Double Birmingham League winner and Midland Cross Nation Champs runner-up, Omar Ahmed led all through the Bathtub Half-Marathon on Sunday (March 17) after going via 3km in 8:25 earlier than successful in 64:42, Martin Duff stories.
Dylan Evans chased onerous all the method and was 17 seconds down on the Birchfield runner’s 14:51 at 5km and the margin modified by solely a second or two at every subsequent checkpoint earlier than ending a cushty second in 64:54.
London Marathon-bound Becky Briggs took the ladies’s race in 74:24 however adopted eventual runner-up Anna Domville via 5km in 17:07 earlier than going forward earlier than 9km then surging away to win by half-a-minute.
Total: 1 O Ahmed (Bir) 64:42; 2 D Evans (SB) 64:54; 3 A Lawrence (VP&TH) 65:37; 4 J Escalante-Phillips (C&C) 66:04; 5 J Hoad (THH) 66:05; 6 S Hogan (Soton) 66:21
M40: 1 M Edwards (W Tempo) 68:55
M45: 1 R Michlaeson-Yeates (S&SH) 71:23
M50: 1 M Jennings (MMM) 73:21
M55: 1 L Aherne (P Bryn) 75:23
M60: 1 P Reddaway (Ware) 86:03
M65: 1 M White (B Pear) 98:40
M70: 1 I Newsham (L Goat) 98:55
M75: 1 P Rogers (T Bathtub) 1:58:11
Ladies: 1 B Briggs (CoH) 74:24; 2 A Domville (T Bathtub) 74:54; Ok Olding (TVH) 75:15; 4 C Arnell 77:31; 5 R Anderbury 78:41
W40: 1 A Harrold (Truro) 79:13
W50: 1 Ok Harris (Excessive) 80:36
W55: 1 A Riddell-Webster (Fulham) 84:41
W60: 1 C Hawling (Chelt) 1:41:07
W65: 1 J Hutchinson 98:17
W70: 1 A Dockery (W’bury) 1:56:33
Pete Robinson (Mark Easton)
ESSEX 20, Saffron Waldon, March 17
In his first race of the 12 months, Peter Robinson took the Essex title for the third 12 months in a row however his 1:47:27 victory was down on his earlier outings, though he did lead Essex to an inter-county title, Martin Duff stories.
In her first enterprise over the gap, Verity Hopkins took the ladies’s part by greater than a minute in 1:57:42, a time that out to bode nicely for a marathon debut inside 2:40.
Total: 1 P Robinson (S’discipline) 1:47:27; 2 B Stephenson (Dart, M40) 1:48:42; 3 J Eves (Mattress C, M40) 1:49:32; 4 J Entwistle (WG&EL) 1:50:43; 5 P Molyneux (S’discipline, M40) 1:50:44; 6 O Knowles (Petts W) 1:50:53
M50: 1 T Farrer (Hunts) 2:02:07
M55: 1 C Dyce 2:04:28
M60: 1 O Dare (Witham) 2:09:01
M65: 1 C Stephenson (Col H) 2:23:23
M70: 1 D Butler (Invoice’cay) 2:23:47
Inter-County TEAM: 1 Essex 5:29:11; 2 Kent 5:30:42; 3 Cambs 5:42:37; 4 Suffolk 5:49:45; 5 Norfolk 5:49:58; 6 Sussex 5:56:54; 7 Herts 6:02:36
Verity Hopkins (Mark Easton)
Ladies: 1 V Hopkins (Ton) 1:57:42; 2 R Wild (Col H 2:08:29; 3 L Barnes 2:09:11; 4 E Baverstock (Orion) 2:09:54; 5 S Overington (S’discipline) 2:10:17; 6 H Mann (St Alb) 2:10:38
W40: 1 Ok Woodward (Ware) 2:10:45
W45: 1 E Fogg (N For) 2:14:37
W50: 1 E Prideaux (S’discipline) 2:14:32
W55: 1 S Roberts (Colt) 2:40:46
W60: 1 W Aldridge (Dengie) 3:07:43
W65: 1 G Bullen (Thurr) 3:18:16
W70: 1 S Veerasamy (Dag 88) 4:00:24
Inter-County TEAM: 1 Essex 6:29:36; 2 Herts 6:35:51; 3 Sussex 6:37:50; 4 Suffolk 6:46:16; 5 Norfolk 6:47:15; 6 Cambs 6:50:53; 7 Hants 6:54:29; 8 Kent 6:55:17
Essex’s successful girls’s staff (Mark Easton)
SPORTSSHOES PODIUM FESTIVAL, Leicester, March 16
The elite girls’s race noticed 5 of the highest six British girls dwelling make the most of a mix of excellent circumstances, prize cash and go-faster sneakers to set private bests, Martin Duff stories.
