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MASTERS ATHLETICS TRACK & FIELD

Brooks 5:11.14; 3 Maureen McCartney EV 5:24.05; 3000: 1 McCartney five events in Hungary but said of her form this winter:
“I had December off and hope I will be ready for
11:16.18; 2 Jane Pidgeon MM 11:21.33; 3 Caroline Wood SC 11:28.22; Budapest.”
60H: 1 Gaye Clarke EV 10.64; 2 Hazel Barker NV 12.31; 3 Mel Garland
WM 13.88; 2000W: 1 Ann Wheeler MM 11:19.23; 2 2 Cath Duhig EV Caroline Powell moved up to the W60s and set a new
12:18.20; 3 Noel Blatchford SC 12:21.67; 4X200: 1 EVAC 2:05.32; 2 400m world record of 68.21, also adding the
SCVAC 2:08.65; 3 NVAC 2:13.61; HJ: 1 Clarke 1.33; 2 Alison Fenwick 200m.This despite, by her own admission, not doing
VAC 1.24; 3 Barker 1.24; PV: 1 Sue Yeomans SC 2.70; 2 Jenny Ibbitson much running training this winter: “I have had plantar
NV 1.80; 3 Caire St.John –Coleman WM 1.70; LJ: 1 Carole Filer EV fasciitis. I have done some gym work but no speed
4.42; 2 Garland 4.37; 3 Susan Richardson NV 4.16; TJ: 1 Mandy endurance.”
Rowley-Jones SC 9.29; 2 Richardson 8.62; 3 Filer 8.26; SP: 1

Charmaine Johnson EV 10.80; 2 Vilma Thompson SC 10.27; 3 Ibbitson
9.16;
W60:
60: 1 Moira West SC 9.38; 2 Emily McMahon EV 9.70; 3 Sally Hine MM
10.03; 400: 1 Caroline Marler NV 75.73; 2 West 78.75; 3 Angela Copson
MM 79.10; 800: 1 Copson 2:58.09; 2 Ros Tabor VAC 2:58.12; 3 Sue
Cooper NV 3:06.63; 3000: 1 Copson 1214.85; 2 Margaret Phillips EV
12:42.02; 4X200: 1 VAC 2:18.60; 2 SCVAC 2:20.66; 3 EVAC 2:32.09;
HJ; 1 McMahon 1.12; 2 Hine 1.09; 3 Linda Ahmet SC 1.09; LJ: 1 West
3.45; 2 Iris Holder WM 3.34; 3 Maria Williams NV 3.01; SP: 1 Liz Sissons
SC 8.97; 2 Fiona Crompton NV 7.79; 3 McMahon 7.37;

BMAF INDOOR
CHAMPIONSHIPS , LEE
VALLEY 8th &9th MARCH

(includes Outdoor Throws)

Words: Athletics Weekly’s left to right Sue James, Fiona Argent, New W60
Martin Duff, 400m World Record holder Caroline Powell,
Caroline Marler, Angela Copson.
Pictures Tom Phillips
Irie Hill
Competitors in these championships were watched by
warming up for the World Masters indoor event her Mother
in Budapest later in the month and many clears 3.52
showed world class form. for a World
Record.
Clare Elms with
her father

Clare Elms improved the W50 world 1500m record to Laura Mahady, the W55 800m world record holder
4:40.07 but only after agreeing to compete just as a won a 400/800m double to prove her World form
guest against the younger women, so as to be in a
faster race. Irie Hill had set a new world mark in Munich two
weeks earlier at 3.45m before improving her W45 pole
On the second day Elms doubled in the 800m and vault record here to 3:52, despite only scraping over
3000m and could have added another world best had her opening height. “The run up is very fast so I had to
she concentrated on just one of them. 2:21.69 in the
800 was just outside the world mark and she said: “I 30
wasn’t paying attention but, if I’d have known, I would
have gone for it.”

Angela Copson prepared for Budapest with three wins,
her best being in the 1500m at 5:40.02. She goes for