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MASTERS ATHLETICS SPRING 2013.
author, Sarandel of Sweden. Ian Allan placed 5th in
the M45 category. The ubiquitous all-rounder Carole
Filer, again moving from event to event, here
collected the W55 title in 1.30m the same height as
that constant visitor to our championships, Ireland’s
Lucy Moore-Fox. In the long jump Ian Allen again just
missed out on a medal, Paul Guest got 6th in the M50
and clearing 5.10m got Trevor Wade 6th M55. The
expected big entry in the shot did not materialise. A
putt of 18.35m gave the M35 German, Dittmar, gold,
Gary Newton got 5th (14.10m). John Nicolls retained
his European M45 title in 14.71sec as against 14.38m
in Gent two years ago. Alex Kruger was 6th and after
just missing out on a medal in the M70 hammer, Eric
Barber did get a medal after all to give to his new
granddaughter, bronze with an 11.93m effort.
For the throwers their trip was worth every penny.
After such a long cold winter how it must have felt to
get into shorts and T-shirt for their event as the
temperature did not go below 8⁰ on the coldest night
and on most day crept up to 20⁰ with a shower or two
and an occasional overcast day. The sprinters and
hurdlers chose to warm up outside in the sunshine.
After her clean sweep in the freezing conditions at Lea
Valley, W40 Sue Lawrence had to throw further here
for silver and bronze. M35 Stuart Thurgood 2nd
(15.92) and W60 Vilma Thompson got in the medals in
the weight.
Back indoors the 60/200m finals got the spectators on
their feet. Ellena Ruddock’s consummate double,
(7.72) and (25.14); neither Safarikova of Cz Rep. or
Karperova of Slovenia threatened the British double
champion. W35 Julia Hubbard and W60 Moira West
snatched a 200m bronze. Caroline Powell was to get
her second gold and silver in the 60m. Mark Collins
was not quite as sharp in the M35 sprint as in Lea
Valley but made the final.
Mark Dunwell has the tall blond 1996 Olympic long
jumper, Mattias Sunneborn, in his age category and
here the Swede added the European M40 60m title to
his outdoor 100m, winning in 7.05 to Mark’s 7.09,
Jason Carty picked up the bronze medal and with Jim
Tipper and Joe Appiah also getting through for a
British final dominance. Tipper and Brian Derby went
on to place 2nd and 3rd in the 200m. Podium places
also went to M50 Pat Logan with gold/silver in the
60/200m and Tennyson James got his second silver.
Having been beaten by Alasdair Ross at Lea Valley,
Wally Franklyn just held him off in the 60m here, 7.93
– 7.98, but Wally was well clear of the Italian, Soru, in
the 200m. Glyn Sutton also made it a M65 double
setting a British 60m record and handing the current
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World Champion and WMA Male Masters Athlete of
Year, the off colour Vladim Vybostok of Slovakia, a
double defeat. Victor Novell was a finalist. Tony
Bowman 2nd and Colin Field were M75 finalist and the
British champion, George Cheetham had to run semis
in both his M80 60/200 and thoroughly deserved his
gold/silver and relay medals.
The British 800/1500m entrants ran good tactical
qualifying races and despite all running faster than at
Lee Valley, still struggled to get into the top three or
even to qualify in the younger groups. Louise Rudd
ran considerably faster than at Lea Valley but her
2.18.77 effort was only good enough for 4th W35. She
ran very well again to get 3rd in the 1500m. It is nine
years since Nancy Hitchmough ran 2.34.33 in Cardiff
for a W55 European record; that has now been
swiped by Laura Mahady who set a World 2.27.84
mark after bolting to the front and drawing away from
the chasing field. Nancy herself got the 800 in a
Championships record and later added the 1500m.
Angela Copson completed her four races with four
gold medals and two new World records! The host
nation did not get the anticipated medal haul despite
saturating the entries. A time of 2.26.62/5.03.94sec
was needed to take the W50 races; both M35/40
800m were won in sub 2-minutes with Mark Turner,
3rd M40 and Mike Toal both ducking under. It was a
clean British sweep in the M45 1500m as Spain-based
David Cowlishaw led Simon Anderson and Adrian
Haines home and Steven Allen got within a whisker of
winning the 800m. Joe Gough of Ireland looked as if
he might be in the wrong age group, he had in fact
just moved up into the M60, as he set off to
successfully defend his double European titles. David
Oxland gave chase settling for the bronze.
Joe Appiah had an 8.47 victory over the French
hurdler Christian Richard (8.73) in the M40 60mH. Des
Wilkinson got ahead of the World Masters Track Vice-
President, Serge Beckers of Belgium with an equally
impressive win in the M50. Glen Reddington and Paul
Edwards were finalists. It was gold also for M70 Barry