North Jap Harrier League wins for Lydia Turner and James Johnson

All of the information from the previous few days on the UK cross-country operating circuit

START FITNESS NORTH EASTERN HARRIER LEAGUE, Wrekenton, Gateshead, Tyne & Put on, January 19

After a number of cancelled fixtures on account of climate and automobile parking difficulties, it was again to motion for the league and Durham College pupil James Johnson, a World Aquathlon Championship contestant, was not solely first residence total but additionally the quickest man competing.

It was an analogous story within the girls’s part as Lydia Turner was first residence and quickest total. Nonetheless she needed to overcome a time deferral of over two minutes to nonetheless cross the road first.

The Birtley Harrier repeated her victory within the league from Thornley Corridor final September.

Again in 2014 Turner positioned third within the under-20 girls’s race on the European Cross-Nation Championships, which was one in all a number of appearances in that occasion.

James Johnson (David Hewitson)

General (first residence): 1 J Johnson (Durh U) 31:25; 2 A Sayers (Criminal) 32:58; 3 C Alborough (Criminal) 33:18

Quickest: Johnson 31:25

M40: 1 J McKenna (Tyne Br) 31:51

M50: 1 J Armstrong (Morp) 35:58

M60: 1 P Redman (Sund) 40:17

U17: 1 L Powell (Tyne Br) 18:39

Quickest: A Cook dinner (Gate) 16:28

U15: 1 A Darling (T’dale) 8:50

Quickest: Darling 8:50

U13: 1 M Carter (T’dale) 10:0

Quickest: O Curran (Darl) 8:57

Males’s begin (David Hewitson)

Girls: 1 L Turner (Birt) 25:25; 2 A Bell (Gate, U20) 26:01; 3 J Patterson (Durh U) 26:19

Quickest: 1 Turner 22:54; 2 J Heslop (Elsw, W45) 24:28; 3 R Newman (Durh U) 25:29

W40: 1 J Hodgson (Morp) 24:57

W50: 1 L Brief (T’dale) 26:20

W55: 1 J Murfy (S Shields) 27:52

U17: 1 H Cutler 21:31

Quickest: G Carter (Durh) 20:31

U15: 1 T Bishop (Birt) 10:38

Quickest: H Robison (Hought) 9:29

U13: 1 E Hawkins (NSP) 10:47

Quickest: P Phillipson (Birt) 9:39

Girls’s begin (David Hewitson)

CHINGFORD LEAGUE, Epping Forest, January 18

General: 1 S McCauley (Lon H) 30:31; 2 A Different (Lon H) 30:35; 3 C Bruce (Trent P, M40) 31:10

M50: 1 R Maidment (Orion) 32:43

M60: 1 R McCormick (Barn) 35:49

U17: 1 A O’Driscoll (WG&EL) 17:14; 2 W Muffett (WG&EL) 17:15; 3 S Lindsell (E&H) 17:56

U15: 1 F Reina (Ilf) 18:59

Girls: 1 C O’Shea (VP&TH) 36:05; 2 Z Oldfield (Lought, W40) 36:24; 3 Okay Clark (VP&TH, W40) 36:53

W50: 1 M Reid (Ilf) 37:09

U17: 1 E Trainor (WG&EL) 24:12

U15: 1J Falkowski ((Trent P) 19:56

SOUTH EAST LANCS LEAGUE, Heaton Park, Higher Manchester, January 18

Males: 1 J Watson (Traff, U20) 30:14; 2 M Harris (E Chesh) 30:40; 3 D Norman (Alt, M45) 30:56

M55: 1 T Shanker (Manch YMCA) 34:11

TEAM: 1 E Cheshire 21; 2 Manchester YMCA 48; 3 Glossopdale 56

M40 TEAM: 1 E Cheshire 18

M50 TEAML 1 Glossopdale 28

M60 TEAM: 1 Rochdale 17

U17: 1 M Fleet (E Chesh) 21:02; 2 O Walker (E Chesh) 21:11; 3 N Dunne (E Chesh) 21:23

TEAM: 1 East Cheshire 6

U15: 1 H Yates (Horw) 21:16; 2 B Hadfield (Roch) 21:31; 3 L Rhodes (E Chesh) 22:42

TEAM: no crew closed in

U13: 1 L Schofield (Salf M) 11:02; 2 T Stewart (Chorl Tri) 11:05; 3 Z Jones (E hesh) 11:13

TEAM: 1 Salford Mets 10

Girls: 1 C McMurdoch (Salf M, W35) 22;47; 2 Okay Kay (E Chesh, W40) 34:55; 3 R Marshall (Bury) 35:01

W50: 1 M Vaughan (E Chesh) 37:38

W60: 1 G Kinloch (Burnden) 38:48

TEAM: 1 E Cheshire 14; 2 Salford Mets 18; 3 Horwich RMI 34

W40 TEAM: 1 E Cheshire 15

U17: 1 A Clark (Salf M) 25:49; 2 H Fleet (E Chesh) 25:57; 3 M Wright (E Chesh) 27:09

TEAM: no crew closed in

U15: 1 L Dent (Bury) 22:43; 2 M Preston Tri) 23:30; 3 I Reid (Chor) 24:22

TEAM: 1 Chorley 9

U13: 1 G Freary (Horw) 11:52; 2 G Benson (Chor Tri) 12:09; 3 H Wilkinson (Burty) 12:33

TEAM: 1 Bury 20

SUSSEX MASTERS, Lancing, West Sussex, January 18

Zared Arasaretnam-Hale took the championship which was once more held at Combe Farm within the shadow of Lancing Faculty, from multi-race winner James Baker who was high M45 residence forward of third positioned Howard Bristow.

