 2:03.51

USA’s W55 Neringa Jakstiene won with a hurdles gold in 9.61. to follow her jumps success which included a 11.09m world triple

jump record while W55 Jo Willoughby achieved a 10.52m European record leap for silver.

Susan Frisby excelled to take W55 silver in the heptathlon 3986 behind Jakstiene’s 4520 points.

In the W50s there was a cracking 1500m race between world champion Eva Trost of Germany and Anne Gilshinan of Ireland which Trost only won by 0.03 of a second and had to run her rival wide in the straight.

GB were perhaps fortunate to gather two medals from the W50 400m.

As they entered the straight, Joanne Flowers was a distant fourth but the two Spanish competitors Maria Carabante and Esther Colas clashed in the straight and both fell. Carabante was able to crawl across the line but only after Flowers had passed the pair to take silver in 62.82.

However, Carabante was adjudged to have fouled her opponent and was disqualified and bronze thus went to Jacqui Hodgson in 65.12.

Spain were more successful in the W60 long jump as Maria Rosa Escribano Checa won the title with a world record-

equalling 4.58m leap. Checa also won the triple jump ahead of multi medal winner Eades (9.20m).

Kirstin King finished a close second in the W55 60min 8.41 to world record-holder Nicole Alexis, who set her record in Torun four years ago at the European event. Alexis won in 8.37 and the latter also won the 200m in 27.80.

Louise Wood jumped 9.93m in the triplejump but lost out to Finland’s Kisi Spoof-Tuomi’s 10.12m in the W50 triple

In the W60 event Jillian Roginski took bronze with 3987 points as Checa’s 4648 won her another gold.W50: 60: 1 E McGowan (USA) 8.28; 7 JULIET SIDNEY 8.65. Ht2: 2 SIDNEY 8.58; 5 SHARON SAMUEL 8.83. Ht3: 4 FIONA STEELE 9.03; 6 JAN TIMBERLAKE 9.68. 200: 1 McGowan 26.80; 4 JO FLOWERS 28.21. SF1: 4 TRACY BEZANCE 28.81; 6 STEELE 29.52. SF2: 2 FLOWERS 28.01; 4 JACQUI HODGSON 28.57; 5 SIDNEY 28.98. SF3: 4 SAMUEL 29.48. Ht1: 3 BEZANCE 28.80. Ht2: 3 SIDNEY 28.97. Ht4: 2 STEELE 29.47. Ht5: 2 JACQUI HODGSON 29.03. Ht6: 2 FLOWERS 28.16; 3 SAMUEL 29.51. 400: 1 McGowan 61.23; 2 FLOWERS 62.82; 3 HODGSON 65.12. 800: 1 E Trost (GER) 2:26.52. Ht1: 5 SUSAN DIXON 2:44.62. 1500: 1 Trost 4:50.14; 10 LYNNE CHAMPION 5:29.23. 60H: 1 K Mertanen (FIN) 9.67. PV: 1 IRIE HILL 3.51; 3 ALISON MURRAY 2.80. TJ: 1 K Spoof-Tuomi 1(FIN) 0.12; 2 LOUISE WOOD 9.93; 7 TIMBERLAKE 9.05. PenI: 1 P Bajeat (FRA) 4900.W55 60: 1 N Alexis (FRA) 8.37; 2 KIRSTIN KING 8.41. 60: Ht1: 1 KING 8.40; 6 ANGELA KELLY 9.55. Ht3: 3 MELANIE GARLAND 9.08. 200: 1 Alexis 27.80; 5 KING 28.75. 200: Ht1: 2 KING 28.72. Ht3: 4 GARLAND 31.11. 400: 1 VIRGINIA MITCHELL 63.21. 800: 1 MITCHELL 2:22.34; 2 CLARE ELMS 2:23.10; 4 CHRISTINE ANTHONY 2:35.54; 5 ANNE HOWIE 2:37.59. Ht1: 1 ELMS 2:30.89; 2 ANNE HOWIE 2:36.82; 3 ANTHONY 2:37.00. Ht2: 1 MITCHELL 2:44.12. 1500: 1 ELMS 4:54.97; 3 HOWIE 5:17.22; 4 ANTHONY 5:17.98; 8 JANE PIDGEON 5:42.35. 60H: 1 N Jakstiene (USA) 9.61; 3 SUSAN FRISBY 9.96; 5 CHARMAINE JOHNSON 10.94; 7 HEATHER ROSS



Irie Hill: W50 pole vaiult world record

Virginia Mitchell (in second here) set a world W55 record at 800m ahead of Clare Elms after earlier winning 400m gold

Neringa Jakstiene: setting a world W55 triple jump record

Irie Hill: W50 pole vault

world record

Joanne Flowers snatches W50 400m silver after two Spaniards fell

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11.11. Ht2: 2 FRISBY 10.19; 4 ROSS 11.15; 5 JOHNSON 11.50. PV: 1 C Forcellini (ITA) 2.90. TJ: 1 Jakstiene 11.09; 2 JOANNE WILLOUGHBY 10.52; 4 GARLAND 9.72. PenI: 1 Jakstiene 4520; 2 FRISBY 3986 (9.89, 4.04, 9.67, 1.36, 3:14.85); 5 JOHNSON 3400 (10.92, 3.72, 9.85, 1.18, 3:17.66).W60 60: 1 L Vives (ESP) 8.99; 3 JANE HORDER 9.14; 5 JOAN TRIMBLE 9.34. Ht2: 1 TRIMBLE 9.26. Ht3: 2 HORDER 9.19; 8 ANNE THACKER 10.42. 200: 1 A Undheim (NOR) 31.35. Ht2: 4 TRIMBLE 32.72. 400: 1 G Tolfes (SWE) 69.80; 4 HORDER 70.74; 6 HILARY WEST 72.71. 800: 1 S Cooke (USA) 2:42.83; 7 WEST 2:49.99. Ht1: 5 WEST 2:54.39. 1500: 1 M Ruzafa Manchon (ESP) 5:29.36; 6 ANNA GARNIER 5:49.06; 13 AVRIL RIDDELL 6:18.19. 60H: 1 HORDER 10.03. Ht1: 1 HORDER 10.04. PV: eq1 TERESA EADES & R Hanscom (USA) 2.30; 5 ANNE THACKER 1.70. LJ: 1 M Escribano Checa (ESP) 4.58; 6 EADES 4.08. TJ: 1 Escribano Checa 9.77; 2 EADES 9.20. WT: r1: 3 CLAIRE CAMERON 11.04; 4 THACKER 10.01; 7 BRENDA RUSSELL 8.59. r2: 1 M Duss (SUI) 14.99. PenI: 1 Escribano Checa 4648; 3 JILLIAN ROGINSKI 3987 (11.02, 3.76, 9.52, 1.18, 3:02.93, 1.18); 10 JEANETTE ASHTON 2674 (14.38, 2.95, 6.56, 1.15, 3:20.25).

W65 plusCAROLINE POWELL was involved in one of the best quality races in Torun.In the 400m heats, Powell had set a world record 69.77 though her great rival Karla del Grande of Canada, the world outdoor champion, ran 69.98, inside the old mark, in the next heat.

In the final, Powell and Del Grande were level at the break but the Canadian forged ahead and sped past 200m in an extravagant 31.35 with Powell close behind.

The Briton attacked along the back straight but Del Grande repelled the challenge and then held strong in the straight. Though the second lap was well over six seconds slower, the Canadian

still took well over a second off Powell’s new mark with 68.39.The Briton though was also well inside the record and her 68.94 was a European and British record.

There was also a bronze for Joylyn Saunders-Mullins in 72.91 behind her GB team-mate Powell.

Powell’s rival missed the 60m where she had an easy win in 9.01, which was easily her fastest this year and her best for four years, when she ran a 9.00 in the Europeans in Torun.

She won by three metres from GB team-mate Saunders-Mullins, who ran 9.37 for silver.

Powell did have to take on the female World Masters athlete of the year at 200m though and while well in contention at half way the Canadian powered away to win in a world record 29.73.

Powell was unable to match her fast heat time of 30.20 and ran 30.61 for a very clear silver while Saunders-Mullins again medalled in 31.75.

Angela Copson had already won golds on the first two days (reported last week) when she took on Kiwi Sheryl Gower over 400m.

Gower blasted the first 200m in 38.41 seconds, well over 10 metres clear of the Briton, but began to slow and Copson closed up at 300m and then waited behind before unleashing a strong sprint in the straight to win in 80.70 to Gower’s 82.55.

Copson’s previous 400m best this winter was just 84.00 and it bettered Kathleen Stewart’s previous UK mark of 82.18.

After also winning at 10km on day four, she was back in action at 800m on day five.

There she was up against American Sabra Harvey, who was new to the age group and was totally fresh and running her first race in Torun.

Harvey set a stunning pace with 200m in 40.41 and 400m in 82.09, which was only just short of Copson’s time in winning the 400m.

The Briton clung on and was still close at 600m in 2:06.88 but on the last lap Harvey went away and her 2:50.57 took a whopping seven seconds off the Copson’s world record, who despite slowing drastically on the last lap still ran an European and British record 2:56.36.

The pair were back in action at 1500m a few days later.

This time Copson ignored the American who went out well inside world record pace with 90.14 at 400m but eased back ro win in 5:57.19, 10 seconds outside Copson’s mark. Copson took silver, her seventh of the Championships, in 6:03.41.

Copson’s range is notable as while the Briton was winning the 10km by over three minutes, the runner who pushed her all the way in the 400m, Gower, was winning 60m gold in the stadium in 9.86.

Britain did win 800m and 1500m gold in the younger W65 age grouo, and silver too.

As expected, world champion Alison Bourgeois proved a class apart and she dominated the race throughout to win in 2:48.91.

3000m champion Ros Tabor benefitted from her fellow Briton’s pace as she stuck to her even pace plan while two of her rivals who had chased Bourgeois faded, and she nipped past Sweden’s Ulla Karneback almost on the line to take silver in 3:00.32.

Bourgeois also won the 1500m with great ease. As she bowled along well in front to win in 5:55.65, everyone else played tactical.

Tabor was the first to sprint on her penultimate lap but such was her kick and together the bell sounding for Bourgeois, her main rival, Ana Giuffra was confused and sprinted and thinking she was second only for the bell to go.

Tabor thus had a much easier lap than she anticipated was second in 6:33.66 while Giuffra recovered after her confued stop to take the bronze.

Iris Hornsey also won a double as she dominated the W75 800m first in in 3:55.07, finishing over 10 seconds ahead of Germany’s Waltraud Bayer and then won the 1500m in 8:04.42, six

seconds up on Milena Hovorkova of the Czech Republic.

Horney also won a W75 400m bronze in 1:41.20 well behind Dutch winner Rief Jonkers-Slegers’s impressive 84.16.

The Dutch athlete also won the W75 pentathlon in a world record 4987 points.

Sue Yeomans won the W65 pole vault with a third-time clearance 2.61m

In the W65 4x200m Britain had a narrow win in 2:14.86. The team Saunders-Mullins, Sue Dassie, Anne Nelson and Powell won in 2:14.86 from Germany’s 2:16.04.

Germany’s W75 team set a world record 2:50.72 as did USA’s W80 squad with 3:18.43.

In the field, Evaun Williams won the W80 weight title with an impressive world record of 12.75m.who also bettered or equalled the listed weight record with all six of her throws.

The 81-year-old’s best of 12.75m came in round five as she won gold by over three metres from Mongolian Tserendolgor Tumurbat.

Another world record-equalling mark was achieved by Christa Bortignon of Canada who won the W80 long jump with 3.28m.

The oldest women’s 60m was won by Irena Obera in a W85 world record 12.28.

Germany’s Lydia Ritter won the W80 800m, lapping all her opposition in 3:57.97.

Belarus athlete Palina Katsuba obviously got confused by the lapping and was well into her fifth lap when a photographer ensured she had finished. When her silver medal was confirmed, she then proceeded to dance vigorously for the next few minutes.

Iris Holder won the W75 triple jump silver with a 6.25m leap behind Germany’s Helgard Houber’s 6.50m.

Man Kaur of India won the W100 unchallenged in the race in 35.80 and she also won the javelin with a 4.01m throw.

There were some competitive 200m races in the oldest age groups as Christa Bortignon of Canada won the W80 race in 39.50 from Rose Green of the USA’s

39.60, while there was a W85 world record for USA’s Irena Obera in 44.18 just ahead of Emma Mazzenga’s 44.28.W65: 60: 1 CAROLINE POWELL 9.01; 2 JOYLYN SAUNDERS-MULLINS 9.37. Ht1: 1 POWELL 9.21; 4 ANNE NELSON 11.11. Ht2: 5 SUE DASSIE 10.27. Ht3: 1 SAUNDERS-MULLINS 9.42; 5 JEAN FAIL 10.54. 200: 1 K Del Grande (CAN) 29.73; 2 POWELL 30.61; 3 SAUNDERS-MULLINS 31.75. Ht2: 1 POWELL 30.20; 4 SUE DASSIE 36.28. Ht3: 1 SAUNDERS-MULLINS 32.81. 400: 1 Del Grande 68.39; 2 POWELL 68.94; 3 SAUNDERS-MULLINS 72.91. 800: 1 ALISON BOURGEOIS 2:48.91; 2 ROS TABOR 3:00.32. 1500: 1 BOURGEOIS 5:55.65; 2 TABOR 6:33.66. 60H: 1 H Vanhorenbeeck (BEL) 11.04; 5 FAIL 13.75. Ht1: 2 FAIL 11.92. PV: 1 SUE YEOMANS 2.61. LJ: 1 U Hiltscher (GER) 3.72; 10 LYN AHMET 3.10. TJ: 1 C Friedrich (GER) 8.60; 6 AHMET 7.26. WT: 1 M Tomanek (BEL) 13.00; 5 VILMA THOMPSON 10.69. PenI: 1 Hiltscher 4088.W70 200: 1 S Gower (NZL) 34.13. 400: 1 ANGELA COPSON 80.70. 800: 1 S Harvey (USA) 2:50.57; 2 COPSON 2:56.36. 1500: 1 Harvey 5:57.19; 2 COPSON 6:03.41. 60H: 1 I Zorzi (ITA) 12.38. PV: 1 K Foerster (GER) 1.90. LJ: 1 K Hanke (GER) 3.31. TJ: 1 T Kokkonen (FIN) 7.17. WT: 1 E Nohl (GER) 11.67. PenI: 1 Zorzi 3867. W75 200: 1 C Waring (NZL) 37.50. 400: 1 R Jonkers-Slegers (NED) 84.16. 800: 1 IRIS HORNSEY 3:55.07. 1500: 1 HORNSEY 8:04.42. LJ: 1 B Gadle (SWE) 3.15; 5 IRIS HOLDER 2.67. TJ: 1 H Houben (GER) 6.50; 2 HOLDER 6.25; 5 PATRICIA HILL 5.49. WT: 1 E Wåle (NOR) 11.54; 6 HILL 10.05.W80 60: 1 C Bortignon (CAN) 10.96; 6 DOROTHY FRASER 13.21. Ht1: 3 FRASER 13.25. 200: 1 Bortignon 39.50; 4 FRASER 52.68. Ht1: 2 FRASER 54.58. 400: 1 L Ritter (GER) 97.45. 1500: 1 Ritter 8:04.23. PV: 1 F Meiler (USA) 1.45. LJ: 1 C Bortignon (CAN) 3.28. TJ: 1 Bortignon 6.62. WT: 1 EVAUN WILLIAMS 12.75; 5 CAROLE DERRIAN 8.39. PenI: 1 Meiler 3033.W85 WT: 1 L Leiss (GER) 7.94.

