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MASTERS ATHLETICS SUMMER 2013.
advantage over Tynebridge’s Steve Cairns, who ran 15:27 Telford finished just 13th but could boast the two fastest
in coming from far back to pip fellow North-Easterners legs through regular BMAF medallist and international
Sunderland. Greg Wilson who ran 17:09 and Tony Power, though of
course two M60 competitors were significantly faster in the
M55 M35 race.
THE M55 race didn’t match the quality of winning times of
the two younger races but it was a much more exciting
event though the event does get lost amongst the M35s Roy
and M45s and as the winners finished 39th, the Treadwell
Photographer failed to take a single shot of the winning fastest
team, Les Croupiers, who won their first ever men’s title. M65
Salford, who were second last year were without the two
fastest overall legs of the 2012 race, Eric Williams and
Mike Deegan, but still had a good start as Stan Owen led in
leg one with 17:37 but by halfway the top six were within
around 200 metres of each other and a cracking race was
guaranteed.
Cobra were second on 17:40, Les Croupiers third on 17:52
and Dulwich (18:00) narrowly headed Stockport and Oxford
(both 18:03).
The Men’s Start M65
OXFORD CITY have dominated the M65 age group this
On the second leg, Salford’s Phil Quibell extended their leg year in a wide range of BMAF competitions and up against
to 22 seconds as Dulwich’s Adrian Greer 18:10 moved up the women, it was no surprise they did so again with new
to second with Blackheath and Bromley through Tim to the age group BMAF cross-country champion Roy
Soutar’s 17:54 closing up in third as they narrowly headed Treadwell being added to their winning squad of last year
Oxford and Stockport. Les Croupiers were sixth but only 20 and they broke their M65 record with ease.
seconds off the medals. Dave Parsons and John Exley timed identical 19:31’s
before Treadwell anchored with the fastest leg of 18:50,
Blackheath and Bromley overtook Salford on leg three with which left him just short of Parson’s race record of 18:41.
Clifford Keen’s 18:33 putting them five seconds ahead. Two minutes back, Elswick led off by Mark McNally’s
Les Croupiers and Dulwich took off level around 100 19:08, and then given support from Steve White’s 20:44
metres back on the leading pair with the others led by and England team manager Harry Matthews took second.
Wirral, Stockport and Oxford over 200 metres further back Trentham, with John Corbett’s 19:40 being their fastest,
Blackheath and Salford crested the first big hill together but were a clear third.
they were being closed down and ultimately neither would
even medal. W35:
SERPENTINE didn’t contest this race in 2012 and they
Les Croupiers anchor leg runner was 13:32 5km performer were surprise winners with consistent performances from
Dave James. Not yet back at full fitness, he struggled at their four runners.
the top of the hill and temporarily dropped to fourth. Arena’s Julie Briggs¸ broke clear early on in leg one with a
However, back on the flat, he recovered and showed the fast 17:15 and gave the Sussex club a clear lead of almost
class that still sees him in the UK top 15 all-time at 2 miles a minute in her age group from Heanor’s Louise Insley with
with his 8:20.28 in a race that saw him beat the likes of Serpentine in touch in fourth through Victoria Caterer’s
Barry Smith, Geoff Smith, Steve Jones and Julian Goater 18:19. Heanor went in front on leg two from Lisa Palmer’s
at Crystal Palace just before the Moscow Olympics. 18:08 though Telford’s Kim Fawke, who moved up 28
He easily went into the lead and his 17:53 gave them an places was easily the fastest with 17:35. Serpentine
eventual surprisingly easy 55 second victory. dropped to sixth as Teresa Gaillard de Laubenque, who
Wirral’s Kevin Buxton moved through strongly and his was in Dulwich’s winning team in 2010, suffered a stitch.
18:03 gave them the silver medals by 13 seconds. Dulwich,
who have won the three main women’s events, gained their On the third leg, Winchester’s W45s headed the overall
first ever men’s medal of any sort, as Steve Smythe held women’s race but Serpentine moved through to head the
off Salford’s, Stan Curran, who ran for England in the 1978 W35 race through Jane Fanning’s 18:37 as she edged two
Commonwealth Games marathon and could boast a seconds ahead of Arena’s Caroline Wood, who ran 18:55
2:14:08 PB from 1981. and was the fastest W35 on the leg.
The Sussex club, who had won the very first Masters
women’s race back in 1988, never gave up the chase
through Caroline Wood but they were without some of their
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