It was an over-50 who got here residence forward of the separate girls’s race and Linda Schofield, who lies second on the all-time British masters 10km lists with a 36:06 finest, beat the entire youthful age teams by practically a minute.

Males (M35-49): 1 Z Arasaretnam-Hale (B&H, M40) 26:47; 2 J Baker (Chich R, M45) 26:58; 3 H Bristow (B&H, M45) 27:38; 4 J Dicks (B&H) 27:59; 5 G Tomlinson (Horsh J, M45) 28;18; 6 B Buchanen (Hy, M40) 28:24

TEAM: 1 Brighton & Hove 15; 2 Chich R 56; 3 B&H B 58

Males (M50+): 1 S Rowan (Hay H) 29:47; 2 C Trigg (Phoe) 30:12; 3 L Sida (Lewes, M55) 31:04

M55: 2 G Godden (B&H) 31:54

M60: 1 J Burrell (Lewes) 32:14; 2 M Herron (Phoe) 34:29

M65: 1 J Lowden (B&H) 38:54

M70: 1 D Prince-Isles (Lewes) 38:27

M75: 1 A Haig (Phoe) 51:11

M50 TEAM: 1 Haywards H 28; 2 Phoenix 30; 3 Enviornment 80 42

M60 TEAM: 1 Lewes 23; 2 Phoenix 28; 3 B&H 30

Girls: 1 L Schofield (B&H, W50) 31:24; 2 A Robinson (Value, W35) 32:09; 3 R Hillman (Lewes) 32:27

W50: 1 S Amer (Hay H) 36:41

W55: 1 L Lumber (E’brne) 37:13

W60: 1 G Moffatt (P’slade) 34:29; 2 C Wooden (Enviornment) 36:23

W35 TEAM: 1 Phoenix 16; 2 Lewes 18; 3 Enviornment 80 32

W50 TEAM: 1 B&H 12; 2 Haywards H 20; 3 Chich R 42

Vets AC Champs with Clare Elms (proper) (Tom Conlon)

VETERANS AC CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Wimbledon Frequent, January 18

Athletics Weekly feminine masters athlete of 2024, Clare Elms, turned the oldest ever particular person total lady’s winner when the 61-year-old led residence the youthful athletes, Steve Smythe experiences.

The occasion for the all-masters organisations, which was based to help veteran athletes at Stamford Bridge in 1931, needed to have a course change for this yr.

The standard loop round Queensmere Lake needed to be eliminated on account of engineering work, which lower a complete of 800 metres off of the standard two-lap course and the race was simply 6.8km.

The general winner of the race was Surrey Masters 1500m runner-up Wimbledon Windmiler and M40 David Sharman, who loved his largest win to this point in a time of 24:57.

Nonetheless, Sharman is just not a member of VAC so their total champion was runner-up Wealthy Berry who had solely been eighth total in his earlier look in 2023. Fellow M50 Craig Jackson was third to complete after which there was an enormous hole to a succession of age-group winners.

M35 Eric Dol, M60 Mark Tennyson, M55 Muhamud Haile and M45 Martin Edwards accomplished the highest seven as all of them received VAC titles.

Tennyson, the South of Thames champion in his age group, was the decide of the winners and the M60s simply produced probably the most rivals with 15 per-cent of the sphere.

Eighth residence was Elms, the a number of world record-holder, who was making her first look within the race since profitable in 2012 and 2013. After beginning steadily, she proved too robust for the 25 year-younger Clapham Chasers’ Portuguese nationwide, Mariana Arques, who was half-a-minute down

Third lady residence and second VAC was Elms’ predecessor as AW masters athlete of the yr Sue McDonald. The 2023 W55 World Masters 10km and half-marathon champion has but to beat Elms on the nation however took W55 gold right here.

In older age teams, new M65 Martin Leat narrowly defeated defending champion and the 2023 British 5km champion Tony Pamphilon.

M75 winner Mike Mann, nearly acquired the higher of fellow England worldwide and a number of M80 record-breaker Peter Giles.

