Nice Birmingham Run kicks off our weekend round-up

Our outcomes abstract contains the Newcastle-Gateshead Marathon and British Masters 10-mile Champs

AJ BELL GREAT BIRMINGHAM RUN 10km, West Midlands, Could 4

Jack Grey and Hayley Carruthers had been among the many winners in Birmingham as 16,000 runners took to the streets on Sunday.

The Midlands’ largest operating occasion noticed 1000’s set off from Broad Road and Centenary Sq. to see the sights of town centre and south Birmingham in entrance of fifty,000 spectators.

General (10km): 1 J Grey (C&C) 29:48; 2 C Leeming (Western) 30:48; 3 T Teweled (Bir) 31:26

Ladies: 1 H Carruthers (Tip) 36:20

General (13.1M): 1 A Lanz (BRAT) 68:01; 2 A Banfield (Wym) 68:08; 3 J Douglas (Border) 68:14; 4 M Scarsbrook (NEB) 68:16; 5 E Pierce (NEB) 68:58

M60: 1 J Harding (P’slade) 88:36

Ladies: 1 G Campbell (Strat) 81:22; 2 C Bush (Tam) 81:56

MK ROCKET 5km, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Could 4

General (5km): 1 J Prior (Mattress C) 15:21

Ladies: 1 Kraczkiewski N Der) 18:01

W50: 1 J Mills (Redway) 20:27; 2 M Jesson (Woott RR) 20:39

W55: 1 J Martin (Redway) 21:18

W60: 1 J Loxley 21:19

MK MARATHON WEEKEND, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Could 5

General (26.2M): 1 B Cuell (Fare) 2:34:13

M60: 1 N Rackham (Metros) 2:50:08

Ladies: 1 Okay Wells (Telf, W35) 2:54:52

General (13.1M)): 1 H Smith (Soton) 68:45; 2 A Holland (Tav) 71:28

Ladies: 1 A Bagnall (Chesh D) 82:07

WHITSTABLE 10km, Kent, Could 5

General: 1 C Gibbens (Ton) 31:43

M55: 1 A Inexperienced (Dart) 37:17

Ladies: 1 A Horne 38:26

W55: 1 M Lennon Dulw R) 42:54

BELFAST MARATHON, Northern Eire, April 4

Ethiopian Tilahun Nigussie gained by greater than 13 minutes in a course report 2:13:37 nevertheless it was nearer within the ladies’s race as Millicent Kibet gained from Lalla Selsouli in 2:38:31.

General: 1 T Nigussie (ETH) 2:13:37; 2 A Hanlon (Drogeda) 2:27:06; 3 S Connolly (Anna) 2:29:30

Ladies: 1 M Kibet (KEN) 2:38:31; 2 L Selsouli (MOR) 2:38:51

BESAPAK GREAT EAST ANGLIA RUN 10km, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Could 4

General: 1 J Holman 31:38; 2 A Mussett (Col H, M50) 32;16

M50: 2 B Corleys (B’discipline) 34:15

M60: 1 T Lake (Wym) 38:47

Ladies: 1 M Duhig (W40) 37:15

NEWCASTLE-GATESHEAD MARATHON, HALF & 10km, Tyne & Put on, Could 4

On a busy weekend of three races, Kader Seyed took the marathon in 2:31:08 and Monte Watson the 10km in 31:31.

General (26.2M): 1 Okay Seyed (Lon H) 2:31:08; 2 M Stott (Blyth, M40) 2:39:04

Ladies: 1 L Thompson (York, W35) 3:04:34

General (13.1M): 1 J Garthwaite 73:45

Ladies: 1 J Lloyd-Edwards (W40) 89:28

W50: 1 J Johnston 95:53

W60: 1 F Twaddle 1:42:53

General (10km): 1 M Watson (Excessive) 31:31

Ladies: 1 A Seddon (J&H, W35) 37:15

WORTHING RUN FEST HALF-MARATHON & 10km, West Sussex, Could 4

M45 James Baker popped yet one more total race win within the half-marathon for a two-minute victory in 71:44. It was the Chichester Runners 1182nd total victory in additional than 25 years of competitions.