Sabra Harvey: leads Angela

Copson on her way to a world

record in the W70 800m

Karla del Grande: leads Caroline Powell in the W65

world record 400m run


MARCH 26-30WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS – OUTDOOR EVENTS, TorunFORMER international John Watts won the M75 discus with a 39.39m throw.

Evaun Williams won her second gold in two days as she easily won the W80 javelin with a world record 27.51m throw. The worst of her six throws was 24.99m and no one else managed better than 18.74m.

She threw 33.22m to take the hammer title, eight metres up on Mongolian Tserendolgor Tumurbat’s 24.98m.

In the field, apart from Williams’ gold there was success for M60 John Moreland in the discus.

He led throughout after an initial 49.36m throw which he improved to 50.58m in the fifth and then a big 54.24m in the final round.

He won by almost five metres from Saulius Svilainis of Lithuania.M35 DT: 1 K Jackow (POL) 48.19. M40 DT: 1 S Breathnach (IRL) 48.26. M45 DT: 1 R Mordhorst (GER) 50.63.M50 DT: r1: 7 LEEROY GOLDING 32.23. r2: 1 M Stolarczyk (POL) 50.93; 5 GARETH COOK 42.43. M55 DT: 1 T Jensen (DEN) 47.56; 12 MICHAEL HAUSLER 32.33; 14 ALLAN LEIPER 28.12. HT: 1 O Heerlien (NED) 50.22; 14 DARREN GIBSON 35.24.M60 DT: r2: 1 JOHN MORELAND 54.24. HT: r2: 1 G Gassenbauer (AUT) 57.06; 4 DAVID VALENTINE 47.92; 7 JOHN MORELAND 42.59; 8 IAN COOLEY 41.12.M65 DT: r2: 1 A Putns (LAT) 45.17. HT: 1 A Piaczkowski (POL) 45.04; 12 TIM SAUNDERS-MULLINS 30.79.M70 DT: r2: 1 V Sosna (CZE) 44.37. HT: 1 G Guyot (FRA) 50.53.M75 DT: 1 JOHN WATTS 39.39; 10 JAMES SLOAN 27.11. HT: 1 H Albrecht (GER) 44.72. JT: 1 J Tenhu (FIN) 41.23.M80 DT: 1 Ö Edlund (SWE) 37.44. HT: 1 L Huchthausen (GER) 39.07. JT: 1 Huchthausen 37.96.M85 DT: 1 A Laus (EST) 24.57. HT: 1 Laus 27.47. JT: 1 Laus 21.64.M90 DT: 1 S Haraldsson (ISL) 20.20. HT: 1 Haraldsson 19.64. JT: 1 Haraldsson 20.08.

W35 DT: 1 M Slok Hansen (DEN) 42.77. HT: 1 Slok Hansen 47.04. JT: 1 M Metz (GER) 35.86.W40 DT: 1 V Yepimashka (BLR) 34.63. HT: 1 K Hilbig (GER) 54.81. JT: 1 L Apolosova (UKR) 42.18.W45 DT: 1 J Wisniewska (POL) 47.86; 5 SUE LAWRENCE 29.72; 6 JACQUELINE CHERRY 28.75. HT: 1 B Schardt (GER) 41.51; 7 LAWRENCE 35.26. JT: 1 A Zahn (GER) 35.19.W50 DT: 1 M Barrientos (CHI) 37.48. HT: 1 C Cacaut (FRA) 50.50; 5 JANET SMITH 41.24; 12 CAMILLA THRUSH 34.95. JT: 1 D Schimek (USA) 37.43.W55 DT: 1 J Lapieniene (LTU) 39.88; 12 WENDY DUNSFORD 19.81. HT: 1 C Hodel (SUI) 45.07; 10 DUNSFORD 26.45. JT: 1 G Patla (POL) 40.75.W60 DT: r2: 1 C Finsrud (USA) 34.39; 6 CLAIRE CAMERON 25.56. HT: 4 CAMERON 25.98. r2: 1 Finsrud 41.61. W65 DT: 1 I Rozena (LAT) 27.60. HT: 1 J Longauerovã (SVK) 33.99; 4 VILMA THOMPSON 25.70.W70 DT: 1 M Gosztolai (HUN) 26.16. HT: 1 E Nohl (GER) 35.49.W75 DT: 1 M Jakobsone (LAT) 25.17. HT: 1 T Krutob (EST) 27.68. JT: 1 C Helmke (GER) 21.19.W80 DT: 1 T Tumurbat (MGL) 18.97. HT: 1 EVAUN WILLIAMS 33.22; 5 CAROLE DERRIEN 21.17. JT: 1 WILLIAMS 27.51.W85 DT: 1 G Krug (USA) 14.99. HT: 1 L Leiss (GER) 20.34. JT: 1 Leiss 13.04.W90 DT: 1 E Kalinowska (POL) 5.83. HT: 1 M Petley (NZL) 14.28.

10km road, March 27WHILE the opposition in the distance races may not be exceptional, Copson certainly is and just as in the 3000m, she beat all the W65s too.

Gold in the W65 event close behind went to 1976 Olympic 1500m runner Penny Forse, who took the title by 31 seconds in 45:57.

In the W50 event behind 3000m champion Nicole Weijing-Dissel, Sue McDonald won her second silver medal of the championships and her time of 37:55 was a PB, aided by a fast course and good running conditions.

Pam Jones won a W80 bronze in 77:32.

The British men failed to match the women with Ken Bowman’s bronze in the M70 event in 43:09 the only medal.

Unusually there was no team element to this event which attracted 339 finishers.

The first Briton to finish in 45th was M55 Tony Tuohy in 35:34.

The overall races were won by M40 Manuel Angel Penas Blanco of Spain in 31:11 and W35 Ewa Jagelska of Poland in 34:21.

The latter finished just ahead of USA W40 Dawn Grunnagle’s 34:24.M35 10km: 1 H Verkhavodkin (BLR) 31:12. M40 10km: 1 M Penas Blanco (ESP 31:11. M45 10km: 1 D Figueiredo (POR) 31:52. M50 10km: 1 P Van Der Velden (NED) 32:09. M55 10km: 1 M Byrne (IRL) 34:07; 4 TONY TUOHY 35:34; 5 ROB McHARG 35:59. M60 10km: 1 S Polikarpov (KAZ) 35:12; 4 BRIAN GREEN 37:45; 8 STEVE SMYTHE 40:01; 9 NICK HOLLIDAY 40:58. M65 10km: 1 L Jensen (DEN) 38:09; 9 ALAN NEWMAN 42:48. M70 10km: 1 K Kuningas (FIN) 42:00; 3 KEN BOWMAN 43:09; 5 DAVE BEATTIE 44:16; 8 NORMAN BAILLIE 45:37. M75 10km: 1 J Lopez Garcia (ESP) 42:33. M80 10km: 1 F Kramer (GER) 46:34. W35 10km: 1 E Jagielska (POL) 34:21. W40 10km: 1 D Grunnagle (USA) 34:24; 5 JENNIFER DUFFY 40:24. W45 10km: 1 M Paurat (GER) 37:01. W50 10km: 1 N Weijling-Dissel (NED) 37:09; 2 SUSAN MCDONALD 37:55. W55 10km: 1 S Hofer (AUT) 39:17; 6 ELKE HAUSLER 43:21. W60 10km: 1 C Adamson (NZL) 41:55; 7 GINA COULSON 48:04. W65 10km: 1 PENNY FORSE 45:57; 8 KAREN BOWLER 52:34. W70 10km: 1 ANGELA COPSON 45:47. W75 10km: 1 J Maillard (FRA) 53:36.W80 10km: 1 H Moebius (USA)60:27.

Half-Marathon, March 30THE UK contingent found medal winning tough going.

However, Britain’s M45 team, made up of three runners from Thames Hare and Hounds, won gold in 3:41:14 from Poland’s 3:50.41.

Britain’s M65 team gained silvers behind Poland while the W55s won bronze as Sweden won. Individually, M45 Simon Baines won silver with a time of 1:10:37, losing out on gold by eight seconds. It was even closer at W50 as Sue McDonald finished just five seconds back on winner’s Fiona Bayly’s 1:23:44 with a PB.

The overall winners were Polish M35 Tomasz Szymkowiak with 1:08:56 and USA’s Dawn Grunnagle with 1:16:25M35 HM: 1 T Szymkowiak (POL) 68:56. M40 HM: 1 B Dziuba (POL) 70:18. M45 HM: 1 D Figueiredo (POR) 70:29; 2 SIMON BAINES 70:37; 6 PAUL CHEETHAM 74:06; 9 MATT WILLIFER 76:36. TEAN; 1 GBM50 HM: 1 M Molero-Eichwein (GER) 72:28; 6 CHRIS HOLLINSHEAD 76:33; 11 BRIAN SCALLY 80:03. M55 HM: 1 J Cabral (POR) 75:46; 5 TONY TUOHY 79:52; 16 STEVEN DOXEY 84:46.

M60 HM: 1 R Sayre (USA) 77:49; 14 STEVE SMYTHE 87:12. M65 HM: 1 I Kostiuk (UKR) 85:29. M70 HM: 1 M Hartung (GER) 91:46; 5 GEOFF NEWTON 1:40:43. M75 HM: 1 J Lopez Garcia (ESP) 96:05. M80 HM: 1 F Kramer (GER) 1:44:37. W35 HM: 1 A Arseniuk (POL) 82:12. W40 HM: 1 D Grunnagle (USA) 76:25; 7 CATHERINE CHARLTON 89:52. W45 HM: 1 E Huryn (POL) 82:40. W50 HM: 1 F Bayly (USA) 83:44; 2 SUSAN McDONALD 83:49. W55 HM: 1 N Dandolo (ITA) 84:59; 13 ANDREA HOUGH 1:44:18. W60 HM: 1 M Hernaiz (ESP) 94:16. W65 HM: 1 D Spychala (POL) 99:15. W70 HM: 1 M Mikolajczyk (POL) 98:53. W75 HM: 1 H Kivistö (FIN) 2:01:00.

MARCH 29WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS - 10km WALK, TorunWHILE M70 3000m track champion Ian Richards was disqualified, his fellow Olympian Lisa Kehler, who was also a Commonwealth medallist, excelled to take W50 gold in a British record time of 53:26 as she won from Hungary’s Katalin Bodorkos Horvath (54:53).

Kehler was also part of Britain’s W40 winning team in the 10km walk and in an event with seven teams, Britain won by

just nine seconds from Germany.Carolyn Derbyshire was also part of

the team and she won W40 individual silver in 56:16 with the team completed by W55 Maureen Noel (66:34).

Helen Middleton gained a W55 10km walk bronze in 61:59.M35 10KW: 1 R Fedaczynski (POL) 44:36; 2 C Vargas Castillo (MEX, M45) 44:50; 5 M Nedvidek (CZE, M40) 46:09; 9 P Bonneau (FRA, M50) 47:05. M55 10KW: 1 M Periáñez García (ESP) 47:28; 9 P Aranda Fernandez (ESP, M60) 53:52; 12 P Brochot (FRA, M65) 54:39; 38 ROGER MICHELL (M70) 63:07; 42 IAN TORODE (M60) 64:42. M70 10KW: 1 E Formentin (ITA) 57:59; 6 R Pelliccia (ITA, M80) 64:35; 10 P Schumm (GER,M75) 67:40; 37 G Ciesielski (GER, M90) 83:23; 38 I Nilsson (SWE, M85) 84:02. IAN RICHARDS dqW35 10KW: 1 M Marcos Valero (ESP) 49:30; 2 B Schröter (GER, W40) 51:56; 4 S Demon (FRA, W45) 52:14; 8 LISA KEHLER (1 W50) 53:26; 11 CAROLYN DERBYSHIRE (W40) 56:16; 45 MAUREEN NOEL (W55) 66:34. W55 10KW: 1 M Monmessin (FRA, W60) 54:39; 2 M Lucaferro (ITA) 59:58; 4 HELEN MIDDLETON 61:59; 8 A Alvarez Ordas P. (ESP, W65) 63:19; 18 A Tyshko (UKR, W70) 65:52; 38 J Purcell (AUS, W75) 77:08



Lisa Kehler: wins theW50 10km walk gold

Evaun Williams: dominated the W80 throws

GB’s winning M45 team from the half-marathon



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MARCH 30ORION 15, Epping ForestIT WAS third time lucky for Richard McDowell as he took this testing traditional end of season cross country race being staged for the 65th time by what is thought to have been a record margin, Tom Pollak reports.

After a period of no rain, the undulating woodland course was much drier and therefore faster than usual and in the conditions the short spikes McDowell chose to wear proved an ideal selection.

McDowell chose to take the race out from soon after the start and, after last year’s winner Josselin Polini and Thomas Beedell attempted to keep with his pace, he pulled away at five miles to run the last two-thirds of the race on his own to win by over four minutes.

