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MASTERS ATHLETICS TRACK & FIELD

go back three-quarters of a metre,” she said by way of World Records
explanation. in the Shot and
High Jumps,
Jane Horder was involved in an extremely close W55 and British
60m final, placing third behind Carole Filer and winner Records in the
Averill McClelland’s 8.79, also winning the W55 60 & LJ for
hurdles. Rosemary
Chrimes
In the sprints, Ellena Ruddock was up against new
W35 Lesley Owusu before winning the 60m in 7.90.
They were in A and B finals, because Owusu did not
declare a time on her entry. Owusu came back to take the
400m in 56.16. She said: “I’ve been ill for three weeks so it’s
nice to get it out of my system.” It was close in the 200m with
Ruddock just prevailing.

Left to right: Julia Hubbard, winner Lesley Two British
Owusu who still stands in tenth place on the UK Records for
All time 400 metre rankings, and Susan Young. Pete Molloy in
the 1500 and
The fastest sprinter was Esmei Tamunonengiye-Ossai the 3000 metres.
M35 winner in 7.08 before later adding the 200m in 22.75
60M:
The outdoor winter throws meeting saw W35 Andrea Jenkins M35 QR: 1 Esmei Tamunonengiye- Ossai- SCV -7.11-Q; 2--46 Joshua
post a hammer best of 46.43m, while Steve Whyte had a Wood-M39--SCV AC--7.25-Q; 3-Scott Craddock-SCV 7.34-Q; 4-Andrew
55.16m M45 hammer as a stand out effort before adding the Gordon-VAC--7.41-Q; 5-Dean Durant-Open-7.52-q; 6-Stuart Channon-
shot with 14.15m. VAC-7.55-q; 7-Richard Higson-Blythe-NV 7.61; 8-Chris Burgess-NV
7.69; 9-Leon Creaney-MM-7.90; 10-Nigel Hayman-EV 7.97; 11-Amr Ziko-
The only record in the outdoor arena came in the W50 javelin EV 8.02; Final: 1-Esmei Tamunonengiye- Ossai- SCV 7.08; 2 Joshua
where Caroline Garratt threw 37.54m but, generally, the
winter throws meet was of a lower class than the Indoors. 31
Rosemary Chrimes stayed inside and took four W80 gold’s
but misses Budapest.

There some good M60 middle distance races with Dave
Bedwell and David Oxland up against Dave Wilcock, who
made a bid for the 800m world best but fell short “I will have
to wait until next year now, as I didn’t enter Budapest as I
was injured,” he said.

New M65 Pete Molloy posted an M65 1500m European best
at 4:47.50 and said: “I didn’t expect that.” He then added two
British records, firstly over 800m at 2:24.48, then 10:20.10
3000m, on the Sunday.

A clash with the National senior 10 mile walk championship
in Victoria Park, saw the 3000m event brought forward so
that competitors could take in both meetings. Ian Richards
took advantage and set a new World best of 14:29.60 before
placing a distant third in the National Senior championship a
few hours later.