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MASTERS ATHLETICS TRACK & FIELD

of 4,000 in the W40. Melanie Garland W50, Monica Brown
and Pat Oakes all scored over 3,000 points in their events.
Tayna Daniels won the W35 with 2328.

                                                               KEVIN MURCH                                                   Ian Miller
                                                               not only won the                                              Set a new British
                                                               M55 Throws                                                    Record in the M80
                                                               Pentathlon, but                                               Throws
                                                               also set a M55
                                                               Javelin Record        In the M40/45 event Mark Couldwell M40 was fastest with
                                                               with 55.10.           32:02.89, second was Nick Jones M40 with 32:19.83 and
                                                                                     John Scott M45 third with 33:04.98.
British Records came in the M65 Throws Pentathlon for Neil
Griffin with 4,193 points, and Ian Miller in the M80 event with                      In the over 50 group Simon Wright was fastest with 34:29.63,
4,019 points. Another British Record was achieved by Kevin                           over 55 Andy Wetherill was second with 35:33.37 and over
Murch in the Javelin element of the M55 event, Kevin                                 55 Michael Bridgeland third with 35:51.47.
punctuated his winning points total of 3,541, with a massive
55.10 Javelin effort.                                                                The over 60 group saw Dave Cox home in 36:51.06, Dave
                                                                                     Oxland finish second in 37:56.84 and Chris Mason finished
Dave Burrell scored 3,981 points to win the M50 events,                              in third with 39:42.38. Martin Ford M70 had a great run to
Steve Timmins 3,163 in the M35, David Kuester 3,150 in the                           take fourth place with 40:55.18.
M70 and John Wild 3,042 to win the M60 event.
                                                                                     In the Walk Steve Allen was the fastest with 56:46.60, and
John Twiddle scored 2,974 points to win the M45 group and                            Noel Blatchford W65 the fastest Woman in 1h: 07:07.65.
Rick Housley 1,914 to take the M35 group.
                                                                                     It was nice to see Combined Events Guru Ian Thomas over
Liz Sissons was the highest scorer in the Women’s Throws                             the weekend. Ian has moved away from compiling the results
Pentathlon with 3,794 points in the W70’s. Debbie Much                               of our meetings having retired. It was great to hear that he
matched her husband’s performance in taking the W55                                  will continue to compile the Combined Events ranking as he
group with 3,339 points in the W55’s. Andrea Jenkins won                             has successful done for many years, following an
the W35’s with 3313, Julie Wilson accumulated 3012 in the                            overwhelming request by the Competitors for him to continue
W50, event.                                                                          the doing so!

Janet Smith was the victor in the W45’s with 3108 pts, whilst                        10000:
Sue Lawrence totalled 2955 pts in the W40’s. Barbara Terry                           W35: 1-Thompson, Claire-SVHC-40:15.88; 2-Lathwell, Christine-EVAC-
scored 2828 in the W65’s, Sue Dassie 2533 in the W60’s                               41:43.49; W40: Spencer, Steph-MMAC-41:13.78; W45: Terribile,
and Barbara Dunsford 1728 points in the W75’s.                                       Rosemary-SWVAC 40:33.26; W50: Dennison, Andrea-NVAC 45:46.48;
                                                                                     W55: 1-Duckworth, Gail-EVAC-41:31.76; 2-Farmer, Diane-SCVAC-
The 10,000 metres were held on the Sunday. Claire                                    44:54.82; W60: 1-Statham, Maggie-VAC-43:48.51; 2-Kilkenny, Christine-
Thompson W35 was the overall Women’s winner with                                     MMAC-44:18.33; W65: Moody, Margaret-VAC-45:22.24; W70: Johnson,
40:15.88, W45 winner Rosemary Terrible ran her close with                            June-MMAC-51:25.55; M35: 1-Nelson, Stuart-EVAC-33:12.76; 2-
40:33.26, third came Steph Spencer W40 in 41:13.78.                                  Millward, Stephen-MMAC-33:26.02; 3-Prady, Robert-EVAC-36:30.35;
Gail Duckworth was in good form with a fourth place finish in                        M40: 1-Couldwell, Mark-MMAC-32:02.89; 2-Jones, Nick NVAC-32:19.83;
41:31.76.                                                                            3-Thomas, Justin-SWVAC-33:58.89; 4-White, Robert-NVAC-34:27.01;
                                                                                     M45: 1-Scott, John-SWVAC-33:04.98; 2-Hollinshead, Christopher
                                                                                     MMAC-33:50.73; 3-Tomlinson, Richard-VAC-33:58.05; 4-Beecham,

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