Sarah Roberts, Mark Symes and Ellie Stevens among the many winners on the World Masters Indoor Champs in Florida on Monday
After a sluggish begin at cross-country and the ladies’s 60m finals, British masters athletes dominated the 800m races on the World Masters Indoor Championships in Gainesville in Florida on Monday (March 24) profitable seven gold medals.
First to attain gold on the observe was W75 world record-holder Sarah Roberts. Main all the best way she produced splits of 48.18, 46.58, 46.71 and 43.06 to clock a championships report 3:04.51. That left former USA’s world report setters Sabra Harvey (3:11.37) and Jeannie Rice (3:15.79) properly behind. Cross nation medallist Ros Tabor was fifth in 3:36.53.
Zoe Doyle gained Britain’s second half-mile title as she put collectively even splits of 34.34, 34.37, 35.93 and 35.28 to win in 2:19.90, practically 5 seconds up on Chile’s Andrea Poblete.
Maria Shaw who led the primary lap in a quick 33.76 did properly to carry on for bronze in 2:25.19 as she fought a tough 39.64 ultimate circuit.
Ellie Stevens, who final summer time gained the world masters W40 half-marathon title, confirmed her nice vary with a solo 2:15.96 run from the entrance.
Her laps had been 33.72, 33.47, 33.25 and 35.52 as she gained gold simply from Spain’s Marta Diez Manzano (2:18.33).
W40 winner Ellie Stevens and W45 winner Zoe-Doyle
The British Isles (and British born runners) had been much more profitable within the males’s occasions.
Eire scored golds within the M80 by means of Michael Kiely (3:09.35) and M70 Joe Gough (2:31.73 – with a blazing 32.70 final 200m). Moreover British-born and former Hercules Wimbledon and Shaftesbury Barnet Simon Rayner gained M60 gold for Canada by only a hundredth of a second in one of many day’s most fun race in 2:15.15.
Nonetheless, Britain did win golds of their very own within the M65, M55, M50 and M45 classes and would absolutely have gained M60 gold had world record-holder Rob McHarg not had his flight cancelled.
Northern Eire’s M65 Dave Clarke was content material to sit down behind Icelandic favorite Hafsteinn Oskarsson led by means of 200m in 33.53, 400m in 69.23 and 600m in 1:46.88 earlier than unleashing a 33.63 ultimate circuit to win in a championships report 2:21.00 to defeat the Icelander’s 2:22.70 whereas John Thomson gained an extra GB medal in third in 2:24.79.
M65 800m gold medallist Dave Clarke
Mark Symes was one other to run an ideal tactical race as he led the 800m practically all the best way with laps of 31.83, 32.03, 32.09 and 31.07. His reward was a British report 2:07.01 as he held off quick ending American Charles Novak’s 2:07.58. Steve Baldock was sixth in 2:11.80.
Within the subsequent race American Mark Williams tried to regulate the race like Symes, main at a quick tempo however holding off makes an attempt to cross by holding the within lane, as he handed midway in 60.73. British world record-holder Kojo Kyereme made repeated makes an attempt to cross however Williams held him off and the Brit was nonetheless behind as they hit the ending straight. Nonetheless, courtesy of a robust kick and 30.15 final 200m Kyereme edged by in 2:01.82 to 2:02.21.
M50 800m winner Kojo-Kyereme and M45 champion Keith Hutchinson
Subsequent off was the M45 800m however Keith Hutchinson was solely sixth at 400m in 61.90 and a 3rd successive gold regarded unlikely.
Nonetheless he moved up on the penultimate lap after which an enormous again straight kick 29.00 ultimate circuit and a pair of:01.69 time gave him victory but it surely was shut as a late kick by France’s Gerald Lecun (2:01.73) fell simply 0.05 quick.
There was no expectation of gold within the M40 occasion with 1:47 performer Anderson Teles da Silva of Brazil a surefire winner.
Da Silva eased spherical with laps of 28.37, 29.96, 29.98 and 28.87 for a 1:57.17 victory however ending even sooner behind him was Scot Chris Loudon who closed with a 28.37 ultimate circuit.
The Cambridge Harrier’s reward in his first ever championship – “a fortieth birthday current” – was a 1:57.48 PB which improved on his PB within the warmth.
The opposite silver medal of be aware got here from former W55 champion Virginia Mitchell.
The 2023 world athlete of the 12 months Sue McDonald of USA managed the race from the entrance with laps of 37.47, 36.74 after which 34.91 and although slowing on the final lap with 37.41 her time of two:26.52 was an enormous championship report.
Mitchell who chased onerous all through was additionally contained in the championships mark however extra importantly was a British report 2:28.54.
W60 champion Sue McDonald and W65 800m winner Lesley Hinz
Different American winners of be aware had been W55 Michelle Rohl (2:25.13), W65 Lesley Hinz (2:53.85) and W80 Marie-Louise Michelsohn (5:10.50).
Abroad winners of be aware included W35 Elisa Schone of Germany (2:17.52) profitable by simply 0.03 of a second and W50 Kiwi Vanessa Hodge (2:31.24) who prevailed by 0.09 of a second.
Uruguay’s Ana Giuffra (3:11.88) gained W70 gold.
The oldest males’s winner was Mongolian M90 Radnaa Tseren who gained in a championships report 3:57.26.
Additionally setting a championship bests had been France’s M85 Jean-Louis Esnault’s 3:05.76. And Finland’s M75 Tarmo Tupala who ran 2:41.78 to outkick Hans Smeet of the Netherlands.
Peru’s Juan Diego Zarauz Vidal gained the M35 800m in 1:57.19 and whereas Alejandro Linan Rimmer gained bronze for Spain he bases a number of time in England and has a thick Southport accent!
British athletes discovered medals a lot tougher within the girls’s 60m races with the boys’s finals on Tuesday.
Stacey Downie (7.96) and Angelita Broadbelt (7.97) took silver and bronze behind USA’s W35 winner Odeika Giscombe (7.73).
The subsequent finest outcome was the fourth and fifth within the W60 race for Julie Hicken (9.16) and Eni Font Freide (9.23).
There have been championships data for W90 Florence Meiler of USA in 14.85, Canadian W85 Carol LaFayette-Boyd (10.33), Nigerian W45 Olutoyin Augustus (7.93) and Romania’s W50 Adina Gheorghiu (8.15).
The latter gained by eight thousandths of a second from Karen Lengthy of Australia who matched the Romanian’s championships finest.
Britons Paula Williams (8.66) and Janelle Quinn (8.75) completed seventh and eighth.
Suzanne Clever gained W35 weight gold with a 13.80m throw.
Jeanette Ashton gained silver within the W65 Pentathlon with 3018 factors with marks of 13.15 within the hurdles, 1.16m within the excessive soar, 6.62m within the shot, 3.18m within the lengthy soar and a profitable 3:21.08 within the 800m. Gold went to USA’s Vicki Fox with 3055 factors.
Nina Ridge was sixth within the W50 Pentathlon with 3358 factors and Adrian Essex was tenth within the M70 pentathlon with 2647 factors.
Andrea Jenkins was second within the W45 weight with 13.51m.
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