British W60 best for 5km at Battersea

Clare Elms runs 18:20 clocking on Tuesday in south London

SRI CHINMOY SPEEDY STEEDS 5km, Battersea Park, London, June 10

Whereas there have been good general victories for Brighton Half winner Seyfu Jamaal and Folkestone 10 winner Helen Gaunt, it was W60 Clare Elms who produced probably the most noteworthy effort with a British finest on gun timing with a 18:20 clocking.

Whereas Elms, AW’s 2019 and 2024 Grasp athlete of the yr, has over time set a number of world age-group bests at 800m, 1500m, Mile, 3000m and 5 mile, the W60 5km had proved a tough goal.Fiona Matheson had run 18:22 in 2023 and since turning 60 later that yr, Elms had had 14 earlier makes an attempt and had run 18:24, 18:25, 18:28, 18:31 and 18:32 this yr alone. Within the 18:31, on a really crowded begin, she had really run 18:09 on chip time however BMAF at present insist they’ll solely settle for finest instances on gun.

In good circumstances at Battersea it proved fifteenth time fortunate as she handed midway in simply over 9 minutes. There was a minor panic within the final 30 metres as in negotiating a lapped runner, two males who had been battling away nearly degree with Elms clashed and within the melee, she nearly tripped and fell and stumbled throughout the road.Unusually Elms headed the male M60 winner in inserting tenth general within the ladies’s race.

The winner Gaunt, who ran 2:36:25 on this yr’s London Marathon, set a PB of 16:40.

Second was additionally a W45 Alice Sunderland who acquired held up at a crowded begin. Higher identified below her maiden title Braham, this run got here 30 years after she completed seventh within the 1995 European Junior 3000m.In fourth general, Jonathon Poole led residence the male vets with a 15:10 one place up on the World Masters 800m and 3000m medalist Chris Loudon.

Total: 1 S Jamaal (Lon H) 14:31; 2 A Waluotosin (NEB) 14:54; 3 N Bester (Greatest A) 15:01; 4 J Poole (Serp, M40) 15:10; 5 C Loudon (Camb H, M40) 15:21; 6 B Babaker (Camb H) 15:30

M50: 1 A Bond (Dulw R) 16:25; 2 L Martin (Chelm) 16:47

M55: 1 M Weaver (Excessive) 16:40; 2 D Gillett (S Lon) 17:41

M60: 1 G Meehan (Dulw R) 19:04

M65: 1 D Ogden (S Lon) 18:34

U15: 1 W Hughes (S Lon) 16:51

Ladies: 1 H Gaunt (Ton, W45) 16:40; 2 A Sunderland (Ealing E, W45) 17:18; 3 G Leyland (Herne H) 17:26

W50: 1 Okay Sung (M&M) 19:05; 2 D O’Brien (Kent) 19:25

W55: 1 A Smith (S Lon) 19:53

W60: 1 C Elms (Dulw R) 18:20

W70: 1 A Riddell (Serp) 26:07

W75: 1 R Tabor (Dulw R) 26:39