Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Grassroots round-up from across the UK

The Paris Olympics is underway however membership athletes proceed to compete in power across the nation

NORTH EAST GRAND PRIX T&F, Monkton Stadium, Jarrow, July 24

The fifth assembly of the North East collection noticed Adrian Bailes squeeze dwelling forward within the 1500m in 3:57.1 and it was simply shut for Ben Schofield along with his 48.85 400m win.

Philippa Stone, the England Athletics silver medallist, had it simpler within the ladies’s 1500 metres when clocking 4:21.9.

Chosen outcomes

Males

400: 1 B Schofield (Gate) 48.85; 2 L Robson (Gate) 49.09; 3 L Townson (Gate) 49.53

1500: 1 A Bailes (Birt) 3:57.1; 2 J Blevins (Gate) 3:57.5; 3 A Russell (Darl) 3:58.6

Ladies:

400: 1 L Creaby (Gate) 56.87; 2 Pold (NSP) 57.08

1500: 1 P Stone M&C) 4:21.9; 2 S Haston (Gate) 4:30.6

Ben Schofield (199), Lewis Robson (367) and Liam Townson (227) (Davd Hewitson)

EGLINTON 5km, Derry, Northern Eire, July 28

Declan Reid, the 2017 British & Irish Worldwide Cross-Nation M40 bronze medallist, gained general in 15:35 to go third on the M50 rankings for the 12 months.

General: 1 D Reed (Derry, M50) 15:35

M60: 1 D McCarthy (Derry) 19:06

U15: 1 E Tosh (B’mena & A) 15:58

Ladies: 1 S Stewart (Anna, W40) 20:00

W55: 1 H Shields (Derry) 20:34

W60: 1 A Paul (Derry) 21:00

BATTERSEA PARK HALF-MARATHON, London, July 27

General: 1 U Ultan (Belg) 69:48; 2 S Buddy (Hunter) 70:48

M45: 1 S Johnson (Edin) 73:55

Ladies: 1 T Baxter (New J) 81:54; 2 V Nakrosiute 81:55

MAGOR 10km, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, July 27

Welsh Path operating champion Jacob Tasker improved his private greatest to win by over a minute-and-a-half in 30:57.

Additional down the sector, Sandy Masters the 2024 high ranked and twice London Marathon W65 winner, went fourth on her age group rankings for the 12 months with 44;14.

General: 1 J Tasker (Ogmore) 30:57; 2 T Evetts (W Tempo) 32:34; 3 S Griffiths (Caldicot) 32:54

M55: 1 L Aherne (P Bryn) 34:56; 2 T Wright (Corn) 35:15

M60: 1 A Marshall (Chep) 37:59

Ladies: 1 A Evans (les C) 35:58

W50: 1 Okay Hughes (W’bury) 39:45

W55: 1 N Morgan (Chep) 41:27

W60: 1 L Porter (Bitt) 44:37; 2 E Warmby (Brackla) 45:24; 3 G Marshall 45:38

W65: 1 S Masters (W’bury) 44:14

W70: 1 B Avery (Chep) 55:33

SHREWSBURY 5km FESTIVAL, Shropshire, July 27

John Gilbert had his first outing over the gap in almost 5 years and gained narrowly from Andrew Davies to go high of the UK M40 rankings for the 12 months with a 14:42 clocking, a time that was additionally a lifetime 5km greatest.

This got here after a protracted line of stable distance runs for the Kent AC runner who additionally gained the 2017 South of the Thames 2017 7.5-mile cross-Nation Championship.

Davies’ 14:45 took the 2022 European 50km bronze medallist to second on these 2024 lists.

General: 1 J Gilbert (Kent, M40) 14:42; 2 A Davies (Maldwyn, M40) 14:45; 3 B Biggs (Belg) 14:48; 4 A Peacock (BRAT) 15:06; 5 C Rogers (Wrex) 15:06; 6 L Burgess (B&W) 15:08; 7 J Thomas (Stoke) 15:14; 8 R Challinor (Buckley) 15:15

M50: 1 P Jones (Shrews) 15:44; 2 J Prest (Traff) 15:55

M70: 1 P Johnson (Mercia) 21:43

Ladies: 1 H Jacobsen (Preston) 17:20

W45: 1 D Sherwin (Stoke) 17:45

W50: 1 J Stanfield (Trenth) 19:05; 2 L Tait-Harris (W&B) 19:13

W55: 1 S Taylor (Trenth) 20:26

W65: 1 C Wyn-Jones (Dees) 24:15

W70: 1 S Johnson (Mercia) 26:04

HECKINGTON 10, Lincolnshire, July 27

Newark’s Edward Buck gained by greater than 5 minutes in 50:21 in his first outing over the gap.