Despite the figure-of-eight course being a kilometre longer than in previous years McDowell’s 1:31:27 was significantly faster than his 1:34:05 when he was third in 2017 and 1:34:23 in finishing runner-up last year.

He said: “There were plenty of undulations to test the legs and still a fair amount of mud despite the overall dry conditions. I’m now off to India for a couple of weeks of warm-weather training before tapering off in preparation for London.”

McDowell will be competing in London just nine days after turning 40 and is aiming at a top three finish in his age group. He will be competing in London for the fourth time and will be looking to improve on the 2:27:56 he clocked last year.Overall: 1 R McDowell (HW, M35) 91:27; 2 J Polini (VP&TH, M35) 95:30; 3 D Steel (WG&EL) 96:24; 4 D Coombs (C&C) 97:11; 5 T Beedell (WG&EL) 98:00; 6 A Barrington (Victoria Park Harriers) 98:20; 7 P O’hare (C&C) 98:36; 8 G Anderson (C&C, M35) 99:49; 9 J Dale (VP&TH, M35) 1:40:07; 10 D Williamson (Col H) 1:40:51; 11 F Lassonde (Victoria Park Harriers) 1:41:04; 12 A Reeves (Serp, M45) 1:41:40; 13 S Priestley (Victoria Park Harriers) 1:42:22; 14 S Wurr (Herne H, M40) 1:42:32; 15 R Smith (Orion) 1:42:39; 16 M Matibini (Leigh S, M40) 1:42:44; 17 S Fabes (Victoria Park Harriers) 1:42:51; 18 S Browne (E Lon) 1:42:57; 19 A Holford (WG&EL) 1:43:17; 20 S Beedell (WG&EL, M35) 1:43:35; 21 T Farrer (Huntingdon AC, M40) 1:44:03; 22 P Northall (Lon Hth) 1:44:07; 23 L Baynton (Ben) 1:44:27; 24 T Grimes (E Lon, M35) 1:44:54; 25 B Glasgow (Orion, M40) 1:44:57M45: 2 K Hayer (LFR) 1:55:26; 3 D Gritton (E Lon) 1:55:30. M50: 1 P Dellar (Col H) 1:58:32; 2 V Zalesskiy (Barn) 1:59:39; 3 M Birrell (Havering Tri club) 2:00:11. M55: 1 J Ferguson (C&C) 1:54:10; 2 P Cates (Eton M) 1:54:32; 3 R McCormick (Barn) 1:58:08. M60: 1 D Cox (Woodford Green AC) 1:56:25; 2 S Rolfe (Norf G) 1:56:59; 3 B Bennett (Orion) 2:10:31Women: 1 E Jeanes (Newmkt J) 1:55:32; 2 C Brown 1:56:50; 3 S Pemberton (Serp) 1:59:38; 4 S Pritchard (Lon C AC) 2:02:10; 5 C Haines (Steel) 2:03:10; 6 S Swinhoe (Lon Hth, W45) 2:03:32; 7 M Bell (Barts and the London

RC) 2:03:49; 8 K Clark (Victoria Park Harriers, W35) 2:03:52; 9 A Lee (E Lon, W35) 2:06:20; 10 S Bennett (Victoria Park Harriers, W40) 2:07:00W35: 3 H Weir (Victoria Park Harriers) 2:09:19. W45: 2 M Harrison (Victoria Park Harriers) 2:22:59; 3 G Ellis (Victoria Park Harriers) 2:28:41. W50: 1 T Harrington (T’tree) 2:18:54; 2 J Worster (Serp) 2:19:53; 3 M Gami (Dag 88) 2:36:28. W55: 1 T Scully (Orion) 2:11:23; 2 P Dowswell (Orion) 2:15:41. W65: 1 J Barrow-Green (VP&TH) 2:25:06

RANELAGH HARRIERS INTER CLUB MATCH V HERCULES WIMBLEDON, Richmond ParkOverall: 1 G Howard (Rane, M40) 31:40; 2 R Jordan (Milo) 31:50; 3 O Garner (Strag) 32:24; 4 G Brook (Rane, M35) 32:39; 5 P Gregorowski (Strag, M40) 32:49; 6 H Waring (Milo) 32:59; 7 T Mockett (Rane, M40) 33:46; 8 R Poole (Milo) 34:02; 9 S Barker (HW, U20) 34:19; 10 E Forbes (Rane, M40) 34:22; 11 L Schvartz (Rane) 34:26; 12 R Adamson (Milo) 34:59; 13 C Jeffrey (Strag, U20) 35:04; 14 C Allen (Strag, M45) 35:30; 15 P Williams (Milo) 35:36; 16 J Shaw (Rane, M40) 35:39; 17 K Haniver (Milo, W40) 36:01; 18 A Hall (Strag) 36:07; 19 D Duffy (Strag, M40) 36:08; 20 S Kinsella (Strag, W) 36:09M50: 1 R Reeder (Strag) 37:30; 2 M Livingstone (HW) 38:57TEAM (10-a-side): 1 Ranelagh 149; 2 Stragglers 150; 3 Milocarians 166. Ellis Trophy (10-a-side) Ranelagh 104; 2 Stragglers 106. Women: 1 Haniver 36:01; 2 Kinsella 36:09; 3 S Biggs (Strag, W40) 36:57; 4 J Earp (Milo) 37:09; 5 M Renders (Strag) 37:45; 6 F Vein (Rane, W35) 38:18; 7 C Waring (Milo) 39:41; 8 L Fraser (Strag) 40:21; 9 S Hussain (Strag, W40) 40:35; 10 B Northmore (Rane) 40:46; 11 M Malam (Rane, W45) 42:14; 12 S Gerrie (ESM, W40) 44:03; 13 A Cater (Milo)

44:10; 14 B Taberner (Rane) 44:33; 15 E Smith (Rane) 46:38Women’s Dysart Cup (5-a-side): 1 Stragglers 17; 2 Ranelagh 38

THAMES HARE & HOUNDS V SOUTH LONDON HARRIERS 7.5M, Wimbledon CommonTEAM CAPTAIN James McMullan led from the front with a runaway victory in this annual match between two of the World’s oldest cross country clubs, Tom Pollak reports.

He secured the individual and team double for Thames Hare & Hounds, founded in 1868 over South London Harriers which was formed in 1871, winning by almost 400 yards.Overall: 1 J McMullan (THH, M35) 39:43; 2 O Garrod (S Lon) 42;46; 3 A Weir (THH, M50) 42:53; 4 M Jones (THH, M40) 44:19; 5 N Altmann (THH, M45) 44:19; 6 T Greenwood (THH) 44:52; 7 J Wood (S Lon) 45:19; 8 D Baker (S Lon, M50) 47:01; 9 A House (THH) 47:18; 10 C Rye (THH) 47:57; 11 A Lynch (THH, M40) 48:05; 12 D Ogden (S Lon, M55) 48:49Women: A Cohen (THH, W35) 51:39; 2 R Hutton (S Lon, W50) 54:47; 3 A Stehlikova (THH, W35) 56:23TEAM (15-a-side): 1 Thames Hare & Hounds 160; 2 South London H 340

MARCH 27DUNDEE SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS, Baxter ParkSenior boys (nt): 1 K Hornyik; 2 R Donald; 3 K HernandezSecondary 3: 1 M Joss; 2 G Brock; 3 R AlexanderSecondary 2: 1 E Muirhead; 2 J Donald; 3 F ScottSecondary 1: 1 M Gibson; 2 A White; 3 F JonesSenior girls: 1 A Dalglish; 2 S Kidd; 3 G DouglasSecondary 3: 1 E Hewitt; 2 J

Bonnyman; 3 A ClarkSecondary 2: 1 E Duke; 2 K Dalglish; 3 A Saddler Secondary 1: 1 S Donald; 2 G McKinlay; 3 M Forbes

MIDLANDS POLICE & SERVICES LEAGUE, Tally Ho!Overall: 1 S Bott (Belper H, M35) 31:41; 2 N Gaskin (Unatt, M40) 31:47; 3 D Roberts (Barrow Rr, M35) 32:26; 4 N Dale (Unatt, M40) 33:03; 5 D Ullah (Birchfield H) 33:28; 6 J Parker (West End Rr) 34:00; 7 D Wilson 34:19; 8 R Williams 34:32; 9 K Webster (Unatt, M45) 34:41; 10 C Harris (Black Pear, M40) 34:50M45: 2 G Pattinson (Cheadle) 35:23; 3 M King 36:32. M50: 1 M Dobson (Stafford H) 37:13; 2 T Fowler 38:15; 3 D Wood (Dursley) 38:16. M55: 1 G Hobbs (Desford S) 36:33; 2 B Geeson (Barrow Rr) 42:09; 3 P Caswell (West End Rr) 43:44. M60: 1 S Clews (Hatton Darts) 37:38; 2 K Willis 39:22; 3 R Mills (Sparkhill H) 41:13. M65: 1 N Lee (Newcastle(Staffs) Ac) 46:18Women: 1 N Nokes (Stone Mm) 38:41; 2 J Hemming (Unatt, W40) 38:59; 3 C Howard (Unatt, W45) 39:17; 4 C White (Unatt, W35) 40:53; 5 G Russon (Unatt, W50) 41:29; 6 K Williams (Rugby/N/Hants, W55) 42:41; 7 T Pearce (Unatt, W40) 44:11; 8 K Kemp (Leicester Tri, W55) 45:06; 9 M Deakin (Stafford H, W45) 47:03; 10 J Timms (Sphynx Ac, W50) 47:11W50: 3 L Deans 50:49. W55: 3 M Moutrie (Silson J) 48:01. W60: 1 A Fisher (Nuneaton H) 48:47; 2 J Stuart (Sphynx Ac) 49:46

MARCH 26ANGUS SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS, DundeeSenior boys (4km): 1 A Campbell 14:53; 2 K McColgan 15:08; 3 L Mann 15:32Secondary 3 (3.5km): 1 R Smith 14:34; 2 D Naglik 15:11; 3 L Cargill 15:41Secondary 2 (2.5km): 1 W Lorente 9:50; 2 D McAffertey 10:01; 3 B Cameron 10:10Secondary 1 (2km): 1 K McMillar 7:57; 2 M Milne 8:06; 3 R Cargill 8:14Senior girls (2.5km): 1 O Mcleod 11:18; 2 M Tracz 11:44; 3 K Robertson 11:58Secondary 3 (2.5km): 1 F Duffy 11:30; 2 C Raye 12:13; 3 M Cargill 12:21Secondary 2 (2km): 1 N Phillips 8:29; 2 I Jones 9:01; 3 S Graham 9:15Secondary 1 (2km): 1 H Smith 9:00; 2 M Hill 9:13; 3 B Morrison 9:37

MARCH 23SOUTH EAST SCHOOLS’ INTER-COUNTIES U13 & U14 CHAMPIONSHIPS, HorshamU15 boys (3.5km): 1 W Steadman (Essex, U13) 12:48; 2 J Prendergast (Kent, U13) 12:49; 3 J Stevens (Kent, U13) 12:53; 4 D Shattock (Hants) 12:58; 5 J Dargan (Hants) 13:09; 6 G Hopkins (Kent, U13) 13:16; 7 M Pickering (Surrey, U13) 13:21; 8 H Gear (Kent, U13) 13:23; 9 A Shelley (Kent, U13) 13:23; 10 L Newton (Sussex, U13) 13:28; 11 L Goodwin (Sussex, U13) 13:29; 12 M Chapman (Essex, U13) 13:31; 13 C Jones (Hants) 13:31; 14 G Lambert (Hants) 13:33; 15 S Riley (Essex, U13)

13:35; 16 J Pugsley (Essex, U13) 13:35; 17 J Barker (Surrey, U13) 13:41; 18 B Bruce-gonzalez (Hants) 13:44; 19 L Procopi (Kent, U13) 13:46; 20 A Higgins (Hants) 13:47; 21 N Wright (Essex, U13) 13:49; 22 J Matthew (Hants) 13:55; 23 D Slaven (Surrey, U13) 13:56; 24 J Hayward (Hants) 13:57; 25 R Philpot (Essex, U13) 13:58; 26 S Breed (Kent, U13) 13:59; 27 L Howard (Sussex) 13:59; 28 O Prince (Essex, U13) 14:01; 29 H Lewis (Essex, U13) 14:01; 30 L Ashford (Kent, U13) 14:01U13 (3.2km): 1 J Lewis (Hants) 11:32; 2 O Stephenson (Hants) 11:40; 3 J Hunt (Surrey) 11:55; 4 B Street (Surrey) 11:57; 5 F Lett (Surrey) 11:59; 6 B MacDonald (Essex) 12:00; 7 O Smith (Hants) 12:01; 8 S Parkinson (Hants) 12:04; 9 H Miles (Kent) 12:09; 10 J Hunt (Surrey) 12:12; 11 A Dack (Kent) 12:16; 12 S Plummer (Essex) 12:17; 13 J Pepin (Hants) 12:24; 14 A Pearson (Hants) 12:30; 15 J Robert (Hants) 12:32; 16 G Martin (Essex) 12:34; 17 D Spink (Essex) 12:34; 18 A Turner (Sussex) 12:36; 19 C Leedham (Sussex) 12:46; 20 A Durham (Essex) 12:46; 21 W Hasan (Hants) 12:47; 22 O Sanderson (Hants) 12:47; 23 S Stapley (Surrey) 12:48; 24 T Harmer (Surrey) 12:48; 25 T Johnson (Essex) 12:48; 26 R Carroll (Essex) 12:51; 27 S Rolaston (Surrey) 12:51; 28 L Discombe (Surrey) 12:52; 29 J Healy (Kent) 12:52; 30 J Bowler (Hants) 12:53U15 girls (3.2km): 1 R Fossa (Hants) 12:23; 2 L Wormley (Surrey, U13) 12:39; 3 C Wormley (Surrey, U13) 12:42; 4 K Atkinson (Essex, U13) 12:54; 5 H Watson (Essex, U13) 12:59; 6 S Slack (Kent, U13) 13:03; 7 M Canty (Essex, U13) 13:05; 8 K Beeton (Essex, U13) 13:05; 9 N East (Hants) 13:06; 10 R Stockley (Surrey, U13) 13:07; 11 C Kirby (Surrey) 13:10; 12 S Okoro (Essex, U13) 13:10; 13 A Mead (Hants) 13:11; 14 G Fordham (Surrey, U13) 13:11; 15 C Firth (Kent, U13) 13:15; 16 I Law (Hants, U13) 13:17; 17 R Naughton (Essex) 13:19; 18 D Wilkinson (Hants) 13:21; 19 P Wells (Surrey, U13) 13:22; 20 H Perks (Surrey) 13:23; 21 G Martin (Surrey) 13:25; 22 C Brabazon (Hants) 13:28; 23 A Hitchman (Hants) 13:28; 24 K Henley (Kent) 13:31; 25 B Heslop (Kent, U13) 13:31; 26 F Long (Essex, U13) 13:33; 27 I Calabritto (Essex, U13) 13:35; 28 M Barrett (Sussex, U13) 13:37; 29 E Sheddon (Hants) 13:38; 30 J Barber (Essex, U13) 13:39U13 (2.6km): 1 L Slack (Kent) 9:57; 2 N Austin (Kent) 10:05; 3 T Brown (Surrey) 10:08; 4 A Wilson (Surrey) 10:14; 5 G Holland (Surrey) 10:14; 6 D Yelling (Sussex) 10:15; 7 A Fox (Sussex) 10:27; 8 E Bailey (Hants) 10:31; 9 I Chappell (Sussex) 10:32; 10 G Horne (Kent) 10:33; 11 Z Girling (Surrey) 10:33; 12 T Ndikanwu (Kent) 10:36; 13 I Ferree (Surrey) 10:36; 14 K Atkinson (Essex) 10:36; 15 M Connelly (Hants) 10:37; 16 V Isaacs (Surrey) 10:37; 17 A King (Essex) 10:39; 18 S Keable (Surrey) 10:40; 19 C Evans (Essex) 10:41; 20 S Shaw (Sussex) 10:46; 21 A Bloomfield (Surrey) 10:47; 22 X Cox (Sussex) 10:48; 23 A Swan (Essex) 10:50; 24 M Dack (Kent) 10:50; 25 M Mooney-clarke (Kent) 10:50; 26 H Bond (Hants) 10:51; 27 R Kelly (Essex) 10:51; 28 F East (Hants) 10:51; 29 F Coomber (Hants) 10:52; 30 R Gascoyne (Hants) 10:53

