Atheltics Weekly

RESULTS
OVERSEAS
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS?
DOES home advantage really work?
The Italians and Danes didn’t
particularly excel in the weekend’s
big two championships. Britain should
have their best Worlds but, on current
form and fitness, Mo Farah is the
only likely individual medallist. However, an inspired team
performance in front of an enthusiatic home crowd could
turn those likley fourths and fifths into medals.
TUNSTALL WORLD BRONZE
ITALY
World Mountain Running
Championship, Premano, July 30
THE men’s race in the Italian mountains
was won by Ugandan Victor Kiplangat
(52:31) as the African nation enjoyed a
clean sweep, with Joel Ayeko and Fred
Musobo following Kiplangat home.
Kenyan Lucy Wambui (61:26) was
a clear women’s winner on the same
13km course, ahead of Austrian Andrea
Mayr while Sarah Tunstall of Great
Britain took the bronze in 64:16.
Earlier this month, Tunstall won
a silver medal at the European
Championships ahead of Mayr.
Two years ago the Briton was
fourth at these championships to
prove herself among the world’s most
consistent mountain athletes.
The UK team placed fifth overall,
just three points down on bronze
medallists Czech Republic.
Katie Walshaw and Rebecca
Hilland finished 20 th and 21 st , though
Rebecca Robinson recovered from a
fall at the start of the race to finish in
32 nd position.
Andy Douglas maintained his good
form on the mountains to lead the
men’s team home in a fine ninth place.
His 57:32 timing helped the men’s
team finish a fighting fifth.
Both Chris Smith and Graham
Gristwood made the top 25 but Joe
Steward found the going tougher and
was outside the top 50.
The GB junior women’s team
frustratingly missed out on the bronze
medal by just one point to Italy.
Sarah Tunstall:
bronze in Italy
Scarlet Dale and Heidi Davies made
the top eight and only lost out on a
top- five place in the sprint finish.
Annabelle McQueen and Bella
Williams were top 25.
Joshua Boyle led home the junior
men’s team in 14 th with teammate
Chris Richards close behind in 16 th .
Nathan Smith’s 26 th place saw
Britain seventh. .
Men: 13km: 1 V Kiplangat (UGA)
52:31; 2 J Ayeko (UGA) 52:50; 3 F
Musobo (UGA) 53:57; 4 J Gray (USA)
55:35; 5 P Mamu (ERI) 55:45; 9
ANDREW DOUGLAS 57:32; 23 CHRIS
SMITH (M40) 59:43; 25 GRAHAM
GRISTWOOD 59:57; 51 JOE STEWARD
63:54; 53 Z Hanna (Newc/IRL) 64:37;
57 A Annett (NBH/IRL) 66:14. TEAM: 1
UGA 6l; 2 ITA 25; 3 USA 34; 5 GBR 57.
U20 men: 6.5km: 1 O Chelimo (UGA)
26:46; 2 D Pattis (ITA) 27:42; 3 T Hull
(USA) 28:01;14 JOSHUA BOYLE (U17)
29:28; 16 CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
29:48; 26 NATHAN SMITH (U17)
30:23; ALEX EDIKER (U17) DNF. TEAM:
1 UGA 13; 7 GBR 56. Women: 13km:
1 L Wambui Murigi (KEN) 61:26; 2 A
Mayr (AUT) 62:44; 3 SARAH TUNSTALL
64:16; 4 M Mathys (SUI) 66:02; 5 A
McLaughlin (USA) 66:06; 20 KATIE
WALSHAW 71:00; 21 REBECCA
HILLAND (V35) 71:18; 32 REBECCA
ROBINSON 75:41. TEAM: 1 USA 26;
2 ITA 32; 3 CZE 41. U20: 6.5km: 1 R
Chebet (UGA) 31:46; 2 B Atyalay (TUR)
33:02; 7 SCARLET DALE (U17) 34:46;
8 HEIDI DAVIES 34:48; 19 ANNABELLE
MCQUEEN (U17) 36:39; 21 BELLA
WILLIAMS 36:54. TEAM: 1 ROU 24;
5 GBR 36
STEVE BATESON
OVERSEAS
DENMARK
EUROPEAN VETERANS
CHAMPIONSHIPS, Aarhus,
Denmark, July 27-August 6
FRISBY FLIES TO SUCCESS
THE 10-day championships got underway
with plenty of success as Susan Frisby
excelled, Martin Duff reports.
