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READY TO WELCOME THE WORLD 

LONDON will be the focus of the sporting world in 

the coming days. More than 2000 athletes from 205 

countries have descended on the British capital for 

the IAAF World Championships. 

Thousands of fans are poised to 

pack into the Olympic Park for the 

action, with millions more watching 

on television around the globe. 

Holding the event in London 

has been a long time coming. 

Older followers of the sport will 

remember the failed attempts 

in the past to stage the IAAF’s 

showpiece event in the city. 

The words ‘Picketts Lock’, for 

example, still put a chill down 

the spine. 

Yet here we are, ready 

to welcome the world and 

back in the same amazing venue that staged 

arguably the greatest Olympic Games ever five years 

ago. Spectators and athletes will hope that fantastic 

atmosphere from 2012 is recreated, too. 

This opening weekend alone promises to be 

spectacular. The championships gets off to a flying start 

with Mo Farah going for gold in the 10,000m. Usain Bolt 

is set to bring down the curtain on his amazing career 

in the men’s 100m final on Saturday. Wayde van Niekerk 

takes to the track in the men’s 400m and a mouthwatering 

heptathlon will rumble throughout Saturday 

and Sunday featuring Olympic champion Nafi Thiam 

and British challenger Katarina Johnson-Thompson. 

Experience has taught me it’s not wise to make 

too many predictions. Such championships are a 

magnificent tale of the unexpected and the surprises 

and breakthrough performances are partly what makes 

it all so entertaining. 

One thing is sure, though. With Farah ending his 

track career and Bolt retiring, the championships are 

going to signify an end of an era. 

Yet the scene is also set for lesser-known athletes 

to make a name for themselves. This is especially the 

case for a British team who have the rare opportunity of 

competing in a global championships on home soil. 

MARK SHEARMAN 

NEWS 

6 IAAF creates youth council 

7 Usain Bolt says he’s ready to go for gold 

8 Lorraine Ugen is ready for London 

10 Birmingham welcomes the USA 

12 Cardiff kicks off Cross Challenge 

PERFORMANCE 

58 Sports science and training news 

60 Triple jump technique – specfic 

advice on how to nail your 

hop, step and jump 

REGULARS 

56 View from the stands 

78 Dip Finish 

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RESULTS & FIXTURES 

62 Results round-up including the 

English Champs 

75 What’s On events guide 

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Cover: Mo Farah (Getty 

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Athletics) and Usain Bolt, 

Laura Muir, Dafne 

Schippers and Wayde 

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14 A look forward to 10 days of World Championships action 

16 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake – sprinter aims to make his mark in 

World Championships 200m 

20 Holly Bradshaw – why the pole vaulter won’t let injuries get 

her down as she targets a podium place 

22 Aries Merritt – sprint hurdler overcomes serious illness to 

become global medal contender again 

24 World rankings – top performers ahead of World Champs 

54 Timetable and TV details for London 2017 

MEN 

28 100m 30 200m, 400m 31 800m, 1500m 32 5000m, 10,000m 

33 3000m steeplechase 34 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles 

35 High jump, pole vault 36 Long jump, triple jump 37 Shot, 

discus 38 Hammer, javelin 39 Decathlon, 20km walk, 50km 

walk 40 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay 

WOMEN 

41 100m, 200m 42 400m, 800m 43 1500m 44 5000m, 

10,000m 45 3000m steeplechase, 100m hurdles 46 400m 

hurdles, 20km walk, 50km walk 47 High jump, pole vault 

48 Long jump, triple jump 49 Shot, discus 50 Hammer, 

javelin 51 Heptathlon 52 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay 

A T H

NEWS 

IAAF FOCUS ON YOUTH 

HE CHALLENGE 

T 

of how to make 

athletics relevant 

to today’s 

youngsters dominated the 

discussion at the IAAF Council 

meeting held earlier this week 

on the eve of the IAAF World 

Championships. 

IAAF president Seb Coe 

even went as far as to say: “The 

biggest challenge in our sport 

is not doping. It is a challenge 

… (but) the biggest challenge in 

our sport is remaining relevant 

to young people. 

“What do we have to do that 

young people feel they want to 

come into our sport as athletes, 

administrators and coaches?” 

As part of the talks, the IAAF 

Council agreed to create a new 

youth council. 

Coe added that a lot of time 

at the IAAF Council meeting 

discussed “empowerment” and 

“allowing those who are elected 

to serve to do their job more 

effectively and with more of a 

sense of purpose”. 

Related to this, it was agreed 

ATHLETES ADDED 

TO UKA COUNCIL 

RACE walker Tom Bosworth, 

ultra runner Robbie Britton and 

thrower Vanessa Wallace have 

been added to the inaugural 

UK Athletics athletes’ 

commission. 

They join the previously 

elected members Abdul Buhari 

(discus), Jamie Bowie (400m), 

Hannah England (1500m), 

Dai Greene (400m hurdles), 

Stephen Miller (club throw), 

John Pares (ultra running), 

Isobel Pooley (high jump), 

Goldie Sayers (javelin) and 

Richard Yates (400m hurdles). 

to begin IAAF development 

scholarships for women, 

while Olivier Gers, the IAAF 

chief executive, announced 

the global governing body 

had joined forces with ITN 

Productions in a new broadcast 

deal that starts in January. 

The continuation of the 

Russian ban from international 

athletics was also discussed 

at the IAAF Council. Rune 

Andersen, chair of the IAAF 

Taskforce for Russia, reported 

to the Council that the 

suspended nation’s efforts to 

tackle doping have improved, 

but not enough to allow a return 

to international competition. 

Andersen said issues 

still needed to be resolved – 

including “meaningful testing” 

on a widespread basis. Russia, 

he added, also needs to 

acknowledge that it had an 

anti-doping problem in the past 

and also enforce suspensions 

on banned coaches such as 

disgraced walks coach, Viktor 

Chegin, who is still working with 

athletes. 

Coe said: “Things are 

moving in the right direction but 

the discussion we’re having 

is about the speed of that 

progress.” 

OLYMPIC VENUES ANNOUNCED 

The Olympic Games 

will return to 

Los Angeles 

after 44 years 

MARK SHEARMAN 

Seb Coe: looking 

to the future 

PARIS will hold the 2024 

Olympics and Los Angeles the 

2028 Games after a deal was 

struck between the two cities 

and the IOC. 

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo 

said: “Paris and Los Angeles 

are two amazing global cities 

that are united in their support 

of the Olympic cause and we 

stand together now to help 

the Games thrive in 2024 and 

2028.” 

The two cities were the only 

ones left in the race for 2024 

after Budapest, Hamburg and 

Rome withdrew. 

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BOLT: I AM UNBEATABLE 

FOR Usain Bolt, losing the 

100m at the IAAF World 

Championships in London on 

Saturday is not an option, 

writes Jessica Whittington. 

Asked what his legacy 

will be when he wakes up on 

Sunday having raced his final 

individual event at a major 

championships, the Jamaican 

sprint superstar simply replies: 

“Unbeatable.” 

Sitting on a stage at a 

packed Puma press conference 

with the words ‘forever fastest’ 

lit up in a sign above his head, 

Bolt elaborates. 

“Usain Bolt is retiring 

unbeatable over individual 

events,” he says. “I’ll still have 

the relays but with relays you 

never know. For me, that will 

be the headline, hopefully! 

Unbeatable. Unstoppable.” 

After numerous global golds 

and world record-breaking 

runs, there’s now approximately 

just 30 seconds left of Bolt 

performing in individual major 

championships competition. 

The crowd will roar as the 

30-year-old takes to the track 

to begin his campaign in the 

London Stadium on Friday 

(August 4) as he targets a 

record fourth world 100m title. 

The semi-finals and final are 

held the next day, and with the 

11-time world gold medallist 

not contesting the 200m this 

time, he will next emerge for 

the 4x100m a week later, with 

Saturday August 12 marking 

the end of an incredible career. 

“I think the two best crowds 

I’ve ever had were London and 

Beijing the first time,” says Bolt 

as he reflects. “Those were 

the loudest and most exciting 

crowds. London was good 

because they even came out 

for the morning sessions, the 

stadium was always full and 

I’ve never seen that before.” 

Usain Bolt: on stage 

with Colin Jackson 

Ahead of being back on 

that track, the world’s fastest 

ever sprinter adds: “I’m 

ready. I’m always ready. I’m 

always excited when I get to a 

championship. 

“For some reason, again, 

I seem to be the underdog. 

That’s what I keep reading. I’ve 

got to prove myself once more.” 

JESSICA WHITTINGTON 

WRONGED ATHLETES TO GET PODIUM MOMENTS 

JESS ENNIS-HILL is one of 11 

individual athletes and five teams 

who will get their rightful medals from 

previous World Championships in 

London this month. 

Ennis-Hill, who was beaten into 

heptathlon silver by Russian drugs 

cheat Tatyana Chernova at the 2011 

World Championships in Beijing, will 

receive her gold on Sunday August 

6 at the London Stadium, with the 

ceremony accompanied by the 

national anthem and flags. 

The United States women’s 

4x400m team will also receive their 

gold medals after being beaten by the 

now disgraced Russians at the 2013 

event in Moscow, while 10,000m 

runners Kara Goucher and Jo Pavey 

will get a deserved upgrade to silver 

and bronze respectively after being 

beaten in 2011 by Turkey’s Elvan 

Abeylegesse, who later failed a drugs 

test. 

British 400m record-holder 

Christine Ohuruogu is set to receive 

Jess 

Ennis- 

Hill: 

rightful 

gold 

MARK SHEARMAN 

a total of three relay medals. IAAF 

president Seb Coe said: “I’m delighted 

that the athletes are properly 

honoured for their achievements 

and what better way than in front of 

passionate athletics fans at a major 

championship. 

“For those receiving gold medals 

their moment in London will be all the 

more special as they will hear their 

national anthem played. Whatever 

their nationality clean athletes 

worldwide will celebrate with them.” 

A T H L E T I C S W E E K L Y 7

NEWS 

FARAH IN ZURICH 

MO FARAH is set to run the last 

track race of his career at the 

Diamond League in Zurich on 

August 24. 

Farah set a British 5000m 

record at the meeting in 2010 

and races that distance again. 

BRAZ IS OUT 

OLYMPIC pole vault champion 

Thiago Braz of Brazil has pulled 

out of the World Championships 

due to injury. Other late 

withdrawals include Olympic 

javelin silver medallist Sunette 

Viljoen of South Africa and 

European 100m champion 

Churandy Martina of the 

Netherlands. 

LAST-GASP BRITS 

SIX athletes were added to 

the GB team for the World 

Championships last week – 

Meghan Beesley (400m hurdles), 

Chris Bennett (hammer), Rachel 

Wallader (shot), Nick Percy 

(hammer), Ieuan Thomas (3000m 

steeplechase) and Alicia Barrett 

(100m hurdles). 

NEVER SAY QUIT 

DON’T be surprised if Usain Bolt 

reverses his decision to retire, 

says sprint rival Justin Gatlin. 

On a possible comeback, the 

American said: “Why not? He 

has that rock star mentality 

where he can travel the world, 

have fun, party in different 

places and then say: ‘I want to 

take this seriously one more 

time’.” 

RIGHT TO PLAY 

RIGHT To Play has been named 

charity partner for the IAAF 

World Championships in London. 

It uses sport and play to 

improve the lives of vulnerable 

children in some of the world’s 

poorest communities and is 

already a charity partner of UKA. 

UGEN IN LONDON 

AT LONG LAST 

FTER missing 

A 

out on a home 

Olympics by a 

single centimetre, 

Lorraine Ugen is ready for her 

major championships moment 

in the London Stadium, writes 

Jessica Whittington. 

Since the 2012 Games, 

the 25-year-old long jumper 

has gone on to win world and 

European medals indoors but 

her Olympic campaign last 

summer and her preparations 

for the upcoming IAAF World 

Championships in the UK 

capital have been partly fuelled 

by her memories of five years 

ago. 

“I remember being at the 

trials and when I jumped the 

jump that was one centimetre 

short, at the time I was happy 

because it was only round two,” 

says Ugen, reflecting on her 

6.74m leap. 

“When I didn’t go further 

it was kind of devastating. I 

almost didn’t go to anything but 

I did end up going to one day of 

the Olympics and it was a good 

day,” she adds. 

“David Rudisha broke the 

800m world record so it was a 

nice atmosphere to be in.” 

Now she can’t wait to be a 

part of creating just that kind of 

atmosphere. 

An earlier hamstring injury 

meant Ugen couldn’t perform to 

her full potential in Rio but, after 

claiming world indoor bronze in 

Portland last year and European 

indoor silver in Belgrade in 

March, she is determined to 

add to that haul. 

“I have done it indoors and it 

is figuring out how to translate 

Lorraine Ugen: missed 

Olympic selection in 

2012 by one centimetre 

that into an outdoor medal. I 

know that it will be extra sweet 

if it’s in London, in my back 

yard,” adds the Thames Valley 

Harriers athlete. “I’ve put myself 

in the best position so far, 

making sure I don’t have any 

injury issues or anything that 

is going to hold me back from 

being able to give it everything. 

“I know that, at the 

championships, I’m going to 

try and do the best jump I have 

ever done,” continues Ugen, 

who has a British indoor record 

PB of 6.97m which ranks her 

second on the UK all-time list. 

“At the bare minimum, I 

need to leave with a personal 

best and then at least I know 

I have given it everything. I 

know that I am going to need a 

personal best anyway because 

if you jump under seven metres 

then you’re not getting on the 

podium, basically. I know that 

it’s going to take something 

special.” 

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down on his career, fans of the 

Jamaican sprint king will enjoy 

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Usain Bolt teaches Prince Harry 

his career from world junior 

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The book is endorsed by 

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message from him, quotes 

from himself, coaches and 

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But it’s strength is in the 

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some of which have not been 

published before, showing him 

both on and off the track. 

This is not a deep and 

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but a beautiful coffee table-style 

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A T H L E T I C S W E E K L Y 9

NEWS 

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HE biggest 

T 

team has rolled 

into Britain for 

the IAAF World 

Championships and once again 

chose Birmingham as its base 

ahead of the competition. 

The United States squad 

has more than 150 athletes, 

officials and support staff and 

they arrived in the Midlands late 

last month to apply the finishing 

touches to their preparation for 

London. 

This meant eight individual 

gold medallists from the Rio 

Olympics and four defending 

Ryan Crouser: last-minute shot work 

THE English Road Running 

Association men’s 12-stage 

and women’s 6-stage relays 

are to become an official British 


The event in Sutton Park 

is organised by the ERRA – 

and prior to that the AAA of 

England – and is an English 

national championship but 

clubs and athletes from 

other home countries have 

traditionally taken part, which 

has prompted a move for the 

event to be formally called the 

British Championships. 

In April this year the Welsh 

club Swansea Harriers won the 

Dawn Harper-Nelson and Natasha Hastings prepared for London in Birmingham 

world champions were among 

the US athletes training at the 

Alexander Stadium and high 

performance centre, with the 

visit organised by Birmingham 

City Council. 

This year’s camp follows 

on from the city’s successful 

hosting of a similar camp for the 

US team in 2012, ahead of the 

London Olympics. 

Dawn Harper-Nelson, 100m 

hurdler and double Olympic 

medallist who won gold in 

2008 and silver in 2012, said: 

men’s 12-stage title but there 

was confusion over whether 

they would be allowed to take 

the trophy back to Wales. 

“I do love coming here, I don’t 

have to worry about not having 

things. 

“You have the perfect 

facilities for indoor and outdoor 

here. I don’t have to worry how 

the weather will be – the track is 

great, the hurdles are here and 

the blocks. Birmingham have 

done it right.” 

Some of the US athletes 

even got involved in a 

community sports festival in 

Perry Park as well on July 28, 

where hundreds of children 

It led to a letter in AW 

from Swansea Harriers’ road 

running team manager, George 

Edwards, saying his club was 

aged 10-16 from nearby areas 

tried out a variety of sports, 

including athletics. 

A second training camp 

for the Jamaican team has 

also been held in the city, at 

the University of Birmingham, 

with Usain Bolt and Elaine 

Thompson, among others, fine 

tuning their preparations for the 

IAAF World Championships. 

The city is preparing to 

stage the IAAF World Indoor 

Championships next March, 

as well as being a bidder in 

an attempt to hold the 2022 

Commonwealth Games. 

SPRING ROAD RELAYS NOW BRITISH CHAMPS 

Swansea Harriers: Welsh club won ERRA 12-stage relay earlier this year 

MARK SHEARMAN 

Birmingham base: Aries Merritt 

“taken aback” when there was 

confusion over whether teams 

would get medals (Swansea 

also finished second in the 

women’s race behind Leeds 

City), and he added: “While 

the ERRA organise the event 

– and make an excellent job 

of it – that obviously doesn’t 

mean it has to become a 

closed English championship 

with Scottish and Welsh clubs 

running as guests.” 

AW’s reporter at the 2017 

event, Steve Smythe, also 

called for the event to be given 

British Championships status 

in the magazine’s coverage. 

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A T H L E T I C S W E E K L Y 1 1

NEWS 

CROSS COUNTRY IS COMING 

ARDIFF will kick 

C 

off the British 

Athletics Cross 

Challenge this 

winter, with the final fixture – 

the Inter-Counties Champs – 

again returning to Prestwold 

Hall near Loughborough. 

Traditionally, Cardiff stages 

a Cross Challenge event in 

January, but for the forthcoming 

series it moves to October 14 

and will switch from Bute Park 

to be staged at Llandaff Fields 

in conjunction with a Gwent 

League fixture. 

The series continues at 

Milton Keynes on November 11, 

Sefton Park in Liverpool for the 

European trials on November 

25 and Antrim in Northern 

Ireland on January 6 before 

culminating at Prestwold Hall in 

the East Midlands on March 10. 

British Athletics Cross Challenge: 

starts in Cardiff and concludes 

in Prestwold Park again 

Prestwold Hall held a 

successful Inter-Counties 

Champs and Cross Challenge 

final in March this year and the 

landowner, Edward Packe- 

Drury-Lowe, is keen for the 

event to return. 

Packe-Drury-Lowe is a keen 

runner himself who often trains 

barefoot on the grassland of 

the Prestwold Hall estate. 

Situated just a few miles 

outside Loughborough, it 

boasts a central location, ample 

MARK SHEARMAN 

car parking for all and acres of 

rolling grassland. 

The only small criticism 

heard from athletes this year 

was that there was sometimes 

a lack of atmosphere at the 

extremities of the course due 

to the size of laps. 

But a separate walkway is 

being created for next year’s 

event which will help spectators 

move around, while there is also 

talk of a possible large video 

screen in the start/finish area. 

The early winter period also 

includes the English Cross 

Country Relays in Mansfield 

on November 4. The 25th 

European Cross Country 

Championships is in Samorin, 

Slokavia, on December 10 

and the Simplyhealth Great 

Edinburgh XCountry on 

January 13. 

LONDON COACH 

CONFERENCES 

LOREN SEAGRAVE and Shaun 

Pickering are among the 

speakers at the third IAAF 

world coaches’ conference, 

which is in London from 

August 7-10 at the Hilton 

Canary Wharf. 

Topics to be covered include: 

physiological and metabolic 

background of endurance, 

strength and speed training and 

the brain as a performancelimiting 

factor, while the event 

will also feature question and 

answer sessions. 

The British Milers’ Club also 

stages its national endurance 

coaches symposium during 

the IAAF World Championships 

week. The event is on August 

13 at the Holiday Inn in 

Stratford and features a guest 

lecture from coach and athlete 

manager Nic Bideau. 

BOB SMITH REMEMBERED 

NEWHAM & Essex Beagles 

stalwart, Bob Smith, has died 

from cancer aged 61. 

The club said: “Bob was 

an extraordinary person who 

touched the lives of many 

with his enthusiasm and 

unwavering commitment and 

loyalty and he will be deeply 

missed.” 

Smith was a former high 

jumper and his father, Mike, 

was a well-known sprints 

coach who died earlier this 

year. 

Along with his life at 

his club, he held England 

Athletics regional and area 

manager roles and managed 

the governing body’s work in 

London during the build-up 

and aftermath of the 

2012 Games. 

Bob Smith (front, right) with Newham’s road relay-winning team in 2009 

Newham & Essex Beagles 

clubmate Tony Shiret said: 

“At the peak of his powers he 

assembled one of the greatest 

club winter teams (at NEB) 

and inspired and organised a 

London participation scheme 

alongside the 2012 Games 

that involved over 200,000 

Londoners. He was one of 

those unique people who was 

incredibly knowledgeable, 

enthusiastic, supportive and 

loyal and this made people 

want to turn out and do things 

for him personally, which is a 

rare gift. He was the heartbeat 

of our club and a great man.” 

MARK SHEARMAN 


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READY FOR 

HOW WILL THE BRITISH TEAM FARE AGAINST MORE 

THAN 200 RIVAL NATIONS IN LONDON? WE SET THE 

SCENE FOR THE IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 

The GB team has prepared 

in recent days in Paris 

and Fomt Romeu for the 

championships in London 

ULTIPLE global 

M 

champions such 

as Usain Bolt 

and Mo Farah 

are going for gold for the final 

time on the track, while the 

stage is also set for new names 

to enjoy a breakthrough 

performance at the biggest 

event in the sport outside the 

Olympics. 

Andy Pozzi: 

sprint 

hurdles 

hope 

The inaugural IAAF World 

Championships back in 1983 

were a huge success and 

immediately established the 

event on the calendar. Winners 

at those first championships 

included Daley Thompson, Carl 

Lewis, Ed Moses and Steve 

Cram and since then it is here 

that the world’s best strut their 

stuff in non-Olympic years. 

Dina Asher- 

Smith: 

injury-hit 

year but in 

London 


INTRODUCTION 


THE WORLDS 

PREVIEWS: STEVE SMYTHE, 

JASON HENDERSON, 

EUAN CRUMLEY AND 

JESSICA WHITTINGTON 

PICTURES: MARK SHEARMAN, 

JEAN PIERRE DURAND, 

VICTAH SAILER & GETTY 

IMAGES FOR BRITISH 

ATHLETICS 

After being held in cities 

such as Helsinki, Rome, Tokyo, 

Osaka and Moscow over the 

years, the championships are 

being held in London for the 

first time in the coming days 

and a similar team of officials 

and volunteers who made the 

London Olympics of 2012 so 

great are once again staging 

the event. 

Reece 

Prescod: 

British 

100m 

champion 

Over the following pages we 

feature our traditionally popular 

event-by-event preview to all 

the track and field disciplines at 

the championships. 

There are also feature 

interviews with some of the 

British athletes hoping to make 

a mark for themselves, plus a 

timetable and up-to-date world 

rankings. 

n Look out in the coming 

weeks for Athletics 

Weekly’s in-depth, 

unrivalled coverage of 

the London 2017 World 

Championships in the 

magazine and as well 

at athleticsweekly.com 

and our social media sites 



“I BELIEVE 

WE HAVE A 

YOUNG GROUP 

WHO ARE ALL 

MOTIVATED AND 

ARE STARTING 

TO BELIEVE IN 

THEMSELVES” 

NETHANEEL 

MITCHELL-BLAKE 

Focused: Nethaneel 

Mitchell-Blake targets 

200m success 

in London 


NETHANEEL MITCHELL-BLAKE 


TREND SETTER 

NETHANEEL MITCHELL-BLAKE IS LEADING THE WAY IN BRITISH 200m 

SPRINTING AND TELLS JESSICA WHITTINGTON ABOUT THE JOURNEY 

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IVE YEARS ago, Nethaneel 

F 

Mitchell-Blake was watching 

the London 2012 Olympics on 

a laptop in an office in Jamaica. 

Undertaking an internship over the 

summer, his days were filled with filing and 

scanning but his breaks were dedicated to 

catching up on the track action taking place 

four and a half thousand miles away in the 

UK capital. 

While he was proud to be working that 

summer job, athletics was where his heart 

was at. 

“I remember all the interns would come 

in wearing jeans and a shirt but I took it 

seriously – I put on my slacks, a shirt and a 

tie,” Mitchell-Blake smiles. “I had a briefcase 

with nothing in it! 

“I kind of set the trend because everyone 

was like ‘look what he’s doing, we’ve got to 

do it too!’ 

“I remember watching Adam (Gemili) in 

the 100m and the 4x100m guys and I just 

said, ‘I need to be there, I need to ensure 

that I get myself there somehow’,” he adds. 

“I’ve been blessed and fortunate enough to 

be able to make that prophecy come true.” 

His days in an office might now be long 

gone, but Mitchell-Blake continues to be 

a trend setter. With a 200m PB of 19.95 

which places him second on the UK all-time 

list behind only John Regis, the 23-year-old 

is leading Britain’s current crop of half-lap 

sprinters and he doesn’t show signs of 

slowing any time soon. 

Born in Newham, the sprinter joined 

Ilford AC as a child but moved with his 

parents to Jamaica when he was 13 years 

old. ‘British’, as he was known by many of 

his friends in Jamaica due to his London 

accent, would later move to a third country 

after catching the attention of Louisiana 

State University in the USA. Mitchell-Blake 

is now only the second GB sprinter after 

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake: reached 

the semi-finals at the Rio Olympics 

Gemili to have gone both sub-10 and 20 

seconds for 100m and 200m respectively. 

The 2017 NCAA silver medallist never 

lost touch with British athletics, however, 

and competed for the nation at both the 

2011 IAAF World Youth Championships 

in Lille and the 2013 European Junior 

Championships in Rieti, where he led a 

GB clean sweep ahead of Leon Reid and 

Matthew Hudson-Smith. 

Despite racing for Britain as a teenager, 

plus at last year’s European Championships 

and the Rio Olympics, this year’s national 

championships in Birmingham marked 

Mitchell-Blake’s return to UK competition 

for the first time in a decade. The Dennis 

Shaver-coached athlete broke the 

championship record to claim the 200m 

title in a high-quality final and secure his 

spot on the GB team for the IAAF World 

Championships in London, where he 

intends to make even more of an impact on 

home soil. 

“Running at the trials was definitely a 

very emotional experience for me,” he says. 

“Being based in the States, you always 

see what’s going on and I never had the 

opportunity to run at the trials. Then you 

hear the rumours, ‘well, he can only run in 

America, he can’t run in England’ and I had 

a little chip on my shoulder!” 

With Usain Bolt concentrating on the 

100m this summer, the 200m looks a more 

open event and Mitchell-Blake has world 

medals on his mind. 

“Who doesn’t want gold?” he says. “I 

definitely feel that my coach and I are doing 

things right – my body is feeling really good, 

it’s a home championship. With a home 

crowd behind you, it’s like a 12th man in a 

football stadium. There’s a reason why you 

win more games at home than away so I 

feel this could be a special championship 

for the country. 

“Hopefully we can change the culture on 

a whole to say that making the team is not 

enough, making the heats is not enough. 

We want medals,” adds Mitchell-Blake, 

who will be joined by team-mates Danny 

Talbot and Zharnel Hughes in contesting 

the 200m and will have his family back in 

East London supporting him in the stadium 

that he saw on his laptop screen in 2012. 

“I believe we have a young group who 

are all motivated and are starting to believe 

in themselves. You will see a change in 

British sprinting, I guarantee you. The times 

that we are running are competitive enough 

to compete with the world’s best.” 

n The men’s 200m gets under way with 

the heats on Monday evening, before 

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FIVE STAR 

A FOCUSED MIND AND FINE CURRENT 

FORM BODES WELL FOR HOLLY BRADSHAW 

IN LONDON AND SHE TELLS JESSICA 

WHITTINGTON ABOUT HER APPROACH 

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HEN it comes to the IAAF 

W 

World Championships in 

London, Holly Bradshaw is 

taking a five-star approach. 

“I bought this bracelet because I have 

five cues that I want to remember,” says the 

British pole vault record-holder, pointing to 

her wrist where a star is delicately tied by 

two brightly coloured strands. 

“I was getting so bogged down with 

the expectation that I was forgetting about 

the process. Now, every time I’m training 

or any time I look at this it reminds me, 

‘think about the cues, don’t think about the 

heights or the medals.’ That helped loads in 

the competition I did in Germany.” 

During that competition Bradshaw 

improved her own national outdoor record 

to 4.81m, so something certainly seems to 

be working. 

With a focused mind as well as some 

fine current form, the 25-year-old appears 

to be peaking at just the right time as she 

prepares to return to the London Stadium 

which holds so many memories. 

The road which has taken Bradshaw 

from London and back, via places such as 

Beijing and Rio, has been a bumpy one but 

the 2012 Olympic sixth-placer says she’s 

stronger for having had such a journey. 

“I don’t regret any of the injuries,” says 

the Blackburn Harriers athlete, who has 

undergone four surgeries in the past five 

years – one on her back, one on her knee 

and a couple on her Achilles area. “I don’t 

look back and think ‘if I just didn’t have this 

injury maybe I would have done this or that’. 

All of the injuries have been special and they 

have made me become a stronger, better 

athlete. 

“Now I sit here and have all these 

strengths in my armour and I’m so resilient 

and so motivated,” she adds. “It makes it 

worthwhile when I’m out there competing in 

front of a home crowd at a major champs, 

battling it out for a medal, hopefully.” 

Her Olympic debut at the London 

2012 Games, when she was competing 

under her maiden name of Bleasdale, 

also provided Bradshaw with invaluable 

experience. 

“For me, finishing sixth at my first 

Olympics was insane but I think some 

people saw it as a disappointment, like ‘well 

I thought you were going to win a medal’,” 

she says. “But I’d been in the sport for four 

years, competing against some girls that 

had been in the sport for 10 or 15 years. 

I felt like I did amazing and I enjoyed the 

experience. I was still young and a bit naive, 

so I learnt a lot. A lot of what I learnt there 

has set me up for where I am now.” 

Despite her struggles, the past few 

years have not been filled with woe. When 

Bradshaw was able to compete, a win at 

the 2013 European Indoor Championships, 

a seventh-place finish at the 2015 World 

Championships and fifth at the Rio 

Olympics were among her performances. 

However, she knows she has more to 

give. 

“I’ve been setting PBs in every session, 

whether it’s sprinting, throwing, plyometric 

jumps or pole vault training off short 

approach,” says the Scott Simpsoncoached 

vaulter who cleared her outright 

British record of 4.87m at the beginning 

of 2012. “It’s all come together and it has 

been reflected in the two British records 

I’ve jumped this year,” she adds, having 

“IT’S ALL COME 

TOGETHER AND 

IT HAS BEEN 

REFLECTED IN 

THE TWO BRITISH 

RECORDS I’VE 

JUMPED THIS YEAR” 

HOLLY BRADSHAW 


HOLLY BRADSHAW 


The five cues: Holly 

Bradshaw’s star bracelet 

helps keep her focused 

Hitting the heights: 

Holly Bradshaw has 

improved her British 

outdoor record this 

summer and says 

there’s more to give 

also cleared 4.80m at the 

Arcadis Great CityGames 

Manchester in May. “I 

know I have more to give, 

I feel like I can go higher. 

“There’s five or six 

girls who are jumping 

similar heights to me, so 

it is going to be a bit of 

a battle out there but I 

love that it’s not going to 

come easy and it’s going 

to take some figuring out 

– that’s what I thrive on.” 

Leading the entries for 

the World Championships 

is Olympic champion 

Katerina Stefanidi of Greece thanks to her 

4.85m from the Rome Diamond League. 

USA’s Olympic silver medallist Sandi Morris 

has cleared 4.84m this summer, while world 

indoor record-holder Jenn Suhr of the US 

has achieved 4.83m. Then there’s New 

Zealand’s Olympic bronze medallist Eliza 

McCartney on 4.82m and Cuba’s defending 

champion Yarisley Silva, who like Bradshaw 

has cleared 4.81m this summer. 

It’s close at the top. 

But instead of thinking about her rivals 

and the height of the bar in London, 

Bradshaw will be focused on her own fivestar 

performance. 

“The first cue is to be strong and fast at 

the back end of the run, the second one 

is to be strong through the middle of the 

run and then the third one is to put my feet 

down really fast into take-off,” the Briton 

explains, gazing down at her wrist. “The 

fourth one is to be tall at take-off and then 

the fifth one is to swing really fast on the 

pole. 

“Because of my injury history I don’t 

get to vault as much as some of the other 

girls do so I really find doing visualisation 

sessions with my coach helps.” 

Looking ahead to London, she adds: 

“I’ve been in a way worse position going 

into Rio and Beijing so I feel like I’m really 

lucky this year. I just want to take advantage 

of the situation, enjoy myself and take on 

the challenge.” 

n Holly Bradshaw’s campaign will 

begin with qualification on Friday 

before the final on Sunday at 19:00 



Aries Merritt: after London’s 

World Championships he 

has his eye on another 

Olympic title and improving 

his world record 

FULL 

CIRCLE 


ARIES MERRITT 


AS HE GETS READY TO RETURN TO LONDON, THE SCENE OF ONE 

OF HIS GREATEST TRIUMPHS, ARIES MERRITT TALKS TO JESSICA 

WHITTINGTON ABOUT BATTLING BACK AND HIS FUTURE AIMS 

PICTURES: MARK SHEARMAN 

HERE cannot be many 

T 

people who fail to have been 

inspired by Aries Merritt. 

His story – of how 

he overcame kidney disease and a 

transplant – has been shared with the 

world, but the tale doesn’t end with 

a return to top-level athletics. The 

American sprint hurdler still has many 

more chapters he intends to write and 

the next begins with the IAAF World 

Championships in London. 

“I feel like I have gone full circle,” 

says the 2012 Olympic champion as 

we discuss his next appearance on the 

global stage in the UK capital. 

“I feel like London (2012) was the 

pinnacle of my career - the peak point 

- and then after that it was a massive 

decline because of the kidney failure,” 

he adds. “So I was at the top of my 

career and then I was at the bottom of 

my career and now I’ve worked my way 

back up towards the top. 

“I’m hoping that we can pull off a 

global medal, but obviously I want 

to win – who doesn’t? It’s the World 

Championships, you want to be a world 

champion. But if it doesn’t happen, it’s 

not going to be the end of me. I’ll be 

able to come back the next year and run 

even better because I’ve had a full year 

of complete healthy training and that’s 

what’s key.” 

That prose epitomises Merritt’s 

mindset. Target the top but if you don’t 

quite get there, don’t give up – work out 

what you can do to achieve it next time. 

It’s not hard to understand why 

Merritt reflects on 2012 so 

fondly. After winning 

the Olympic 110m 

hurdles title in 

a personal 

best 

Aries Merritt: 

London 2012 champion 

of 12.92 the track star went on to 

smash the world record with 12.80 at 

the Brussels Diamond League in the 

September. It took an incredible 0.07 

from the previous record and the closest 

anyone has come to that mark since 

is the 12.90 clocked by Rio champion 

Omar McLeod in June. 

However, in 2013, Merritt started 

experiencing an extreme lack of energy 

and knew something wasn’t right. The 

32-year-old had kidney disease, caused 

by a rare genetic disorder. Despite 

hospital treatment, he still competed 

in 2014 and then in 2015, with kidney 

function still less than 20%, he won 

world bronze. Four days after standing 

on the podium in Beijing, he had a kidney 

transplant, receiving an organ from his 

sister, LaToya Hubbard. 

Merritt impressively returned to action 

in 2016 and came close to making the 

team for the Rio Olympics, finishing 

fourth at the tough US trials, just one 

hundredth behind Jeff Porter in third. 

But one year later he went two better 

to secure his spot in another world 

championships squad for his London 

return. 

“There was definitely a point where 

I thought I’d never run again, because 

that’s what the doctors told me back in 

2015,” he says. 

“I still ran, against their will, and I got 

a medal at the World Championships. It 

only adds fuel to my fire. 

“I don’t like it when people tell me 

I can’t do something because they 

don’t know what I can do, they don’t 

know what we are capable of doing as 

humans. If you put your mind to anything 

you can definitely do it, for sure.” 

However, returning to an elite level 

now isn’t enough and getting world gold 

in a stacked event in London is not the 

only thing Merritt has put his mind to. 

The Andreas Behm-coached athlete, 

who has been victorious at the Rome 

and London Diamond League meetings 

this summer, wants to become a twotime 

Olympic champion, “and I feel like 

it’s very possible to be”. 

He also has an eye on improving his 

world record. 

“I believe in time, hopefully in the next 

couple of years, I should be able to give 

it another whack. That record is really 

tough,” he says. 

“Hopefully I will be able to get back to 

that point. I’m getting up there in age and 

that time, I have about two years during 

which I should be able to maybe attempt 

it, but after that it’s done, I’m not going 

to be able to do it because the amount 

of training that takes is ridiculous. We’ll 

see what happens.” 

n Aries Merritt’s return to the London 

Stadium begins with the 110m hurdles 

heats and semi-finals on Sunday, 

before the final at 21:30 on Monday 



LONDON FORM GUIDE 

100m 

9.82 Christian Coleman USA 

9.90 Yohan Blake JAM 

9.92A Akani Simbine RSA 

9.93 Christopher Belcher USA 

9.95 Justin Gatlin USA 

9.95 Usain Bolt JAM 

9.95A Thando Roto RSA 

9.97 Jimmy Vicaut FRA 

9.98 Chijindu Ujah GBR (9.95w) 

9.98 Ben Youssef Meité CIV (9.84w) 

Other: 

10.06 James Dasaolu GBR 

10.09 Reece Prescod GBR 

200m 

19.77 Isaac Makwala BOT 

19.84 Wayde van Niekerk RSA 

19.95A Akani Simbine RSA 

19.97 Jereem Richards TTO 

19.97 Yohan Blake JAM 

20.01 Andre De Grasse CAN (19.96w) 

20.04 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 

GBR 

20.08 Ramil Guliyev TUR (19.98w) 

20.09 Ameer Webb USA 

20.10A Clarence Munyai RSA 

Other: 

20.20 Danny Talbot GBR (19.86w) 

20.22 Zharnel Hughes GBR 

400m 

43.62 Wayde van Niekerk RSA 

43.70 Fred Kerley USA 

43.84 Isaac Makwala BOT 

44.02 Baboloki Thebe BOT 

44.22 Gil Roberts USA 

44.26 Steven Gardiner BAH 

Chris 

O’Hare: 

Scottish 

1500m 

recordholder 

MEL WATMAN LISTS THE BEST MARKS 

THIS YEAR BY ATHLETES ENTERED FOR THE 

2017 IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 

n British team members in bold. w = wind assisted; i = indoor mark; 

A = high altitude; + en route time; nm = no mark in 2017 

44.47 Will London USA 

44.52 Nathon Allen JAM 

44.64 Demish Gaye JAM 

44.78 LaShawn Merritt USA 

Other: 

44.99 Matt Hudson-Smith GBR 

45.36 Dwayne Cowan GBR 

45.65 Martyn Rooney GBR 

800m 

1:43.10 Emmanuel Korir KEN 

1:43.18 Nijel Amos BOT 

1:43.95 Donavan Brazier USA 

1:44.04A Kipyegon Bett KEN 

1:44.37 Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich KEN 

1:44.41 Brandon McBride CAN 

1:44.44 Antoine Gakeme BDI 

1:44.53 Isaiah Harris USA 

1:44.63 Drew Windle USA 

1:44.72 Pierre-Ambroise Bosse FRA 

Other: 

1:44.99 Elliot Giles GBR 

1:45.45 Kyle Langford GBR 

1:45.77 Guy Learmonth GBR 

1500m 

3:28.80 Elijah Manangoi KEN 

3:29.10 Timothy Cheruiyot KEN 

3:30.89A Ronald Kwemoi KEN 

3:31.34 Sadik Mikhou BRN 

3:31.63 Aman Wote ETH 

Wayde van 

Niekerk: 

world No.1 

at 400m 

3:32.48 Filip Ingebrigtsen NOR 

3:33.17 Asbel Kiprop KEN 

3:33.41 Matthew Centrowitz USA 

3:33.47 Homiyu Tesfaye GER 

3:33.61 Chris O’Hare GBR 

Other: 

3:34.17 Jake Wightman GBR 

3:35.99 Josh Kerr GBR 

5000m 

12:55.23 Muktar Edris ETH 

12:55.58 Selemon Barega ETH 

12:59.83 Joshua Cheptegei UGA 

13:00.70 Mo Farah GBR 

13:01.21 Yomif Kejelcha ETH 

13:03.44 Cyrus Rutto KEN 

13:04.82 Albert Rop BRN 

13:08.16 Mohammed Ahmed CAN 

13:08.62 Paul Chelimo USA 

13:09.93 Birhanu Balew BRN 

13:11.45 Andrew Butchart GBR 

Other: 

13:22.37 Marc Scott GBR 

nm Hagos Gebrhiwet ETH 

(13:00.20 in 2016) 

10,000m 

27:08.26 Abadi Hadis ETH 

27:09.08 Jemal Yimer ETH 

27:12.09 Mo Farah GBR 

27:20.57 Andamiak Belihu ETH 


27:22.33 Moses Kurong UGA 

27:29.81 Patrick Tiernan AUS 

27:30.00 Mohammed Ahmed CAN 

27:32.18 Shadrack Kipchirchir USA 

27:34.38 Hassan Mead USA 

At altitude: 

27:35.9A Geoffrey Kamworor KEN 

27:40.32A Bidan Karoki Muchiri KEN 

27:42.6A Paul Tanui KEN 

MARATHON 

2:04:11 Tamirat Tola ETH 

2:05:48 Daniel Wanjiru KEN 

2:05:51 Gideon Kipketer KEN 

2:07:26 Tsegaye Mekonnen ETH 

2:08:14 Yohanes Gebregergish ERI 

2:08:22 Hirohito Inoue JPN 

2:09:10 Alphonce Felix Simbu TAN 

2:09:18 Yuki Kawauchi JPN 

2:09:32 Kentaro Nakamoto JPN 

2:09:50 Mohamed El Aaraby MAR 

Other: 

2:14:49 Josh Griffiths GBR 

2:15:11 Andrew Davies GBR 

nm Callum Hawkins GBR 

(60:00 half-marathon) 

3000m STEEPLECHASE 

8:01.29 Evan Jager USA 

8:04.63 Conseslus Kipruto KEN 

8:05.12 Soufiane El Bakkali MAR 

8:07.68 Jairus Birech KEN 

8:08.30 Stanley Kebenei USA 

8:11.22 Yemane Hailesilassie ERI 

8:11.82 Hillary Bor USA 

8:12.28 Getnet Wale ETH 

8:13.22 Tafese Soboka ETH 

8:13.33 Diriba Tesfaye ETH 

Other: 

8:14.67 Mahiedine Mekhissi FRA 

8:19.87A Brimin Kipruto KEN 

8:30.06 Rob Mullett GBR 

8:30.17 Zak Seddon GBR 

8:33.07 Ezekiel Kemboi KEN 

8:33.59 Ieuan Thomas GBR 

110m HURDLES 

12.90 Omar McLeod JAM 

13.01 Sergey Shubenkov RUS 

13.05 Ronald Levy JAM 

13.09 Garfield Darien FRA 

13.09 Aries Merritt USA 

13.10 Devon Allen USA 

13.11 Antonio Alkana RSA 

13.14 Andy Pozzi GBR (13.13w) 

13.15 Orlando Ortega ESP (13.09w) 

13.15 Balázs Baji HUN 

Other: 

13.34 David Omoregie GBR 

13.48 David King GBR 


2017 WORLD RANKINGS – MEN 


400m HURDLES 

47.80 Kyron McMaster IVB 

48.02 Kerron Clement USA 

48.18 Eric Futch USA 

48.24 Yasmani Copello TUR 

48.25 Karsten Warholm NOR 

48.26 Michael Stigler USA 

48.31A Abderrahmane Samba QAT 

48.40 Mamadou Kasse Hann FRA 

48.44 T J Holmes USA 

48.49 Kemar Mowatt JAM 

Other: 

48.77 Jack Green GBR 

HIGH JUMP 

2.38 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT 

2.35 Mateusz Przybylko GER 

2.34 Danyil Lysenko RUS 

2.32 Sylwester Bednarek POL 

2.32 Bogdan Bondarenko UKR 

2.32 Majed El Dein Ghazal SYR 

2.31 Robbie Grabarz GBR 

2.31 Zhang Guowei CHN 

2.31 Eure Yanez VEN 

Other: 

2.30 Erik Kynard USA 

2.25 Derek Drouin CAN 

POLE VAULT 

6.00 Sam Kendricks USA 

5.93 Pawel Wojciechowski POL 

5.90 Armand Duplantis SWE 

5.87 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 

5.85 Piotr Lisek POL 

5.85 Menno Vloon NED 

5.83 Kévin Menaldo FRA 

5.80 Michal Balner CZE 

5.80 Raphael Holzdeppe GER 

5.75 Konstadínos Filippídis GRE 

5.75 Andrew Irwin USA 

5.75 Chris Nilsen USA 

Other: 

5.72 Shawnacy Barber CAN 

LONG JUMP 

8.65A Luvo Manyonga RSA 

8.49A Rushwal Samaai RSA 

8.34 Tyrone Smith BER 

8.33 Maykel Massó CUB 

8.33 Jarrion Lawson USA (8.49w) 

8.32 Aleksandr Menkov RUS 

8.31 Shi Yuhao CHN 

8.31A Eusebio Cáceres ESP 

8.30 Miltiádis Tentóglou GRE 

8.30A Michel Tornéus SWE 

Other: 

8.28 Jeff Henderson USA 

8.50w Fabrice Lapierre AUS 

TRIPLE JUMP 

18.11 Christian Taylor USA 

17.91 Will Claye USA (18.05w) 

17.48 Chris Benard USA 

17.40 Andy Diaz CUB 

17.27 Cristian Nápoles CUB 

Tom Bosworth 

and Callum 

Wilkinson: 

flying the 

flag in the 

20km walk 

17.27 Dong Bin CHN 

17.25 Donald Scott USA 

17.18 Wu Ruiting CHN 

17.18 Nazim Babayev AZE 

17.14 Simo Lipsanen FIN 

Other: 

16.81 Nathan Fox GBR 

SHOT 

22.65 Ryan Crouser USA 

22.57 Joe Kovacs USA 

22.04 Tom Walsh NZL 

22.01 Tomás Stanek CZE 

21.96 O’Dayne Richards JAM 

21.91 Darrell Hill USA 

21.87 David Storl GER 

21.82 Darian Romani BRA 

21.65 Ryan Whiting USA 

21.59 Konrad Bukowiecki POL 

DISCUS 

71.29 Daniel Stahl SWE 

68.88 Fedrick Dacres JAM 

68.61 Andrius Gudzius LTU 

67.05 Philip Milanov BEL 

66.73 Robert Urbanek POL 

66.61 Andrew Evans USA 

66.52 Lukas Weisshaidinger AUT 

66.30 Robert Harting GER 

65.90 Piotr Malachowski POL 

65.87 Gerd Kanter EST 

Other: 

62.91 Nick Percy GBR 

HAMMER 

83.44 Pawel Fajdek POL 

80.47 Wojciech Nowicki POL 

78.90 Valeriy Pronkin RUS 

78.85 Bence Halász HUN 

78.04 Pavel Bareisha BLR 

78.00 Esref Apak TUR 

77.92 Marcel Lomnicky SVK 

77.87 Quentin Bigot FRA 

77.81 Dilshod Nazarov TJK 

77.72 Mihail Anastasákis GRE 

Other: 

77.51 Nick Miller GBR 

75.72 Chris Bennett GBR 

JAVELIN 

94.44 Johannes Vetter GER 

93.90 Thomas Röhler GER 

88.79 Andreas Hofmann GER 

88.27 Tero Pitkämäki FIN 

88.09 Marcin Krukowski POL 

88.02 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 

88.01 Ioánnis Kiriazis GRE 

87.97A Julius Yego KEN 

86.92 Cheng Chao-Tsun TPE 

86.61 Keshorn Walcott TTO 

DECATHLON 

8663 Rico Freimuth GER 

8601 Ilya Shkurenyov RUS 

8591 Damian Warner CAN 

8539 Lindon Victor GRN 

8539 Eelco Sintnicolaas NED 

8509 Kurt Felix GRN 

8478 Kai Kazmirek GER 

8345 Devon Williams USA 

8335 Adam Helcelet CZE 

8334 Pieter Braun NED 

Other: 

8225 Trey Hardee USA 

8163 Ashley Bryant GBR 

nm Kevin Mayer FRA 

(8834 in 2016) 

20km WALK 

1:17:54 Wang Kaihua CHN 

1:18:18 Eiki Takahashi JPN 

1:18:23 Isamu Fujisawa JPN 

1:18:26 Sergey Shirobokov RUS 

1:18:59 Christopher Linke GER 

1:19:12 Jin Xiangqian CHN 

1:19:23 Wang Rui CHN 

1:19:37 Dane Bird-Smith AUS 

1:19:40 Daisuke Matsunaga JPN 

1:19:50 Kim Hyun-Sub KOR 

Other: 

1:20:58 Tom Bosworth GBR 

1:22:17 Callum Wilkinson GBR 

50km WALK 

3:43:40 Havard Haukenes NOR 

3:44:42 Rafal Augustyn POL 

3:45:09 José Leyver Ojeda MEX 

3:46:03 Evan Dunfee CAN 

3:46:12 Niu Wenbin CHN 

3:47:18 Hiroki Arai JPN 

3:47:37 Andrés Chocho ECU 

3:48:15 Ivan Banzeruk UKR 

3:48:38 Wu Qianlong CHN 

3:48:38 Ihor Hlavan UKR 

Other: 

3:49:49 Brendan Boyce IRL 

4:04:16 Dominic King GBR 

nm Yohann Diniz FRA 

(3:37:48 in 2016) 

nm Jared Tallent AUS 

(3:41:16 in 2016) 

nm Kai Kobayashi JPN 

(3:42:08 in 2016) 

nm Yu Wei CHN (3:42:54 in 2016) 

nm Robert Heffernan IRL 

(3:43:55 in 2016) 

nm Alex Wright IRL 

(3:48:31 in 2016) 

4x100m RELAY 

2016 marks: 

37.27 Jamaica 

37.60 Japan 

37.64 Canada (38.15 in 2017) 

37.65 USA (38.22 in 2017) 

37.78 Great Britain & NI 

(38.08 in 2017) 

37.82 China (38.19 in 2017) 

37.96 Trinidad & Tobago 

38.22 Germany (38.30 in 2017) 

38.30 Turkey (38.2A in 2017) 

38.35 France (38.68 in 2017) 

4x400m RELAY 

2016 marks: 

2:57.30 USA (2:59.95 in 2017) 

2:58.16 Jamaica (3:02.86 in 2017) 

2:58.49 Bahamas 

2:58.52 Belgium (3:02.93 in 2017) 

2:59.06 Botswana (3:02.28 in 2017) 

2:59.53 Cuba 

2:59.58 Poland 

3:00.43 Brazil 

3:00.82 France 

3:00.91 India (3:02.92 in 2017) 

3:01.16 Colombia 

3:01.44 Great Britain & NI 



100m 

10.71 Elaine Thompson JAM 

10.82 Michelle-Lee Ahye TTO 

10.83 Murielle Ahouré CIV 

10.88 Kelly-Ann Baptiste TTO 

10.90 Tori Bowie USA (10.80w) 

10.90 Marie Josée Ta Lou CIV 

10.95 Dafne Schippers NED 

10.99 Blessing Okagbare NGR 

11.00 Deajah Stevens USA (10.89w) 

11.01 Gina Lückenkemper GER 

Other: 

11.09 Desiree Henry GBR 

11.14 Daryll Neita GBR 

11.18 Asha Philip GBR 

200m 

21.77 Tori Bowie USA 

21.91 Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 

(21.90w) 

22.09 Deajah Stevens USA 

22.10 Dafne Schippers NED 

22.16 Marie Josée Ta Lou CIV 

22.42 Mujinga Kambundji SUI 

22.50 Michelle-Lee Ahye TTO 

22.50 Crystal Emmanuel CAN 

22.54 Kimberlyn Duncan USA 

22.64 Lisa Mayer GER 

Other: 

22.83 Bianca Williams GBR 

22.89 Dina Asher-Smith GBR 

22.94 Shannon Hylton GBR 

400m 

49.65 Allyson Felix USA 

49.72 Quanera Hayes USA 

49.77 Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 

49.96 Phyllis Francis USA 

50.00 Kendall Ellis USA 

50.05 Shericka Jackson JAM 

50.13 Chris-Ann Gordon JAM 

50.14 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 

50.32A Lydia Jele BOT 

50.68 Stephenie Ann McPherson 

JAM 

Allyson Felix: world leader at 400m 

Other: 

51.67 Emily Diamond GBR 

51.81 Anyika Onuora GBR 

51.84 Zoey Clark GBR 

800m 

1:55.27 Caster Semenya RSA 

1:55.47 Francine Niyonsaba BDI 

1:55.61 Ajee’ Wilson USA 

1:56.81 Sifan Hassan NED ? 

