Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Grgec and Magnusson win at Podium Residence Nations 5km

Worldwide athletes rubbed shoulders with Brits with PBs galore in Cardiff on August 24, plus information from the Antrim Coast Half

Bute Park was at its picturesque greatest because the collection got here to a detailed and noticed a 5km victory for the Adidas- sponsored Baldvin Magnusson in 13:47.

The 25-year-old Iceland-born athlete, who received European under-23 5000m bronze in 2021, received by a second from Jack Kavanagh and Matthew Ramsden.

Magnusson’s time was exterior his observe greatest for the gap of 13:20.34, set in Spain in April, however was sufficient to see off the problem from his rivals after the trio had damaged away.

There was a breakthrough for Holland Sports activities’ Jack Kavanagh who had three victories this summer time within the Nationwide Athletics League Premiership.

That was for Woodford Inexperienced with Essex Women and his effort right here moved him up from a 14:21 time and seventeenth on this occasion final yr, to hack 15 seconds from his earlier greatest with 13:48.

This was one second to the nice of third positioned Matthew Ramsden, whose 13:49 helped his sports activities items firm sponsor to a workforce victory and was half-a-minute inside his personal earlier greatest.

Baldvin Magnusson (Paul Stillman)

The ladies’s race was taken by Herne Hill Kiwi Georgie Grgec with 15:34, some 13 seconds to the nice of Jess Gibbon, who simply bought the nod for second forward of Wales’ Beth Kidger.

Grgec’s time was 11 seconds inside her earlier greatest set again in Could in one other Podium race, which got here after a forty first place within the World Cross-Nation Championships.

The earlier week, Jess Gibbon, the South of England cross-country champion, had posted a private greatest 5km of 16:03 at Colchester, however went 16 seconds faster right here with 15:47. Kidger was additionally in new territory with the identical time after shifting up from ninth right here final yr.

Behind, Holly Dixon and Poppy Tank have been additionally inside 16 minutes and, as within the males’s race, there have been a plethora of different private bests.

Very deep within the girls’s subject and in her umpteenth race of the yr, prime ranked and a number of age group champion Olivia Forrest improved her greatest to 16:34. The 15-year-old was not too far forward of Studying’s Lizzie Sheridan’s 16:48, whose personal new mark put her second on these under-15 rankings.

Podium Residence Nations 5km (Paul Stillman)

Total (5km): 1 B Magnusson (Adidas) 13:47; J Kavanagh (ENG) 13:48; 3 M Ramsden (Adidas) 13:49; 4 J Escalante-Phillips (BLT) 13:53; 5 J Cann (Adidas B) 13;56; 6 F Curtin (P’pridd) 13:58; 7 J Ward (Oxf U) 14:00; 8 A McMillan (SCO) 14:00; 9 P Norman (Adidas) 14:01; 10 J Grey (BLT) 14:01; 11 A Fife (SCO) 14:01; 12 B Moore (Adidas B) 14:03; 13 C McLean (NI) 14:04; 14 F Ross-Davie (SCO) 14:04; 15 D Nash (P’pridd) 14:05; 16 A Lepetre (ENG) 14:06. 17 G Watson (Adidas C) 14:07; 18 J Goodwin (ENG) 14:09; 19 M Bostock (North) 14:11; 20 T Chandler (Eng U20) 14:12; 21 A Penny (ENG) 14:12; 22 R Slade (Adidas C) 14:1; 23 A Kinloch (SCO) 14:12; 24 J O’Connell (AFD, U20) 14:14; 25 S McCullum (T’smith) 14:16; 26 A Melloy (BLT) 14:16; 27 J Carr (BLT) 14:16; 28 J Cornish (T’smith) 14:17; 29 Ok Taylor (Adidas B) 14:17; 30 J Heneghan (WAL) 14:18; 31 L Minale (North) 14:20; 32 F Proffitt (Birm U) 14:21; 33 C Lewis (Les C) 14:21; 34 C Fielding (NI) 14:22; 35 S Halsted (Brack) 14:22; 36 J Butler (Wales) 14:23; 37 R Allen (Adidas) 14:23; 38 J Morrow (Oxf U) 14:23; 39 R James (Soton) 14:24; 40 D James (W Tempo) 14:28; 41 J Sagar (Adidas C) 14:30; 42 J Woods (T’smith) 14:31; 43 N Campion (Eng U20) 14:32; 44 A Roberts (Merr’d) 14:33’ 45 M Weatherseed (Oxf U) 14:34; 46 C Stewart (NI) 14:35; 47 J Bancroft (W Tempo) 14:36; 48 L Kelly (NI) 14:37; 49 R Miell-Ingram (ENG U20) 14:37; 50 J Reader 14:37

