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MASTERS ATHLETICS ROAD RACING & CROSS COUNTRY
For this season’s championships we visited Ruthin, a
BRITISH MASTERS 10 MILE CHAMPIONSHIP, SIDCUP 10 Mile small historical market town in North Wales. The
Race, Sunday 8th March 2015 course was a “traditional cross country course”, with
RESULTS the athletes having to negotiate farm yard paths,
M35: 1 405 John KETTLE VAC 54.56; 2 402 Matthew PYATT EVAC compared to the modern trend of circumnavigating the
55.13 ; 3 450 Jack CHIVERS SCVAC 65.15; M40: 1 458 Michael

ALDRIDGE MMAC 53.49; 2 300 Mark VAUGHAN EVAC 56.11; 3 498

Malcolm MUIR EVAC M35-44 56.39 ; 4 456 Stuart BEANEY VAC perimeters of football pitches. Entries for the event were
high; with our masters challenging the current analogy that
57.46 ; 5 446 Stephen ELSON SCVAC 58.36 ; 6 357 Lloyd COLLIER cross country participation is waning in the UK.
VAC M35-44 61.23 ; M45: 1 406 Graham GODDEN SCVAC 55.54 ; 2

373 Les BALL NVAC 56.17 ; 3 455 Matthew BLAND EVAC 59.20 ; 4

470 Paul HOLLOWAY VAC 59.26 ; 5 486 Stephen DAVIES VAC 60.42

; 6 435 Nicholas MALPELI EVAC 60.42 ; 7 419 James WALSH EVAC

62.24 ; 8 463 Mark PITCAIRN-KNOWLES SCVAC 67.09 ; 9 449 David

COULSON VAC 71.14 ; M50: 1 399 Simon WRIGHT NVAC 55.58 ; 2

440 Simon HART EVAC 57.32 ; 3 425 Sammy RASHID VAC 58.49 ; 4

434 Nick MARTIN SWVAC 60.11 ; 5 441 Mark HALLS SCVAC 61.04 ;

6 155 Eberhard PRILL VAC 62.06 ; 7 407 Martin CUNNINGHAM

SCVAC 63.35 ; 8 462 Don LAWLESS VAC 63.41 ; 9 260 Andrew

NOBLE SCVAC 63.58 ; 10 453 Colin BRETT VAC 64.56 ; 11 493 Terry

KNIGHTLEY SCVAC 67.18 ; 12 495 Robert FURSEY SCVAC 68.08 ;

13 38 Terence BARNES SCVAC 68.32 ; 14 482 Gideon FRANKLIN

VAC 68.53 ; 15 460 Martin HAWKINS SCVAC 70.43 ; 16 480 Ameet

PATEL VAC 82.08 ; M55: 1 430 Kevin NEWMAN NVAC 59.24 ; 2 418

Kevin WILLIAMS SCVAC 62.39 ; 3 120 Stephen SMYTHE VAC 63.38 ;

4 420 Tom ULLIOTT VAC 67.29 ; 5 192 William HAINING EVAC 69.51

; 6 98 Graham LAYLEE VAC 73.25 ; 7 459 Gerald MEAH EVAC 73.41

; 8 401 Steve SMITH SCVAC 73.45 ; 9 428 Stephen PARKER VAC

78.53 ;

10 485 Robert PAGE SCVAC 81.44 ; M60 1 429 Mick PAGE NVAC

63.43 ; 2 409 Douglas BRISCO SWVAC 63.55 ; 3 451 Andrew

CATTON SCVAC 68.18 ; 4 431 Alan NEWMAN SCVAC 70.02 ; 5 432

Andrew MURRAY VAC 71.48 ; 6 424 Rob SARGENT VAC 80.45 ;

M65 1 452 Philip BUSSEY NVAC 69.14 ; 2 468 Michael MANN VAC

69.46 ; M70: 1 415 Peter GILES VAC 70.57 ; 2 414 Terry FONE EVAC

77.03 ; 3 410 Philip BRENNAN MMAC 81.54 ; M75: 1 497 John

TAYLOR VAC 87.27 ; 2 417 Patrick DOBBS SCVAC 95.46 ; M80 1

457 Malcolm BALL EVAC 97.09 ; 2 427 Richard PITCAIRN-KNOWLES

VAC 125.05 ; Team M35-44 : 1 North Herts Road Runners (Mark

Vaughan, Nicholas Malpeli, James Walsh) 179.17 ; 2 Ilford AC

(Malcolm Muir, Paul Holloway, Terry Knightley) 183.23 ; 3 Dulwich

Runners AC (Stephen Davies, Lloyd Collier, Eberhard Prill) 184.11;