1:57.01 Melissa Bishop CAN 

1:57.03 Margaret Wambui KEN 

1:57.38 Charlene Lipsey USA 

1:57.78 Eunice Sum KEN 

1:58.01 Lynsey Sharp GBR 

1:58.43 Brenda Martinez USA 

1:58.77 Lovisa Lindh SWE 

Other: 

1:59.82 Shelayna Oskan-Clarke GBR 

2:00.34 Adelle Tracey GBR 

1500m 

3:56.14 Sifan Hassan NED 

3:57.51 Faith Kipyegon KEN 

3:57.82+ Genzebe Dibaba ETH 

3:59.16 Winny Chebet KEN 

3:59.30 Konstanze Klosterhalfen GER 

3:59.55 Gudaf Tsegay ETH 

4:00.35+ Laura Muir GBR 

4:00.59 Meraf Bahta SWE 

4:00.98 Besu Sado ETH 

4:01.61 Angelika Cichocka POL 

Other: 

4:01.95 Laura Weightman GBR 

4:05.20 Jessica Judd GBR 

4:05.83 Sarah McDonald GBR 

4:16.87 Caster Semenya RSA 

(4:01.99 in 2016) 

5000m 

14:18.37 Hellen Obiri KEN 

14:25.22 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 

14:31.76 Senbere Teferi ETH 

14:33.32 Letesenbet Gidey ETH 

14:36.82 Yasemin Can TUR 

14:41.24 Sifan Hassan NED 

14:43.89 Margaret Kipkemboi KEN 

14:49.12 Laura Muir GBR 

(indoor time) 

14:51.38 Konstanze Klosterhalfen GER 

14:53.35 Susan Krumins NED 

Other: 

15:07.43 Eilish McColgan GBR 

15:16.65 Steph Twell GBR 

nm Almaz Ayana ETH 

(14:12.59 in 2016) 

10,000m 

30:41.68 Senbere Teferi ETH 

30:56.48 Dera Dida ETH 

31:18.20 Yasemin Can TUR 

31:19.00 Desi Jisa Mokonin BRN 

31:19.86 Molly Huddle USA 

31:22.67 Emily Infeld USA 

31:25.64 Emily Sisson USA 

Kendra Harrison: almost as quick in 2017 

as her world record, above, from last year 

31:39.41 Mizuki Matsuda JPN 

At altitude: 

31:50.5 Alice Aprot Nawowuna KEN 

31:56.0 Agnes Tirop KEN 

31:56.4 Irene Cheptai KEN 

Other: 

32:04.63 Beth Potter GBR 

32:11.80 Charlotte Taylor GBR 

33:00.24 Jessica Martin GBR 

nm Almaz Ayana ETH 

(29:17.45 in 2016) 

nm Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 

(29:42.56 in 2016) 

MARATHON 

2:21:17 Eunice Jepkirui BRN 

2:21:19 Birhane Dibaba ETH 

2:21:22 Filomena Cheyech KEN 

2:21:36 Yuka Ando JPN 

2:21:52 Edna Kiplagat KEN 

2:22:51 Rose Chelimo BRN 

2:22:57 Shure Demise ETH 

2:23:08 Aselefech Mergia ETH 

2:23:47 Mao Kiyota JPN 

2:24:22 Risa Shigetomo JPN 

Other: 

2:29:06 Alyson Dixon GBR 

2:29:23 Charlotte Purdue GBR 

2:30:42 Tracy Barlow GBR 

nm Mare Dibaba ETH 

(2:24:09 in 2016) 


8:58.78 Celphine Chespol KEN 

9:00.12 Hyvin Jepkemoi KEN 

9:00.70 Beatrice Chepkoech KEN 

9:01.99 Ruth Jebet BRN 

9:07.06 Sofia Assefa ETH 

9:07.96 Emma Coburn USA 

9:13.25 Etenesh Diro ETH 

9:15.70 Gesa-Felicitas Krause GER 

9:19.09 Courtnery Frerichs USA 

9:19.29 Aisha Praught JAM 

Other: 

9:36.75 Rosie Clarke GBR 

9:37.94 Lennie Waite GBR 

100m HURDLES 

12.28 Kendra Harrison USA 

12.48 Sally Pearson AUS 

12.52 Nia Ali USA 

12.56 Danielle Williams JAM 

12.57 Tobi Amusan NGR 

12.58 Christina Manning USA 

12.61 Pamela Dutkiewicz GER 

12.63 Megan Simmonds JAM 

12.65 Ruchelle Burton JAM 

12.66 Dawn Harper Nelson USA 

Other: 

12.75 Tiffany Porter GBR 

13.07 Alicia Barrett GBR 

400m HURDLES 

52.64 Dalilah Muhammad USA 

52.75 Shamier Little USA 

52.95 Kori Carter USA 

54.22 Zuzana Hejnová CZE 

54.29 Rhonda Whyte JAM 

54.29 Léa Sprunger SUI 

54.35 Sara Slott Petersen DEN 

54.36 Eilidh Doyle GBR 

54.49 Ristananna Tracey JAM 

54.52 Sage Watson CAN 

Other: 

56.08 Jess Turner GBR 

56.14 Meghan Beesley GBR 

HIGH JUMP 

2.06 Mariya Lasitskene RUS 

1.99 Vashti Cunningham USA 

1.98 Kamila Licwinko POL 

1.98 Nafissatou Thiam BEL 

1.97 Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch 

GER 

1.97 Oksana Okuneva UKR 

1.97 Yuliya Levchenko UKR 

1.96 Morgan Lake GBR 

1.96 Inika McPherson USA 

1.95 Katarina Johnson- 

Thompson GBR 

1.95 Iryna Herashchenko UKR 

Other: 

1.94 Ruth Beitia ESP 


2017 WORLD RANKINGS – WOMEN 


POLE VAULT 

4.85 Ekateríni Stefanídi GRE 

4.84 Sandi Morris USA 

4.83 Jenn Suhr USA 

4.82 Eliza McCartney NZL 

4.81 Holly Bradshaw GBR 

4.81 Yarisley Silva CUB 

4.75 Anzhela Sidorova RUS 

4.73 Lisa Ryzih GER 

4.73 Nicole Büchler SUI 

4.71 Alysha Newman CAN 

4.71 Michaela Meijer SWE 

Ekaterina 

Stefani: 

Olympic 

champion 

1:29:40 Kumiko Okada JPN 

Other: 

1:32:33 Gemma Bridge GBR 

1:33:04 Bethan Davies GBR 

50km WALK 

4:08:26 Inés Henriques POR 

4:22:22 Yin Hang CHN 

4:26:37 Katie Burnett USA 

4:27:24 Yang Shuqing CHN 

4:29:33 Erin Talcott USA 

4:39:28 Nair Da Rosa B 

LONG JUMP 

7.13 Brittney Reese USA 

7.01 Tianna Bartoletta USA (7.05w) 

6.92 Christabel Nettey CAN (6.94w) 

6.88 Ivana Spanovic SRB (7.24i) 

6.86 Claudia Salman-Rath GER 

6.83 Quanesha Burks USA (6.90w) 

6.79 Alexandra Wester GER 

6.79 Brooke Stratton AUS 

6.79 Sha-Keela Saunders USA 

(6.92w) 

6.78 Lorraine Ugen GBR 

6.78 Alina Rotaru ROU 

Other: 

6.73 Shara Proctor GBR 

6.53 Jazmin Sawyers GBR 

(6.55w) 

TRIPLE JUMP 

14.96 Yulimar Rojas VEN 

14.86 Caterine Ibargüen COL 

14.64 Olga Rypakova KAZ 

14.56 Nubia Soares BRA 

14.54 Kimberly Williams JAM 

(14.60w) 

14.45 Liadagmis Povea CUB 

14.42 Patricia Mamona POR 

14.40 Kristin Gierisch GER 

14.39 Jeanine Assani Issouf FRA 

(14.48w) 

14.38 Shanieka Thomas-Ricketts 

JAM 

Brittney Reese: long 

jump rankings leader 

SHOT 

20.11 Gong Lijiao CHN 

19.76 Raven Saunders USA 

19.64 Dani Bunch USA 

19.63 Anita Márton HUN 

19.34 Michelle Carter USA 

19.15 Danniel Thomas JAM 

19.01 Aliona Dubitskaya BLR 

18.92 Yaniuvis López CUB 

18.83 Dimitriana Surdu MDA 

18.58 Brittany Crew CAN 

Other: 

17.47 Rachel Wallader GBR 

DISCUS 

71.41 Sandra Perkovic CRO 

69.19 Yaimé Pérez CUB 

66.78 Dani Stevens AUS 

65.81 Gia Lewis-Smallwood USA 

65.76 Denia Caballero CUB 

65.76 Nadine Müller GER 

64.69 Valarie Allman USA 

64.68 Andressa de Morais BRA 

64.09 Nataliya Semenova UKR 

64.08 Su Xinyue CHN 

Other: 

62.15 Jade Lally GBR 

HAMMER 

82.87 Anita Wlodarczyk POL 

76.77 Gwen Berry USA 

76.25 Wang Zheng CHN 

75.29 Hanna Skydan AZE 

75.11 Malwina Kopron POL 

74.94 Hanna Malyshik BLR 

74.91 DeAnna Price USA 

74.56 Maggie Ewen USA 

73.97 Sophie Hitchon GBR 

73.80 Zalina Petrivskaya MDA 

JAVELIN 

68.43 Sara Kolak CRO 

68.26 Barbora Spotáková CZE 

67.21 Eda Tugsuz TUR 

66.47 Liu Shiying CHN 

66.30 Tatsiana Khaladovich BLR 

66.12 Kathryn Mitchell AUS 

64.85 Martina Ratej SLO 

64.80 Kara Winger USA 

64.47 Liz Gleadle CAN 

64.47 Anete Kocina LAT 

HEPTATHLON 

7013 Nafissatou Thiam BEL 

6836 Carolin Schäfer GER 

6815 Laura Ikauniece-Admidina LAT 

6691 Katarina Johnson- 

Thompson GBR 

6580 Claudia Salman-Rath GER 

6564 Kendell Williams USA 

6557 Erica Bougard USA 

6497 Anouk Vetter NED 

6446 Yorgelis Rodríguez CUB 

6421 Sharon Day-Monroe USA 

4x100m RELAY 

2016 marks: 

41.01 USA (42.12 in 2017) 

41.36 Jamaica (42.25 in 2017) 

41.62 Germany (42.25 in 2017) 

41.77 Great Britain & NI 

42.04 Netherlands 

42.12 Trinidad & Tobago 

42.36 Ukraine 

42.59 Brazil 

42.65 China 

42.67 Ghana 

In 2017: 

42.53 Switzerland 

4x400m RELAY 

2016 marks: 

3:19.06 USA (3:23.13 in 2017) 

3:20.34 Jamaica 

3:24.54 Ukraine 

3:24.81 Great Britain & NI 

3:24.94 Canada 

3:25.16 Italy 

3:25.34 Poland 

3:25.71 Australia 

3:25.96 France 

3:26.02 Germany 

n British team members in bold. 

w = wind assisted; i = indoor mark; 

A = high altitude; + en route time; 

nm = no mark in 2017 

Sophie Hitchon: 

faces tough 

hammer 

line-up 

20km WALK 

1:26:28 Lu Xiuzhi CHN 

1:26:29 Wang Na CHN 

1:26:35 Yang Jiayu CHN 

1:27:57 Antonella Palmisano ITA 

1:28:09 Maria González MEX 

1:28:29 Klavdiya Afanasyeva RUS 

1:29:06 Paola Pérez ECU 

1:29:15 Kimberley García PER 

1:29:16 Erica de Sena BRA 



BOLT’S FARE 

LONDON 2017 WILL MARK THE END OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER 

100m 

THE WORLD’S most famous 

and charismatic athlete, Usain 

Bolt, bids for a record fourth 

title over 100m – his seventh 

global short sprint gold and his 

14th individual global title. It 

will be his final championships 

appearance. He has not fully 

convinced so far in 2017 

with back problems possibly 

hindering him, but has still won 

all his races, has a fantastic 

competitive record, and still 

remains the favourite. 

Based on recent major 

races, Bolt will not be ahead 

at halfway or possibly even at 

80 metres but no one finishes 

a race like the Jamaican sprint 

star and he has the stimulus 

of knowing this is his last 

important individual race. 

He will need to improve his 

season’s best of 9.95 to end an 

amazing career on a winning 

note. However, he will not have 

to approach his championships 

record of 9.58 to win. 

The athlete who won in 

the year Bolt false-started in 

2011, Yohan Blake, won the 

Jamaican Championships in 

9.90. However, he has not been 

seen since but could still be in 

the mix for victory. 

The fastest on paper at 9.82 

is NCAA champion Christian 

Coleman, who also curiously 

hasn’t raced since being beaten 

in the US Champs by Justin 

Gatlin in June. 

Unlike some of his rivals, 


EVENT-BY-EVENT PREVIEW – MEN 


WELL 

Event statistics 

World record: 9.58 Usain Bolt (JAM) 

Champs record: 9.58 Bolt 

Defending champion: Bolt 

British interest: James Dasaolu, Reece Prescod, CJ Ujah 

AW prediction: 1 Bolt (JAM), 2 Coleman (USA), Gatlin (USA) 

History: Bolt is currently level with Carl Lewis and Maurice 

Greene with three world 100m titles. 

Justin Gatlin (far left) came within one hundredth of a second of Usain Bolt when the Jamaican won in Bejing in 2015 

Gatlin has done some European 

races, won in Lausanne in 9.96 

and could well end up with 

his third successive silver. He 

pushed Bolt to a hundredth 

of a second in the last World 

Championships in Beijing. 

The third American, Chris 

Belcher, has run 9.93 this year 

but the collegian may have 

overdone the racing with 50 

races in 2017, and was only 

seventh in Monaco. 

South African Akani Simbine 

has been the most consistent 

sprinter this summer and could 

improve on his fifth place from 

Rio and while Olympic bronze 

medallist Andre De Grasse 

hasn’t run fast yet this year, he 

will surely go much quicker in 

London. 

Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev could 

be the best of the rest and may 

be in the mix for a minor medal 

in the final. 

Based on his best form, 

which includes wins at London, 

Rabat and Rome, CJ Ujah 

should make his first major final, 

and could be close to a medal. 

Former European champion 

James Dasaolu made the 2013 

final but doesn’t look in the 

same form in 2017. It would be 

a surprise if he went further than 

the semi-finals. 

British champion Reece 

Prescod impressed with his 

finish in Birmingham but hasn’t 

raced since. His 10.09 puts him 

outside the world top 40 and he 

would need a PB to come close 

to making the semi-finals. SS 



LIKELY NEW KID ON THE BLOCK 

200m 

THERE will be a new half-lap 

champion in 2017 with Usain 

Bolt not defending and it looks 

to be an open race. 

The two fastest in the 

rankings, Isaac Makwala and 

Wayde van Niekerk, could be 

potentially running their sixth 

race come the final as both are 

also contesting the 400m. 

Makwala has the fastest time 

at 19.77 but it is Van Niekerk 

who has the proven competitive 

record and starts favourite over 

the Botswana athlete and could 

sit alongside Michael Johnson 

as the only joint 200m and 

400m world champions. 

With a 19.26 PB, Yohan 

Blake is the quickest in the 

field but failed to make the Rio 

Olympic final last year and lacks 

WILL Olympic champion 

Wayde van Niekerk run flat 

out? With the 200m to come, 

the South African may try to 

hold something back and not 

repeat his Rio heroics. 

consistency over the longer 

distance. 

Rasheed Dwyer and 

Warren Weir complete a strong 

Jamaican trio. 

Andre De Grasse has 

not broken 20 seconds this 

He actually had little in hand 

when beating Isaac Makwala 

in Monaco and US champion 

Fred Kerley looks a genuine 

talent too but it is hard to see 

Van Niekerk not defending in 

style. 

Former champion LaShawn 

summer but he won in Rome, 

was the best of the rest behind 

Bolt in Rio and has to be one of 

the favourites. 

Akani Simbine and Jereem 

Richards have been inside 

20 seconds this summer and 

so can’t be discounted and 

Ramil Guliyev is another strong 

potential finalist. 

Ameer Webb leads what 

looks a much reduced in quality 

US trio with Isiah Young and 

Kyree King and it is possible 

there won’t be a US finalist but 

possibly three Britons instead. 

British champion Nethaneel 

Mitchell-Blake could go very 

close to a medal, if he can 

reproduce his 19.95 PB form of 

last year. He should benefit from 

most of his rivals running their 

second event, while he goes in 

to his races fresh. 

Zharnel Hughes was fifth in 

the last world final and has not 

reproduced that form in 2017, 

but could take a place in the 

final, as could Danny Talbot. 

The ultra consistent Talbot is 

in the best shape of his life and 

he just missed the final in Rio, 

finishing third in his semi-final. SS 

DEFENDER VAN NIEKERK SHOULD WIN 

400m 

Wayde van Niekerk 

just beat Isaac Makwala 

in Monaco 

Danny Talbot and Nethaneel Mitchell- 

Blake: could make London 200m final 

JEAN PIERRE DURAND 


World record: 19.19 Usain Bolt 

(JAM) 

Champs record: 19.19 Bolt 

Defending champion: Bolt 

British interest: Zharnel Hughes, 

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Danny 

Talbot 

AW prediction: 1 Van Niekerk (RSA); 

2 De Grasse (CAN); 3 Blake (JAM) 

History: Bolt had run in the six 

previous finals, winning the last four, 

although was last in 2005. Calvin 

Smith and Michael Johnson are the 

only other double winners. 


World record: 43.03 Wayde van 

Niekerk (RSA) 

Champs record: 43.18 Michael 

Johnson 

Defending champion: Van Niekerk 

British interest: Dwayne Cowan, 

Matthew Hudson-Smith, Martyn 

Rooney 

AW prediction: 1 Van Niekerk; 2 

Kerley (USA); 3 Gardiner (BAH) 

History: Michael Johnson stands 

alone with four gold medals but 

two-time champion Merritt is 

chasing his sixth individual medal. 

Merritt has not run a 400m 

since May 5 and only qualified 

by his Diamond League win 

last season and doesn’t 

look fully fit. Another former 

champion, Kirani James, is 

not competing. 

The battle for medals is 

open and another Botswana 

athlete Baboloki Thebe, 

American Gil Roberts and 

Bahamian Steve Gardiner look 

the best of the rest. 

Matthew Hudson-Smith 

made the final in Rio but, 

ranked 15th among London 

competitors, will need a big 

advance on his 2017 best of 

44.99 to repeat in London. 

European champion Martyn 

Rooney is improving race 

by race but currently worldranked 

96th, even a semifinal 

spot would need a huge 

improvement in form. 

So too would Dwayne 

Cowan, who is making his 

championships debut at the 

age of 32. Only fourth in the 

UK trials, he qualified with a 

45.36 in London. SS 




KORIR IS FAVOURITE ON PAPER 

800m 

EMMANUEL KORIR has 

no major championships 

experience and only started 

running competitively in 2016. 

However, he has not 

lost a final in 2017, won the 

NCAA and Kenyan trials and 

Emmanuel Korir: 

can he continue 

his winning 

streak? 

JEAN PIERRE DURAND 

triumphed in Monaco in a 

world-leading 1:43.02 and with 

a 44.67 early season 400m PB, 

he will start as favourite, albeit 

one that is largely unknown. 

His task was made easier 

as well this week when fellow 

Kenyan, David Rudisha, the 

reigning world and Olympic 

champion and world recordholder, 

withdrew due to injury. 

Based on this year’s form, 

the man who followed Rudisha 

home at London 2012, Nijel 

Amos, looks in much better 

shape based on his London, 

Paris and Rabat grand prix 

wins. 

Kipyegon Bett and Ferguson 

Cheruiyot complete a strong 

Kenyan quartet (see p62) and 

American Donavan Brazier and 

Canadian Brandon McBride 

look the best of the rest. 

The European challenge will 

probably be led by 2015 silver 

medallist Adam Kszczot who 

hasn’t been at his best thus 

far in 2017 but has a proven 

championship record. 

Elliot Giles won a European 

medal last year, has a good 

race brain and strong finish, 

Elliot Giles: 

place in the 

final would 

be good 


World record: 1:40.91 David 

Rudisha (KEN) 

Champs record: 1:43:06 Billy 

Konchellah (KEN) 

Defending champion: Rudisha 

British interest: Elliot Giles, Kyle 

Langford, Guy Learmonth, 

AW prediction: 1 Korir (KEN); 2 

Amos (BOT); 3 Bett (KEN) 

History: Wilson Kipketer is the 

only three-time champion although 

Russian Yuriy Borzakovskiy won four 

medals but no titles to go with his 

Olympic gold. 

and could negotiate his way to 

the final if the races go down to 

the last 200 metres. 

As for the GB athletes, Kyle 

Langford will also have to rely 

on his kick to advance further 

although Guy Learmonth may 

be dependent on a fast run heat 

to progress further. SS 

TOP THREE FOR KENYA ON THE CARDS 

1500m 

IT IS hard to see this event not 

being Kenyan-dominated. 

Defending champion Asbel 

Kiprop has not looked in his 

best form yet this year and was 

only 11th in Monaco but will still 

be hard to beat though world 

junior record-holder and Kenyan 

trials winner Ronald Kwemoi 

looks a better bet with his 

3000m strength. 

Monaco winner Elijah 

Manangoi has also impressed 

and could better his 2015 silver 

medal while team-mate Timothy 

Cheruiyot also has medal 

potential. 

Olympic champion Matt 

Centrowitz is another down on 

his best form but a canny racer 

with an electric change of pace 

and good tactical sense can 

never be discounted. 

Bahrain’s former Moroccan 

Sadik Mikhou looks the best of 

the rest in what looks a weaker 

field than normal. 

Filip Ingebrigtsen is the 

fastest European but all three 

Brits are capable of being in 

Expect the usual Kenyan domination of this event 

the mix for a top eight place at 

least. 

Chris O’Hare won in 

London, set a Scottish record 

in Monaco, and is a great racer 

while Jake Wightman has 

made huge progress in 2017, 


World record: 3:26:00 Hicham El 

Guerrouj (MAR) 

Champs record: 3:27.65 El Guerrouj 

(MAR) 

Defending champion: Asbel Kiprop 

(KEN) 

British interest: Josh Kerr, Chris 

O’Hare, Jake Wightman 

AW prediction: 1 Kwemoi (KEN); 2 

Manangoi (KEN); 3 Kiprop (KEN) 

History: Apart from having a 

championships record that could last 

a lifetime, El Guerrouj won four golds 

and a silver in 1500m finals. 

improving his 800m times and 

also won in Oslo. 

British teenager Josh Kerr is 

only world ranked 50th but has 

a great kick as proven in 

his NCAA indoor and outdoor 

wins and European junior gold 

medal runs and in a slow run 

race, he could turn into a real 

danger. SS 



CAN MO DO THE 

WORLD TRIPLE? 

WINNING SIX WORLD TITLES AT 5000m AND 10,000m AN UNPRECEDENTED FEAT 

FARAH TO WIN AND CEMENT TRACK LEGACY 

5000m 

MO FARAH goes for a fourth 

world and sixth successive 

global victory over 12.5 laps. 

While he has not looked 

maybe at his very, very best, he 

won in Eugene in a then world 

lead 13:00.70 and has won 

all four of his summer races at 

distances of 3000m and over 

without too much difficulty. 

As ever, Farah will be 

contesting the event after a 

10,000m final and while the 

opposition is good, it is hard 

to see who is going to take 

the race to Farah and who is 

MO FARAH has not lost a 

10,000m race since being 

passed in the last 30 metres of 

the 2011 World Championships 

and since then has won four 

global 25-lap titles. 

His last foray at the distance 

will surely be a winning one 

and only a fall, as in Rio, 

should endanger him. 

Unless the race is a flat out 

pace from the start, it is hard 

to see anyone unsettling the 

Briton. 

The most accomplished 

competitor is Geoffrey 

Kamworor, who has won four 

world titles on road and country 

but has lost his four previous 

meetings to Farah at 10,000m. 

He followed Farah home in 

2015 but was only 11th in Rio. 

Paul Tanui has raced Farah 

six times over 25 laps and 

the Olympic silver medallist has 

lost every race but has also 

medalled in the last two Worlds 

and is consistent. 

Bedan Muchiri was third 

in the London Marathon and 

capable of passing him once he 

has settled into his familiar final 

kilometre wind-up. 

World-leader Muktar Edris 

has never been a threat to 

Farah previously and was 

disqualified in Rio, but looks an 

improved athlete with a strong 

finish based on his Paris and 

Lausanne wins. 

Yomif Kejelcha and Selemon 

Barega complete a hot 

Ethiopian trio though Kejelcha 

has not won a race in 2017 and 

world youth, junior champion 

Barega is only 17-years-old, 

and so this will surely be too 

early for him. 

ZERO DEFEATS OVER 25 LAPS SINCE DAEGU 

10,000m 


World record: 26:17.53 Kenenisa 

Bekele (ETH) 

Champs record: 26:46.31 Bekele 

(ETH) 

Defending champion: Mo Farah 

(GBR) 

British interest: Farah 

AW prediction: 1 Farah; 2 Kamworor 

(KEN); 3 Hadis (ETH) 

History: Farah goes for his third title 

but he will still be one short of Haile 

Gebrselassie and Bekele who won 

it four times each. Gebrselassie also 

won a silver and a bronze. 

Mo Farah and 

Andrew Butchart: 

will they similarly 

lead in London? 

Mo Farah: 

unbeaten for 

six years at 

the distance 

certainly doesn’t look to have 

the pace to worry the Brit 

but may be employed as a 

pacesetter for Kamworor and 

Tanui who would benefit from a 

flat-out run from the start. 




Paul 

Chelimo: 

Olympic 

silver 

medal 

VICTAH SAILER 


World record: 12:37.35 Kenenisa 

Bekele (ETH) 

Champs record: 12:52.79 Eliud 

Kipchoge (KEN) 

Defending champion: Mo Farah 

(GBR) 

British interest: Andrew Butchart, 

Farah, Marc Scott 

AW prediction: 1 Farah (GBR); 

2 Edris (ETH); 3 Chelimo (USA) 

History: Farah is the only three-time 

winner and will aim to compete in a 

record sixth final. He led at the bell in 

2007 but ended up sixth. 

Conseslus Kipruto: Olympic 

champion has endured an 

injury-hit build-up and 

faces in-form Evan Jager 

.Ethiopian teenager and 

world-leader Abadi Hadis is a 

much better athlete than when 

15th in Rio and could be a 

medal factor. 

Jemal Yimer was fourth in 

the world cross-country but 

has only raced once on the 

track in 2017 and doesn’t look 

a medal threat, nor does his 

young team-mate Andamlak 

Belihu, who like Yimer only 

raced in Hengelo at 10,000m. 

No one else looks a danger 

to the Brit really. Eritrea have 

Nguse Amlosom and Aron 

Kifle and Uganda Joshua 

Cheptegei with USA fielding 

a trio including Hassan Mead 

and former Kenyans Shadrack 

Kipchirchir and Leonard Korir, 

all looking top eight at best. 

The Kenyan trio looks less 

dangerous and it is possibly the 

least accomplished trio they 

have ever fielded in a world 

championships. Cyrus Rutto 

and Davis Kiplangat have no 

international senior experience. 

Rutto was 11th in Lausanne 

while 37-year-old Josphat 

Menjo has not made the top 

three in any of his four 5000m 

races this year and his only 

experience is eighth place in 

the 2007 Worlds 10,000m. 

A Kenyan-born athlete could 

still medal though as Rio runnerup 

Paul Chelimo impressively 

won the US trials and showed 

good finishing speed in Rio. 

Team-mates Eric Jenkins 

and Ryan Hill could also be 

factors in the final. 

Andrew Butchart was a 

superb sixth in Rio and with 

home support could do better 

in London where a medal is not 

out of the question. 

Late team addition Marc 

Scott, the NCAA 10,000m 

champion, is ranked 70th in the 

world and would need the race 

of his life to make the final. SS 

With next year’s Australian 

Gold Coast Commonwealth 

Games in mind, the 

performances of Canadian 

Mo Ahmed, Aussie Pat Tiernan 

and Kiwi Zane Robertson are 

worth noting. SS 

Zane 

Robertson: 

leading 

Kiwi 

WILL KENYANS BE 

DERAILED AT LAST? 


KENYA have dominated the 

event over the years. Since 

1991, they have won all bar 

two races, and those were 

won by a former Kenyan with 

a Kenyan finishing second! 

This year the team looks 

less dominant. Ezekiel Kemboi 

is going for a fifth successive 

gold but in his one race this 

year he was 17th in Rome. 

Recent Diamond Leagues 

have been won by Evan Jager 

in Monaco and by Soufiane El 

Bakkali in Rabat. These two 

who were second and fourth 

at the Rio Games, look in even 

better shape in 2017. 

France’s Mahiedine 

Mekhissi-Benabbad who has 

won medals in the last three 

Olympics, is also capable of 

medalling and posseses an 

even better finish than the 

American and Moroccan. 

The Kenyans have been 

unusually quiet this year. 

Olympic champion Conseslus 

Kipruto won in Rome but 

has struggled with injury and 

his only outing since was the 

Kenyan trials. Still, he will start 

as marginal favourite. 

Jairus Birech has run subeight 

in past years and is 

consistent but doesn’t have 

the decisive change of pace 

necessary to win. 

Brimin Kipruto has been 

very quiet this summer but the 

strong finisher won world gold 

in 2007 and the Olympics in 

2008. 

Britons Rob Mullett, Zak 

Seddon and Ieuan Thomas 

will benefit from the experience 

but would need sub-8:20 

efforts to get to the final. 

That is unlikely and sub-8:30s 

would be progress. SS 


World record: 7:53.63 Saif 

Shaheed Shaheen (QAT) 

Champs record: 8:00:43 Ezekiel 

Kemboi (KEN) 

Defending champion: Kemboi 

British interest: Rob Mullett, 

Zak Seddon, Ieuan Thomas 

AW prediction: 1 C Kipruto (KEN); 

2 Jager (USA); 3 Mekhissi Benabbad 

(FRA) 

History: Kemboi has astonishingly 

won medals at the past seven 

championships. Three silvers were 

followed by four golds! 



McLEOD MAY THWART MERRITT 

110m HURDLES 

COULD America’s Aries 

Merritt, who underwent a 

kidney transplant just days 

after his bronze at the World 

Championships in 2015, 

complete one of the most 

remarkable comebacks of 

recent years and write a 


World record: 12.80 

Aries Merritt (USA) 

Champs record: 12.91 

Colin Jackson (GBR) 

Defending champion: 

Sergey Shubenkov (RUS) 

British interest: David King, 

David Omoregie, Andy Pozzi 

AW prediction: 1 McLeod (JAM), 

2 Merritt (USA), 3 Shubenkov 

History: Allen Johnson won four 

golds between 1995 and 2003. 

He was third in 2005. 

ALL THE signs point to this 

event coming down to a duel 

between an experienced 

campaigner and a young 

athlete in the midst of making a 

significant breakthrough in the 

event. 

real-life fairytale by hurdling to 

gold in London? 

The 2012 Olympic champion 

and world record-holder, whose 

positive demeanour has served 

him well in his return to the 

The 31-year-old American 

Kerron Clement is the reigning 

Olympic champion who won 

his first world championships 

gold back in 2007. He may 

be advancing in years but is 

showing absolutely no signs 

whatsoever of slowing down 

and has run the second-fastest 

sport, certainly knows how to 

win in the UK capital. Though 

he wasn’t able to race in Rio, 

he is very much back up there 

with the elite now after his 

health problems. 

There is, however, a 

substantial and ominouslooking 

obstacle standing 

in his way in the shape of 

Jamaica’s Olympic champion 

Omar McLeod, the only man 

in the world to have broken 13 

seconds this year. 

Defending world champion 

Sergey Shubenkov (racing 

under a neutral flag) will have a 

say, too, as could Cuban-born 

Spaniard Orlando Ortega – a 

silver medallist in Rio. 

Throw in the extra dimension 

of Britain’s ever-improving 

Andy Pozzi racing in front of 

and feeding off the partisan 

time in the world so far 

during 2017. 

The man who sits top of 

that chart is Kyron McMaster, 

a 20-year-old from the British 

Virgin Islands who was a world 

junior bronze medallist last year 

and will be taking part in his first 

major championships when he 

sets foot on the London track. 

Judging by the way he 

defeated a top quality field to 

run that world-leading 47.80 in 

Jamaica back in May, it doesn’t 

look like he will be daunted by 

the challenge ahead. 

Clement’s compatriot 

Eric Futch should feature 

prominently in the final 

reckoning too, while it will 

also be worth keeping an eye 

out for the talented 21-yearold 

Norwegian and former 

decathlete Karsten 

Warholm. 

home crowd – he is joined in 

the British line-up by David 

Omoregie and David King – and 

this really could be one of the 

most intriguing events of the 

whole championships. EC 

THE MASTER v THE YOUNG PRETENDER 

400m HURDLES 

Omar McLeod: 

became Olympic 

champion in Rio 

Kerron Clement and Kyron McMaster: title 

should come from these two athletes 

Aries Merritt: 

could he defy 

the odds to 

take the gold? 


World record: 46.78 

Kevin Young (USA) 

Champs record: 47.18 Young 

Defending champion: 

Nicholas Bett (KEN) 

British interest: Jack Green 

AW prediction: 1 Clement (USA), 2 

McMaster (IVB), 3 Warholm (NOR) 

History: The double Olympic 

champion Felix Sanchez also won 

two world titles plus a silver and 

made seven world finals. 

This will also be a landmark 

occasion for Jack Green, 

the Briton who left the sport 

temporarily following the 2012 

Olympics due to struggles with 

depression and injury. 

He has, however, coached 

himself back to finding some 

good form again and was a 

thoroughly convincing 

winner at the team trials in 

Birmingham. EC 




RIO TRIO REUNITED IN LONDON 

HIGH JUMP 

THERE is a particularly strong 

chance that the spectators 

of this event in the London 

Stadium will end up being 

treated to a replay of the Rio 

Olympic Games of last year. 

Derek Drouin: defending his world title 

In the final in 2016, Derek 

Drouin of Canada came out on 

top in the battle with Qatar’s 

Mutaz Essa Barshim and 

Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko 

– and it’s those three who look 

likely to contest strongest for 

the medal places again. 

Drouin, who is looking to 

compete in the decathlon at 

next year’s Commonwealth 

Games in Australia, is a man 

for the big occasion, being the 

defending world champion, 

while Barshim has never landed 

a global title outdoors. 

The 26-year-old does, 

however, have a personal best 

of 2.43m (Drouin won Olympic 

gold with 2.38m) to his name 

and has been setting the world 

standard in the high jump 

this year. 

Britain’s Robbie Grabarz first 

leapt his way from obscurity and 

into the public consciousness 

with bronze during those 

2012 London Olympics and, 

while he has battled a serious 

knee injury since, he showed 

reserves of character to get 

back into the sport and came 


World record: 2.45m Javier 

Sotomayor (CUB) 

Champs record: 2.41m Bohdan 

Bondarenko (UKR) 

Defending champion: Derek 

Drouin (CAN) 

British interest: Robbie Grabarz 

AW prediction: 1 Barshim (QAT), 

2 Drouin (CAN), 3 Bondarenko (UKR) 

History: World record-holder 

Sotomayor won two world titles in 

the 1990s but the latter part of his 

career was tarnished by two failed 

drugs tests. 

fourth in Rio. He also captured 

European Indoor silver earlier 

this year just weeks after an 

appendix operation and could 

find inspiration again at a venue 

he knows so well. Germany’s 

Mateusz Przybylko has also 

been coming on in literal leaps 

and bounds. EC 

CAN KENDRICKS BE CROWNED KING? 

POLE VAULT 

THIAGO BRAZ DA SILVA was 

taken to the heart of his home 

nation when he struck Olympic 

gold in Brazil last summer 

following a memorable and 

controversial contest with 

Renaud Lavillenie. 

But the Brazilian pole 

vaulter has struggled for 

form in 2017 due to injuries 

and withdrew from the 

championships last week. 

American Sam Kendricks, 

bronze medallist in Rio, now 

looks like the man to beat 

having vaulted 6.00m in 

winning his national trials. 

Poland’s Piotr Lietsk is 

the only other man to hit 

such heights in 2017 and 

will feature prominently, as 

Sam Kendricks: 

vaulted 6.00m 

at the US trials 

will his compatriot and 2011 

world champion Pawel 

Wojciechowski. 

Much is always expected of 

Lavillenie, Olympic champion 

in 2012, and he will be firmly in 

the heart of the competition. 

The Frenchman has already 


World record: 6.16m Renaud 

Lavillenie (FRA) 

Champs record: 6.05m Dmitri 

Markov (AUS) 

Defending champion: Shawn 

Barber (CAN) 

British interest: None 

AW prediction: 1 Kendricks (USA), 

2 Wojciechowski (POL), 3 R 

Lavillenie (FRA) 

History: Sergey Bubka won all 

the first six World Championships 

between 1983 and 1997. 

had a year to remember, 

however, given that he 

recently became a father for 

the first time. 

The performance of 

17-year-old Swede Armand 

Duplantis, the European U20 

champion, could provide an 

intriguing sub plot, too. EC 



MANYONGA’S THE MAN TO BEAT 

LONG JUMP 

SURVIVAL of the fittest is the 

theme for this event in 2017. 

Reigning world champion Greg 

Rutherford has been forced to 

withdraw due to injury, while 

the sensation of the early part 

of the season, Luvo Manyonga, 

has been recovering from an 


World record: 8.95m Mike Powell 

(USA) 

Champs record: 8.95m Mike Powell 

(USA) 

Defending champion: Greg 

Rutherford (GBR) 


AW prediction: 1 Manyonga (RSA), 

2 Samaai (RSA), 3 Henderson (USA) 

History: Dwight Phillips won four 

golds and a bronze between 2003 

and 2011 and was a finalist in 2013. 

ankle injury sustained at the 

Stockholm Diamond League. 

Manyonga, who won 

Olympic silver in Rio, dominates 

the world rankings this year 

Luvo Mayonga: 

dominates world 

rankings in 2017 

with a best of 8.65m, while the 

No.2 on the world lists going 

into London is his South African 

team-mate Ruswahl Samaai. 

If fit, Manyonga should be 

the strong favourite. If he wins, 

it will be quite a story as well 

for a 26-year-old who used 

to be a crystal meth addict in 

a poverty-stricken township 

and once tested positive for 

the recreational drug but has 

gone on to become one of the 

world’s No.1 athletes. 

Olympic champion Jeff 

Henderson joins Jarrion Lawson 

and Marquis Dendy as part 

of a strong US trio. The 2013 

world champion Aleksandr 

Menkov, meanwhile, is one of 

the Russian athletes allowed to 

compete in London under the 

neutral flag. 

Other contenders include 

Ruswahl Samaai: 

No.2 in world 

this year 

Tyrone Smith of Bermuda, 

Maykel Masso of Cuba, Shi 

Yuhao of China, Michel Torneus 

of Sweden and Eusebia 

Caceres of Spain. JH 

ANOTHER WORLD TITLE FOR TAYLOR? 

TRIPLE JUMP 

CHRISTIAN TAYLOR, the 

Olympic and world champion, 

is favourite for this title, given 

the absence of his rival, Pedro 

Pablo Pichardo. 

Christian Taylor: 

Olympic and world 

champion 

Pichardo won silver at the 

last two World Championships 

and beat the American at the 

Diamond League in Lausanne 

last month but has been in 

dispute with his own Cuban 

federation and is said to be 

in the process of switching 

allegiance to Portugal. 

Taylor, who also took home 

Olympic gold in London in 

2012, will still have to work 

to win though, and gain what 

would be a popular victory. 

Fellow American Will Claye 

won silvers at the last two 

Olympics and is ranked No.2 

in the world this year. 

Chris Benard and Donald 

Scott complete a US quartet 

(Taylor gained automatic 

selection as a reigning 

champion and Diamond 

League winner) while other 

contenders include European 

champion Max Hess of 

Germany and world indoor 

champion Dong Bin of China, 

while Cristian Napoles and 

Andy Diaz will still ensure Cuba 


World record: 18.29m Jonathan 

Edwards (GBR) 

Champs record: 18.29m Jonathan 

Edwards (GBR) 

Defending champion: Christian 

Taylor (USA) 

British interest: Nathan Fox 

AW prediction: 1 Taylor (USA), 

2 Claye (USA), 3 Benard (USA) 

History: Jonathan Edwards won five 

successive medals between 1993 

and 2001, taking gold in 1995 and 

2001. 

has good representation in 

the event. 

Nathan Fox flies the flag 

for Britain. The Shaftesbury 

Barnet man was runner-up in 

the British trials to Ben Williams 

but was the only Brit to better 

the qualifying mark with a best 

of 16.81m. JH 




CROUSER LOOKS TO DOMINATE 

SHOT PUT 

CAN anyone beaten Ryan 

Crouser in London? 

The American won the 

Olympic title last year and owns 

seven of the top ten marks in 

Ryan Crouser: Olympic champion 

the world this year, including a 

monster 22.65m effort set in 

Sacramento in June. 

As followers of Crouser 

will know, throwing runs in his 

family, as his father Mitch was 

a fine all-round thrower and 

uncle Brian threw the javelin for 

the US at the 1988 and 1992 

Olympics, while a number of 

other family members are fine 

throwers too. 

With talent running through 

his veins, he smashed the 

Olympic record in Rio last 

year and has broken meeting 

records galore in 2017. 

If anyone can challenge 

Crouser then it’s his own US 

team-mate Joe Kovacs. 

The reigning world champion 

and Olympic silver medallist 

from 2016 has thrown a hefty 

22.57m this year. 

No one has thrown within 

half a metre of the American 

duo this year but the best of the 

challengers include Germany’s 

former world champion David 

Storl, New Zealander Tom 

Walsh, Tomas Stanek of the 

Konrad Bukowiecki: Euro threat 


World record: 23.12m Randy 

Barnes (USA) 

Champs record: 22.23m Werner 

Gunthor (SUI) 

Defending champion: Joe Kovacs 

(USA) 


AW prediction: 1 Crouser (USA); 

2 Kovacs; 3 Walsh (NZL) 

History: Both Werner Gunthor and 

John Godina have won three titles 

apiece. Adam Nelson won four 

medals with one gold and three 

silver. 

Czech Republic and Konrad 

Bukowiecki of Poland. The latter 

in particular is in fine form. 

After winning European 

indoor gold in March this year, 

he broke the championship 

record at the European Under- 

23s on home soil in Bydgoszcz 

last month to take gold. JH 

STAHL V HARTING TO BE HUGE BATTLE 

DISCUS 

AFTER throwing the best mark 

in the world for four years with 

71.29m in Sollentuna in June, 

Daniel Stahl became the man to 

beat in the discus in London. 

The 24-year-old’s big effort 

also improved a Swedish record 

that had stood since 1984. 

Stahl was fifth at the World 

Championships two years ago 

and only 14th in the Olympics 

last year, but his 2017 form 

means he is going for gold this 

month. 

His nearest rival on the 

rankings for this year is 

Fedrick Dacres, the 2012 

world junior champion from 

Jamaica, but the Swede’s main 

challenge could come from 

former champions with a point 

to prove. 

Three-time world champion 

Robert Harting, for example, 

won his 10th German title 

recently, finishing well ahead of 

younger brother, Christophe, 

who has struggled to recapture 

the form that earned him the 

Olympic title in Rio last year 

Daniel Stahl: in-form Swede 

and looks set to miss the 

championships in London. 

Harting senior has also led 

Germany to European Team 

Championships victory in Lille 

as he beat Robert Urbanek of 

Poland in his event. 


World record: 74.08m Jurgen 

Schult (GER) 

Champs record: 70.17m Virgilijus 

Alekna (LTU) 

Defending champion: Piotr 

Malachowski (POL) 

British interest: Nick Percy 

AW prediction: 1 Stahl (SWE); 

2 Milanov (BEL); 3 R Harting (GER) 

History: Between 1991 and 2001 

Lars Reidel won five gold medals 

and a bronze. 

Then there is the Pole, Piotr 

Malachowski, the reigning 

world champion, and Gerd 

Kanter, the Estonian veteran 

who has won five world 

championship medals, 

including gold in 2007. 

British champion Nick 

Percy of Shaftesbury Barnet 

was a late addition to the 

home team on the eve of the 

championships. JH 



FAJDEK GOES FOR A HAT-TRICK 

HAMMER 

POLAND’S Pawel Fajdek is 

aiming to complete the treble in 

London. 

The world champion in 2013 

and 2015 will be trying to win 

his third consecutive world 

crown. 

As a man who holds the top 

eight leading marks in the world 

so far this year, too, who would 

bet against him? 

But the 28-year-old is not 

invincible. 

At the Rio Olympics he 

bombed out in qualifying. The 

bespectacled thrower had a 

nightmare at the Olympics in 

London five years ago as well, 

while he has not enjoyed an 

entirely unbeaten streak this 

summer either. 

If Fajdek fails, Poland is still 

THE Germans have owned 

the men’s javelin in 2017 and 

it would be a turn up if they 

don’t win gold in London. Such 

is their dominance this year, 

a sweep of the medals could 

even be on the cards. 

in with a great chance of gold, 

though. The world No.2 this 

year is Wojciech Nowicki – and 

the Polish duo are the only 

men to break the 80m barrier 

in 2017. 

At the Diamond League in 

Doha in May, Thomas Rohler 

threw 93.90m – the best mark 

for 20 years and a performance 

beaten only by one man in 

history, Jan Zelezny. 

Then, in Lucerne in July, 

Rohler was overtaken on the 

all-time rankings by another 

German, Johannes Vetter, as he 

unleashed a tremendous series 

of four throws over 90 metres 

with a best of 94.44m. 

German javelin dominance 

this summer has been one of 

the talking points of the track 

and field season and both men 

are still young and still have 

plenty of promise and potential. 

So will Vetter get the better 

of Rohler in London? 

Well, Rohler has the better 

championship pedigree as the 

25-year-old won the Olympic 

title in Rio last year. Vetter, 

The big challenger to the 

Poles is Dilshod Nazarov. The 

35-year-old won silver in Beijing 

two years ago and last year in 

Rio he won Tajikistan’s first-ever 

Olympic gold. 

meanwhile, was fourth in Rio 

and seventh at the last World 

Championships in Beijing. 

Incredibly, another German 

sits in third place in the world 

rankings this year, too. Andreas 

Hoffman has a best of 88.79m 

in 2017, just ahead of other 

medal contenders like Jakub 


World record: 86.74m Yuriy Sedykh 

(URS) 

Champs record: 83.63m Ivan 

Tikhov (BLR) 

Defending champion: Pawel Fajdek 

(POL) 

British interest: Chris Bennett, 

Nick Miller 

AW prediction: 1 Fajdek (POL); 

2 Nowicki (POL); 3 Nazarov (TJK) 

History: Four athletes have won 

double titles – Fajdek, Sergey 

Litvinov, Andrey Abduvaliyev and 

Ivan Tikhov. The latter won three 

originally but lost one gold due to 

a retrospective drugs test. 

Elsewhere, Valeriy Pronkin 

of Russia will compete under 

the neutral flag and will be a 

danger, while Great Britain 

is represented by British 

champion and national recordholder 

Nick Miller, plus the 

improving Chris Bennett. JH 

GERMANS WANT CLEAN MEDAL SWEEP 

JAVELIN 

Thomas Rohler: 

93.90m in May 

Golden battle: Pawel Fajdek (left) 

and Wojciech Nowicki of Poland 

Johannes 

Vetter: 

94.44m 

in July 


World record: 98.48m Jan Zelezny 

(CZE) 

Champs record: 92.80m Jan 

Zelezny (CZE) 

Defending champion: Julius Yego 

(KEN) 


AW prediction: 1 Rohler (GER); 

2 Vetter (GER); 3 Pitkamaki (FIN) 

History: World record-holder Jan 

Zelezny won five medals, taking gold 

on three occasions. He made seven 

finals in eight appearances. 

Vadlejch of the Czech Republic 

and Tero Pitkämäki of Finland. 

The latter won the world title 

back in 2007 so it would be 

some achievement if he took 

gold again a decade later. 

Since the retirement of 

Steve Backley, this event 

has struggled in the UK and 

unfortunately there is no GB 

representative. JH 



WITH his sixth place at 

the Rio Olympics, Tom 

Bosworth achieved the best 

performance by a British race 

walker since Paul Nihill’s sixth 

at the 1972 Games. 

In Beijing two years ago he 

placed 24th but now, with a 

British record of 1:20:13 from 

Brazil and home support, 

the 27-year-old could well 

improve on both. 

China’s strength is set to 

show again as Wang Kaihua 

goes into the event as world 

leader with 1:17:54. He won’t 

have the top two from Rio for 

company, however, as neither 

Wang Zhen or Cai Zelin are 

among the entries. Australia’s 

bronze medallist Dane Bird- 

Smith will be looking for 

another podium place, while 

Germany’s Christopher Linke 

looks in form after his 1:18:59 

PB in Podebrady in April. JW 

AFTER silver in 2015 and 2011 

plus bronze in 2013, Australia’s 

Jared Tallent could complete 

a full set of medals back in 

the city where he clocked 

his 3:36:53 PB at the 2012 

Olympics. 

That time was enough to see 

him belatedly become Olympic 

champion but this time he’ll be 

looking to cross the finish line 

first on The Mall. 

Frenchman Yohann Diniz 

hasn’t enjoyed the same level 

of consistency as Tallent but 

the world record-holder will be 

seeking a change of fortune as 

another of the favourites. 

Japan’s Hirooki Arai finished 

fourth in Beijing and battled 

his way to a medal ahead of 

Canada’s Evan Dunfee in Rio 

last summer, while China has a 

strong team led by Wenbin Niu. 

Dominic King races for GB, 

while the event will be missing 

Spain’s Jesús Ángel Garcia for 

the first time since Tokyo 1991. 

Slovakia’s Olympic and 2015 


NEW CHAMPION GUARANTEED 

DECATHLON 

WITH Ashton Eaton now 

retired, the path is clear for 

another decathlete to make 

his mark. Eaton won the world 

title in 2011, 2013 and 2015, 

along with Olympic titles in 

London and Rio, but he will not 

be competing this week after 

hanging up his spikes last year. 

Damian Warner is one 

decathlete who could succeed 

Eaton as world champion. 

The 27-year-old Canadian won 

silver behind the American two 

years ago, took Olympic bronze 

12 months ago and this year 

BOSWORTH WILL BE 

BUOYED BY CROWD 

20km WALK 

Tom Bosworth: 

seeking success 

Damien Warner: 

hoping to grasp 

opportunity 


World record: 1:16:36 Yusuke 

Suzuki (JPN) 

Champs record: 1:17:21 Jefferson 

Perez (ECU) 

Defending champion: Miguel Ángel 

Lopez (ESP) 

British interest: Tom Bosworth, 

Callum Wilkinson 

AW prediction: 1 Wang Kaihua 

(CHN); 2 Christopher Linke (GER); 

3 Dane Bird-Smith (AUS) 

History: Jefferson Perez won three 

golds and a silver medal between 

1999 and 2007. 

won the prestigious Gotzis 

meeting in May. 

Kevin Mayer, 25, won silver 

in Rio last year after working his 

way up the ranks as a former 

world youth and world under-20 

champion in combined events. 

Germany has a strong 

trio in the shape of Mathias 

Brugger, Rico Freimuth and Kai 

Kazmirek. Freimuth leads the 

world rankings in 2017 with a 

score of 8663 from Ratingen 

and the 29-year-old won bronze 

two years ago in Beijing. 

Watch out too for Eelco 

Sintniolaas of the Netherlands 

and two-time world champion 


World record: 9045 Ashton Eaton 

(USA) 

Champs record: 9045 Ashton Eaton 

(USA) 

Defending champion: Eaton 

British interest: Ashley Bryant 

AW prediction: 1 Mayer (FRA), 2 

Warner (CAN), 3 Freimuth (GER) 

History: Both Dan O’Brien and 

Tomas Dvorak won three successive 

gold medals as they achieved their 

successes between 1991 and 2001. 

Trey Hardee of the United 

States, while Ashley Bryant is 

the home nation hope after 

improving his PB this year to 

8163. JH 

TALLENT AFTER GOLD 

50km WALK 

Jared Tallent 

world champion Matej Tóth is 

absent after an investigation into 

his athlete biological passport. 

He denies any wrongdoing. JW 


World record: 3:32:33 Yohann Diniz 

(FRA) 

Champs record: 3:36:03 Robert 

Korzeniowski (POL) 

Defending champion: Matej Tóth 

(SVK) 

British interest: Dominic King 

AW prediction: 1 Tallent (AUS); 

2 Diniz (FRA); 3 Arai (JPN) 

History: Korzeniowski won three 

golds and a bronze between 1995 

and 2003. 



FIREWORKS IN BOLT’S FINALE? 

4x100m RELAY Jamaica’s team of 2015: 

Nickel Ashmeade, 

USAIN BOLT has formed part Asafa Powell, 

Usain Bolt 

of Jamaica’s medal-winning 

and Nesta 

quartets since the 2007 

Carter 

championships in Osaka, but 

the sprint superstar is set to 

hand over the baton for good 

following this year’s event. 


World record: 36.84 Jamaica 

Champs record: 37.04 Jamaica 

Defending champion: Jamaica 

British interest: Aikines-Aryeetey, 

Gemili, Hughes, Mitchell-Blake, 

Prescod, Talbot, Ujah 

AW prediction: 1 Jamaica; 2 USA; 

3 Japan 

History: USA have the most titles 

but GB’s Marlon Devonish has the 

most individual medals at five 

along with Usain Bolt. Devonish has 

also made the most finals with six 

and appearances numbering eight. 

The 30-year-old plans to 

hang up his spikes after the 

championships and will be 

looking to bow out on a high 

on the penultimate day of 

competition as he is joined on 

the Jamaica team by athletes 

including Yohan Blake and 

Warren Weir. 

Among those looking to 

deny the nation from claiming 

a record fifth successive win in 

this event is the US team, which 

includes Justin Gatlin. America 

won the first four men’s 4x100m 

titles from Helsinki 1983 through 

to Stuttgart 1993 so are level 

with Jamaica on that record, 

but will be looking to bounce 

back on the global stage after 

disqualification at the Rio 

Olympics and 2015 Worlds. 

Great Britain has the world 

leading time with 38.08 from the 

European Team Championships 

and if the team can keep 

composed in front of a home 

crowd they could be in the mix 

along with Japan, Canada and 

China. JW 

USA KEEN TO CONTINUE DOMINANCE 

4x400m RELAY 

AT THE IAAF World Relays in 

April, USA held off Botswana 

while Jamaica was third and 

our prediction is that the final in 

London could end in a similar 

way. 

However, Botswana’s 

sprinters have continued to 

impress this summer and 

with the team including Isaac 

Makwala, who clocked the 

quickest ever 200m and 

400m double in a single day 

with 19.77 and 43.92 last 

month, plus Baboloki Thebe 

and World Relays anchor 

Karabo Sibanda, they are set 

to be a force to be reckoned 

with. 

But the US squad has great 

experience within it and will be 

LaShawn Merritt (right) will be helping the United States’ title defence 

looking to continue the nation’s 

dominance, with six-time world 

relay gold medallist LaShawn 

Merritt and Tony McQuay 

joined by the likes of current 

2017 400m No.2, Fred Kerley. 

Jamaica may also battle 

with Bahamas for a place on 


World record: 2:54:29 USA 

Champs record: 2:54:29 USA 

Defending champion: USA 

British interest: Chalmers, Cowan, 

Green, Hudson-Smith, Rooney, 

Williams, Yousif 

AW prediction: 1 USA; 2 Botswana; 

3 Jamaica 

History: USA have dominated the 

event from a team point of view but 

the top individual has been LaShawn 

Merritt, who has won six gold medals 

and will be after a seventh in London. 

the podium, while other medal 

contenders include GB, with 

a quartet of Rabah Yousif, 

Delano Williams, Jarryd Dunn 

and Martyn Rooney having 

finished third two years ago. 

The Belgium team again 

includes the Borlee brothers 

Kevin, Jonathan and Dylan. JW 


AUGUST | 2017 

LONDON 

2017 

MARATHON 

SPECIAL – 


CALLUM 

HAWKINS 



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FEATURE 

STEVE JONES 

IT’S LONDON 

– BUT NOT AS 

WE KNOW IT 

WITH all the world’s athleticswatching 

eyes trained on London, 

it seemed only right that we devote 

this issue of Running Monthly to the 

marathons that are about to unfold 

in the heart of the city. 

This is going to be a very different 

celebration of running compared 

to the annual extravaganza which 

plays out every April – remember, 

it takes place over a looped course 

rather than following the well-known 

route for starters – but it will make 

for compelling viewing. 

For some of the British team, this 

is when dreams are about to be 

realised as they take to their first 

global championships. 

For others, such as Callum 

Hawkins, this is the next step on a 

career which well and truly took off 

in the UK capital in spring last year. 

We’ve spoken to some great 

athletes, crammed in plenty of 

details about the races 

and we’ve even thrown 

in a course map. 

Enjoy the party! 

— Euan Crumley, 

Editor 

CONTENTS 

2 BIG INTERVIEW 

Steve Jones on having plenty in 

common with Callum Hawkins 

6 DIFFERENT WORLD 

Josh Griffiths talks about his 

life-changing day in London 

8 WHERE TO WATCH 

Map of the course and all 

the event day details 

10 GOOD TO TALK 

Charlotte Purdue on taking 

time to quiz her team-mates 

13 FAST FEET 

What the elites are wearing 

MUTUAL 

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former marathon world record-holder 

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“If I go out and race, the time will come, the 

performance will come. Most of the time, I am 

Steve Jones-ing it out there,” said the 25-year-old 

in an interview with flotrack.org. 

Hawkins has indeed been doing a fine job of 

resembling the determined and driven athlete who 

still holds the British record (2:07:13, set at the 

Chicago Marathon in 1985) over 26.2 miles – and 

that is perhaps no coincidence. 

Jones, who lives and coaches in Boulder, 

Colorado, has been helping to guide the young 

Scot’s development, after all. Thanks to a link-up 

through Scottish Athletics, Hawkins has become 

a regular visitor to America for training stints at 

altitude – and it’s an arrangement which is clearly 

complimenting the coaching methods of his father 

Robert rather well. 

Jones admits he quickly saw potential when he 

first observed the youngster who went second on 

the British all-time half-marathon list after running a 

Scottish record time of exactly 60 minutes in Japan 

in February. He did not, however, expect to see 

such promise being delivered upon so quickly. 

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FEATURE 

STEVE JONES 

As the Welshman points out, 

Hawkins will head into the IAAF World 

Championships marathon in London as 

something of a marked man, given his 

ninth-place finish at the Rio Olympics last 

summer and the impressive performances 

which have followed since. 

“He’s a very quiet guy but he’s very 

determined and positive about his 

work ethic,” says Jones, who also still 

holds the Welsh record for 10,000m. “I, 

probably like many other people, didn’t 

quite see the rise to fame that he’s had. 

I saw the potential there and the first 

time he came out (to Boulder) he kind 

of played with the guys in my group, as 

he’s prone to do sometimes. That really 

showed me the kind of potential he had if 

he really focused. Obviously he has done 

that since then. 

“He’s got a very old head on young 

“WHEN HE FIRST CAME 

OVER HE KIND OF PLAYED 

WITH THE GUYS IN MY 

GROUP. THAT SHOWED 

THE POTENTIAL HE HAD” 

shoulders and he’s further forward right 

now in terms of maturity than I thought 

he would have been. He seems to have 

fallen on his feet and into the right slot 

where he belongs.” 

In his racing pomp, Jones’ trademark 

was a belligerent, never-say-die approach 

devoid of fear. Hawkins, too, has become 

known for a brave front-running style in 

which he clearly stretches every sinew to 

reach his objective. As it turns out, the 

pair are more than a little alike in many 

ways. 

“The work ethic is very similar,” 

says Jones when asked if he can 

see something of himself in Hawkins. 

“We both seem to have grasped the 

opportunities we’ve had given to us, and 

that we’ve earned, with both hands. 

“There are a lot of similarities between 

him and myself. When he’s sitting in my 

kitchen eating his breakfast or when he’s 

just come back from a run … he’s very 

dedicated about what he does and very 

methodical about what he does, too. 

“He’ll be quiet for quite a time and then 

he’ll just ask me a question that gets me 

talking. I’m just as quiet as he is – I’m 

happy for him to be there and not ask me 

anything – but once we get talking we talk 

about some of the stuff I used to do or 

how I prepared for something in particular 

but it isn’t a million miles away from what 

he’s doing.” 

Hawkins’ preparation will come 

under some intense scrutiny again on 

the streets of London, the scene of his 

breakthrough performance during the 

marathon last year which sealed his place 

for Rio. 

Upon reaching Brazil, he raised a few 

eyebrows by hitting the front of a field 

containing the likes of eventual winner 

and endurance superstar Eliud Kipchoge. 

The same surprised onlookers were not 



Hawkins impressed in Rio last year 

MO WILL NEED TO 

CHANGE HIS MIND 

STEVE JONES believes Mo Farah 

is ready to excel at the marathon, 

but insists the multi Olympic and 

world champion will have to change 

his mental approach if he wants to 

taste further success. 

Farah had his first experience 

of racing over the classic distance 

in London in 2014, when he 

finished eighth in 2:08:21. He will 

concentrate on the roads once his 

storied track career is over at the 

end of this summer. 

However, while Jones knows 

that experience of three years ago 

will have been the perfect learning 

exercise for the 34-year-old, he 

insists a modified mindset will play 

a crucial part in competing at the 

top of the discipline. 

“If he runs like he runs on the 

track, it’s going to be tough for him 

to get the 2:03, 2:04, 2:05 times,” 

says Jones. “He’s not a fan of 

getting out front, doing all the work 

and having a go. Yes, he’s got the 

medals and he’s done everything 

in the sport but the marathon is 

a different animal. He has all the 

tools, it’s just how he applies those 

tools. 

“I think he learned a lot when he 

ran London in 2014. He learned that 

you can’t just sit back there and 

hope people are going to pull you 

around to your objective. 

“But Mo’s been running 140 

miles a week for a few years now 

in preparation for his track races 

and his half marathons so he 

doesn’t have to tweak anything 

at all. He’s ready. He’s served his 

apprenticeship and he’s done all the 

work. His results in the marathon 

are going to be entirely down to how 

he prepares himself mentally.” 

It will, suspects Jones, ultimately 

come down to a matter of desire. 

“He has that for the track, but it’s 

tough to always have that desire for 

the marathon,” says the Welshman. 

“It’s a long, dreary – at times boring 

– preparation and to have the 

sustenance, the wherewithal and 

patience to bring it all to the start 

line of the marathon is fairly tough.” 

Mo Farah 

is taking to 

the roads 

expecting a top 10 finish from him in an 

Olympic marathon, either. 

“You have to look at how he ran 

London last year, too,” continues 

Jones. “Once he’s got his plan in his mind 

then he sticks to it. He did it in London 

and it worked. He did it in Rio and it 

worked. 

“He has a very positive plan of where 

he wants to go and when he wants 


FEATURE 

JOSH GRIFFITHS 

to go for the fast times. He’s really 

more concerned now with the major 

championships, which is really good.” 

Another key to the success, says 

Jones, is keeping things simple in a 

sport where there can be a tendency to 

overcomplicate matters. 

“That’s putting it mildly,” he continues. 

“But Callum has simplified it. He and 

Robert – obviously (Callum’s brother) 

Derek as well – have got it down to a fine 

art in terms of where they want to go and 

how they want to go about it. 

“They know there are no secrets 

about it – it’s about hard work, having 

that work ethic and being confident 

about what you’re doing. 

“Right at this moment, he seems very 

confident about what he’s doing.” 

With that in mind, what are Hawkins’ 

chances at the world championships? 

He will be up against the likes of this 

year’s London winner Daniel Wanjiru of 

Kenya and Ethiopian Tamirat Tola. 

“Obviously I’d like to see him win it. I 

think he has the ability to do that but it’s 

a major championships so it’s a case of 

suck it and see,” says Jones. “He’s the 

dark horse of the race I think. It wouldn’t 

surprise me to see him come away with 

a medal. 