General (13.1M): 1 J Baker (Chich R, M45) 71:44; 2

General (10km): 1 S Heath (Phoe) 31:43

M50: 1 W Inexperienced (Serp) 33:03

Ladies: 1 L Smith 36:11

W50: 1 S Rushforth (Phoe) 39;19

BRITISH MASTERS 10 CHAMPIONSHIPS, Mallory Park, Leicestershire, April 3

In a transfer not welcomed by very many runners, British Masters organisers determined to carry their 10-mile championships not solely along with the Anglo Celtic Plate extremely competitors but additionally with their very own street relay programme.

Predictably entries had been among the many lowest ever for the occasion but additionally some who entered and paid their charges gave the occasion a miss as they thought that competitors can be weak. Simply 73 runners completed over all the age ranges.

Within the occasion, the general males’s masters title went to Ben Kruze, in 55:18, after breaking away firstly from M35 Tom Shardlow after which Dan Morgan later, after the half-way level.

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In fifth total, Northern Masters’ runner James Mackie ran a helpful 57:17 to take the M50 title.

One high quality male grasp who did hassle to compete was rock guitarist and multi-championship gold medallist Peter Giles who was the only M80 runner with an 89:35 clocking.

The ladies’s part was taken by main W45 and usually extremely runner Sarah Webster who ran 61:43. After a gradual begin the Lewes AC runner adopted early chief Anna Hollingworth, who went on to complete second and prime W40, Amy Anderson and Anne Halton-Hanley earlier than taking the lead simply earlier than the half-way level.

The one holder of a British 10-mile age group greatest on responsibility was Scarborough’s Sue Haslam who set a brand new W70 mark earlier this yr at 73:06. Right here and regardless of the windy circumstances, Haslam ran 73:51.

General (M35+): 1 B Kruze (Strat, M40) 55;18; 2 D Morgan (L Goat) 55:58; 3 A Russell (Vets) 56:50; 4 T Shardlow (Mid M) 57:06; 5 J McKie (North M, M50) 57:17; 6 J Scott-Buccleuch (North M, M45) 57:23

M50: 2 I Moser (Dav) 61:17

M55: 2 W Felton (Spect) 59:32

M60: 1 J Knibb (Mid M) 64:01

M65: 1 M Corridor (North M) 61:59

M70: 1 A Whitehouse (North M) 69:13; 2 P Hough (Mid M) 70:57

M75: 1 M Anglim (SW Vets) 91:58

M80: 1 P Giles (Vets) 89:35

Ladies (W35+): 1 S Webster (Lewes, W45) 61;43; 2 A Hollingworth (Mid M, W40) 62:07; 3 A Anderson (Chilled) 63:25; 4 J Halton-Hanley Chip, W45) 64:23; 5 H Buller (East M, W45) 64:34; 6 H Woods (Mid M) 67:12

W50: 1 L Callaghan (Mid M) 69:22

W65: 1 J Kidd (Scot V) 75:53; 2 M Davis (Strag) 80:04

W70: 1 S Haslam (North M) 73:51; 2 M Statham-Berry (Vets) 82:09; 3 L Hedworth (SW Vets) 84:59

LIVINGSTONE RELAYS, Mallory Park, Leicestershire, Could 3

This long-standing occasion was held within the morning earlier than the British Masters relay championships and appeared to scale back the numbers participating within the vets’ occasion.

Nuneaton gained each the lads’s and the veteran’s races while Charnwood took the ladies’s and included prime W55 Kate Ramsey of their line-up.

