Protection from the primary version of this occasion the place veteran British athletes rubbed shoulders with abroad rivals in north London
The inaugural London Masters Worldwide final weekend (July 26-27) was effectively supported by Britain’s prime masters athletes and was boosted by abroad rivals at a breezy Lee Valley, Steve Smythe reviews.
Whereas her sister Diana Norman, the W40 and W45 world masters pentathlon record-holder, was unable to compete, Julia Machin added the W55 world pentathlon mark to her outstanding household successes.
Machin’s rating of 4752 bettered Bajeat’s world report of 4436 set in Might by over 300 factors. She additionally bettered Susan Frisby’s British report rating of 3839 from 2017 by over 900 factors.
The elder Bennett sister, who completed eighth within the 1998 European Indoor Championships pentathlon, in all probability focuses extra on teaching than competing lately.
After a gentle begin of a 13.56 80m hurdles left barely her down on each the respective world and British marks of France’s Petra Bajeat (13.26) and UK’s Susan Frisby (13.29) she went effectively forward of their scores within the excessive soar.
Machin, who boasts a 1.92m PB set in 1990, produced a 1.62m leap to enhance her personal world W55 excessive soar mark.
A 11.49m shot pulled her additional away from each data after which she produced a 4.99m UK report within the lengthy soar and whereas a 2:57.81 800m misplaced floor it was sufficient for a report rating.
W35 Jo Rowland, a former English senior heptathlon champion who competed for Britain within the European Cup mixed occasions, additionally impressed.
She put collectively marks of 16.03 within the 100m hurdles, 1.53m within the excessive soar, 13.65m within the shot, 5.33m within the lengthy soar and a pair of:23.24 within the 800m to simply take the general occasion.
One other prime coach now, Christine Harrison-Bloomfield, who ran for Britain as a senior within the 1993 world indoor and outside championships, sped to a British W55 100m report of 13.38 (-0.1).
European indoor champion Helen Godsell improved her W70 100m report to fifteen.23 (-0.1) after which improved it to fifteen.09 (1.0) within the second spherical of races.
World masters champion Ian Broadhurst improved his UK M70 400m report to 63.13. He additionally got here near his 300m hurdles report with 48.37.
Emily McMahon improved her UK W75 200m hurdles to 40.41, which can also be a European report.
A number of world championships senior finalist Will Sharman impressed with first a 14.69 (-1.3) 110m hurdles adopted in higher circumstances by a swift 14.34 (2.0) to go near world masters champion Mensah Elliott’s UK report of 14.26. Elliott, who’s an M45 now, failed to complete his first race in opposition to Sharman and withdrew from the second.
Decide of the 100m hurdlers was Barrie Marsden who ran a M60 UK main 15.44 simply forward of British age-group record-holder Neil Tunstall (15.54).
Darren Scott, a a number of report breaker within the sprints, confirmed good type within the discipline with a UK lead within the M55 excessive soar with a Scottish report 1.63m leap.
He additionally set a UK M55 lead within the 100m with a 11.88 (0.1) clocking.
Within the shot there was a M65 stadium report for Allan Leiper, whose 13.56m defeated Michael Hausler by a single centimetre.
Tony Richards set a M75 stadium report of 10.72m.
Claire Cameron’s 9.22m went prime of the UK W65 rankings.
Within the hammer W35 Rachel Wilcockson (53.11m), M55 Gareth Cook dinner (53.06m), W45 Andrea Jenkins (43.43m), W50 Stacey Gonzalez (38.10m) got here near their UK age-group leads.
W60 Janet Smith set a stadium report 37.79m.
M60 World Indoor 1500m record-holder Rob McHarg was lower than impressed that a lot youthful athletes refused to set the tempo on a windy afternoon and he ended up main for a lot of the race earlier than ending fifth general in 4:32.24 which was a stadium report.
Decide of the ladies’s 1500m performances got here from W65 Monica Williamson, whose 5:33.10 was simply three seconds down on Nancy Hitchmough’s British report and took a minute off the stadium report.
W35 Harriet Slade received the general ladies’s 1500m (4:53.66) and 3000m (10:26.36) in PB instances.
World W45 champion Zoe Doyle, who additionally ran 200m and 400m at this assembly, received the 800m simply in 2:19.23. Different stadium data have been set in the identical race by W50 and reigning European champion Nikki Sturzaker (2:31.79), W60 Clare Elms (2:31.94) and W55 Kate Ramsey (2:38.69).
A number of world champion Elms, who took over half a minute off of the stadium report, had had a busy week. She took six seconds off of her W60 world mile report on Wednesday after which on Saturday missed her 1500m world report by three seconds earlier than lacking her UK outside 800m report by a few seconds right here on the Sunday.
Spanish M45 Francesc Bonfill was the choose of the 400m runners with a 51.98 clocking.
A number of world and European champion Virginia Mitchell was quickest W60 within the 400m with 67.54.
Netherlands’ M50 Paul de Graauw was the choose of the male pentathletes with a rating of 3284.
M35 Paul Ogun’s 6.75m headed the lengthy jumpers however there was an helpful 3.36m stadium report for M80 dash medallist Allan Lengthy.
Regardless of the top quality requirements in most occasions, some late extra occasions to the programme did have smaller occasions however the general customary of the occasion organised by OG Observe membership and masters athlete Kaspars Kazamak exceeded expectations.
Former a number of European masters champion Don Brown was the assembly director and was additionally an enthusiastic announcer and this could possibly be the primary of normal main masters conferences in London if supported higher by the rank and file British masters membership athletes.
It is value noting whereas there have been quite a few excessive profile senior occasions within the UK there hasn’t been a serious masters worldwide observe championships in Britain indoors or out since Gateshead’s 1999 World Masters Championships 26 years in the past!