Richard McDowell: onhis way to Orion victory


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MARCH 31CARDIFF BAY 10kmCHARLOTTE ARTER and Adam Clarke overcame strong fields and blustery conditions to claim hard-fought 10km victories, James Candy reports,.

Cardiff AAC runner Arter led from the off as she targeted Angela Tooby’s 35-year-old Welsh record. The parkrun world record-holder looked determined to create more history on the flat course around Cardiff’s historic Bay as she passed the Wales Millennium Centre and Norwegian Church before she reached the halfway mark at the Cardiff Bay barrage in 16:07, a second inside Tooby’s standard.

A strong headwind whipping off the Severn Estuary slowed her progress, but not enough to stop her from blitzing the women’s field to take the win in 32:49 ahead of Belgium international Nina Lauwaert, who was 26 seconds behind, and Clara Evans, who ran a PB of 33:26.

“It’s brilliant to get the win, especially racing on the streets of Cardiff. The conditions were tough in those last two miles but I’m delighted to get the win,” said Arter.

“I was hoping to run a PB and I knew if I did that I would have got the record. I was on pace at the halfway mark and I was feeling good but the wind made it tough and in the end I just wanted to make sure I finished strong to get the win.

“The year has started really well, I want to keep on building momentum now, I’m heading off to America next week for a few races and an altitude camp. My main aim is to hit the 10,000m hard in May, but I just have to keep on enjoying it and keep working hard.”

The late withdrawal of men’s favourite Dewi Griffiths due to illness left the race wide open. Matt Clowes looked determined to improve last year’s second place finish as he led a tight lead group through 5km in 14:38.

Clarke bided his time alongside the much improved Jake Smith, Josh Griffiths and Ieuan Thomas before grasping his opportunity when Clowes pulled up with a hamstring injury with a kilometre to go.

The Aldershot, Farnham and District

runner moved clear of the chasing pack in the home straight and took the tape in 29:28 to slash 18 seconds off his personal best. Cardiff AAC’s Smith took silver four seconds back ahead of Griffiths in third as six men ran under 30 minutes.Overall: 1 A Clarke 29:28; 2 J Smith 29:34; 3 J Griffiths 29:34; 4 I Thomas 29:35; 5 C Lewis 29:48; 6 S Antell 29:53; 7 J Hopkins 30:07; 8 J Hunt 30:18; 9 T Merson 30:38; 10 B Cole 30:47Women: 1 C Arter 32:49; 2 N Lauwaert 33:16; 3 C Evans 33:26; 4 R Murray 34:17; 5 A Beynon-Thomas 34:59; 5 6 C Kelsall 36:22; 7 L Marland 36:25; 8 E Bell 36:43; 9 N Griffiths 36:45;10 I Talbot-Price 37:33

MARCH 31BIG K 10km, KeighleyOverall: 1 C Shearer 33:44; 2 J Wilson (Driff, M40) 34:54; 3 S Clegg (Roth) 35:12M40: M Fillingham (Saltaire) 35:51. M50: S MacDoanld (Bing) 37:29. M60: S Boynton 40:18. M70: M Smith 47:05Women: 1 J Buckley (Bing, W40) 41:43; 2 B Brunskill (Oak R) 42:30; 3 E Hinkles (W40) 42:52W60: K Dickinson (Knave) 47:26U20: M Smith 42:58

BORDERS LEAGUE 5, CaergwrleOverallMEN’S TEAM: Div.1: 1 Buck 260; 2 W’sey 355; 3 W Ches 519; 4 Wirr 536; 5 Hels 540; 6 P’atyn 637; 7 Deestr 1434Div.2: Wrex 180VETS TEAM: 1 Buck 437; 2 Wirr 468; 3 Hels 472

WomenTEAM: Div.1: 1 Hels 48; 2 Buck 49; 3 W’sey 74; 4 Ches TC 107; 5 P’atyn 110; 6 Elles P 213; 7 W Ches 265Div.2: Wirr 45VETS TEAM: 1 Buck 38; 2 Hels 53; 3 W’sey 55

CONWY MARATHON, LlandudnoOverall: 1 M Green (N Wal RR, M40) 2:44:48; 2 A Bodden (Unatt) 2:52:12; 3 I Edwards (Eryri) 2:52:48M55: 1 G English (Liv RC) 3:03:25Women: 1 A Rowlands (Eryri, W40) 3:11:21; 2 M Frudd (Unatt) 3:15:20; 3 J Houghton (Kirkby Milers, W35) 3:15:22

CROYDON HALF-MARATHON, CroydonOverall: 1 A Aitken (SoC, M40) 78:49; 2 R Lloyd Smith (Sutt R, M45) 79:02; 3 M Preston (Morn) 79:11M50: 1 K Klidzia (SoC) 81:33. M55: 1 M Stone (SoC) 84:18; 2 S Corfield (SoC) 85:44. M65: 1 S Donovan (Unatt) 96:59Women: 1 J Pickering (Morn) 92:56; 2 S Tomaszczyk (W4H) 94:58; 3 A Nightingale (Morn) 96:31

LABC RUNNERS 5km, LittleboroughOverall: 1 J Lloyd (Salf, M40) 17:37; 2 G Booth (Royt, U20) 18:32; 3 W Barnett (Rochdale Triathlon Club, M35) 19:37Women: 1 A Bradbury (Wilm, W45) 23:05; 2 E Blazauskiene (Unatt, W35) 26:08; 3 K Clancy (Unatt, W65) 26:39

LEIGHTON 10km, Leighton BuzzardOverall: 1 R Elmore (L Buzz, M35) 34:14; 2 P Mackrell (L Buzz, M35) 34:31; 3 C George (L Buzz, M35) 36:14Women: 1 J Sharples (L Buzz) 38:39;

2 A Gooch (Redway, W40) 42:22; 3 D Channer (VoA, W45) 42:29

MORAY ROAD RUNNERS 10km, MiltonduffOverall: 1 K Wilson (Moray) 30:46 ; 2 J Espie (RAW) 32:46 ; 3 G Lennox (I’ness) 32:58 ; 4 M Abernethy (Fraser, U20) 33:52 ; 5 J Bannerman (I’ness, W) 34:52 ; 6 E Coull (Ross C, M40) 34:54 ; 7 P Miller (I’ness, M45) 34:56 M55: 1 S Mackenzie (Cambus) 36:58 ; 2 R Roulson (Metro) 38:55 . M60: 1 F Barton (Keith) 38:31 ; 2 B Urquhart (Fraser) 38:36 . M70: 1 A Sutherland (I’ness) 43:47 Women: 1 Bannerman 34:52 ; 2 K Jarrett (Metro) 36:26 ; 3 G Cormack (I’ness) 37:00 ; 4 K Macruary (Cors) 38:54 W40: 1 M Slater (Moray) 40:43

PETERBOROUGH SPRING 10km, PeterboroughOverall: 1 J Green (Werr J) 36:44; 2 L Brown (March) 37:27; 3 M Cann (Unatt, M50) 37:40Women: 1 E Beevor (Higham) 44:31; 2 S Harlow (Yax) 47:07; 3 R Bennet (Unatt) 47:40W65: 1 J McGreal (Royst) 52:21

RISBOROUGH RUN IN THE PARK 5km, Princes RisboroughOverall: 1 M Vince (Unatt) 21:21; 2 T Lynch (VoA) 22:47; 3 H Cotton (Unatt, U20W) 25:50Women: 1 Cotton 25:50; 2 C Nickless (Unatt) 26:50; 3 R Stevenson (Unatt) 27:05

TITANIC QUARTER 10km, BelfastOverall: 1 O Lockley (North of England) 29:57; 2 D Gezimu (North of England) 29:59; 3 J Bellward (RAF) 30:38; 4 D Bebbington (Prest) 30:46; 5 C Madden (Lisb) 30:48; 6 M Mckinstry (NBH, M35) 30:57; 7 K Doherty (Derry) 31:05; 8 P Hamilton (Slieve G, M35) 31:18; 9 E Knudsen (ENG Avon Valley, U20) 31:19; 10 C McCaughey (NBH) 31:41; 11 E Hughes (Acorns) 32:03; 12 J Edgar (Lisb, U20) 32:09; 13 S Rankin (Foyle V) 32:46; 14 S Wylie (VP&Conns, M35) 33:06; 15 E McGinty (Derry) 33:08; 16 G Lyons (NBH, M40) 33:17; 17 K White (ENG Hercules Wimbledon, U20) 33:21; 18 C Curran (NBH, M40) 33:23; 19 A Nash (Manx TC) 33:25; 20 T Hughes (Term RC, M55) 33:26; 21 E Tarus (ENG

Salford, U20) 33:34; 22 C Gallagher (Unatt) 33:40; 23 D Hodgkinson (North of England, W) 33:42; 24 P O’Donnell (Derry) 33:58; 25 P Mcgarry (Mallusk) 34:12; 26 F Ross (Shett, W) 34:13; 27 G Graham (E Down) 34:18; 28 S Mc Comish (Unatt) 34:26; 29 D Hamilton (Stpl) 34:27; 30 N Burke (IRL, W) 34:34; 31 P Rogers (Slieve G, M35) 34:50M45: 1 H Coll (Milf) 35:50. M55: 2 D Clarke (NBH) 35:11. M60: 1 L Johnston (NBH) 37:02; 2 N Mawhinney (Scrabo Striders) 38:15; 3 W Jenkins (S’park) 39:36; 4 P McCullagh (Lisb) 40:27. M65: 1 T Eakin (N Down) 41:58Women: 1 Hodgkinson 33:42; 2 Ross 34:13; 3 Burke 34:34; 4 E Bolton (North of England) 35:02; 5 B Mccarroll (Slieve G, W40) 35:31; 6 C Davies (Salf) 35:38; 7 O Stones (North of England) 36:13; 8 R Gibson (N Down) 36:44; 9 J Lutwyche (ENG Birchfield Harriers, U20) 37:34; 10 F Taylor (ENG Erne Harriers, U20) 37:35; 11 R Vickers (ENG Birchfield Harriers, U20) 37:46; 12 C Macnabb (E Down) 38:38; 13 H Lavery (Beech) 39:20; 14 E Brown (ENG Cardiff AC, U20) 39:24; 15 L Smith (NBH, W45) 39:37W45: 2 P Thom (B&A) 40:32; 3 J Hamilton (Willow) 41:42; 4 E Crawford (S’park) 42:07; 5 A Perry (B’drain) 42:13. W55: 1 L Robinson (BRC) 45:26. W70: 1 B Quinn (Ballym R) 56:00

TOM SCOTT MEMORIAL ROUND THE LOCH 10, MotherwellOverall: 1 L Oates (Shett) 49:15; 2 M Crawley (Cors) 49:56; 3 C Ruddy (I’clyde) 50:02; 4 M Christoforou (E&H) 50:31; 5 J Bell (I’clyde) 50:31; 6 D Rae (Fife) 51:52; 7 E De Mello (R&N) 53:03; 8 C Reid (Edin) 53:22; 9 D Millar (Irv, M45) 53:48; 10 J Kelly (Metro) 54:04; 11 D Muir (Law, M40) 54:07; 12 A Gudgin (Fife) 54:12; 13 S Johnston (Edin, M40) 54:18; 14 M Pollard (Belg, M35) 55:03; 15 E Crawford (HBT) 55:10; 16 S McGeachy (C’town, M35) 55:12; 17 D McQuade (Bella H) 55:12; 18 A White (G’nock, M50) 55:19; 19 L Cheskin (Unatt) 55:20; 20 P Tucker (I’clyde, M35) 55:26; 21 B Gibson (Dund H, M40) 55:57; 22 E Curran (Kilb, W) 56:00; 23 D Tamburini (I’clyde, M45) 56:04; 24 D Jubb (Unatt) 56:05; 25 M McConnell (PH Racing) 56:09; 26 S Miller (Bella H) 56:14; 27 A Campbell (Unatt, M40) 56:29; 28 F Finlay (Gars, M35) 56:29; 29 F Brian (Metro, W) 56:35; 30 P Mackie (Shett, M40) 56:48