“I don’t want to put pressure on him 

but I’m confident in what he’s able to do, 

he’s got great tools and 60 minutes for a 

half marathon is nothing to sniff at – he’s 

probably one of the fastest guys in the 

race actually over the half marathon so 

they are going to be more worried about 

him than he is about them.” 

Hawkins’ personal best for the 

marathon is 2:10:52, but Jones can only 

see that time heading in one direction 

and towards a certain landmark that the 

61-year-old suspects might not be his for 

too much longer. 

“It’s very nice to have it, and still have 

it but it’s not something you would have 

thought you’d be able to hang your hat 

on for 30-odd years,” he says of that 

national record. 

“There are a good crop of athletes 

coming through now and I can see 

Callum having that record before too 

long, once he sets his mind on running 

a fast race somewhere. It’s just a matter 

of time.” 

Griffiths’ run 

in London (right) 

won him his World 

Championships vest 



IT’S A DIFFERENT WORLD 

FOR JOSH GRIFFITHS NOW 

at the London Marathon 

start line in April, he 

glanced at the elite field 

assembled up ahead. “That’s pretty 

cool,” he remembers thinking. 

Truthfully, he didn’t expect to see 

many of them again during the race, 

writes Jessica Whittington. 

Little did he realise at the time, but the 

Swansea Harriers runner would finish his 

first ever attempt at the marathon ahead 

of many of them in 13th place and with a 

time of 2:14:49. 

That performance saw him come 

home as first Brit and granted him the 

chance to run his second marathon 

in London, but this time running 

for his country in the IAAF World 


“I started off quite conservatively – 

because it was my first marathon I didn’t 

want to go out too hard too soon and 

blow up, so for the first stages they (the 

elite field) all went ahead as I knew they 

would,” the 23-year-old recalls of that 

fateful day. 

“But, as I got into the race, I started to 

catch a few at a time and then, at about 

halfway, I caught a leading pack of British 

runners and there was this really weird 

moment of looking round and they were 

probably wondering who the hell I was! 

“It got me excited but I just kept 

running my own splits and nothing else 

really because there was still a long way 

to go. I was still not really thinking about 

anything other than the Commonwealth 

Games qualifying time. Then, with about 

two miles to go, my legs were hurting but 

the crowd was screaming and, when I 

crossed the line … crazy.” 

The whirlwind was immediate. “The 

first two weeks were just completely 

crazy, it was as if I was in someone else’s 

shoes, really,” says Griffiths. 

However, the man at the centre of 

it was careful to make sure it blew out 

reasonably quickly. He is self-coached 

and had training to get back to. He 

graduated recently, too – with a degree 

in sports coaching. 

Yet his outlook has certainly been 

changed somewhat by the events of a 

few months ago. 

“The biggest change for me since 

London has been thinking of myself as 

an athlete now rather than just a student 

who runs as well,” he adds. “Hopefully, if 

I run well here then I can do this full-time. 

“I’d never considered the World 

Champs or anything like that – I thought 

even the Commmonwealth Games time 

would be a bit of a long shot – but I 

guess I didn’t know what I was capable 

of given that I’d never done one before.” 

Griffiths’ tale is one of real-lfe 

inspiration. So what would he say to 

someone who wondered if they could 

emulate him? 

“Train hard and believe in yourself,” 

he says. “If you don’t believe in yourself 

then you’re not going to achieve much.” 

MARK SHEARMANWHEN Josh Griffiths arrived 


WILL IT BE DANIEL’S DAY AGAIN? 

DANIEL WANJIRU showed plenty of 

composure and no little amount of skill 

when he saw off the challenge of the 

great Kenenisa Bekele on the streets of 

London in the spring. 

Wanjiru is back, looking for another 

win in the UK capital. This time, 

however, it doesn’t look like the Kenyan 

will have Bekele for company in the 

search for a gold medal. 

The Ethiopian likely to provide him 

with a headache or two instead is 

Tamirat Tola, who set a course 

record 2:04:11 in winning the Dubai 

Marathon which makes him the fastest 

man in the world over the distance this 

year. 

Wanjiru’s fellow countryman 

Gideon Kipketer, a winner in Mumbai 

at the start of the year, will feature 

prominently, as will Ethiopia’s Tsegeye 

Mekonnen and Eritrean Yohanes 

Gebregergish. 

The inimitable Yuki Kawauchi is 

running, too, while the home crowd 

won’t just have Callum Hawkins and 

Josh Griffiths to cheer on. The British 

line-up is completed by the 37-year-old 

Andrew Davies, called up to replace the 

injured Robbie Simpson. 


World record: 2:02:57 

Dennis Kimetto (KEN) 

Champs record: 2:06:54 

Abel Kirui (KEN) 

Defending champion: Ghirmay 

Ghebreslassie (ERI) 

British interest: Andrew Davies, 

Josh Griffiths, Callum Hawkins 

AW prediction: D Wanjiru (KEN); 

2 T Tola (ETH); 3 Mekonnen (ETH) 

History: Three athletes have each 

won two world titles – Abel Anton, 

Jaouad Gharib and Abel Kirui but no 

athlete has won three medals of any 

colour. 


LONDON 2017 



MARATHON 

GUIDE 

l THE 2017 IAAF 

World Championships 

marathons will both 

take place on Sunday 

August 6. The men’s 

race will start at 

10:55am and the 

women get under way 

at 2:00pm. 

l The route starts 

and finishes on Tower 

Bridge, taking in 

four laps of a 10km 

course which heads 

west along Victoria 

Embankment towards 

the Houses of 

Parliament, then back 

alongside the the 

River Thames. 

LIVE COVERAGE ON BBC TWO & EUROSPORT 

l The course is 

spectator friendly. 

There is also a 

marathon spectator 

area at the Tower 

of London which 

includes a big 

screen and event 

presentation. 

There will be live 

commentary and race 

footage. This area 

is open from 10am 

until 5:30pm. 

The medal 

ceremonies will 

take place after the 

women’s race at 5pm. 


FEATURE 

CHARLOTTE PURDUE 

IT’S GOOD TO TALK 

Charlotte Purdue tells EUAN CRUMLEY why it was so 

important to quiz the elite company she kept in France 


FOR Charlotte Purdue, the British 

Athletics endurance training 

camp at altitude in Font Romeu 

hasn’t just provided an ideal 

environment in which to prepare for 

her first IAAF World Championships 

– it has also presented the perfect 

chance to talk. 

The 26-year-old has revelled in 

being surrounded by her fellow British 

team-mates, making sure to take full 

advantage of the experience by tapping 

into the knowledge of support staff and 

athletes who have been only too happy to 

compare notes. 

Normally when Purdue is in the 

final stages of marathon training, she 

finds herself largely on her own, with 

the occasional accompaniment of her 

boyfriend on a bicycle for long runs. 

This summer, things have been very 

different and being in southern France 

for just over five weeks has proved to be 

time well spent. 

“I’ve had a lot of extra help this time 

from British Athletics,” says Purdue, who 

is coached by the Melbourne-based Nic 

Bideau and splits her time between the 

UK and Australia. “Being on this camp 

has been great because we’ve had 

physios, doctors and a physiologist – 

everyone has been really helpful so it’s 

been a lot easier, I’d say. 

“I’ve been questioning a lot of people. 

It’s been really good being out here so I’m 

really glad I came out here for the whole 

time.” 

And it hasn’t just been to the likes of 

experienced fellow marathoner Aly Dixon 

that Purdue has been turning. 

“I’ve been speaking with Aly and also 

everyone really,” she says. “Even people 

who don’t do the same event – Laura 

Muir and Eilish McColgan – everyone 

has been so helpful. If you ever have any 

questions about anything they’ve 

been there so I’ve been asking them 

about things. 

“The staff have been so good, too. I’ve 

had physio, massage or spoken to the 

doctor regularly. They are really on top of 

everything, which is definitely key I think 

when you are training really hard so it’s 

helped a lot.” 

Purdue admits the feeling of being 

part of a team this time has been 

unmistakeable and is one of the many 

dimensions that will set this assault on 

26.2 miles apart from the other three 

marathons she has run (London twice and 

Frankfurt) to date. 

For one, the set-up for this race in the 

Purdue and Aly Dixon celebrate 

their performances in April 

UK capital will be a big departure from 

the route which the world witnesses every 

April. 

This time, athletes will start and finish 

on Tower Bridge, covering four 10km laps 

in the process. 

“I’m expecting it to have a feel similar 

to the world cross country,” says Purdue. 

“Now, obviously this race isn’t cross 

country – and it’s a marathon rather than 

8km – but I’ve run a few times at the 

world cross and in my head I think it’s 

going to feel like that. 

“I’ve run at the world half marathon 

championships as well but I’ve never run 

in a world championship marathon before 

so it will be exciting.” 

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“I’VE BEEN SPEAKING 

WITH EVERYONE REALLY. 

LAURA MUIR, EILISH 

McCOLGAN...EVERYONE 

HAS BEEN SO HELPFUL” 

Charlotte Purdue 

has thoroughly 

enjoyed being part 

of the British set-up 

She adds: “I like the looped set-up 

because it’s different and mentally you 

can break it down whereas, for the 

London Marathon, although I’ve run it 

twice now I still wouldn’t be able to tell 

you where mile 18 was – you know, where 

you are on the course. Because there are 

so many places to take in it’s quite a lot to 

remember. 

“For this one, though, there are just 

six miles to remember and you’re doing 

it four times. For a lot of my training runs, 

I do the same the loops over and over 

again so I like that familiarity.” 

The nature of the course will also add 

a new dynamic to the atmosphere. Given 

that the route covers a much smaller area 

than the usual London marathon course, 

Purdue’s only concern is how the crowds 

will all fit in! 

“There are always so many people. 

I couldn’t even think of a place on the 

course where there wasn’t someone 

shouting this year,” she says of her 

London Marathon experience back in the 

spring. 

“Obviously, with this one, there is [only] 

going to be six miles of space for people 

to go so there are definitely going to be 

people everywhere!” 

Crowds are, indeed, expected to flock 

to and embrace these championships in 

much the same way they did in 2012 as 

the Olympic juggernaut came roaring into 

town. 

Purdue was not one of them, however. 

After a narrow failure to qualify for an 

invite, she opted not to go to that party at 

all five years ago. 

“I tried to qualify for the 10km but I 

missed out, so I was p****d off sitting at 

home!” she says when asked to recall 

what she was doing during that heady 

summer of sport. 

“I ran 32:03 and the qualifying time 

was 31:45, while the B standard was 

32:10. So I had the B but Jo Pavey and 

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WOMEN’S MARATHON 

Julia Bleasdale also ran the time and I 

was 18 seconds off it. For the 10,000m 

you don’t get many qualifying chances 

so I was a bit annoyed about that 

and I didn’t go to watch any of it (the 

Olympics)!” 

Once again, things will be different 

this time, however. 

“It’s good that it’s in London. It kind 

of feels like it’s another Olympics and, 

in front of a home crowd, it will be really 

cool,” admits Purdue. “I was happy when 

I saw the marathon was on the third day 

of the championships. I’m going to plan 

to spend the whole week after my race 

cheering on the rest of the team. I’ll stay 

up in London and go to watch all the 

other events.” 

First, however, comes the task at 

hand. Purdue heads into this marathon 

full of confidence after a summer training 

schedule which has gone perfectly 

to plan and with the personal best 

“I TRIED TO MAKE RIO 

LAST YEAR AND CAME 

PRETTY CLOSE. I 

KNEW IT COULD MAKE 

THE TEAM THIS TIME” 

performance of 2:29:23 which saw 

her finish as second Briton in London, 

booking her ticket for taking on the 

world, still fresh in the memory. 

This race is one which has long been 

in her mind. 

“I tried to make Rio last year but 

that (her Olympic qualifying attempt in 

London) was my first marathon so I knew 

that would be a big ask to run your first 

one and make the Olympic team. But I 

was pretty close. 

“As soon as I saw I was that close 

I put this on my radar and I knew that 

I could make the team, barring any 

injuries. I was happy when I did make it 

and now it’s going to be about finishing 

as high up as I can in the race. 

“I won’t be worrying about the time 

because that’s kind of irrelevant in a 

championship race. 

“Everything has gone pretty much 

exactly to plan.” 

Edna Kiplagat and Mare Dibaba 

battle it out in Beijing two years ago 

KIPLAGAT WANTS THREE 

WHEN it comes to World 

Championships marathon racing, 

there are few who know more about 

what it takes than Kenya’s Edna 

Kiplagat. 

Gold medallist in 2011 and 2013, 

this year’s Boston Marathon winner 

will be competing in her fourth 

World Championships and looking 

to make it a hat-trick of titles. 

The 37-year-old could only place 

fifth in Beijing two years ago, 

however, during an exceptionally 

tight race in which Mare Dibaba 

landed Ethiopia’s first ever world 

title in the women’s marathon. 

Dibaba is among the sizeable 

field, as is her namesake, 

compatriot and Tokyo Marathon 

winner Berhane Dibaba. 


World record: 2:15:25 Paula Radcliffe (GBR) 

Champs record: Radcliffe (GBR) 2:20:57 

Defending champion: Mare Dibaba (ETH) 

British interest: Tracey Barlow, Alyson Dixon, 

Charlotte Purdue 

AW prediction: 1 Kiplagat (KEN); 2 B Dibaba 

(ETH); 3 M Dibaba (ETH) 

History: Edna Kilplagat is looking to overtake 

Catherine Ndereba. Both have won two world 

marathon titles. 

Olympian Alyson Dixon, who won 

her first British vest at the 2011 

World Championships, tends to run 

well in London and will draw on all 

of her elite racing experience. 

Former sprinter Tracey Barlow’s 

rapid marathon progression will 

continue, too, in front of the home 

crowds. 



MAKE IT QUICK 

With the World Championships marathon taking place and the big 

Autumn races on the horizon, PAUL FREARY takes a look at the 

latest road racing shoes that could help you to a great time 

NEW BALANCE – 1400 v5: £85 (newbalance.co.uk) 

A GREAT, all-round racing shoe, this model feels capable of tackling whichever distance 

you choose. The 10mm heel drop gives it the feel of a shoe that you can quickly get 

along with, but has a faster, racier side to it. The Revlite cushioning does a 

great job and the lower profile feel in the forefoot gives a 

responsive toe off. A blown rubber sole is placed 

in key strike areas and uses various patterns 

that provide a nice combination of durability 

and traction. 

We liked the stable feel it gave for 

such a light shoe and the seamless mesh 

upper that’s both highly breathable and has 

a great, soft wrap-around fit on the foot. 

ON – CLOUDRUSH: £120 

(on-running.com) 

THE unique ‘cloudtech’ elements give this shoe 

a distinctive and adaptive feel, providing a 

dynamic cushioning system that works with 

the foot on impact. 

The midsole has a drop of 5mm from heel 

to toe, but many testers said it felt a little lower, 

almost zero, giving a sensation that encouraged a 

more forefoot and faster running style. 

The upper has an inner sock construction with a series 

of supportive straps added that take their design from the principles 

of taping the feet. At 189g it’s light and for fans of the brand it’ll be a great 

choice for racing. 

NEW BALANCE – HANZA S: £120 (newbalance.co.uk) 

BUILT to honour Japan’s rich running history, this shoe is built on a traditional road racing shoe last 

that’s slim-fitting and feels fast the moment you pull the shoe on. Wrapping around the contours of 

the foot beautifully, the shoe has a feel similar to that of a track spike and, with a low-profile 

midsole and 4mm heel drop, it’s best suited to more efficient forefoot strikers. 

The upper is a soft mesh, put together with a seamless design for 

comfort with or without socks. The 

cushioning is light and responsive 

but ultimately is built for speed 

and at fewer than 190g it delivers. 

For those seeking a close-fitting, 

classic-feeling racer, this is the shoe 

and it’s the model that will be carrying 

Callum Hawkins around the streets of 

London this weekend. 


PRODUCTS 

RACE SHOES 

SAUCONY – KINVARA 8: £110 (saucony.com) 

THE latest update to this popular racer/trainer sees the addition of a full-length 

‘Everun’ topsole to the shoe. This layer of cushioning sits beneath the shoe’s insole 

and offers an extra layer of cushioning from the TPU material. This additional 

cushioning adds to the shoe's credentials of being a perfect option for either 

racing or training. 

The 4mm heel drop instantly gives a faster feel and the slightly 

deeper forefoot grooves make the shoe flexible and add to 

its responsive, go-faster nature. The upper uses 

a seamless construction and feels great, 

wrapping around the midfoot and with a 

soft, plush heel area. We think it’s a great 

shoe for any distance, responsive and 

light enough (224g) for a 5km blast, but 

with enough cushioning for a marathon. 

ASICS – GEL DS RACER 

11: £95 (asics.com) 

AS the brand’s lightest racing shoe (190g), 

the DS manages to offer reasonable 

cushioning in such a light package. 

The midsole uses the brand’s 

DUOMax cushioning construction, which 

keeps the shoe stable rather than offering 

control, a feature we liked and found to be 

beneficial, particularly on longer runs as 

we began to tire. 

A very breathable mesh upper keeps 

you comfortable, as well as helping to 

keep the weight down, and the familiar 

Asics racing shoe outsole design 

provides excellent traction on wet or 

dry road surfaces, perfect perhaps for 

the unexpected conditions athletes may 

encounter in London. 

BROOKS – HYPERION: £90 (brooksrunning.com) 

FROM the moment you put on these shoes they feel fast. The fit is like 

that of a track spike, wrapping around the foot closely with a seamless, 

sock-like fit. At just over 180g, they are light and feel even lighter 

when on your feet, yet with a 10mm heel drop they have an added 

comfort to them that is sometimes lost in very light shoes. 

The shoe provides good cushioning and feels stable so 

you can pick up the speed with ease. Deep forefoot 

grooves allow for a smooth and efficient toe-off 

and, again, like a spike there’s a certain 

‘springiness’ to the feel. It was a 

popular shoe with testers, who 

said 

felt it would be great for 

any 

distance. 

MIZUNO – WAVE SHADOW: £115 (mizuno.eu) 

ALTHOUGH we haven’t yet had a chance to try this model, it does have all the makings of a fast-paced shoe. The 

brand’s familiar Wave plate is present and here it is placed in the heel and midfoot area. Along with the 8mm heel 

drop, this should offer a stable and more midfoot strike. The midsole cushioning is that used in other models, so 

we know it to be light and responsive and at 250g this shoe will be great for either racing or use as a lightweight 

training shoe. 



NIKE – ZOOM FLY: £129.99 (nike.com) 

WHILST the ‘Breaking2’ attempt may have failed, only just, in the effort to break two hours for the marathon, it was a massive success in highlighting the shoes worn by all 

the athletes involved. So successful in fact that the demand for the ‘Zoom Vaporfly 4%’ model has so far outstripped supply and we’ve yet to be able to try them. We have, 

however, now logged plenty of miles in this model, and it’s been great! 

At 248g it’s not as light as the £200 4% shoe, but then again it’s not the heaviest model here. The shoe does feel lighter when it’s on and the weight isn’t an issue at 

all. It’s the smooth riding and responsive, almost propulsive, feel that you notice more than anything else. There are, however, a couple of caveats: We feel it’s a shoe for 

consistently paced running as well as for relatively efficient athletes. The shoe seems to perform at it’s best when you strike the ground in the midfoot area, this way the 

carbon-infused plate inserted into the midsole maximizes its effect of propelling you forward. Those athletes that land on the forefoot or track athletes that are ‘up on their 

toes’ just won’t get the effect. That said, for lots of runners it’s great and our testers have been hugely impressed with its fit, feel and performance. 

REEBOK – FLOAT RIDE RACER: £TBC (reebok.co.uk) 

ADIDAS – ADIZERO ADIOS 3: 

£119.95 (adidas.co.uk) 

USING the brand’s now familiar Boost cushioning 

material, which gives their shoes a naturally 

responsive ride, this model combines the Boost 

with a thin layer of CM-EVA. In doing so they 

have created a shoe that offers a slighter firmer 

push-off but a responsive feel. 

Our testers loved it and found it to be a 

nice combination of ride and response. The 

Continental rubber outsole is a great addition and 

provides excellent traction in any weather. 

The upper has a simple mesh and synthetic 

suede construction which remains breathable 

and is perfect for the marathon distance. There’s 

a very good chance that the shoe will pick up a 

medal in Sunday’s races. 

WHILST the release date of this shoe hitting the shelves has yet to be confirmed, we were 

lucky enough to get a pair to try and we were, quite simply, amazed! 

It’s the lightest shoe here, weighting just 100g (the final release version may trim that 

a little more), but somehow the shoe’s cushioning still feels substantial enough to run 

perhaps even the marathon distance in. 

The brand’s ‘Floatride’ foam provides the midsole and it does an amazing job of 

absorbing the impact, even for a shoe so light and minimalist in design. The outsole has 

small-rubberised pieces on a thin plastic film-like layer. This covers the whole of the shoe 

and creates some stability, as well as an incredibly responsive toe-off. A super-light mesh 

upper provides a great fit that’s very breathable. 

It has the feel of a track spike and for those runners with a smooth, efficient gait we 

think they’ll find it amazing. They will just have to wait for an initial release date! 


EVENT-BY-EVENT PREVIEW – WOMEN 


THOMPSON’S LONDON TARGET 

100m 

DOUBLE Olympic sprint 

champion Elaine Thompson 

focused on the 200m in the 

2015 World Championships, 

but she is a huge favourite in 

her world 100m debut. 

She has not lost a short 

sprint for over two years and is 

over a metre faster than anyone 

else in 2017. 

The next two in the rankings 

are Trinidad’s Michelle-Lee 

Ahye, who has been top six in 

the last two major events but 

looks in better shape this year, 

as does Murielle Ahoure, who 

medalled in 2013. 

Tori Bowie was second 

in Rio, won the US 

Championships and leads a 

strong US trio, with Deejah 

Stevens and Ariana Washington 

also possible finalists along with 

BOWIE THE FAVOURITE OVER HALF LAP 

200m 

THIS looks a very open race. 

Olympic champion Elaine 

Thompson, who narrowly lost 

in Beijing, is focusing on the 

100m and 4x100m but seemed 

to forget the longer sprint when 

she had a heavy loss in Eugene. 

Tori Bowie won that race in a 

mightily impressive 21.77. 

She was less impressive in 

the American championships 

final but by then had already 

won the 100m. 

Second to her in Eugene 

was Olympic 400m champion 

Shaunae Miller-Uibo and that 

was the Bahamian’s only 200m 

loss in the last two years so 

she could be on for a double 

win at London. She was fourth 

at 200m in 2013 and has 

improved since, but may be 

Elaine Thompson: Olympic 

champion is big favourite 

three other Jamaicans, Simone 

Facey, Jura Levy and Natasha 

Morrison. 

Dafne Schippers will lead the 

European challenge. However, 

after a second in Beijing, she 

was only fifth in the Rio 100m 

but with a good start could 

return to the medals in London. 

tired from her 400m efforts. 

Defending champion Dafne 

Schippers was a well beaten 

fourth in Eugene, but she 

looked in better shape when 

Tori Bowie: world leader 

German Gina Luckenkemper 

and Switzerland’s Mujinga 

Kambundji look the best of the 

other Europeans. 

It could take a sub-11 effort 

to make the final. British trials 

winner Asha Philip would need 

a huge PB to make it, but 

her indoor form suggested a 

she won in Oslo and Lausanne 

and will aim to go one better 

than in Rio. 

The second and third 

Americans, Deejah Stevens and 

Kimberlyn Duncan, should be in 

the mix in the final too. 

A few athletes, who are also 

focusing on the 100m, may 

find it hard to last six races but 

Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Michelle- 

Lee Ahye, Murielle Ahoure and 

Mujinga Kambundji might have 

nothing to lose. 

None of the three Britons 

selected are ranked among the 

world top 50 this year. 

Dina Asher-Smith ran 22.07 

in the 2015 Worlds final and 

matched that fifth place in the 

Olympics but a serious injury 

means she is unlikely to be 

anywhere near that form in 

London. She is improving race 


World record: 10.49 Florence 

Griffith-Joyner (USA) 

Champs record: 10.70 Marion 

Jones (USA) 

Defending champion: Shelly-Ann 

Fraser Pryce (JAM) 

British interest: Desiree Henry, 

Daryll Neita, Asha Philip 

AW prediction: 1 Thompson (JAM); 

2 Bowie (USA); 3 Ahye (TTO) 

History: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is 

the only three-time gold medallist. 

breakthrough was feasible. 

Daryll Neita is certainly a 

potential finalist of the future 

and she has improved race 

by race and should make the 

semi-finals this time. 

Desiree Henry was in good 

shape in April with an 11.09 

clocking but has looked well 

short of that form since and it 

would be a surprise if she got 

near the final. SS 

by race though and may make 

the final where a sub 22.5 could 

be sufficient. 

Both Shannon Hylton and 

Bianca Williams could make the 

semi-finals on their very best 

form. SS 


World record: 21.34 Florence 

Griffith-Joyner (USA) 

Champs record: 21.63 Dafne 

Schippers (NED) 

Defending champion: Schippers 

British interest: Dina Asher-Smith, 

Shannon Hylton, Bianca Williams 

AW prediction: 1 Bowie (USA); 2 

Schippers (NED); 3 Miller-Uibo (BAH) 

History: Allyson Felix won three 

successive gold medals and won a 

bronze in 2011. However, the most 

overall successful athlete is Merlene 

Ottey who won two titles and six 

successive medals between 1983 

and 1997. 



RIO RERUN BETWEEN TOP TWO 

400m 

THE 400m in Rio was one of 

the most exciting and dramatic 

races with Shaunae Miller-Uibo 

throwing herself across the line 

to deny world champion Allyson 

Felix, who had beaten her in 

Beijing. 

The battle for gold will again 

be between the two and both 

are unbeaten in 2017 but have 

obviously yet to meet. 

Felix has the faster time but 

Miller-Uibo has probably been 

the most impressive and with 

improved speed is the marginal 

favourite. 

Quanara Hayes won the US 

Championships in 49.72 and 

was only third in Rabat but is 

capable of challenging the two 

favourites. 

There are two other strong 

Americans in Phyllis Francis and 

Kendall Ellis, which gives them 

half the finalists. 

Jamaica could do likewise 

though as they also have a 

strong quartet led by Olympic 

medallist Shericka Jackson 

and 2007 medallist Novlene 

Williams-Mills, who also made 

the last four finals since then. 

Chrisann Gordon and 

Allyson Felix: defeating Shaunae 

Miller-Uibo in Beijing in 2015 


World record: 47.60 Marita Koch 

(GDR) 

Champs record: 47.99 Jarmila 

Kratochvilova (CZE) 

Defending champion: Allyson Felix 

(USA) 

British interest: Zoey Clark, Emily 

Diamond, Anyika Onuora 

AW prediction: 1 Miller-Uibo (BAH); 

2 Felix (USA); 3 Hayes (USA) 

History: There are three athletes 

who have won double titles – 

Marie-Jose Perec, Cathy Freeman 

and Christine Ohuruogu. 

Diamond League winner 

Stephenie Ann McPherson are 

also genuine final material. 

Botswana’s Lydia Jele looks 

the best of the rest. It is hard to 

see a European in the final with 

Ukraine’s Olha Zemlyak and 

Justyna Swiety standing out. 

The fastest Brit Emily 

Diamond is only 50th worldranked 

but ran superbly to 

make the Rio semi-finals last 

year and should do so again, if 

close to her best. 

Zoey Clark would need a 

big PB to join her. Anyika 

Onuora made the 2015 world 

semi-finals and ran 50.83 but 

looks a second short of that 

form in 2017. SS 

CASTER SPELL OVER TWO-LAP RIVALS 

800m 

A SOUTH AFRICAN record in 

Monaco for the 2009 and 2011 

world and double Olympic 

champion Caster Semenya 

showed her form is good she 

and starts as a big favourite, 

having the best speed and 

strength of all those competing. 

She is complicating her bid 

for gold though by potentially 

running three 1500m races 

first but has not lost an 800m 

race for two years. It hasn’t 

always been clear-cut though 

as Francine Niyonsaba and 

Ajee’ Wilson also went inside 

1:56 in Monaco with her and 

look the most likely to win the 

other medals. Niyonsaba was 

second in Rio. 

Other potential medal 

chasers are Beijing runnerup 

Melissa Bishop, Olympic 

bronze medallist Margaret 

Wambui and 2013 champion 

Eunice Sum. 

Caster 

Semenya: 

expected to 

defend 

Wilson could have two 

fellow Americans in the final 

alongside her as Charlene 

Lipsey and 2013 medallist 

Brenda Martinez are also in 

good form. 

Semenya is not the only one 

doubling up and Sifan Hassan 

could be a factor in her second 

best event in a fast run race 

though she is also entered for 

the 5000m. 

Former European champion 

Lynsey Sharp was sixth in Rio 

and is returning to form. It is 

not out of the question she 

could be joined in the final by 

Shelayna Oskan-Clarke. Only 

ranked 24th, she actually looks 

in better form than when she 

was a shock fifth in Beijing in 

2015. 


World record: 1:53.28 Jarmila 


Champs record: 1:54.68 Jarmila 


Defending champion: Caster 

Semenya (RSA) 

British interest: Shelayna Oskan- 

Clarke, Lynsey Sharp, Adelle Tracey 

AW prediction: 1 Semenya (RSA); 

2 Niyonsaba (BDI); 3 Wilson (USA) 

History: Maria Mutola has won 

three golds, five medals and been in 

eight world finals. It could have been 

more but in Gothenburg in 2005 she 

was disqualified from her semi-final 

for stepping on a line when a big 

favourite. 

Adelle Tracey looks ready 

to join her team-mates inside 

two minutes but would need 

the race of her life to make the 

semi-finals. SS 




KIPYEGON TO WIN CLOSE RACE 

1500m 

LAURA MUIR will not have to 

face Hellen Obiri, who easily 

beat her at the Anniversary 

Games in London, but the task 

facing her is still enormous, 

especially as her stress 

response injury means she has 

not exhibited the same form she 

showed indoors in the winter. 

Olympic champion 

Faith Kipyegon has again 

shown great form and has a 

good mixture of speed and 

endurance but despite running 

3:57.51 in Paris was beaten 

by Sifan Hassan. The Dutch 

woman medalled in 2015 but 

looks a far stronger athlete this 

year and has greatly improved 

her 800m speed. 

The world record-holder 

Genzebe Dibaba has not 

looked in the same form as 

when she won the 2015 title 

but her world-leading mile 

time suggests she should be 

regarded as a co-favourite. 

Three other athletes have 

been inside four minutes 

this year – Winny Chebet, 

Konstanze Klosterhalfen and 

Gudaf Tsegay but while they 

Faith Kipyegon: 

Olympic 

champion has 

impressed in 2017 

are almost certain finalists, they 

would not be expected to win a 

medal in such exalted company. 

Klosterhalfen looks a fine 

prospect, but it may be one 

championships too early for 

the German who took Muir 

on in the European Indoor 


Other leading Europeans are 

Meraf Bahta of Sweden and 

Laura Weightman 

and Jess Judd: 

happy to be in 

London 

Angela Cichocka of Poland who 

could also make the final. 

USA’s former champion 

Jenny Simpson should again 

be to the fore while the most 

curious entry is 800m favourite 

Caster Semenya, who doesn’t 

qualify by time but by winning 

the African title last year. 

Her presence should at least 

mean there won’t be a repeat 

of Beijing and Rio which were 

effectively 800m races and 

there is no evidence yet she 

could take a very fast pace and 

three 1500m races. 

Muir herself may want to set 

a quick pace after paying for a 

very fast third lap in Rio, which 

meant she crumbled in the last 

200 metres. 

Despite her recent 800m 

PB, she will fare better off in 

an honest race from the start 

but will not want to tow the 

opposition round but in front of 

a home crowd, expect a huge 

roar when Muir hits the front. 

Double Olympic finalist Laura 

Sifan 

Hassan: 

much 

improved 

in 2017 

Weightman would also benefit 

from a quick pace in both the 

heats and the final. 

Jessica Judd will be making 

her senior championships debut 

at 1500m but may find it hard to 

make the final this time, despite 

making big improvement, but 

she will undoubtedly give it a 

go. 

Thanks to Muir’s Diamond 

League victory last year, Britain 

uniquely fields four athletes and 

Sarah McDonald is another 

improving athlete but would 

need a big improvement to get 

through the semi-finals. 

Ireland’s Ciara Mageean 

could go close though. SS 


World record: 3:50.07 Genzebe 

Dibaba (ETH) 

Champs record: 3:58.52 Tatyana 

Tomashova (RUS) 

Defending champion: Dibaba 

British interest: Jess Judd, Sarah 

McDonald, Laura Muir, Laura 

Weightman 

AW prediction: 1 Kipyegon (KEN); 

2 Hassan (NED); 3 Dibaba (ETH) 

History: The only double champions 

are Hassiba Boulmerka and drugs 

cheat Tatyana Tomashova though 

Boulmerka also won a bronze medal. 



OBIRI HAS THE CURRENT FORM 

5000m 

HELLEN OBIRI has looked 

unbeatable thus far in 2017 and 

looks in far better shape than 

when finishing second in Rio. 

She medalled at 1500m in the 

2013 World Championships 

and will undoubtedly have a 

strong kick. 

Genzebe Dibaba has raced 

sparingly in 2017 and was third 

in 2015 but seems to have 

difficulty using her speed in a 

fast-run race. 

Defending champion Almaz 

Ayana has not raced at all this 

year after injury and she was 

surprisingly beaten into third in 

Rio and it would be a surprise if 

she were at her very best. 

Senbere Teferi and 

Letesenbet Gidey form a 

strong Ethiopian quartet. 

A DIFFICULT event to evaluate 

as many leading runners have 

qualified from 2016 performances. 

One of those is world-record 

holder and Olympic champion 

Almaz Ayana who surely will 

not be as dominant as in Rio. 

Turkey’s Yasemin Can 

looks the strongest European 

challenger though Konstanze 

Klosterhalfen and Sifan Hassan 

could do well if contesting this 

as a second event. 

Margaret Kipkemboi of 

Kenya and Americans Molly 

Huddle and Shannon Rowbury 

The Rio bronze medallist 

and former champion Tirunesh 

Dibaba has also not raced on 

the track in 2017 yet, having 

done just three road races, and 

many expected her to run the 

marathon in London. 

A third Ethiopian, Gelete 

Burka, who won silver in 2015 

and heads the world rankings 

this year, completes a strong 

team. 

As ever, Kenya also field a 

good squad led by Rio sub- 

30 minute performer Alice 

Nawowuna though Irene 

Cheptai and Agnes Tirop are 

also potential medallists. 

European champion 

Yasemin Can, a former Kenyan, 

will almost certainly head the 

European bid for a medal 

though is unlikely to match the 

Ethiopians. 

The British trio will not be 

should be challenging for a top 

10 place. 

While Laura Muir has very 

little experience at this event 

and it will be her second-string 

event, it may, because of the 

opposition, be easier to snatch 

a medal by just hanging on to 

the leaders as long as possible. 

a factor for a high place. Trials 

winner Beth Potter would need 

a PB just to make the top 20 

and NCAA champion Charlotte 

Taylor has not raced since 

winning in Eugene and is not 

in the top 40 of qualified 

athletes but will benefit from 

the experience. 


World record: 14:11.15 Tirunesh 

Dibaba (ETH) 

Champs record: 14:26.83 Almaz 

Ayana (ETH) 

Defending champion: Ayana 

British interest: Eilish McColgan, 

Laura Muir, Steph Twell 

AW prediction: 1 Obiri (KEN); 2 G 

Dibaba (ETH); 3 Ayana (ETH) 

History: There have been four 

double champions in the 11 runnings 

of the event. Gabriela Szabo, 

Tirunesh Dibaba, Vivian Cheruiyot 

and Meseret Defar. 

Eilish McColgan made huge 

strides over 3000m at Monaco 

and on that form should make 

the final as in Rio. 

Steph Twell was slightly 

disappointing in that race in 

Monte Carlo but did make the 

2015 final and could do so 

again if in sub-15 shape. SS 

DIBABA GOES FOR HER FOURTH TITLE 

10,000m 

Almaz 

Ayana: 

5000m 

champion 

chasing 

double 

gold 

Hellen Obiri: 

has looked 

unbeatable 

in 2017 

Tirunesh 

Dibaba: 

chasing 

record 

fourth 

title 


World record: 29:17.45 Almaz 

Ayana (ETH) 

Champs record: 30:04.18 Berhane 

Adere (ETH) 

Defending champion: Vivian 

Cheruiyot (ETH) 

British interest: Jess Martin, Beth 

Potter, Charlotte Taylor 

AW prediction: 1 Dibaba (ETH); 

2 Ayana (ETH); 3 Burka (ETH) 

History: Tirunesh Dibaba has won 

three gold medals at the distance 

and she bids for a fourth in London. 

Jess Martin was fortunate to 

be selected on what has been 

disappointing 2017 form, being 

world ranked 114th, but she 

was 16th in the Rio Olympics. 

The easier qualifying 

standard than the men’s race, 

means that 45 athletes could 

line up for the final which will 

make it the biggest single 

global track final in history. SS 




JEPKEMOI SHOULD TRIUMPH 


KENYAN domination could 

very well be on the cards in this 

event. Even the biggest threat 

to the three fastest women in 

the world this year was born in 

the East African country. 

Ruth Jebet, who stormed 

to Olympic gold in Rio and a 

world record before she turned 

20, somewhat controversially 

switched allegiance from Kenya 

to Bahrain as a teenager. 

She will be up against Hyvin 

Kiyeng Jepkemoi, who is 

defending her title from 2015 

and took silver last summer, 

not to mention the hugely 

impressive teenage talent 

Clliphine Chepteek Chespol. 

The 18-year-old broke 

the world under-20 record 

in defeating Jebet in Eugene 

Ruth Jebet and Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi are again expected to be to the fore 

earlier this year, even managing 

to recover from having to fix a 

loose shoe with 600m to go 

before racing to victory. 

Beatrice Chepkoech was 

second in that race and will 

make her presence firmly felt 

here, while there is also likely 

to be a strong challenge too 

from American Olympic bronze 

medallist Emma Coburn, as 

well as Ethiopian Sofia Assefa, 

the woman who took silver at 

London 2012. 

Lennie Waite, the Scottishborn 

31-year-old who grew up 


World record: 8:52.78 Ruth Jebet 

(BRN) 

Champs record: 9:06:57 Ekaterina 

Volkova (RUS) 

Defending champion: Hyvin Kiyeng 

Jepkemoi (KEN) 

British interest: Rosie Clarke, 

Lennie Waite 

AW prediction: 1 Jepkemoi (KEN); 

2 Jebet (BRN); 3 Chespol (KEN) 

History: Milcah Chemos has the best 

record, having won gold in 2013 and 

silver in 2011. She is also currently 

showing as second in 2009. She 

was third across the line and that 

yet could be upgraded to first. 

in America, experienced the 

benefits of a home crowd at 

the Commonwealth Games in 

Glasgow and will be looking for 

the London support to provide 

more of the same come race 

time in Stratford. EC 

HARRISON’S SET TO SOOTHE RIO PAIN 

100m HURDLES 

KENDRA HARRISON may 

have scorched her way to the 

world record in London last 

year but, such had been the 

strength in depth of American 

sprint hurdling, she didn’t even 

make it to the Rio Games. 

She clearly used the pain 

of that experience to fuel her 

inner fire, qualifying for London 

well in advance thanks to her 

Diamond League victory last 

year, and is an undoubted 

favourite to finish on the top of 

the podium on this occasion 

but will not expect to have it all 

her own way. 

The self-coached Sally 

Pearson has surprised herself 

with the standards she has 

been reaching of late. 

Kendra Harrison and Sally Pearson: expected top two 

The Australian former 

Olympic and world champion 

showed signs of her old 

self when she ran Harrison 

particularly close during the 

Müller Anniversary Games on 

the London track recently, and 

it would complete an emotional 

comeback from horrendous 

injury problems if she were to 

win a medal in London. 

Nia Ali, silver winner in Rio, 

is the only one of the American 

trio which enjoyed a clean 

sweep there who will be in 

London. She and Harrison are 

joined by Christina Manning 

and Dawn Harper-Nelson. 


World record: 12.20 Kendra 

Harrison (USA) 

Champs record: 12.28 Sally Pearson 

(AUS) 

Defending champion: Danielle 

Williams (JAM) 

British interest: Alicia Barrett, 

Tiffany Porter 

AW prediction: 1 Harrison (USA); 

2 Pearson (AUS); 3 Williams (JAM) 

History: Gail Devers is the most 

successful athlete, having won three 

gold and two silver medals. 

Britain’s Tiffany Porter, fifth 

in Beijing two years ago, won’t 

be joined in London by her 

sister Cindy Ofili, who missed 

out through a hamstring injury. 

Alicia Barrett, winner at the 

team trials in Birmingham and 

a junior UK record breaker this 

year, joins the squad. EC 



DOYLE ADMITS TO TOUGH TASK 

400m HURDLES 

EILIDH DOYLE will thrive in the 

role of captaining the Great 

Britain squad but has admitted 

her task on the track will be 

daunting, given the standard of 

opposition. 


World record: 52.34 Yuliya 

Pechonkina (RUS) 

Champs record: 52.42 Melaine 

Walker (JAM) 

Defending champion: Zuzana 

Hejnova (CZE) 

British interest: Meghan Beesley, 

Eilidh Doyle, Jess Turner 

AW prediction: 1 Muhammad (USA); 

2 Little (USA); 3 Hejnova (CZE) 

History: Three athletes have won 

double gold previously – Moroccan 

Nezha Bidouane, Australia’s Jana 

Pittman and Hejnova. The latter 

chases a record third win. 

AFTER winning medals at 

the past four editions of the 

championships as well as 

gaining Olympic gold last year, 

Liu Hong doesn’t have the 

“I’m going to have to run 

every race like it’s the final,” said 

the highly experienced Scot. 

“The hurdles are so stacked this 

year. You have all the Americans 

who smashed it at their trials 

and then the Europeans have 

Zuzana Hejnova and Sara 

opportunity to add to that haul 

as this time the Chinese trio 

includes Lu Xiuzhi, Wang Na 

and Yang Jiayu. 

Lu claimed silver behind Liu 

two years ago on home soil 

while she also secured Olympic 

bronze in Rio and as the fastest 

of all the entrants so far this year 

with 1:26:28 to her name she 

will be hoping to get gold this 

time. 

It could be her team-mates 

to follow her over the line and 

complete a clean sweep in 

London, though Italy’s Antonella 

Palmisano and Maria Guadalupe 

González of Mexico will be 

aiming to spoil that party and 

look to have the form to be able 

to do so. 

GB will have two 

representatives as both Gemma 

Bridge and Bethan Davies race 

for the host nation. 

Petersen, who is the Olympic 

silver medallist. Then there’s 

the Jamaicans as well. It’s very 

stacked so if I want to make the 

final I’m going to have to give it 

everything.” 

Danger will indeed be 

lurking wherever Doyle looks. 

The Americans of which she 

speaks will be led by Olympic 

champion Dalilah Muhammad, 

who set the current world lead 

during an incredible race in her 

national trials, winning in 52.64 

from Shamier Little (52.75) 

and Kori Carter (52.95). Last 

year’s Diamond League winner 

Cassandra Tate completes the 

USA contingent. 

Hejnova, defending her 

world title, and Petersen are 

fierce competitors while the 

Jamaican line-up is headed by 

Rhonda Whyte. 

The first ever women’s 50km 

race walk champion will be 

crowned in London, with the 

entry list featuring a total of six 

athletes, led by Portugal’s world 

record-holder Inês Henriques 

with 4:08:26. JW 

Joining Doyle in the British 

line-up will be Jess Turner, 

who clocked her PB in taking 

silver at the recent European 

Under-23 Championships, 

and Meghan Beesley, a world 

championships semi-finalist in 

2013 and 2015. EC 

CHINA COULD CLAIM A CLEAN SWEEP 

20/50km WALK 

Chinese duo: Lu Xiuzhi with the 

current world champion Liu Hong 

Dalilah 

Muhammad: 

Olympic 

champion 

Bethan Davies: is racing in London 

with GB team-mate Gemma Bridge 

Shamier 

Little: 

part of 

strong 

US team 


20km walk 

World record: 1:24:38 Liu Hong 

(CHN) 

Champs record: 1:25:41 Olimpiada 

Ivanova (RUS) 

Defending champion: Liu Hong 

British interest: Gemma Bridge, 

Bethan Davies 

AW prediction: 1 Lu Xiuzhi (CHN); 

2 Wang Na (CHN); 3 Yanng Jiayi (CHN) 

History: Olga Kaniskina initially won 

three titles but has retrospectively 

lost two of them due to drugs 

suspensions, leaving fellow Russian 

Olimpiada Ivanova ahead as a 

double medallist. 

50km walk 

World record: 4:08:26 Ines 

Henriques (POR) 

Champs record: None 

Defending champion: None 


AW prediction: 1 Henriques (POR); 

2 Hang Yin (CHN); 3 Katie Burnett 

(USA) 

History: None 




LASITSKENE RAISES THE BAR 

HIGH JUMP 

KATARINA JOHNSON- 

THOMPSON’S leap of 1.98m 

during the heptathlon in Rio 

would have been enough 

to take the outright Olympic 

high jump gold which went to 

Spain’s Ruth Beitia. Anyone 

looking for a podium spot in 

Maria Lasitskene: great form in 2017 

STEFANIDI HAS FIGHT TO STAY ON TOP 

POLE VAULT 

KATERINA STEFANIDI’S fear 

of heights has not stopped 

her from excelling at her 

chosen profession and when 

she arrives in London, the 

challenge will be for the 

Olympic champion to remain at 

the top of the pole vault tree. 

London, however, is going to 

have to jump much higher. 

That’s largely thanks to the 

presence of Maria Lasitskene, 

one of the Russian athletes to 

be banned from Brazil but who 

will be able to defend her world 

title by competing under a 

neutral flag. 

Lasitskene has already 

Katarina Johnson-Thompson: set 

UK record at Rio Olympics last year 

jumped 2.06m this year and the 

world record of 2.09m could 

well come under threat. 

American world indoor 

champion Vashti Cunningham 

is also on good form, as is 

European indoor champion 

Airine Palsyte of Lithuania. 


World record: 2.09m Stefka 

Kostadinova (BUL) 

Champs record: 2.09m Stefka 

Kostadinova (BUL) 

Defending champion: Maria 

Kuchina (now Lasitskene) (RUS) 

British interest: Katarina Johnson- 

Thompson, Morgan Lake 

AW prediction: 1 Lasitskene (RUS); 

2 Cunningham (USA); 3 Licwinko 

(POL) 


double gold – Kostadinova, Hestrie 

Cloete and Blanka Vlasic. 

Johnson-Thompson, of 

course, will have the chance 

to thrive on the swell of home 

support while her compatriot 

Morgan Lake, whose 1.96m 

jump in winning the team trials 

put her third on the British alltime 

list, will look to continue 

her impressive development. EC 

who broke the national record 

in Manchester back in May, 

is having a breakthrough year 

and will look to become a big 

beneficiary of competing on 

home turf. EC 

Holly Bradshaw: 

podium potential 


World record: 5.06m Yelena 

Isinbayeva (RUS) 

Champs record: 5.01m Yelena 

Isinbayeva (RUS) 

Defending champion: Yarisley Silva 

(CUB) 

British interest: Holly Bradshaw 

AW prediction: 1 Morris (USA); 

2 Stefanidi (GRE); 3 Suhr (USA) 

History: World record-holder 

Isinbayeva is the only three-time 

champion, and also won a bronze. 

Medal contenders (l to r): Katerina Stefanidi, Jenn Suhr and Sandi Morris 

Coached by her husband, 

and resident in America, the 

Greek will not have far to look 

in terms of where the biggest 

challenges will be coming from. 

The American duo of Sandi 

Morris, a silver medallist in Rio, 

and 2012 Olympic champion 

Jenn Suhr will provide stern 

opposition in a field where a 

number of athletes have all 

been hitting reasonably similar 

standards of late. 

Britain’s Holly Bradshaw, 



CLASSIC CLASH ON THE CARDS 

LONG JUMP 

IF THE event is anywhere as 

exciting as last year’s Olympic 

final, we’re in for a treat. Tianna 

Bartoletta won gold on that 

occasion from fellow American 

Brittney Reese with Serbian 

Tianna Bartoletta: 

Olympic gold 

medallist 

EVER since the London 

Olympic in 2012, Caterine 

Ibarguen has ruled the world 

of women’s triple jump. The 

Colombian finished second 

in those Games but went on 

to win world titles in Moscow 

and Beijing, plus the Olympic 

crown in Rio. 

The 33-year-old also 

enjoyed an unbeaten run from 

the London Olympics up until 

partway through 2016 when 

her winning streak was ended 

by Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela. 

Only 21 years of age, 

Rojas won silver in Rio behind 

Ibarguen and has gone on 

to jump the best mark in the 

world this year going into 

London – 14.96m. 

Ivana Spanovic third – with all 

three breaking the seven-metre 

barrier – and the same trio face 

each other again in London. 

The British Olympians from 

Rio – Jazmin Sawyers, Lorraine 

Ugen and Shara Proctor – take 

to the runway again as well in 

what promises to be a terrific 

event full of home interest. 

Proctor has not been in great 

form this year, but on her day 

has the ability to win a medal, 

as she showed when she took 

silver in Beijing two years ago 

with a UK record of 7.07m. 

Sawyers, meanwhile, is keen 

to improve on her eighth place 

in Rio 12 months ago, whereas 

Ugen has won European indoor 

silver and British Champs gold 

this year, in addition to setting a 

UK indoor record of 6.97m. 

Spanovic won the Euro 

In addition Rojas has beaten 

Ibarguen on the Diamond 

League circuit in Rome, 

although Ibarguen got revenge 

with victory in Monaco. 

indoor title with a huge 7.24m. 

But it will be the Americans who 

are the ones to beat in London 

with Bartoletta not only the 

reigning Olympic champion but 

two-time and reigning world 

gold medallist. Her team-mate, 

Reese, the 2012 Olympic and 

Ibarguen has experience 

on her side and a great 

championship temperament 

but she has also struggled with 

injury lately, while Rojas seems 

to have more momentum right 

now. 

So it looks like being a 

battle of the South American 

rivals in London. But don’t 

count out Olga Rypakova of 

Kazakhstan. 

The former heptathlete 

beat Ibarguen at the London 

Olympics five years ago and 

took the silver and bronze 

medals at the 2008 and 2016 

Olympics respectively. 

Behind the big three 

favourites, other contenders 

will include Nubia Soares of 

Brazil, Kimberly Williams of 

Jamaica, Liadagmis Povea of 


World record: 7.52m Galina 

Chistyakova (RUS) 

Champs record: 7.36m Jackie 

Joyner-Kersee (USA) 

Defending champion: Tianna 

Bartoletta (USA) 

British interest: Shara Proctor, 

Jazmin Sawyers, Lorraine Ugen 

AW prediction: 1 Spanovic (SRB); 

2 Reese (USA); 3 Bartoletta (USA) 

History: Brittney Reese won three 

successive golds between 2009 and 

2013 and Tianna Bartoletta, who 

won in 2005 and 2015, could join 

her as a three-time champion. 

three-time world champion, is 

also sure to be in the mix. For 

the best of the rest, look out 

for Claudia Salman-Rath of 

Germany, Christabel Nettey of 

Canada and Darya Klishina of 

Russia, who is competing under 

a neutral flag. JH 

SOUTH AMERICANS TO BATTLE IT OUT 

TRIPLE JUMP 

Caterine 

Ibarguen: 

faces test from 

Yulimar Rojas 

Ivana Spanovic: 

European indoor 

champion 


World record: 15.50m Inessa 

Kravets (UKR) 

Champs record: 15.50m Inessa 

Kravets (UKR) 

Defending champion: Caterine 

Ibarguen (COL) 


AW prediction: 1 Ibarguen (COL); 

2 Rojas (VEN); 3 Rypakova (KAZ) 


double gold – Russian Tatyana 

Lebedeva, Cuban Yargelis Savigne 

and Ibarguen – who bids for a third 

gold in London. 

Cuba and Patricia Mamona of 

Portugal. 

Soares, especially, will 

be a danger as she beat 

Rojas at the South American 

Championships in Paraguay 

in June with a wind-assisted 

14.42m. JH 




CARTER NO.1 IN KIWI ABSENCE 

SHOT PUT 

IT’S HARD to look beyond 

Michelle Carter for gold in 

this event. The ebullient 

American won the Olympic 

and world indoor titles last 

year and demonstrated her 

championship temperament by 

doing it with last-round throws. 


World record: 22.63m Natalya 

Lisovskaya (RUS) 

Champs record: 21.24m Natalya 

Lisovskaya (RUS)/Valerie Adams (NZL) 

Defending champion: Christina 

Schwanitz (GER) 

British interest: Rachel Wallader 

AW prediction: 1 Marton (HUN); 

2 Carter (USA); 3 Gong Lihiao (CHN) 

History: Valerie Adams won four 

gold medals between 2007 and 

2013 and was also second in 2005. 

The 31-year-old has shot put 

talent flowing through her veins 

too. Her father, Michael, won 

Olympic silver in the event in 

1984 and now she is out-doing 

his achievements. 

Her winning throw of 20.63m 

in Rio was also a US record 

as she beat four-time world 

champion Valerie Adams of 

New Zealand. 

Adams is not competing in 

London as she is due to give 

birth to her first child in the 

autumn. Christina Schwanitz 

of Germany, the reigning world 

and European champion, will 

also be absent, having given 

birth to twins last month. 

This leaves Anita Marton, the 

European indoor champion and 

Olympic bronze medallist from 

Hungary, as one of Carter’s 

major rivals for gold. 

Watch out, too, for Lijiao 

Gong, the silver medallist at 

London 2012 and Beijing 2015. 

The Chinese athlete has shown 

terrific form on the eve of the 

championships with a worldleading 

mark of 20.11m. 

Carter’s US team-mates 

Raven Saunders and Daniella 

Bunch will also be a threat. 

Michelle Carter: gold in Rio last year 

They finished one-two at the 

US trials, beating Carter into 

third, and produced the top two 

leading marks of 2017. 

British champion Rachel 

Wallader was a late addition 

to the GB team – the Windsor, 

Slough, Eton & Hounslow 

athlete was fourth in the 2014 

Commonwealth Games. JH 

CUBAN DUO MAY THREATEN PERKOVIC 

DISCUS 

SANDRA PERKOVIC is one 

of the hottest favourites at the 

championships. The Croatian 

holds seven of the top ten 

marks in the world this year 

and her best of 71.41m – set in 

Switzerland last month – was 

the best throw in the world 

since 1992. 

The 27-year-old has Olympic 

golds from Rio and London, 

four European titles and a world 

title from Moscow in 2013. 

She was beaten to the last 

world title, though, by Denia 

Caballero – and the Cuban is 

likely to be one of her toughest 

challengers again in London. 

Despite her great recent 

form, Perkovic has not been 

invincible this year either. She 

was beaten by another Cuban, 

Yaime Perez, in Stockholm in 

Sandra Perkovic: world No.1 

faces rivalry from Cuba 

June and again at a competition 

in France last month. 

The 26-year-old Perez won 

the world junior title in 2010 and 

is steadily improving, finishing 

fourth at the 2015 World 

Championships and having the 

second best throw in the world 

this year, albeit more than two 

metres shorter than Perkovic’s 

best. 

Perkovic and the Cubans 

aside, the US trio of Gia Lewis- 

Smallwood, Valarie Allman and 

Whitney Ashley will be in the 

mix, plus Germany’s Nadine 

Müller, Anna Rüh and Julia 

Harting, the wife of multiple 

world champion Robert. 

Dani Stevens (nee Samuels), 

the 2009 world champion, 

throws for Australia and is 


World record: 76.80m Gabriela 

Reinsch (GDR) 

Champs record: 72.30m Martina 

Hellmann (GER) 

Defending champion: Denia 

Caballero (CUB) 

British interest: Jade Lally 

AW prediction: 1 Perkovic (CRO); 

2 Perez (CUB); 3 Caballero (CUB) 

History: German Franka Dietzsch 

is the only three-time champion, 

though Cuban Yarelis Barrios won 

four successive medals between 

2007 and 2013. 

ranked No.3 in the world in 

2017, but British fans will be 

interested to learn she has links 

here and has completed for 

Wigan Harriers in the past. 

Most home support though 

will go to Jade Lally, who holds 

the English record although 

she’s not yet hit her superb 

2016 form this year. JH 



WLODARCZYK FORM OMINOUS 

HAMMER 

AT THE Rio Olympic Games 

last year Anita Wlodarczyk 

of Poland broke the world 

record to win the Olympic title, 

while Britain’s Sophie Hitchon 

smashed her national record 

to take bronze. Will we see the 

same fireworks in London in the 

coming days? 

With the six best throws in 

the world this year, Wlodarczyk 

looks unbeatable as the 

31-year-old seeks to add to a 

medal tally that includes two 

Olympic golds from 2012 and 

2016 and two world titles from 

2009 and 2015. 

The Polish athlete broke the 

80m barrier at her own national 

championships and then 

82.87m on the eve of London 

– the second longest throw in 

SARA KOLAK versus Barbora 

Spotakova could produce one 

of the great head to heads of 

the championships. 

Spotakova, of the Czech 

Republic, won Olympic titles in 

history and only 11cm away 

from her world record. 

Hitchon, meanwhile, threw 

74.54m in Rio and has been 

2008 and 2012 and holds the 

world record, while Croatia’s 

Kolak won the Olympic title 

in Rio last year and owns the 

biggest throw in the world 

this year, albeit only by a few 

centimetres. 

The duo have swapped 

victories this season, too. Kolak 

won in Lausanne. Spotakova 

beat her rival at the Anniversary 

Games in London. 

At the European Team 

Championships in Lille in June, 

Spotakova also prevailed but 

by just 2cm in an ultra-close 

contest. 

If Kolak wins in London in 

the coming days, maybe it will 

signify a changing of the guard. 

At 22, the Croatian is 14 years 

younger than Spotakova, after 

all. 

The pair might not have it 

all their own way, though. Eda 

around half a metre short of her 

best going into London as the 

Blackburn athlete strives to win 

her first World Championships 

medal following fourth place in 

2015. 

Chinese athletes could 

be Wlodarczyk’s biggest 

challengers. Zhang Wenxiu has 

been the perennial bridesmaid 

at recent major championships 

with silver at Rio 2016, Beijing 

2008 and Beijing 2015, plus 

bronze medals at London 

2012 together with three world 

championships. 

Maybe London can be her 

moment – and she is joined 

in the Chinese team by Wang 

Zhen, who was fifth at the last 

World Championships. 

