Ben Robinson, Morag Millar and Fiona Matheson have been amongst these to shine on the British Masters Cross Nation Champs on March 15
Tollcross Park hosted the championships, as Scotland took its flip to stage the British Masters occasion, however the entry degree was disappointing and the 2 separate races noticed solely 130 finishers throughout all age teams.
However, there was nonetheless high quality as Bristol & West’s Ben Robinson, who was third general final yr and third within the World Masters occasion, had a cushty victory general and took the M35 class.
This was by almost a minute from high M40 Conrad Franks, who was within the England crew within the veterans’ Worldwide on the similar venue again in November.
Very long time Welsh servant Huw Evans retained his M50 crown after being chased residence by Cambuslang’s Justin Carter, as Chris Upson, the World Masters 5000m champion, added the M60 crown as his Cambuslang membership once more scored.
The over-65 males ran with the ladies, over the shorter 6km distance and Ifan Lloyd, the Worldwide Masters champion from November’s race in Belfast, gave Wales one other victory and did so by almost a minute over Colin Donnelly, the 2020 M60 champion who solely hardly ever races exterior of the Borders League.
Scottish Masters Worldwide runners Tony Martin, Alex Sutherland and three-time Worldwide Masters winner Bobby Younger, took the M70, M75 and M80 gold medals.
The ladies’s occasion noticed Central’s Morag Miller, a former junior worldwide, win comfortably from fellow W35 Sarah Winstone as Helen Leigh was high W40 in third.
Miller received the AAA’s under-17 800m title in 2001 and the 2005 under-20 1500m championship earlier than happening to put fourth within the 2008 Euro cross under-23 occasion.
More moderen runs embody a second place within the Glasgow leg of the UK Athletics Cross Problem in January of this yr. Leigh was eleventh general and high W40 in that race.
Scottish Masters internationals Katrine Kelly was high W45, while Claire Heasman took the W50 crown.
She was chased residence by a uncommon English girl winner Kate Ramsey, who has returned to the game lately after a succession of wins within the youthful girls’s age teams, took the W55 gold.
Maybe essentially the most distinguished winner among the many girls was W60 Fiona Matheson who has received her age group within the Masters Worldwide towards the Irish, eight occasions.
The 2023 W60 champion Carole Web page returned to win the W65 crown.
Total (M35-M64, 8km): 1 B Robinson (B&W) 23:54; 2 C Franks (Gate, M40) 24:46; 3 D Alexander (Gate) 35:34
M40: 2 J McCleod (Garst) 26:47
M45: 1 I Reid (Cambus) 26:21; 2 G Robertson (Cambus) 26:21; 3 L Marshall (Newark) 27:01
M50: 1 H Evans (P Bryn) 26:40; 2 J Carter (Cambus) 26:51; 3 B Brodie (Bella) 27:05
M55: 1 R Patterson (I’Clyde) 27:11; 2 S Cairns (HBT) 28:05; 3 M King (Cambus) 28:22
M60: 1 C Upson (Cambus) 27:16; 2 M Whyatt (Eryri) 27:53; 3 M Robinson (B&W) 28:35
M35 TEAM: 1 Inverclyde 85:05; 2 Garstang 85:42
M45 TEAM: 1 Cambuslang 79:39
M55 TEAM: 1 Cambuslang 84:07
M65 (6km): 1 I Lloyd (Swan) 20:58; 2 C Donnelly (Cambus) 21:53; 3 P Merrison (Sund) 22:37
M70: 1 A Martin (Fife) 24:36
M75: 1 A Sutherland (I’ness) 26:59
M80: 1 B Younger (C’dale) 32:09
M65 TEAM: 1 Cambuslang 68:55; 2 Warrington 74:01
Girls (6km): 1 M Millar (Cent) 20:07; 2 S Winstone (Soton) 20:43; 3 H leigh (B’burn, W40) 21:04
W40: 2 S Inexperienced (Gala) 21:16
W45: 1 Okay Kelly (Kilm) 21:58; 2 M James (S Lon) 22:16
W50: 1 C Heaseman (Helen) 22:51; 2 A Chong (Giff) 23:32
W55: 1 Okay Ramsey (Charn) 23:04; 2 F Prue (Springwell) 23:57
W60: 1 F Matheson (Falk) 23:56
W65: 1 C Web page (Alnw) 25:03
W70: 1 M Statham-Berry (Ling) 28;20
W75: 1 D Henderson (Giff) 35:46
W35 TEAM: 1 Garstang 74:48; 2 Linlithgow 77:16; 3 Forres 80:55
W45 TEAM: 1 Heaton 83:49; 2 Giffnock 85:38
W55 TEAM: 1 Edinburgh 78:49
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