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Adam Clarke: Cardiff win

Start of the Cardiff Bay 10km Charlotte Arter:wins at Cardiff




M40: 6 S Prentice (Unatt) 57:14. M45: 3 P Currie (Dumb) 57:35; 4 S Robertson (Perth RR) 58:02; 5 C Drummond (Kil’k) 59:52. M50: 2 A Chalmers (Gars) 59:33; 3 G Grant Simpson (Dund H) 60:35; 4 W Henderson (Shett) 60:53; 5 G Scullion (Bella RR) 61:19; 6 J Fellick (Giff N) 61:34. M55: 1 K McCaig (Dumf) 63:44. M60: 1 W Jarvie (P’bello) 63:48. M65: 1 A McLinden (Ham H) 64:35; 2 J Scott (Edin) 67:48; 3 C Hutcheon (L’gow) 69:44. M70: 1 N Baillie (Unatt) 77:31TEAM: I’clyde 22Women: 1 Curran 56:00; 2 Brian 56:35; 3 A Mason (Shett, W40) 57:03; 4 F Gyurko (Centr) 58:46; 5 K White (Gars, W35) 58:58; 6 J Williams (Loth) 59:37; 7 C Bruce (Metro) 60:21; 8 A Simpson (Fife) 61:07; 9 C Rankin (Kilb) 61:29; 10 C MacDonald (Bella RR) 62:40; 11 J Spence (Fife) 63:21; 12 L Currie (Dumb, W45) 63:27; 13 K Kennedy (PH Racing, W45) 64:15; 14 B Dunphy (VPCG) 64:43; 15 L MacDonald (Morp) 66:44W35: 2 J Beveridge (Cald) 67:41. W40: 2 L Ross (Bella RR) 67:43. W45: 3 C Wharton (Bella RR) 71:47. W50: 1 K Dobbie (Edin) 70:35; 2 C McCormick (Bella H) 70:59; 3 F Thompson (Perth RR) 72:51; 4 A Fraser Macfarlane (Dumf) 74:09. W55: 1 P McCrossan (C’dale) 67:52; 2 A Smith (Aird) 75:15. W60: 1 F Wood (L’gow) 79:35. W70: 1 B Gilchrist (Ferran) 97:17TEAM: Kilb 32Overall (6km): 1 S Mackay (Glas C) 19:15; 2 A Hay (I’clyde, U20) 19:50; 3 J Gillon (Law, U20) 19:57TEAM: Moth 17Women: 1 J Knowles (Scottish Prison Service A C, W35) 22:38; 2 C Sophia Manley (Shett) 22:55; 3 J Olivia Brydon (Shett) 23:13. TEAM: Shett 23

WICKHAM 20, WickhamOverall: 1 M Bennett (Soton) 1:59:56; 2 P Stephenson (Denm) 2:04:32; 3 J Hayes (Bitt, M45) 2:06:40Women: 1 S Sansome ( ) 2:07:57; 2 E Monks (Soton, W35) 2:16:25; 3 K Savage (Fare) 2:24:40

YEOVIL HALF-MARATHON, YeovilOverall: 1 S Holloway (Salis) 72:24; 2 N Stewart (Kent) 73:53; 3 M Papa (Eg H) 74:10M60: 1 P Dodd (Unatt) 90:17. M65: 1 K Robinson (Frome) 92:40. U20: 1 B Lloyd (Yeov O) 76:41Women: 1 R Astington (Running For Time) 86:51; 2 F Ross (Unatt) 90:01; 3 R Brady (Unatt) 91:14W40: 1 G Pearson (Unatt) 91:39; 2 R Glaisher (Wells) 93:09; 3 K Wheatley (Unatt) 93:22. W50: 1 F Malin (Unatt) 98:56

ADUR WORHING 20, West SussexLUCY REID burnished her London marathon credentials with a second overall spot, in this re-birth, under different management, of the long-standing 20-miler, Martin Duff reports.

While it was Craig Halsey who won overall in 1:55:17, Reid built on her 1:59:13 in the Essex 20 with a lonely run in second spot in 2:01:46.Overall: 1 C Halsey 1:55:17; 2 L Reid (Ton, W) 2:01:46; 3 T Hooper (Phoe) 2:08:58Women: 1 Reid 2:01:46; 2 R Harvey (Clap) 2:20;12; 3 P Brook 2:21:17

CRANLEIGH 15 & 21, SurreyOverall: 1 S Renfer (High) 87:03; 2 A Graves (T’tree) 91:12; 3 R Ingoldby (G&G, M40) 92:28 Women: 1 S Walker (DMV, W45) 1:41;29; 2 A Thomas (G&G, W45) 1:54:36; 3 S Smith (Hasle) 1:55:48Overall (21M): 1 T Dudden (T Bath) 2:05:47; 2 M Green (Newb) 2:06:37; 3 J Manning (Denm) 2:07:21; 4 R Barr (Hors, M40) 2:07:58; 5 C Davidson (Elmb) 2:08:39; 6 J Edwards (Malvern) 2:08:55; 7 S Groom (Camb) 2:09:53; 8 K Watson (Clap) 2:10:34M45: Gonzalez-Armas (RRC) 2:15:41Women: 1 B Tovey (Roms, W35) 2:20:08; 2 E Harrison (G&G, W35) 2:26:36; 3 J Elphick (P’slade, W35) 2:28:09; 4 C Harris (Serp), W35) 2:28:36; 5 G Stoneley (Rei P, W40) 2:29:04; 6 F Hannon (Clap, W35) 2:29:26; 7 K Aked (Denm, W40) 2:29:42; 8 C Doyle (W35) 2:30:02; 9 L Faunch (Wok, W35) 2:31:43; 10 R White (W35) 2:35:52W50: P Adams (RMP) 2:44:31. W55: K Tyler (Farn R) 2:59:34. W60: 1 K Dry 2:58:32; 2 J Curtis (Win) 3:00:50; 3 I Campbell (Henf) 3:03:59

MARCH 30CONISTON 14Overall: 1 L Rodgers (Loft) 73:32; 2 M Swensson (Penny L, M40) 78:20; 3 C Jones (Manc Y, M40) 78:36; 4 T Harrison (Bolt, M35) 81:06; 5 D Hall (Cors, M35) 81:35; 6 S Stead (Kesw) 82:57; 7 R Harris (Wold, M45) 83:06; 8 G Thomas (Wold, M45) 83:38; 9 L Fuller (Warr RC, M40) 83:51; 10 E James (Belp, M35) 83:55M45: 3 D Raby (Chor ATC) 84:22. M50: 1 P Leybourne (Salf) 84:14; 2 E Fowler (Nun) 87:49. M55: 1 R Downs (Wilm) 84:08Women: 1 E Fowler (Nun, W40) 91:10; 2 S Dudgeon (Abing, W40) 92:20; 3 H Tuffs (Team Nidderdale) 92:51; 4 E Thompson (Elv, W35) 93:14; 5 J Featherstone (T’ley, W40) 93:31

W45: 1 D Richardson (Quak) 95:24; 2 C Carrdus (Lyth) 96:27. W50: 1 L Varney (Kend) 1:42:08. W55: 1 G Kinloch (Burn RR) 1:41:24

YORKSHIRE ROAD AND RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Adel, LeedsMen (4x4.8km): 1 Hallam 60:25 (C Bell 14:29, Z Mellard 15:47, J Birch 15:15, C Milnes 14:54); 2 S&D 61:05 (A Manthorpe 14:42, M Fuller 15:46, J Slater 15:53, A Farah 14:44); 3 Wake 61:06 (M Bostock 15:23, B Butler 15:24, M O’Connor 15:25, M Hill 14:54); 4 R&Z 62:20 (R Scott 14:54, R Dalton 15:13, C Jones 15:49, S Wardman 16:24); 5 Holm 62:21 (A Kettlewell 15:04, L Byram 15:08, K Sumna 15:46, T Street 16:23); 6 Leeds C 63:01 (J Ashcroft 14:34), W Marshall 16:48, M Lockyer 16:03, M Abshir 15:36); 7 Roth 63:06; 8 Hali 64:40; 9 Bing 64:56; 10 Wake B 66:04; 11 R’well 66:09; 12 Steel 66:58; 13 Harr 67:03; 14 Spen 67:17; 15 Wake C 68:04Fastest: 1 Bell 14:29; 2 Ashcroft 14:34; 3 Manthorpe 14:42; 4 Farah 14:44; 5 Scott 14:54; 6 Milnes 14:54U17 (3.2km): TEAM: R’well 26U15: TEAM: 1 R&Z 21; 2 Bing 29; 3 R’well 40U13TEAM: 1 Roth 12; 2 Barns AC 24; 3 Wake 42Women (4x4.8km): 1 Holm 73:01 (H Berry 17:33, R Sykes 17:55, E Byram 17:42, M Sykes 19:51); 2 R&Z 75:54 (S Fletcher 17:42, J Adams 18:33, R Adams 20:51, D Ridler 18:48); 3 Ilkley 76:35 (K Archer 18:34, R Carter 19:04, B Massey 19:46, S Armitage 19:11); 4 Holm B 76:59 (C Leaver-Hewitt 19:51, Z Storr 19:52, O Sykes 19:08, L Byram 18:08); 5 Skyrac 78:26 (K Corcoran 17:59, R Cesar de Sar 20:21, A Hartley 20:21, J Halloran 19:45); 6 Wake 78:48 (H Beck 19:05, L Robinson 18:18, P Thorpe 21:47, N Steel 19:38); 7 Bing 79:38; 8 K&C 79:53; 9 Leeds C 80:12; 10 Vall 80:18; 11 Barns AC 80:40; 12 Steel 81:12; 13 Holm 82:47; 14 Bing B 82:55; 15 K’worth 83:48Fastest: 1 R Friend (Leeds C) 17:27; 2 Berry 17:33; 3 Fletcher 17:42; 4 Byram 17:42; 5 F Banks (P’fract) 17:54; 6 R Sykes 17:55

MARCH 293km ON THE GREEN SERIES, GlasgowOverall: 1 S McDonald (Centr) 9:03; 2 A Campbell (Mat) 9:06; 3 J Lenehan (Derry) 9:08Women: 1 K Donnelly (Giff N, U13) 11:08; 2 R Crewe (Glasgow FrontRunners) 11:25; 3 G Blee (Unatt, W35) 11:37

HARBOUR CLUB LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH 5km, London Hyde ParkOverall: 1 N Besson (Serp, M35) 15:24; 2 A Inglis (Camb H, M40) 15:32; 3 J Tipper (Kent, M35) 15:34; 4 E Chuck (Dulw) 15:40M40: 2 T Curtis (Fulham) 16:48; 3 R Giles (Kent) 17:00. M45: 1 A Bond (Dulw) 16:01; 2 S Davies (Dulw) 16:46; 3 T Spooner (Ben) 17:05; 4 N Gold (High) 17:09; 5 J Cox (Kent) 17:16; 6 I Selby (Uk net) 17:17. M50: 1 C Lound (Dulw) 17:41; 2 S Bowran (Harp A) 17:51; 3 T

Booth (G&G) 17:56. M55: 1 A Davidson (High) 17:33; 2 A Green (Tm East H) 18:26; 3 J Bere (High) 18:28. M60: 1 J Haynes (Bish S) 18:46; 2 M Milward (Fulham) 19:23Women: 1 K Rowland (Kent) 17:44; 2 M Solway (Norw, U20) 18:28; 3 M De Silva (Rane, W35) 18:34; 4 L Perrio (Guern, W35) 18:43W50: 1 K Trinder (Woking) 20:00; 2 R Hutton (S Lon) 20:40; 3 B Hibberd (Strag) 21:53. W55: 1 L Woolhouse (Vets) 20:17; 2 D Steer (St Alb S) 21:19. W65: 1 Y Gordon (FVS) 22:05; 2 M Rayner (W4H) 24:51

POWER OF 5km, MorecambeOverall: 1 M Crehan (SHS) 15:06; 2 J Dry (Kend) 15:10; 3 B Smith (L&M) 15:30; 4 B Sache (Lanc U) 15:43M40: 1 S Hall (Ribb) 16:52. M45: 1 P Marsden (R Rose) 17:05; 2 J Dalgleish (L&M) 17:17. M50: 1 C Routledge (Amble) 17:51; 2 D Parkinson (R Rose) 17:57. M60: 1 P Quibell (Salf) 19:11. M65: 1 G Webster (Lyth) 20:30Women: 1 J Smith (SHS) 19:04; 2 M Markham (Lyth, U15) 19:16; 3 S Bohannon (Lyth, U13) 19:27W55: 1 S Samme (Lyth) 20:13

MARCH 27CHICHESTER CORPORATE CHALLENGE, race 3, West SussexIN AN extremely tight finish 2017 overall Guernsey Easter Runs champion Jacob O’Hara just got the nod on Sam Chang and previous race winner Jonathan White, Martin Duff reports.

After four town centre laps totalling 4.5km there was nothing between the three of them but it was 18-year-old O’Hara, beaten into second in the previous race, who just got the nod in 13:11, with Chang and White just a second behind. This was the fastest winning time from the three races in the series but it was White who clinched the overall series award.

Former winner here and 2002 Commonwealth 1500m champion Mike East, who is now gracing the veteran ranks, returned to UK racing after a five-year gap and finished 19th in 14:22 but was well beaten by top master James Baker’s 13:52.

Cassie Thorp completed a clean sweep of the women’s race with another victory, this time in 15:34, her fastest by 13 seconds in this season’s series and cemented her claim to the overall women’s title. Second placed Ellie Farrow also improved her standing and the 17-year-old got to within a few seconds of her City of Portsmouth clubmate.