US champion Gwen Berry 

has also been in good form this 

year. The 28-year-old set an 

Tugsuz of Turkey has thrown 

within a metre of the big two 

in 2017 and will be ready to 

pounce if either of the pair are 

underpar. 

Look out too for Liu Shiying 

of China, Kathryn Mitchell 

of Australia and Tatsiana 


World record: 82.98m Anita 

Wlodarczyk (POL) 

Champs record: 80.85m Anita 

Wlodarczyk (POL) 

Defending champion: Wlodarczyk 

British interest: Sophie Hitchon 

AW prediction: 1 Wlodarczyk; 2 

Wang Zheng (CHN); 3 Kopron (POL) 

History: Cuban Yipsi Moreno won 

three titles and that should be 

equalled by Wlodarczyk, who won 

in 2009 and 2015 and was second 

in 2013. 

American record last year but 

disappointed in Rio, so making 

a global podium would be a 

step up for her. 

There will be no Betty 

Heidler this year, though, as 

the German, who used to hold 

the world record and won silver 

at London 2012, retired after 

the Rio Games. JH 

A POSSIBLE HEAD TO HEAD TO SAVOUR 

JAVELIN 

Sara Kolak: 

Olympic champion 

Anita Wlodarczyk: 80-metre form 

Barbora Spotakova: 

world record-holder 


World record: 72.28m Barbora 

Spotakova (CZE) 

Champs record: 71.99m Maria 

Abakumova (RUS) 

Defending champion: Kathrina 

Molitor (GER) 


AW prediction: 1 Spotakova (CZE); 

2 Kolak (CRO); 3 Mitchell (AUS) 

History: There have been three 

double champions – Cuban Osleidys 

Menendez, Norwegian Trine 

Hattestad and Greek Mirela Tzelili. 

Khaladovich of Belarus. The 

latter, for example, beat Kolak 

in Eugene in May and is the 

reigning European champion. 

Sadly there will be no Brits 

to cheer, however. Following 

Goldie Sayers’ retirement this 

is the only women’s throwing 

event at the championships 

without a home nation 

contender. JH 



AFTER storming to the Olympic 

title in Rio last year, Nafissatou 

Thiam left another huge imprint 

in heptathlon history in Gotzis 

in May when she scored 7013 

to go No.3 on the world all-time 

rankings. 

Only world record-holder 

Jackie Joyner-Kersee and 

Carolina Kluft have achieved 

better. She did it with a Belgian 

record 59.32m in the javelin, too. 

Such was the quality of the 

Gotzis meeting, British No.1 

Katarina Johnson-Thompson 

set a PB of 6691 but was only 

fourth. Ahead of her, Carolin 

Schafer of Germany scored 

6836 and Laura Ikauniece- 

Admidina of Latvia 6815, while 

Thiam was on another level, 

breaking the 7000-point barrier. 

Thiam was only 14th and 

11th at previous two World 

Championships in Moscow 

and Beijing, but her promise 

was clear when she won the 

European junior title in 2013 

and talent runs in her family 

as her mother is a gold medal 

winning masters multi-eventer. 

Of course Gotzis was over 

two months ago, so she might 

not be in the same form. 

Straight after the competition, 

for example, she had exams at 

the University of Liege, where 

she has studied geography. 

As for Johnson-Thompson’s 

challenge, the 24-year-old will 

be hoping to recapture the 

winning habit she had a couple 

of years ago when she claimed 

European indoor pentathlon 

gold in Prague. 

Since that victory she has 

endured a frustrating time 

performance-wise at major 

championships. 

She fouled all her three long 

jump attempts at the 2015 

World Championships in Beijing 

and produced a mixed bag 

of results at the Rio Olympic 

Games – setting a UK high 

jump record but ultimately 

finishing a disappointed sixth. 

It triggered a change of 

scenery for her as she moved 

from Merseyside to France to 

team up with a new coach 

and training group. Judging 

by her PB in Gotzis, things are 

going well. 


THIAM AND KJT BOTH AIMING 

FOR LONDON SEVENTH HEAVEN 

HEPTATHLON 

Laura Ikauniece- 

Admidina: 

Latvian is 

a rising force 

Nafissatou Thiam: 

after gold in Rio, the 

Belgian smashed 

the 7000-point 

barrier this 

summer 

Filling the golden spikes of 

the now retired Jessica Ennis- 

Hill is also a tough task but 

Johnson-Thompson will be 

going for nothing less than 

gold in London. 

Schafer and Ikauniece- 

Admidina are obvious rivals 

for a podium place. Schafer 

won the world and European 

junior titles in 2008-09 but has 

struggled to make her mark 

internationally and was fifth 

in Rio 12 months ago, while 

Ikauniece-Admidina won bronze 

in Beijing two years ago and 

was fourth in Rio. 

As for other contenders, look 

out for Schafer’s German teammate 

Claudia Salman-Rath, 

Americans Kendell Williams 

and Erica Bougard and Anouk 

Vetter of the Netherlands. 

In the battle for medals, 

though, if there is any 

consolation to the athletes 

in this high-quality event, it 

is that the silver and bronze 

medallists from Rio – Ennis-Hill 

and Brianne Theisen-Eaton of 

Canada – have retired. JH 


World record: 7291 Jackie Joyner- 

Kersee (USA) 

Champs record: 7128 Jackie 

Joyner-Kersee (USA) 

Defending champion: Jessica 

Ennis-Hill (GBR) 

British interest: Katarina Johnson- 

Thompson 

AW prediction: 1 Thiam (BEL); 

2 Schafer (GER); 3 Johnson- 

Thompson (GBR) 

History: Both Carolina Kluft and 

Jessica Ennis-Hill have won three 

world titles although the latter won 

one of hers retrospectively (for 

Daegu 2011) when Russia’s Tatyana 

Chernova was disqualified after 

failing a drugs test. 



USA AND JAMAICA GOLD FIGHT 

4x100m RELAY 

SINCE USA won the 2005 

title in Helsinki, world 4x100m 

gold has only been won by an 

American or Jamaican quartet. 

While both teams have recently 

undergone some changes and 

the event is, of course, highly 

unpredictable, it is those two 

Jamaica: sprint relay favourites 


World record: 40.82 USA 

Champs record: 41.07 Jamaica 


British interest: Asher-Smith, Henry, 

Humphreys, Hylton, Neita, Philip, 

Williams 

AW prediction: 1 Jamaica; 2 USA; 

3 Germany 

History: USA with six golds and 

Jamaica with four have dominated 

this event though the latter’s Beverly 

McDonald has the most individual 

medals with six. 

nations which look set to again 

finish on top. 

The US squad includes 

200m world leader Tori Bowie, 

while the Jamaican team might 

be missing Shelly-Ann Fraser- 

Pryce and Veronica Campbell- 

Brown but it includes Olympic 

100m and 200m champion 

Elaine Thompson. 

The GB team will very much 

be looking to make an impact, 

particularly with the advantage 

of being on home soil. The 

British record-breaking quartet 

which bagged Olympic bronze 

in Rio – Asha Philip, Desiree 

Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and 

Daryll Neita – all feature in the 

squad and Asher-Smith is 

finding form following her injury 

earlier this year. 

The host nation could gain 

another global medal but are 

likely to face a challenge from 

others such as IAAF World 

Relays winners Germany. JW 

MORE HOST NATION MEDAL CHANCES 

4x400m RELAY 

EVEN before the team steps 

on to the track, Great Britain 

will have gained three 4x400m 

medals following a series of 

reallocations happening earlier 

on in the championships. 

Christine Ohuruogu formed 

part of each of those teams 

but will not run in London as 

the two-time world 400m gold 

medallist and 2008 Olympic 

champion is absent from a 

global GB senior team for the 

first time since her debut at the 

2004 Olympics in Athens. 

The GB squad will hope 

to continue its medal-winning 

ways in this event, with British 

champions Zoey Clark and 

Eilidh Doyle joined by Emily 

Diamond, Anyika Onuora, 

Laviai Nielsen and Perri 

Shakes-Drayton. 

It again looks to be a battle 

between USA and Jamaica 

for the top two spots, with 

Novlene Williams-Mills having 

anchored Jamaica to world 

Jamaica 

defends its 

title against 

United 

States and 

the host 

nation, 

Great 

Britain 

victory for the first time since 

Edmonton 2001 at the Beijing 

championships two years ago, 

though USA turned the tables 

in Rio. 

Allyson Felix is another 

athlete bringing great 


World record: 3:15.17 USSR 

Champs record: 3:16.71 USA 


British interest: Clark, Diamond, 

Doyle, Nielsen, Onuora, Shakes- 

Drayton 

AW prediction: 1 USA; 2 Jamaica; 

3 GBR 

History: USA are the most successful 

nation and Jearl Miles-Clark, with 

three golds and three silvers has the 

most medals. Sanya Richards-Ross 

won four golds and a silver. Novlene 

Williams-Mills could win her sixth 

medal – she currently has one gold 

and four silvers. 

experience in the US squad, 

while the Jamaican team also 

includes Shericka Williams. 

Other medal contenders are 

Bahamas, with Olympic 400m 

champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, 

and Poland. JW 


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LONDON 2017 

– WHAT’S ON 

DON’T MISS A MOMENT OF THE IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 

OR those not lucky enough to 

F 

have tickets for inside the 

London Stadium to watch the 

action, there are still many 

ways you can enjoy the IAAF World 

Championships in the coming days. 

For starters the action will be shown live 

on the BBC and British Eurosport. 

The BBC welcomes Jessica Ennis-Hill to 

its coverage team, while Michael Johnson 

returns to add his insights as a pundit. 

As published in last week’s AW, the 

event sees Brendan Foster bring the curtain 

down on his long-time BBC commentary 

career as he joins fellow BBC athletics 

colleagues such as Steve Cram, Paula 

Radcliffe, Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson, 

Steve Backley and Andrew Cotter, while 

Phil Jones acts as trackside interviewer. 

The BBC coverage kicks-off on August 

3 with a one-hour preview programme on 

BBC2 at 7pm, followed by more than 60 

hours of coverage over the subsequent 

10 days. BBC2 will also have a 30-minute 

highlights programme at 10pm every 

night presented by Gabby Logan and 

Ore Oduba, while BBC Radio 5 Live’s 

coverage will see Sonja McLaughlan as 

lead presenter alongside Mike Costello and 

Darren Campbell. 

“I AM ABSOLUTELY 

CERTAIN WE WILL 

SEE SOME NEW 

STARS EMERGE 

FROM THE SHADOWS 

AND BECOME 

HOUSEHOLD NAMES” 

GREG RUTHERFORD 

Greg Rutherford: recently provided Channel 4 with Para Champs analysis and will now be seen on Eurosport 

Eurosport, meanwhile, continues its 

long-time coverage of track and field with 

comprehensive action from London with 

commentary from Tim Hutchings, Martin 

Gillingham and Chris Dennis. 

Jonathan Edwards is the main presenter 

on Eurosport and the channel has been 

boosted this month by the addition of Greg 

Rutherford as an expert analyst as the 

injured long jumper leaps from sand pit to 

studio. 

Rutherford said: “As an athlete there 

is no substitute for the thrill of competing 

in a world-class event such as the World 

Championships. But being given the 

opportunity to provide my own analysis 

and experience to millions of athletics fans 

watching on Eurosport is easily the next 

best thing. 

“There are some incredible athletes 

competing in London and viewers are in for 

a real treat. This is the first major athletics 

event of the new Olympic cycle leading up 

to Tokyo 2020 so I am absolutely certain we 

will see some new stars emerge from the 

shadows and become household names.” 

n AW’s coverage of the IAAF World Champs 

dominates our next two issues 

n The August 10 issue of AW will feature 

reports, results, news and photographs from 

the first four days of the championships, 

including both 100m finals, marathons, 

men’s 10,000m and heptathlon 

n The August 17 issue of AW will feature 

action from the final six days of the 

championships 

n Look out for regular updates on our 

website, Twitter and Facebook pages 

n Our five-strong team in London includes 

photographer Mark Shearman plus writers 

Jessica Whittington, Steve Smythe, Euan 

Crumley and Jason Henderson 

MARK SHEARMAN 


TIMETABLE AND TELEVISION 


IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 

AUGUST 4-13 2017, QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK, LONDON 

The IAAF World Championships in the coming days sees more than 2000 athletes from 

205 countries battling for medals and glory. In the timetable below, which was correct as 

Athletics Weekly went to press, the final of an event is marked with this symbol: l 

T I M E T A B L E 

Friday August 4 – Evening 

19:00 

19:20 

19:30 

19:35 

19:45 

20:20 

20:45 

21:20 l 

100m (M) 

Discus (M) 

Long jump (M) 

1500m (W) 

Pole vault (W) 

100m (M) 

Discus (M) 

10,000m (M) 

Saturday August 5 – Morning 

10:00 

10:05 

10:35 

10:45 

11:00 

11:30 

11:45 

12:05 

12:45 

Shot put (M) 

100m hurdles heptathlon (W) 

Hammer (W) 

400m (M) 

Triple jump (W) 

High jump heptathlon (W) 

100m (W) 

Hammer (W) 

800m (M) 

Saturday August 5 – Evening 

19:00 

19:05 

19:25 l 

19:35 

20:05 l 

20:10 l 

21:00 

21:45 l 

Shot put heptathlon (W) 

100m (M) 

Discus (M) 

1500m (W) 

Long jump (M) 

10,000m (W) 

200m heptathlon (W) 

100m (M) 

Sunday August 6 – Morning 

10:00 

10:05 

10:40 

10:55 l 

11:05 

11:45 

11:55 

13:00 

13:15 

14:00 l 

Long jump heptathlon (W) 

3000m steeplechase (M) 

Pole vault (M) 

Marathon (M) 

400m hurdles (m) 

Javelin heptathlon (W) 

400m (W) 

Javelin heptathlon (W) 

110m hurdles (M) 

Marathon (W) 

Sunday August 6 – Evening 

19:00 l 

19:05 

19:10 

19:40 

20:10 

20:30 

20:35 l 

20:40 l 

21:15 

21:50 l 

Pole vault (W) 

Javelin (W) 

100m (W) 

400m (M) 


Javelin throw (W) 

Shot put (M) 

800m heptathlon (W) 

800m (M) 

100m (W) 

Monday August 7 – Evening 

18:30 

18:35 

19:00 l 

19:30 

20:20 

20:25 l 

20:55 

21:30 l 

21:50 l 

200m (M) 

Triple jump (M) 

Hammer (W) 

400m hurdles (W) 


Triple jump (W) 

400m (W) 


1500m (W) 

Tuesday August 8 – Evening 

19:20 l 

19:30 

19:35 l 

20:35 

20:40 

21:10 l 

21:35 l 

21:52 l 

Javelin (W) 

200m (W) 

Pole vault (M) 


Shot put (W) 

3000m steeplechase (M) 

800m (M) 

400m (M) 

Wednesday August 9 – Evening 

19:05 

19:10 

19:20 

20:05 

20:25 l 

20:50 

20:55 

21:33 l 

21:50 l 

3000m steeplechase (W) 

Long jump (W) 

Hammer (M) 

5000m (M) 

Shot put (W) 

Hammer throw (M) 

200m (M) 


400m (W) 

Thursday August 10 – Evening 

18:30 

19:05 

19:10 

19:25 

20:20 l 

20:25 

20:35 

21:05 

21:35 l 

21:52 l 

5000m (W) 

Javelin (M) 

High jump (W) 

800m (W) 

Triple jump (M) 

1500m (M) 

Javelin (M) 

200m (W) 


200m (M) 

Friday August 11 – Morning 

10:00 

10:10 

10:45 

11:05 

11:15 

11:35 

12:55 

100m decathlon (M) 

Discus (W) 


Long jump decathlon (M) 

High jump (M) 

Discus (W) 

Shot put decathlon (M) 

Friday August 11 – Evening 

17:00 

19:05 

19:10 l 

19:35 

20:10 

20:30 l 

20:45 

21:25 l 

21:50 l 

High jump decathlon (M) 


Long jump (W) 

800m (W) 

1500m (M) 

Hammer (M) 


3000m steeplechase (W) 

200m (W) 

Saturday August 12 – Morning 

10:00 

10:35 

10:55 

11:00 

11:20 

11:50 

12:20 

13:30 

110m hurdles decathlon (M) 

4x100m (W) 

4x100m (M) 

Discus decathlon (M) 

4x400m (W) 

4x400m (M) 

Discus decathlon (M) 

Pole vault decathlon (M) 

Saturday August 12 – Evening 

17:30 

19:05 l 

20:05 l 

20:15 l 

20:20 l 

20:45 l 

21:30 l 

21:50 l 

Javelin decathlon (M) 

High jump (W) 


Javelin throw (M) 

5000m (M) 


4x100m (W) 

4x100m (M) 

07:45 l 

07:45 l 

12:20 l 

14:20 l 

19:00 l 

19:10 l 

19:35 l 

20:10 l 

20:30 l 

20:55 l 

21:15 l 

Sunday August 13 

50km walk (M) 

50km walk (W) 

20km walk (W) 

20km walk (M) 

High jump (M) 

Discus (W) 

5000m (W) 

800m (W) 

1500m (M) 

4x400m (W) 

4x400m (M) 


VIEW FROM THE STANDS 

CHAIRMAN OF 

THE BASC JOHN 

STANDERLINE 

SAYS THE WORLD 

PARA CHAMPS 

ACTED AS A GREAT 

APPETISER FOR 

THE IAAF WORLD 

CHAMPS 

ITTING in the 

S 

Olympic Stadium 

(sorry but it will 

always have that 

name for me) for the World Para 

Athletics Championships, I was 

taken back to the London 

Paralympics. That event five 

years ago was a step change in 

attendance for para athletics, 

even allowing for the fact that 

many people went just because 

they wanted to visit the Olympic 

Park, especially if they had 

missed out on tickets for the 

Olympics. 

Since then para-athletics 

events in the UK have either 

had significantly less people 

attending or a large part of the 

crowd leave once the ablebodied 

events finished. But 

London 2017 has changed the 

standard again and, while 

attendance was lower than it 

will be for the IAAF 

Championships, one Saturday 

evening at the London ‘Paras’ 

probably had more spectators 

than saw the whole of the 2015 

championships in Doha. 

Having the Para Athletics 

Championships in London in 

the same location as the IAAF 

Championships was always 

going to be helpful, but letting 

these athletes compete as 

the first event – and not as an 

afterthought – was a positive 

idea. 

London was praised by 

athletes not just for the noise 

when a GB athlete ran, but 

the support and respect 

WHAT A SUMMER! 

shown to all athletes by the 

knowledgeable crowd. 

Not all athletics supporters 

follow para-athletics. They see 

difficulties with classification 

and minimal competitors in 

some categories. This is a pity 

because genuine hard-fought 

competition took place at these 

championships, with every 

para athlete being as keen to 

succeed as their able-bodied 

companions. 

We looked in awe at the 

javelin thrower throwing nearly 

60m without a run up and at 

the high jumper entering the 

competition at the winning 

height and then achieving three 

world records. 

Para-athletics needs large 

crowds to help create publicity 

to encourage youngsters to join 

the sport. Consequently, if we 

can offer more support then the 

argument about events having 

limited depth will disappear. 

Who could fail to enjoy the 

hard men of para-athletics, the 

T54 wheelchair racers? With 

Extraordinary athleticism: the 

World Para Athletics Champs 

were amazing to watch 

seven men finishing the 5000m 

within a few metres of each 

other the finish was closer than 

similar able-bodied events and 

watching it was like seeing a 

car race. And the female T54 

races were no less impressive, 

with Tatyaya McFadden the 

outstanding star. 

Around 20,000 school 

children in the stadium on a 

couple of occasions was great 

to see (or more precisely to 

hear). Strangely, the Monday 

kids were very noisy while 

those on Tuesday were more 

controlled at track event starts. 

Introducing so many children 

to the sport we love was great 

but why did more schools not 

take up the offer to attend? 

There was lots of space 

available. 

A small grumble would be 

to question why the materials 

provided to schools did not 

explain the different athletics 

events and the different 

categories, or did not explain 

the etiquette of being at 

MARK SHEARMAN 

athletics events (for example, 

quiet at track starts, clapping if 

field athletes request it). 

The World Para Athletics 

Championships were summed 

up by one BASC member 

who wrote: “I am very much 

enjoying watching it. Such a 

lot of great achievements and 

sportsmanship, with added 

drama on some occasions. A 

great inspiration to any young 

disabled person.” 

Although I think the 

inspiration was for any sports 

person, not just disabled 

athletes. 

Now the IAAF World 

Championships are upon us. I 

am looking forward to just being 

in the stadium and hearing the 

roar of the sold-out sessions. 

I expect it to re-create the 

atmosphere of the London 

Olympics with the added 

sentimental runs of Mo Farah 

and Usain Bolt appearing in 

their last championships. Aside 

from these headlines, I think we 

are in a period of change and 

it will be fascinating to see new 

talent coming to the fore. 

The British Athletics Supporters 

Club is the official body for 

track and field fans in the UK. 

Members receive priority and 

discounted tickets or travel 

packages for meetings at 

home and abroad, plus its own 

magazine, Backtrack, which 

is published three times a 

year. To find out how to join, 

see basclub.org.uk or follow on 

Twitter @BASCsupporters and 

facebook.com/britathleticsclub 


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PERFORMANCE 

STARTING AFRESH 

MUCH criticism has 

been directed towards 

the current UKA and 

England Athletics coaching 

pathways since they 

were first implemented in 

2010. Courses that many 

perceive to be lengthy, 

expensive and far too 

general in terms of content 

have been widely cited as a 

reason for a decline in the 

numbers of new coaches. 

So, it will be interesting 

to see how the updated 

Athletics Coach 

qualification will be 

received following the 

initial pilot courses which 

commence in September. 

Unlike their predecessor, 

which required all 

prospective coaches to 

spend hours studying the 

intricacies of every event, 

the new set-up seems 

to offer the opportunity 

for earlier specialisation 

as you elect to focus on 

speed, throws, jumps or 

endurance. 

In other words, you 

won’t need to study the 

finer points of hurdle 

technique if your goal is 

to coach. 

PERFORMANCE 

GUIDE 

News round-up 

58 Sports science snippets 

60 Technique 

Learn the triple jump 

5 8 A T H L E T I C S W E E K L Y 

IOMECHANICS 

B 

researchers from 

Leeds Beckett 

University are to 

conduct the largest ever IAAFfunded 

project during the World 

Championships in London. Dr 

Athanassios Bissas, a principal 

lecturer in biomechanics, will 

lead a team of 40 people from 

the University’s Carnegie School 

of Sport in a study that will use 

40 cameras – including 25 highspeed 

cameras and 15 HD 

camcorders – to analyse 

performances in 17 different 

events. The team of analysts will 

work overnight to ensure a 

quick turnaround of the 

biomechanical assessments. 

For the sprints, video 

footage will be used to produce 

3D biomechanical data of 

variables such as stride length, 

stride frequency, ground 

contact times, joint angles and 

velocities and other important 

biomechanical variables while 

studies of distance runners 

will look at changes in fatigue 

during the 10,000m, foot-strike 

patterns in the marathon, and 

NEWS 

IAAF LAUNCHES MAJOR 

STUDY AT LONDON 2017 

TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF 17 EVENTS TO BE EVALUATED 

Technique analysed: 

40 cameras will record 

the action in London 

water jump hurdling technique 

in the steeplechase. 

The biomechanists will 

also be looking at velocities at 

various stages of the throwing 

events including release angles, 

release height, segmental 

coordination and other key 

factors while their analysis of 

jumping events will focus on 

take-off characteristics such as 

angles and velocities, approach 

kinematics, calculations of each 

phase in the triple jump, lean 

angles in the high jump, and 

approach velocity in the pole 

vault. 

Stage one of the IAAF 

funded biomechanics research 

project kicked off in June 

at the British Grand Prix of 

Race Walking 20km event 

in Roundhay Park, Leeds, 

which doubled as the British 

Team Trials for the IAAF World 


Dr Brian Hanley, a senior 

lecturer in Biomechanics at 

Leeds Beckett, was leading the 

trial on the walkers. 

GOOD RUNNERS MAKE BAD FIGHTERS 

IT’S LONG been proposed 

that you can achieve 

excellence in one aspect of 

athletic endeavour only at 

the expense of your aptitude 

for another. So it seems, 

at least in the case of 

laboratory mice. 

A study at the University 

of Utah has revealed that 

male mice better able to 

defend their territory through 

You’re a 

runner, 

not a 

fighter, 

study 

finds 

fighting off other males may 

have been stronger, but their 

running ability was lacking as 

they were found to burn more 

oxygen than less-successful 

fighters. 

Since humans also 

employ both endurancebased 

and aggression-based 

behaviours, the researchers 

suggested we are prone to 

similar trade-offs. 

MARK SHEARMAN


T-REX WAS IN 

IT FOR THE 

LONG RUN 

ANYONE who remembers seeing the film Jurassic 

Park would be forgiven for thinking the Tyrannosaurus 

Rex, one of the largest land predators ever to have 

lived, was a sprinter who chased down its prey at 

high speed. However, researchers at the University 

of Manchester have proven the T-Rex was anything 

but a pursuit predator as the dinosaur could not have 

broken into a run without its leg bones shattering. 

Publishing findings in the journal PeerJ, the 

scientists described how they created a detailed 

anatomical computer model of the seven-ton 

dinosaur and then calculated the various loads on 

its skeleton when it moved at different speeds and 

with a changing gait. Professor William Sellers from 

the university’s school of earth and environmental 

science said that “the running ability of T-Rex and 

other similarly giant dinosaurs has been intensely 

debated” for centuries. “Here we present a new 

approach that combines two separate biomechanical 

techniques to demonstrate that true running gaits 

would probably lead to unacceptably high skeletal 

loads in T.-Rex,” Sellars says. 

It’s more likely the T-Rex killed its prey by 

engaging in long, slow distance races with other 

less athletic dinosaurs, he concluded. 

Running gait of dinosaurs studied 

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WEIGHT TRAINING IMPAIRS ENDURANCE DEVELOPMENT 

FAILURE to schedule sufficient 

recovery following an intense 

weight training session could 

impact endurance development 

of athletes. 

That was the conclusion of 

sports scientists at James Cook 

University in Queensland who 

are now warning that fatigue 

from weight training can carry 

over to endurance training 

and the two activities must be 

better coordinated to maximise 

performance. 

Dr Kenji Dorma, a researcher in 

the College of Healthcare Sciences, 

and his team were examining 

the implications of concurrent 

training – ie a programme that 

includes resistance and endurance 

training on the same or separate 

days. Reporting in the journal 

Sports Medicine, Dorma said a 

review of evidence suggested a 

reduced performance by runners 

even several days after a single 

resistance training session. “The 

consensus is that concurrent 

training is beneficial for endurance 

development,” said Dorma. “But 

we found if appropriate recovery is 

not accounted for between each 

training mode, then it may impair 

endurance development.” 

The scientists were not 

suggesting an avoidance of 

concurrent training, just a greater 

awareness of its potential effects. 

“There are great benefits to it, but 

there can be some hidden dangers 

too,” said Dorma. “What we want 

to see is fatigue from resistance 

sessions minimised so there can 

be even more benefits gained.” 

Recovery times are entirely 

dependent on an individual, the 

mode and their point in a training 

cycle, he added. 


PERFORMANCE 

TECHNIQUE 

DISSECTING THE 

TRIPLE JUMP 

Kola Adedoyin: 

the technical and 

physical demands 

of the event 

should not be 

underestimated, 

he says 

SCIENTISTS SAY NO ATHLETE 

EMBODIES THE OLYMPIC MOTTO OF 

‘FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER’ MORE 

THAN THE TRIPLE JUMPER. ENGLAND 

INTERNATIONAL KOLA ADEDOYIN 

EXPLAINS MORE 


F ALL athletics 

O 

events, the triple 

jump is widely 

acknowledged by 

sports scientists as one of the 

most physically demanding. 

Research at the University of 

Iowa a few years ago showed 

that, at the landing between the 

hop and step phases, the force 

exerted by a triple jumper on 

the ground can be the 

equivalent of up to 22 times 

their bodyweight – just about 

the highest measured force that 

a human limb is exposed to 

during any intentional activity. 

According to Dr Sam Allen, 

a lecturer in biomechanics at 

Loughborough University, that’s 

the equivalent of an athlete 

briefly weighing 1.7 tonnes, 

and having to stand on one 

leg at that time. Writing on the 

website theconversation.com 

last year, Dr Allen explained how 

published papers have proven 

triple jumpers develop unusually 

thick thigh and shin bones to 

enable them to withstand the 

force of the event. 

But the event is as 

technically demanding as it is 

physically and errors in posture 

or execution can cost an athlete 

dearly. “Physics dictates that 

the higher in the air an athlete 

travels, the further they will jump 

– provided they don’t sacrifice 

their speed,” said Dr Allen. “So, 

the athlete needs to carefully 

balance the speed and the 

height of their jump, in order to 

perform really well. Because of 

this, technique is an extremely 

important aspect of the triple 

jump.” 

Add the mental fortitude that 

is required to come down the 

track at 9.5-10.5 metres per 

second, then to take off and 

land on the same leg and it 

becomes evident that bravery 

is essential to take up this 

event. So what does it take to 

perfect the stages of this most 

challenging event? 

The run-up 



The run-up 

• Speed is crucial. Dr Allen 

reported that the fastest 

athletes in the men’s and 

women’s events will hit the 

take off board at around 10.5 

and 9.5 metres per second 

respectively. These speeds 

are similar to those that will be 

seen in the long jump finals. 

A full length run up for high 

level athletes will typically be 

between 16 and 20 strides 

and the ultimate aim is to be 

at optimal speed and a good 

take off position at the board. 

• There are numerous ways 

to set up your run-up, the 

most consistent seen at elite 

level among world class 

athletes is set up in three 

phases: 

1. The Set Up: this is usually 

6-8 strides in duration starting 

off low with long, patient strides 

whilst gradually rising. 

2. The Middle Phase: this 

entails the athlete running tall 

with high knees and gathering 

momentum all the time 

3. The Attack: this phase of 

the run-up consists of 3-5 

strides that are shorter and 

with increased speed to allow 

for an optimal take off 

The Hop 

The hop phase is a key factor 

in determining the final distance 

of a triple jump. A study in 

the Journal of Biomechanics 

calculated that the longest hop 

phase in a triple jump measured 

prior to the research in 1993 

was 7.02m by Kenny Harrison 

of the USA – far enough to win 

most international competitions, 

yet performed in the middle of a 

3-phase movement. 

So how to perfect this 

phase? Compared to a long 

jump take-off, the triple jump 

is significantly a lot flatter. You 

will often hear coaches initially 

teach athletes to “run off the 

The hop 

board”. In my opinion, Jonathan 

Edwards is probably the best 

example of someone who 

perfected this phase. 

What happens after the 

take off is where it becomes 

tricky. The knee of the free (non 

take-off) leg punches through 

to around a 90 degree angle, 

before straightening and slowly 

pulling back. At the same time, 

the take off leg comes through 

slowly in a cycle motion to 

replace the free leg at the front. 

This avoids over rotation and 

slows down motion in the air. 

The Hop landing 

This is the point at which the 

force of 8-22 times your own 

weight is exerted on your joints 

and the rest of your body. It’s 

crucial as it is often the point 

that determines a good/average 

from a poor jump. The less 

momentum and speed you lose 

through the landings, the better 

your overall distance. The key 

to this is landing the hop in the 

best position – one that is close 

to the body. By this, I mean 

your hop leg gets closer to your 

body from in front and your 

free leg also gets closer to the 

body, ready to drive the knee 

forward into the step. Clean 

and aggressive landings are 

key to maintaining speed and 

propelling the body into the step 

position. Landing further out 

from the body (blocking) causes 

loss of momentum. 

The Step 

Typically, this is the smallest in 

distance and Dr Allan estimates 

it makes up “around 30% of the 

total distance” of a triple jump. 

Keeping balance and 

preparing for the jump phase 

is paramount for a good jump. 

Again the free leg knee is 

punched through to around 

90 degrees and the arms are 

moved back slowly behind 

the body to punch through 

aggressively for the final 

phase. An aggressive pull back 

action on the step landing will 

encourage a good final take off. 

The step 

The Jump 

Aside from the step phase, 

most athletes distribute their 

efforts evenly in the hop 

and jump. “It’s what’s called 

a balanced technique – or 

they choose a hop or jumpdominant 

technique, where one 

of these phases is substantially 

The jump 

longer than the other,” said 

Dr Allen. In his own studies 

at Loughborough, published 

last year in the journal Human 

Movement Science, Allen 

showed that “balanced or hopdominant 

techniques may be 

optimal.” However, he cites 

the case of the current men’s 

Olympic champion Christian 

Taylor – who came very close 

to beating Jonathan Edwards’ 

world record last year – as 

typically using a jump-dominant 

technique which underpins its 

importance. Similar to a long 

jump take off, you tend to see 

athletes punch their free leg 

with arms punched from behind 

through and up to create a 

hang technique before going 

into a leg shoot. 

n Kola Adedoyin is a 

two-time national indoor 

champion and a world 

junior finalist in the triple 

jump with a 16.61m PB. 

Currently coached by 

former Commonwealth 

champion Tosin Oke, he is 

aiming to qualify for the 

next Olympics. Follow him 

on Twitter and Instagram: 

@KolzTJ 


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 

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BOKOR-INGRAM 53.96. Ht4: 2 CHRIS 

TAPLIN 54.63; 5 MICHAEL OSUNSAMI 

56.14. Ht5: 3 PETER BENEDICKTER 

55.27. 1500: 1 F Gilbert (FRA) 4:07.81; 

3 SIMON COOMBES 4:10.80; 6 

MARK SYMES 4:15.36. 1500: Ht1: 1 

SYMES 4:22.97; 7 ROBERT DATNOW 

4:30.20. Ht2: 5 GRAHAM MOFFATT 

4:31.75. Ht3: 2 COOMBES 4:16.16. 

10,000: 1 M Molero-Eichwein (GER) 

32:26.67; 7 DAVID SMITH 34:45.66. 

110H: D1 (-1.3): 2 MARK ROBERTS 

17.55. 400H: 1 M Sunneborn (SWE) 

57.29; 2 NEAL EDWARDS 58.56; 4 

PETER BENEDICKTER 59.55. Ht1: 3 

EDWARDS 59.95. Ht2: 1 BENEDICKTER 

59.42. TJ: 1 Sunneborn 13.05/0.0; 

5 KEITH NEWTON 12.55/-1.2; 7 NEIL 

CARRINGTON 11.92/-1.1. SP: 1 T 

Northoff (GER) 15.93. WT/DT: 1 P Penaz 

(CZE) 15.87/45.93. Dec: 1 M Hoffer 

(SWE) 7424; 3 MARK ROBERTS 6233 

(13.13/0.7, 5.45/-0.5, 9.90, 1.55, 

59.21, 17.55/-1.3, 32.07, 3.50, 42.02, 

5:19.10) 

M50: 100 (0.0): 1 J Launey (FRA) 11.95; 

2 ANTHONY LEIGH 12.07; 3 DONALD 

BROWN 12.12. SF1 (-1.9): 5 MARK 

WHITE 12.30; 8 MALCOLM MCPHAIL 

12.56. SF2 (-0.2): 2 LEIGH 11.95; 3 

BROWN 12.06. Ht1 (3.2): 4 MCPHAIL 

12.41. Ht2 (1.0): 1 BROWN 12.05. 

Ht3 (0.3): 1 LEIGH 11.92. Ht4 (-1.8): 

4 WHITE 12.37. Ht5 (-1.5): 5 LINCOLN 

CAMPBELL 12.61. 400: Ht1: 2 LEEROY 

GOLDING 57.44; 4 BRETT DAVIS 58.19. 

Ht5: 1 MARK WHITE 55.32. 1500: 1 

M Kirt (EST) 4:15.64; 10 MATTHEW 

BLAND 4:29.95; 12 SIMON ANDERSON 

4:31.26. 1500: Ht1: 7 STEWART 

FOUNTAIN 4:45.21. Ht2: 2 ANDERSON 

4:30.07; 7 DEREK LARNER 4:39.62. 

Ht3: 1 BLAND 4:27.63; 7 BRIAN SCALLY 

4:33.27. 10,000: 1 P Vandebosch (BEL) 

32:55.56; 3 ANDREW LEACH 33:05.88. 

TJ: 1 O Skamantzouras (GRE) 12.72/- 

0.0; 12 PAUL HARRISON 10.92/-0.0. 

SP: 1 JOHN NICHOLLS 15.53. WT: 1 R 

Jossa (GER) 22.67. DT: r1: 4 LEEROY 

GOLDING 33.32. r2: 1 O Benczenleitner 

(HUN) 53.22. Dec: 1 C Schiefermayer 

(AUT) 7538; 13 EDDIE MCKENZIE 4290 

(13.74/1.5, 4.08/0.0, 11.03, 1.34, 

69.33, 19.86/1.4, 29.74, 2.40, 32.75, 

7:23.58) 

M55: 100 (-0.9): 1 G D’oro (ITA) 12.17; 

2 PAT LOGAN 12.20; 4 PAUL GUEST 

12.70; 8 RICKY HUSKISSON 13.01. 

Ht1 (0.1): 2 GUEST 12.51. Ht2 (0.3): 

1 LOGAN 12.33; 2 HUSKISSON 12.44. 

400: Ht1: 1 PETER ILO 58.35. Ht3: 

1 TENNYSON JAMES 60.22. Ht4: 1 

NICHOLAS GROOCOCK 59.03. 1500: 1 

GUY BRACKEN 4:22.28; 7 TONY TUOHY 

4:39.04; 8 GRANT NOBLE 4:43.47; 14 

MALCOLM DOWN 4:53.82. 

1500: Ht1: 1 BRACKEN 4:46.85; 3 

DOWN 4:49.28. Ht2: 3 TUOHY 4:50.54. 

Ht3: 2 NOBLE 4:48.16. 10,000: 1 

M Dziegielewski (POL) 33:56.26; 2 

BRACKEN 34:12.25. PV: 1 A Achtelik 

(GER) 3.90; 12 ALLAN LEIPER 3.20; 

14 WAYNE MARTIN 2.80. TJ: 1 JULIEN 

GITTENS 11.81/0.1. SP: 1 M Giacomini 

(ITA) 13.84; 4 ALLAN LEIPER 12.75; 9 

BOB BROADBRIDGE 11.94; 10 MICHAEL 

HAUSLER 11.90; 15 PETE JACKSON 

9.71. WT: 1 PHIL SPIVEY 19.99; 12 

JOHN MORELAND 13.03. DT: 1 T Jensen 

(DEN) 47.90; 5 MORELAND 43.45; 7 

BROADBRIDGE 41.53; 11 HAUSLER 

34.75. JT: 1 KEITH BEARD 55.33; 12 

HAUSLER 35.07. Dec: 1 H Gulbinovic 

(LTU) 6895;12 IAN COWELL 4792 

(13.82/1.0, 4.57/-0.9, 7.96, 1.37, 68.16, 

21.06/2.2, 24.47, 2.60, 25.70, 6:30.58) 

M60: 100 (-1.5): 1 STEVE PETERS 

12.39; 4 KEVIN BURGESS 12.85; 6 

SIMON BARRETT 13.11. SF1 (-0.4): 2 

BURGESS 12.86; 4 BARRETT 13.30; 

6 WALLY FRANKLYN 13.52. SF2 

(0.2): 1 PETERS 12.42; 7 CLEM LEON 

13.84. Ht1 (0.1): 1 PETERS 12.30; 

6 CLEM LEON 13.63. Ht2 (-0.2): 4 

BOB DOUGLAS 13.82. Ht3 (0.4): 2 

BARRETT 13.06; 3 FRANKLYN 13.46; 

6 ROBERT PHIN 13.71. Ht4 (0.6): 2 

BURGESS 12.96; 6 RODERICK DAVIES 

14.16. 400: Ht1: 1 PETERS 59.76; 2 IAN 

BROADHURST 61.29. Ht2: 1 DOUGLAS 

62.54. Ht3: 4 ALASTAIR DUNLOP 65.96. 

Ht4: 3 BARRETT 61.60; 5 CLEM LEON 

63.49. 1500: 1 L Heyde (BEL) 4:49.73; 

6 KEVIN ARCHER 4:56.21; 7 ALASTAIR 

DUNLOP 4:59.80. 1500: Ht1: 4 DUNLOP 

5:12.99. Ht2: 4 ARCHER 5:14.33. 

10,000: 1 L Pereira (POR) 36:46.44. 

300H: 1 BROADHURST 46.42; 4 IAN 

WILLOUGHBY 48.91. 

300H: Ht1: 3 IAN WILLOUGHBY 49.50. 

Ht2: 1 BROADHURST 48.27; 3 LEON 

50.45. Ht3: 4 BRIAN SLAUGHTER 

50.51. TJ: 1 A Tefre (NOR) 11.54/0.8. 

SP: r1: 11 JOHN BIRKETT 9.46. r2: 

1 K Westerlund (FIN) 15.58; 6 DAVID 

ABERNETHY 13.75. WT: V Manganas 

(GRE) 18.95; 2 GUY DIRKIN 18.28; 13 

IAN COOLEY 14.64. DT: r2: 1 J Solar 

(CZE) 50.08; 4 DAVID ABERNETHY 47.14; 

5 DIRKIN 45.60. Dec: 1 R Hepperle 

(GER) 7184; 2 BRIAN SLAUGHTER 7018 

(13.74/0.3, 4.59/0.0, 11.80, 1.43, 

63.71, 17.78/-0.3, 39.77, 2.80, 35.57, 

5:35.52) 

M65:100 (-0.2): 1 W Seidel (POL) 

13.26; 4 CHRIS MONK 13.47; 7 

CHRIS JIM KEECH 14.23. Ht1 (-0.7): 

1 MONK 13.28; 4 KEECH 14.12. Ht2 

(0.9): 4 DAVID HINDS 13.92. 1500: 1 

JOHN SKELTON 4:56.87; 8 STEWART 

THORP 5:19.46; 11 GRAHAM WEBSTER 

5:29.17. Ht1: 2 JOHN SKELTON 5:27.35. 

Ht2: 3 THORP 5:29.56; 4 WEBSTER 

5:29.61. 10,000: 1 X Otero (ESP) 

38:48.36; 2 DAVID OXLAND 39:46.15. 

300H: 1 A Mero (FIN) 51.95; 2 TONY 

WELLS 54.22; 4 ANDREW WEBB 56.18. 

Ht1: 3 WEBB 60.85. Ht2: 2 WELLS 

55.73. TJ: 1 S Drag (POL) 10.90/0.9. 

SP: 1 H Staeheli (SUI) 14.42. WT: 1 A 

Busterud (NOR) 21.67; 7 TERRY LALLEY 

15.08. DT: r1: 2 LALLEY 36.34. r2: 1 K 

Adamski (NOR) 47.45. Dec: 1 K Grissmer 

(GER) 8205 

M70: 100 (-0.9): 1 GLYN SUTTON 

13.37; 3 VICTOR NOVELL 13.83.100: 

Ht2 (-1.8): 1 SUTTON 14.01. Ht3 (-0.2): 

1 NOVELL 14.15. 400: Ht2: 2 ALBERT 

ELAND 71.50. 1500: 1 H Smeets (NED) 

5:26.14. 10,000: 1 DAVE BEATTIE 

43:32.59; 5 GEOFF NEWTON 44:38.93. 

300H: 1 T Troelsen (DEN) 51.59. TJ: 1 P 

Ahomaki (FIN) 10.57/-1.4.WT: 1 BARRY 

HAWKSWORTH 19.10. DT: 1 T Laska 

(POL) 42.89; 3 HAWKSWORTH 37.90. 

Dec: 1 A Warem (NOR) 7155 

M75 100 (-0.9): 1 M Arnd (GER) 14.29. 

Ht1 (0.3): 6 BARRY FERGUSON 16.32. 

400: Ht2: 3 ANTHONY TREACHER 

76.08. 1500: 1 J Esnault (FRA) 5:33.79. 

10,000: 1 V Basista (SVK) 43:43.40. 

300H: 1 G Mueller (GER) 53.99; 4 

FERGUSON 59.55. TJ: 1 J Tennasilm 

(EST) 8.66/-0.1. WT: 1 W Fettke (GER) 

15.72. DT: 1 K Arvidsson (SWE) 38.41; 

3 JOHN WATTS 36.61; 8 JAMES SLOAN 

27.56. JT: 1 J Tenhu (FIN) 44.28. Dec: 1 

J Mankovskis (LAT) 6056 

M80 100 (-1.9): 1 TONY BOWMAN 

15.49; 2 ALAN CARTER 16.02. Ht1 

(-1.4): 1 BOWMAN 16.19. Ht2 

(-2.7): 1 CARTER 16.30. 1500: 1 M 

Alonso Domingo (ESP) 5:58.62. 200H 

(-0.1): 1 J Haraldseid (NOR) 37.97; 2 

BOWMAN 38.84; 3 CARTER 39.15. 

PV: 1 K Vykydal (CZE) 1.80. TJ: 1 TONY 

BOWMAN 7.99/5.4. WT: 1 A Kargol 

(POL) 16.97. DT: 1 O Edlund (SWE) 

36.90; 4 WARWICK DIXON 29.98. JT: 1 

L Huchthausen (GER) 37.20 

M85: WT/DT: 1 L Saarinen (FIN) 

11.07/22.33. JT: 1 M Halme (FIN) 18.55 

M90: 100 (-5.1): 1 DALBIR SINGH DEOL 

22.13. DT: 1 W Reidinger (AUT) 17.01. 

JT: 1 LAURI HELLE 16.42 

Women: W35: 100 (-0.8): 1 E 

Jouberton (FRA) 12.53; 3 JOANNE 

FROST 12.74. Ht1 (-0.9): 1 FROST 

12.86. 1500: 1 ZOE DOYLE 4:43.46. 

10,000: 1 P Wlodarczyk (POL) 38:36.84. 

400H: 1 C Garcia Garzon (ESP) 62.60. 

5000W: 1 T Zucconi (ITA) 25:45.35; 

6 CAROLYN DYALL 28:35.21. PV: 

1 A Dunnink (NED) 3.40; 2 JEMMA 

EASTWOOD 3.30. LJ: 1 FROST 5.61/1.6. 

TJ: 1 S Kramer (GER) 12.38/-0.0. SP: 1 

M Carballo De La Cruz (ESP) 11.33. WT: 

1 M Will (GER) 12.33. DT: 1 I Reschke 

(GER) 44.37. Hep: 1 G Kreb (GER) 4867; 

2 LEANNE BUXTON 4834 (15.10/1.0, 

1.50, 11.19, 27.35/-1.8, 5.16/0.6, 

29.67, 2:29.36) 

W40 100 (-2.7): 1 J Balcerzak (POL) 

12.90; 2 SUSIE McLOUGHLIN 12.97. 

Ht1 (-1.9): 1 MCLOUGHLIN 12.77. 400: 

Ht1: 1 MCLOUGHLIN 60.14. Ht3: 2 

CLAIRE SMITH 62.56. 1500: 1 LOUISE 

RUDD 4:41.92; 7 MARY JAMES 4:59.94. 

10,000: 1 E Brych-Pajak (POL) 39:41.14; 

3 ANDREA BANKS 39:56.85. 400H: 1 

M Schott (GER) 62.26. PV: 1 I Jerkovic 

(CRO) 3.40; 4 CLAUDIA CUBBAGE 2.30. 

LJ: 1 H Monzillo (GER) 5.23/1.1; 2 FIONA 

DAVIDSON 5.21/0.2. TJ: 1 DAVIDSON 

11.39/-1.7. SP: 1 N Kant (GER) 14.40. 

WT: 1 ANDREA JENKINS 15.16. Hep: 1 

DIANA NORMAN 5642 (12.27/1.0, 1.59, 

10.86, 27.19/-1.1, 5.38/1.3, 30.16, 

2:20.79). 

W45 100 (-0.6): 1 H Martin (GER) 12.89; 

3 MICHELLE THOMAS 13.23. SF1 (0.3): 

2 THOMAS 13.28. SF2 (-1.3): 7 JULIET 

SIDNEY 14.12. Ht2 (0.1): 1 THOMAS 

13.46. Ht4 (-0.8): 4 SIDNEY 14.08. 

400: Ht1: 2 NINA ANDERSON 61.90. 

Ht2: 2 CLARE CONSTABLE 62.51. Ht3: 

2 JACQUI HODGSON 65.69. 1500: 1 

E Trost (GER) 4:51.92; 10 CAROLINE 

MAYERS 5:06.01. 10,000: 1 R Due- 

Andersen (DEN) 36:49.62. 400H: 1 E 

Baggiolini (ITA) 63.06. LJ: 1 U Alisch 

(GER) 5.18/1.1. TJ: 1 A Szirbucz (HUN) 

12.00/-0.1. SP: 1 C Kodel (GER) 11.99; 

5 SUE LAWRENCE 10.14; 10 CAMILLA 

THRUSH 9.08. WT: 1 1 M Tonizzo- 

Kosmala (LUX) 14.16; 7 LAWRENCE 

11.95. Hep: 1 T Schilling (GER) 5560 

W50 100 (-0.3): 1 E Colas (ESP) 13.14. 

SF1 (0.0): 6 MELANIE GARLAND 14.51. 

Ht2 (-1.0): 4 GARLAND 14.67. 1500: 1 

N Weijling-Dissel (NED) 4:42.11; 6 LISA 

WEBB 5:18.46. 10000: 1 K Steenhaut 

(BEL) 40:09.16. TJ: 1 V Krepkina (UKR) 

10.42/0.7; 4 JOANNE WILLOUGHBY 

10.17/0.7; 7 JAN TIMBERLAKE 9.25/1.6; 

9 MELANIE GARLAND 9.16/0.0. SP: 1 

J Mueller Schmidt (GER) 13.40. WT: 1 

G Mik (NED) 17.07. DT: 1 V Krafft (DEN) 

38.46. Hep: 1 P Bajeat (FRA) 5778; 

5 JAN TIMBERLAKE 3726 (15.72/0.9, 

1.30, 7.51, 33.05/2.5, 4.10/1.8, 26.01, 

3:51.22); 7 MARISE TAYLOR 3365 

(15.98/0.9, 1.18, 6.83, 32.29/2.5, 

3.46/1.0, 18.68, 3:18.91). 

W55 100 (-0.8): 1 F Viebahn (GER) 

13.94; 7 ANGELA SONN 15.23. Ht1 

(0.0): 3 SONN 15.05. Ht2 (1.6): 4 

ANGELA KELLY 15.54; 6 DENISE TIMMIS 

15.63. Ht3 (3.2): 4 CLARE ST. JOHN- 

COLEMAN 15.45. 1500: 1 M Gippert 

(GER) 5:12.72; 2 KAREN BROOKS 

5:20.92. 10,000: 1 T Schultz-Lorentzen 

(DEN) 40:44.72. TJ: 1 P Herrmann (GER) 

10.56/1.0; 10 AMANDA ROWLEY-JONES 

7.99/0.0; 11 ST. JOHN-COLEMAN 7.52/- 

0.6. JT: 1 H Herlevi-Malila (FIN) 37.63; 

14 HAZEL BARKER 18.42. Hep: 1 SUSAN 

FRISBY 5855 (13.22/0.4, 1.44, 9.02, 

29.41/-0.2, 4.61/0.7, 20.13, 2:58.40); 

7 GAYE CLARKE 4494 (14.44/2.0, 1.29, 

6.97, 31.87/-0.6, 3.97/-0.4, 14.79, 

3:16.55); 8 PENNY BUTCHER 4414 

(15.84/0.4, 1.29, 6.86, 34.43/-0.2, 

3.92/0.0, 18.10, 2:55.23); 9 JILLIAN 

ROGINSKI 4330 (15.96/0.4, 1.17, 8.53, 

33.36/-0.2, 3.81/0.0, 21.85, 3:11.30). 

W60 100 (-3.6): 1 HELEN GODSELL 

14.37; 3 CAROLINE POWELL 14.76; 

4 JOAN TRIMBLE 14.87. Ht1 (0.0): 1 

GODSELL 14.50. Ht2 (0.3): 1 POWELL 

14.72. Ht3 (0.2): 2 TRIMBLE 14.86. 

1500: 1 ANNA GARNIER 5:46.93; 6 

PHYLLIS HANDS 6:26.51. 10,000: 1 L 

Hellenbrand (GER) 45:00.28. TJ: 1 A 

Salminen (FIN) 9.49/-0.1. WT: 1 M Kylv 

(EST) 14.80; 11 SUE DASSIE 9.85. JT: 1 

A Jensen (DEN) 34.27. Hep: 1 CAROLE 

FILER 5657 (13.69/1.0, 1.31, 7.09, 

30.15/1.8, 4.43/1.9, 18.71, 3:17.64) 

W65 100 (-1.5): 1 A Micheletti (ITA) 

15.82. 100: Ht2 (-0.8): 2 ANNE NELSON 

16.75. 1500: 1 NANCY HITCHMOUGH 

5:48.31; 2 ROS TABOR 5:51.12. 10,000: 

1 L Hartenberger (GER) 51:17.46. PV: 

1 U Ritte (GER) 2.50. TJ: 1 L Casanovas 

(ESP) 7.74/0.3; 2 LYN AHMET 7.54/0.9. 

SP: 1 M Loghin (ROU) 13.08. WT: 1 E 

Nohl (GER) 14.43. DT: 1 I Faldager (DEN) 

28.63. Hep: 1 U Hiltscher (GER) 6010 

W70 100 (0.6): 1 I Meier (GER) 14.99. 

1500: 1 ANGELA COPSON 5:54.97. 

10,000: 1 COPSON 44:25.14. PV: 1 

K Foerster (GER) 2.00. Ht: 5 PATRICIA 

OAKES 2.88/4.9. TJ: 1 T Kokkonen (FIN) 

7.92/0.7; 4 PATRICIA OAKES 6.38/0.9. 

SP: 1 M Maier (AUT) 9.80. Ht: OAKES 

6.65. WT 1 A Van Anholt (NED) 13.91. 

DT: 1 J Brasser (NED) 24.86. Hep: 1 R 

Jonkers-Slegers (NED) 5359 

W75 100 (-0.5): 1 R Dijkman (NED) 

17.26; 3 MARY AXTELL 18.54. 1500: 1 

I Janhunen (FIN) 7:19.71. 10000: 1 M 

Flores (POR) 56:38.24. TJ: 1 R Dijkman 

(NED) 7.94/-0.4. DT: 1 K Illgen (GER) 

20.91; 6 CAROLE DERRIEN 16.89. Hep: 

1 SEIJA SARIO 4022 

W80 1500: 1 D Leclerc (FRA) 8:12.38. 

WT: 1 E Mikola (FIN) 9.53; 5 BARBARA 

DUNSFORD 5.83 

W85: SP: 1 ROSA PEDERSEN 6.96 

CROSS COUNTRY, Aarhus, July 30 

M35 men: 4Km: 1 J Trebbien Andersen 

(DEN) 10:59; 10 T MacDowall 12:06; 12 

C Pearson 12:09; 13 D Kane 12:32; 14 A 

Chklar (13:11; 16 M Alden 13:59 

M40: 4km: 1 S De La Fuente Martin 

(ESP) 11:09; 15 J McLoughlin 12:46 

M45: 4km: 1 De La Fuente Fernandez 

(ESP) 11:05; 11 D Smith 12:12; 12 G 

Moffatt 12:30; 16 G Glendinning 12:58 

M50: 4km: 1 V Brignone (ITA) 11:41; 32 

P Parkin 15:12; 33 A Roberts 15:13 

M55: 4km: 1 M Dziegielewski (POL) 

11:50; 7 P Jeggo 13:31; 11 C Oxlade 

13:59; 14 S Doxey 14:23; 16 S Pannell 

14:34 

M60: 4km: 1 R Dryps (POL) 13:15; 13 A 

Newman 14:57; 19 D Proffitt 16:16; 20 

A Murray 16:38; 23 K Dillon 20:49 

M65: 4km: 1 R Di Marco (ITA) 13:40; 

2 S Thorp 14:13; 3 D Oxland 14:17; 7 

M Mann 15:41; 13 I Snow 16:54; 16 A 

Jenkins 18:36 

M70: 4km: 1 O Van Noten (BEL) 15:07; 

4 G Newton 16:00; 8 B Roberts 18:43 

M75: 4km: 1 V Basista (SVK) 15:49 

M80: 4km: 1 B Pereira (POR) 17:09 

M85: 4km: 1 H Mueller (GER) 23:21 

W35 women: 4km: 1 C Artuso (ITA) 

13:20; 6 K Wellam 14:27; 10 D Chklar 

(nee Kennedy) 16:43 

W40: 4km: 1 E Brych-Pajak (POL) 

13:26; 3 C Thompson 13:54 

W45: 4km: 1 J Stamp (IRL) 13:24; 9 L 

Mill 17:13; 10 J Paterson 19:16 

W50: 4km: 1 K Steenhaut (BEL) 13:41; 

4 S McDonald 14:13; 5 N Skilton 14:23; 

12 E Hausler 15:45; 17 M Bowyer 18:26 

W55: 4km: 1 C Pereira (POR) 15:03; 4 

D Farmer 16:36; 6 F Bishop 17:10; 9 W 

Doxey 21:11 

W60: 4km: 1 L Pospeshina (SWE) 15:25; 

2 J Radford 15:54; 4 P Hands 16:46; 11 

S Boyman 18:58; 13 S Blunt 21:18 

W65: 4km: 1 R Tabor 16:02; 8 S James 

19:26 

W70: 4km: 1 A Copson 15:33; 6 P 

Gallagher 19:06; 10 L Bowcott 20:12 

W75: 4km: 1 I Janhunen (FIN) 19:24; 5 

B Stracey 22:39 

W80: 4km: 1 E Hodapp (GER) 22:14 

AZERBAIJAN 

Baku June 9 

Men: 200 (0.3): 1 S Yaqoob (BRN) 20.84 

BELGIUM 

Merksem, 29 July 

Men: 400: B: 2 KEVIN HODGSON 48.97. 

800: 1 C Simotwo (KEN) 1:46.20; 7 

CHARLIE GRICE 1:48.85. 1500: 1 J 

Motsau (RSA) 3:39.28; 2 H Carson 

(NZL) 3:39.52; 4 JAKE HEYWARD (U20) 

3:42.12. B: 2 GUY SMITH 3:46.40; 3 

JONATHAN TOBIN 3:46.99; 6 JONATHAN 

COOK 3:48.74; 7 JACK GOOCH 3:49.0. 