Behind Kenyan Caroline Nyaga’s 14:59, Abbie Donnelly led the non-public finest cost with 15:18 forward of Melissa Courtney-Bryant’s 15:27. Her time was matched by Verity Ockenden, who was the one main Brit not on PB kind.
For the elite males, it was Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet who received dwelling forward of Amos Langat and Daniel Kosen in 13:19. In fourth spot Irish junior Nick Griggs was additionally in private finest kind with a Northern Eire file of 13:39.
The most effective of the Brits was Will Barnicoat with 13:43 forward of 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman’s 13:52.
Elite males (A Race): 1 H Gebrhiwet (ETH) 13:19; 2 A Langat 13:24; 3 D Kosen (KEN) 13:27; 4 N Griggs (IRE, U20) 13:39; 5 B Magnusson (ICE) 13:42; 6 W Barnicoat 13:43; 7 V Ortiz-Rivera ((PUR) 13:43; 8 J West 13:44; 9 D Kimaiyo 13;48; 10 A Different 23;49; 11 J Wightman (Edin) 13:52; 12 I Balabanov (BUL) 13:54; 13 Z Seddon (Brack) 13;55; 14 M Chazarra 14:00; 15 R Allen (Leeds) 14:01
B Race:
1 T Crockett (Exe U) 14:13; 2 J Woods (Price) 14:21; 3 J O’Farrell (Liv) 14:21
Sub 15 race:
1 J Smith (kend) 14:18; 2 H Jonas (Norw, u20) 14:25; 3 L Sone (AFD) 14:30
Elite girls: 1 C Nyaga (KEN) 14:59; 2 A Donnelly (Linc W) 15:18; 3 M Courtney-Bryant (Poole) 15:27; 4 V Ockenden (Swan) 15:27; 5 J Lau-Share 15:33; 6 Ok Axford (Belg) 15:34; 7 M Davies (Sale)
15:34; 8 A Quirk (Brack) 15:35; 9 C Ruiz 15:35; 10 C Gallardo 15:37
B Race
1 H Taunton (Taunt) 16:41; 2 L Armitage (Sale) 16:44; 3 V Hiscock (Learn) 16:47
FRIDAY NIGHT UNDER THE LIGHTS, Battersea Park, London, March 15
Total (Race 1): 1 M Sunderland (Wok, U20) 15:29
Ladies: 1 S Twell (AFD) 16:27; 2 B Wooden (Salis, U20) 16:36
Total (Race 2):
1 W Douglas (W Tempo) 15:48
Ladies: 1 M Deadman (BMH) 16:25; 2 P Craig-McFeeley (Herne H) 16:54; 3 L Main (THH) 17:01
Total (Race 3):
1 T Sycklemore (BMH) 14:25; 2 C Thorne (Cambus) 14:27; 3 H Hart (Belg) 14:28
Martin Sunderland (Cliff Conceal)
NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE HALF-MARATHON & 10km, Scunthorpe, March 17
Jordan Skelly was a minute exterior his finest when successful general in 66:33 but it surely was sufficient to see off a problem from Elliott Smales by 25 seconds, Martin Duff stories.
Heather Townsend, who ran 2:37:01 in final 12 months’s London Marathon, took the ladies’s part in 74:40, two minutes away from Metropolis of Leeds staff mate Camilla McKnespley.
Total (13.1M): 1 J Skelly (Linc W) 66:33; 2 E Smales (Roth) 66:58; 3 W Strangeway (Linc W) 67:07; 4 J Corridor (Leeds) 67:14; 5 J Rainsford (Heanor) 67:43; 6 J Johnson (Bev) 67:49
M40: 1 J Younger (Knares) 75:45
M45: 1 J Wilson (Brid) 75:45
M50: 1 J Walton (Leeds) 64:25
M55: 1 C Lynam 80:34
M60: 1 C Gibbs 82:30
M65: 1 R Jones (Trent P) 98:00
M75: 1 J Willis (Skeg) 1:47:23
Ladies: 1 H Townsend (Leeds) 74:40; 2 C McKnespley (Leeds) 76:45; 3 A Pearse (Metal) 77:19; 4 C Thornton (Linc W) 77:48; 5 Ok Ballantyne-Chalmers (Leeds) 81:15; 6 C Brock (Metal, W35) 82:36
W40: 1 R Cole (Linc W) 83:48
W50: 1 H Corridor (Knaves) 87:32
W55: 1 J Bolton (Kimber) 95:46
W60: 1 F Usher (Linc &D) 91:32
W65: 1 C Wheelhouse (Donc) 99:20
W70: 1 D Kesterton (Metal) 1:43:09
Total (10km): 1 M Bowser (Linc W, M40) 31:09; 2 D Garbutt (Durh) 31:24; 3 S Robinson (Linc W) 31:30
Ladies: 1 S Kemshall (St Ther) 35:29; 2 L Race (Barns, W35) 38:32; 3 A Scales 39:02
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