Team M45-54 1 Doncaster AC (Simon Wright, Kevin Newman, Mick

Page) 179.05; 2 Brighton & Hove City AC (Graham Godden, Mark

Halls, Tom Ulliott) 184.27 ; Team M55-64 1 Dulwich Runners AC

(Stephen Smythe, Michael Mann, Andrew Murray) 205.12; 2 Ilford AC

(Andrew Catton, Stephen Parker, Rob Sargent) 227.56; W35:

1 205 Joasia ZAKRZEWSKI SVHC 60.43; W40 1 58 Astrid MCKEOWN

SCVAC 65.57; 2 82 Nicola RICHMOND VAC 70.52; W45 1 216 Tina Claire
OLDERSHAW SCVAC 63.32 ; 2 21 Andrea PICKUP VAC 68.39 ; 3 57 Martin
Ola BALME VAC 70.17 ; 4 261 Caroline CURTIS SCVAC 72.31 ; 5 404
Camilla MOYLE SCVAC F45-54 74.36 ; 6 436 Melinda JONES VAC

76.19 ; W50 1 464 Clare ELMS VAC 62.03 ;2 421 Catherine ULLIOTT overall
Women’s
VAC 68.46 ; 3 484 Jenny HUGHES SCVAC 73.49 ; 4 481 Clare
WYNGARD VAC 76.03 ; 5 353 Heather MARTINGELL VAC 80.59 ; 6

499 Sarah ALLEN SCVAC 83.37 ; Champion
7 448 Dianne CRISP VAC 83.48; W55 1 212 Claire DONALD VAC

65.23 ; 2 473 Judith CARDER SCVAC 77.36 ; 3 474 Janice

MOOREKITE SCVAC 80.23 ; 4 85 Julia GALEA VAC 96.24 ; W60 1

400 Maggie STATHAM VAC 72.04 ; 2 467 Yuko GORDON EVAC

74.44 ; 3 496 Dorothy KESTERTON NVAC 77.56 ; 4 437 Sue JAMES Race One. (Approx. 6k) All Women’s age groups and
AC SCVAC 80.07 ; 5 445 Ursula ELWELL MMAC 98.23 ; W65 : 422 Men 65+

Rosalind TABOR VAC 75.25 ; W75: 1 444 Jeannette GILES SCVAC On the first small lap, before leading into the two larger
laps, a trio of Lucy Elliot, (Winchester & Dist.) Claire
114.42 ; Team F35-44: Dulwich Runners AC (Andrea Pickup, Ola
Balme, Nicola Richmond) 209.48; Team F45-54 1 Dulwich Runners AC

(Clare Elms, Rosalind Tabor, Clare Wyngard) 213.31; 2 Brighton & Martin (Telford) and Hayley Kuter (Salford) developed a
Hove City AC (Catherine Ulliott, Camilla Moyle, Judith Carder) 220.58 ; small 3 metre lead over the rest of the field. At the finish
3 Ilford AC (Melinda Jones, Dianne Crisp, Julia Galea) 256.31 of the second larger lap, Claire Martin had obtained a

10 metre lead over Helen Berry (Holmfirth) with Lucy

BMAF CROSS COUNTRY Elliot in close attendance. These 3 had now stretched
the field, putting a 100 metre gap between 4th placed

CHAMPIONSHIPS Eleanor Fowler (Nuneaton) and Kathryn Bailey
RUTHIN SCHOOL, (Winchester & Dist.)
At the finish line, a fast finishing Helen Berry just could

14th MARCH not catch the inform Claire Martin, losing out by just 3
seconds. Both athletes were contesting the o/40 age

Words: Mel James group medals, with 3rd finisher Lucy Elliott also showing
her younger rivals how to compete in winning the o/45

Pictures: Jeremy Hemming Gold Medal. Nuneaton’s Eleanor Fowler finished in 4th
place to take her deserved o/35 Gold Medal followed by

a pair of o/45’s from Winchester, Kathryn Bailey and

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