D: 5 SAMUEL MAHER 3:52.87; 7 MIKE 

CUMMINGS 3:54.73. 5000: 1 N Kimeli 

(KEN) 13:23.55; 2 W Ledama (KEN) 

13:24.23. 110H (1.0): 1 D Carter 

(JAM) 13.55. DT: 1 P Milanov 64.96; 

2 C Wright (JAM) 61.04. JT: 5 DANIEL 

BAINBRIDGE (U20) 59.84. Women: 

400: r1: 2 YASMIN LIVERPOOL (U20) 

55.50. 800: r2: 9 J Monteiro (Chelm/ 

POR) 2:09.68. 1500: 1 L Tsernov (EST) 

4:14.05; 3 LENNIE WAITE 4:16.17. SP: 1 

M Boekelman (NED) 18.66 

BOSNIA- 

HERZEGOVINA 

Sokolac, July 29 

Men: SP: 1 M Pezer 21.40 (rec) 

Zenica, June 7 

Men: 800: 1 A Tuka 1:47.01. SP: 1 S 

Zunic (CRO) 21.42; 2 H Alic 20.82. JT: 1 

D Mileusnic (BOS) 80.08. Women: HT: 1 

A Tavernier (FRA) 69.00 

CZECH 

REPUBLIC 

Nove Mesto Nad Metuji, July 29 

TOMAS STANEK twice threw 21.65m 

in the shot. 

Men: 200 (0.1): 1 R Guliyev (TUR) 20.40; 

2 J Volko (SVK) 20.66. 110H (-0.3): 1 

P Svoboda 13.51. LJ: 1 R JuSka 8.02. 

SP: 1 T Stanek 21.65; 2 L Prasil 20.01. 

Women: PV: 1 J Ptacníkova 4.52. HT: 1 

K Safrankova 70.40 

Cheb, July 27 

IN COLD conditions into a headwind, 

Ramil Guliyev impressed with a 20.25 

200m win, seven metres ahead of 400m 

star Pavel Maslak. 

World 400mH champion Zuzana 

Hejnova won the 300m hurdles in 38.98, 

which equates to sub-52 pace for the full 

distance and shoiw she will put a good 

defence in London. 

Men: 60 (-1.2): 1 R Guliyev (TUR) 6.78; 

2 J Volko (SVK) 6.78. 150 (-0.8): 1 Volko 

15.33. 200 (-1.2): 1 Guliyev 20.25; 2 P 

Maslak 20.99. 300H: 1 M Brož 36.24. 

Women: 300H: 1 Z Hejnova 38.98 

Tabor, July 25 

Women: JT: 1 B Spotakova 62.62 

FINLAND 

Orimattila, July 29 

Men: DT: 1 G Kanter (EST) 61.40. JT: 

1 M Kirt (EST) 86.06; 2 K Walcott (TTO) 

85.22; 3 T Pitkämäki 81.96 


RESULTS 

OVERSEAS 

ECUADOR 

Cuenca , May 20 

Women: TJ: 1 L Maria Zaldivar Rojas 

(CUB) 14.05 

FRANCE 

Castres, July 26 

Men: 100 (1.0): 3 KYLE DE ESCOFET 

10.37; 7 AIDAN SYERS 10.53. Ht1 (2.9): 

2 DE ESCOFET 10.36; 3 SYERS 10.45. 

110H (1.2): 1 JAKE PORTER 13.68. Ht1 

(2.7): 1 PORTER 13.79. LJ: r1: 6 E Ewulo 

(WGEL/NGR) 7.30/1.4. Women TJ: 4 

CHIOMA MATTHEWS (W35) 12.77/1.5 

Salon De Provence, June 7 

Men: DT: 1 L Djouhan 63.92 

Angouleme, June 7 

Men: 200 (0.2): 1 B Bassaw 20.68 

GERMANY 

Berlin, July 29 

Men: 10km: 40 RICHARD WHITE 33:21. 

Women: 10km: 36 SARAH DAVIS (W50) 

40:28 

Böblingen, July 27 

Men: U18: 400: 1 WILLIAM DOYLE 

(U17) 51.27. Women: 100: Ht1 (0.3): 

1 SOPHIE SIRIWARDENA (U17) 12.70. 

U16: 100 (-0.6): 1 LAYLA ZUILL (U15) 

12.75. Ht2 (0.2): 1 ZUILL 12.83200: r2 

(-1.2): 1 ZUILL (U15) 26.01. 4x100: r2: 2 

GLENROTHES U17 52.27 

Mannheim, July 22 

ADAM GEMILI showed he is returning well 

from injury with a 10.18 win over 100m. 

Men: 100 (1.1): 1 ADAM GEMILI 10.18; 

2 H Paulina (NED) 10.34. H3 (2.4): 

1 GEMILI 10.24. Women: 400: 1 M 

Ghafoor (NED) 52.42 

Rhede, July 29 

Men: 100 (0.8): 1 R Shields (JAM) 

10.21; 2 L Sesele (RSA) 10.29. 200 

(0.3): 1 Sesele 20.64; 2 L Bonevacia 

(NED) 20.66; 3 Shields 20.83. 3000: 1 

ROBERT BOUGH 8:23.88. Women: 100 

(1.6): 1 A Foster (IRL) 11.47 (11.66/1.5 

ht). 400H: 1 C Salterberg 56.97. TJ: 1 L 

Zaldívar (CUB) 13.92 

Leverkusen, July 27 

Men: PV: 1 M Vloon 5.76 (Jump-off); 2 

S Barber (CAN) 5.71; 3 A Art (BEL) 5.71 

(rec); 4 E John Obiena (PHI) 5.61; 5 K 

Dilla 5.61; 6 B Kanda Lita Baehre (U20) 

5.61. Women: PV: 1 M Meijer (SWE) 

4.51; 2 A Roloff 4.51; 3 F Smets (BEL) 

4.46 (rec); 4 K Bauer 4.41 

Wiesbaden, July 27 

Women: LJ: A Wester 6.60/2.0 

German Universities 

Championships, Kassel, May 25 

Men: JT: 1 A Hoffman 84.02. Women: 

TJ: 1 N Eckhardt 14.05/-0.8 

Kassel, May 25 

Men: 1500: 6 ROBERT BOUGH 3:54.50 

Neubrandenburg, May 27 

Women: DT: 1 C Vita 64.45 

GREECE 

Greek Under-23 Championships, 

Larisa, July 29-30 

LONDON-BOUND javelin thrower Ioánnis 

Kiriazís won with a throw of 86.44m. 

Men: JT: I Kiriazís 86.44 

HUNGARY 

Hungarian Championnships, 

Szekesfehervar, June 9 

Men: 100 (0.9): 1 D Szabo 10.49. 

Women: 100 (0.3): K Sorok 11.64. 

1500: 1 V Gyurkes 4:13.52 

IRELAND 

Dublin, July 23 

Men: 10km: 6 LINDSAY GORDON 32:03; 

30 CONOR CURRAN (M40) 34:54; 34 

DAVID CONLIFFE (M40) 35:28. Women: 

10km: 1 G Ganiel (NBH/IRL, W40) 35:34 

ITALY 

Orvieto, Jul 28 

Men: 400H: 1 M Lambrughi 49.76 

JAPAN 

Tokyo, July 22 

THE oldest Japanese record on the books 

UK leaders – 2017 

fell as Yuji Tsutsumi threw 60.37m to 

beat the Japanese discus record of 38 

years set by Kiyotaka Kawasaki with 

60.22m in 1979. 

Men: DT: 1 Y Tsutsumi 60.37 (rec) 

Tokyo, July 23 

Men: 100 (0.6): 1 Y Kiryu 10.05; 2 I 

Takeda 10.33. 400H: 1 Y Ishida 49.92. 

Women: 100H (2.1): 1 J Hye-Lim (KOR) 

13.15 

KAZAKHSTAN 

Kazakhstan Championships, 

Almaty, June 12-13 

Men: 200: 1 V Grigoryev 20.79. SP: 

1 I Ivanov 20.00. Women: 200: 1 O 

Safronova 23.17 

KYRGHIZSTAN 

Bishkek, June 17/18 

Women: 100 (1.0)/200 (0.0): 1 O 

Safronova (KAZ) 11.37/23.14 

LUXEMBOURG 

Schifflange, July 30 

Men: 100: r2 (1.2): 1 S Effah (CAN) 

10.27; 2 E Clarke 10.28; 5 AIDAN SYERS 

10.55. Ht2 (0.2): 1 SYERS 10.73. LJ: 3 

ALEX FARQUHARSON 7.32/-0.5; 4 PAUL 

OGUN 7.20/-0.3; 5 E Ewulo (WGEL/NGR) 

7.18/-0.9. DT: 1 C Wright (JAM) 60.38. 

Women: 1500: 2 STEPHANIE BARNES 

4:27.89 

NORWAY 

Kristiansand, June 7 

Women: JT: 1 S Borge 61.72 

POLAND 

Wlodarczyk 82.87m world lead 

OLYMPIC hammer champion Anita 

Wlodarczyk set a world lead of 82.87m 

to miss her own world record by just 11 

centimetres with the second-best throw 

in history. 

Michal Haratyk won the men’s shot 

MEN 

WOMEN 

9.98 CJ Ujah 100m 11.09 Desiree Henry 

20.04 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 200m 22.69 Desiree Henry 

44.99 Matthew Hudson-Smith 400m 51.67 Emily Diamond 

1:44.99 Elliot Giles 800m 1:58.01 Lynsey Sharp 

3:33.61 Chris O’Hare 1500m 4:00.35+ Laura Muir 

3:53.34 Chris O’Hare Mile 4:18.03 Laura Muir 

7:35.15 Mo Farah 3000m 8:26.41i Laura Muir 

13:00.70 Mo Farah 5000m 14:49.12i Laura Muir 

27:12.09 Mo Farah 10,000m 32:04.63 Beth Potter 

13:46 Chris O’Hare 5km 15:39 Lauren Howarth 

28:36 Andy Vernon 10km 31:56 Eilish McColgan 

60:00 Callum Hawkins Half-Marathon 72:11 Lily Partridge 

2:14:49 Josh Griffiths Marathon 2:29:06 Alyson Dixon 

8:30:06 Rob Mullett 3000SC 9:36.75 Rosie Clarke 

13.14 Andy Pozzi 100/110m hurdles 12.75 Tiffany Porter 

48.77 Jack Green 400m hurdles 54.36 Eilidh Doyle 

2.31 Robbie Grabarz High jump 1.96 Morgan Lake 

5.51 Joel Leon Benitez (U20) Pole vault 4.81 Holly Bradshaw 

8.18 Greg Rutherford Long jump 6.97i Lorraine Ugen 

16.81 Nathan Fox Triple jump 13.82 Shara Proctor 

19.00 Scott Lincoln Shot 17.47 Rachel Wallader 

62.91 Nick Percy Discus 62.15 Jade Lally 

77.51 Nick Miller Hammer 73.97 Sophie Hitchon 

77.47 Matti Mortimore Javelin 53.64 Laura Whittingham 

8163 Ashley Bryant Dec/Heptathlon 6691 Katarina Johnson-Thompson 

38.08 GBR 4x100m 44.17 GBR U20 

3:03.65 GBR U23 4x400m 3:28.72 GBR 

80:58 Tom Bosworth 20kmW 1:32:33 Gemma Bridge 

4:04:16 Dominic King 50kmW - (nb + = intermediate time) 

with 21.88m PB while Piotr Malachowski 

won the discus with 67.68m. Pawel 

Fajdek’s 81.85m won the men’s hammer. 

Men: SP: 1 M Haratyk 21.88; 2 K 

Bukowiecki 21.40; 3 J Szyszkowski 

20.25. DT: 1 P Małachowski 67.68; 2 R 

Urbanek 65.01; 3 B Stój 61.52. HT: 1 P 

Fajdek 81.85; 2 W Nowicki 79.38; 3 M 

Lomnický (SVK) 74.48. JT: 1 M Krukowski 

80.60; 2 H Chmielak 80.20. Women: 

SP: 1 P Guba 17.67. HT: 1 A Włodarczyk 

82.87; 2 J Fiodorow 75.09 

PORTUGAL 

Leiria, July 30 

Men: DT: 1 M Ortega (COL) 65.81; 2 L 

Martínez (ESP) 60.90; 3 F Belo 60.22; 

6 ZANE DUQUEMIN 59.01. HT: 3 OSIAN 

JONES 66.52; 4 JAC PALMER 64.43; 7 

EDWARD JEANS (U20) 55.81. U18: HT: 

1 BAYLEY CAMPBELL 71.25; 2 JACK 

LAMBERT 55.67. Women: DT: 1 D 

Caballero (CUB) 67.04; 2 F Martins (BRA) 

62.30; 3 I Rodrigues 62.24; 6 KIRSTY 

LAW 54.71; 8 SHADINE DUQUEMIN 

51.67. HT: 1 CARYS PARRY (W35) 63.52; 

4 ALICE BARNSDALE (U20) 54.33; 5 

ANNA PURCHASE (U20) 54.15; 6 KATIE 

HEAD (U20) 53.56; 7 AMBER SIMPSON 

(U20) 53.53; 8 KATIE LAMBERT (U20) 

53.53; 9 OLIVIA STEVENSON (U20) 

53.47. JT: 4 BETHAN REES 45.46. 3kg: 

HT: 1 FFION PALMER 57.31 

Leiria, July 30 

Men SP: 1 T Arnaudov 20.71; 2 T Nedow 

(CAN) 20.22; DT: A: 1 M Ortega (COL) 

65.60; 2 L Martínez (ESP) 61.35; 3 F 

Belo 61.34; 4 F Casañas (ESP) 60.31; 

5 DUQUEMIN 60.13. HT: 1 T Makhethe 

(RSA) 70.29; 2 JONES 70.00; 4 PALMER 

65.24. U20: HT: 1 1 D Raba (HUN) 

75.52; 2 CAMPBELL 66.29; 3 JEANS 

65.28; 5 JACOB ROBERTS 61.03. 

Women: DT: A: 1 D Caballero (CUB) 

66.51; 2 I Rodrigues 62.63; 3 F Martins 

(BRA) 60.19; 6 KIRSTY LAW 54.19; 

8 SHADINE DUQUEMIN 49.42. HT: 2 

PARRY 63.24. JT: 3 BETHAN REES (U20) 

48.00. U20: HT: 1 BARNSDALE 56.03; 

2 LAMBERT 55.10; 3 HEAD 55.02; 4 

SIMPSON 54.35; 5 PURCHASE 54.22; 

6 STEVENSON 52.77; 7 FFION PALMER 

47.80 

RUSSIA 

Russian Championships, 

Zhukovskiy, July 28-30 

HUGE London favourite Mariya Lasitskene 

showed a rare dip below two metes as 

she achieved 1.96m to win the women’s 

high jump. 

Former Olympic high jump champion 

Ivan Ukhov could only finish fourth with a 

2.23m leap as Danyil Lysenko won thanks 

to a 2.33m effort. 

There were quality long jump wins 

for Yelena Sokolova, with 6.85m, and 

Artyom Primak with 8.22m. Primak 

also won the triple jump with a 17.17m 

winning effort. 

The women’s 800m was won by 

Aleksandra Gulyaeva in 1:58.34 while 

Yelena Korobkina won the 1500m in 

4:04.90. 

Valeriy Pronkin achieved a 79.32m 

PB to win the hammer and Vladimir Nikitin 

won a rare 1500m and 5000m double in 

impressive style in 3:37.14 and 13:29.40 

respectively. 

Men: 100: 1 D Ogarkov 10.45. 200: 1 A 

Yefimov 21.03. 400: 1 P Ivashko 46.03. 

800: 1 K Tolokonnikov 1:47.75. 1500: 

1 V Nikitin 3:37.14; 2 Y Kunts 3:40.10. 

5000: 1 V Nikitin 13:29.40. 3000sc: 

1 M Yakushev 8:19.19; 2 V Bakharev 

8:24.22; 3 N Chavkin 8:26.25; 4 A 

Farnosov 8:26.56; 5 I Lukyanov 8:29.78. 

400H: 1 T Chalyy 49.55; 2 P Agafonov 

49.83; 3 A Skorobogatko 49.83. HJ: 1 

D Lysenko 2.32; 2 I Ivanyuk 2.26; 4 I 

Ukhov 2.23. PV: 1 T Morgunov 5.65. LJ: 

1 A Primak 8.22; 2 K Sukharev 8.14; 3 S 

Polyanskiy 8.13w; 4 R Kutuyev 8.10. TJ: 

1 A Primak 17.17; 2 D Sorokin 16.95; 3 

D Chizhikov 16.85; 4 L Adams 16.78. SP: 

1 A Lesnoy 21.31; 2 M Afonin 20.83. DT: 

1 A Khudyakov 63.13; 2 G Sidorchenko 

61.48; 3 V Butenko 61.40; 4 N Sedyuk 

60.05. HT: 1 V Pronkin 79.32; 2 D 

Lukyanov 75.85; 3 A Sokirskiy 75.81; 4 Y 

Korotovskiy 74.42. JT: 1 D Tarabin 80.40; 

2 V Iordan 80.39. Women: 100 (0.2): 

1 K Sivkova 11.43. 200: 1 A Polishchuk 

23.36. 400: 1 K Aksyonova 51.62; 2 

Y Renzhina 51.70. 800: 1 A Gulyayeva 

1:58.34; 2 S Uloga 1:59.20; 3 K Savina 

1:59.97; 4 T Markelova 2:01.33; 5 Y 

Murashova 2:01.45; 6 Y Kupina 2:01.56. 

1500: 1 Y Korobkina 4:04.90; 2 A Kalina 

4:05.71; 3 Y Murashova 4:07.23; 4 

O Nitsina 4:09.27. 5000: 1 Y Ishova 

15:41.59. 3000sc: 1 Y Sokolenko 

9:37.53; 2 N Vlasova 9:41.06; 3 N 

Aristarkhova 9:46.79; 4 N Leontyeva 

9:52.46; 5 L Lebedeva 9:52.51. 400H: 1 

V Khramova 55.75. HJ: 1 M Lasitskene 

1.96; 2 S Shkolina 1.94; 3 I Gordeyeva 

1.92; 4 K Korolyova 1.90. PV: 1 A Zhuk- 

Krasnova 4.60; 2 O Mullina 4.55. LJ: 1 

Y Sokolova 6.85; 2 S Biryukova 6.68; 3 

A Misochenko 6.65. TJ: 1 D Nidbaykina 

14.21; 2 V Prokopenko 14.00; 3 A 

Krylova 13.97; 4 I Gumenyuk 13.92. 

SP: 1 A Avdeyeva 18.05; 2 A Bugakova 

17.79; 3 Y Solovyova 17.62. DT: 1 Y 

Panova 60.59. HT: 1 Y Tsareva 70.30. JT: 

1 V Rebrik 61.40 

SPAIN 

Pamplona, July 27 

Men: 800: 1 1 S Ordoñez 1:45.28. PV: 

1 A Vallés 5.60. Women: PV: 1 Y Silva 

(CUB) 4.60 

SWEDEN 

Karlstad, July 25 

DANIEL STAHL won the discus with a 

67.26m throw. 

Men: 800: A: 1 W Tarbei (KEN) 1:45.04; 

2 A Kramer 1:45.13 (rec); 3 ANDREW 

OSAGIE 1:46.05; 5 DANIEL ROWDEN 

1:46.64. B: 5 SEAN MOLLOY 1:49.32. 

400H: 1 A Samba (QAT) 49.71; 2 

L Campbell (GER) 49.86. LJ: A: 1 

M Tornéus 7.67; 2 FERON SAYERS 

7.40/1.3. DT: 1 D Ståhl 67.26; 2 N 

Arrhenius 62.80; 3 D Wrobel (GER) 

61.20; 4 S Pettersson 60.65. Women: 

800: 1 A Efraimson (USA) 2:01.39. 

100H (-2.8): 1 JESSICA HUNTER 13.96. 

3000SC: 1 M Lawrence (USA) 9:34.94; 4 

K O’Flaherty (Newc/IRL, W35) 10:00.85. 

HJ: 1 E Kinsey 1.89; 2 J Graumann 

(GER) 1.89;5 NIKKI MANSON 1.81. PV: 

1 A Bengtsson 4.42. LJ: A: 4 REBECCA 

CHAPMAN 6.03/1.0 

Hassleholm, July 29 

THE world high jump leader Mutaz Essa 

Barshim was again over 2.30m 

Men: HJ: M Barshim (QAT) 2.30. 

Women: SP: Roos 18.14 

SWITZERLAND 

Swissalpine Marathon K78, Davos, 

July 29 

Men: 78km: 4 JON ELLIS 6:47:51. 

Women: 78kmK: 2 SARAH MORWOOD 

8:10:26 

Bern, July 26 

Women: 3000: 1 ELLA REVITT (U20) 

10:00.67 

USA 

Athens, July 21 

Men: SP: 1 T Walsh (NZL) 22.04; 2 R 

Whiting 21.65 


TRACK & FIELD 


TRACK & FIELD 

JULY 30 

ALDER VALLEY GIRLS’ LEAGUE, 

Aldershot 

U17 women: 100: A: 1 A Babalola 

(WSEH) 12.7. 300: A: 1 A Clare (BMH) 

41.5. 800: A: 1 R Bullock (BMH) 2:16.0. 

1500: A: 1 I Mannion (BMH) 4:53.8. 80H: 

A: 1 H Thurgood (Ports) 12.2. 4x100: 

1 WSEH 51.8; 2 BMH 52.5. HJ: A: 1 J 

Smith (WSEH) 1.60. PV: A: 1 J Presho 

(WSEH) 3.15. B: 1 K Nowers (WSEH) 

2.71. LJ: A: 1 M Wilton (Ports) 5.33. TJ: 

A: 1 D Karas (WSEH) 10.66; 2 I Mannion 

(BMH) 10.53. B: 1 F Macleod (WSEH) 

10.41. SP: A: 1 S Vincent (Ports) 14.62. 

B: 1 H Cubbage (Ports) 12.35. DT: A: 1 

H Cubbage (Ports) 39.65. B: 1 C Thomas 

(Ports) 30.45. HT: A: 1 C Thomas (Ports) 

46.80. B: 1 H Cubbage (Ports) 45.68. 

JT: A: 1 J Smith (WSEH) 39.84; 2 H 

Thurgood (Ports) 35.34 

U15: 100: A: 1 I Pinder (BMH) 12.9. 300: 

A: 1 I Pinder (BMH) 42.7. 75H: A: 1 A 

Masquelier (WSEH) 12.4. 4x100: 1 BMH 

52.7. PV: A: 1 P Herbert (Ports) 2.50. 

LJ: A: 1 E Sprake (Ports) 4.92. DT: A: 1 

O Manchester (C’ley) 29.93. HT: A: 1 F 

Williams (WSEH) 46.56; 2 O Manchester 

(C’ley) 33.06. B: 1 L Kendall (C’ley) 

29.15. ns: 1 S Funnell (C’ley) 25.43 

U13: 75: A: 1 A Cole (BMH) 10.0; 2 

S Reece (AFD) 10.4. 150: A: 1 A Cole 

(BMH) 20.1; 2 S Reece (AFD) 20.9; 3 S 

Blake (Ports) 21.0. B: 1 S Harris (AFD) 

21.6. ns1: 1 C Ramsay (Ports) 22.0. 

600: A: 1 S Richardson (BMH) 1:44.9; 2 

O East (Ports) 1:45.0; 3 C Borgars (AFD) 

1:49.7. 1200: A: 1 S Harris (AFD) 3:58.8; 

2 S Newsom (Ports) 4:13.3. B: 1 H Locke 

(Ports) 4:13.5; 2 H Woolley (AFD) 4:17.4. 

ns: 1 R Kelly (AFD) 4:11.1; 2 K Webb 

(AFD) 4:13.2. 4x100: 1 Ports 55.6; 3 

BMH 57.5. LJ: A: 1 A Cole (BMH) 4.77. 

SP: A: 1 G Jones (Ports) 11.07 

CHESHIRE LEAGUE, Ashton under 

Lyne 

MATCH: 1 Crewe & Nantwich 662; 2 

Wrexham AAC 485; 3 East Cheshire 

Harriers 479; 4 Salford Met 314; 5 Vale 

Royal 242; 6 Halton & Frodsham 96 

Men: 100: A: 1 L McGivern (Wrex) 11.0. 

SP: A: 1 S Warwick (Wrex, M45) 10.59 

U15: 200: A: 1 B Basten (C&N) 23.8. JT: 

A: 1 E Odunaiya (Wrex) 44.72 

Women: 100: B: 2 W Andrews (E Ches, 

W45) 13.9. DT: A: 2 W Valentine (C&N, 

W50) 20.29 

U15: 100: A: 1 M Vernon (E Ches) 12.9 

U13: 100: A: 1 G Donald (C&N) 13.2; 2 

P Bostock (Wrex) 13.5. 4x100: 1 C&N 

56.5; 2 Salf M 56.6 

ATHLETICS IRELAND LEAGUE 

PREMIER DIVISION, Belfast 

Men: 100 (0.0): 1 L Morgan (IRL) 10.87; 

2 M Smyth (Raheny S) 10.92. 400: 1 

B Murphy (IRL) 48.20; 2 K Kelly (IRL) 

48.65; 3 A Meldon (IRL) 49.87. 800: 1 

K Kelly (IRL) 1:54.17. 1500: 1 R Owens 

(Clon) 3:58.64; 2 P Mcgabhann (DSD) 

3:59.72. 5000: 1 F Sittuk (Raheny S) 

15:05.50; 2 J Eves (Bed C) 15:06.48; 3 

A O’brien (Clon) 15:17.78. 110H (0.0): 

1 M Behan (Crusaders A.C.) 14.34. 

400H: 1 J Harvey (NEB) 54.44; 2 T 

Crowe (Clon) 55.04. 3000SC: 1 F Sittuk 

(Raheny S) 9:36.42. 3000W: 1 A Carroll 

(Kildare County) 14:14.32. 4x100: 1 

Crusaders 42.73; 2 Clon 43.06; 3 DSD 

43.86. 4x400: 1 Crusaders A.C. 3:19.59. 

PV: 1 D Donegan (IRL, M40) 4.20; 2 C 

Bermingham (Raheny S) 4.00. LJ: 1 A 

Mcmullan (Crusaders A.C.) 7.46; 2 C 

Burke (Raheny S) 7.13; 3 K Marks (Clon) 

7.07. SP: 1 J Kelly (IRL) 16.89. DT: 1 C 

Quirke (Crusaders A.C.) 52.59. HT: 1 S 

Galligan (Clon) 56.95. JT: 1 R Gunning 

(Clon) 58.08; 2 D Kearns (IRL, U20) 55.83 

Women: 100 (-0.9): 2 J Boyle (IRL, 

U20) 12.45. 200 (-1.0): 1 M O’reilly 

(Dundrum South Dublin) 24.95. 400: 

1 S Denny (IRL) 53.91; 2 C Mooney 

(Kildare County) 55.54. 800:1 R Smith 

(Kildare County) 2:11.60; 2 T Doherty 

(IRL, W35) 2:21.56. 1500: 1 E Alexander 

(Soton) 4:33.27. 3000: 1 R Smith 

(Kildare County) 9:41.86; 2 F Clinton (IRL) 

9:47.44; 3 T Doherty (IRL, W35) 9:51.22. 

100H (1.0): 1 K Doherty (Dundrum South 

Dublin) 15.26. 400H: 2 S Gallagher (Finn, 

U17) 67.73. 4x100: 1 Dundrum South 

Dublin 49.90; 2 Clonliffe Harriers 50.43; 

3 Meath Athletics 51.34; 4 Finn Valley 

51.48; 5 Kildare County 51.97. 4x400: 1 

Dundrum South Dublin 4:02.51; 2 Kildare 

County 4:04.05; 3 Raheny Shamrock 

4:07.52; 4 Clonliffe Harriers 4:07.97. LJ: 

2 A Kerr (IRL, U17) 5.15. TJ: 1 K O’hare 

(Raheny S) 11.18; 3 A Kerr (IRL, U17) 

10.41. HT: 1 C Morris (Clon) 40.63 JT: 1 

G Casey (Kildare County) 42.42 

DIVISION 1, Belfast 

Men: 200: ns (0.2): 1 S Gaffney 

(Rathfarnham WSAF) 21.84. 800: ns: 4 S 

Orr (Orangegrove, M40) 2:06.68. 1500: 

14 F Marsh (N Down, M50) 4:22.64; 18 

S Doyle (BRC, M40) 4:24.89. 400H: 1 

M Behan (Crusaders) 55.58. 3000W: 1 

L Campion (Meath Athletics) 14:33.04. 

4x100: 1 City of Lisburn 42.56; 2 Tallaght 

A.C. 43.88. LJ: 1 B Fisher (WSEH, U20) 

7.22. TJ: 1 M Burton (Lisb, U20) 14.14. 

JT: 1 S Joyce (Meath Athletics) 55.21 

Women: 100 (-0.7): 1 S Murray (IRL) 

12.15; 2 L Roy (Lisb, U17) 12.45. 400: 1 

C Mcmanus (DCH) 55.80; 2 E Mcillveen 

(City of Lisburn) 56.84. 800: 1 K Neely 

(Lisb, W35) 2:12.4; 2 A Corcoran (IRL, 

U20) 2:17.3. ns: 1 R Gibson (N Down) 

2:14.16. 1500: 1 N Donnelly (DCH) 

4:31.99; 2 C Brennan (IRL) 4:37.88; 3 

M Lavery (Lisb) 4:43.40. 3000: 1 A Fay 

(Louth Athletics) 10:18.84; 3 A Terek 

(Lisb, W50) 10:44.87. 100H (-0.1): 1 

N Morgan (Derry) 14.98. 4x400: 1 Lisb 

4:02.17; 2 Sli Cualann 4:08.28; 3 Louth 

Athletics 4:10.86. HJ: 1 E Rogers (Louth 

Athletics) 1.65. PV: 1 E Mc Cartney (City 

of Lisburn) 3.40. LJ: 1 S McCarthy (IRL) 

6.05; 2 L Mills (B&A, U20) 5.64. HT: 1 L 

Glover (Lag V) 40.59 

JULY 29 

BMC Regional Races, Oxford 

ENGLAND Under-20 400m Champion 

Kelsey Stewart showed good endurance 

as she was timed at 87.5 for 600m 

ahead of Renee Walcott-Nolan’s 87.9. 

Men: 600: A: 1 A Gruen (Oxf U, U20) 

1:21.0; 2 C Monk (Mans) 1:21.3; 3 C 

Eliot (B&W) 1:22.0; 4 T Powell (Bed C) 

1:24.7. 1500: A: 1 L Conway (NEB) 

3:49.6; 2 E Cairess (Leeds C) 3:53.7; 3 

A Hampson (Nene V, U20) 3:54.1; 4 J 

Heneghan (Win, U20) 3:54.5; 5 J Coxon 

(K&P) 3:54.5; 6 H Smith (Bas, U20) 

3:54.8; 7 B Brewster (Soton) 3:58.2; 9 

J Goddard (WSEH, U20) 4:04.5. B: 1 C 

Abberley (Burt, U17) 4:00.0; 4 D Smith 

(Swan, U20) 4:02.5; 7 T Roe (Ports, U20) 

4:04.4. C: 3 D McDougall (WSEH, U17) 

4:05.9; 5 S Richardson (Notts, U17) 

4:06.3; 8 T Tarragano (B&H, U17) 4:09.2. 

D: 2 A Williams (Chilt, U15) 4:11.0; 12 M 

Raynor (Read, U15) 4:22.7 

Mixed events: 600: B: 1 T Rickards 

(Read, U15) 1:25.5; 2 N Storry (KEN, 

U20) 1:25.7; 4 D Brookling (WSEH, U17) 

1:26.4; 6 K Stewart (A’deen, W) 1:27.5; 

7 R Walcott-Nolan (Lut, W) 1:27.9; 9 C 

Anderson (Perth, W) 1:33.4. C: 1 Z Mossi 

(B&B, U15W) 1:35.7; 3 R Sykes (Swin, W) 

1:40.5; 4 A Hobday (K&P, U17W) 1:42.2; 

6 R Brook (Stroud, U13W) 1:47.8. 1500: 

E: 1 C Thomas (Traff, W) 4:25.0; 2 A 

Mohapi-Dobouny (Lewes, U15) 4:26.8; 

3 L Mayes (Corby, U15) 4:27.8; 4 K 

Seary (Card, W) 4:30.6; 7 D Chattenton 

(M&M, W) 4:32.6; 8 I Fry (Newb, U20W) 

4:32.7; 9 B Straw (Bir, W) 4:35.2; 10 N 

Toft (B&B, U15W) 4:35.6; 11 E Wallace 

(W’bury, U20W) 4:38.5; 12 Y Marghini 

(B&B, U17W) 4:39.9; 13 E Roche (Mil K, 

W) 4:43.5. F: 2 G Eglen (AFD, W) 4:37.1; 

3 T Walford (Bed C, U20W) 4:38.1; 4 E 

Haley (Rad, W) 4:40.1; 5 M Todd McIntyre 

(Rush, U15W) 4:41.7; 6 J Locker (Walton, 

W40) 4:42.2; 7 T Bage (Phoe, U20W) 

4:42.9; 8 H Buswell (Leeds C, W) 4:44.0; 

9 M Atkinson (Charn, U17W) 4:44.1; 

10 R Longstaff (Chelt, W) 4:44.8; 12 

N Ravenhill (ESM, U20W) 4:46.0. G: 1 

O Williams (Chilt, U15W) 4:46.9; 4 A 

Harray (TVH, U20W) 4:48.0; 5 K Brown 

(AFD, U17W) 4:48.4; 6 D Bedwell (B&W, 

M60) 4:49.6; 7 L McNeil (Notts, U15W) 

4:50.6; 9 T Jeffes (Win, U17W) 4:51.2; 

11 A Bates (R&N, U13W) 5:14.4. Ht: 2 

M Mayes (Corby, U13W) 5:03.1; 11 L 

Jeffries (Bath, W55) 5:43.5 

DEREK CROOKES SOUTHERN U13 

INTER COUNTY MATCH, Kingston 

U13 boys: 100: A1 (-0.7): 1 B Smith 

(Sussex) 12.7; 2 A Salako (Surrey) 12.7. 

A2 (-0.7): 1 R Ahmed (Kent) 12.6; 2 

R Earle (Middlesex) 12.7; 3 K Pinnock 

(Hertfordshire) 12.8. B1 (0.4): 1 M Sadler 

(Oxfordshire) 12.79; 2 K Isaac (Kent) 

12.92. B2 (-0.6): 1 A Tyrrell (Middlesex) 

12.92. 200: A1 (-0.3): 1 J Houslin 

(Hertfordshire) 26.36; 2 J Wilson (Surrey) 

26.44; 3 A Jones (Oxfordshire) 26.67. 

A2 (-0.3): 1 R Earle (Middlesex) 25.46; 

2 B Smith (Sussex) 25.58. B1 (-0.1): 1 

A Lawson (Sussex) 26.35; 2 M Sadler 

(Oxfordshire) 26.35. B2 (0.0): 1 A Salako 

(Surrey) 26.45; 2 K Chambers (Essex) 

26.93. 800: A: 1 H Ware (Hampshire) 

2:13.43; 2 M Blacklock (Essex) 2:18.61; 

3 T Gaunce (Hertfordshire) 2:18.65; 4 

O Pickup (Surrey) 2:18.71; 5 H Yelling 

(Sussex) 2:22.20; 6 S Amdor (Middlesex) 

2:23.28; 7 L Gawne (Buckinghamshire) 

2:23.60. B: 1 E Fiore (Kent) 2:21.45; 

2 D Shattock (Hampshire) 2:21.92; 3 

J Winship (Surrey) 2:22.57; 4 S Fahl 

(Oxfordshire) 2:23.96. ns1: 1 O Emment 

(Surrey) 2:22.00. ns2: 1 C Chilton 

(Surrey) 2:23.63; 2 J Anthony (Kent) 

2:23.92; 3 F Hurst (Surrey) 2:24.15; 

4 L Harber (Sussex) 2:24.65. 1500: 

A: 1 W Rabjohns (Dorset) 4:30.75; 2 

L Sullivan (Suffolk) 4:32.22; 3 E Scott 

(Surrey) 4:33.64; 4 B Brown (Hampshire) 

4:44.62; 5 C Nisbet (Buckinghamshire) 

4:47.02; 6 A Hamud (Middlesex) 

4:47.75; 7 E Primett (Hertfordshire) 

4:48.27; 8 R Page (Kent) 4:50.85; 9 J 

Judah (Sussex) 4:51.08; 10 C Borgnis 

(Berkshire) 4:51.41; 11 Q Miell-Ingram 

(Oxfordshire) 4:52.24. B: 1 R Morrell 

(Surrey) 4:42.9; 2 O Craggs (Berkshire) 

4:48.1; 3 W Jackson (Buckinghamshire) 

4:53.3; 4 W Matthews (Sussex) 4:54.1; 

5 C Walker-Powell (Hampshire) 4:55.6. 

75H: A1 (-0.3): 1 O Robertson (Kent) 

12.11; 2 C Mytil (Surrey) 12.58; 3 

B Goodridge (Hampshire) 12.64; 4 

A Tennant-Wareham (Hertfordshire) 

12.88; 5 S Rayson (Oxfordshire) 13.30; 

6 S Emeka-Ugwuadu (Essex) 13.79. 

A2 (0.6): 1 S Ball (Berkshire) 11.48; 

2 R Wells (Buckinghamshire) 12.96; 

3 J Busari (Sussex) 13.75; 4 F Howes 

(Suffolk) 13.81. B1 (-0.7): 1 J Blanc 

(Essex) 12.61; 2 B Mccallum (Suffolk) 

13.69; 3 T Wells (Sussex) 13.76. B2 

(-0.8): 1 H Mzee (Berkshire) 13.24; 2 

J Robinson (Hertfordshire) 13.40; 3 D 

Kimber (Hampshire) 13.57. 4x100: A: 

1 Berkshire 51.95; 2 Middlesex 52.07; 

3 Hampshire 52.66; 5 Bedfordshire 

55.61; 6 Kent 55.66. B: 1 Surrey 51.90; 

2 Hertfordshire 53.32; 3 Essex 53.74; 4 

Sussex 53.82; 5 Buckinghamshire 55.44; 

6 Oxfordshire 55.48. HJ: 1 J Darlington 

(Middlesex) 1.62; 2 G Wallace (Surrey) 

1.59; 3 W Lamprell (Suffolk) 1.53; 4 B 

Goodridge (Hampshire) 1.45; 5 J Blanc 

(Essex) 1.45. LJ: 1 S Ball (Berkshire) 

5.66/0.8; 2 R Jordan (Buckinghamshire) 

5.02/0.6; 3 N Ayivi-Knott (Surrey) 

5.00/0.4; 4 S Emeka-Ugwuadu (Essex) 

4.99/0.4; 5 S Levy (Middlesex) 4.88/0.9; 

6 R Ahmed (Kent) 4.80/0.5; 1 B Carter 

(Surrey) 4.78/0.4. SP: A: 1 W Lamprell 

(Suffolk) 11.28; 2 D Worae (Berkshire) 

10.58; 3 K Isaac (Kent) 9.95. B: 1 O 

Ford (Berkshire) 9.05; 2 A Mancey 

(Hertfordshire) 8.86. JT: A: 1 V Tocca 

(Suffolk) 36.77; 2 A Hunt (Hampshire) 

35.97; 3 T Hughes (Kent) 34.23; 4 H 

Domingos (Berkshire) 33.54. B: 1 K 

Hockaday (Berkshire) 35.77 

U13 girls: 100: A1 (0.0): 1 E Cann 

(Suffolk) 12.83; 2 A Cole (Hampshire) 

12.83; 3 T Khambai-Annan (Middlesex) 

12.95; 4 S Bah (Bedfordshire) 13.44. 

A2 (-0.1): 1 S Gueye (Buckinghamshire) 

13.22; 2 S Kerr (Kent) 13.28; 3 T Samuel 

(Oxfordshire) 13.45. B1 (-0.7): 1 L Smith 

(Hampshire) 13.12; 2 S Haley (Surrey) 

13.21. 200: A1: 1 A Cole (Hampshire) 

26.49; 2 T Khambai-Annan (Middlesex) 

27.14; 3 S Kerr (Kent) 27.70. A2 (-0.3): 

1 E Cann (Suffolk) 26.85; 2 T Samuel 

(Oxfordshire) 27.39; 3 S Doherty (Surrey) 

27.80; 4 L Jay (Bedfordshire) 28.38; 5 

T Adebayo (Buckinghamshire) 28.43. B1 

(-0.2): 1 S Bah (Bedfordshire) 27.68; 

2 C Morris (Oxfordshire) 27.84; 3 L 

Bonsu (Surrey) 27.87; 4 R Rennie (Kent) 

28.47. B2 (0.9): 1 L Fellows (Middlesex) 

27.31; 2 L Smith (Hampshire) 27.71; 

3 I Lehtinen (Sussex) 28.41. 800: A: 

1 L Jay (Bedfordshire) 2:22.61; 2 K 

Mair (Berkshire) 2:23.47; 3 A Sibley 

(Kent) 2:27.02; 4 E Strevens (Sussex) 

2:28.60; 5 P French (Surrey) 2:29.25. 

B: 1 J Swandale (Kent) 2:24.71; 2 S 

Okoro (Essex) 2:26.10; 3 M Grandin 

(Berkshire) 2:26.17; 4 S Richardson 

(Hampshire) 2:27.33; 5 K Sakaria (Surrey) 

2:28.63. ns1: 1 S Harris (Hampshire) 

2:25.61; 2 Z Malcolm (Essex) 2:27.27; 

3 K Bain (Hampshire) 2:28.92. 1500: 

ns1: 1 O Martin (Oxfordshire) 4:58.16; 

2 A Mann (Hampshire) 5:00.02; 3 N 

Simmons (Bedfordshire) 5:00.04; 4 C 

Dewar (Berkshire) 5:00.16; 5 C Borgars 

(Surrey) 5:02.47; 6 A Jubb (Hertfordshire) 

5:02.98; 7 N Sewell (Essex) 5:03.00; 

8 C Gilbert (Suffolk) 5:11.70. ns2: 1 S 

Woodhead (Hampshire) 5:05.24; 2 L 

Tse (Hertfordshire) 5:07.49; 3 N Camp 

(Berkshire) 5:11.96; 4 P Bowen (Surrey) 

5:13.46; 5 E Botha (Buckinghamshire) 

5:14.53; 6 M Silverstone (Essex) 

5:14.71. 70H: A1 (-1.3): 1 L Bonsu 

(Surrey) 11.51; 2 M White (Dorset) 

11.65; 3 A Walsh (Berkshire) 12.27; 4 

A Cole (Hampshire) 12.36. A2 (1.3): 

1 P Robinson (Essex) 11.85; 2 E Kerr 

(Kent) 11.86; 3 G Wall (Bedfordshire) 

12.18; 4 N Keller (Oxfordshire) 12.29. 

B1 (-0.8): 1 E Hind (Oxfordshire) 12.04; 

2 M Kendell (Hampshire) 12.09; 3 N 

Ryall (Bedfordshire) 12.36. B2 (-0.1): 

1 S Gammell (Hertfordshire) 11.83; 2 T 

Glazebrook (Middlesex) 12.27. 4x100: 

A: 1 Middlesex 52.00; 2 Kent 53.34; 

3 Surrey 53.78; 4 Essex 54.45; 5 

Oxfordshire 55.26; 6 Berkshire 56.03; 

7 Suffolk 56.89. B: 1 Hampshire 

53.56; 2 Bedfordshire 55.00; 3 Sussex 

55.17; 4 Buckinghamshire 56.19; 5 

Dorset 57.10; 6 Hertfordshire 57.22. 

HJ: 1 K Hodgins-Peka (Surrey) 1.46; 

2 L Fellows (Middlesex) 1.43; 3 N 

Keller (Oxfordshire) 1.40; 4 K Walters 

(Kent) 1.40; 5 E Amash (Essex) 1.40; 

6 E Pinchbeck (Hampshire) 1.40. LJ: 

A: 1 I Bowen (Oxfordshire) 4.63/1.0; 

2 L Smith (Hampshire) 4.62/1.6; 3 F 

Martin (Surrey) 4.61/3.9; - F Martin 

(Surrey) 4.60/0.8; 4 L Turbutt (Kent) 

4.51/0.7. B: 1 E Kerr (Kent) 4.97/0.7; 2 

F Higginbottom (Essex) 4.57/-0.8. SP: 

A: 1 G Jones (Hampshire) 10.33; 2 C 

Ebbage (Kent) 9.96; 3 S Dhir (Berkshire) 

9.83; 4 M Hopkins (Essex) 8.52. B: 1 

O Austin (Hampshire) 10.01; 2 L Brand 

(Essex) 9.12; 3 S Steele (Bedfordshire) 

9.06. DT: A: 1 O Austin (Hampshire) 

31.83; 2 G Nash (Kent) 30.88; 3 S Dhir 

(Berkshire) 29.91; 4 C Graham (Suffolk) 

24.11. B: 1 L White (Kent) 25.72; 2 I 

Stoute (Berkshire) 24.54; 3 C Kerry-Roger 

(Buckinghamshire) 23.06; 4 N Holdsworth 

(Hampshire) 22.79. JT: A: 1 L White 

(Kent) 36.01; 2 J Larsen (Hampshire) 

34.55; 4 C Milborne (Sussex) 30.29; 5 L 

Peach (Oxfordshire) 29.76; 6 L Wilcock 

(Middlesex) 28.34. B: 1 M Hulbert 

(Hampshire) 28.18; 2 R Wall (Sussex) 

27.29; 3 C Ebbage (Kent) 24.43 

LONDON INTER CLUB CHALLENGE, 

Hendon 

Mixed events: 100: r1 (0.0): 1 A 

Adewale (E&H) 10.63; 2 R Pierre (WSEH) 

10.77; 3 K Bruney (E&H, U20) 11.07. r2 

(-2.0): 1 D Green (Kent, M35) 11.06; 2 

A Truscott (E&H, U17) 11.10. r5 (-1.1): 4 

J Aaron (Harrow, U15) 11.86. r7 (-1.8): 

4 M Vassiliou (E&H, M55) 12.54; 7 W 

Odele (Camb H, M50) 12.88. 200: r1 

(0.6): 2 A Truscott (E&H, U17) 22.34; 3 

J Aaron (Harrow, U17) 22.66. r6 (-0.3): 

2 M Vassiliou (E&H, M55) 25.43; 3 K Aye 

(SBH, U13) 26.08. 400: r1: 1 K Bruney 

(E&H, U20) 49.03. r2: 1 H Grindle (Belg, 

U17) 50.93. r3: 5 W Odele (Camb H, 

M50) 57.96. 800: r1: 2 T Butler (Barn, 

U20) 1:57.83. r2: 5 R Serafini (Lon Hth, 

W) 2:16.20. 1500: 7 R Garrett (Lon Hth, 

U15W) 4:58.16. PV: 3 J Rugg (E&H, U15) 

3.60; 5 C Maurer (Woking, W) 3.50; 6 S 

Morrison (Woking, W) 3.30; 11 O Simon 

(Col H, U13W) 2.20. LJ: 12 R Zeffertt (SB, 

W55) 3.51 

Men: 5000: 1 A Nordtveit (High) 

14:46.70; 2 B Pochee (High) 15:35.35. 

400H: 1 S Shore (Belg) 54.97; 6 K Dauda 

(Kent, M40) 63.83. LJ: 1 R Thomas (SB, 

U17) 6.33; 4 A Melao (SB, M60) 5.41. 

DT: 1 G Thompson (SB) 57.37; 2 C Scott 

(Soton) 53.84; 3 A McInroy (SB) 52.60; 

4 S Chinery-Edoo (Harrow) 45.07; 5 D 

Jibunoh (Have) 44.04; 6 A Soalla-Bell 

(SB, M40) 33.60; 7 S Thurgood (Herne H, 

M40) 33.55. HT: 1 A Warner (NEB) 58.44; 

2 S Thurgood (Herne H, M40) 49.91 

U20: DT: 1 N Thomas (SB) 44.50. HT: 1 B 

Praim-Singh (S’end) 57.80 

U17: SP: 1 J Wise (Soton) 13.20. DT: 

1 A Mawdsley (Herne H) 46.90. HT: 1 

J Omotosho (Dartf) 55.26. JT: 1 J Wise 

(Soton) 48.74 

U15: HT: 1 K Ikeji (Bas) 56.23 

M50: DT: 1 P Wishart (Camb H, M55) 

31.42 

M75: SP: 1 I Ivanovic (Ach) 9.66. DT: 1 I 

Ivanovic (Ach) 26.00 

Women: SP: 1 N Harrison (SB, W35) 

9.69. DT: 1 H Broadbridge (Newb) 40.00; 

2 S Callaway (Soton, U17) 38.30; 3 T 

Tunstall (Wat, U17) 33.80; 4 T Jones 

(Walton, U17) 32.70; 5 E Finch (Chelm, 

U15) 26.13. HT: 1 H Broadbridge (Newb) 

51.90; 2 E Beardmore (Mil K) 49.40; 3 

P Barnes (Mil K, U20) 40.90; 4 L Pitsialis 

(SB, U20) 38.90 

U20: 400H: 1 M Shaw (WSEH) 66.78; 2 I 

Mills (Orion) 67.59 

U17: SP: 1 S Callaway (Soton) 12.00 

U15: HT: 1 E Finch (Chelm) 37.83 

U13: SP: 1 O Simon (Col H) 8.66 


RESULTS 

TRACK & FIELD 

GALE-FORCE VICTORY 

DOMINANT WINNERS AND RISING STARS IMPRESS AT BEDFORD STADIUM 

JULY 29-30 

CAU INTER-COUNTIES 

CHAMPIONSHIPS (Inc 

ENGLAND ATHLETICS SENIOR 

CHAMPIONSHIPS), Bedford 

Report: Cherisse Walley 

Pictures: Mark Shearman 

THERE were plenty of rising stars 

competing at the weekend, off the back 

of international championships earlier in 

the month. 

The most notable individual effort 

came in the high jump from Tom Gale, 

who became the 12th Briton and second 

UK junior to clear 2.30m. It came a week 

too late, though, to gain selection for the 

IAAF World Championships in London. 

Off the back of a European under-20 

bronze in Grosseto, where he jumped a 

2.28m PB, the 18-year-old took to the 

stage in Bedford and stole the show with 

a tremendous leap. 

“It’s been a pretty good year so far,” 

he said. “I started the season a bit rocky 

with a 2.07m and a 2.08m, but I jumped 

2.28m at the Euros last week. It feels 

incredible but also a little frustrating that 

I’ve got the world qualifying standard 

too late.” 

Gale was one of 10 athletes in the 

world who had jumped 2.28m and could 

have expected the IAAF to add them 

to the World Championships under the 

quota system, but they have decided to 

have just 29 in the final rather than the 

recommended 32. 

The first day of the championships 

got off to a great start on Saturday. With 

the opportunity to secure a place on the 

Manchester International team in August 

and places on Commonwealth teams 

still up for grabs, many athletes went the 

extra mile. Ojie Edoburun continued his 

golden streak from the European 

under-23s in Bydgoszcz and looked 

comfortable through the rounds before 

winning the final in a modest 10.26 

ahead of Andrew Robertson’s 10.35 and 

Reuben Arthur’s 10.41. 

Diani Walker was also victorious in 

the women’s short sprint, improving her 

lifetime best to 11.45 in the final. She 

continued her medal haul on day two with 

a bronze in the 200m and another PB. 

Youngster Kare Adenegan made 

her mark on the championships by 

dominating the 100m, 400m and 800m 

wheelchair events, after finishing second 

in the 100m behind team-mate Hannah 

Cockroft at the World Para Athletics 

Championships the previous week. 

The 16-year-old from Coventry said: 

“I thought my time today was a bit quicker 

than it was (18.32) but I’ve just come 

back from the Worlds in London. It was an 

amazing experience, especially in front of 

a home crowd.” 

Kimbely Baptiste of Crawley finished 

just ahead of Beth Dobbin to take the 

200m title in 23.54 and Antonio Infantino 

narrowly retained his title with 21.14. 

Edmond Amaning also had an eventful 

day, finishing third with 21.26 and also 

picking up a bronze in the 400m with a 

PB of 46.49, despite already doing two 

rounds of the 200m. 

The speed at which Ben Snaith 

rocketed out of the blocks, anyone would 

have thought it were a 200m final. 

However, in the last few metres, Koumi 

Tom Gale: 2.30m to go 

second all-time as UK junior 

6 6 A T H L E T I C S W E E K L Y 

Sadam glided past his fading competitors 

to take the 400m win in 46.14 for a 

lifetime best. 

The women’s event was equally 

dramatic and was a true battle between 

the experienced Margaret Adeoye and 

rising star Maya Bruney, who were 

shoulder to shoulder down the home 

straight, both reaching for the line. At 

first it appeared that European under-20 

200m gold medallist Bruney had taken 

the gold, but a photo finish separated the 

two by 0.04 and Adeoye came out on 

top this time. 

The 400m hurdles saw James 

Forman fly down the home straight and 

hold off Matthew Sumner in second to 

win with 50.72, just shy of his lifetime 

best, set back in 2011. 

Kirsten McAslan produced possibly 

one of the biggest performances of the 

weekend as she tried her hand at a new 

event. With her 400m flat speed of 52.13, 

the Scottish Commonwealth athlete and 

former British indoor champion flew out 

of the blocks and attacked the first 200m 

extremely hard, clearing every hurdle 

ahead of her competitors and took the 

win ahead of Lina Nielsen in a lifetime 

best of 57.31. 

The 1500m bronze medallist at 

the under-23 championships in June, 

James McMurray, snapped up the gold 

in the men’s 800m final in 1:50.41, just 

a fraction ahead of Andrew Smith who 

ran 1:50.58. 

Hannah England was back to her 

winning ways and, after a gold on day 

one in the 800m with 2:06.68, the 2011 

world silver medallist continued her streak 

with a strong finish in the 1500m final in 

a time of 4:17.84. It was a packed field 

including plenty of juniors such as ESAA 

champions Beth Barlow and European 

under-20 800m champion Khahisa 

Mhlanga, although it was the experienced 

Jacqueline Fairchild who gave the winner 

a good battle down the home straight. 

In the 3000m race walk, 17-year-old 

Chris Snook was the youngest champion 

of the day as he claimed an impressive 

win of 12:42.73 ahead of another 

promising youngster, Tom Partington. 

British champion Iona Lake stole 

the show in the women’s 3000m 

steeplechase, dominating from the gun 

and winning in 9:50.61, a lifetime best by 

over six seconds. 

In the men’s event, the eventual 

outcome was left to a 200m sprint where 

Douglas Musson showed great flat speed 

to take the title in 8:43.34. 

The women’s high jump final heated 

up when both Nikki Mason and Emma 

Nuttall cleared 1.86m, achieving a 

Scottish Commonwealth Games qualifying 

height, although it was Nuttall who won 

on count-back. 

Callum Brown looked in superb form 

to win a very fine men’s hammer final 

in a lifetime best of 69.13m. Also in 

the throws, a guest New Zealander, no 

stranger to the big stage, Tomas Walsh, 

threw an almighty 22.06m, smashing the 

championship record in the process. 

British champion Laura Whittingham 

led from the get go in the women’s javelin 

final, throwing 54.88m, four metres clear 

of her competitors. 

Angela Barrett, who placed fourth 

at the championships last year, jumped 

just shy of her PB with 13.19m to take 

the women’s triple jump title. It was also 

good to see former British junior and 

ESAA record-holder Athollah Rose on the 

podium with a bronze and 12.48m, after 

a four-year battle with injury. 

Olympian and no stranger to these 

championships, Nathan Douglas, took 

the men’s triple jump title in style with 

16.40m. 

In the men’s discus, the silver 

medallist last year at the championships, 

Alan Toward threw 57.59m, well clear of 

George Armstrong in second. 

Men: 100 (-0.1): 1 O Edoburun (SB) 

10.26; 2 A Robertson (Sale) 10.35; 3 R 

Hannah England: 800m and 1500m double 

Arthur (E&H) 10.41; 4 J Otugade (SB) 

10.43; 5 C Stone (B&W) 10.52; 6 C 

Lawson (SB) 10.55; 7 T Williams (B&V) 

10.63; 8 K Showler-Davis (BMH) 10.65. 

SF1 (0.7): 1 O Edoburun (SB) 10.22; 2 R 

Arthur (E&H) 10.36; 3 J Williams (Liv H) 

10.56; 4 S Landsborough (Wirr) 10.71; 5 

J Griffiths (Card) 10.72; 6 O Grant 

(Harrow) 10.73; 7 J Lawrence (Bir) 10.75; 

8 D Obeng (QM&WC) 10.78. SF2 (0.8): 1 

C Lawson (SB) 10.37; 2 C Stone (B&W) 

10.43; 3 T Etienne (HW) 10.51; 4 D 

Hammond (Card) 10.57; 5 B Shields 

(Shef/Dearn) 10.69; 6 T Olubi (B&B) 

10.81. SF3 (0.5): 1 A Robertson (Sale) 

10.34; 2 J Otugade (SB) 10.38; 3 K 

Showler-Davis (BMH) 10.48; 4 T Williams 

(B&V) 10.51; 5 O Barton-Ellington (E&H) 

10.64; 6 G Cackett (Belg) 10.68. Ht1 

(1.0): 1 A Robertson (Sale) 10.40; 2 K 

Showler-Davis (BMH) 10.55; 3 T Olubi 

(B&B) 10.75; 4 L Dorrell (AFD) 10.79; 5 K 

Oludoyi (Harrow, U20) 10.79; 6 R 

Frederick (SB) 10.85. Ht2 (1.9): 1 R 

Arthur (E&H) 10.54; 2 J Griffiths (Card) 

10.64; 3 D Obeng (QM&WC) 10.69; 4 D 

Beadsley (Swan) 10.76; 5 J Cann (Craw) 

10.81; 6 D Greenaway (Roth, U20) 10.84; 

7 A Cross (C&C, U17) 11.06. Ht3 (1.6): 1 

O Edoburun (SB) 10.31; 2 C Stone (B&W) 

10.41; 3 S Gordon (Card) 10.53; 4 G 

Cackett (Belg) 10.64; 5 D Oderinde (Mil 

K) 10.81; 6 C Starr (Soton) 10.87. Ht4 

(0.5): 1 O Grant (Harrow) 10.72; 2 J 

Brown (Card) 10.75; 3 S Thomas- 

Campbell (B&B) 10.85; 4 E Davis (Herts P, 

U20) 10.89; 5 J Allaway (Guern) 10.98. 