Overall (4.5km): 1 J O’Hara (Oddbins, U20) 15:11; 2 S Chang (Solent MD) 13:12; 3 J White (Solent MD) 13:12; 4 J Woods (Worth) 13:26; 5 W Boultwood 13;32; 6 M Burchett (Worth) 13:33; 7 E Dodd (Solent MD) 13:36; 8 L Stallards (Conrads) 13:32; 9 N Potter (Conrads) 13:36; 10 T Walker 13:30M40: 1 J Baker (Condiment, M40) 13:52; 2 M East (Ports) 14:22Corporate TEAM: 1 DSTL Portsdown 64:05; 2 Cawley Crawlers 68:20; 3 Rolls Royce 70:58Sports TEAM: 1 Solent MD 54:22; 2 Conrads 56:02; 3 Oddbins 56:30Final standings: 1 White; 2 Woods; 3 ChangM40: BakerCorporate TEAM: 1 DSTL; 2 Cawley 3 R RoyceSports TEAM: 1 Solent; 2 Conrads; 3 OddbinsWomen: 1 C Thorp (Solent MD) 15:34; 2 E Farrow (Ports, U17) 15:40; 3 K Hopkins (Solent MD) 15:58; 4 Wright (Chich U) 16:30; 5 A Cox-Rusbridge (Chich Cas) 16:35; 6 M King (Chich Cas) 16:46; 7 A Bream (Havant) 16:49; 8 K Palmer-Bullock (Comorants) 17:02; 9 R Aldridge (Solent MD) 17:03; 10 R Thomas (DSTL) 17:08Corporate TEAM: 1 Bosham 61:39; 2 W Sussex CC 61:46; 3 DSTL Portsdown 63:54Sports TEAM: 1 Chich Casuals 53:12; 2 CWTC 54:40; 3 Marc Us 57:23Final standings: 1 Thorp; 2 Hopkins; 3 KingCorporate TEAM: 1 Bosham; 2 W Sussex; 3 DSTLSports TEAM: 1 Chich Casuals; 2 CWTC; 3 Marc Us

EVEN SPLITS 5km SERIES, LeedsOverall (5km): 1 J Johnson (Roth) 16:01; 2 M Vargas (HPH) 16:18; 3 A Simpson (Lanc U) 16:19M40: 1 J Hobbs (Vall) 16:35; 2 J Ladyman (Vall) 16:46; 3 C Hickman (Unatt) 16:59; 4 T Venning (Vall) 16:59. M45: 1 M Fillingham (Salt) 16:49. U17: 1 J Clancy (Leeds C) 16:59Women: 1 A Wall (Horsf) 18:20; 2 L Hunter (Darl, U20) 18:27; 3 C Slorach (HPH) 18:44W50: 1 L Mawer (H’gate) 20:46; 2 L Eadon (Weth) 21:48. W55: 1 C Wright (H’gate) 21:22Overall (5km): 1 T Armitage (Bing, U13) 20:46; 2 C Chambers (Otl, U13W) 21:24; 3 A Spencer (Vall, W50) 21:31M70: 1 C Gill (St Th) 22:47Women: 1 Chambers 21:24; 2 Spencer 21:31; 3 K Pearse (Unatt, W35) 21:55W65: 1 H Coulsey (Ilkley) 25:47

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THE Leeds women’s team and Tonbridge’s men’s squad will be

defending their national road relay titles at Sutton Park on Saturday (April 6), but runaway Midland women’s winners Birchfield could mount a challenge, as will four-time Midland men’s winners Bristol & West.

Leeds’ men dominated the Northern relays, with Emile Cairess quickest on the long stage and Phil Sesemann best on the short stage and they could be stronger at Sutton Park.

Team manager Philip Townsend said: “We will have Graham Rush and Ollie Lockley back and hope that Matt Grieve will have recovered from a calf strain to be able to run.”

Aldershot’s men won the Southern relay in a close contest and team manager Mike Boucher said: “All the medallists were quicker than previously, which bodes well for the

Southern teams at Sutton Park. I lose Jonny Hay for the national (relays), but hope to bring in Andy Vernon and Richard Allen.”

After a sixth spot in the Southern relays, Tonbridge will improve their squad in defence of their title, while Highgate, who were runners-up in the men’s race in 2018 and then second in the Southern relays this year, will also be stronger at Sutton Park.

Bristol, narrow winners of the Midlands title over Birchfield and Notts but only seventh last year, will bring in re-enforcements, according to team manager Mike Down.

Leeds’ women were narrowly headed in the Northern relays by Rotherham, with Claire Duck and Bronwen Owen second and third best on the long stage behind Jess Judd.

Managers Townsend and Susan Partridge said: “We will have Lucy Crookes, who was running for England, and Georgia Malir back for the nationals.” Birchfield see Chloe Richardson replace Becky Shaw so should be the same strength, says team manager Ed Cockayne.

Southern women’s winners Herne Hill had Katie Snowden quickest on the short leg and should bring in recent 75:58 half-marathon runner Steph McCall to strengthen their squad.

Aldershot’s women won seven times in eight years but other commitments have left them short in the past couple of years but are hopeful of an improvement on their fourth place in the Southern relays.

The races will be held over the

same 5.38-mile (8.96km) and 3.165-mile (5.14km) legs, as last year, with the men running alternate long and short and the women having long legs on the first and fourth stages and short for the others.

With Scottish and Welsh clubs competing, the first three teams irrespective of country of origin will again receive overall medals, as will the first three English clubs.

Recent winners Swansea will have weakened teams but they will field Dewi Griffiths, the fastest long-stage runner from 2017, says team manager George Edwards.

Young athletes, meanwhile, have their own 5km English Championships before the senior relays.

PREVIEWS


CLUBS SET FOR RELAY SCRAPERRA NATIONAL 12- & 6-STAGE ROAD RELAYS, SUTTON PARK, BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 6

SUTTON PARK IS THE SPORT’S FOCAL POINT THIS WEEKEND AS CLUBS BATTLE FOR ROAD RELAY HONOURS WORDS: MARTIN DUFF PICTURES: MARK SHEARMAN & GARY MITCHELL

Dewi Griffiths (7) and Phil Sesemann: poised to be

among strong domestic line-ups

Timetable11:00 Young athletes’ 5km races

12:00 Men (6x5.38M and

6x3.165M alternating)

12:20 Women (2x5.38M, on legs

1 & 4, 4x3.165M on the rest)

Ellis Cross:part of AFD’s Southern winning team

Lucy Crookes: set to bolster Leeds

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FANCY CHEMUTAI, the second fastest woman in history, headlines another quality field in the 21st edition of this 13.1-mile race in the Czech Republic.

The Kenyan ran 64:52 in the United Arab Emirates last year, matching the world best time set in this race two years ago and finishing just one second outside the updated record.

Compatriot Caroline Kipkirui, who was just 15 seconds adrift in the UAE, will want to improve on her second here in 2018.

European 10,000m champion Lonah Salpeter and Kenya’s Lucy Cheruiyot also line up with sub-68 PBs.

World marathon bronze medallist Amy Cragg goes over the half for the first time this year.

Kenya’s Stephen Kiprop is one of eight sub-60-minute men in the field and arrives in flying form after clocking the sixth fastest time in history of 58:42 in UAE in February.

Benard Kimeli will be hard pushed to defend his title, with yet another Kenyan Mangata Ndiwa (59:07) second quickest in the race. Andamlek Belihu (59:18) heads the Ethiopian charge.

Norway’s Sondre Moen, the third fastest European in history with his 59:48, is also in the field.

MATT CLOWES and Jenny Spink will start favourites for a marathon which is vying to be Britain’s most prestigious after the Virgin Money London Marathon, writes Paul Halford.

Up to 20,000 runners are expected to take part, many attracted by the claim to be Britain’s flattest major marathon.

Spink of Bristol & West, who ran her PB of 2:36 in Valencia last year, will be looking to collect the £2000 first prize on offer to the top Brits following her 75-minute half in Granollers recently.

Aside from her, the women’s race looks fairly open, with Hungary’s Fanny Gyurko, who has run 2:39, Wakefield’s Julie Briscoe, who clocked 76 minutes at this spring’s Barcelona Half-marathon, and Riverside St Neots’ 2:45 runner Jo O’Regan among a few

around that level.Cardiff’s Clowes, who is

looking to build on his recent runner-up spot in Reading (64:03), is the one to watch for in the men’s race. Aaron

Richmond of Bideford, who ran a 2:23 marathon last year, is another to catch the eye, while Gareth Raven returns to the distance after a few years with a good M40 time possible.

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MARATHONERS CHASETIMES IN MANCHESTER

GOOD FIELDS IN PRAGUE

ASICS GREATER MANCHESTER MARATHON, APRIL 7

MASTERS SET FOR BLYTHBMAF 10km Championships, Blyth, April 7LAST year’s overall winner Nick Jones is back to defend his M40 title. The former GB international also won 5km and 10,000m British masters gold in 2018.

On the women’s side, 2016 Olympic marathon representative Alyson Dixon, running in the W40 category, will be tough to beat. In the same age group is 2014 Commonwealth marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski.

Elizabeth Renondeau, who was second in the W35 category last year, is back again. Kathryn Stevenson, who leads the UK W45 5km rankings for 2019, is another entrant of note. Further up the age groups, Angela Copson lines up after her 10km win at the World Masters Championships in a UK record time last week.

DUTCH TESTRotterdam Marathon, April 7ETHIOPIA’s Ashete Bekele Dido will look to build on her Valencia Marathon victory with a win in the 39th edition of the NN Rotterdam Marathon.

Her 2:21:14 there makes her tough to beat, but compatriot Sentayehu Lewetegn, who has run 2:22:45, could be hot on her heels. Kenya’s Stella Barsosio (2:23.43) and American Kellyn Taylor (2:24:29) are also among the quickest in the field.

European champion Sara Moreira of Portugal and former European 5000m and 10,000m champion Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey, together with debutant Fabienne Schlumpf, Switzerland’s European steeplechase silver medallist, ensure a good non-African challenge.

On the men’s side, Kenya’s Marius Kipserem returns to defend the title he won in 2016, looking to hold off six sub-2:06 runners.

Kipserem won the Abu Dhabi Marathon in December in 2:04:04, although the course was later ruled to be short.

Ethiopia’s Kelkile Gezahegn, the Frankfurt Marathon winner last year, lines up having run 2:05:56, while Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Mekonnen and Markos Geneti are quickest in the line-up with 2:04:32 and 2:04:54 respectively.

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CROSS-COUNTRY

Wednesday April 10PSUK CHAMPIONSHIPSUniversity of Lancashire, Lancaster.slateman.co.uk/psuk/index.htm

Thursday April 11POWYS SCHOOLS’ CHAMPIONSHIPSRoyal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd.

MULTI-TERRAIN

Saturday April 6ABNEY CHEADLE RUN 5kmAbney Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire. 9.30am.abneycheadlerun.co.ukBLACKPOOL BUBBLE RUSH 5kmLawsons Showground, Blackpool, Lancashire. 9am.bubblerush.co.ukENDURANCELIFE CTS EXMOOR 7.1/13.1/27.1/32.8Hunters Inn, Heddon Valley, Devon.endurancelife.comHARROW BUBBLE RUSH 5kmKenton Recreation Ground, Harrow. 9am.bubblerush.co.ukHUNDRED ACRES HALF-MARATHONWest Walk, Hundred Acres Wood, Wickham, Hampshire.racebest.com/racesLETCHWORTH FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH 5kmLetchworth Outdoor Pool, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire. 9am.firstsaturday5km.org.ukORIGINAL GLOUCESTERSHIRE MAVERICK 7km/16km/23kmSudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Glos. 10am.maverick-race.comPHOENIX DAY AND KNIGHT EXCALIBUR FOUR 6-HOURXcel Leisure Centre, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. 9.30am.phoenixrunning.co.ukPHOENIX KNIGHT AND DAY EXCALIBUR FOUR 6-HOURXcel Leisure Centre, 4pm.phoenixrunning.co.ukSATURN TIME TURNER 7-HOUREnglefield Green, Egham, Surrey. 9.30am.saturnrunning.co.ukSOUTH WEST COAST PATH CHALLENGE 12km/HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONEast Soar Farm, Thurlestone, Devon. 9am.trailevents.co/south-west-coast-path

Sunday April 7BAILDON BOUNDARY WAY HALF-MARATHONJenny Lane, Baildon, Shipley. 9.30am.baildonrunners.co.ukBHAM TRAIL 10kmBower Hinton Farm, Bower Hinton, Martock, Somerset. 10am.bhamrunners.org/races/bham-trail-10kCAMBRIDGE CAMBOURNE 10kmCambourne Business Pk, Cambs. 10am.cambridgecambourne10k.comCENTENARY CIRCLE 20Horse and Groom Pub, Galleywood, Chelmsford, Esse. 9am.companyofrunners.co.ukCENTURION GRAND PRIX 5John Henry Newman Catholic College, North Solihull, Birmingham. 11am.centurionrc.org.ukCOMBE GIBBET TO OVERTON 16Overton Rec Centre, Hants. 2pm.overtonharriers.org.ukDRURIDGE BAY HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONDruridge Bay Country Pk, Morpeth. 9.30am.northeastmarathonclub.co.ukFORESTRY 100 SERIES HAMSTERLEY FOREST 10kmHamsterley Forest, Co Durham. 9am.forestryengland.uk/run100GRAND UNION CANAL HALF-MARATHONCowley Rec Ground, Uxbridge. 10am.theraceorganiser.comHARTFIELD 10kmTown Croft, High St, Hartfield, Sussex. 11am.hartfieldonline.comHAVERHILL FESTIVAL OF RUNNING 10km/HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONHaverhill Leisure Centre, Suffolk. 9am.haversports.comHUNDRED ACRES 5km/10km/HALF-MARATHONWest Walk, Hundred Acres Wood, Wickham, Hampshire. 10.30am.racebest.com/racesLANCING COLLEGE 10kmLancing, West Sussex. 10am.lancingcollege10k.co.ukLEAMINGTON REGENCY 10kmNewbold Terrace East, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. 9am.regency10k.co.ukMAGNIFICENT EASTNOR CASTLE 7Eastnor Deer Park, Herefordshire. 11am.ledburyharriers.org.ukMANCHESTER RESOLUTION RUN 5km/10km/15kmHeaton Park, Manchester. 11am.stroke.org.uk