In the multi events, Frisby won gold
with a European record of 5855 points
in the W55 event, scoring over 1000 in
both hurdles and high jump (13.22 and
1.44m). Carole Filer made it three golds
with a W60 win (5657 points) with her
13.69 hurdles, her best event.
Frisby later amended the record
books for a second time as she broke
Jane Horder’s W55 world 300m hurdles
record with 48.74
The prolific Diana Norman notched
up 5642 points in the W40 heptathlon for
a comfortable victory, scoring over 900
points in hurdles, high jump and 800m.
Norman said: “Having not done a
heptathlon for 18 years I came out with
no expectations. I started with a PB in the
80 metres hurdles but was placed third,
so discovered that there was competition.
“After a long two days, including a
torrential downpour in the high jump,
I won five of the seven disciplines and
gained a British and championship record
which was only 200 points off the world
record.”
In a close M60 decathlon, Brian
Slaughter took silver with 7018 points,
scoring best with his 11.80m shot. Leane
Buxton matched that silver in an even
closer W35 contest with 4834 points. Her
best event – a 27.35 200m against a
strong wind – scored highest.
In the 10,000m, on the opening day,
Guy Bracken took M55 silver in 34:12.25
and M65 David Oxland 39:46.15 for
another, but Dave Beattie struck gold with
his first M70 title in 43:32.59 as Andy
Burn gained a rare M35 track medal with
a 31:58.50 silver.
Both W35 Catherine Charlton and
W40 Andrea Banks added 10,000m
bronzes.
The British throwers also scored as
Andrea Jenkins had the two best efforts
of the W40 weight competition, winning
with her 15.16m final round throw.
Carole Derrien picked up her first of
several W75 medals with silver in the
W75 weight as Estonia’s Hilda Bakhoff
set a new W90 world record of 8.08m.
The weight also saw former international
Guy Dirkin take the M60 silver with
18.28m but Phil Spivey struck M55 gold
with a 19.99m first round effort
The Brits’ medal haul in the 100m
was begun by Dalbir Singh Doel, winning
the M90 class in 22.13. Tony Bowman
then led Alan Carter to a Brit one-two
in the M80s in 15.49, before Dorothy
Fraser took the W80 division in 21.45 to
complete three golds in a row. Later in
the first week, Bowman was then beaten
by a new European record of 37.97 by
Norway’s Jos Haraldseid in the 200m
hurdles, with Carter third.
Glyn Sutton added the M70 100m in
13.37, before Helen Godsell won the W60
class in 14.37 in a close race, as Steve
Peters made it an over-60 double with
12.39 after 12.30 in his opening heat.
No golds came in the younger age
groups’ 100m races, but silvers went to
M55 Pat Logan, M50 Tony Leigh, W40
Susie McLoughlin, M35 Leroy Slue and
M40 TJ Ossai who just lost out in the
M40 despite an 11.04 clocking.
Elsewhere in the long hurdles, world
record-holder Jane Horder again took
the W60 300m event in 50.40, with Filer
a distant second. Ian Broadhurst then
made it an age 60 double with his 300m
hurdles win in 46.42. The younger age
groups provided less home success but
Neil Edwards’ 58.56 gave him M45 silver
over 400m.
The jumps saw silver for W65 triple
jumper Lynn Ahmet, while Bowman
took M80 gold and Julien Gittens M55
gold with 11.81m. A first-round leap of
15.06m from Navid Childs was enough
to see off Lawrence Harvey’s 14.93m for
M35 gold.
A cross-country run was included in
the championship and Ros Tabor struck
gold in the W65 class, while Angela
Copson won the W70 division by nearly
two minutes.
Copson also took gold in the
10,000m by five minutes.
The best result among the men came
with minor medals for Stuart Thorpe and
Oxland in the M65 division.
Rather perversely, the 1500m was
held on the same day as the crosscountry,
but that did not prevent world
record-holder Copson winning the W70s
by more than a minute, in 5:54.97. The
earlier race, however, took the edge off
for Tabor as fellow Brit Nancy Hitchmough
took W65 gold in 5:48.41. Anna Garnier
made it three in a row with a W60 win.
Louise Rudd added W40 gold in
4:41.92 before Zoe Doyle rounded off a
good Sunday afternoon for the Brits with
their fifth gold in the W35 group.