Ht5 (0.7): 1 J Otugade (SB) 10.42; 2 J 

Williams (Liv H) 10.57; 3 O Barton- 

Ellington (E&H) 10.62; 4 D Hammond 

(Card) 10.65; 5 S Ige (Belg) 10.79; 6 R 

Ewer (R&N) 10.93. Ht6 (3.2): 1 C Lawson 

(SB) 10.42; 2 T Etienne (HW) 10.56; 3 B 

Shields (Shef/Dearn) 10.63; 4 S Aaron 

(Bir) 10.82; 5 J Fairclough (Liv H) 10.90. 

Ht7 (1.7): 1 A Thomas (Brack) 10.33; 2 T 

Williams (B&V) 10.53; 3 S Landsborough 

(Wirr) 10.64; 4 J Lawrence (Bir) 10.69; 5 

A Da Silva (Card) 10.69; 6 J Williams 

(Harrow) 10.71. 200 (0.3): 1 A Infantino 

(King’s College London AC & X-Country 

Club) 21.14; 2 C Stone (B&W) 21.14; 3 E 

Amaning (TVH) 21.26; 4 E Powell (Leic C) 

21.35; 5 J Gladman (Warr) 21.38; 6 J 

Williams (Liv H) 21.42; 7 D Putnam (B&B) 

21.73. SF1 (1.8): 1 E Amaning (TVH) 

20.95; 2 E Powell (Leic C) 21.14; 3 J 

Williams (Liv H) 21.16; 4 D Putnam (B&B) 

21.23; 5 C Dobson (Col H, U20) 21.45; 6 

C Hilliard (Hale, U20) 22.04. SF2 (1.7): 1 

A Infantino (King’s College London AC & 

X-Country Club) 20.90; 2 J Gladman 

(Warr) 21.37; 3 T Ramdhan (Bexley) 

21.49; 4 J Williams (Harrow) 21.66; 5 O 

Abiodun (WG&EL) 21.77. SF3 (0.6): 1 C 

Stone (B&W) 21.24; 2 S Miller (Prest) 

21.28; 3 S Landsborough (Wirr) 21.58; 4 

L Thompson (Shef/Dearn) 21.64; 5 T 

Williams (B&V) 21.83; 6 K Howitt (RSC) 

21.99. Ht1 (3.3): 1 E Amaning (TVH) 

21.05; 2 J Williams (Harrow) 21.47; 3 J 

Williams (Liv H) 21.47; 4 C Starr (Soton) 

21.98; 5 F Afrifa (Craw) 21.99; 6 M 

Warner (NEB) 22.00. Ht2 (2.3): 1 S Miller 

(Prest) 21.20; 2 S Landsborough (Wirr) 

21.48; 3 C Dobson (Col H, U20) 21.51; 4 

L Thompson (Shef/Dearn) 21.57; 6 L 

Smith (SB, U20) 22.40. Ht3 (-0.1): 1 A 

Infantino (King’s College London AC & 

X-Country Club) 21.10; 2 D Putnam (B&B)


James Forman (297): 

400m hurdles 

win in 50.72 

Iona Lake: steeplechase PB 

21.34; 3 J Gladman (Warr) 21.42; 4 J 

Richardson (Traff) 21.99; 5 M Osunsami 

(NEB, U20) 22.20; 6 R O’Connell (Shef/ 

Dearn, U20) 22.37. Ht4 (1.9): 1 T 

Ramdhan (Bexley) 21.42; 2 E Powell (Leic 

C) 21.42; 3 O Abiodun (WG&EL) 21.81; 4 

C Hilliard (Hale, U20) 22.00. Ht5 (-0.3): 1 

C Stone (B&W) 21.25; 2 T Williams (B&V) 

21.71; 3 K Howitt (RSC) 21.83. 400: 1 S 

Koumi (Bir) 46.14; 2 B Snaith (E&H) 

46.21; 3 E Amaning (TVH) 46.49; 4 O 

Smith (Card) 46.94; 5 J Rhoden-Stevens 

(SB) 47.16; 6 R Shipley (York) 47.39; 7 S 

Hazel (SB) 47.63. SF1: 1 E Amaning 

(TVH) 46.78; 2 J Rhoden-Stevens (SB) 

47.05; 3 C Williams (Kent, M35) 47.10; 4 

S Hazel (SB) 47.43; 5 S Wright (Kent) 

47.90; 6 P Phillips (Herne H) 49.16; 7 D 

Willis (Corby) 49.35. SF2: 1 S Koumi (Bir) 

46.79; 2 R Shipley (York) 47.66; 3 S 

Dawkins (Jer) 48.25; 4 T Somers (York) 

48.45; 5 J Richardson (Traff) 48.51; 6 N 

Atwell (Herne H) 48.80; 7 E Sosanya 

(NEB, U20) 49.62. SF3: 1 B Snaith (E&H) 

47.44; 2 O Smith (Card) 47.78; 3 C Byron 

(Bir) 48.30; 4 F Owsley (B&W) 48.55; 5 K 

Aiken (E&H) 48.61; 6 M Overall (Craw) 

48.71; 7 A Akintokun (NEB) 49.23. Ht1: 1 

E Amaning (TVH) 47.12; 2 C Byron (Bir) 

48.03; 3 F Owsley (B&W) 48.93; 4 D 

Willis (Corby) 49.27; 5 J Rogers (Hale, 

U20) 49.82; 6 A Haydock-Wilson (WSEH, 

U20) 50.48. Ht2: 1 B Snaith (E&H) 47.75; 

2 C Williams (Kent, M35) 47.83; 3 S 

Dawkins (Jer) 48.19; 4 E Sosanya (NEB, 

U20) 49.80; 5 T Bennett-Williams (W&B, 

U20) 50.50. Ht3: 1 S Koumi (Bir) 47.35; 

2 R Shipley (York) 47.98; 3 J Richardson 

(Traff) 48.66; 4 N Atwell (Herne H) 49.05; 

5 A Akintokun (NEB) 49.29; 6 C Cox 

(Craw) 49.99. Ht4: 1 T Somers (York) 

48.04; 2 M Overall (Craw) 48.52; 3 S 

Hazel (SB) 48.60; 4 K Aiken (E&H) 49.04; 

5 N Kanonik (Bir) 49.92; 6 T Ainsworth 

(Tam, U20) 50.11. Ht5: 1 O Smith (Card) 

47.64; 2 J Rhoden-Stevens (SB) 47.79; 3 

S Wright (Kent) 48.42; 4 P Phillips (Herne 

H) 49.22; 5 J Hocking (Worc, U20) 49.84. 

800: 1 J McMurray (St Alb) 1:50.41; 2 A 

Smith (P&B) 1:50.58; 3 J McCarthy (Chilt) 

1:50.69; 4 S Thomas (Phoe) 1:50.80; 5 

W Snook (Harl) 1:51.00; 6 H Fisher 

(Soton) 1:51.04; 7 E Dodd (Ports) 

1:52.28; 8 D Dempsey (Shef/Dearn) 

1:52.57. Ht1: 4 F Bigg (Phoe, U20) 

1:56.51. Ht2: 1 D Dempsey (Shef/Dearn) 

1:52.34; 2 A Smith (P&B) 1:52.55; 3 E 

Dodd (Ports) 1:52.92; 4 B Waterman 

(ESM) 1:53.52; 5 L Jones (Tam) 1:54.72. 

Ht3: 1 J McMurray (St Alb) 1:52.06; 2 S 

Thomas (Phoe) 1:52.11; 3 J McCarthy 

(Chilt) 1:52.35; 4 A Bennett (Soton) 

1:53.96; 5 H Fleming (Walton) 1:54.31; 6 

S Harding (Wells) 1:54.65. Mile: 1 J 

Davies (Read) 4:00.58; 2 S Stabler 

(OWLS) 4:05.42; 3 D Brown (Ton) 

4:06.71; 4 T Horton (Hallam) 4:08.18; 5 

R Harvie (AFD) 4:09.38; 6 M Wigelsworth 

(Prest) 4:11.47; 7 D Bebbington (Prest) 

4:12.43; 8 A Benson (Prest) 4:12.50; 9 M 

Pickard (Phoe) 4:15.59; 10 C Durney 

(Prest, U20) 4:28.49. 5000: 1 A Teuten 

(Soton) 14:54.56; 2 S Mitchell (B&W) 

14:55.21; 3 M Aadan (TVH) 14:56.57; 4 

O Lockley (Manx) 15:00.24; 5 W 

Richardson (Bir, U20) 15:00.53; 6 S Antell 

(Bide) 15:05.31; 7 G Jayasuriya (M&C) 

15:18.56; 8 B Livesey (Notts, M35) 

Ojie Edoborun (116): 100m win in 10.26 

15:20.33; 9 C Joslin-Allen (Ton) 

15:25.77. 110H (0.0): 1 J Weaver (E&H) 

13.73; 2 J Porter (Bir) 13.86; 3 E Okoro 

(Bir) 14.05; 4 D Feeney (Amber) 14.24; 5 

M Perera (Harrow) 14.34; 6 C Fillery 

(B&H, U20) 14.35; 7 P Moreno (WSEH) 

14.47; 8 J Kirby (Harrow) 14.54. Ht1 

(0.9): 1 J Weaver (E&H) 13.69; 2 J Porter 

(Bir) 13.79; 3 C Fillery (B&H, U20) 14.22; 

4 P Moreno (WSEH) 14.41; 5 J Kirby 

(Harrow) 14.65; 6 R Young (B&B) 14.86; 

7 A Nwenwu (W&B) 15.02; 8 M Copeland 

(Shef/Dearn) 15.89. Ht2 (0.1): 1 E Okoro 

(Bir) 14.04; 2 D Feeney (Amber) 14.19; 3 

M Perera (Harrow) 14.39; 4 G Vaughan 

(E&H, U20) 14.85; 5 E Dickson-Earle 

(Bigg) 14.86; 6 M Hewitt (Soton) 14.91; 7 

C Mitchell (Prest) 15.43. 400H: 1 J 

Forman (Soton) 50.72; 2 M Sumner (Ply) 

51.21; 3 J Lawrie (WG&EL) 51.74; 4 L 

Hanley-Byron (SB) 51.90; 5 L Thompson 

(NEB) 52.21; 6 J Webster (Liv H) 52.75; 7 

S Adams (Soton) 52.89; 8 T Donovan 

(WSEH, U20) 53.07. Ht1: 1 L Hanley- 

Byron (SB) 53.22; 2 J Webster (Liv H) 

53.34; 3 S Adams (Soton) 53.51; 4 N 

Carney (SB) 54.68. Ht2: 1 J Forman 

(Soton) 52.69; 2 M Sumner (Ply) 53.01; 3 

T Donovan (WSEH, U20) 53.15; 4 G 

Vaughan (E&H, U20) 55.41. Ht3: 1 J 

Lawrie (WG&EL) 53.60; 2 L Thompson 

(NEB) 54.33; 3 S Wallbridge (Guern) 

54.42. 3000SC: 1 D Musson (Notts) 

8:43.34; 2 P Norman (WG&EL) 8:46.18; 

3 T Horton (Hallam) 8:48.26; 4 L Gunn 

(Der) 8:59.05; 5 C Perry (Vale R) 8:59.41; 

6 J Senior (Norw) 9:08.34; 7 H Lane 

(B&W) 9:09.72; 8 D Eckersley (K&P) 

9:10.30; 9 M Deason (Shett) 9:14.23; 10 

J Lunn (Bed C) 9:15.90; 11 W Rial (NEB) 

9:26.39; 12 G Twist (Chelm) 9:32.76; 13 

R Warner (Have, M35) 9:37.14; 14 M 

Costley (Soton) 9:37.63; 15 A Corlett 

(Manx) 9:40.70; 16 J Walton (Taun) 

9:45.94; 17 C Upton (Win) 9:47.53. 

3000W: 1 C Snook (AFD, U20) 12:42.73; 

2 T Partington (Manx, U20) 12:56.25; 3 L 

Legon (Bexley) 13:14.34; 4 T Snook (AFD, 

U20) 14:08.33; 5 J Hobbs (Ashf) 

14:22.28. HJ: 1 T Gale (Bath, U20) 2.30; 

2 C Baker (Sale) 2.21; 3 J Khan (Worc, 

U20) 2.16; 4 R Webb (Bir) 2.11; eq5 R 

Bonifas (BMH)/J Bailey (Card)/C Mann 

(Bolt) 2.06; 8 J Broom-Edwards (NEB) 

2.06; 9T Nichols (Harrow) 2.06; 10 M 

Ashley (Shef/Dearn) 2.01; 11 T Andrews 

(Herne H) 2.01; 12 A Wall (Shef/Dearn) 

2.01; eq13 D Storry (Mid M, M35) 1/H 

Baker (Horsh BS, U20)/J Rajkumar (Read, 

U20)/T Hewes (Chelm, U20) 1.91; eq18 L 

Okosieme (Camb H, U17)/J Thompson 

(Der, U20) 1.91; 18 L Okosieme (Camb H, 

U17) 1.91. PV: 1 N Southgate (NZL) 5.35; 

2 J Leon Benitez (Notts, U20) 5.25; 3 S 

Huggins (B&B) 5.05; 4 J Phipps (Bir) 

5.05; 5 C Walker-Shepherd (Bir) 4.85; 6 

G Turner (Craw, U20) 4.65; 6 A McNeillis 

(Hale) 4.65; 8 S Bass-Cooper (Soton) 

4.65; 9 W Gwynne (K&P, U20) 4.65; 10 C 

Court (Card) 4.55; 11 T Farres (Ports) 

4.45; 12 P Moreno (WSEH) 4.45; 13 M 

Hall (Dartf) 4.20; 13 T Snee (K&P) 4.20; 

13 L Walker (Craw, M35) 4.20. LJ: 1 J 

Roach (M’bro) 7.43/2.7; 2 M Causer 

(SHS) 7.40/1.6; 3 S Hall (Bir) 7.27/1.9; 4 

J Ilori (B&B) 7.18/2.0; 5 J Lelliott (B’mth) 

7.18/3.2; 6 T Alexanderson (Bir) 

7.10/2.8; 7 O Anochirionye (TVH) 

7.10/3.0; 8 S Challis (WSEH, U20) 

6.89/1.0; 9 R Powell (Leic C, U20) 

6.88/0.3; 10 S Wilson Dyer Gough (Herne 

H) 6.85/2.0; 11 S Khogali (WG&EL) 

6.85/1.1; 12 P Moreno (WSEH) 6.83/0.4. 

TJ: 1 N Douglas (Oxf C) 16.40/2.2; 2 J 

Ilori (B&B) 15.89/1.9; 3 S Trigg (Erme) 

15.50/2.1; 4 K Metzger (Sale) 15.29/1.0; 

5 L Davis (E&H) 15.12/2.2; 6 C Cribb (Mil 

K) 14.87/3.0; 7 R Sutherland (Wyc P) 

14.75/2.2; 8 J Bones (Scun) 14.39/1.3; 

9 J Ferryman (Sale) 14.00/1.0; 10 K 

Brown (S’end) 13.60/1.7. SP: 1 T Walsh 

(NZL) 22.06; 2 D Simon (DMA) 18.65; 3 

S Lincoln (York) 18.54; 4 Y Zatat (WG&EL) 

16.78; 5 D Cartwright (Bir, U20) 16.10; 6 

C Sturrock (TVH) 15.11; 7 M Baptiste 

(NEB) 14.99; 8 G Thompson (SB) 14.82; 

9 M Tinkler (Nene V) 14.14; 10 D Brunt 

(Shef/Dearn, M40) 13.79. DT: 1 A Toward 

(Shef/Dearn) 57.59; 2 G Armstrong (NEB) 

55.95; 3 G Thompson (SB) 55.21; 4 C 

Scott (Soton) 53.88; 5 M Blandford (B&B) 

53.86; 6 M Plowman (Yeov O) 53.38; 7 D 

Simon (DMA) 52.63; 8 A McInroy (SB) 

52.45; 9 N Fox (Bir) 51.76; 10 M Baptiste 

(NEB) 49.01; 11 C Linque (WG&EL) 

45.52; 12 D Fleming (York) 45.05; 13 S 

Chinery-Edoo (Harrow) 44.43; 14 N Aarre 

(Bir) 41.61; 15 F Francis (Leic C) 40.01. 

HT: 1 C Brown (Norw) 69.13; 2 C Murch 

(R&N) 68.83; 3 C Shorthouse (Bir) 67.15; 

4 T Campbell (Shef/Dearn) 66.95; 5 M 

Bomba (Liv H) 64.81; 6 J Edwards (Ply) 

63.15; 7 T Head (NEB) 61.21; 8 T 

Williams (Glouc) 60.83; 9 T Parker (Shef/ 

Dearn) 56.13; 10 J Hamblin (SB) 56.04; 

11 J Osazuwa (Belg, M35) 51.43; 12 B 

Jones (Ips) 49.96; 13 J Kuehnel (Newb) 

48.50. JT: 1 J Harris (Manx) 75.71; 2 J 

Dunderdale (Shef/Dearn) 74.88; 3 B 

Langton Burnell (New Zealand) 73.29; 4 

S Turnock (SB) 70.02; 5 G Johnson- 

Assoon (TVH) 66.43; 6 G Millar (Bir) 

64.11; 7 J Swain (TVH) 62.87; 8 C Lacy 

(Bir) 62.46; 9 D Allen (Soton) 60.58; 10 A 

Ingham (SB, U20) 59.03; 11 W Trimble 

(K&P) 58.14; 12 A Johnson (Herne H) 

58.09; 13 A Boyle (VPCG, U20) 57.62; 14 

H Hollis (Corby) 56.07 


RESULTS 

ENGLAND CHAMPS 

Nathan Douglas: 

triple jump victory 

Women: 100: 1 D Walker (Bir) 11.45l 2 T 

Wisil (AUS) 11.49; 3 R Miller (Harrow) 

11.54; 4 R Campsall (York) 11.70; 5 K 

Baptiste (Craw) 11.70; 6 M Moore (Bir) 

11.72; 7 A Kiddle (Chelm) 11.81. SF1 

(0.8): 1 R Miller (Harrow) 11.66; 2 K 

Baptiste (Craw) 11.73; 3 K Awuah (Herne 

H, U20) 11.87; 4 C Wingfield (Card) 

11.91; 5 K Wyper (BWF) 12.07; 6 E 

Broome (R&N, U20) 12.35; 7 C Orton (Bir, 

U20) 12.36. SF2 (1.0): 1 D Walker (Bir) 

11.51; 2 M Moore (Bir) 11.64; 3 C 

Stephenson (TVH) 11.86; 4 T Thompson 

(E&H) 11.89; 5 A Bishell (Shef/Dearn) 

12.08; 6 L Clark (SB) 12.12; 7 S Japal 

(E&H, U20) 12.12; 8 L Hoad (Sutt, U20) 

12.46. SF3 (0.9): 1 T Wisil (AUS) 11.58; 

2 R Campsall (York) 11.69; 3 A Kiddle 

(Chelm) 11.83; 4 H Williams (B&W) 

11.99; 5 S Charles (SB) 12.14; 6 Y 

Westwood (Yate, U20) 12.24; 7 P Taea 

(AUS) 12.25. Ht1 (1.5): 1 M Moore (Bir) 

11.66; 2 C Wingfield (Card) 11.75; 3 T 

Thompson (E&H) 11.90; 4 S Charles (SB) 

11.95; 5 P Taea (COK) 12.20; 6 R 

Oderinde (Mil K, U20) 12.43. Ht2 (1.1): 1 

R Miller (Harrow) 11.45; 2 C Stephenson 

(TVH) 11.79; 3 K Wyper (BWF) 11.97; 4 A 

Bishell (Shef/Dearn) 12.04; 5 Y Westwood 

(Yate, U20) 12.11; 6 L Hoad (Sutt, U20) 

12.31; 7 E Leech (Torb, U20) 12.48. Ht3 

(0.3): 1 T Wisil (PNG) 11.61; 2 H Williams 

(B&W) 11.96; 3 L Clark (SB) 12.10; 4 E 

Broome (R&N, U20) 12.15; 5 Z Nash 

(Newp, U20) 12.33. Ht4 (0.7): 1 R 

Campsall (York) 11.63; 2 A Kiddle (Chelm) 

11.88; 3 K Awuah (Herne H, U20) 11.93; 

4 C Orton (Bir, U20) 12.14. Ht5 (2.8): 1 D 

Walker (Bir) 11.49; 2 K Baptiste (Craw) 

11.50; 3 M Snaith (C&C, U17) 12.11; 4 S 

Japal (E&H, U20) 12.21. 200 (0.7): 1 K 

Baptiste (Craw) 23.54; 2 B Dobbin (Edin) 

23.62; 3 T Wisil (PNG) 23.96; 4 D Walker 

(Bir) 23.97; 5 K Wyper (BWF) 24.44; 6 R 

Campsall (York) 24.46; 7 C Stephenson 

(TVH) 24.60; 8 R Fabunmi-Alade (Swan) 

24.92. Ht1 (1.3): 1 K Baptiste (Craw) 

23.88; 2 R Campsall (York) 24.47; 3 H 

Williams (B&W) 25.00; 4 R Jeggo (Col H, 

U20) 25.07; 5 C Orton (Bir, U20) 25.09. 

Ht2 (2.4): 1 B Dobbin (Edin) 23.84; 2 D 

Walker (Bir) 24.10; 3 K Wyper (BWF) 

24.63; 4 Z Thompson (NEB, U20) 24.96; 

5 E Barrett (C’field, U20) 25.14. Ht3 

(0.5): 1 T Wisil (PNG) 24.48; 2 R 

Fabunmi-Alade (Swan) 24.69; 3 C 

Stephenson (TVH) 24.82. 400: 1 M 

Adeoye (E&H) 53.14; 2 M Bruney (B&B, 

U20) 53.18; 3 S Downie (Edin) 54.91; 4 S 

Banjo (NEB) 54.93; 5 V Ohuruogu (NEB) 

55.20; 6 N Kendall (K&P) 55.72; 7 M 

Davies (C&S, U20) 56.66. Ht1: 1 M 

Bruney (B&B, U20) 53.17; 2 S Banjo 

(NEB) 54.96; 3 M Davies (C&S, U20) 

55.05; 4 S Downie (Edin) 55.61; 5 N 

Kendall (K&P) 55.90; 6 G Yearby (Leeds 

C) 56.07; 7 A Gellion (Roth, U20) 56.17; 

8 J Ryan (Loughton) 57.11. Ht2: 1 M 

Adeoye (E&H) 54.22; 2 V Ohuruogu (NEB) 

55.27; 3 L Beckford (SB) 55.98; 4 H 

Turner (Craw) 56.33; 5 T Kafke (Rad) 

56.46; 6 Y Adewakun (B&B) 56.57; 7 K 

Sutton (Dartf) 56.70. 800: 1 H England 

(Oxf C) 2:06.68; 2 M Smith (Bir) 2:07.25; 

3 E Okoro (Bir) 2:07.34; 4 J Fairchild 

(Prest) 2:07.56; 5 K Brown (Stew) 

2:07.88; 6 G Hartigan (Bir) 2:08.04; 7 R 

McClay (Brack) 2:08.70; 8 I Ives (Bas, 

U20) 2:11.36. Ht1: 1 G Hartigan (Bir) 

2:11.34; 2 J Fairchild (Prest) 2:11.98; 3 

K Brown (Stew) 2:12.53; 4 C Ford (Camb 

H) 2:13.36; 5 A Clark (WG&EL) 2:14.22; 

6 F de Mauny (Walton) 2:14.90. Ht2: 1 H 

England (Oxf C) 2:10.18; 2 M Smith (Bir) 

2:10.38; 3 E Okoro (Bir) 2:10.87; 4 R 

McClay (Brack) 2:11.08; 5 I Ives (Bas, 

U20) 2:12.10. 1500: 1 H England (Oxf C) 

4:17.84; 2 J Fairchild (Prest) 4:18.01; 3 

H Nuttall (Charn) 4:19.28; 4 K Johansen 

(Chelm) 4:21.20; 5 K Mhlanga (Chelm, 

U20) 4:24.25; 6 R Franklin (Manx) 

4:25.63; 7 A Howarth (Leigh) 4:26.01; 8 

L Smith (Notts) 4:27.76; 9 B Barlow (Salf, 

U20) 4:29.06; 10 Z Wassell (Stroud, U20) 

4:29.55; 11 R Harrison (Linc W) 4:32.72; 

12 J Judd (Chelm, U20) 4:36.39; 13 N 

Weir (Der) 4:37.35; 14 R Dunlop (Ports) 

4:39.36; 15 L Robinson (Wake) 4:41.01. 

5000: 1 V Ockenden (Swan) 16:36.91; 2 

K Holt (Stoke) 16:39.67; 3 J Hill (Sale) 

16:44.05; 4 S Cowper (Roth) 16:55.28; 5 

J Elkins (Soton) 17:02.88; 6 K Bingle 

(AFD) 17:08.95; 7 C Firth (WSEH) 

17:17.83; 8 L Bromilow (Mil K) 17:33.17; 

9 J Judd (Chelm, U20) 17:46.56; 10 J 

Anthony (W Suff) 18:03.85. 100H (-0.2): 

1 Y Miller (Der) 13.32; 2 J Hunter (VoA) 

13.51; 3 M Courtney (Chelt) 13.53; 4 M 

Marrs (WSEH) 13.59; 5 A Broadbelt-Blake 

(TVH) 13.70; 6 H Paton (Bir) 13.73; 7 N 

Bailey (Corby) 14.05; 8 E Nwofor (NEB) 

14.37. Ht1 (1.0): 1 Y Miller (Der) 13.52; 

2 A Broadbelt-Blake (TVH) 13.76; 3 N 

Bailey (Corby) 14.12; 4 A Bates (Bir, U20) 

14.26. Ht2 (0.4): 1 M Courtney (Chelt) 

13.69; 2 E Nwofor (NEB) 14.10; 3 K 

Stainton (Bir) 14.17; 4 H Jones (WSEH) 

14.49; 5 G Silcox (Yeov O, U20) 14.49; 6 

S Elliss (Croy, U20) 14.62. Ht3 (0.7): 1 J 

Hunter (VoA) 13.52; 2 H Paton (Bir) 

13.57; 3 M Marrs (WSEH) 13.62; 4 M 

Scott (IRL, U20) 14.18; 5 H Thomas (NEB) 

14.25; 6 J O’Dowda (Oxf C, U20) 14.75. 

400H: 1 K McAslan (Sale) 57.31; 2 L 

Nielsen (E&H) 57.94; 3 N Desai (Traff) 

58.83; 4 J Knight (WSEH) 59.21; 5 J 

Tappin (TVH) 59.53; 6 A Jackson (Edin) 

61.77. Ht1: 1 K McAslan (Sale) 58.10; 2 

J Knight (WSEH) 58.50; 3 A Jackson 

(Edin) 58.66; 4 N Desai (Traff) 58.92; 5 H 

Plumptre (Bir) 62.03; 6 C Esegbona (Traff, 

U20) 62.82; 7 A Barclay (Craw) 64.79; 8 

J Mitchell (G&G, U20) 65.35. Ht2: 1 L 

Nielsen (E&H) 59.12; 2 H McLean (Chelm) 

59.35; 3 K Dixon (E&H) 61.36; 4 L Wake 

(WSEH) 61.38; 5 A Hill (Herts P) 62.03; 6 

A Croft (WSEH, U20) 63.73; 7 M Grigg 

(Herts P) 65.37; 8 C Wilde (C&S, U20) 

65.92. Ht3: 1 E Okoro (Bir) 58.55; 2 J 

Tappin (TVH) 59.25; 3 M Patience (VPCG) 

59.71; 4 A Nelson (WG&EL) 61.14; 5 D 

Jansen Van Rensburg (SSH, U20) 62.72; 

6 N Ainge (C&S) 63.66; 7 H Knights 

(G&G) 64.75. 3000SC: 1 I Lake (Norw) 

9:50.61; 2 C Taylor-Green (B&W) 

10:01.05; 3 K Ingle (RSC) 10:10.73; 4 L 

Riches (Leigh) 10:30.08; 5 L Stoddart 

(Edin) 10:49.16; 6 V Cronin (Traff) 

11:10.52; 7 C Bentley (Wat) 11:32.75. 

3000W: 1 E Kelly (Nthn (IOM)) 13:50.72; 

2 E Ghose (Ton, U20) 15:34.69. HJ: 1 E 

Nuttall (Edin) 1.86; 2 N Manson (Giff N) 

1.86; 3 E Borthwick (Wig D) 1.76; 4 M 

Courtney (Chelt) 1.73; 4 C Hayes (WSEH) 

1.73; 6 R Hawkins (Bexley, U20) 1.73; 7 

P Lake (Chelm) 1.67; 8 J Browne (SNH) 

MARK SHEARMAN 

1.67; 9 K Garland (B&H) 1.67; 10 H 

Tapley (Worc, U20) 1.64. PV: 1 O 

Mctaggart (NZL) 4.15; 2 J Ive (Sutt) 4.05; 

3 C Blunt (KuH) 3.85; 4 E Edden (Bir) 

3.65; 5 E Andersson (SB) 3.65; 6 J 

Spencer-Smith (Harrow, U17) 3.65; 7 F 

Hockey (BWF, U20) 3.55; 8 E Macdonald 

(Brack, U20) 3.35; 9 E Breen (Herts P, 

U20) 3.00; 9 L Henderson (Ashf) 3.00. 

LJ: 1 K Stainton (Bir) 6.07/1.5; 2 E 

Broome (R&N, U20) 5.99/1.5; 3 J 

Oliarnyk (Hale, U20) 5.92/2.3; 4 K Eleyae 

(WG&EL) 5.88/0.9; 5 G Silcox (Yeov O, 

U20) 5.87/1.2; 6 A Barrett (TVH) 

5.84/1.3; 7 J O’Dowda (Oxf C, U20) 

5.73/0.6; 8 E Barber (Yeov O) 5.66/1.6; 9 

E Nwofor (NEB) 5.65/0.7; 10 S Palmer 

(Shef/Dearn) 5.61/1.1; 11 M Elcock 

(O&R) 5.60/1.0; 12 E Richardson (SB, 

U20) 5.51/1.1. TJ: 1 A Barrett (TVH) 

13.15/1.4; 2 A Wilder (Sutt) 12.55/3.4; 3 

A Rose (Traff) 12.48/1.6; 4 Z Asante 

(B&B, W35) 12.44/0.8; 5 S Hibbert (Lut) 

12.16/1.2; 6 L Stephenson (TVH) 

12.07/1.7; 7 E Richardson (SB, U20) 

12.01/2.7; 8 A Bates (Traff) 11.89/1.2; 9 

A Omitowoju (C&C, U20) 11.57/2.4; 10 V 

Oshunremi (Bas) 11.32/1.1. SP: 1 A 

Strickler (TVH) 16.79; 2 E Francis (Leic C) 

15.88; 3 A Nicoll (Bir) 15.54; 4 S 

Littlemore (Gate) 13.33; 5 S Palmer 

(Shef/Dearn) 13.18; 6 T Buckingham 

(Barns, U20) 13.17; 6 C Nick (York) 

13.07; 8 M Nwawulor (Harrow) 12.86; 9 

B Hall (Nene V) 11.90; 10 K Pay (Corn) 

11.33. DT: 1 A Holder (WSEH) 50.84; 2 E 

Francis (Leic C) 50.55; 3 P Dowson 

(B’mth) 49.13; 4 K Woodcock (Rad) 

48.35; 5 S Milner (B&B) 46.42; 6 C Nick 

(York) 44.93; 7 J Ibbetson (Leeds C) 

43.81; 8 S Littlemore (Gate) 42.99; 9 S 

Parsons (York) 41.17; 10 M Whitton 

(Read, U20) 39.58; 11 L Britane (TVH) 

38.11; 12 A Grosjean (Mend) 35.26; 13 S 

Hewitt (B&H, W40) 34.71. HT: 1 S 

McKelvie (Edin) 61.80; 2 S Holt (Sale) 

Jonathan 

Davies: 

1500m win 

at Bedford 

61.31; 3 M Perkins (Falk) 59.75; 4 P 

Wingate (K&P) 59.06; 5 L Marshall 

(WG&EL, W35) 59.02; 6 C Jones (B&W) 

59.01; 7 A Delmer (Lough S) 57.86; 8 H 

Murray (R&N) 57.67; 9 K Presswell (Mil K) 

56.77; 10 C Beatty (B&W) 56.27; 11 M 

Walsh (W&B, U20) 52.92; 12 M Larkins 

(Brain, U20) 46.63; 13 H Rodgers (Roth) 

45.92; 14 L Runnacles (Read, U20) 

44.03. JT: 1 L Whittingham (Sale) 54.88; 

2 V Peeters (NZL) 50.18; 3 K Bramhald 

(SB) 49.56; 4 H Johnson (WSEH) 49.34; 

5 L Lacy (Have) 49.24; 6 E Hamplett (Bir, 

U20) 48.35; 7 L Britane (TVH) 47.46; 8 E 

Meakins (Herts P) 45.45; 9 R Semenytsh 

(Sale) 44.76; 10 E Barber (Yeov O) 42.42; 

11 E Dibble (Mend, U20) 40.16; 12 S 

Percival (W Ches) 39.87 

Disabilty men: DT: F38: 1 M Dutton 

(St Alb) 36.17. F44: 1 M Nicholls (SB) 

42.27. DT: F37: 2 T Williams (Bir) 31.59. 

F41: 1 M Pope (St Alb) 27.22. JT:. F38: 

1 M Dutton (St Alb) 35.78. F44: 1 M 

Fernandes (Bed C) 44.15. JT: F54: 1 D 

Nobbs (BWAA, M35) 23.27. F55: 1 M 

Barker (Bir) 24.87; 2 R Womack (Uk net, 

M45) 20.38. F57: 1 N Chiddle (SNH) 

15.50 

Mixed events: LJ: P: 2 C Gardiner 

(B&B) 5.87/2.6; 1 J Howard (Sale, 

U20) 5.49/1.9; 1 B Jones (Dees, W40) 

3.60/1.2; 2 E Stewart (Gate, U20W) 

3.36/1.1. CT: F32: 1 T Green (Mil K) 

24.79; 2 B Griffiths (Chelt, W) 16.19 

Women: 100: P (1.6): 1 A Smith (G&G) 

14.05; 2 V Baskett (Cheltenham & County 

Harriers) 14.79; 3 E Stewart (Gate, U20) 

15.33. 100WC (0.2): 1 K Adenegan (Cov, 

U17) 18.32; 2 P Murray (Cov) 20.26; 3 S 

Taylor (Cov) 24.63; 4 Y Somers (Weir Arc, 

U20) 25.06. 

400WC: 1 K Adenegan (Cov, U17) 63.70. 

800WC: 1 K Adenegan (Cov, U17) 

2:11.31; 2 S Taylor (Cov) 3:06.40.. DT: 

F37: 1 M Forrest (Wig D) 19.82. JT: F55: 

1 M Hawkswood (GER, W50) 16.70 

MARK SHEARMAN 


TRACK & FIELD 


James West: wins 

the Watford 3000m 

JULY 28 

BMC REGIONAL RACES, Scotstoun 

Men: 1500: A: 1 J Bowness (Traff) 

3:48.13; 2 B Potrykus (Pit) 3:54.85; 3 J 

Hopkins (Swan) 3:55.79; 4 A Thompson 

(Centr) 3:56.63; 5 S MacAulay (Glas C) 

3:57.32; 6 A Scott (Fife, U20) 3:57.43; 

7 A Addison (Cors, U20) 3:59.24. B: 1 

F Murray (E Suth) 3:58.64; 2 M Smith 

(Lass, U20) 3:59.10; 3 K Elliott (Falk, 

U17) 4:02.28; 4 L Pentecost (Falk, 

U17) 4:04.62; 5 A MacAngus (Kilb, 

U17) 4:05.20; 6 D Pollock (Cambus, 

U17) 4:07.42. C: 1 C Wright (Kilb, 

U17) 4:06.25; 4 A Johnston (Pit, U17) 

4:09.50. 5000: A: 1 L Traynor (Glas C) 

14:00.63; 2 L Oates (Shett) 14:23.42; 

3 J Crowe (Centr) 14:27.25; 4 A Hay 

(Centr) 14:31.98; 5 C McKenzie (Cors) 

14:44.08; 6 S Sweeney (Perth, U20) 

14:44.68; 7 J Donald (Dund H, U20) 

14:45.24; 8 M Brown (Salf) 14:46.80; 

9 B Drury (A’deen) 14:48.10; 10 W 

Mackay (Bed C) 14:59.93; 11 D Colley 

(Centr) 15:10.37; 12 T Rees (Fife, U20) 

15:12.09; 13 M Strain (HBT) 15:18.62; 

14 N Renault (Edin) 15:36.60; 15 J Taylor 

(Morp) 15:39.39; 16 D Hastie (Gala) 

15:40.46; 17 G Smith (Cambus, U20) 

15:44.44; 18 N Hardy (Bir) 15:44.85; 19 

C Watson (I’clyde, U17) 15:50.37. B: 1 J 

Farkas (Stir U, M35) 15:24.14; 2 J Bell 

(I’clyde) 15:30.15; 3 R Gilroy (Cambus, 

M40) 15:32.95; 4 K Wilson (Cambus, 

M45) 15:38.63; 7 C Young (I’ness, U20) 

15:52.73; 9 L Johnson (Edin, M40) 

15:54.74; 10 G Robertson (Cambus, 

M35) 15:58.24; 21 L O’Hare (Kirk O, 

M40) 16:24.18; 23 J Nesbitt (Worc, W) 

16:31.01 

Mixed events: 1500: D: 1 L McCaffrey 

(Kirk O, U17) 4:10.82; 9 M Hendry (VPCG, 

W) 4:16.37; 12 D Addison (Cors, U15) 

4:18.33; 13 P Millage (VPCG, W35) 

4:20.22; 14 M Davies (Sale, W) 4:24.50. 

E: 3 J Patton (Kilb, U15) 4:21.27; 4 M 

Fotheringham (Giff N, U15) 4:22.78; 

5 L Hannigan (Kilb, U15) 4:24.72; 7 

R Burns (Edin, W) 4:26.18; 9 H McGill 

(G’nock, U15) 4:27.48; 10 A Cameron 

(Moth, M45) 4:28.67; 11 K MacAngus 

(Kilb, U20W) 4:29.66; 13 Z Bates (Edin, 

U20W) 4:34.36. F: 2 L Evans-Haggerty 

(VPCG, U15W) 4:32.49; 4 G Mckendrick 

(I’clyde, M50) 4:38.85. G: 3 E Johnson 

(Edin, U15W) 4:39.44; 7 G Whelan 

(Moray, U17W) 4:43.72; 9 F Ross (Harm, 

U13) 4:44.28; 10 L Mckenna (Giff N, 

U17W) 4:44.53; 11 R McLennan (Gars, 

M55) 4:50.34. Ht: 2 K Johnson (Edin, 

U13W) 4:47.12; 3 D Cumming (Dunf 

T&F, U15W) 4:48.78; 5 E Andrew (I’ness, 

U17W) 4:51.19; 8 S Tait (Lass, U17W) 

4:51.45; 10 G Ledingham (Cors, U15W) 

4:52.30; 12 K Crawford (A’deen, U13) 

4:53.76. 5000: C: 7 A Simpson (Fife, W) 

16:42.47; 11 S Taylor (Kil’k, W) 16:51.93; 

18 N Gauld (A’deen, W35) 17:16.32; 

21 S Laverty (Edin, W) 17:46.63. D: 2 

S McDonald (Moorf, M50) 17:10.86; 4 

C Upson (Cambus, M50) 17:24.50; 7 

M Sandison (Spring, W35) 17:29.72; 

8 S Potter (VPCG, W) 17:32.42; 10 K 

Macruary (Cors, W) 17:34.75; 14 F 

Matheson (Falk, W55) 18:05.25; 17 K 

Maxwell (Gala, W) 18:25.03; 19 K Jones 

(Fife, W35) 18:59.07. E: 1 K Bristow 

(Glas, W) 17:56.22; 2 C Pederson 

(USA, W) 18:14.47; 3 E Hibser (USA, 

W) 18:45.62; 4 I Scott-Pearce (Edin, W) 

18:50.21; 5 A Chisholm (Gars, M60) 

18:53.98; 9 P McCrossan (C’dale, 

W55) 20:12.87; 10 S Ridley (Edin, W50) 

20:14.98; 11 K Dobbie (Edin, W50) 

20:27.74 

JULY 26 

WATFORD OPEN GRADED 

JAMES WEST won a top class 3000m 

which saw six inside 8:05. 

Emelia Gorecka ran the fastest 

women’s time of 9:21. 

Mixed events: 200: r1 (0.6): 4 E Roe 

(WSEH, W60) 31.19; 8 C Alker (Lut, 

W60) 34.11. r4 (-0.1): 3 C Padmore 

(Oxf C, M65) 27.40. r5 (-0.2): 1 N 

Andrews (Harrow, M45) 25.62; 4 A Tyrrell 

(Harrow, U13) 26.20; 5 B Baniamer 

(Harrow, U13) 26.82. r8 (1.6): 1 C 

Dodds (E&H, U17) 22.69. r9 (-1.0): 1 

O Abiodun (WG&EL) 21.73. 1500: r3: 

7 R Kelly (AFD, U13W) 5:11.66. r4: 6 A 

Jubb (St Alb, U13W) 5:07.24; 9 L Tse 

(St Alb, U13W) 5:07.68; 15 O Edwards 

(D&T, U13W) 5:10.55. r5: 4 E Hathaway 

(Trent P, U15W) 4:59.18; 7 E Robinson 

(Saff, U13W) 5:00.97; 16 L Louw (Hill, 

U13W) 5:13.21. r6: 2 N Douglas (Trent 

P, U13) 4:56.19; 3 I King (Mil K, U15W) 

4:57.03; 4 H Rose (Mil K, U13) 4:58.71; 

13 C Borgars (AFD, U13W) 5:09.78; 14 

A Bates (R&N, U13W) 5:10.16. r7: 4 E 

Coombs (Corby, U17W) 4:51.03; 8 M 

Aldred (Chilt, U13) 4:57.46; 10 M Brown 

(Holl S, U13) 4:58.41. r8: 3 A Wilson 

(Poole, U15W) 4:47.75; 4 T Gaunce (St 

Alb, U13) 4:47.82; 8 R Abbott (Bed C, 

U17W) 4:53.06; 9 D Eves (Thurr, U15W) 

4:53.73; 11 L Jay (Lut, U17W) 4:54.98; 

13 J Williamson (Chilt, U15W) 4:55.16; 

14 R Garrett (Lon Hth, U15W) 4:55.56; 

15 O Miller (Norw, U15W) 4:55.97. r9: 1 

K Stern (St Alb, U17W) 4:44.71; 2 B Scott 

(Lon Hth, W) 4:44.88; 5 E Dolby (B&B, 

U15W) 4:48.30; 6 L Buttrick (R&N, U13) 

4:48.35; 8 C Nisbet (Chilt, U13) 4:48.79; 

9 L Nichols (Bed C, U20W) 4:49.83; 10 L 

Edge (Rush, U15W) 4:50.17; 12 E Enser 

(Brack, U13) 4:52.06; 13 K Goodge (Ton, 

U15W) 4:52.37; 14 M Coffey (Walton, 

U15W) 4:55.01; 16 L Wells (Brack, 

U15W) 4:57.43. r10: 5 O Emment 

(Walton, U13) 4:46.65; 11 A Garner (AFD, 

U15W) 4:51.92. r11: 4 G Eglen (AFD, W) 

4:37.94; 5 M Riglin (WSEH, W) 4:38.24; 

9 S Roberts (Handy C, M50) 4:41.08; 

11 M Compton-Stewart (WSEH, U20W) 

4:41.66; 13 P Bailey (St Alb, W) 4:44.26; 

17 E Bentham (Lut, U17W) 4:50.36. 

r12: 4 M Squibb (B&B, U15W) 4:34.67; 

11 F de Mauny (Walton, W) 4:40.63; 

12 M Ormond (WSEH, U20W) 4:43.38; 

16 A Miller (B&B, U15W) 4:54.38. r13: 

3 S Stebbings (Oxf C, M45) 4:21.08; 

6 N Hughes (Chilt, M45) 4:24.01; 11 

D Chattenton (M&M, W) 4:32.12; 12 J 

Tomczak (S Lon, U20W) 4:33.85; 13 B 

Rottweiler (Harrow, W) 4:34.58; 15 S 

Flockhart (Hunts, U17W) 4:38.93. r14: 2 

A Aldred (Chilt, U15) 4:19.59; 5 B Smith 

(Newk, U15) 4:22.51; 6 S Ward (WG&EL, 

U15) 4:23.29; 7 M Raynor (Read, U15) 

4:24.27; 8 L Small (AFD, W) 4:24.62; 

13 J Judd (Chelm, U20W) 4:30.85; 16 

C Alexander (Herne H, U17W) 4:32.61. 

r15: 1 I Chandler (SB, U15) 4:18.69; 

8 G Burnett (Charn, M45) 4:21.55; 9 E 

Gorecka (AFD, W) 4:23.24; 12 A Regan 

(AUS, W) 4:24.51; 13 G Nachshen (SB, 

U15) 4:24.57; 14 M McGarvie (Slough 

GARY MITCHELL 

J, U15) 4:25.27; 15 A Ireland (Hill, U15) 

4:25.82. r17: 9 D Bowley (Kett, U15) 

4:18.40; 12 E Henderson (AFD, U15) 

4:20.61; 18 E Williams (Kett, U17W) 

4:29.64. r18: 1 K Imroth (D&T, U17) 

4:10.16; 2 M Cooper (Brack, U17) 

4:10.49; 3 C Keogh (Wat, U17) 4:10.80; 

4 D O’Mahoney (Inv EK, M40) 4:11.00; 

7 J O’Hara (Ports, U17) 4:11.79. r19: 

1 E Cordery (Chelm, U17) 4:03.68; 3 D 

Maud (Charn, U17) 4:04.91; 9 S Reid 

(CAN, W) 4:08.90; 13 L Nuttall (Charn, 

U17) 4:11.72. r20: 2 T Roe (Ports, U20) 

4:02.52; 9 D McDougall (WSEH, U17) 

4:05.74; 10 M Courtney (SB, W) 4:08.42; 

12 S Coppard (Ton, U17) 4:10.97; 13 J 

O’Flaherty (Lon Hth, U17) 4:11.12. r21: 

1 C Wyllie (DMV) 3:59.84; 2 S Willis 

(Bed C, U20) 3:59.96; 3 J Heneghan 

(Win, U20) 4:02.26; 9 M Francis (B&B, 

U17) 4:05.40; 12 D Howells (AFD, 

U17) 4:07.64. r22: 1 R Lutakome (Sutt, 

U20) 3:56.23; 2 A Moore (WSEH, U20) 

3:56.38; 3 R Page (Linc W) 3:57.31; 

4 B Moore (WSEH, U20) 3:57.51; 5 A 

Sharif (Liv H) 3:58.47; 6 A Yabsley (Mil 

K, U20) 3:58.98; 7 H Smith (Bas, U20) 

3:59.03; 8 A Goodall (WSEH) 3:59.35; 

9 M Heyden (AFD, U17) 3:59.40; 10 T 

Butler (Barn, U20) 4:00.60; 11 J Croft 

(Hunts, U20) 4:01.34; 13 C Payas 

(M&M, U20) 4:01.44. 3000: r1: 1 M 

Wilkins (Win, W) 10:01.27; 4 J Anthony 

(W Suff, W) 10:07.41; 5 C Johnson 

(B&B, W) 10:09.77; 7 P Roessler (Reig, 

U15W) 10:12.75; 8 S Johnson (TVH, W) 

10:17.05; 9 M Newton (W Suff, U20W) 

10:18.72; 10 K Thorneycroft (Lon Hth, 

W) 10:22.29; 11 R Temple (Kent Sch, 

U17W) 10:22.70; 12 M Trafford (Arena, 

W) 10:23.58; 17 M Collings (Woking, 

U15W) 10:31.17; 18 K Marsh (Ton, 

U20W) 10:35.34; 20 I Wilkins (Hunts, 

U15W) 10:41.58; 24 O Williams (Chilt, 

U15W) 10:53.18. r2: 1 A Williams (Chilt, 

U15) 9:12.28; 2 O Newman (C&C, U17) 

9:13.64; 5 F Gordon (Ton, U15) 9:18.25; 

7 E Gorecka (AFD, W) 9:21.41; 16 H 

Viner (High, W) 9:34.65; 20 M Nicolle 

(Bic, U15) 9:39.45; 23 A Scott-Wilson 

(High, W) 9:46.20; 24 W Newcombe 

(C&C, U15) 9:47.49. r3: 2 J Cara (Kett, 

U20) 8:47.92; 3 E Forsythe (Mil K, U20) 

8:49.84; 5 R Gregory (Rane, M35) 

8:51.75; 6 B Musgrove (R&N, U20) 

8:52.11; 8 J Hope (Kett, U20) 8:53.07. 

r4: 1 I Kimpton (Lut) 8:19.01; 2 L Allison 

(Linc W) 8:19.36; 3 J Dempsey (SB, U20) 

8:19.39; 4 K Reilly (Ton) 8:23.22; 5 N 

Marsh (Ton) 8:27.95; 6 J Coxon (K&P) 

8:30.44; 7 F Slemeck (HW) 8:37.61; 8 J 

Laybourn (High) 8:39.40; 9 J Dickinson 

(York, U17) 8:40.81; 10 M Cox (AFD) 

8:40.83; 11 G Wheeler (Mil K, U20) 

8:41.92; 12 R Bahelbi (High) 8:42.07; 

13 R McTaggart (B’mth) 8:42.49; 14 

C Wheeler (Mil K, U20) 8:42.58; 15 T 

Trimble (Linc W, U20) 8:43.17; 17 S 

Rodda (Read, U20) 8:50.04; 19 G Burnett 

(Charn, U20) 8:57.49. TJ:1 R Emptage 

(D&T, M50) 10.14 

Men: 3000: 1 J West (Ton) 8:00.66; 2 

K Clements (Ips) 8:01.17; 3 M Bergin 

(Bed C) 8:01.58; 4 R Fitzgibbon (Phoe) 

8:01.79; 5 C Olley (Ton) 8:04.52; 6 R 

Driscoll (Ton) 8:04.86; 7 J Sanderson 

(G&G) 8:05.24; 8 P Surafel (E&H) 

8:07.43; 9 P Surafel (E&H) 8:08.14; 10 R 

Goodman (SB) 8:16.10; 11 P Sesemann 

(B&B) 8:16.14; 12 J Trigwell (NEB) 

8:17.91; 13 P Crout (SB) 8:22.31; 14 C 

De’Ath (Ton) 8:23.12; 15 J Straw (Linc W) 

8:27.15; 16 R Skelton (Phoe) 8:36.93; 

17 M Pickard (Phoe) 8:38.82 

CHELTENHAM MIDSUMMER OPEN 

U17 mixed events: 300: 1 A Testar 

(Stroud, U17W) 40.7 

Mixed events: 150: r1: 1 D Trueman 

(Stroud) 16.3; 2 J Abladey (Worc) 16.5; 

3 W Booth (FoD) 16.6. r2: 1 R Worman 

(Chelt, U17) 17.4; 5 K Constable (Glouc, 

W) 19.0. r3: 1 S Griffiths (Chelt, W) 

18.7; 2 A Testar (Stroud, U17W) 19.1; 

3 E Wheeler-Smith (Glouc, U15W) 

19.3; 4 S Lambert (Glouc, W) 19.4; 5 

J Duncton (Chelt, U13W) 20.4. r4: 1 G 

Pitman (Chelt, U15W) 19.4; 3 D Belgrave 

(Swin, U13W) 20.5; 4 S Davies (Card 

Arch, U13W) 20.9. r5: 1 P Stanfield 

(Glouc, U15W) 20.6. 800: r1: 5 Z 

Wassell (Stroud, U20W) 2:14.1; 10 E 

Webster (Bath, U15W) 2:22.8. r2: 1 B 

Davis (Newp, M50) 2:16.7; 3 E Hansen 

(Chelt, U15W) 2:20.6. 5000: r1: 1 D 

Owen (Chelt) 14:57.9; 2 P Beastall 

(Chelt) 14:59.4; 3 S Hawkes (Tip, M35) 

15:21.4; 4 J Chantler-Mayne (Chelt, U20) 

15:26.7; 5 W New (Chelt) 15:30.1; 6 J 

Turner (Stroud) 15:33.7; 7 R de-Camps 

(Chelt) 15:35.2; 8 J Parker (Chelt, M40) 

15:39.6; 10 R Dare (Chelt, M35) 15:56.0; 

11 I Radford (Bla PJ, M35) 15:56.8. 

r2: 11 A Taylor (Spirit of Monmouth, W) 

17:46.9; 15 N Eaton (Chelt, W) 18:17.1; 

16 G Hargraves (Almost, W) 18:31.4. r3: 

4 J Wassell (Stroud, W50) 19:06.1; 12 M 

Ford (Chelt, M70) 20:51.4; 16 K Galpin 

(Almost, W55) 21:28.3; 18 K Morton 

(Stroud, W55) 21:38.1. PV: 1 G Haselden 

(Chelt, U15W) 2.75; 2 B Sullivan (Chelt, 

U15) 2.60. TJ: 2 M Jones (Cwmb, U20W) 

11.39; 3 S Barrett (B&W, U20W) 11.30; 

6 M Leighton (Strat, U15W) 10.32; 8 L 

Crawley (Chelt, U15W) 9.85 

Men: HT: A: 1 T Williams (Glouc) 60.59 

U20: SP: 1 L Byng (Strat, U17) 14.19. 

HT: A: 1 J Jones (Glouc) 60.60; 2 K 

Grimwade (Card) 57.41; 3 A Griffiths 

(Chelt) 51.15 

U17: SP: 1 L Byng (Strat) 15.17. HT: A: 1 

J Turner (C&S) 48.33; 2 J Ricketts (Swin) 

46.67; 3 N Kelly (Hale) 43.38 

U15: HT: A: 1 T Conibear (Yate) 48.79 

M60: HT: A: 1 E Lawlor (Yate) 43.51 

U20 women: HT: A: 1 E Pearce (Rhon) 

43.49 

U17: SP: 1 C Arnold (Newp) 11.69; 2 L 

Pursey (R&N) 10.74. HT: A: 1 P Baggott 

(W&B) 55.54; 2 B Gammon (Card) 45.32; 

3 L Pursey (R&N) 38.58; 4 T Mullings 

(B&R) 36.77 

U15: HT: A: 1 C Grimwade (Card) 43.48. 

B: 1 L Berriman (Chelt) 28.60 

U13: SP: 1 O Austin (Soton) 10.32; 2 A 

Fettis (Newp) 9.54 

CRAWLEY OPEN SERIES, Crawley 

U15 mixed events: 300: r1: 1 P 

Lockwood (E’bne) 38.60; 3 P Oliver 

(Craw, U15W) 42.06 

Men: 100: r1 (-0.8): 1 R Turner (Craw, 

U20) 11.05. 400: r1: 1 Turner 48.4. 800: 

r1: 1 F Bigg (Phoe, U20) 1:51.79. LJ: 

5 H Hopkins (Worc, M55) 4.70. SP: 3 R 

Leach (Craw, M45) 10.12. DT: 2 P Evans 

(Woking, M45) 30.09; 3 K Baker (Craw, 

M55) 30.02 

Mixed events: 100: r2 (-1.2): 2 Z 

Nwogwugwu (Ton, U15) 11.91. r3 (-0.1): 

5 B Smith (Worth, U13) 12.69. r4 (-1.4): 

4 N Norris (Brack, W40) 13.45. 300: r2: 

1 M Swingler (E’bne, U15W) 42.71. 800: 

r2: 5 A Duncan (Lewes, U15) 2:06.38; 

6 B Stanger (Craw, U15) 2:06.87. r3: 4 

S Richards (WSEH, W) 2:13.47. r4: 10 J 

Briggs (Arena, W45) 2:30.21 

U15: HJ: 3 T Ridley (Worth) 1.75. SP: 1 C 

Finnie (Craw) 12.97. DT: A: 1 K Thornton 

(Chelm) 35.30. B: 1 Thornton 32.44 

M50: SP: 1 A Ekoku (Belg) 15.37. DT: 1 

A Ekoku (Belg) 52.30 

U20 women: DT: 1 I Griffin Morris (W 

Ches) 43.03 

U15: HJ: 1 I Humphreys (Horsh BS) 1.56 

U13: HJ: 1 S Shearer (Ork) 1.45. SP: 

1 G Jones (Ports) 9.83. DT: 1 L White 

(Ton) 28.02 


RESULTS 

TRACK & FIELD 

SUMMER OPEN SERIES (Inc 

CORNWALL COUNTY 10,000m 

CHAMPIONSHIPS), Par 

Mixed events: 10000: r1: 1 C Snook 

(Corn, M40) 32:55.6; 2 P Smith (Corn, 

M40) 33:46.6; 3 P Whear (Corn, M45) 

34:47.0; 4 J Thomas (Corn, M40) 

34:51.8; 7 E Stepto (Corn, W45) 35:46.5 

DARTFORD HARRIERS OPEN 

U17 mixed events: HT: 1 E Finch 

(Chelm, U15W) 38.19; 2 G Nash (M&M, 

U13W) 35.16 

Mixed events: 200: r2 (-1.0): 3 I 

Presnell (Ashf, M55) 27.75. 400: r1: 3 

K Samwell-Nash (Ashf, U15) 51.54; 5 

J Monteiro (Chelm, W) 56.83. r3: 4 D 

Lucas (Camb H, M65) 68.24. 800: r1: 3 

C Sharp (Dartf, M40) 2:04.71; 5 H Parker 

(Thurr, U15) 2:09.05. r2: 3 C Sharp 

(Dartf, U20W) 2:14.99. r3: 2 S Detienne 

(C&C, W40) 2:23.58. Mile: 1 J Beeks 

(BMH, U20) 4:25.95. HT: 1 K Ikeji (Bas, 

U15) 56.30; 2 A Ringshall (Dartf, U15) 

40.48; 4 A Bailey (Bexley, U15) 36.16 

Men: 1500SC: 1 R Stowell (Bexley, U17) 

4:50.86. HT: 1 K Murphy (B&B) 45.16; 2 

S Timmins (B&B, M40) 44.66 

U17: HT: 1 J Omotosho (Dartf) 56.04; 2 T 

Milton (S’end) 54.53 

M50: HT: 1 A Rushbrook (Bexley) 35.19 

Women: 1500SC: 1 E Bullis (Bas) 

5:12.46; 2 E Jury (Swale, U17) 5:42.63 

JULY 25 

BMC REGIONAL RACES, Exeter 

Men: 800: 1 D Wilde (Taun, U20) 

1:53.88; 3 C Livesey (Salf, M35) 1:56.29. 