MARGAM PURSUIT 10kmMargam Park, Margam. 10am.justrun.run/eventsPEAK DISTRICT SPRING SERIES 5km/16kmBishop Pavilion, Grindleford, Derbys. trailrunningpeaks.co.uk/spring-seriesRAYLEIGH 10kmHolyoak Lane, Hawkwell, Essex. 10.30am.eventrac.co.ukRUN IN THE FOREST 5Conkers, Swadlincote, Derbyshire. 10am.sdrr.co.ukRUNTHROUGH WIMBLEDON COMMON HALF-MARATHONRichard Evans Memorial Playing Fields, Wimbledon Common. 9.30am.runthrough.co.ukRUTLAND SPRING HALF-MARATHONRutland Water, Empingham, Leics. 10am.therutlandmarathon.co.ukSCADBURY PARK 5Scadbury Pk, Chislehurst, Kent. 9.30am.pbraceevents.co.ukSTOKE RESOLUTION 5km/10km/15kmTrentham Estate, Stone Road, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire. 11am.stroke.org.ukWUTHERING HEIGHTS WANDER 5/10/15/20/MARATHONHaworth, West Yorkshire. 10.30am.itsgrimupnorthrunning.co.uk

Tuesday April 9BOOTH DECORATORS LEAGUE 5Carnarvon Street, Teversal, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. 7.15pm.ilkestonrunningclub.co.uk/Training/Diary

Wednesday April 10ANDEMS RUNNERS MOLLIE CAMPBELL COWM RESERVOIR 5kmCock & Magpie, Whitworth, Lancs. [email protected]

Friday April 12PENTLAND 5km/10kmStornoway Golf Club, Stornoway. 6pm.srac.org.uk/pentland

Saturday April 13ABBOTSBURY EVENTIDE 5km/12kmAbbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, 6pm.flyingfoxrunning.co.ukBURNSALL HALF-MARATHONDales Way, Skipton, N Yorkshire. 10am.duenorthevents.comCALDERDALE HIKE 26/36Sowerby, West Yorkshire. 7am.calderdalehike.org.uk

COFFEE CAPERS 10kmTring Station, Tring, Herts. 2.30pm.runthewild.co.ukCOVENTRY BUBBLE RUSH 5kmHeart of England Conferance Centre. 9am.bubblerush.co.ukDISCOVER RUN THE WILD 13Tring Station, Tring, Hertfordshire. 9am.runthewild.co.ukMAGNA CARTA HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONWraysbury Skiff and Punting Club, Egham, Surrey. 9am.hermesrunning.comOLD COLLIERY CANTER 5/10/15/20/MARATHONRabbit Ings Country Park, Royston, South Yorkshire. 10am.itsgrimupnorthrunning.co.ukPENNINE BRIDLEWAY PB57 57kmWirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire. 9.30am.rangerultras.co.ukPHOENIX TOP RUN 3 6-HOURXcel Leisure Centre, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. 9.30am.phoenixrunning.co.ukRUN RICHMOND PARK 5km/10kmRichmond Park, Richmond, Surrey. 10am.thefixevents.com

Sunday April 14AN RES HELLYS 10Old Cattle Market, Helston 10.30am.carnrunners.co.uk/an-res-hellysBOURNE RUN IN THE WOOD 10kmBourne Woods, Edenham Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire. 11am.bournefurun.btck.co.ukBUNGAY BLACK DOG 5km/10km/HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONMaltings Meadow, Bungay, Suffolk. 9am.bungayblackdogrunningclub.co.ukBUTLEIGH 10kmPlaying field, Back Town, Butleigh. 10.30am.wellscityharriers.org.ukCHASE THE KITE 10kmBlaydon-on-Tyne, Co Durham. 11am.redkiterunners.co.ukCHEDWORTH ROMAN TRAIL 10Village Hall, Chedworth, Glos. 10.30am.cirencester-ac.org.ukFULLERS THAMES TOWPATH 10Hartington Rd, Chiswick. 8.30am.west4harriers.comHONITON HIPPO 7Primary Sch, Clapper La, Honiton. 10.30am.honitonrc.comKYMIN DASH 7Monmouth School Sports Club. 11am.spiritofmonmouth.co.uk/races

NICE WORK BUSHY PARK SPRING 5km/10kmBushy Park, Hampton, London. 10am.nice-work.org.ukPHOENIX GROOVY BABY 6-HOURWalton-on-Thames, Surrey. 9.30am.phoenixrunning.co.ukRADCLIFFE 10kmCams Lane Primary School, Radcliffe, Manchester. 11am.radcliffeac.org.ukSAND DANCER 10kmGypsies Green Stadium, South Shields, Tyne & Wear. 10.30am.southshieldsharriers.co.ukSATURN STAR RUNNERS IV: A NEW RUN 7-HOURGreen Lane, Durham. 9.30am.saturnrunning.co.ukSECOND SUNDAY 5Richardson Evans Memorial Fields, Roehampton Vale, London. 9.30am.secondsunday5.comSWAINBY SWEEP 7/16High Street, Swainby, Northallerton, North Yorkshire. 9.30am.madraces.co.uk

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Wythenshawe Park: 9am SundayDebdale Park: 9am SundayBoggart Hole Clough: 9am SundayBirchfields Park: 11am SundaySalford Quays: 6.45pm ThursdayBurrs Country Park: 9.30am SundayGibside: 9.15am SundaySunderland: 9.30am SundaySouter Lighthouse: 9.30am SundayStockton: 9.30am SundayGlasgow Quays: 6.30pm WednesdaySouthwold: 9.30am SundayNeedham Lake: 9.30am SundayAshford Kingsnorth: 9.30am SundayHolbrook: 9am SundayNewmarket: 11am SundayBirmingham Ley Hill: 9.30am SaturdayThe Vale Birmingham: 10.30am SundayEdgbaston: 9.30am SundayPortsmouth Lakeside: 9.30am SundayLancing Beach Green: 9.30am SundayQueen Elizabeth Olympic Park: 9.30am Sunday

NEXT ISSUEWILL BE OUT APRIL 11

ROAD RELAYS NATIONAL CHAMPS ACTION

FROM SUTTON PARK

CROSS RANKINGS SERIES CONTINUES WITH

U20 AND SENIOR ATHLETES

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Saturday April 6ALMAC FUN RUNCivic Centre, Craigavon. 11am.ASDA FOUNDATION CITY OF LINCOLN 5kmRiseholme Road, Lincoln. 9.30m.runforall.comBAKER CUP HANDICAP 3Richmond Park. Richmond. 3pm.ranelagh-harriers.comCHESTERFIELD NO WALK IN THE PARK 5kmQueens Pk, Chesterfield, Derbye. 9.30am.northderbyshirerc.jimdo.comERRA NATIONAL MEN’S 12-STAGE/WOMEN’S 6-STAGE RELAYSSutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.englishroadrunningassociation.co.ukQEOP SUMMER 10km SERIESQueen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. 9.30am.theraceorganiser.comSELF TRANSCENDENCE 10kmBattersea Park, London. 8.30am.uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/londonSPAR OMAGH 5km/HALF-MARATHONLeisure Complex, Omagh, Co Tyrone. 11am.omaghharriers.comSUSSEX RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPSChrist’s Hospital, Horsham, West Sussex. 11am.sussexathletics.netTHE GENERAL 10km/20kmMatterley Estate, Winchester, Hampshire. 10am.toughenoughraces.co.ukVICTORIA PARK OPEN 5St Augustine’s Hall, Victoria Park, Hackney, London. 2.30pm.vphthac.org.ukWILLOWBROOK HALEWOOD 5km SERIESEnvironment Centre, Okell Drive, Liverpool, Merseyside. 10.30am.knowsleyharriers.comWINDSOR & ETON RUN SERIES 5km/10km/15kmDorney Lake, Eton, Berkshire. Noon.f3events.co.ukWINDSOR SPRING HALF-MARATHONDorney Lake, Eton, Berkshire. 12.30am.f3events.co.ukWORDEN PARK 5kmWorden Park, Leyland, Lancashire. 11am.time2runevents.co.uk/info2.cfm?info_id=229153

Sunday April 7ANGELS ANNUAL 10kmWoodpeckers CC, Ashleworth, Gloucestershire. 10am.angelsrunningclub.org.ukASDA FOUNDATION CITY OF LINCOLN 10kmRiseholme Road, Lincoln. 11am.runforall.comASICS GREATER MANCHESTER MARATHONOld Trafford, Stretford, Manchester. 9am.greatermanchestermarathon.comBHF BOURNEMOUTH BAY 10km/HALF-MARATHONPier Approach, Bournemouth, Dorset. 9.15am.bhf.org.uk

CHATHAM MARITIME 10kmThe Bandstand, Chatham, Kent. 10.30am.sportingeventsuk.comCHERTSEY HOUSE SERIES 5kmSaumarez Park, Castel, Guernsey. 9am.guernseyathletics.org.ggCITY OF NORWICH HALF-MARATHONNorfolk Showground, Costessey. 10.30am.cityofnorwichhalfmarathon.comDARWEN HERITAGE 10km/HALF-MARATHONDACA Sports Centre, Darwen, Lancs. 9am.dashers.org.uk/events/halfDERBY 10kmiPRO Stadium, Derby. 9am.sporting-futures.org.ukDEVIZES HALF-MARATHONThe Green, Devizes, Wiltshire. 9.30am.lpsevents.co.ukDRONFIELD 10kmPentland Road, Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire. 10am.http:/dronfield10k.co.ukFLEETWOOD 10kmMarine Hall, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire. 10am.fyldecoastrunning.orgGLENLIVET 10kmGlenlivet Distillery, Ballindalloch, Moray. 11am.theglenlivet10k.comHIGHWORTH 5Warneford School, Highworth, Wiltshire. 11am.highworthrunningclub.co.ukHORNSEA ONE-THIRD MARATHON (8.74)Densholme Farm, Great Hatfield, East Yorkshire. 11am.hornseathirdmarathon.org.ukKENT SPRING HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONCharing School, Charing, Kent. 9am.nice-work.org.ukLOUGHBOROUGH HALF-MARATHONMarket Place, Loughborough, Leicestershire. 9am.loughboroughhalf.co.ukLOWESTOFT PROMENADE DASH 5East Point Pavilion, Lowestoft, Suffolk. 10.30am.nice-work.org.ukPADDOCK WOOD HALF-MARATHONEldon Way Industrial Estate, Paddock Wood, Kent. 9.30am.paddockwoodhalfmarathon.co.ukPEN SELWOOD 10kmVillage Hall, Pen Selwood, Somerset. 11am.penselwood10k.co.ukPONTYPRIDD REVERSE 10Penallta House, Tredomen Park, Ystrad Mynach, Rhondda Cynon Taff. 10am.pontypriddroadentsac.org.ukPORT OF BLYTH 10kmBlyth Quayside, Blyth, Northumberland. 10am.blythrunningclub.org.ukRACE TO THE CASTLE 10kmLancaster. 11am.lancaster-race-seriesREGENT’S PARK SUMMER 10km SERIESThe Hub, Regent’s Park, London. 9.30am.regentsparkraces.orgRISBOROUGH RUN IN THE PARK 5kmWades Park, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. 9am.risboroughruninthepark.weebly.com

ROTARY CLUB OF PENRYN ENYS 10kmFalmouth, Cornwall. 11am.cornwallrunningnews.com/event/enys-10kRUN LAYER 5Queen Elizabeth Hall, Layer de la Haye, Essex. 10.30am.runlayer5.co.ukSANDY 10Sandy Sports Centre, Sandy, Bedfordshire. 10.30am.sandy10.org.ukSCOTLAND KILOMATHON 6.55km/13.1kmBT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. 9am.kilomathon.comSIR JOHN TALBOT’S SCHOOL WHITCHURCH 10kmSir John Talbot’s School, Tilstock Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. 10am.sirjohntalbots.co.uk/sjt-10kST CLARE HOSPICE 10kmHastingwood Road, Hastingwood, Essex. 10.30am.stclarehospice.org.uk/event/st-clare-10kSWINDON RESOLUTION RUN 5km/10km/15kmLydiard Park, Swindon, Wiltshire. 11am.stroke.org.ukTAUNTON HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONSomerset College of Arts, Taunton. 10.30am.tauntonmarathon.co.ukTAY TEN 10North Inch Community Campus, Perth.perthroadrunners.co.uk/tay-tenTHAMES VALLEY SPRING 5km/10km/15km/HALF-MARATHONDorney Lake, Eton, Berkshire. 12.30pm.f3events.co.ukTHREE VILLAGE 10Community HallWetheral, Carlisle. 11am.sportinaction.co.uk/4-3-village-10WHITE HORSE HALF-MARATHONOld Mill Hall, Grove, Oxfordshire. 9.30am.whitehorseharriers.uk/halfmarathon

Monday April 8RUN WITH THE HOUND 5km/10kmRailway Road, Belcoo. Noon.

