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MASTERS ATHLETICS TRACK & FIELD

tarmac. Indeed she finished third British Female in the
London Marathon in 2h 39.43 just outside the 2h38:00
required for European Selection.

It’s not often we see an Olympian turning out in a
domestic Masters meeting.

Firstly four British Records, the day’s first going to Neil However, that unusual event occurred in the
Tunstall who shaved 1/100th of a second from his own EAMA Challenge at Solihull.
Record with 14.39 in the day’s second event, the 100 metres
Hurdles. The Athlete in question is Sue Richardson who
finished second in the Women’s 50 Triple Jump,
Moira West set the second, finishing second to the younger who resumed her athletic career after a 24 year
Caroline Marler. Her time of 73.48 seconds for the W65 400 break.
metres being almost a second faster than Angela Copson’s
record set in the 2012 European Veterans Championships. The picture
shows the then
Susan Hearnshaw
winning the
Bronze Medal in
the 1984 Los
Angeles Olympic
Long Jump,
where she
finished behind
two Romanian
Competitors, the
distance that day
6.80 metres.

Moira West, Helen Godsell, Lyn Ahmet & Viv Bonner Her personal best is 6.83 , which is 5th on the UK
British 4x100m W60 Record. all time rankings, she is also the only British
Women to have broken the Seven Metre mark,
It is not usual for a Club Team to set a British Record, but with a windy jump at Cwmbran on 27th May 1983.
that is precisely what the Southern Counties Veterans Club
W60 team did. She also won the European Indoor title in 1984,
prior to the seven wins by Galina Christyakova
The squad of Viv Bonner, Moira West, Lyn Linda Ahmet and and Heike Drechsler.
Helen Godsell clocked 59.78, faster than the British Team .
managed in Brisbane in 2001. The day’s big winner was Diana Norman (SC) who scored no
less than 32 points with her for wins, 80H, 400, HJ and TJ.
Kevin Murch has been throwing Javelin for an awfully long
time, and set a British best of 54.47 improving on the record There were also 19 further Athletes who had double success
he set in June. they were: Terry Bissett, Karen Brooks, Helen Channon,
Julie Briscoe from Northern Vets was a runaway victor in the Angela Copson, Neil Griffin, Iris Holder, Jane Horder, Alyson
Women’s 300 metres winning by almost 36 seconds from Hourihan, Luke Humphries, Andrea Jenkins, Caroline Marler,
Eastern Counties Ellen Leggate. Julie’s track appearances Louise Rudd, Raspal Singh, Neil Tunstall, Steve Whyte, Ray
being somewhat of a rarity as most of her running is done on Watkins, Dave Wilcock, Joshua Wood and John Wright.

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