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performance came from W35 CarmelPorter with W40 Amanda Ruffin andW45 Alex Lloyd winning theirrespective age groups.In the 400m it was a welcome returnto the track of one of our bestperformers not only at our track meetsbut at other outside events as well, M40Jeff King. As one would have expectedhe was by far the best performer of therace with a record breaking 52.7 beatingRob Barbaro’s mark of 53.1 set back in1992. Age group bests came from M30John Donovan, M45 Ken Smith, M50George Kubitzky, M55 Alan Norden andM70 Jack Thackray. Of the four womenin the event the best performances camefrom W45 Sharon Gibbins and W50Maureen Rossiter.One of the best fields of the nightcame in the 800m with the top heatproducing one of the best races at thismeet. M40 Dale Moore led the way fromM35 Anthony Perry with never morethan a second between them, in the endDale was the stronger as they camedown the final straight to win by morethan that second. It was good to seeMaria O’Reilly has got over her injurythat threatened to put a spoke in theher AMG aspirations as she got backinto the swing of it with an easy win inthe women’s section of the 800m. Goodefforts also came from Bryce Anderson,Peter Cullen and Ken Phillips eventhough they didn’t win in their agegroups, as was also the case with DaveMcClelland and Jim White. Those agegroup wins went to M45 AndyHorsburgh, M50 George Kubitzky, M55Will Foster and M60 Tony Booth. In thewomen’s events wins came to W30Cecilia Schlegel, W40 Amanda Ruffin,W50 Maureen Rossiter, W55 Carol Kellyand W60 Val Chesterton.In the 200m hurdles where KerryBoden established her W45 record therewas a spectacular fall in the straightfrom John Donovan. Even though Johnhas easily coped with higher hurdles inthe men’s 110m races he seemed tofalter on these much lower hurdles as hehit the first hurdle in the straight prettyhard and went down. Fortunately forhim he managed to perform aspectacular roll as he came downalthough shaken but not badly hurt.It was a different story in the throwswith John winning the M30s in both thediscus and javelin. M35 Greg Harrisalso had a couple of wins in the hammerand shot. M55 Ray Green went onebetter winning all three throwing eventsthat were on offer, as did Jayne Hardyand Trish Thomas. Going through therest of the three throws at the hammerM45 Steve Wallace got up as did M70George Mencik and M80 EwenDrummond in the men’s division then inthe women’s division W60 Jan Daviesgot up.Turning to the javelin M35 RichardHolgate, M45 Martin Crowe, M50 DavidHaggith, M60 Kevin Blewitt and M65Terry Munro got wins. And for theladies the age group wins went to W40Kerry Boden, W50 Carmen Carlon andagain to W60 Jan Davies.At the shot the’ never say die’ shookoff his fall in the hurdles to win theM30s. Other wins went to M45 StephenDawes and M60 Robin White and forthe women the age wins went to W45Sharon Gibbins, W50 Carmen Carlonand W60 Jen Bourke.The final events for the week werethe second running of the 3000/5000mraces with only two tackling the 5000and six the 3000. In the shorter eventM40 Peter Cullen posted the best timefrom M55s Will Foster and Bob Parkerthen came M45 Nick Blackaby. The onlywomen in the event was W55 RosemaryParker. Then in the longer race M40Peter Brown won from M35 DamianRutledge.Early 3000mM40 Colin Farlow 10:25, Nick Mesher 10:46, MickCorlis 10:55, Ross Gregg 11:35M45 John Woodall 10:09, Michael Leahey 10:11, IanColquhoun 11:47M50 Ken White 13:16M55 Ken Eynon 11:55, Bob Parker 14:15, Will Foster14:20, Alan Norden 14:48M60 Robin Whyte 16:48December Vetrunner — Page 25In the distance races. Michael Leahey leads Colin Farlow from John Woodall andMick Corls in a 3000m race at the track.W35 Amanda Walker 13:20W40 Gabrielle Brown 15:13, Pam Faulks 15:44W45 Ann Marie Calnan 14:10W50 Carmel Lynch 17:38W55 Rosemary Parker 15:26, Brenda Ford 15:50,Alice Scott 16:15, Carol Kelly 18:15W65 Cory Collins 18:36.5000m EarlyM45 Andy Horsburgh 18:08, Nick Blackaby 25:38M55 Terry Levings 23:20W35 Sarah Fien 18:37.Triple JumpM30 John Donovan 7.53M35 Richard W Holgate 9.09M40 Andrew Endall 11.04M45 Nick Blackaby 6.62M65 Ray Bramwell 7.89.High JumpM30 David Simpson 1.52, John Donovan 1.35M45 Ken Smith 1.40M55 Stephen Watson 1.40M65 Ray Bramwell 1.10W45 Alex Lloyd 1.30.JavelinM30 John Donovan 24.21M35 Richard W Holgate 22.78M45 Martin Crowe 34.48, Steve Wallace 27.87,Stephen Dawes 23.76M50 David Haggith 30.04, Alex Turbin 24.28M55 Ray Green 29.54M60 Kevin Blewitt 31.82, Robin Whyte 23.86M65 Terry Munro 20.31, Ray Bramwell 17.38W40 Jayne Hardy 35.92, Margaret Mesher 11.03W45 Kerry Boden 28.31, Sharon Gibbins 20.96W50 Carmen Carlon 22.82W55 Trish Thomas 16.14W60 Jan Davies 18.20, Jean Heath 11.70, Nola DeChazal 9.96, Jenny Bourke 7.00.HammerM35 Greg Harris 26.09M45 Steve Wallace 24.79, Stephen Dawes 20.87M50 Alex Turbin 39.58, David Haggith 30.80M55 Ray Green 39.10M70 George Mencik 39.53M80 Ewen Drummond 21.90W40 Jayne Hardy 43.07