Males (4x3M): 1 Nuneaton 66:34 (H Robinson 15:15, L Padinson 16:30, T Ward 17:00, M Collins 17;47); 2 Wreake & Soar Valley b69:20; 3 Westie 70:40

Quickest: 1 Robinson 15:15; M Hussein (Roadhoggs) 15:33; J Matthews (Wreake) 15:50

M40 (4x3M): 1 Nuneaton 66:17 (D Rowan 16:20, L Melling 16:35, I Mansell 16:34, C Jordan 16:47); 2 Wreake R 73:13; 2 Stilton 75:39

Quickest: Rowan 16:20

Ladies (3x3M): 1 Charnwood 55:41 (J Anthoney 17:48, Okay Ramsey (W55) 19:10, A Seagar 18:43); 2 Wreake & SV 57:59; 3 Nuneaton 63:16

Quickest: Anthon y 17:48; S Edge (Wreake) 18:08; Seagar 18:43

W35 (3x3M): 1 Barrow 59:05 (N Harvey 19;40, Okay Matthiae 20:21; 3 Okay Hillier 19:04); 2 Birtstall 60:42; 3 Barrow B 64:06

Quickest: Okay Blount (Birst) 19:01; Hillier 19:04; Harvey 19:40

IPSWICH TWILIGHT 5km, Suffolk, Could 2

Nathan Mapperley headed eight finishers contained in the 15-minute barrier as Daisey Glover added the ladies’s part, in 16:24, in her maiden run out over the gap.

For Mapperley, his 14:22 was a two second enchancment on his earlier greatest as Matthew Clark headed in the remaining ten seconds down.

General: 1 N Mapperley (C&C) 14:22; 2 M Clark (Norw) 14:32; 3 Okay Clents (SB) 14:34; 4 J Trangmar (St Ed) 14:38; 5 C Charleston (AFD) 14:40; 6 P Winkler (Morp) 14:44; 7 J Millar (Ips H) 14:49; 8 S Eglen (AFD) 14;50

M40: 1 D Rock Felix) 15:42

M65: 1 P Mingay (Col H) 18:18

Ladies: 1 D Glover (Fram) 16:24; 2 G Kersey (Bas) 16:38; 3 Millie Jordan-Lee (AFD) 16:41; 4 Maddie Jordan-Lee (AFD) 16:43; 5 E legate C&C, W45) 16:52

W50: 1 H Heather-Hayes (Ips H) 18:38

GREAT YARMOUTH PROMENADE 5, Norfolk, April 30

General: 1 W Cork (Norw) 24:30

Ladies: 1 J Andrews (Bungay, W50) 28:58; 2 L Finch (Bure) 29:31

W60: 1 C Brown (Wym) 36:23

WIRRAL SEASIDE 5km, Leasowe, Merseyside, April 30

General: 1 J Boden (Wall’sy) 15:15; 2 A Haggard-Kearney (Warriors) 15:21

M50: 1 A O’Brien (Mersey Tri) 16:01

Ladies: 1 I Yorke (Warriors, U20) 16:59

W40: 1 L Baker (Warriors) 18:19

W50: 1 E Crowe (Dees) 19:32

W60: 1 T Carr (Liv RB) 22:57

TED PEPPER MT 10km, Hayes, Could 5

Whereas Beckenham’s Pete Baksh simply regained the lads’s title in chilly and windy circumstances he final gained in 2021 in 33:01, it was the ladies’s race that noticed essentially the most notable efficiency.

On the age of 61, Clare Elms grew to become the oldest ever race winner in a time of 39:32 for her eighth victory right here since her first in 2007

Over the primary half she was content material to comply with Melody Kane earlier than placing in a sub-six minute mile to go clear and ultimately win by 20 seconds and was shocked her time was practically two minutes faster than when she gained the world masters title on the street in Florida simply over a month in the past.

The race which was first run in 1979, is held in reminiscence of Ted Pepper, a Blackheath athlete who died within the 1978 Three Peaks race and the inaugural winner was Olympic marathoner Barry Watson.

General: 1 P Baksh (Beck) 33:01; 2 A Middleton 34:45M50: 1 A Bond (Dulw R) 36:49M60: 1 Okay Dawson (Sev) 39:18Women: 1 C Elms (Kent, W60) 39:32; 2 M Kane (Petts W) 39:54; Okay Flegg 40:59