Netherlands’ Nicole Weijling-Dissel
ensured the W50 race was quicker than
the W35s as, attacking Clare Elms’ world
record, she blasted a ill-judged 69.2 first
lap and slowed on the second half. She
missed her target by five seconds with
4:42.11.
Later Bracken won the M55 race
by 10 seconds in 4:22.28 while John
Skelton took the M65s in 4:56.97.
In the medals table, Germany, who
have the world’s greatest ever masters
athlete Guido Muller competing, led
from the outset with 14 golds after two
days to second-placed Britain’s eight.
The situation remained unchanged after
Susan Frisby: W55 double
gold and 300m hurdles
world record
the third day as the score was 29 to 16
golds, but the Brits narrowed the gap to
41 – 31 after day four.
M35: 100 (-2.9): 1 A Malka (ISR)
11.17; 2 LEROY SLUE 11.21; 3 MARK
HANSON 11.24. Ht2 (0.3): 2 HANSON
11.04. Ht3 (-0.9): 1 SLUE 11.10. 400:
Ht1: 1 RICK BEARDSELL 49.97. Ht2:
2 STEWART MARSHALL 50.17. Ht3:
2 GAVIN STEPHENS 50.41; 3 DAVID
BROWN 50.97. 1500: 1 A Kern (POL)
3:59.25. 10,000: 1 T Sundstup (DEN)
31:29.19; 2 ANDY BURN 31:58.50.
400H: 1 S Borodin (UKR) 52.93. TJ: 1
NAVID CHILDS 15.06/1.8; 2 LAWRENCE
HARVEY 14.93/1.5. SP: 1 D Lewin (GER)
15.05. WT: 1 J Koukal Jr (SVK) 16.23.
DT: 1 A Carcenac (FRA) 50.03. JT: 1 D
Lewin (GER) 54.59. Dec: 1 T Seyb (GER)
5972; 6 ASHLEY PRITCHARD 5201
(12.43/1.4, 5.49/-1.3, 9.69, 1.55, 58.53,
16.88/1.0, 36.01, 3.40, 40.42, 5:26.67)
M40: 100 (-1.4): 1 J Gippert (GER)
10.99; 2 TAMUNONENGIYE-OFORI
OSSAI 11.04; 3 DOMINIC BRADLEY
11.20. SF1 (0.5): 2 BRADLEY 11.09;
3 OSSAI 11.12. Ht1 (0.7): 1 BRADLEY
11.27. Ht3 (-0.7): 1 OSSAI 11.41.
Ht5 (-1.1): 4 RICK CORDWELL 12.23.
400: Ht1: 1 BRETT RUND 51.71. Ht2:
2 BRIAN DARBY 53.52; 3 MATTHEW
MUGGERIDGE 54.12. 1500: 1 A Franco
(ESP) 4:06.10; 2 DEAN RICHARDSON
4:07.68; 5 DOMINIC O’MAHONEY
4:09.71. Ht1: 2 RICHARDSON 4:09.84.
Ht2: 3 O’MAHONEY 4:09.01. 10,000: 1
S De La Fuente Martin (ESP) 31:49.98;
5 MIKE BURRETT 32:25.33. 400H: 1
J Atteen Fernandez (ESP) 56.16. TJ: 1
P Urie (FRA) 13.51/-0.0; 3 MATTHEW
MUGGERIDGE 12.64/-0.0. SP: 1 C
Karlsson (FIN) 15.47; 8 KEN BAKER
12.84. WT: 1 S Siren (FIN) 16.61. DT: 1
B Pay (NOR) 53.20. Dec: 1 J Francois
(NED) 6906
M45: 100 (-1.0): 1 E Raspi (ITA) 11.80;
7 GIUSEPPE MINETTI 12.11; 8 DOMINIC
BOKOR-INGRAM 12.12. SF1 (2.1):
4 MINETTI 12.06; 6 JULIAN P SMITH
12.35. SF2 (-0.3): 4 BOKOR-INGRAM
11.94. Ht2 (0.1): 5 DAN TOMLINSON
12.46. Ht4 (-0.7): 1 MINETTI 12.08.
Ht5 (2.5): 2 BOKOR-INGRAM 11.84;
4 JULIAN P SMITH 12.13. 400: Ht2:
1 MICHAEL GARDINER 54.20. Ht3: 1
TOM PHILLIPS
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