Additional down the sector, Fiona Usher went second on the W60 rankings for the 12 months with 69:56.

General: 1 E Buck (Newark) 50:21; 2 D James (Clee) 55:49

M45: 1 I Bailey (Slea) 57:33

M55: 1 S Barkes (Linc W) 62:35

Ladies: 1 C Thornton (Linc W) 60:05; 2 R Cole (Linc W, W40) 62;49

W60: 1 F Usher (Linc &D) 69:56; 2 T Gibson (Wolds) 75:38

HALDON RELAYS, Devon, July 26

Males (4x3km): 1 Tavistock 41:06

Quickest: O Thorogood (SWRR) 9:41

Ladies (4x3km): 1 SWRR 41:18.

Quickest: A Gidey (Ex;mth) 11:08

W60: C Newman (Ex’mth) 13:02

IPSWICH TWILIGHT 10km, Suffolk, July 26

Lizzie Wellsted, the 2023 Southern junior cross-country champion and Euro Cross staff medallist, was simply exterior her rankings main 2024 under-20 better of 33:00 from April, when taking the ladies’s part in 33:10.

This was the general second-best junior time for the 12 months for the Colchester Harrier, who gained by greater than three minutes from high W45 Ellen Leggate.

It was again in 2006 that Leggate set her private better of 36:00 and right here, in her first outing over the gap for greater than 9 years, the 2002 and 2003 British Universities and 1997 AAA under-20 1500m champion, ran 36:05.

General: 1 J Nixon (C&C) 31:51; 2 B Barber (Ips H) 32:42; 3 B Carpendale (Felix) 32:47

M40: 1 D Rock (Felix) 33:07

M45: 1 J O’Brien (St Ed) 33:19

M60: 1 J Campbell (Ps J) 39:26

M70: 1 J Self (Kesgrave) 44:54

Ladies: 1 L Wellsted (Col H) 33:10; 2 E Leggate (C&C, W45) 36:05

W50: 1 J Garnham (Stow) 43:17

W60: 1 V Jennings (Ips J) 45:50

W65: 1 S Lockhart (Ips J) 48:12; 2 J Morgan (St Ed) 48:42

LAST FRIDAY 5km, Hyde Park, London, July 26

Extremely man Ollie Garrod, the world 40-mile file holder, took his tenth win within the occasion within the final couple of years.

General: 1 O Garrod (E&E) 15:24

M50: 1 S Shaw (ESM) 16:46; 2 C Blackburn (Holl Sp) 16:48

M60: 1 A Leach (NHRR) 16:48; 2 S Plummer (ESM) 18:13; 3 A Inexperienced (North Tri) 18:44

M70: 1 N Hoult (Learn RR) 22:04

Ladies: 1 N Lenane (Belg, W35) 18:35

W50: 1 A Farrell (Tun W) 20:30

W60: 1 H Briggs (Serp) 23:28; 2 N Stanford (Serp) 26:14

W65: 1 M Connolly (S Kent) 24:58

W70: 1 M Statham-Berry (Ling) 24:40; 2 R Tabor (Dulw R) 26:31

WEDDING DAY multi-terrain 7km, Bushy Park, Twickenham, London, July 26

General: 1 J Hutchins (Wok, M40) 22:43; 2 N Impey (Rane, M40) 22:47; 3 L Triccas (Clap) 22:49

M50: 1 N Tearle (G&G) 23:16; 2 D Williams (S Lon) 24:05; 3 S Winder (E&E) 24:07

M65: 1 D Ogden (S Lon) 26:30; 2 G Neville (SHAEF) 26:44

Ladies: 1 M Collings (Wok) 24;30; 2 Okay Grinyer (G&G) 24:40; 3 G Reynolds (Herne H, W40) 24:53

W50: 1 S Biggs (Strag) 28:02

W55: 1 S McDonald (S Lon) 28:15

W60: 1 J Balfour (Strag) 29:38

W75: 1 S Garner (Ling) 37:46;

WORSTED 5, Norfolk, July 26

General: 1 J White (Norw) 24:48; 2 L Allden (Norw) 24:53; 3 A Harrell (Excessive) 24;57