M40: 1 B Worth (W Tempo) 14:59; 2 B McWhirter (Swan) 15:15; 3 E Jolly (Learn) 15:21

M45: 1 P Matthews (P’Bryn) 15:01; 2 P Whylie (W Tempo) 15:11; 3 S Lewis (P’pridd) 15:45

M50: 1 M Couldwell (Charn) 16:31; 2 H Evans (P’Bryn) 16:43; 3 M Hurford (Les C) 17:25

M55: 1 L Aherne (P’Bryn) 16:26; 2 J Mower (W Tempo) 18:07

M60: 1 P Thomas (SWRR) 18:17

TEAM: 1 Adidas 55:58; 2 England 56:13; 3 Scotland 56:17; 4 BLT 56:25; 5 Oxford College 57:55; 6 N Ireland57:36; 7 Pontypridd 58:19; 8 Tracksmith 58:10; 9 England I20 58:24; 10 W Tempo 58:40; 11 North 59:09; 11 Les Croupiers 62:10  

Podium Residence Nations 5km (Paul Stillman)

Girls (5km): 1 G Grgec (Adidas) 15:34; 2 J Gibbon (Adidas) 15:47; 3 B Kidger (WAL) 15:57; 4 H Dixon (ENG) 15:51; 5 P Tank (Podium) 15:53; 6 L Huxley (Preston) 16:00; 7 J Nesbitt (WAL) 16:07; 8 M Davies (Adidas) 16:11; 9 A Davies (WAL) 16:14; 10 M Marchant (W Tempo) 16:14; 11 A Bracegirdle (WAL) 16:15; 12 H Archer (Podium) 16:16; 13 A Eykelbosch (Dac) 16:18; 14 M Millar (SCO) 16:19; 15 A Gummow (Herts P) 16:23; 16 Ok Estlea-Morris (ENG) 16:24; 17 I Barwell (ENG U20) 16:30; 18 G Palmer (Chelt) 16:30; 19 N Brown (Podium) 16:30; 20 E Tait (ENG) 16:31; 21 H Weedell (ENG U20) 16:32; 22 B Gunn (ENG) 16:33; 23 O Forrest (B’wooden, U15) 16:34; 24 S Tucker (SCO) 16:35; 25 J Morgan (Liv) 16:42; 26 Ok Walker (SCO) 16:42; 27 R Flaherty (North) 16:43; 28 Y Lock (Adidas) 16:46; 29 L Armitage (ENG U20) 16:47; 30 M Porter (W Tempo) 16:47

W40: 1 D Morris (Builth) 17:35

W50: 1 T Jenkins (P’cawl) 18:53

U15: 2 L Sheridan (Learn) 16:48

TEAM: 1 Adidas 64:17; 2 Wales 64:21; 3 England 65:17; 4 Podium 65:28; 5 Scotland 66:28; 6 Western Tempo 67:06; 7 England U20 67:59; 8 North 68:28

ANTRIM COAST HALF-MARATHON, Larne, Northern Eire, August 25

Kenya’s Alex Nzioka Matata ran 59:37 for the gap in Padova, Italy, in April and the 27-year-old was once more underneath the hour in Northern Eire with 59:46.

This ensured a 41-second margin over compatriot Hillary Kipkoech, who additionally has a better of 59:37 however who right here discovered 60:27 sufficient to simply squeeze out double Tokyo Marathon winner Birhanu Legese.

One of the best of the UK runners was Swansea’s Dewi Griffiths, in twelfth spot and a 63:17 clocking as subsequent residence was Ben Alcock with a 65:03 private greatest.

Additional again nonetheless and down in nineteenth, Bideford’s Ronnie Richmond matched his private greatest 65:36 to go to the highest of the UK M40 rankings for the yr and ensure his ninth spot on the all-time veterans’ lists.

The ladies’s part noticed Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia take the honours with 65:31 to go fifth on the world rankings for the yr and this was from seventh ranked Loice Chemnung, who ran 66:47, as seven girls broke the 70-minute barrier.