B: 3 H Mier (Corn, U17) 1:59.26; 4 C 

Richards (Newp, U17) 1:59.57; 6 R 

Scott (Exe, M40) 2:00.30; 9 B McLellan 

(N&P, U15) 2:06.36. D: 2 S Mills (Exe, 

U13) 2:18.29; 5 A Herdman (Tav, M60) 

2:22.68. 1500: 1 L Prior (Wells, U20) 

3:58.65; 2 F Birnie (N&P, U17) 4:01.39; 

3 P Burden (Taun, M35) 4:05.83; 4 E 

Moran (Exe, U17) 4:07.40; 8 B Reynolds 

(Card, U15) 4:13.56. B: 3 J Dutton (N 

Dev, U15) 4:19.08; 8 J Reynolds (Card, 

U15) 4:22.20; 9 J Livingstone (Exe, U15) 

4:24.15. C: 3 F Morgan (Carm, U13) 

4:33.32. D: 3 D Bedwell (B&W, M60) 

4:53.39; 7 M Alcock (Torb, U13) 4:58.76 

Mixed events: 800: C: 2 O Lee (Taun, 

U15) 2:08.50; 3 E Wallace (W’bury, 

U20W) 2:14.00; 5 O Capps (Exe, U13) 

2:18.89 

Women: 800: 1 M Johnson (Dor, U17) 

2:17.25; 2 E Ryder (Tav, U20) 2:17.82; 

3 J Milburn (Tav, U17) 2:18.82; 4 J 

Littlechild (Bath, U17) 2:19.86; 6 B 

Coldwell (Exe, U15) 2:20.77; 7 M Herbert 

(Dor, U15) 2:21.48; 8 D Goddard (Poole, 

U15) 2:22.43. B: 3 E Davies (Swan, 

U13) 2:29.21. 1500: 1 H Tregenza 

(B’mth) 4:34.92; 2 M Canham (Exe, 

U17) 4:35.34; 3 H Turner (N Dev, U17) 

4:48.33; 4 M Luke (Corn, U13) 4:49.72; 

5 N Clatworthy (Card, U15) 4:51.49; 6 D 

Thompson (Carm, U15) 4:52.06 

BMC GOLD STANDARD RACES, 

Stretford 

ALEX BELL scorched to a superb 2:01.69 

800m clocking ahead of a stellar 

domestic field at Stretford, Stephen Green 

reports. 

Paced superbly by Georgia Yearby 

through the bell in 59 seconds, Bell was 

so eager to get on she ushered the pacer 

out of the way at the top of the bend. The 

Pudsey star pushed on to record what 

was both a Commonwealth and World 

qualifying time. 

In Bell’s wake Weightman (2:01.87) 

broke 2:02 for the first time, with Fairchild 

(PB of 2:02.09) and England (2:02.15) a 

couple of strides behind. Also in on the 

action was Claire Duck (2:06.84) to win 

the B race, with Beth Barlow returning a 

PB of 2:08.49. 

In the men’s race Rory Graham- 

Watson sped to a PB of 1:47.29, ahead 

of Alex Coomber, whilst Alexander Birkett 

and Joseph Reid both hit 1:50 and bits in 

winning the B and C races respectively. 

Men: 800: 1 R Graham-Watson (WSEH) 

1:47.29; 2 A Coomber (Card) 1:48.44; 

3 J Davies (Read) 1:48.94; 4 J Hallas 

(Bir) 1:49.09; 5 G O’Toole (USA) 1:49.70; 

6 O Meslek (Leeds C) 1:50.03; 7 J 

Ashcroft (Liv H) 1:50.73; 8 D Proctor 

(Sale) 1:51.55; 9 C Bell (Hallam, U20) 

1:55.61. B: 1 A Birkett (Kend, U20) 

1:50.71; 2 D Bebbington (Prest) 1:51.43; 

3 K Roberts (Carm) 1:51.47; 4 G Muir 

(Giff N) 1:51.87; 5 P Taylor (Bir) 1:52.01; 

6 J Brown (Vale R) 1:52.37. C: 1 J Reid 

(Card) 1:50.77; 2 L Lloyd (Herne H) 

1:51.29; 3 M Parry (Col B, U20) 1:51.47; 

4 L Jones (Tam) 1:51.86; 5 S Jones (St 

Alb) 1:52.92; 6 B Potrykus (Pit) 1:53.21; 

9 B Lee (Vale R, U17) 1:56.47. D: 1 D 

Horniman (Traff) 1:52.34; 2 C Thurstan 

(Bir, M40) 1:53.30; 3 H Baxter (Linc W) 

1:53.31; 4 A Benson (Prest) 1:53.88; 

5 J Armstrong (Morp) 1:54.53. E: 1 A 

Burrows (Tel) 1:53.99; 2 C Abberley 

(Burt, U17) 1:54.45; 5 S Millar (A’deen, 

U20) 1:55.89; 7 S Armstrong (Dur, 

U20) 1:56.87. F: 1 J Schofield (York, 

U20) 1:55.56; 3 A Richardson (Linc W, 

U17) 1:56.19; 5 H Dexter (Vale R, U20) 

1:56.76; 6 T Joyce (Tyne, U20) 1:57.20; 

8 J Dee-Ingham (Wig D, U17) 1:58.37. 

1500: 1 M Wigelsworth (Prest) 3:47.31; 

2 G Smith (Swan) 3:47.81; 3 R Needham 

(Notts) 3:48.05; 4 J Gooch (Swan) 

3:48.31; 5 E Cairess (Leeds C) 3:48.60; 

6 M Salter (Leeds C) 3:48.76; 7 B Connor 

(Der) 3:48.96; 8 R Warner (B’burn) 

3:49.12; 9 A Gruen (Oxf U, U20) 3:49.34; 

10 A Smith (P&B) 3:50.67; 11 E Gilchrist 

(Sale, U20) 3:51.44; 12 D Lawton (Traff) 

3:52.62; 13 M Jackson (Liv H) 3:53.60. 

B: 1 E Dorey (Glas C) 3:51.02; 2 M 

Seddon (Brack) 3:54.05; 3 T Crorken 

(Prest, U20) 3:54.12; 4 R Page (Linc W) 

3:54.82; 5 D Devine (Liv H) 3:55.00; 6 M 

Tanner (Sheff RC) 3:56.04; 7 M Deason 

(Shett) 3:56.42; 8 C Durney (Prest, U20) 

3:56.53; 9 M Burgin (Hal, U17) 3:57.26; 

10 T Boardman (Leigh) 3:57.87; 11 

T Rogerson (Liv H, U20) 3:58.91. C: 1 

O Dustin (Bord H, U17) 3:53.11; 2 D 

Dempsey (Shef/Dearn) 3:55.24; 3 J 

Cowperthwaite (M’bro, U17) 3:55.60; 4 J 

Maguire (DSD, U20) 3:56.12; 5 A Ediker 

(C’field, U17) 3:57.22; 6 L Jagger (Shef/ 

Dearn) 3:57.38; 7 M Pearson (Tyne, U20) 

3:58.72; 8 R Smith (Notts) 3:59.30; 9 

B Read (Wake) 3:59.82; 11 R Leonard 

(Morp, U17) 4:01.88 

Women: 800: 1 A Bell (P&B) 2:00.69; 

2 L Weightman (Morp) 2:01.87; 3 J 

Fairchild (Prest) 2:02.09; 4 H England 

(Oxf C) 2:02.15; 5 C Thomas (Wake, 

W35) 2:03.12; 6 M Smith (Bir) 2:05.59; 

7 L Barrow (WSEH) 2:05.92; 8 E McNiven 

(Liv H, U17) 2:08.82. B: 1 C Duck (Leeds 

C) 2:06.84; 2 B Barlow (Salf, U20) 

2:08.49; 3 K Seary (Card) 2:12.21; 4 E 

Tilley (Sale) 2:12.77; 5 D Webb (Liv H, 

U20) 2:14.04; 6 A Cunningham (Sale, 

U20) 2:15.68; 7 R Browne (Ireland) 

2:16.34 

EXETER EVENING OPEN, Exeter 

U17 mixed events: 300: r1: 1 K Oliver- 

Stevens (Exe, U15) 37.50 

Mixed events: 100: r4 (1.1): 1 M 

Alvarez (Taun, U20) 10.93; 3 K Oliver- 

Stevens (Exe, U15) 11.75. r8 (1.6): 1 M 

Vallier (Poole R, M40) 12.08. 400: r1: 

3 M Turner (Exe, M55) 58.30. r2: 3 L 

Fairbrother (Exe, M75) 72.82. DT: 1 E 

Sharpe (N Dev, U17W) 36.89 

Men: DT: 1 M Blandford (B&B) 54.72; 2 

P Swan (Corn) 47.74. JT: 1 J Engelking 

(N Dev) 60.39; 2 S Bennett (WG&EL, 

M40) 57.29; 1 J Moncur (Exe, U20) 

54.61; 3 M Tarran (Bir, M35) 54.49 

U17: SP: 1 J Tyler (Exe) 12.87; 2 G 

Vielius (Exe) 12.40. DT: 1 G Vielius (Exe) 

38.01 

U15: PV: 1 K Gilbert (Exe) 2.65. SP: 1 

C Moncur (Exe) 13.00. DT: 1 A Worgan 

(Corn) 43.70; 2 C Moncur (Exe) 40.68 

U13: 75H (0.6): 1 I Ketterer (N&P) 13.16. 

HJ: 1 G Tiernan (Exe) 1.50. SP: 1 L Ball 

(Yate) 9.38. JT: 1 B Jones (Taun) 36.52 

U17 women: SP: 1 A Curtis (Exe) 11.34. 

JT: 1 O Dobson (Exe) 38.00 

U13: JT: 1 J Larsen (Soton) 32.80 

TRAFFORD OPEN 

JESS JUDD ran 2:02.67 in the mixed 

800m. 

U15 mixed events: 1500: r1: 1 J Jones 

(Dees) 4:22.57; 2 O Cousins (C’field) 

4:26.70; 3 J Mangan (Traff) 4:27.61; 4 

I Ataullah (Warr) 4:28.64; 5 S Hopkins 

(Salf) 4:29.61; 6 T Corcoran (Liv PS) 

4:29.99; 11 S Heslop (Macc, U15W) 

4:31.79. r2: 5 C Robinson (Liv H, U15W) 

4:40.20; 6 L Crawford (Sale, U15W) 

4:40.63; 7 S Jones (Menai, U15W) 

4:41.72; 13 S Mason (Salf, U15W) 

4:49.00; 15 D Lonsdale (Prest, U15W) 

4:49.76; 17 R Edwards (Dees, U15W) 

4:56.64. r3: 9 F Harris (Vale R, U15W) 

4:59.16; 10 A Bratt (Salf, U15W) 4:59.86 

Mixed events: 800: r1: 1 R Zaman- 

Browne (Manc H, U17) 1:57.46; 3 D 

Hayes (BWF, M35) 1:57.92. r2: 1 A 

MacAngus (Kilb, U17) 1:59.04. r3: 5 J 

Judd (Chelm, W) 2:02.67. r4: 4 M Toal 

(N Vets, M45) 2:05.11. r6: 6 R Johnson 

(Liv PS, W) 2:08.96. r7: 4 L Robinson 

(Wake, W) 2:11.14; 5 K MacAngus 

(Kilb, U20W) 2:11.34; 6 G Clare (St H 

Str, M50) 2:12.27; 7 C Crook (Prest, 

U20W) 2:15.09. r8: 3 R Scott (Prest, W) 

2:13.06; 5 G Maddox (Prest, W) 2:14.02; 

6 S Bent (Salf, W) 2:14.03; 7 R Atherton 

(Leeds C, W) 2:14.08. r9: 3 A Howarth 

(Leigh, W) 2:11.98; 4 T Penfold (Cope, 

U20W) 2:14.12; 5 R Hibberd (Sale, W) 

2:14.75; 6 Z Knappy (Roth, W) 2:14.87; 

5 N Cartridge (Bolt, W) 2:16.32; 6 S 

McDonald (Wig D, W) 2:16.71. r10: 2 K 

Hunt (Prest, M45) 2:13.14; 5 A Cauley 

(Traff, W) 2:15.96; 7 E Wilkinson (Shef/ 

Dearn, U17W) 2:17.28; 8 M Gibbons 

(Sale, U17W) 2:17.64. r11: 2 A O’Neill (E 

Ches, U17W) 2:20.42; 6 K Pye (Charn, 

M55) 2:23.64. r12: 7 R Scholes (Barns, 

M70) 2:44.70. 1500: r1: 1 C McLew 

(Cambus, U17) 4:04.22; 3 G Lewis (E 

Ches, U20) 4:04.74; 10 S Long (Notts, 

M40) 4:11.26. r2: 1 K Davis (Chor ATC, 

U17) 4:07.71; 2 S Richardson (Notts, 

U17) 4:08.01; 5 C Watson (I’clyde, 

U17) 4:10.29; 6 K Owen (E Ches, U17) 

4:10.92; 8 A Doyle (Vale R, U17) 4:11.73. 

r3: 7 M Davies (Sale, W) 4:20.76; 11 

R Burns (Liv H, W35) 4:24.66; 12 G 

Malir (Leeds C, W) 4:26.45; 13 L Smith 

(Notts, W) 4:28.03; 14 C Thomas (Traff, 

W) 4:28.13. r4: 6 L Marshall (Notts, 

W) 4:34.56; 7 H Delaney (Liv H, U20W) 

4:41.03; 8 J Dawes (Traff, W) 4:43.67; 9 

O Haveron (H’gate, U17W) 4:48.85. r5: 

2 I Wilson (Hallam, U20W) 4:39.93; 3 I 

Castelow (Hal, U17W) 4:47.86; 4 L Smith 

(Vale R, U17W) 4:48.78. 3000: r1: 1 W 

Indelbu (Leeds C) 8:29.46; 2 H Powell 

(KuH) 8:30.46; 3 M Hoyle (Kend) 8:32.66; 

4 N Martin (Sale) 8:33.41; 5 A McMillan 

(York, U20) 8:33.51; 6 W Beauchamp 

(Salf) 8:35.12; 7 B Fish (B’burn, M35) 

8:37.75; 8 A Bellew (Leeds C) 8:39.40; 

9 T Cornthwaite (Salf) 8:40.23; 10 P 

Cameron (Edin) 8:41.51; 13 M Sutton 

(Traff, U20) 8:53.02; 15 M Pollard (Belg, 

M35) 8:55.73; 16 H Hardcastle (Der, 

U20) 8:57.12; 17 M O’Malley (Traff, 

U20) 8:57.89; 18 T Drabble (Stock H, 

U20) 8:59.36; 19 J Brennan (H’gate, 

U20) 8:59.64; 21 R Watmough (Keigh, 

U17) 9:00.50; 22 L Stonehewer (Scun, 

U17) 9:02.97. r2: 1 J Arnold (Stoke, 

M40) 9:05.44; 2 J Hudson (Keigh, 

U17) 9:08.14; 4 S Doyle (Vale R, M45) 

9:23.10; 7 L Riches (Leigh, W) 9:37.47; 

14 K Gallagher (Centr, U20W) 10:07.53; 

16 E Davies (Eden, U17W) 10:17.73. 

r3: 4 E Downs (Stock H, W) 9:59.49; 5 

J Convery (Bing, M55) 10:00.15; 8 E 

Renondeau (Elles P, W35) 10:18.00; 9 L 

Whittingham (Macc, U20W) 10:24.93 

Men: SP: 1 S Lincoln (York) 18.73. DT: 1 

W Knight (Bir) 42.70; 2 S Saraiev (Traff) 

42.27. DT: 1 M Line (Liv PS, M50) 38.88; 

3 L Golding (Pend, M50) 33.08. HT: 1 S 

Livett (Liv H) 45.20. JT: 1 S Jones (Wig 

D, M40) 40.74. JT: 2 M Line (Liv PS, 

M50) 42.66; 3 W McLoughlin (N Vets, 

M50) 39.55 

Women: SP: 1 A Baker (Pend, U17) 

10.59; 3 L Baker (Pend, W55) 6.95. DT: 

1 J Hirst (Hal, U20) 34.64; 6 L Baker 

(Pend, W55) 20.19. HT: 1 R Moore-Martin 

(Stoke, U17) 48.79; 2 C Stuchbury (Liv 

H, U17) 45.41; 4 L Baker (Pend, W55) 

24.36 

U20: HT: 1 C Price (Liv H) 45.14 

U17: JT: 1 A Baker (Pend) 37.57; 2 A 

Peach (Notts) 35.40 

JULY 23 

UK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT U17/U20 

LEAGUE DIVISION 

MIDLAND NORTH/EAST PROMOTION 

MATCH, Derby 

MATCH: 1 Charnwood 839; 2 Derby 

773.3; 3 Amber Valley & Erewash 685.3; 

4 City of Stoke 615; 5 Kidderminster & 

Stourport 472.3; 6 Solihull & Small Heath 

432; 7 Coventry Godiva Harriers 371; 8 

Tamworth 315 

U20 men: 200: A (-2.7): 1 J Smith 

(Charn, U17) 22.37. 800: 1 J Pollard 

(Charn) 1:56.60. 1500: 2 F McAuliffe 

(Charn, U17) 4:05.69. 110H: 1 T Thomas 

(Charn) 14.64. 4x100: 1 Charn 44.16; 2 

Stoke 45.70. 4x400: 1 Charn 3:32.51; 2 

Tam 3:36.34. SP: 1 I Wood (Der) 12.11. 

JT: 1 D Jones (Amber) 49.15 

U17: 100: A (0.0): 1 J Smith (Charn) 

11.19. 400: 1 H Thorneywork (SSH) 

51.42. 100H: 1 B Higgins (Charn) 

14.02; 2 H Thorneywork (SSH) 14.26. 

400H: 1 B Higgins (Charn) 56.17; 2 J 

Berwick (Amber) 59.73. 4x100: 1 Amber 

46.40; 2 Derry 46.88. 4x400: 1 Charn 

3:43.05. SP: 1 L Byng (Strat) 14.78. DT: 

1 C Darkin-Price (Charn) 39.04. HT: 1 J 

Lambert (K&S) 57.97 

U20 women: 200: A (-2.2): 1 E Coope 

(Amber) 25.26. 400: 1 H Cooper (Charn) 

56.93; 2 I Neville (Tam) 58.77. 4x100: 

1 Charn 50.67; 2 SSH 51.02; 3 Cov 

51.41. 4x400: 1 Charn 4:14.78. LJ: 1 H 

Barnden (Der, U17) 5.34. DT: 1 E Hodson 

(Cov) 34.17; 2 C Brown (Amber) 32.00. 

HT: 1 K Lambert (K&S) 52.45; 2 C Brown 

(Amber) 36.49 

U17: 300: 1 M Takwoingi (SSH) 41.08. 

800: 1 M Hudson (Der) 2:19.86; 2 L 

Aryeetey (Charn) 2:20.84; 3 E Clawley 

(Tam) 2:21.67; 4 E Minshull (Cov) 

2:21.79. 1500: 1 M Hudson (Der) 

4:43.66; 2 M Atkinson (Charn) 4:46.67. 

80H: 1 H Barnden (Der) 11.91; 2 L 

Naylor (Amber) 12.03. 300H: 1 L Naylor 

(Amber) 46.90. 4x100: 1 Der 50.80. 

4x300: 1 Der 2:57.57. LJ: 1 K 

Woodward (SSH) 5.24; 2 A Etuwewe 

(Der) 5.21. HT: 1 J Routledge (Charn) 

48.87; 2 R Moore-Martin (Stoke) 47.89; 

3 J Surridge (K&S) 37.33. JT: 1 H 

Barnden (Der) 38.11; 2 J Brown (Amber) 

37.13 

NORTH PREMIER EAST RELEGATION 

MATCH, Middlesbrough 

MATCH: 1 Gateshead H 555; 2 

Middlesbrough (Man) 514; 3 Doncaster 

322; 4 KUH 318; 5 Sheffield & D 261 

U20 men: 100: 1 A Morgan-Harrison 

(KuH) 11.1. 800: 1 W Curtis (Gate) 

1:57.9; 2 M Barnwell (M’bro, U17) 

1:58.5. 4x100: 1 M’bro 46.0. SP: 1 J 

Tranmer (KuH) 13.25; 2 A Jeal (M’bro) 

12.38. DT: 1 J Tranmer (KuH) 40.23. 

HT: 1 D Nixon (M’bro) 59.75. B: 1 A Jeal 

(M’bro) 49.30 

U17: 100H: 1 A Coles (KuH) 14.3; 2 O 

Herring (Gate) 14.3. 1500SC: 1 J Langley 

(CleS) 4:51.2. 4x100: 1 M’bro 46.1; 2 

KuH 46.2. HJ: 1 K Walker (Shef/Dearn) 

1.95. LJ: 1 J Halpin (Gate) 6.31. SP: 

1 S Kerry (KuH) 12.65. HT: 1 S Kerry 

(KuH) 59.76 

U20 women: 800: 1 P Stone (M’bro) 

2:19.0. 1500: 1 M Butterworth (Donc) 

4:45.8. 100H: 1 G Hollis-Lawrence (Shef/ 

Dearn) 14.5. SP: 1 K Carmichael (M’bro) 

10.46. DT: 1 G Kyle (Blay) 34.20. HT: 1 O 

Stevenson (KuH) 50.34. JT: 1 Y Othman 

(Gate) 33.39 

U17: 1500: 1 R Purves (Gosf) 4:48.8. 

80H: 1 V Morgan (KuH) 12.0. 4x100: 1 

Donc 52.5. LJ: 1 L Wheeler (KuH) 5.48. 

TJ: 1 L Wheeler (KuH) 11.17. SP: 1 V 

Morgan (KuH) 11.10; 2 J Waters (Shef/ 

Dearn) 10.78. JT: 1 R Chivers (KuH) 

36.69 

NORTH PREMIER WEST, 

Wrexham 

U20 men: 100: 1 E Madden (Sale) 10.7. 

200: 1 S Emery-Shawcross (Sale) 22.3. 

110H: 1 R Brown (Traff) 15.0. 2000SC: 1 

G Lewis (E Ches) 6:18.4; 2 J Ford (Liv H) 

6:29.6. 4x100: 1 Sale 43.4; 2 Traff 45.0; 

3 Prest 45.8. 4x400: 1 Sale 3:29.6. PV: 

1 T Walley (N Wales) 4.20; 2 H Lord (Sale) 

4.00. LJ: 1 T Walley (N Wales) 6.64. TJ: 

1 E Odubanjo (Sale) 13.42. SP: 1 S Dean 

(Sale) 12.33. HT: 1 E Jeans (Prest) 63.74; 

2 J Roberts (Liv H) 62.49; 3 W Schofield 

(Sale) 48.47. JT: 1 S Dean (Sale) 59.23 

U17: 200: 1 Z Price (N Wales) 22.9. 

100H: 1 E Coles (Prest) 14.4. 4x100: 

1 N Wales 46.1; 2 Prest 46.4; 3 Sale 

46.4. SP: 1 P Harris (N Wales) 12.14; 2 

S Gaskell (Prest) 12.12. HT: 1 S Gaskell 

(Prest) 55.79. JT: 1 H Ditchfield (Sale) 

54.44 

U20 women: 100: 1 R Walker (Sale) 

12.3; 2 G Preston (Liv H, U17) 12.6. 

200: 1 R Walker (Sale) 25.3; 3 M Jones 

(N Wales, U17) 25.6; 4 G Preston (Liv 

H, U17) 25.9. 400: 1 F Roberts (N 

Wales) 57.7; 2 T McHugh (Sale, U17) 

57.9; 3 S Driscoll (Liv H, U17) 59.3. 

3000: 1 A Oliver (Liv H) 10:38.4. 100H: 

1 C Esegbona (Traff) 14.8. 400H: 1 C 

Esegbona (Traff) 62.3; 2 M McHugh (Sale) 

65.2. 4x100: 1 Sale 49.9. 4x400: 1 Sale 

4:04.9; 2 Traff 4:07.6; 3 N Wales 4:09.3. 

PV: 1 L Wolfenden (Sale, U17) 2.75. LJ: 

1 S Warden (Prest) 5.26; 3 T Blissett 

(Sale, U17) 5.16. DT: 1 J Pyatt (Liv H) 

41.32. B: 1 Z Aspell (Liv H) 33.38. HT: 1 

C Price (Liv H) 46.14. JT: 1 T Williams (N 

Wales) 33.29 

U17: 100: 1 M Gord (Sale) 12.2; 2 M 

Jones (N Wales) 12.4. 800: 1 M Roberts 

(N Wales) 2:14.8; 2 M Gibbons (Sale) 

2:18.6. 3000: 1 M Raine (Liv H) 10:45.6; 

2 B Davies (N Wales) 10:49.1. B: 1 

J Morgan (Liv H) 10:48.3. 300H: 1 S 

Driscoll (Liv H) 45.9. 4x100: 1 N Wales 

51.6; 2 Liv H 52.4. PV: 1 M Waters (Sale) 

3.10. B: 1 A Haslam (Sale) 2.75. LJ: 1 L 

Robinson (Liv H) 5.26. TJ: 1 D Mcdonald 

(Prest) 10.46. SP: 1 Z Price (Liv H) 11.84. 

HT: 1 Z Price (Liv H) 48.99; 2 E Vickers 

(Prest) 44.04; 3 M Kettle (Sale) 39.74. B: 

1 C Stuchbury (Liv H) 46.75; 2 R Lowe 

(Prest) 36.81 


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ROAD 

JULY 31 

SELF TRANSCENDENCE 5km, 

Battersea Park 

Overall: 1 J Hay (AFD) 14:37; 2 B 

Toomer (HW) 15:12; 3 R Evans (S Lon) 

15:28; 4 C Houston (TVH) 15:36; 5 A 

Hamilton (S Lon, M35) 15:47 

M40: 1 R Phillips (Serp) 16:04; 2 A Inglis 

(Camb H) 16:23; 3 K Macintosh (Wimb 

W) 16:33; 4 N Hume (Gard CR) 16:36; 

5 P Brennan (Trent P) 16:59. M45: 1 D 

Williams (Sutt R) 16:58; 2 J Gevers (Kent) 

17:19; 3 F Allen (HW) 17:25. M50: 1 S 

Philcox (Ilf) 17:17 

Women: 1 S Davis (Clap C) 16:50; 2 R 

Penfold (Fulham) 17:53; 3 V Walker (SB) 

18:10; 4 C Lloyd (Lewes) 18:18 

W50: 1 R Lewis (West4Harriers) 21:29. 

W60: 1 A Riddell (Morn) 22:18; 2 A 

Sanders Reece (Serp) 24:00. W65: 1 N 

Stanford (Serp) 25:57 

JULY 30 

HELENA TIPPING MEMORIAL 10km, 

Wrexham 

LOCAL Runner Daniel Weston was denied 

a hat-trick of wins in this race by Vale 

Royal AC’s Chris Williams who won in a 

PB of 33:11. Weston finished fourth. 

There was a Wrexham win in the 

women’s race, though, as Emma Crowe 

was first home in 38.39 in 25 th overall. 

Overall: 1 C Williams (Vale R) 33:11; 2 

J Arnold (Stoke, M40) 33:20; 3 l Jones 

(Dees, M45) 33:40; 4 D Weston (Wrex) 

33:50; 5 N Jones (Warr, M40) 34:05; 6 s 

Sayer (Menai) 34:17 

Women: 1 E Crowe (Wrex, W40) 38:39; 

2 m Clarke (Tel, W45) 38:56; 3 F 

Wolohan (Lyth) 39:35 

W50: 1 J Hickman (P’atyn) 43:03. W55: 

1 C Shaw (Hels) 46:24. W70: 1 C Birch 

(A’gele) 49:43 

COOKSTOWN HALF-MARATHON 

Overall: 1 S Mcalary (Springw) 75:45; 

2 E Hughes (Acorns) 80:40; 3 C Huitson 

(Tyne Br) 81:57 

Women: 1 L Smith (NBH, W45) 85:52; 

2 J Foster 95:15; 3 C Roberts (N Down, 

W40) 97:46 

GREAT GRIMSBY 10km, Grimsby 

Overall: 1 L Allison (Linc W) 30:24; 2 A 

Watson (Notts, M35) 30:31; 3 L Jagger 

Chris Williams (617): well placed for 

victory at the Helen Tipping 10km 

(Shef/Dearn, U20) 31:20; 4 N Martin 

(Caist) 31:37; 5 R Page (Linc W) 32:43; 

6 M Sands (Skegness & District, M45) 

33:27; 7 L Stonehewer (Scun, U20) 

33:50; 8 S Wignall 33:58; 9 L Westwood 

34:16; 10 S Wright (Donc, M50) 34:33 

M40: 1 P Whittleton (Ilk) 35:19. M45: 2 

R Harris (Wold) 35:30. M50: 2 S Dring 

(Wold) 36:05; 3 M Waite (Newk) 37:17. 

M60: 1 S Rennie (CoH) 38:00; 2 G 

Perkins (Wold) 38:45. M65: 1 A Flint 

(Bev) 42:01. M70: 1 M Casey (Wold) 

41:58; 2 V Shirley (N Vets) 43:18 

Women: 1 N Burns (Linc W) 36:15; 2 

C Stansfield (CoH) 36:48; 3 N Bright 

(CoH) 41:40 

W45: 1 E Marshall-telfer (Skegness & 

District) 42:56. W50: 1 T Gibson (Wold) 

43:13. W60: 1 L Higgins (Wold) 46:02. 

W65: 1 B Brown (Wold) 47:24; 2 J 

Morley (Wold) 49:31; 3 E Woods (Wold) 

52:04. W70: 1 S Nicholls (BurnS) 51:35 

RIVERSIDE RUNNERS ANNIVERSARY 

10km, St Neots 

Overall: 1 N Shasha (Orion, M40) 34:55; 

2 M Barry (Hunts) 35:14; 3 S Strange 

(Bas) 35:38 

Women: 1 G Mullins (Nene V) 40:21; 2 

S Cullen (Eye) 44:10; 3 D Shelley (BRJ, 

W35) 45:46 

SUNRISE RUN 5km, Dransbay 

Overall: 1 D Clarke (NBH, M55) 19:01; 2 

J Neill (Larne, M40) 19:38; 3 C Collins (E 

Ant, M35) 19:49 

Women: 1 G Davies 23:23; 2 C 

Mclaughlin 23:39; 3 R Brady (W40) 

23:49 

TENBY 10km, Tenby 

Overall: 1 S Evans 34:34; 2 J Carpenter 

34:55; 3 D Keenan 35:37 

M60: 1 A Davies 38:09; 2 B Morgan 

39:12; 3 I Webb 39:15 

Women: 1 C Parsons 39:44; 2 M Beever 

(W35) 41:03; 3 M Unknown (W35) 42:02 

W55: 1 L Woodland 46:54 

WELLINGBOROUGH 5, Northants 

Overall: 1 A Smith (Cov G) 26:12; 2 L 

Montgomery (Corby) 26:56; 3 G Lee (Leic 

C, M50) 26:57 

M50: K Molloy (W’boro) 29:45. M60: N 

Lovesey (Bed H) 32:27 

Women: 1 N Roberts (Bir) 28:58; 2 

R Hall (Corby) 30:31; 3 M Bowerman 

(Ampt) 32:31 

W55: K Munn (Kett) 35:16 

JULY 29 

3-1-5 LANCASTER 5km SERIES 

Overall: 1 P Waite (Barr) 15:21; 2 M 

Walsh (Salf, M35) 15:43; 3 B Sache 

(Lanc U, U20) 15:55 

M45: 1 A Buttery (B’burn) 17:23. M55: 1 

J Convery (Bing) 17:16. U20: 2 G Phillips 

(York) 16:53 

Women: 1 H Glover (Ribb) 18:03; 2 C 

Corrigan (Hynd, U13) 20:29; 3 J Perry 

(L&M, W35) 20:41 

HECKINGTON SHOW 10, Heckington 

Overall (10M): 1 S Robinson (Linc W) 

52:36 

Overall (10M): 1 R Keal (Notts, M40) 

54:07; 2 I Bailey (Slea, M35) 56:59; 3 C 

Davies 58:14 

M45: 1 M Jennings (Fen) 59:45. M55: 

1 P Duncan (Linc W) 63:47; 2 C Wintrip 

(Linc W) 64:39 

Women: 1 P Downing (Mab, W50) 

69:03; 2 R Jones (W45) 69:34; 3 B 

Everson (Fen) 71:56 

MAGOR MARSH 10km, Undy 

MUKTAR FARHAN won the men’s race in 

33:39 while under-17 Laura Wright was 

first woman in 41:21. 

Overall: 1 M Farhan (Card) 33:39; 2 L 

Murray (Cleve, M40) 34:02; 3 J Cracknell 

(M35) 34:09; 4 L Aherne (Parc BB, M50) 

34:14; 5 G Fletcher (Les C, M35) 34:36 

M40: 2 L Tudor-Maisey (Les C) 35:25. 

M60: 1 E Lepore (Les C) 39:53. M70: 1 

B Woolterton 47:43 

Women: 1 L Wright (Card, U17) 41:21; 2 

H Hinsley (Bitt, W50) 44:02; 3 J Atkinson 

(Bitt) 44:16 

W65: 1 B Avery (Chep) 52:22 

MEERBROOK 15km, Staffordshire 

Overall: 1 J Rainsford (Heanor) 52:15; 

2 S Myatt (Trenth) 53:07; 3 R Challinor 

53:39; 4 W Neill (Stoke) 53:35; 5 C 

Moulton (Boalloy) 53:50; 6 M Bickerstaff 

(Heanor) 54:21; 7 B Beatie (Hallam) 

54:51; 8 D Williams (Dees) 54:57; 9 P 

Jones (M45) 55:00; 10 B Cartwright 

(Mat) 55:44; 11 E Asmelsh (Trenth) 

55:57; 12 R Coen (Wilm) 56:07; 13 E 

Cox (Buckley) 56:14; 14 M Walker (Macc) 

56:21; 15 I Salt (Uttox) 56:21; 16 S Rice 

(Heanor) 56:54 

M40: J Burgess (Trenth) 58:12. M45: 2 

G Smith (Heanor) 58:24; 3 A Whittingham 

(Wilm) 59:51. M50: T Clayton (Ripley) 

59:02. M60: D Lancaster (York A) 67:46. 

M65: D Alcock (Trenth) 67:39. M70: B 

Blyth (Macc) 75:31 

Women: 1 D McVey (Wilm, W40) 60:06; 

2 S Willhort (Shrews) 62:41; 3 L Morris (S 

Chesh) 64:22; 4 J Laing (S Der) 65:35; 

5 G Barnet (Vale R, W35) 65:59; 6 W 

Mullineux (Heanor, W35) 66:58 

W40: M Buckle (Newc) 69:04. W45: 

1 S Gray (C&S) 69:38; 2 J Stanfield 

(Trenth) 69:54; 3 E Western (Congle) 

71:17. W55: 1 P Barber (Tip) 72:51; 2 J 

Phillips (Trenth) 77:32. W70: D Fellows 

(C&S) 85:57 

PILLING 10km SERIES, Pilling 

Overall: 1 R Danson (Wesh) 31:54; 2 J 

Monk (B’burn) 33:47; 3 D Brown (L&M) 

34:33; 4 J Parker (Prest, M40) 34:45; 5 

C Mckee (M40) 34:52 

Women: 1 L Hesketh (Clay) 35:23; 2 H 

Jarvis 37:41; 3 M Hook (Lyth) 40:57 

W45: 1 S Dixon (Hoad) 41:59; 2 K White 

(Burn RR) 42:10. W70: 1 N Smith (B’burn 

RR) 57:58 

RACEWAYS SUMMER SHAKESPEARE 

RACES, Stratford-upon-Avon 

Overall: 1 B Plummer (Barr R) 36:43; 

2 M Hobbs (NCT&R, M35) 37:54; 3 T 

Kabala 38:21 

Women: 1 L Pettifer (Kenil, W35) 42:26; 

2 R Ferry (Oxf C, W35) 42:38; 3 J Wilkie 

(Chelt, W35) 43:38 

Overall (5km): 1 A Hirst (Fell RA, M45) 

19:29; 2 T Hazell (WSEH, U13) 20:32; 3 

C Hunt (Strat, U13) 20:57 

Women: 1 A Cotton (W35) 28:00; 2 M 

Thomas 28:06; 3 L Gibbins 28:08 

Overall (HM): 1 P Middleton (Shrews, 

M35) 77:28; 2 J Marshall (Droit, M35) 

78:46; 3 D Campbell-Cave (Kings Heath) 

81:50 

M65: 1 D Pettifer (Kenil) 97:27 

Women: 1 S Carter (Belg, W35) 88:04; 2 

S Holt (W’sey, W40) 95:05; 3 C Aryeetey 

(UTS Running, W45) 1:41:33 

JULY 28 

HARBOUR CLUB LAST FRIDAY 

OF THE MONTH 5km, London 

Hyde Park 

ELLIOTT HIND was a clear men’s winner 

in 15:52 while under-17 Chloe Sharp 

won the women’s race in a PB 17:55. 

Overall: 1 E Hind (L Buzz) 15:52; 2 

J Tipper (Kent) 16:18; 3 N Jovanovic 

(Camb H, M40) 16:36 

M40: 2 C Sharp (Dartf) 16:59. M60: 

1 J Haynes (Bish S) 18:45. M70: 1 T 

Rea (Drag) 22:48. M75: 1 J Batchelor 

(Ilf) 22:57 

Women: 1 C Sharp (Dartf, U17) 17:55; 

2 I Rea (W4H, W40) 18:41; 3 L Watts 

(W’boro, U15) 19:39 

W40: 2 A Johnson (Dartf) 19:57. W55: 1 

J Wastell (Lon Hth) 22:21 

LACPATRICK MILK 5, Belfast 

Overall: 1 N Johnston (Springw) 25:26; 

2 J Steede (Glens, M35) 26:25; 3 L 

Dinsmore (Springw, U20) 26:51 

Women: 1 B Connolly (Derry) 28:23; 2 C 

Toner (Springw, W35) 30:30; 3 C Mccourt 

(W40) 31:51 

NEWSTEAD ABBEY DASH 5km, 

Ravenshead 

Overall: 1 K Farrow (Der, M40) 15:50; 

2 S King (Notts) 16:08; 3 A Perrin (Long 

E) 16:17 

M40: 2 D Potter (Mid M) 16:47; 3 

D Nugent (SinA) 16:54. M50: 1 P 

Whittingham (SinA) 16:52; 2 A Wetherill 

(Mans) 17:35; 3 P Newton (Red) 18:00 

Women: 1 L Marshall (Notts) 18:07; 2 R 

Gallop (Newk) 18:28; 3 S Hughes (SinA, 

W35) 19:24 

W45: 1 C Heaton (Holme P) 20:14; 2 

J Atkinson (Holme P) 21:00. W55: 1 B 

Stevens (Red) 22:33. W65: 1 M Collinge 

(Mans) 25:22 

TEMPLE PARK 5km SERIES, 

South Shields 

Overall: 1 I Ritchie (Sun) 15:44; 2 M 

Joyeux (Quak) 15:46; 3 S Jackson (Elv) 

15:55 

M40: 1 I Dixon (Sun) 16:03; 2 P Blakey 

(Sun) 16:37; 3 L Bennett (Els) 16:37; 4 

S Hall (NSP) 16:51. M50: 1 M Taggart 

17:57 

Women: 1 T Millmore (Birt) 17:50; 2 

C Price (Birt) 18:25; 3 R Bennett (Els) 

18:27; 4 J Penn (NSP) 18:42 

W50: 1 S Phillips (Darl) 20:46; 2 H 

Robinson (J&H) 21:11 

WORSTEAD 5, Norfolk 

Overall: 1 D Blake (Reep) 36:53; 2 

M Pyatt (Ryst, M40) 27:24; 3 D Crush 

27:37 

M65: 1 D Michael (Barn) 33:06; 2 K 

Bowman (Colt) 35:31 

Women: 1 A Smith (Wym, W40) 32:55; 2 

L Juby (Orion, W35) 33:05; 3 S Peachey 

(Wimb) 33:59 

W45: 1 S Spence Bure V) 34:29; 2 S 

Hurren (Wym) 34:42. W50: 1 C Devlin 

(Dere) 34:26; 2 T Jones (Bure) 35:00; 3 L 

Hurr (Norf G) 35:58. W60: 1 A Ellen (Norf 

G) 37:12; 2 C Betts (Norf G) 38:02; 3 L 

Walker 38:40 

JULY 27 

MOTA-VATION SERIES 4, race 4, 

Combe, Oxfordshire 

MATTHIEU MARSHALL had a comfortable 

victory over the veteran pair of James 

Bolton and Tegs Jones, as the evening 

series continued, Martin Duff reports. 

The 21-year-old Southampton runner 

scored a repeat victory, in 22:12, after 

coming out on top in the June round of 

the series. 

Women’s race winner, 42-year-old 

Diane Moore, again led her Headington 

team and covered the four-mile 370 

yards course in 26:07 as she notched up 

her third Mota-Vation win of the year. 

Overall: 1 M Marshall (Soton) 22:12; 2 J 

Bolton (W’stock, M40) 22:42; 3 T Jones 

(Oxf C, M40) 22:45; 4 L Newell (Oxf C, 

M40) 23:04; 5 C May (VoA) 23:06; 6 W 

Gardner (Oxf C) 23:21; 7 S Fisher (Oxf 

C) 23:25; 8 O Stepney (Abing) 23:33; 9 

R Taylor (VoA, M40) 23:37; 10 H Sleight 

(Cher R&J) 23:45 

M50: 1 R Storey (Eynsh) 24:04; 2 J Ayteo 

(Oxf C) 24:30; 3 D Cantwell (W’stock) 

25:19. M60: 1 P Gregory (VoA) 25:31; 

2 B Green (Oxf C) 25:49; 3 R Grant 

(Oxf C) 27:55. M65: 1 R Treadwell (Oxf 

C) 28:55; 2 J Exley (Oxf C) 29:42; 3 B 

Hendrie (Banb) 30:18. M70: 1 P Kimber 

(Oxf C) 32:56 

TEAM (6 to score): 1 Oxford C 51; 2 

Alchester 144; 3 Eynsham 181; 4 VoA 

229; 5 Witney 249; 6 Head RR 259 

Standings after 4 races: 1 Oxf C 374; 

2 Head RR 662; 3 Alchester 778; 4 

Abingdon 823 5 VoA 877; 6 Eynsham 

955 

Women: 1 D Moore (Head, W35) 26:07; 

2 H Greenwood (Kid) 26:33; 3 D Allen 

(Hook N) 27:30; 4 S Loveless (Did R) 

28:05; 5 S Usher (Alch, W45) 28:08; 6 F 

Sharpley (Thame) 28:25 

W55: 1 K Bates (Eynsh) 29:46. W60: 

1 G Hueter (Oxf C) 32:43. W65: 1 K 

Williamson (Eynsh) 32:49 

TEAM (3 to score): 1 Head RR 18; 2 

Head RR B 49; 3 Alches 50; 4 Abingdon 

61; 5 Cherwell 65; 6 Hook N 67 

Standings after 4 races: 1 Head RR 

71; 2 Alchester 172; 3 Head RR B 187; 4 

Eyns 215; 5 Abing 248; 6 Witney 266 


RESULTS 

ROAD / MULTI-TERRAIN 

ASSEMBLY LEAGUE 3.5M, 

Victoria Park 

PAUL MARTELLETTI won a battle with 

John Gilbert to win the 3.5-mile race in 

16:44 from Gilbert’s 16:51. 

Ultra international medallist Amy 

Clements was a clear women’s winner 

in 19:06 and led Kent AC to a one-point 

team victory. Kent also won the men’s 

team event. 

Overall: 1 P Martelletti (VPHTH) 16:44; 2 

J Gilbert (Kent) 16:51; 3 J Hartley (Kent) 

17:43; 4 J Allchin (Stock E) 17:46; 5 S 

Wurr (Stock E, M40) 17:55; 6 D Kennedy 

(Ravens) 17:57; 7 S Humphrey (VPHTH) 

17:59; 8 N Armitage-Hookes (Camb H 

,U20) 18:01; 9 P Lighting (Kent) 18:02; 

10 J Bowler (Kent) 18:07; 11 P Gaimster 

(VPHTH) M40 18:09; 12 R Laing (Kent) 

M40 18:12; 13 D Dibaba (Kent) 18:12; 

14 C Assmundsen (VPHTH) 18:16; 15 A 

McKerrell (Eton M) 18:20 

M50: B Reynolds (Stock E) 18:44. M55: L 

Reilly (Kent) 20:42. M60: A Camp (B&B/ 

gst) 20:00 

TEAM: 1 Kent 24; 2 VPHTH 48; 3 Stock 

E 49; 4 Eton M 116; 5 Lloyds 160; 6 

Dulw 170 

Women: 1 A Clements (Kent) 19:06 

SW/1; 2 E Mosedale (VPHTH, W35) 

20:03;3 H Eastham (Lloyds ) 20:36; 

4 M Dohren (VPHTH, W35) 21:00; 5 

A Thomson (Kent) 21:12; 6 R Thomas 

(VPHTH) 21:28; 7 K Rowland (Kent) 

21:54; 8 A Parker (Kent) 22:09; 9 A 

Gounelas (Eton M, W35) 22:11; 10 S Bint 

(VPHTH, W40) 22:11; 11 l Bradley (Kent) 

22:13; 12 L Elms (Dulw U20) 22:18 

W50: 1 K Marchant (Beck) 23:30; 2 

M Lennon (Dulw) 23:36. W60: 1 G 

Hennessy (Eton M) 25:46 

TEAM: 1 Kent 21; 2 VPHTH 22; 3 Dulw 

86; 4 Eton M 88; 5 Lloyds 141; 6 Beck 

164; 7 PettsW 234; 8 Stock E 256; 9 

Dartford 282 

SERPENTINE RC 5km 

CHAMPIONSHIPS, Battersea Park 

Overall: 1 N Torry (Serp, M40) 14:49; 2 J 

Poole (Serp) 14:55; 3 A Greenleaf (Serp) 

15:05; 4 W Green (Serp, M40) 15:24; 5 

J Parslow (D&T) 15:45; 6 A Davy (Serp) 

15:50; 7 M O’Connell (Serp) 15:51; 8 R 

Phillips (Serp, M40) 16:00 

M40: 4 S Barrett (Serp) 16:34; 5 D De 

Palol (Serp) 16:47. M45: 1 A Reeves 

(Serp) 16:19. M50: 1 H Mcdermott (Serp) 

17:20; 2 I Wright (Serp) 17:52 

Women: 1 I Clark (Serp) 16:43; 2 M 

Bagnati (Serp) 17:53; 3 S Pemberton 

(Serp) 19:02 

W50: 1 C Shelley (Serp) 21:36. W55: 1 C 

Ferguson (Serp) 19:43 

JULY 26 

FVS 3km RELAYS, Inc Herts 

championships, Stevenage 

Men (5x3km): 1 Bed C 45:35 (J 

Goodwin 8:48, B Alcock 8:57, S Willis 

8:53, M Bray 9:20, A McMulkin 9:37); 2 

Bed C B 47:34 (P Benedickter 9:50, C 

Thornley 9:41, J Goodwin 8:54, B Alcock 

8:57, O Saville 10:12); 3 Barnet 48:06 (T 

Butler 10:08, M Fleming 9:05, W Morris 

9:43, A Horton 10:02, A Lapetre 9:08); 4 

St Albans 48:32; 5 Luton 48:43; 6 Herts 

P 48:54; 7 NHRR 49:31; 8 FVS 50:07; 

9 Bed C C 50:33; 10 Watford 51:12; 11 

St Albans B 51:31; 12 Garden CR 51:43; 

13 Ware 52:11; 14 Royston 52:16; 15 

Barnet B 52:29 

Fastest: I Kimpton (Lut) 8:29; Goodwin 

8:48; Willis 8:53 

Herts Champs: Barnet 

Women (3x3km): 1 Luton 32:29 

(R Keane 9:51, J Winfield 11:48, C 

Jacobs-Conradia 10:50); 2 NHRR 34:28 

(A McKeown 11:11, K Harbon 10:29, 

C Lucas 12:48); 3 St Albans 35:07 (L 

Waterlow 11:18, W Walsh 11:49, J 

Maddocks 12:00); 4 Ware 35:37; 5 

Barnet 35:58; 6 Free tri 37:18; 7 St 

Albans B 37:23; 8 Luton B 37:40; 9 

Garden CR 38:18; 10 S&NH 38:30; 11 

Stopsley 39:03; 12 Watford 39:03; 13 

NHRR B 39:33; 14 Ware B 39:49; 15 

Dunstable 40:13 

Fastest: Keane 9:51; Harbon 10:29; 

Jacobs-Conradie 10:50 

Herts Champs: NHRR 

BEXHILL RUNNERS 5km SERIES 

Overall: 1 R Mullen (Hay H) 16:40; 2 

L Howard 16:50; 3 J Skinner (Hay H, 

M40) 16:54 

M60: 1 J Lowden (B&H) 18:57. M70: 1 

A Haig (Phoe) 22:01; 2 M Kemp (Phoe) 

22:24 

Women: 1 S Fry (Hail, W45) 19:48; 

2 R Phelps (Lewes) 20:00; 3 A Brown 

(Saint&S, W35) 20:05 

W45: 2 N Mccreath (E’bne) 20:31. W55: 

1 L Hayes (W’hurst) 21:45. W65: 1 F 

Delves (Hail) 24:44 

CLAN MIDSUMMER MILE SERIES, 

Preston 

Overall: 1 C Miles (Prest) 5:04; 2 S 

Abbott 5:14; 3 A Fairbairn (Thornton C, 

M40) 5:15 

Women: 1 E Reynolds (Prest, U13) 5:46; 

2 A Woods (Chor ATC, U13) 6:37; 3 L 

Hunt (Prest, U20) 7:19 

EVEN SPLITS 5km SERIES, Leeds 

Overall (5km): 1 J Sagar (Spen) 15:54; 

2 J Hobbs (Vall, M35) 15:58; 3 T Davies 

(Leeds C) 16:23 

M40: 1 L O’Brien (HPH) 16:32. M70: 1 C 

Gill (St Th) 21:28 

Women: 1 S Barlow (H’gate, W35) 

17:50; 2 L Armoush (Leeds C) 17:59; 3 A 

Leake (Leeds C) 18:35 

W45: 1 L Watson (Bing) 19:47; 2 B 

Massey (Barns) 20:22. W50: 1 S Malir 

(Ilkley) 20:43 

Overall (5km): 1 M Keedy (St Th, M45) 

18:27; 2 O Hylands 20:58; 3 P Tranter 

(RSPB, M50) 21:28 

Women: 1 H Roden (Abbey R, W45) 

Paul Martelletti (469): doing battle 

with John Gilbert at Victoria Park 

22:03; 2 C Barrett-Mold (Abbey R) 22:49; 

3 Z Neal (Abbey R, W45) 23:20 

FAST AND FURIOUS 5km SERIES, 

Stourport 

Overall: 1 B Carrington (Tip) 17:16; 2 

A Roberts (K&S, U20) 17:46; 3 B Voyce 

(K&S, U17) 18:10 

Women: 1 L Hawkswell (K&S, U13) 

19:47; 2 L Kennard (Worc, U15) 19:49; 3 

S Stewardson (B’nth, U13) 20:31 

W65: 1 C Sedman-Smith (K&S) 25:32. 

W70: 1 A Gray (Mid M) 27:43 

LAKESIDE 5km SERIES, Portsmouth 

NATIONAL cross-country silver medallist 

Lachlan Wellington won his second race 

of the series as veteran Elliot Robison 

relegated former multiple winner James 

Baker to third, Martin Duff reports. 

The 16-year-old wound up ten 

seconds slower that in his April series 

victory, at 15:38, and it was his youthful 

legs – 27 years younger than his rival to 

be precise – that saw him home by ten 

seconds. 

Further back, Laura Brenton took 

the women’s section, in 17:35, nearly 

150 metres clear of Vicky Gill as veteran 

Helen Wellington secured third just 

ahead of Hannah Howard and Sarah 

Kingston. 

Overall: 1 L Wellington (Ports, U17) 

15:38; 2 E Robinson (AFD, M40) 15:48; 3 

J Baker (Chich, M40) 16:04 

M60: 1 M Hargreaves (Ports) 19:13; 

2 N O’Dowd (E’leigh) 19:24. M70: 1 L 

Henderson (BMH) 22:55. U20: 1 W Bryan 

(Itchen) 16:23; 2 T Cully (Soton) 16:31 

Women: 1 L Brenton (Soton) 17:35; 2 

V Gill (Win, W35) 18:12; 3 H Wallington 

(Tott, W45) 18:22; 4 H Howard (E’leigh) 

18:24; 5 S Kingston (Soton) 18:26 

W40: 1 K Haniver (Stubb G) 19:17 

RGU 10km, Downpatrick 

Overall: 1 J O’Hare (Newc, M40) 36:40; 

2 J Savage (E Down, M40) 36:59; 3 P 

Higgins (Newc) 37:37 

Women: 1 C O’Connor (E Down) 39:22; 

2 N Kellett (E Down, W35) 40:37; 3 D 

Weatherall (E Down) 41:15 

CLIFF HIDE 

SELF-TRANSCENDENCE RELAYS, 

Edinburgh 

Overall (3x1M): 1 Cors 13:59 (J 

Harrison 4:50, C O’Brien 4:50, C 

McKenzie 4:19); 2 Cors (U20) 14:02 (S 

Addison 4:06, A Addison 4:31, D Addison 

4:45); 3 DC Squad 14:06 (M Cameron 

4:38, A Lawler 4:50, R Miller 4:38); 4 

Cors B 14:22; 5 HBT 14:24; 6 Lass 

(U20) 14:24 

M50: Wrong Dir 16:06 (G Noble 5:07, D 

Newport 5:31, I Duff 5:28) 

Mixed: 1 N Berw 15:05 (A Brown 4:44, 

D Wright 4:59, J Brown (W) 5:22); 2 Edin 

invit 15:42 (R McGhie 4:56, V Riddell (W) 

5:44, D Woods 5:02); 3 Nothing 16:04 

(N McWilliams 5:19, K Bain (W) 5:31, I 

Whittaker 5:14) 

Women: 1 DVC 16:19 (A Frankland 5:23, 

S Collins 5:34, K Reynolds 5:22); 2 Pink 

P (U20) 16:56 (K Johnson 5:33, R Grieve 

6:01, E Johnson 5:22); 3 Cors 17:00 (C 

McKenzie 5:49, C Arnott (U20) 5:31, J 

McLeod (U20) 5:40 

W50: TC Foxes 19:48 (Y Crilly 5:44, A 

Peat 7:34, S Ramage 6:30) 

WIRRAL SEASIDE 5km SERIES 

Overall: 1 D Brockway (Wirr) 16:14; 2 J 

Boden (W’sey) 16:17; 3 P Langan (Wirr, 

M40) 16:18 

Women: 1 K Brady-Jones (Wirr, U13) 

18:48; 2 J Irvin (UTS Running) 19:56; 3 H 

Stansfield (W’sey, W35) 20:13 

W50: 1 S Atkinson (Elles P) 21:42. W65: 

1 R Rogers (W Ches) 23:48; 2 P Davies 

(Vale R) 24:52 

JULY 25 

BLAISDON 10km, Blaisdon 

Overall: 1 M James (Chelt, M40) 36:14; 

2 P Woodward (FoD) 36:29; 3 A Lindfield 

(Chelt, U20) 36:45 

M50: 1 J Mower (Glouc) 37:10 

Women: 1 S Crombie-Hicks (Chelt, W45) 

39:40; 2 F Maycock (Chelt, W45) 40:55; 

3 C Fowler (FoD, W45) 41:27 

W40: 1 K Krzywiec (NCT&R) 41:45. W55: 

1 K Sackett (Ciren) 46:33 

CASTLE DOUGLAS 5, Castle Douglas 

Overall: 1 R Beck (Dumf) 28:38; 2 C 

Muir 29:01; 3 N Campbell (Dumf, M35) 

29:12 

M55: 1 K McCaig (Dumf) 30:16 

Women: 1 L Finlay (Dumf, W45) 29:38; 

2 E Prior (Wallend Harriers) 32:40; 3 H 

Smyth (Dumfries Harriers, W35) 33:48 

W50: 1 A Macfarlane (Dumf) 35:00 

EHH SUMMER LEAGUE HEDON 4, 

Hedon 

Overall: 1 J Kraft (Scar) 21:01; 2 G 

Clarkson (KuH, M35) 21:08; 3 A Gibson 

(E Hull) 21:17 

M45: 1 N Sisson (E Hull) 23:08; 2 M 

Williamson (Horn) 23:25. M55: 1 L 

Kirlew (E Hull) 23:47; 2 I Grewar (E Hull) 

23:54. M60: 1 J Potter (Brid) 26:12; 2 P 

Cartwright (CoH) 26:36. M70: 1 B Child 

(E Hull) 29:48 

Women: 1 C Stansfield (CoH) 24:20; 2 

K Young (E Hull) 26:16; 3 S Rookyard (E 

Hull, W45) 26:26 

W45: 2 K Wilson (E Hull) 27:49; 3 C Fee 

(E Hull) 28:14. W55: 1 A Allen (E Hull) 

29:38. W60: 1 J Potter (Brid) 29:04. 