Tuesday April 9BALLYMENA BELLES WOMENS ONLY 5Fenaghy Industrial Estate, Galgorm, Co Antrim. 7pm.ballymenarunners.orgGOSPORT 5km SUMMER SERIESStokes Bay Rd, Gosport, Hants. 7.30pm.nice-work.org.ukI CAN RUN IPSWICH SPRING 5kmChristchurch Park, Ipswich, Suffolk. 7pm.nice-work.org.uk/races/ICRIpswich5k

Wednesday April 10ARMADA ATHLETICS NETWORK 5kmSaltram Park, Plymouth, Devon. 7pm.armadaathletics.co.ukCHESTER SPRING 5Cheshire County Sports Club. 7pm.westcheshireac.co.ukNEW MARSKE SPRING COAST ROAD 5kmRedcar RFC, Green Lane, Redcar. 7.15pm.nmhraces.netRUNTHROUGH CHASE THE SUN OLYMPIC PARK 5km/10kmOlympic Park, London. 7pm.runthrough.co.uk

Thursday April 11EVEN SPLITS 5km SERIESYork Sports Village, Heslington, York. 7.15pm.evensplits.eventsMAGHERA 5kmMaghera Leisure Centre, Maghera. 7.30pm.midulstercouncil.org

Friday April 12BEAT THE SUNSET 5kmWest Lodge Rural Centre, Desborough, Northamptonshire. 7pm.desboroughraces.co.ukEDGEWATER RAMSEY PARK RUNS 5Mooragh Park, Ramsey, Isle of Man.northernaciom.com/edgewater-park-runsFORDHOUSES 5kmWolverhampton, West Midlands. 7pm.wolvesandbilstonac.co.uk

Saturday April 13BUXTON PAVILION GARDENS 5kmPavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbys. 9am.buxtonac.org.ukGLENARM CASTLE CHALLENGE 5km/10km/HALF-MARATHONGlenarm Castle Courtyard, Glenarm, Co Antrim. 11am.born2runevents.comGORTIN 5km/10kmMain Street, Gortin. Noon.RUN AROUND THE CASTLE 5km/10kmShane’s Castle, Randalstown Rd, Antrim. 10am.RUN NORTHUMBERLAND CRAGSIDE 10kmCragside Estate, Rothbury, Northumberland. 9.30am.run-nation.org/cragside10kRUNTHROUGH HYDE PARK 5km/10kmHyde Park, London. 9.30am.runthrough.co.uk

Sunday April 14ASDA FOUNDATION SHEFFIELD HALF-MARATHONArundel Gate, Sheffield, S Yorks. 9.30am.runforall.comBATTLE OF THE KNIGHTS 4kmChurch Road, Barrow, Suffolk. 10am.stnicholashospice.org.ukBELVOIR 7km/HALF-MARATHONVillage Hall, Hose, Leicestershire. 10am.hosevillage.org.uk/bhm.htmBLACKPOOL RESOLUTION RUN 5km/10km/15kmStanley Park, Blackpool, Lancashire. 11am.stroke.org.uk/resolutionBOSTON (UK) HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONMarket Place, Boston, Lincolnshire. 9am.bostonmarathon.co.ukBRIGHTON MARATHON/10kmPreston Park, Brighton, East Sussex. 9am.brightonmarathon.co.ukBURTON PIDSEA 10kmMemorial Hall, Burton Pidsea, East Yorkshire. 10.30am.easthullharriers.comCITY OF BIRMINGHAM 5km/10km/HALF-MARATHONSutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. 9.30am.uktriathlon.co.ukCOAST HALF-MARATHONBryn Williams Restaurant, Porth Eirias, Conwy. 10am.bespokefitnessandevents.co.uk

DRAYCOTE WATER SUMMER 10km/10MDraycote Water, Kites Hardwick, Warwickshire. 9.45am.theraceorganiser.comDROITWICH HALF-MARATHONDroitwich High School, Briar Mill, Droitwich, Worcestershire. 11am.droitwichac.co.ukFLAT CAPS 10kmSowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. 9.30am.cannonballevents.co.uk/event/flat-cap-10kFLITWICK 10kmVillage Hall, Millennium Green, Flitwick, Bedfordshire. 10.30am.flitwick10k.org.ukFRINTON AND WALTON HALF-MARATHONFrinton on Sea, Essex. 10.30am.frintonrotary.orgFRISKNEY HALF-MARATHONVillage Hall, Friskney, Lincolnshire. 11am.bostonanddistrictac.comGOODWOOD RUNNING FESTIVAL 5km/10km/HALF-MARATHON/20Goodwood Motor Circuit, Sussex. 9am.ukrunevents.co.ukGREAT WELSH HALF-MARATHON/MARATHONFestival Fields, Llanelli, Carms. 9am.greatwelshmarathon.co.ukHARTLEPOOL MARINA 5Historic Quay, Hartlepool. 10.30am.hartlepoolburnroad.co.ukHOSPICE OF THE VALLEYS 6Parc Bryn Bach, Tredegar. 10.30am.hospiceofthevalleys.org.ukJIM DINGWALL ROUND HOUSES 10kmGrangemouth Stadium, Grangemouth.falkirkvics.com/rth.htmlLANCASTER THREE BRIDGES 10kmSalt Ayre Leisure Centre, Lancaster. 11am.lancasterathletics.co.ukLITTLE BROMLEY 10kmLittle Bromley Church, Essex. 10.30am.harwichrunners.co.uk/bromley10k/index.phpMERSEY TUNNEL 10kmBlackstock Street, Liverpool. 9.30am.btrliverpool.comMILTON KEYNES SPRING 5km/10km/HALF-MARATHONWillem Lake, Milton Keynes, Beds. 9.30am.f3events.co.ukMS SOCIETY RUN FOR RESEARCH 10km/HALF-MARATHONHolywood Exchange, Belfast. 9am.pioneer-group.co.ukNEWCASTLE (STAFFS) 10kmAshfields Track, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. 10am.newcastlestaffsac.org.ukPUTNEY & FULHAM RIVERSIDE HALF-MARATHONBarn Elms Sports Centre, Queen Elizabeth Walk, London. 9am.energizedsports.comREGENT’S PARK SPRING HALF-MARATHONRegents Park, London. 9am.theraceorganiser.comRISBOROUGH RUN IN THE PARK 5kmWades Park, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. 9am.risboroughruninthepark.weebly.comROD SMITH SALISBURY 10Athletics Track, Salisbury, Wiltshire. 10am.salisbury10.salisbury-arc.org



FIXTURES



RUN LIVINGSTON 10km/HALF-MARATHONWest Lothian College, Livingston. 10am.runlivingston.ukRUNTHROUGH TATTON PARK 10kmTatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire. 9am.tatton10k.comSEAPATRICK 10kmSt Patrick’s College, Banbridge. 11am.SHEFFIELD HALF-MARATHONSheffield, South Yorkshire. 9.30am.runforall.comSUBLIME PETERBOROUGH MARATHONMarriot Horel, Peterborough, Cambs. 9am.sublimeracing.comVALE OF YORK 10Rufforth Airfield, W Yorks. 9.30am.evensplits.eventsVICTORIA PARK SPRING 10kmVictoria Park, Grove Rd, London. 9.30am.theraceorganiser.comWHITLEY VILLAGE 10kmWhitley, Cheshire. 11am.whitleyvillage.info/whitley-10kWOODLEY 10kmHeadley Rd, Woodley, Reading. 9.30am.barnesfitness.co.uk

TRACK

Thursday April 4BURTON AC CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPSBurton.wwwburtonac.co.ukJERSEY SPARTAN AC WINTER WARRIORS THROWING SERIESSt. Clement.jerseyspartan.com

Friday April 5ROYAL SUTTON COLDFIELD AC CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS (CANCELLED)Sutton Coldfield. Until Saturday April 6.rscac.co.ukTOMMY CLAY DEVELOPMENT OPENBoston.bostonanddistrictac.com

Saturday April 6BASINGSTOKE & MID HANTS OPENBasingstoke.bmhac.co.ukBEDFORDSHIRE AAA OPEN MEETINGLuton. 10.30am.bedfordshireaaa.org.ukCHARNWOOD AC OPEN SERIESLoughborough.charnwoodac.co.ukHUMBERSIDE LEAGUE & OPEN SERIESGrimsby.IPSWICH EARLY BIRD OPENIpswich.LANCASHIRE COUNTY COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS (Inc HYNDBURN AC OPEN)Clayton le Moors. Until Sunday April 7.lancsaa.co.ukLEE VALLEY APRIL OPENLee Valley.visitleevalley.org.ukNEWQUAY & PAR SPRING WARM UP OPENPar.newparac.co.ukPITREAVIE AAC/DUNFERMLINE AC CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPSGrangemouth.pitreavie-aac.co.uk

RUGBY SPRING MEDAL OPENRugby. 10am.randnac.orgTHETFORD AC WINTER THROWSBury St. Edmunds.thetford-ac.co.ukWALKS OPENMount St. Mary.

Sunday April 7CRAWLEY OPEN SERIESCrawley.crawleyac.org.ukHAVERING SPRING WARM UP OPENHornchurch. 12.30pm.havering-mayesbrook.orgHERCULES WIMBLEDON YOUNG ATHLETES OPEN MEETINGWimbledon.herculeswimbledonac.org.ukJOHN NEWSOME MEMORIAL OPENWakefield. 10am.wakefield-harriers.co.ukKIDDERMINSTER & STOURPORT SPRING OPENStourport on Severn. Noon.pitchero.com/clubs/kidderminsterstourportacKIERAN MAXWELL MEMORIAL OPENMiddlesbrough. 10am.race-results.co.uk/onlineentries/uploads/info3407.pdfMILTON KEYNES OPEN SERIESMilton Keynes.mcs.open.ac.uk/mkacPLYMOUTH SPRING WARM UP MEETINGPlymouth. 11am.hplymouthac.co.ukSWANSEA HARRIERS OPEN MEETINGSwansea.swanseaharriers.co.ukTEAM BATH MINORS OPENBath.teambathac.orgTIPTON GAMES OPENTipton. 9am.tiptonharriers.co.ukTRAFFORD AC MEDAL OPEN MEETINGStretford. Noon.traffordac.co.ukWARRINGTON AC GEORGE EDWARDS MEMORIAL OPENWarrington. 11.30am.warringtonathletic.orgWATFORD MINORS OPEN SERIESWatford.watfordharriers.org.ukWESSEX YOUNG ATHLETES’ LEAGUEPoole, Swindon, Winchester.wessexleaguetandf.co.ukWINDSOR SLOUGH ETON & HOUNSLOW SPRING OPENEton.wseh.info

Tuesday April 9NORTH DOWN AC SENIOR OPENBangor. 6pm.northdownac.co.ukRUSHCLIFFE AC 800m/MILE RACE NIGHT OPENBingham.rushcliffeac.weebly.com

Wednesday April 10CITY OF LONDON/HIGHGATE H EARLY SEASON OPEN MEETINGParliament Hill.highgateharriers.org.uk

NORTH DOWN AC MINIS OPENBangor. 6pm.northdownac.co.ukTELFORD SPRING WARM UP OPENtelfordathleticclub.co.uk

Thursday April 11FIRMUS YOUNG ATHLETE OPENBelfast. 6pm.laganvalleyac.co.ukGREAT YARMOUTH WARM-UP OPENGreat Yarmouth.gydac.co.uk

Saturday April 13ALAN BERTRAM MEMORIAL HAMMERLoughborough.store.lboro.ac.uk/product-catalogue/sports-development-centre/sporting-eventsLIVERPOOL HARRIERS THROWS & JUMPS OPENLiverpool. 10am.liverpoolthrowsjumps.co.ukMACCLESFIELD TRACK OPENING ANNIVERSARY MEETINGMacclesfield.macclesfield-harriers.co.ukMID LANCASHIRE LEAGUEBlackburn.midlancs.org.ukSCOTTISH ATHLETICS THROWS GRAND PRIX OPENQueens Park.scottishathletics.org.ukSOUTHERN ATHLETICS LEAGUE1: Gillingham, Peterborough, Woking. 2E: Basildon, Finsbury Park, Stevenage. 2W: Bedford, Tooting Bec, Walton, Yeovil. 3N: Oxford, Perivale, St Ives, Watford. 3SE: Eltham (Match 1), Eltham (Match 2), Hastings (Match 1), Hastings (Match 2,. 3SW: Basingstoke (Match 1), Basingstoke (Match 1), Plymouth.southernathletics.org.uk

WALKS

Saturday April 6MACCLESFIELD SHIELD 10Macclesfield.

Sunday April 7SARNIA CHAMPIONSHIP 10kmDelancey Park, St.Sampsons. 9am.sarnia.wordpress.com

Sunday April 14ISLE OF MAN FIRE BRIGADE MEMORIAL 50kmPeel.SARNIA ROCQUAINE BAY 3Rocquaine Bay. 9am.sarnia.wordpress.com

OVERSEAS

Saturday April 6PRAGUE HALF MARATHONCzech Republic.

Sunday April 7ROTTERDAM MARATHONThe Netherlands.HANNOVER MARATHONGermany.ROTTERDAM MARATHONItaly.


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READERS of AW will remember Ryan Hall as the tall, thin American runner who clocked a sub-60min half-marathon and sub-2:05 marathon a few years ago.

In 2016 he retired from racing before turning to weightlifting instead and his bodyweight shot up from around 130lb to 180lb as he began targeting the fresh challenge of setting PBs in the gym.

The 36-year-old is bringing out a book this month called Run the Mile You’re In, where he talks about how he became a weightlifter, his strong religious beliefs, coaching his wife (Sara, who runs the Boston Marathon on April 15) and why they adopted four daughters

from Ethiopia.In 2008 Hall fi nished fi fth in the London

Marathon in 2:06:17, placed 10th at the Beijing Olympics and then 2:04:58 in the now-infamous 2011 Boston Marathon where runners were helped with a tailwind on the point-to-point course.

Back then he could just about lift his own bodyweight but now he is lifting 325lb and has an ambition to lift 400lb by the time he is 40.

“I was so weak when I started,” says Hall. “I could barely bench my body weight and it was the same for deadlift and squats.”

FOR THE crowds and competitors at major cross country championships

across the globe, the sight of a group of tartan-clad supporters on the sidelines has become a very familiar one, writes Euan Crumley.

The East Kilbride Athletics Club Tartan Army, resplendent in kilts and the yellow and black colours of the Scottish club, are athletics enthusiasts who make a point of regularly attending events such as the European and World Cross.

They hit the headlines in AW during the Simplyhealth Great XCountry in Edinburgh

two years ago thanks to Katie Dunlop’s remarkable picture of them roaring on Callum Hawkins in Holyrood (above).

They were out in force once again in Aarhus – only there was a significant extra dimension for one of their number this time. Rather than just spectating, Jamie Clements was competing.

Having spotted a link on the IAAF website, the 32:26 10km runner decided to put his name

in a draw to take part in the sub-elite senior men’s race which was staged as part of the main event itself. A sub-33 10km time was needed to be eligible and, to his surprise, Jamie received news of his selection around two weeks before he was due to fly out to Denmark.

In another twist, the sub-elite competitors had to stay within four minutes of the leader on the five-lap contest or would

otherwise be stopped. Jamie managed to keep

within that gap for three of those laps and relished the chance to mix it with the world’s best runners.

“I was delighted with the experience on what was the toughest of courses,” he said, while his fellow Tartan Army members joked that he can also lay claim to being the first finisher of the senior men’s race!


TARTAN ARMY TAKE ON WORLD

DIP FINISH CRAZINESS AND CONTROVERSY IN THE WORLD OF ATHLETICS

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began targeting the fresh challenge of from Ethiopia.

East Kilbride’s ‘tartan army’ of fans are well known on the circuit

HALL WEIGHS IN WITH NEW BOOK Ryan Hall: ex-runner

has taken up weight lifting

Kenny Clements with his son, Jamie,

who ran in the elite men’s race

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