Total: 1 A Matata (KEN) 59:46; 2 H Kipkoech (KEN) 60:27; 3 B Legese (ETH) 60:27; 4 A Gobena (ETH) 61:28; 5 L Kibet (KEN) 61:37; 6 H Chekwony (KEN) 61:56; 7 S Debognies (BEL) 62:01; 8 H Tonosa (IRE) 62:46; 9 A Masai (KEN) 62:54; 10 R Gregson (AUS) 63:00; 11 D Boulvin (BEL) 83:08; 12 D Griffiths (Swan) 63:17; 13 B Alcock (Mattress C) 65:03; 14 D McGlynn (IRE) 65:04; 15 Ok Tadese (ERI) 65:06; 16 R Thompson (SCO) 65:15; 17 Y Yehualaw (ETH, W) 65:31; 18 B Koreman (HOL) 65:34; 19 R Richmond (Bide, M40) 65:36; 20 R Skelton (Hy R) 66:17; 21 E Mulder (USA) 66:29; 22 L Chemnung (KEN, W) 66:47; 23 J Bell (SCO) 66:54; 24 C Duffey (NI) 66:54; 25 J Mitchell 66:55; 26 M Ferguson (SCO) 66:55; 27 J Kepkosgai (KEN, W) 67:04; 28 M Hashi (ESM) 67:08; 29 G Forde (IRE) 67:13; 30 E Zeray (ETH), W) 67:15; 31 B Gebrebrhan (ETH) 67:34; 32 P Whittaker 67:38; 33 M Roberts 67:43; 34 T Roberts 67:50; 35 J Carnelly 68:12; 36 T Muluat (ETH, W) 68:16; 37 Y Lidove (FRA) 68:52; 38 G King (P’dowm, M40) 68:53; 39 G Mallett 69:04; 40 V McMeechan (N Down) 69:11

Girls: 1 Yehualaw 65:31; 2 Chemnung 66:47; 3 Kepkosgai 67:04; 4 Zeray 67:15; 5 Muluat 68:16; 6 R Dereje (RTH) 69:35; 7 J Gaughan 69:58; 8 N Phillips (SCO) 72:31; 9 A Heffernan 73:51; 10 F Ross (NI) 74:16; 11 C Arnell (MK Dist) 74:29; 12 L Small (AFD) 74:53; 13 E Haggard-Kearney  75:06; 14 Ok Oldin g (TVH) 75:35; 15 A Evans (WAL) 75:39; 16 V Barrand (SCO) 76:27; 17 S Forbes-Smith (Clap) 77:26; 18 S Inexperienced (SCO) 77:50; 19 A Hackett 78:19; 20 J Storm (NI) &8;45

HEADINGTON 5, Oxfordshire, August 25

Total: 1 A Ede (Abing) 25:35; 2 M Marshall (Head RR) 25:44

M50: 1 J Bolton (W’inventory) 27:06

M60: 1 A Leach (NHRR) 27:45

M70: 1 N Hoult (Learn RR) 36:25

Girls: 1 S Giles (Alch) 29:42; 2 E Butcher (Excessive) 30:11; 3 S Lane (Chelt) 30:12

W55: 1 Ok Streams (Learn RR) 31:34; 2 Ok Allred (Abing) 33:58

W65: 1 J Noad (SC Vets) 40:21; 2 W Millett (Abing) 41:09

W75: 1 Ok Williamson (Eynsh) 45:12

WATERGATE 5km, Gateshead, Tyne & Put on, August 22

Total: 1 L McConnell (Birt) 15:40

M50: 1 S Hamil (Durh) 17:24

TEAM: 1 Sunderland 40

Girls: 1 I Bungay (Elsw, U20) 17:37

W45: 1 H Bough (Elsw) 19:19

W55: 1 W Chapman (Sund St) 21:17

W60: 1 C Web page (Alnw) 20:55

TEAM: 1 Morpeth 17

OLD CLEEVE & AVON COUNTY RELAYS, Somerset

Males (4x5km): 1 Bristol & W 66:09 (S Kerfoot 16:28, A Grigg 16:57, T Swinn 16:49, A Matheson 15:55); 2 B&W B 69:10

Quickest: Matheson 15:55

M40 (4x3km): 1 Weston 70:49. Quickest: M Ellis (W’bury) 16:19

M50 (3x5km): 1 B&W 56:26. Quickest: Ok Summers (Weston) 17:04

M60 (3x5km): 1 Clevedon 62:12. Quickest: P Parry B&W) 18:21

U20 (3x5km): 1 B&W 52:39. Quickest: T Darton (W’bury) 16:34

Girls (3x5km): 1 B&W 58:10 (A Ford 19:27, J Lynch 18:54, Ok Bamford 19:49). Quickest: Lynch 18:54

W35 (3x3km): 1 Weston 58:59. Quickest: L Fricker (Weston) 19:13

W45 (3x5km): 1 Westbury 60:02. Quickest: J Sanzo (B&W) 18:50

W55 (3x5km): 1 Westbury 68:49. Quickest: S Andrews (W’bury) 21:33

W65 (3x5km): 1 Westbury 87:53. Quickest: F Russell (W’bury) 24:39

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