In windy circumstances at Tooting in south London, the W60 athlete clocks 4:57.14 on a day when veterans Andrew Ridley and Rob McHarg additionally excel over 800m
Britain’s most prolific masters 1500m and mile record-setter, Clare Elms, produced one among her most pleasing ever performances when she broke the world W60 1500m document and have become the oldest lady to ever break 5 minutes with 4:57.14 on the Veterans AC championships at Tooting on Saturday (Aug 31).
Till final yr the document had been 5:06.63 by German Lidia Zentner set in 2013 when she turned the primary W60 to go inside 5:10 after which American Sue McDonald ran 5:04.27 and 5:02.38 in 2023.
That document was damaged final week when Eire’s Anne Gilshinan ran 4:59.45 to win world masters gold in Gothenburg. Gilshinan, McDonald and Zentner all have received general world masters athlete of yr awards.
The Kent AC athlete who at present holds 24 completely different British age-group information, has now set world marks indoors and out as a W50, W55 and W60 at each 1500m and mile.
After latest UK marks at each 800m (2:29.64) and 3000m (10:33.34) her confidence was excessive and he or she selected to run in a youthful blended race quite than her personal age group occasion.
Clare Elms and Terry Sales space (Cliff Disguise)
Within the race she was capable of comply with M55 Terry Sales space within the data he’d run 4:58.29 earlier this yr which helped in gusts of nicely over 25km per hour.
Operating economically, each lap was round 79 seconds and he or she completed with two seconds in hand.
Whereas managing a heel damage, she has achieved 11 British information this yr and whereas her focus has been on the monitor in the summertime she is hopeful over the winter after a brief break to aim information all the way in which as much as the half-marathon.
Elms did higher the world mile mark in Wimbledon in July however has but to have it ratified as there was an issue with the picture end and, whereas she had no hiccups in Tooting, it seems to be as if it would deny Andrew Ridley and Rob McHarg.
Andrew Ridley leads Rob McHarg (Cliff Disguise)
The pair who practice collectively, dropped all the way down to the youngest age group quite than run with fellow M60s.
Ridley, who received World Masters double gold at 800m and 1500m, ended up setting the tempo anyway within the M35 race and powered by 400m in 62 seconds regardless of the blustery circumstances particularly on the bends.
McHarg, who completed third in each races in Sweden however was bettering race by race and had set a British document of two:09.45 mid-week, held on and each sprinted arduous up the straight leaving youthful runners of their wake.
Ridley ran 2:07.45 and McHarg 2:08.01 in comparison with the world M60 document of two:08.56 by the American Nolan Shaheed in 2011.
Nevertheless, whereas the time could possibly be confirmed (the respective hand occasions have been 2:07.4 and a pair of:07.8), the picture end photographs have been inadequate for world document functions and McHarg can not even rely it as a Scottish document.
In Sweden the pair had apparently been break up by Robert Kibet, a 1:43.66 800m performer in his prime though Kibet’s 1965 date of beginning on all statistical websites advised he ought to have competed within the youthful M55 class!
READ MORE: World Masters outcomes from Gothenburg
Newly-crowned world champion Moira West received her 100m and 200m specialities in a quick 15.98/34.09 but additionally received the lengthy soar in a British W75 document of three.10m.
The wind – principally a cross-wind – whereas authorized for West was swirling and in successive rounds a -3.6m/sec and +3.6m/sec was recorded.
M40
SP/DT: L Zambrzcki 11.98/35.35
M45:
1500: 1 C West 4:33.01
M50:
100 (0.4)/200 (-0.8): D Olusanya 12.89/26.35
800: R Datnow 2:08.34
100H (1.7): 1 G Smith 14.56
HJ: V Ramsay 1.52
LJ: C Beecham 5.56/1.1
3000W: S Zennaro 16:43.50
M55:
100 (1.2)/200 (-0.8): B Zelechowski 12.37/25.70
M60:
100 (1.3): 1 B Steene 12.86; 2 P Logan 12.87
400/800: 1 S Corfield 61.99/2:21.73
800: ns: 1 A Ridley 2:07.45: 2 R McHarg 2:08.01
1500: 1 D Williams 4:49.13
SP: 1 Okay Baker 10.42
DT/HT: C Privett 41.19/37.56
M65:
100 (0.2): 1 J Browne 13.44
400: 1 A Day 67.25
JT: 1 S Langdon 39.58
M70:
JT: 1 M Bennett 33.36
M75:
SP/DT/JT: T Richards 10.12/31.65/28.25
M85:
400/800/1500: 1 D Milsom 1:56.42/4:13.37/8:43.34
W45:
800: 1 L Durn 2:36.72
3000W: C Ha Kwok 17:29.76
W50:
800/1500: 1 S Lamb 2:37.01/5:19.25
80H (-0.7)/HJ: D Norman 13.24/1.40
DT/HT: S Gonzalez 25.88/33.19
W60:
1500: C Elms 4:57.14 (World W60 rec)
HJ/LJ: 1 G Clarke 1.15/3.33
W65:
200 (-1.6): 1 A Owen 33.86
W75:
100 (-1.1)/200 (-1.6)/LJ: M West 15.98/34.09/3.10/-0.6 (UK rec)
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