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MASTERS ATHLETICS CROSS COUNTRY
The third race, 4 laps over the 8k distance contested by the that team selection is a very difficult and unenviable role
Men 35+ to 45+ (3 age groups)
Matt
Barnes
Race Three
Winner
On the second lap England’s Matt Barnes held a
comfortable lead over second and third contenders Mark
Ryan (Ireland) and England’s Chris Greenwood from the
45+ group. Barnes held his still comfortable lead on the
commencement of the final lap with Chris Greenwood now
in second position closely followed by Ryan and Scotsman
Andy Gilroy. Matt Barnes maintained his lead to win his
Gold medal, with Chris Greenwood finishing second to win
his Gold medal in the 40+ age group. The fast finishing
Scotsman Robert Gilroy was third, gaining his 35+ Silver
medal, with Ireland’s Mark Ryan receiving the Bronze. The
Medal positions were very close with England just edging
out Ireland for the 35+ Gold, by just one point.
England’s Mark Aldridge and Mark Johnson had a close
battle for the 40+ Silver and Bronze Medals, with Aldridge
just gaining a two second advantage. Their 1-2-3 put
England’s 40+ safely into the Medal winning position.
Last year’s runaway age group and race winner Tim
Hartley repeated his 45+ Gold performances, still
managing to finish in 6th place overall. His England team-
mates, Paul Ward (Silver) and John Scott (Bronze) making
it another 1-2-3 for the hosts. David Lockett completed the
team scoring for another England Gold.
The final race, the Open, combining the 6k+8k distances,
gave the chance for the reserves to compete and compare
their times to those of the chosen team members. Men’s
winner, Mark Powell and Women’s winner Eleanor Fowler
were amongst the few that did just manage to run quicker
times than the selected team members on the day. Proving
and anything can happen on any given day.
My utmost thanks are conveyed to EAMA, for hosting the
event, especially the members of the main committee, Phil
Lee, David Lesley, Mick Smedley and Irene Nicholls. It is a
huge task for our associations to undertake every five
years.
Next year, we will all hopefully meet in Dublin on the 14th
November, where we will renew our acquaintances and
enjoy the craic.
Dic Evans
50 years a
Welsh
International
Race 1 –
M65: 1 6529 Terry Eakin NIR 23:51; 2 6525 Martin McEvilly ROI 23:59;
3 6526 Pat Collins ROI 23:59; 4 6521 Michael Mann ENG 23:59;
5 6524 Roy Teadwell ENG 24:09; 6 6535 Alex Sutherland SCO 24:23;
7 6540 Sandy Johnstone WAL 24:24; 8 6527 Barry Potts ROI 24:30; 9
6530 Gerry Lynch NIR 24:57; 10 6522 Christopher Mason ENG 25:01;
11 6528 Tom Hunt ROI 25:10; 12 6534 Robert Marshall SCO 25:13; 13
6523 Harry Matthews ENG 25:22; 14 6539 Dic Evans WAL 25:50; 15
6536 Stewart McCrae SCO 26:02; 16 6532 David Seaton NIR 26:11;
17 6538 David Smout WAL 26:29; 18 6537 Paul Allen WAL 26:35; 19
6531 David Nicholson NIR 26:54; 20 6533 Hamish Cameron SCO
38:45; TEAM: 1 ROI 13 (2 Martin McEvilly, 3 Pat Collins , 8 Barry Potts
2 ENG 19 (4 Michael Mann, 5 Roy Teadwell, 10 Christopher Mason);
3 N.Ireland 26 (1 Terry Eakin, 9 Gerry Lynch, 16 David Seaton); 4 SCO
33 ( 6 Alex Sutherland, 12 Robert Marshall, 15 Stewart McCrae);
5 WAL 38 (7 Sandy Johnstone, 14 Dic Evans, 17 David Smout);
M70: 1 7022 Martin Ford ENG 24:01; 2 7036 Robert Young SCO
25:15; 3 7037 Gordon Orme WAL 25:17; 4 7024 Peter Hall ENG 25:24;
5 7033 Pete Cartwright SCO 25:49; 6 7021 Tony Brackstone ENG
26:13; 7 7023 John Houghton ENG 26:17; 8 7026 Christy McMonagle
ROI 26:47; 9 7039 John Gardener WAL 27:35; 10 7025 Terry Mee ROI
27:36; 11 7034 Gibson Fleming SCO 27:37; 12 7038 Peter Moody
WAL 27:43; 13 7028 Pat Bonass ROI 27:49; 14 7027 Pat Healy ROI
29:03; 15 7040 Barrie Roberts WAL 29:10; 16 7029 Jim Platt NIR
29:10; 17 7035 Watson Jones SCO 30:00; 18 7030 Michael Gilmore
NIR 33:33; TEAM: 1 ENG 11 (1 Martin Ford, 4 Peter Hall, 6 Tony
Brackstone); 2 SCO 18 (2 Robert Young, 5 Pete Cartwright, 11 Gibson
Fleming); 3 WAL 24 (3 Gordon Orme, 9 John Gardener, 12 Peter
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