W65: 1 P Bielby (Brid) 29:42; 2 S 

Oglesby (E Hull) 31:12 

LINCOLN WELLINGTON 5km SERIES, 

Lincoln 

Overall: 1 J Wilkinson (Linc W) 15:01; 2 

B Livnesey (Notts, M35) 15:26; 3 J Green 

(Linc W, U15) 16:26 

M40: 1 J Pike (P’boro) 16:36. M45: 1 

D Tune (Roth) 17:25. M55: 1 P Duncan 

(Linc W) 17:59; 2 C Wintrip (Linc W) 

18:29. M70: 1 M Casey (Wold) 20:29; 2 

V Shirley (N Vets) 21:20 

Women: 1 J Blizard (Roth, W40) 17:44; 

2 S Darling (Linc W) 18:50; 3 H Holmes 

(Gains) 19:28 

W45: 1 J Stones (Mab) 20:54. W50: 

1 J Baldwin (Donc) 20:37. W55: 1 C 

Wheelhouse (Donc) 20:15 

Overall (3km): 1 A Kumar (Linc W, U13) 

11:02; 2 J McBride (Linc W, U13) 11:07; 

3 M Cheseldine (Linc W, U13) 11:09 

Women: 1 I Barwell (Linc W, U13) 

11:22; 2 R Tune (Linc W, U15) 12:31; 3 F 

Edmond (Lincoln Tri, U13) 12:40 

SOUTH CHESHIRE 5km SERIES, 

Crewe 

Overall: 1 C Williams (Vale R) 16:06; 2 

S Sussex (Wrex, U20) 16:38; 3 S Bailey 

(Newc S, M40) 17:02 

M60: 1 D Lancaster (York A) 19:36. M70: 

1 T Hulme (Wilm) 21:38 

Women: 1 H Weedall (Vale R, U13) 

17:46; 2 A Grace (S Ches) 19:53; 3 L 

Dixon (Newc S, W40) 20:13 

JULY 23 

CATERHAM ROTARY HALF 

MARATHON, Redhill 

Overall: 1 K Quinn (S Lon, M35) 71:04; 

2 J Baker (Chich, M40) 73:48; 3 C 

Compton (Kent, M40) 74:53 

M40: 3 A Webb (Med PP) 76:02. M65: 1 

T Edgley (I&I) 98:40 

Women: 1 E Murray-bartlett (Coll) 85:51; 

2 S Gruber (Inv EK, W40) 86:31; 3 R 

Wood (B’burn) 89:33 

W70: 1 G Little (100MC) 2:02:16 

Overall (10km): 1 N Danby (Oxt, M50) 

36:21; 2 D Bull (Horley, M35) 37:18; 3 D 

Mallison (Rane, M40) 38:48 

Women: 1 S McDonald (S Lon, W50) 

42:46; 2 C Page (Saint&S) 43:43; 3 A 

Howell (Horley, W50) 48:23 

DEAL DINOSAUR 10km, Deal 

Overall: 1 C Brisley (Inv EK, U15) 33:59; 

2 T Millard (S Kent) 34:20; 3 D Watt 

(Ton) 34:41 

Women: 1 R McDonnell (Deal TC, W40) 

39:51; 2 R Masser (W’stock, W40) 39:55; 

3 A Muller (RR Med) 44:12 

ROYAL PARKS SUMMER 10km 

SERIES, London Regents Park 

Overall: 1 S Strange (Bas) 34:16; 2 J 

Semmence 36:12; 3 F Melloni (Bocconi 

Sport Team) 36:43 

Women: 1 A Hollingsworth (Camb U) 

38:49; 2 T Galbraith (Head, W50) 39:51; 

3 M Mhidheach (W35) 40:34 

MULTI-TERRAIN 

JULY 30 

DONKEY BRAE 7, 

Aberdour 

Overall: 1 D Jubb 40:46; 2 C Somerville 

40:51; 3 P Kieran (M40) 40:58; 4 J 

Peebles 42:26+; 5 A Johnston (U18) 

42:51 

Women: 1 K Lownie (W35) 47:21; 2 E 

Baker 48:00; 3 J Beveridge (W35) 48:48 

W50: A Peat 51:59. W60: I Burnett 52:00 

HENFIELD 7 STILES, 

West Sussex 

ANOTHER Sussex race produced another 

James Baker West Sussex Fun Run 

League victory. 

Overall (4M): 1 J Baker (Chich R, M40) 

20:32; 2 J Harrold (Saints) 23:00; 3 H 

Miller (Arena) 23:06 

Women: 1 A Dani (Hove) 25:20; 2 A 

Brown (Saints) 25:22; 3 K Morgan (Hay 

H) 25:20 

TEAM (M&W): 1 Lewes 125; 2 Saints 

120; 3 Hove 117# 

, 


FELL / PARKRUN 


Sarah Bell: 

descending to 

victory at the 

Cowling Gala 

Fell race 

PLYMOUTH 6 MOOR MILES, 

Yelverton 

Overall: 1 B Neale (Tav) 39:56; 2 M 

Smerdon (E Corn) 40:00; 3 R Perkins 

(Storm Plymouth) 41:49; 4 R Bateson 

41:54; 5 O Smart 43:10 

M50: 1 T Vialls (SWRR) 44:26. M55: 1 M 

Exley-Deane (Tav) 45:50; 

Women: 1 R Mabelle (W35) 50:41; 2 

P Simson (Ply, W40) 51:23; 3 J Randall 

(Teign) 52:32; 4 J Stroud (W35) 53:00; 5 

J Simons (W40) 53:04 

ENIGMA PLANES MARATHON, 

Milton Keynes 

Overall: 1 P Davies (Centu, M50) 

2:59:21; 2 D Ross (100MC, M45) 

3:05:03; 3 M Atkinson (MKLS) 3:22:01; 

4 S Spink (Salt, M45) 3:26:33; 5 R 

Harrison (Selb, M45) 3:40:50 

Women: 1 E Challis 4:01:15; 2 S 

Morrow (Shelby Striders) 4:08:39; 3 C 

Gimondo 4:12:43; 4 C Comte 4:36:58 

FORT WILLIAM MARATHON, Fort 

William 

Overall: 1 D Prikulis (Vegan) 2:49:28; 2 

J Lubinski 2:51:56; 3 S Porteous (Gars, 

M35) 2:54:37; 4 C McCann (Mird, M40) 

2:55:26; 5 R Clark (PH Racing, M45) 

3:07:26 

Women: 1 A Hartmann (PH Racing) 

3:19:26; 2 A Reid (N Ayr) 3:28:37; 3 

H Leggett (L’aber, W50) 3:30:01; 4 T 

Trueman (Lawley, W40) 3:32:57; 5 L 

Morgan (Lawley) 3:32:57 

W50: 2 S Young (Loth) 3:43:02 

RYEDALE 10km, York 

Overall: 1 J Sagar 33:49; 2 A Burns 

(Warfdale) 34:45; 3 S Bailey (Kipp, M40) 

37:06; 4 D Sleath (Ilk) 38:13; 5 M Lyth 

(New M) 39:32 

Women: 1 N Woodward (Sun, W35) 

44:30; 2 H Bamford (W35) 47:06; 3 L 

Hiles (T&S, W50) 48:11 

Overall (5km): 1 R Hayes (P’stone, M35) 

18:28; 2 J Blevins 19:15; 3 A Harrison 

(M’bro, W) 24:30; 4 M Dunska (W) 24:58 

Women: 1 Harrison 24:30; 2 Dunska 

24:58; 3 C Ridley-duff (W50) 27:11 

RYEDALE HALF MARATHON, York 

Overall: 1 P Baker (CoH, M40) 81:41; 

2 M Millett (Harrogate TC) 85:24; 3 P 

Booker (Hal) 86:01; 4 T Hughes 86:49; 5 

A Leech (Dund H) 89:13 

Women: 1 M Murtagh (Easin, W35) 

1:42:01; 2 A Zalewska (W35) 1:45:00; 3 

L Cash 1:46:29 

TOUR OF CLYDESIDE PROLOGUE 

7km 

Overall: 1 C Jardine (Cambus, U20) 

23:35; 2 J Clements (E Kilb) 24:42; 3 

K Cooper (Sco Sch, U17) 24:54; 4 J 

Carter (Cambus, M40) 25:37; 5 C Moses 

(Helen) 25:48 

M45: 1 A Allardyce (Irv) 26:11. M50: 1 C 

Upson (Cambus) 25:56 

Women: 1 S Nakamura (W35) 31:57; 

2 m Doherty (Glas C, W50) 32:38; 3 S 

Rae 32:42; 4 S Houldsworth (Kilb, W40) 

33:06; 5 A Mackenzie 33:31 

FELL 

JULY 30 

JAMES HERRIOT RUN, Leyburn 

Overall (8.7M/1000ft): 1 T Addison 

(Helm H) 54:12; 2 C Miller (Harr) 54:33; 

3 P Lowe (Darl) 55:24; 4 P Allan (Darl) 

59:43; 5 M Forrest (Lon FR, M50) 605; 6 

I Bush 60:14 

M60: B Martin (Quak) 64:04 

Women: 1 G Steyn (Nedbank) 61:24; 2 H 

Tuffs (York Ac) 64:26; 3 C Morgan (Nidd, 

W40) 68:06; 4 S Gill (Harr, W50) 68:17 

W55: O Bathgate (Swale) 73:47 

CHUNAL, Hayfield 

Overall (3M/1000ft): 1 J Ross (Staffs M) 

24:55 (rec); 2 C Jackson (Penn) 26:23; 3 

C Rice (Ribb, W) 26:53 

M50: M Fowler (Ches HR) 28:02. M65: R 

Taylor (Penn) 32:05 

Women: 1 Rice 26:53 (rec); 2 A Keates 

(W55) 32:31; 3 A Whelan (Bux) 34:49 

JULY 29 

PUSH UP THE PINCYN, 

Clawdnewydd 

Overall (6M/1300ft): 1 M Roberts 

(Calder V) 44:42; 2 C Donnelly (Eryri, 

M50) 46:44; 3 B Starling (Mercia) 47:18 

M70: D Evans (Card) 61:55 

Women: 1 M Grant (Eryri) 49:42; 2 S 

Harley (Eryri) 56:33; 3 G Moore (NWRR) 

56:47 

W40: E Robinson (W Ches) 60:18. W60: 

A Garner (Buck) 75:20 

COWLING GALA, Keighley 

Overall (2.75M/475ft): 1 T Adams 

(Ilkley) 17:53; 2 M Mackay (Ross, U17) 

18:57; 3 C Barnes (Ribb, M40) 20:49 

M50: D Hammond (Calder V) 23:06. 

M60: P Harlowe (Wharf) 24:34 

U17: 2 J Muir (Wharf) 21:51; 3 J Walton 

(K&C) 22:09 

Women: 1 S Bell (Barl) 22:57; 2 P 

Barrett (Wharf) 23:56; 3 A Willis (Wharf, 

U17) 32:46 

W40: K Brooks 33:09. W50: S Thompson 

(Wharf) 34:15 

U14 (1.25M/215ft approx.): 1 A 

Thompson (Wharf) 10:08; 2 S Smith 

(Wharf) 10:11; 3 J Villiers (Barl) 10:51 

U14 girls: 1 H Crook (Traw) 12:59; 2 

T Brooks (Wharf) 13:51; 3 H Beaumont 

(Skyrac) 14:49 

U12 (1M/170ft approx.): 1 T Bolton 

(Wrex) 9:21; 2 J Sadler-Townsend (K&C) 

9:28; 3 J Ormrod (Ross) 9:43 

U12 girls: 1 F Whittle (Horw) 9:53; 2 C 

Rawstron (Otl) 10:12; 3 H White (Clay) 

10:25 

TURNSLACK, Littleborough 

Overall (8M/2000ft): 1 M Fanning 

(Holm, M45) 70:52; 2 M Seddon (P&B) 

72:32; 3 M O’Connor (Calder V) 72:48; 

4 M Preedy (Ross) 73:04; 5 D Fishwick 

(Chorley, M45) 73:08 

M55; N Holding (Horw) 76:35. M60: T 

Taylor (Ross) 82:21. M65: J Holt (Clay) 

83:07. M70: K Taylor (Ross) 86:16 

Women: 1 D Cartwright (Radc, W40) 

87:11; 2 J Butterworth (Roch, W40) 

88:12; 3 J Howells (Wharf, W45) 89:51 

W60: B Nixon (P’stone FPR) 1:41:48 

JULY 27 

AMBLESIDE SPORTS 

Overall (2M/800ft): 1 R Hope (P&B, 

M40) 14:15; 2 J Jardine (Helm H) 14:24; 

3 T Mason (Wharf) 14:57 

M45: M Taylor (Calder V) 16:10. M50: 

P Lambert (Sett) 17:24. M60: B Procter 

(Helm H) 18:46 

Women: 1 H Horsburgh (Kesw) 17:57; 

2 S Taylor (Helm H) 19:06; 3 K Roberts 

(Amble) 19:09 

W45: J Powell (Wharf) 19:51 

U17: 1 J Hudson (K&C) 14:55; 2 L 

Hudson (K&C) 15:37; 3 O Gajdowski 

(Amble) 15:54 

U17 women: 1 R Woodhams (Dall) 

17:43; 2 B Holt (Clay) 18:12; 3 L Gregg 

(Ross) 19:24 

U14 (1.5M/600ft approx.): 1 F Sproul 

(Kend) 11:47; 2 J Taylor (Ross) 12:09; 3 

S Smith (Wharf) 12:26 

U14 girls: 1 A Jones (Wharf) 13:57; 2 

C Rylance (Amble) 14:21; 3 B Raven 

(Ilkley) 14:49 

U12 (1M/400ft approx.): 1 D Thompson 

(B’burn) 8:36; 2 C Allmond (Amble) 9:05; 

3 J Dixon (Amble) 9:08 

U12 girls: 1 I Winder (Leven V) 9:39; 

2 C Rawstron (Otl) 9:49; 3 S Rylance 

(Amble) 9:58 

STONEY MIDDLETON 

Overall (5M/700ft): 1 S Bond (M40) 

32:38; 2 J Lane 32:59; 3 Billy Cartwright 

33:32; 4 D Nicholls 33:46; 5 B McKenna 

34:45 

M50: M Nolan 35:41 

Women: 1 Z Procter (W40) 40:16; 2 J 

Bednall (W50) 44:12; 3 J Shimwell 44:37 

HEART OF THE LAKES RYDAL 

ROUND, Ambleside 

Overall (9M/3000ft): 1 S Bailey (Mercia) 

83:37; 2 B Abdelnoor (Amble) 83:57; 32 

J Mercer (Horw) 84:03; 4 G Greenhow 

(Amble) 84:11; 5 P Davies (B’dale F, 

M40) 84:16 

M50: C Balderson (Bowl) 1:40:58. M60: 

G Owens (N’land F) 1:54:43. M70: D Tait 

(Dark Pk) 2:17:30 

Women: 1 K Roberts (Amble) 1:40:09; 2 

S Hodgson (Leeds C) 1:50:22; 3 J Reedy 

(Amble, W40) 1:56:22 

W50: J Murdy (SSh) 2:09:28 

JULY 26 

HARROCK HILL SERIES, Bispham 

Overall (5M/900ft): 1 J Tighe (N’land 

F) 32:10; 2 P Bray (Chorlton) 32:21; 3 

W Rawson (Leigh) 33:51; 4 B Hobson 

(Chorlton) 34:13; 5 T Blaney (B’burn) 

34:22; 6 J Toohey (Liv RC) 34:52 

M45: A Lloyd (Horw) 35:15. M60: S 

Morran (Bolt) 40:07. M70: N Pratten 

(Pens) 57:12 

Women: 1 N Ronkainen (Liv H) 38:49; 2 

M Ball (Liv H) 41:27; 3 A Swift (CHorlton) 

41:53; 4 I Storm (Chorlton) 42:07 

W45: J Lee (Spec) 44:06. W55: J Taylor 

(Wig D) 44:14. W60: M Laney (R Rose) 

45:18. W70: S Stewart (S’port W) 58:14 

INCLINED TO MADNESS, Stokesley 

Overall (11km/375m): 1 P Lowe (Darl) 

49:00; 2 M Perry (Esk) 52:15; 3 D Kiplin 

(P’stopne FPR, M40) 52:27; 4 P Boyes 

52:33; 5 P Sillito (N’land F) 52:39 

M45: M Carricker (York Ac) 53:50. M50: 

K McLoughlin (N Yrk M) 55:08. M55: I 

Ferguson (Bing) 56:07. M60: S Boynton 

(York Ac) 59:44. M70: R Sherwood (N 

Marske) 75:20 

TEAM: 1 Darl 50; 2 Esk 93; 3 N Yrk 

M 99 

Women: 1 A Matthews (Darl) 575:07; 2 

K Neesam (N Marske, W50) 57:13; 3 R 

Haslam (Scar) 57:48 

W60: S Haslam (Scar) 63:51 

TEAM: 1 Scar 18; 2 N’land F 27; 3 

Darl 31 

PARKRUN 

JULY 29 

parkrun 5km 

Leading age-graded 

Bushy Park: P Giles 19:57 M70 

91.06%; Penrose: E Stepto 17:40 W45 

90.61%; Dewsbury: T Johnson 19:19 

W55 90.46%; Rother Valley Country 

Park: Y Twelvetree 22:23 W65 89.36%; 

Hastings: A Soane 18:26 M60 88.82%; 

Southport: A Crook 16:46 SW 88.09%; 

Hastings: A Howey 17:19 M50 87.87%; 

Peterborough: P Taylor 18:49 W50 

87.81%; Glasgow Pollok: E Christie 

21:09 W60 87.65%; Dalby Forest: 

M Colling 17:14 M50 87.60%; Leeds 

Cross Flatts: A Oldham 22:18 W60 

87.39%; Milton Keynes: R Woodhams 

17:46 U18W 87.31%; Weymouth: 

R Barnes 17:13 W35 87.24%; Long 

Eaton: S Forrester 18:33 W45 87.18%; 

Southampton: H Wallington 18:45 

W45 87.18%; Hove Promenade: S 

Garner 24:13 W70 87.17%; Chipping 

Sodbury: P Curtis 21:16 W60 87.17%; 

Weymouth: P Wicks 15:05 SM 87.11%; 

Harwich: C Benstead 20:48 W55 

87.00%; Glasgow Victoria: K Richmond 

16:44 M45 86.84%; Cassiobury: N 

Hughes 16:38 M45 86.71%; Salisbury: 

C Finill 18:07 M55 86.71%; Leicester: 

C Fell 15:56 M40 86.65%; Hull: I 

Grewar 18:08 M55 86.63%; Brighton 

Hove: G Godden 16:55 M45 86.55%; 

Belfast Ormeau: P Carroll 16:49 M45 

86.41%; Seaton: F Jones 21:10 U11M 

86.37%; Cannon Hill: M Ince 16:07 

M40 86.28%; Mulbarton: S Goodall 

16:59 M45 86.21%; Scunthorpe 

Central: K Newman 18:32 M60 

86.16%; Clumber: J Beattie 15:09 SM 

86.16%; Northala Fields: R Handule 

17:00 M45 86.12%; Shoeburyness: P 

Whittaker 15:06 SM 86.01%; Croxteth 

Hall: F O’Hare 18:47 U15W 85.79%; 

Brockenhurst: N Boniface 15:59 M40 

85.77%; Greenock: M McLoone 17:37 

M50 85.70%; Poole: J Bassinder 17:13 

M50 85.69%; Poole: M Dillon 16:50 

M45 85.68%; Greenock: T Coyle 18:48 

M60 85.64%; Newcastle: H Lambert 

21:40 W60 85.56%; Great Yarmouth: C 

Mukuya 17:16 SW 85.54%; Riverfront: 

R Jones 16:37 M45 85.52%; Llanelli 

Coast: I Webb 18:43 M60 85.31%; 

Nonsuch: K Valkenburg 18:54 U15W 

85.26%; Gadebridge: L Hembury 

22:01 W60 85.23%; Basingstoke: D 

Ragan 15:29 SM 85.23%; St Albans: 

B Osborne 19:43 M65 85.20%; Bushy: 

A Jaksevicius 15:40 M35 85.14%; 

Birkenhead: B Beecroft 19:25 M60 

85.04%; Killerton: M Hunt 21:33 

W55 84.98%; Hartlepool: K Edwards 

18:57 M60 84.96%; Lytham Hall: C 

Carrdus 18:40 W45 84.93%; Linwood: 

B Hughes 18:58 M60 84.89%; Poole: 

D Cartwright 20:11 M65 84.73%; 

Raphael: C Partis 17:09 M45 84.73%; 

Strathclyde: G McCabe 16:55 M45 

84.63%; Nonsuch: P Flynn 20:39 W55 

84.62%; Newcastle: J Butters 16:26 

M40 84.62%; Congleton: B Evans 

17:59 M50 84.61%; Kirkcaldy: B 

Aitken 18:34 M55 84.61%; Newbury: C 

Wheeler 20:54 W55 84.57%; Frimley: 

K Miyazaki 18:08 M55 84.57%; 

Portsmouth Lakeside: J Baker 16:13 

M40 84.53%; Bromley: G Schaer 19:33 

W50 84.52%; Dulwich: R Bentley 15:47 

M35 84.51%; Raphael: E Prideaux 

18:27 W40 84.46%; Perth: J Dobson 

21:41 W55 84.46%; Oxford: B Vaughan 

19:33 M60 84.46%; Scunthorpe 

Central: M Page 19:33 M60 84.46%; 

Belfast Ormeau: L Johnston 18:36 M55 

84.46%; Edinburgh Silverknowes: I 

Stewart 18:55 M60 84.41%; Reading: 

B Paviour 16:43 M40 84.39%; Great 

Lines: H Mitchell 19:32 U15W 84.39%; 

Leicester: K Rolington 20:58 W55 

84.31%; Rushmoor: J Georghiou 

23:25 W65 84.31%; Great Yarmouth: 

D Pamplin 24:03 W65 84.27%; 

Druridge Bay Country: C Page 21:14 

W55 84.23%; Seaton: E Wood 22:01 

W60 84.20%; Crosby LC: F Rafferty 

17:24 M45 84.14%; Mile End: R Hope 

17:01 M45 84.13%; King’s Lynn: J 

Ashby 24:46 W65 84.07%; Rushcliffe 

Country: K Ford 18:51 M55 84.02% 

Fastest men 

Weymouth: P Wicks 15:05 

Shoeburyness: P Whittaker 15:06 

Clumber: J Beattie 15:09 

Basingstoke: D Ragan 15:29 

Cassiobury: A Stewart 15:33 

Linford Wood: I Kimpton 15:35 

Bushy: A Jaksevicius 15:40 

Dulwich: R Bentley 15:47 

Southampton: Z Mahamed 15:47 

Northampton: L Greer 15:51 

Shipley Country: C Rainsford 15:52 

Seaton: S Dixon 15:54 

Glasgow Pollok: A Campbell 15:55 

Leicester: C Fell 15:56 

Glasgow Victoria: S McKay 15:56 

Cannon Hill: J Carter 15:58 

Brockenhurst: N Boniface 15:59 

Belton House: S Mitchell 16:00 

Fastest women 

Southport: A Crook 16:46 

Weymouth: R Barnes 17:13 

Great Yarmouth: C Mukuya 17:16 

Penrose: E Stepto 17:40 

Milton Keynes: R Woodhams 17:46 

Southampton: R Moore 17:46 

Cardiff Bkwr: A Beynon-Thomas 17:48 

Bracknell: S Quirke 17:54 

Bury St Edmunds: H Archer 17:55 

Taunton: H Taunton 18:02 

Tooting Common: L Custance 18:06 

Caldicot: K Svane 18:09 

Salisbury: A Campbell 18:13 

Corby: S Edwards 18:19 

London Bishop’s: K Hetherington 18:21 

Edinburgh Silverk: N Griffiths 18:22 

Raphael: E Prideaux 18:27 

Cardiff Blackweir: L Marland 18:29 

Beeston: S Reimers 18:30 

Long Eaton: S Forrester 18:33 

Cardiff Blackwr: E Lagomarsino 18:34 

Leicester: J Male 18:35 

Tooting Common: R Harvey 18:38 

Lytham Hall: C Carrdus 18:40 

Brighton Preston: E Dixon 18:41 


FIXTURES 

MULTI-TERRAIN 

Saturday August 5 

ABERLOUR GAMES 10 

Aberlour, Moray. 

aberlourhighlandgames.co.uk 

ABNEY CHEADLE RUN 5km 

Abney Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire. 9.30am. 

abneycheadlerun.co.uk 

CHORLTON & SALE WATER PARK 

HALF-MARATHON/MARATHON 

Sale Water Pk, Rifle Rd, Manchester. 

9am. 

itrailrun.co.uk 

DARK PHOENIX 6-HOUR 

Walton on Thames, Surrey. 4pm. 

phoenixrunning.co.uk 

DELAMONT 10km 

Delamont Country Park, Killyleagh. Noon. 

atlasrunning.co.uk 

DEVIL O’ THE HIGHLANDS 42 

Tyndrum. 

devilothehighlandsfootrace.co.uk 

DUNOON 10km/HALF-MARATHON 

Pier Building, Dunoon, Argyll. 

dunoonpresents.co.uk 

GRAVEL HILL 5 

Queen Elizabeth Country Park, 

Petersfield, Hampshire. 5pm. 

secondwindrunning.co.uk 

JERSEY ROUND THE ROCK 48 

Steam Clock, St Helier, Jersey. 

roundtherock.co.uk 

LEEDS BIG FUN RUN 5km 

Roundhay Park, Leeds. 11am. 

bigfunrun.com/leeds 

LETCHWORTH FIRST SATURDAY OF 

THE MONTH 5km 

Letchworth Outdoor Pool, Letchworth 

Garden City, Hertfordshire. 9am. 

firstsaturday5km.org.uk 

MAVERICK BUFF X SERIES NORTH 

YORK MOORS 13km/22km/44km 

Dalby Visitors Centre, Low Dalby, 

Pickering, Yorkshire. 9am. 

maverick-race.com 

NORTH DOWNS WAY 100 

Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey. 

centurionrunning.com 

ORION HARRIERS FOREST 5 

Jubilee Retreat, Chingford, London. 

10am. 

orionharriers.org.uk 

PHOENIX SUMMER MARATHON 

Xcel Leisure Centre, Walton-on-Thames, 

Surrey. 9am. 

phoenixrunning.co.uk 

ROUND READING ULTRA 

50km/100km 

Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire. 

purplepatchrunning.com 

RUN RICHMOND PARK 5km/10km 

Richmond Park, Richmond, Surrey. 10am. 

thefixevents.com 

SOUTH DOWNS MIDNIGHT 

MARATHON 

Queen Elizabeth Country Park, 

Petersfield, Hampshire. 9pm. 

irunevents.uk 

STOURBRIDGE STUMBLE 10km 

Mary Stevens Park, Oldswinford, 

Stourbridge, West Midlands. 6pm. 

srclub.co.uk 

STRAIGHT 8 

The Strand, Starcross, Devon. 5pm. 

greenbow.org 


BRIDPORT JURASSIC COAST 10km/ 

HALF-MARATHON 

The Salt House, Bridport, Dorset. 10am. 

bridport-runners.co.uk 

CANNOCK CHASE 10km 

Birches Valley Forest Centre, Rugeley, 

Cannock, Staffordshire. 10.30am. 

cannockchase10k.co.uk 

CHISLEHURST COMMONS HALF- 

MARATHON/MARATHON 

Scadbury park, Chislehurst, Kent. 9am. 

bridgetriathlon.co.uk/chislehurstcommons-marathon 

CLENNELL HALF-MARATHON/ 

MARATHON/ULTRA 

Clennell, Morpeth. 9.30am. 

highfellevents.co.uk/trail-running/ 

clennell-trail-marathon 

HARLING 10 

South Harling, West Sussex. 10.30am. 

liss-runners.org.uk 

INDIAN QUEENS HALF-MARATHON 

St Francis Road, Indian Queens, 

Cornwall. 10am. 

newquayroadrunners.co.uk 

NOTTINGHAM BIG FUN RUN 5km 

Colwick Country Pk, Nottingham. 11am. 

bigfunrun.com/nottingham 

TOTNES 10km 

Borough Park, Totnes, Devon. 11am. 

teignbridgetrotters.co.uk 

VANGUARD WAY HALF-MARATHON/ 

MARATHON 

Lloyd Park, Croydon, Surrey. 9.30am. 

vanguardwaymarathon.co.uk 

Tuesday August 8 

POPPIT SANDS 5km 

Poppit Sands. 

Wednesday August 9 

CROWN TO CROWN 5km 

Westley Heights Country Pk. 7.30pm. 

pitsearunningclub.org.uk 

HEBBLE TRAIL 6 

Halifax. 7.30pm. 

tra-uk.org/race_directory/ 

eventdetails/1794/hebble-trail 

PAUL BRIGGS BURNS AWARE 5km 

Wilmslow, Cheshire. 7pm. 

twitter.com/burnsaware 

PIGGS TROPHY RACE 10km 

Mickleover Sports Club, Derbyshire. 7pm. 

rollsroyceharriers.com/piggs-10k.html 

POOLE RUNNERS SUMMER 3.5 

Upton Country Park, Poole, Dorset. 

7.15pm. 

poolerunners.com 

RUNTHROUGH CHASE THE SUN 

WIMBLEDON COMMON 5km/10km 

Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon. 7pm. 

runthrough.co.uk 

WORCESTERSHIRE SUMMER MID- 

WEEK SERIES 8km 

Nimmings Car park, Clent Hills, 

Halesowen, Worcestershire. 7.30pm. 

halesowen-athleticclub.co.uk 

Thursday August 10 

BALMULLO TRAIL RACE 

Community Hall, Balmullo, Fife. 

fifeac.org 

DINTON PASTURES 5km/10km 

Dinton Pastures Country Pk. 7pm. 

barnesfitness.co.uk 

Friday August 11 

FOREST FLYER 5 

Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, Devon. 7pm. 

dawlishcoasters.co.uk 


CRANHAM BOUNDARY RACE 10km 

The Knoll, Cranham CC, Cranham, 

Gloucestershire. 4pm. 

gloucesterac.co.uk 

GATESHEAD TRAIL 10km 

Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 10am. 

HADLEIGH CASTLE 10km 

Hadleigh Country Park, Hadleigh, Essex. 

9.45am. 

theraceorganiser.com 

LECALE WAY 10km 

Cable Bar, Ballyhornan. 7pm. 

atlasrunning.co.uk 

LIVERPOOL BIG FUN RUN 5km 

Sefton Park, Liverpool. 11am. 

bigfunrun.com/liverpool 

LONG TOUR OF BRADWELL 16/33 

Bradwell Sports Pavilion, Bradwell, 

Derbyshire. 9am. 

wolfspitfellrace.org.uk 

MAN V BARGE 5 

Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre, 

Marsden, West Yorkshire. 10am. 

teamoa.co.uk/woman-v-barge.html 

MERRY HILL CHALLENGE 6-HOUR 

Bushey, Hertfordshire. 11am. 

ejbscott@gmail.com 

ROSELAND TRAIL 11/20/32/64 

Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre, St 

Austell, Cornwall. 

mudcrew.co.uk 

SVP 100km 

Newmarket, Suffolk. 

svp100.co.uk 

TAVISTOCK 10km 

Tavistock, Devon. 

tavistockathletics.co.uk 

THAMES MEANDER HALF- 


YMCA Hawker Centre, Kingston, Surrey. 

hermesrunning.com 


COTTRELL PARK SUMMER 10km 

Cottrell Park Golf Resort, St. Nicholas, 

Cardiff. 10am. 

sportzmad.co.uk 

HARDMOORS 26.2 ROSEDALE 

TOPPING 10km/MARATHON/ 

MARATHON 

Village Hall, Hutton Le Hole, North 

Yorkshire. 9am. 

hardmoors110.org.uk 

HENFIELD HALF-MARATHON 

Henfield Leisure Centre, Henfield, West 

Sussex. 10.30am. 

henfieldleisurecentre.co.uk 

NEWARK HALF-MARATHON 

Sconce Hills Park, Newark, 

Nottinghamshire. 10am. 

newarkhalfmarathon.co.uk 

NORTHUMBERLAND COASTAL HALF- 


Alnmouth, Northumberland. 9am. 

northeastmarathonclub.co.uk 

OLD DOWN COUNTRY PARK 

5km/10km 

Old Down Country Park, Tockington, 

Bristol. 10.30am. 

aspirerunningevents.co.uk 

SECOND SUNDAY 5 

Richardson Evans Memorial Fields, 

Roehampton Vale, London. 9.30am. 

secondsunday5.com 

SHEFFIELD BIG FUN RUN 5km 

Rother Valley Country Park. 11am. 

bigfunrun.com/sheffield 

SOUTH SHIELDS 10 

Sanddancer Pub, South Shields. 9am. 

runeatsleep.co.uk/southshields10 

STANDISH WOODLAND CHASE 10 

Horsemarling Farm, Stonehouse. 10am. 

stroudac.co.uk 

TOUR OF TERLING 7 

Terling, Essex. 

midessexcasuals.org.uk 

Monday August 14 





TOUR OF TERLING 4.5 



WARMLEY SUNSET 5km 

Warmley Forest Park, Bristol. 7pm. 

aspirerunningevents.co.uk 

SUBMIT YOUR FIXTURE ONLINE AT athleticsweekly.com 

5km and 2km events. For more 

info, see greatrunlocal.org 

Wythenshawe Park 

9am every Sunday 

Debdale Park 


Birchfields Park 


Salford Quays 

6.45pm every Thursday 

Burrs Country Park 

9.30am every Sunday 

Gibside 9.15am every Sunday 

Sunderland 9.30am every Sunday 

Glasgow Quays 

6.30pm every Wednesday 

Southwold 


Needham Lake 


Ashford 9.30am every Sunday 

Lancing 9.30am every Sunday 

Birmingham Ley Hill 

9.30am every Saturday 

The Vale Birmingham 


Portsmouth Hilsea Lidoa 


Bournemouth Turbary Common 


Newham New Beckton Park 


Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 



NOTTINGHAM SUMMER 5km SERIES 

Colwick Country Park, Nottingham. 7pm. 

nice-work.org.uk 




DAVE CLARKE 5km 

Trentham RFC. Staffordshire. 7.15pm. 

trenthamrunningclub.co.uk 


GWR TOWPATH 5km 

Bedminster CC, Clanage Rd. 7.30pm. 

greatwesternrunners.org.uk 

NEIL HOWELLS MEMORIAL 4.5 

Showground, Montgomery. 7:15pm. 

maldwynharriers.org.uk 

PEEL HERITAGE TRAIL 7 

Peel, Isle of Man. 

sportsdesk.im/NRFTW/PeelHeritageTrail.htm 

TYWYN RACE THE TRAIN 3.5/5.5/10k/14 

Tywyn Secondary Sch, Talylln, Gwynedd. 

racethetrain.com 

NEXT 

ISSUE 

AW IS OUT ON 

AUGUST 10 


WORLD CHAMPS 

COVERAGE OF THE FIRST 

FOUR DAYS OF THE 2017 


IN LONDON 

ATHLETES IN ACTION 

FINALS IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE 

INCLUDE MEN’S 100m, 10,000m 

AND LONG JUMP, WOMEN’S 

100m, 1500m AND HEPTATHLON, 

PLUS BOTH MARATHONS 


FIXTURES 

ROAD 


ARDS 5 

Londonderry Park, Newtownards. 7pm. 

EALING MILE 

Lammas Park, Ealing, London. 12.30pm. 

ealinghalfmarathon.com/the-mile-series 

FORMULA ONE CASTLE ROCK 10km 

Sports Centre, University of Nottingham 

Campus, Nottinghamshire. 7pm. 

formulaonecc.co.uk 

GRAVESEND FLOODLIT 5km/10km 

SERIES 

Cyclopark, The Tollgate, Gravesend, Kent. 

7.30pm. 


MYNYDDISLWYN MURDER MILE 

Church Inn, Mynyddislwyn, Gwent. 7pm. 

islwynrunningclub.org.uk 

SAUMAREZ PARK 5km SERIES 

Saumarez Park, Castel, Guernsey. 

6.15pm. 

leemerrienrunning.com 

STANLEY REID MEMORIAL 5 

Loughry Campus, Cookstown. 7.30pm. 

sperrinharriers.co.uk 


ALDER HEY HALEWOOD 5km SERIES 

Environment Centre, Okell Drive, 

Liverpool, Merseyside. 10am. 

knowsleyharriers.com 

CARNLOUGH 5km 

Carnlough. Noon. 

CHESTERFIELD NO WALK IN THE 

PARK 5km 

Queens Park, Chesterfield. 9.30am. 

northderbyshirerc.jimdo.com 

KELLS & CONNOR CHARITY RUNNING 

FESTIVAL 

Kells Community Centre, Kells. 10am. 

QEOP SUMMER 10km SERIES 

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Pk. 9.30am. 

qeopraces.com 

RUNTHROUGH BATTERSEA PK 

5km/10km 

Battersea Park, London. 9.30am. 



ASDA FOUNDATION YORK 10km 

City Centre, York, North Yks. 9.30am. 

runforall.com 

AYLESHAM & EAST KENT 5km/10km 

Aylesham, Kent. 10.30am. 

sportingeventsuk.com 

BEARBROOK 10km 

Weston Turville, Aylesbury. 9.30am. 

bearbrookrunningclub.co.uk 

BRECON LIONS 10 

Leisure Centre, Brecon, Powys. 10.30am. 

brecon10.com 

GLOUCESTER CITY HALF-MARATHON/ 

MARATHON 

Gloucester Quays, Gloucester. 9am. 

gloucestercitymarathon.com 

HOOKY 6 

The Bourne, Hook Norton. 10.30am. 

hooknortonharriers.org.uk 

ISLE OF MULL 10km/HALF- 

MARATHON 

Craignure, Isle of Mull. Noon. 

mullrunners.com 

MOUNT EPHRAIM 10km 

Mount Ephraim Gardens, Boughton, Kent. 

10.30am. 


NICE WORK RICHMOND PARK 

5km/10km SERIES 

East Sheen Gate, Richmond Park, 

Richmond, Surrey. 10am. 


REGENT’S PARK SUMMER 10km 

SERIES 

The Hub, Regent’s Park, London. 

9.30am. 

regentsparkraces.org 

RISBOROUGH RUN IN THE PARK 5km 

Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. 

9am. 

risboroughruninthepark.weebly.com 

REMEMBERING DERMOTT 5km/10km 

Ballyguddin Drumrane Road, Dungiven. 

1pm. 

RIVERSIDE 10 

George & Dragon Pub, St Georges Quay, 

Lancaster. 11am. 

lancaster-race-series.co.uk 

RUN NORWICH 10km 

City Hall, St. Peters Street, Norwich. 9am. 

runnorwich.org 

RUNTHROUGH HYDE PARK 5km/10km 

Hyde Park, London. 9.30am. 


STURMINSTER NEWTON HALF- 

MARATHON 

High School, Sturminster Newton, Dorset. 

10.30am. 

sturhalf.co.uk 

SUBWAY HELPING HEARTS FAMILY 

5km 

Ormeau Park, Belfast. Noon. 

5ksubway.com 

TRENTHAM 10km 

Village Hall, Tittensor, Staffordshire. 

10.30am. 

trenthamrunningclub.co.uk 


SELF TRANSCENDENCE 5km 

Battersea Park, London. 7pm. 

uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/london 

TILLY’S RAINBOW RUNS 

Main Street, Kesh. 7pm. 


BOOTH DECORATORS LEAGUE 

Shipley Hall CC, Shipley, Derbyshire. 

7.30pm. 

ilkestonrunningclub.co.uk/Training/Diary 

CLISSOLD PARK EVENING 5km 

Clissold Park, Green Lanes, Hackney, 

London. 7pm. 


DALBEATTIE 10km 

Dalbeattie High School, Haugh Road, 

Dalbeattie. 

dalbeattierunningclub.com 

GOSPORT 5km SUMMER SERIES 

Stokes Bay Road, Gosport, Hampshire. 

7.30pm. 


HEDDINGTON 5km SERIES 

Village Hall, Heddington, Wiltshire. 

7.30pm. 

calnerunningclub.co.uk 

RAMSBOTTOM SUMMER MILE 

Nuttall Park, Ramsbottom, Great 

Manchester. 5.30pm. 

racebest.com/races/ramsbottomsummer-mile 

ROSE INN 4 SERIES 

Rose Inn, Redwick, Gwent. 7.30pm. 

sites.google.com/site/ 

chepstowharriersrunningclub/openraces/rose-inn 

2017 DIAMOND LEAGUE CALENDAR 

Aug 20: Müller Grand Prix Birmingham, Britain 

Aug 24: Weltklasse Zürich, Switzerland 

Sept 1: AG Insurance Memorial Van Damme, Brussels, Belgium 

WAVERTREE MYSTERY 5km SERIES 

Wavertree Stadium, Liverpool, 

Merseyside. 7.15pm. 

Liverpoolharriers.co.uk 


ABSOLUTE RUNNING 1km 

Stokes Bay Road, Gosport, Hampshire. 

7.15pm. 


ARMADA ATHLETICS NETWORK 5km 

SERIES 

Saltram Park, Plymouth, Devon. 7pm. 

armadaathletics.co.uk 

BRAT ROWHEATH 5km 

Rowheath, Warwickshire. 7.45pm. 

bratclub.co.uk 

BUGATTI 10km 

Prescott Hill Climb, Prescott, 

Gloucestershire. 10am. 

almostathletes.co.uk/bugatti-10k.html 

COLERAINE 5 

Coleraine Leisure Centre, Coleraine. 

7.30pm. 

EASY RUNNER BITTON 5km SERIES 

Bitton Station, Bitton, South 

Gloucestershire. 7.30pm. 

bittonroadrunners.co.uk 

HESSILHEAD 10km 

Castle Semple Country Park, 

Lochwinnoch. 

entrycentral.com/hessilhead10k 

MEDWAY SPORT 5km SUMMER 

SERIES 

Medway Park, Gillingham, Kent. 7pm. 

medway.gov.uk/leisurecultureandsport/ 

sport/gettingmedwayactive/getrunning. 

aspx 

ULVERSTON SUMMER 10km 

GSK Sports Club, North Lonsdale Road, 

Ulverston, Cumbria. 7.15pm. 

ukroadraces.info/results/2016/hoad.htm 

YEOVILTON SUMMER 5km SERIES 

Nuffield Bar, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, 

Somerset. 7.15pm. 

yeoviltownrrc.com 


MALLUSK HARRIERS 5 

Academy Sports Hub, Mallusk Road, 

Mallusk. 7.30pm. 

malluskharriers.com 

RYE SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES 10km 

Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, Rye, East 

Sussex. 7.30pm. 


SLEAFORD STRIDERS SUMMER 10km 

Community Centre, Scredington, 

Lincolnshire. 7pm. 

sleafordhalf.com 

ST LEVAN 10km 

St Levan Playing Field, Polgigga, 

Cornwall. 7pm. 

mountsbayharriers.co.uk 


BUXTON PAVILION GARDENS 5km 

Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire. 

9am. 

buxtonac.org.uk 

CATFORTH CANTER 5km SERIES 

Village Hall, Catforth, Lancashire. 

6.30pm. 

ukroadraces.info 

HADDINGTON HALF-MARATHON (Inc 

EAST DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS) 

Neilson Park, Haddington. 

entrycentral.com/ 

haddingtonhalfmarathon 

HOAD HILL 5km/10km 

Ulverston, Cumbria. 10.30am. 

pureoutdoorsevents.co.uk 

LITTONDALE FETE 4 

Arncliffe Village Green, Skipton, North 

Yorkshire. 1pm. 

race-results.co.uk 

PRIDE RUN 10km 

Victoria Park, London. 11am. 

pride10k.org 

RUN GROOMSPORT 10km/HALF- 

MARATHON 

Main Street, Groomsport. 10am. 

communitymultisport.org/our-events/ 

run-groomsport 

SLIEVE CROOB 10km 

Dromara GAC, Dromara. 10am. 


ASKERN 10 

Askern Miners Welfare Club, Doncaster, 

South Yorkshire. 10.30am. 

askerndrc.org 

BLACKPOOL AIR SHOW 10km 

Bispham Fire Station, Lancashire. 11am. 

ukresults.net 

BURNHAM BEECHES 10km/HALF- 

MARATHON 

Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, 

Berkshire. 9am. 

burnhamjoggers.org.uk 

BURTON 10km 

Shobnall Leisure Complex, Burton-on- 

Trent, Staffordshire. 10.30am. 

hattondartsrunningclub.co.uk 

CARL RUTT MEMORIAL 10km 

Hermitage Leisure Centre, Coalville, 

Leicestershire. 10.30am. 

hermitageharriers.co.uk 

CITY OF PRESTON 5/10 

Village Hall, Walmer Bridge, Preston, 

Lancashire. 10am. 

facebook.com/prestonroadraces 

DARLINGTON 10km 

Dolphin Centre, Horsemarket, Darlington, 

Co Durham. 10am. 

darlington.gov.uk/10k 

DRAYCOTE WATER 10km 

Draycote Water, Rugby, Warwickshire. 

9.45am. 


DYCE HALF-MARATHON 

Pitmedden Road, Dyce, Aberdeenshire. 

metroaberdeen.co.uk 

GREAT YARMOUTH HALF-MARATHON 

(Inc NORFOLK CHAMPIONSHIPS) 

Ormiston Venture Academy, Gorleston, 

Norfolk. 10am. 

gyrr.co.uk 

GYM CO FÉILE 10km 

The Falls Park, Belfast. 9am. 

aislingevents.com 

HOAD HILL HALF-MARATHON/ 

MARATHON 

Ford Park, Ulverston, Cumbria. 9.30am. 

pureoutdoorsevents.co.uk 

IOM HALF-MARATHON/MARATHON 

Ballabeg, Isle of Man. 9am. 

isleofmanmarathon.com 

LONDON SUMMER 10km 

Regents Park, London. 10.30am. 


PERSEVERANCE WIMBLEDON DASH 

5km 

Wimbledon Park Stadium, Wimbledon. 

9.30am. 

herculeswimbledonac.org.uk/ 

Perseverance-5k.html 

RISBOROUGH RUN IN THE PARK 5km 

Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. 

9am. 

risboroughruninthepark.weebly.com 

ROUND THE ROCK 10km 

Grove Road, Portland, Dorset. 10.30am. 

rmpac.co.uk 

RUN DORNEY 5km/10km/HALF- 

MARATHON 

Dorney Lake, Windsor, Berkshire. 10am. 

rundorney.com 

STRATHAVEN STRIDERS JOHN 

LUCAS 50 

Kirklandpark Primary school, Strathaven. 

strathavenstriders.co.uk 


SVHC GLASGOW 800 

Pollok Park, Glasgow. 

scottishmastersathletics.webnode.com 

WYE VALLEY RUNNERS 10 

Hereford Rowing Club, Hereford. 10am. 

wyevalleyrunners.co.uk 


GRAHAM CLARK MEMORIAL RACES 

Knockhill Racing Circuit, Dunfermline. 

carnegie-harriers.co.uk 

NORTHERN AC 10km 

Ramsey, Isle of Man. 7pm. 

naciom.org 


ELLESMERE PORT RC 5km 

Capenhurst Technology Pk, Cheshire. 

7.15pm. 

ellesmereportrunningclub.org.uk 

HORWICH JUBILEE 5 SERIES 

Parish Hall, Rivingtom, Lancs. 7.30pm. 

horwichrmiharriers.co.uk 

HORWICH JUBILEE MILE 

Parish Hall, Rivingtom, Lancashire. 

7.30pm. 

horwichrmiharriers.co.uk 

MASSEY FERGUSON CORPORATE 5 

War Memorial Park, Coventry, 

Warwickshire. 9.30am. 

masseyrunners.org.uk 

PINTOS 3km SERIES 

Cooper Park, Elgin, Moray. 7pm. 

morayroadrunners.com 

PURPLE LADIES 5km 

Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre, Ballymoney. 

7.30pm. 

springwellrunners.com 

RR10 LEAGUE 

IBM Hursley Park, Hursley, Hampshire. 

7.15pm. 

rr10.org.uk 

RUN NORTHUMBERLAND NUNNYKIRK 

10km 

Nunnykirk Hall, Netherwitton. 7pm. 

runnation.co.uk 

RUNTHROUGH CHASE THE SUN 

FINSBURY PARK 5km/10km 

Finsbury Park, London. 7pm. 



LEICESTER CITY SUMMER 5km 

SERIES 

Victoria Park, London Road, Leicester. 

7pm. 


LES CROUPIERS RACE OF TRUTH 5km 

Bute Park, Cardiff. 

lescroupiersrunningresults.org.uk 

SALE SIZZLER 5km SERIES 

Wythenshawe Park, Manchester. 

7.30pm. 

saleharriersmanchester.com 

TOFFEE RUN 4.5 

Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 7pm. 


ASHFORD SUMMER SERIES 5km/10km 

Victoria Park, Ashford, Kent. 7pm. 


BEVERIDGE PARK 5km SERIES 

Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, Fife. 

fifeac.org 

IPSWICH BUILDING SOCIETY 

TWILIGHT 5km/10km 

Suffolk New College, Ipswich. 7pm. 

events.ipswichjaffa.org.uk/twilight 

KNOWSLEY H SUMMER FAB 4 

Environment Centre, Okell Drive, 

Liverpool, Merseyside. 7.30pm. 

knowsleyharriers.com 

NORMANBY HALL SUPER MILE 

Normanby Hall Country Park, Scunthorpe, 

North Lincolnshire. 6pm. 

curlysathletes.co.uk 



TRACK 



Olympic Park. Until Sunday August 13. 


MIDLAND JOINT LEAGUE 

1: Nottingham. 2: Stoke. 3: Sutton 

Coldfield. 4: Stourport. 

midlandathletics.org.uk 

FORTH VALLEY LEAGUE 

PRESIDENT’S SELECT MATCH 

Grangemouth. 9.45am. 

forthvalleyleague.org.uk 

GATESHEAD HARRIERS YOUNG 

ATHLETES SERIES 

Gateshead. 

gatesheadharriers.com 

NORTH OF ENGLAND LEAGUE 

1: Preston. 2E: Middlesbrough. 2EC: 

Scunthorpe. 2W: Blackburn. 2WC: 

Bolton. 3E: Whitley Bay. 3EC: Doncaster. 

3W: Trafford. 3WC: Ashton under Lyne. 

4E: TBC. 4EC: Wakefield. 4W: Crewe. 

northernathletics.org.uk 

UK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT U13/U15 

LEAGUE NORTHERN IRELAND FINAL 

Belfast. 11am. 

ukydl.org.uk 

WELSH U15 LEAGUE PLATE FINAL 

Newport. 

welshathletics.org 

WEST LONDON POLE VAULT 

INVITATIONAL 

Southampton. 


ACHILLES v TOKYO UNIVERSITY 

Cambridge. 

x.achilles.org/site 

ALDER VALLEY BOYS’ LEAGUE 

1: Reading. 2: Portsmouth. 

wseh.info/aldervalleyboys 

MIDLAND JOINT LEAGUE 

5: Loughborough. 6: Tamworth. 


BOURNEMOUTH AC JUMPS INVITATION 

Bournemouth. 

bournemouthathleticclub.co.uk 

CENTRAL & STH OF SCOTLAND LEAGUE 

1: Kilmarnock. 2/3: Grangemouth. 

scottishathletics.org.uk 

GUERNSEY INTERTRUST CHALLENGE 

St. Peter Port. 10.30am. 

guernseyathletics.org.gg 

HUMBERSIDE LEAGUE 

Grimsby. 

KENT YOUNG ATHLETES’ LEAGUE 

1/2: Gillingham. 

kcaa.org.uk/KYAL.htm 

RAM ATHLETICS LEAGUE 

East: Perth. North: Inverness. 

grampianathleticsleague.synthasite.com 

WELSH U15 LEAGUE FINAL 

Newport. 

welshathletics.org 

WEST YORKSHIRE LEAGUE 

Wakefield. 1pm. 

wakefield-harriers.co.uk/wytfl/wytfl.htm 


KETTERING TOWN H FLOODLIT OPEN 

Kettering. 

ktharriers.com 


BMC GOLD STANDARD RACES 

Watford. 7.30pm. 

britishmilersclub.com 

CHARNWOOD AC OPEN SERIES 

Loughborough. 

charnwoodac.co.uk 

GAA SPRINT GALA 

Scotstoun. 

NORTH EASTERN OPEN GP SERIES 

Jarrow. 7pm. 

necaa.info 

SOUTH OF ENGLAND AA U15/U20 

INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Horspath. 

seaa.org.uk 

WATFORD OPEN GRADED MEETING 

Watford. 7pm. 

watfordharriers.org.uk 


EASTERN MASTERS LEAGUE FINAL 

Bedford. 

emac.org.uk 

INVICTA EAST KENT OPEN SERIES 

Canterbury. 

invictaeastkentac.org.uk 


CARDIFF NIGHT OF ENDURANCE 

cardiffrunningevents.org/night-ofendurance.php 

ENGLAND ATHLETICS U15/U17 

COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Sportcity. Until Sunday August 13. 

englandathletics.org 

MIDLAND COUNTIES U20/SENIOR 

3000m CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Coventry. 


MMTG BRITISH HIGHLAND GAMES 

DECATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Derby. 

mmtg.org.uk 

NORTHERN IRELAND & ULSTER 

COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Belfast. 10am. Until Sunday August 13. 

athleticsni.org 

WREXHAM GAMES 

Wrexham. 11am. 

wrexhamac.club 


AVON LEAGUE 

Yate. Noon. 

avonleague.org.uk 

BORDER HARRIERS OPEN 

Whitehaven. 

borderharriers.co.uk 

DEVON OPEN SERIES 

Braunton. 

tavistockathletics.co.uk/devon-openseries-2 

DOUGLAS BEDFORD MEMORIAL OPEN 

Wakefield. 10.30am. 

wakefield-harriers.co.uk 

EASTERN YOUNG ATHLETES’ LEAGUE 

Bedford, Stevenage. 

eyal.org.uk 

MORAY ROADRUNNERS OPEN 

GRADED LJ/TJ OPEN 

Knockando. 

morayroadrunners.com 

OXFORDSHIRE JUNIOR LEAGUE 

Banbury. 

oxfordcityathleticclub.com/oxon-juniorleague 

SCOTTISH WOMEN’S LEAGUE 

Scotstoun. 

TERRY DAVIES MEMORIAL 

WARRINGTON OPEN SERIES 

Warrington. Noon. 

warringtonathletic.org 


BLACKHEATH & BROMLEY OPEN 

SERIES 

Bromley. 7.15pm. 

bandbhac.org.uk 


CONNIE HENRY’S TRACK ACADEMY 

INVITATIONAL 

Willesden. 

trackacademy.org.uk 

NORTH DOWN AC SENIOR OPEN 

Bangor. 6pm. 

nirunning.co.uk 

TRAFFORD AC GRAND PRIX 

Stretford. 6.15pm. 

traffordac.co.uk 


ABERDEEN AAC OPEN 

Aberdeen. 

aberdeenaac.co.uk 

DARTFORD H OPEN MEETING 

Dartford. 

dartfordharriersac.co.uk/wordpress 

ENGLAND MANCHESTER 

INTERNATIONAL 

Sportcity. 

englandathletics.org 

LEE VALLEY SUMMER SPRINT OPEN 

Lee Valley. 

visitleevalley.org.uk/go/lee-valleyathletics-centre/#competition-entryforms 

OXFORD CITY AC OPEN GRADED 

Horspath. 

oxfordcityac.com/competitions/opengraded-meeting 

ROSENHEIM LEAGUE FINAL 

Kingston. 6.45pm. 

herculeswimbledonac.org.uk 


BRIGHTON BIRTHDAY BOYS 5000m 

Brighton. 

brightonandhovecity-ac.com 

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DIP FINISH 

CRAZINESS AND CONTROVERSY 

IN THE WORLD OF ATHLETICS 

LONDON SELECTION UPROAR 

SQUABBLES AND ARGUMENTS AS SELECTORS CAUSE ATHLETES’ ANGER 

RGUMENTS raged 

A 

and even the odd 

punch was thrown 

on the eve of the 

IAAF World Championships 

after athletes reacted angrily to 

not being picked for London. 

Ethiopian steeplechaser 

Chala Beyo has been 

banned for two years from all 

competitions for assaulting his 

coach after learning he had not 

made his country’s team for 

London. Beyo threw a punch 

at Yohannes Mohammed after 

being left out of the squad. 

There has also been uproar 

in South Africa after the 

country’s athletics selectors 

snubbed around a dozen 

athletes who had achieved IAAF 

qualifying standards but not the 

tougher South African marks. 

After a number of South 

African Olympians were 

left out of the squad, world 

400m record-holder Wayde 

van Niekerk tweeted: “Guys 

work [too] hard for this type of 

rejection.” 

In Kenya, meanwhile, the 

800m runner Michael Saruni 

had an ill-tempered potshot 

at Kenyan athletics by saying 

it “still operates under lies, 

corruption and conspiracy” after 

he was left out of the team for 

the IAAF World Championships. 

Emmanuel Korir won 

the Kenyan 800m trial from 

Kipyegon Bett and Saruni, with 

Ferguson Rotich fourth. But 

despite suggesting it was going 

to take a ‘first three across the 

line’ approach, Kenya picked 

Korir, Bett and Rotich, plus 

world record-holder David 

Rudisha as a wild card, leaving 

Saruni out in the cold. 

Saruni’s coach, Paul Ereng, 

the 1988 Olympic 800m 

champion, said: “I am angry 

with this. It simply shows the 

bad management in Kenyan 

athletics, which has been there 

since 1950s. Rudisha and 

Rotich have not won a single 

race this season … and Saruni 

beat Rotich in the trials.” 

However, Saruni’s supporters 

were hoping for a last-minute 

reprive as AW went to press 

after Rudisha withdrew from 

London with injury. 

ATHLETES REUNITED 10th ANNIVERSARY 

GOLDEN oldies celebrated 

the 10th anniversary of their 

‘athletes reunited’ gatherings in 

London last weekend. 

The get-togethers began in 

2007 when Tony Maxwell, who 

was researching a book on the 

100-year history of Woodford 

Green, asked the former 

David Rudisha (right) and Ferguson Rotich 

(third from right): initially picked 

ahead of Michael Saruni 

Athletes reunited (left to right): race walkers Colin Young, Roger Mills, Ian 

Statter, Paul Nihill, Bill Sutherland and Dave Ainsworth last weekend 

athletes he was contacting if 

they wanted to meet up. 

The concept was simple – 

athletes from the 1960s and 

1970s who were now in their 

60s, 70s and 80s would meet 

up to reminisce over old 

times. 

AW ran a feature headlined 

‘Athletes reunited’ (far left) 

about their inaugural meeting 

and the name was born. The 

gatherings have gone from 

strength to strength, attracting 

dozens of Olympians and 

national champions. 

MARK SHEARMAN TOM POLLAK 

A big gathering on the eve 

of London 2012, for example, 

attracted legends such as Ron 

Hill, Basil Heatley, Bill Adcocks, 

Peter Radford, Jim Hogan, 

Frank Sando and many others. 

Some athletes have even 

travelled from abroad to attend 

the get-togethers, while mini- 

’athletes reunited’ gatherings 

have taken place among 

athletes from Scotland and 

individual English counties. 

“As the years have rolled 

by the PBs of those attending 

Athletes Reunited lunches 

have got faster and faster, the 

number of titles won has been 

exaggerated hugely and the 

training mileage of the middle 

and long distance exponents 

has increased exponentially,” 

says Maxwell. 


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