M60: 1 J Moore (Norf G) 31:03

M70: 1 G Nelson (Bure) 35:27

Ladies: 1 A Horney (Norw RR) 30:01; 2 H Carr (Wym) 30:07

W40: 1 A Beck (Bure) 30:35

W55: 1 L Hurr (Norf G) 35:30

W60: 1 C Brown (Wym) 35:13; 2 P Carr (G Yar RR) 36:22

W65: 1 A Stewart (Norw RR) 37:59

MOTAVATION SERIES, Race 4, Coombe, Oxfordshire, Oxford, July 25

Final 12 months’s general winner Matthieu Marshall scored his first of the 5 race 2024 collection over the 4mile 379-yards journey, with its 326ft climb, in 21:46, as Steph Giles made it three ladies’s wins this 12 months.

Additional again within the males’s race, Thames Hare & Hounds’ Ben Reynolds, who gained the South of the Thames ‘Junior’ Championship almost 40 years earlier, made it three M60 victories on this marketing campaign.

General (4M 370yds): 1 M Marshall (Head RR) 21:46; 2 C Jardine Abing) 21:53; 3 M Lock (Wit) 22:16

M40: 1 D Blake (Wit) 22:35

M50: 1 J Bolton (W’inventory) 23:40

M60: 1 B Reynolds (THH) 25:00

M70: 1 R Grant (Oxf C) 31:16

TEAM (6 to attain): 1 Abingdon 77; 2 Head RR 80; 3 Witney 124

Ladies: 1 S Giles (Alch) 25:54

W55: 1 J Pennington (Abing) 31:46

W65: 1 J Fabes (Abing) 32:54

TEAM (6 to attain): 1 Head 62; 2 Witney 149; 3 Alchester 172

LAKESIDE 5km, Portsmouth Hampshire, July 24

This collection has been a preferred searching floor for M45 James Baker and right here, he notched up his first victory across the water for 2 years, to take his ‘wins’ in races and Park Runs to 1137, with a slender victory in 15:57.

It was the Chichester Runner’s thirty third first place right here over the previous 20 years.

General: 1 J Baker (Chich R, M45) 15:57; 2 T Beasley (Havant, U20) 15:59

M65: 1 M Hargreaves (Ports) 19:44

Ladies: 1 S Winstone (Soton, W35) 17:36

W55: 1 Okay Nelson (Chich R) 22:33

LEEDS 5km Collection, West Yorkshire, July 24

Metropolis of Leeds Richard Allen gained by greater than two minutes in 14:35 as Sue Haslam confirmed her place on the high of the W70 rankings with a 22:07 clocking.

Within the June race of the collection, Haslam had bettered Sandra Branney’s month-old beforehand listed British Masters greatest by 27 seconds with 21:24.

General: 1 R Allen (Leeds) 14;35

Ladies: 1 S Cross (Wetherby) 18:09

W40: 1 C Wills (Roundhay) 18:47

W70: 1 S Haslam (Scar) 22:07

STANDARD CHARTERED GREAT CITY RACE 5km, London, July 24

General: 1 F Slemeck (HW) 15:38

Ladies: 1 S Hewitt 17:56

W50: 1 Okay Harris (Excessive) 18:06

SRI CHINMOY HASTY HARE 5km, Battersea Park, London, July 23

Kiwi Callan Moody gained in 14:52 as tenth positioned Chris Greenwood went high of the M50 rankings for 2024 with a 15:19 clocking.

General: 1 C Moody (Serp/NZL) 14:52; 2 N Bester (Greatest A) 15:07; 3 F Whitelock (Herne H) 15:11; 4 J Payne (VP&TH) 15:11; 5 S Lewis (VP&TH) 15:12; 6 R Fitzgibbon (Phoe) 15:12

M50: 1 C Greenwood (Kent) 15:19; 2 A Bond (Dulw R) 15:49;

M55: 1 M Symes (AFD) 15:59

M60: 1 Okay Myazaki (AFD) 17:39

U15: 1 E Sone (S Lon) 16:32

Ladies: 1 S Magson (Orion, U20) 16:45; 2 H Gaunt (Ton, W45) 16:49; 3 G Leyland (Herne H) 17:10

W50: 1 Okay Sung (M&M) 18:40; 2 V Buck (Kent) 20:12; 3 M Lennon (Dulw R) 20:32

W60: 1 Okay Flilschuh (VP&TH) 21:34

W70: 1 M Statham-Berry (Ling) 24:52

U13: 1 G Sone (S Lon) 22:43

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