General (6.8km (VAC until acknowledged): 1 D Sharman (Wimb W/gst, M40) 24:57; 2 R Berry (M50) 25:27; 3 C Jackson (M50) 25:57; 4 E Dol (M35) 26:59; 5 M Tennyson (M60) 27:13; 6 M Haile (M55) 27:20; 7 M Edwards (M45) 27:39; 8 C Elms (W60) 27:43; 9 J Carrington (M45) 27:44; 10 M Marques (Clap C/gst, W35) 28:14

M45: 3 R Steeples (Coll/gst) 28:44

M50: 3 J Armstrong-Plieth 28:35

M60: 2 L Reilly 29:21; 3 D Haughey 30:16

M65: 1 M Leat 30:04; 2 T Pamphilon 30:13; 3 S Smythe 33:23

M70: 1 R Turner (THH/gst) 33:13; 2 D Coates (SCVAC/gst) 34:38; 3 V Pauzers 35:33

M75: 1 M Mann 36:29; 2 M Anglim (SWV/gst) 36:34; 3 D Maskell 41:59

M80: 1 P Giles 37:08; 2 P Newby (THH/gst) 43:29

Girls: 1 Elms (W60) 27:43; 2 Marques (W35) 28:14; 3 S McDonald (W55) 28:30; 4 L Hancock (Clap C/gst, W40) 29:04; 5 M Armstrong-Plieth (W40) 29:18; 6 V Buck (W50) 29:26; 7 R Berry (W50) 29:34; 8 A Coomber (W50) 30:15; 9 N Richmond (W50) 30:30; 10 R Pickard (W45) 30:35

W45: 2 J Sinfield (Col/gst) 32:48

W55: 2 H Davies 34:12; 3 L Mill 36:51

W60: 2 L Woolhouse 31:17; 3 N Atkins 36:23

W65: 1 L Wilson 34:51; 2 M Davis (SCVAC/gst) 35:03; 3 J Quantrill 36:55

W70: 1 J Georghiou 40:57; 2 A Ross 46:12

SCOTTISH EAST DISTRICT LEAGUE, Bathgate, January 18

Males (8.8km): 1 L Rees (Fife) 25:38; 2 S Stirling (Falk VH) 25:55; 3 H Hickey (Centr) 26:03; 4 A Marshall (Centr) 26:07; 5 L Fanorolli (Cantr) 26:18

M40: D Hastie (Gala) 27:01

U20: H Pagett (S’earn) 26:44

TEAM: 1 Centr 63; 2 Cors 149; 3 Fife 156; 4 A’deen 283

MASTERS TEAM: 1 Metro 15; 2 Centr 32; 3 Cors 42

U17 (5.8km): 1 F MacKenzie (Metro) 18:17; 2 O Chirnside (A’deen) 18:18; 3 Okay Hardie (Hurt) 18:19

TEAM: 1 Hurt 14; 2 A’deen 39; 3 Metro 40

U15 (4.6km): 1 L Sedman (Falk VH) 15:13; 2 L Anderson (Anst) 15:24; 3 R Lees (Edin) 15:29

TEAM: 1 Edin 16; 2 Falk VH 17; 3 T Bord 22

U13 (2.9km): 1 T Hilton (Perth S) 10:07; 2 F Bell (Perth S) 10:09; 3 J Shinnie (A’deen) 10:15

TEAM: 1 Perth S 12; 2 Edin 28; 3 Hurt 35

U11 (1.7km): 1 G Wright (Hadd) 6:13; 2 Q McInally (S’earn) 6:29; 3 J Gerrard (A’deen) 6:30

TEAM: 1 Edin 28; 2 Perth S 36; 3 G Her Sc 62

Girls (5.8km): 1 N Scott (Edin) 19:47; 2 Okay Walker (Edin) 20:45; 3 M Sanchez Oller (Edin) 21:09; 4 G Whelan (Centr) 21:16; 5 H Cox (Edin) 21:20

W35: M McClelland (HBT) 23:01

TEAM: 1 Edin 11; 2 Cors 49; 3 Centr 69; 4 HBT 115

MASTERS TEAM: 1 HBT 10; 2 Edin 18; 3 Gala 49

U17/U15 (4.6km): 1 E Dallas (S’earn, U17) 15:57; 2 C Wright (Lass, U15) 16:17; 3 R Caves (Hurt, U15) 16:27

U15: 3 L Gibb (Dunf T) 17:33

TEAM: 1 Hurt 18; 2 Falk VH 18; 3 T Bord 45

U13 (2.9km): 1 I Madhra (Lass) 11:06; 2 G Whyte (Perth S) 11:08; 3 E Daunt (Edin) 11:22

TEAM: 1 Edin 17; 2 Hurt 35; 3 T Bord 36

U11 (1.7km): 1 C Czekalowska (A’deen) 6:04; 2 A Thomas (Dunf T) 6:14; 3 Okay McNab (Edin) 6:19

TEAM: 1 Edin 12; 2 A’deen 19; 3 S’earn 34

General male crew: 1 A’deen 672; 2 Edin 845; 3 Lass 878

General feminine crew: 1 Edin 93; 2 Cors 318; 3 Lass 520

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