Sri Chinmoy occasion in Perth on Sunday additionally noticed Dougie Selman win UK 100km crown whereas Ronnie Richmond ran British males’s 50km report
In near-perfect circumstances, the Sri Chinmoy 100km and 50km races produced some excellent performances in Perth on Sunday (March 24). The 1.5-mile (2.831km) course on the North Inch Park is understood for quick instances and this 12 months was no exception, Adrian Stott reviews.
Ladies’s 100km
Sarah Webster broke the European ladies’s 100km report with 7hr 3min and 48sec, surpassing the earlier time of seven:04:03, set by Florianne Scorching of France in August 2022, by a mere 15 seconds.
Webster, the defending champion, had run a sooner 7:03:40 to win the 2023 championship in Craigavon, Northern Eire. Nonetheless, because of a technicality it was not ratified as a European report.
This time Webster went by means of 50km in 3:26:01 with Melissa Gibson simply 40 seconds again and Julia Davis an extra 4 minutes again on 3:30:46. Webster powered on to run remarkably even splits with a second 50km of three:27:39.
It was a unprecedented efficiency from Webster who now has the fifth and sixth ladies’s international greatest instances for 100km.
Gibson and Davies now transfer to second and third on the GB all-time ladies’s 100km rankings behind Webster.
Gibson took the silver medal in 7:13:23 and Davies bronze in 7:25:48. It made for a clear sweep for England within the ladies’s dwelling nations group competitors, with all three runners properly contained in the earlier course report of seven:41:12 set by Jo Murphy in 2002.
Sri Chinmoy 100km begin
Males’s 100km
In an thrilling end to the lads’s race, simply over a minute separated the primary three. As soon as the race had settled down a stable group of round seven runners appeared to be working collectively. Then after the 50 miles the group began breaking apart with James Turner main the cost, Scotland’s Dougie Selman and Joe Turner had been the one ones to reply and though working onerous, had been nonetheless in contact.
Going into the final lap James Turner held a slim nine-second lead over the native favorite Selman, with Joe Turner an extra 35 seconds again.
In a storming final lap, Selman was to overtake Turner to take the tape in 6:34:28 and lift an enormous cheer from the native crowd, James Turner taking second in 6:34:38 simply 10 seconds behind and Joe Turner third in 6:35:37.
Dougie Selman (Rob Sara)
All three runners had been contained in the course report of 6:39:34 set by Matt Dickenson in 2022 and at the moment are the seventh, eighth and ninth ranked all-time GB males at 100km
Within the Scottish Championship for the Don Ritchie cups, Selman took the lads’s title from Chris Richardson, who completed fourth total within the race in a PB of 6:40:44. Sage Pierce-Higgins, operating his first street 100km, took the bronze with 6:56:14.
Sheena Logan, operating her first 100km race, took the ladies’s Don Ritchie trophy, ending in sixth total in 8:19:26. Catherine Cowie took the Scottish silver medal in 8:26:31 and Fiona Gibson bronze in 10:22:05.
Scottish group (Rob Sara)
Anglo Celtic Plate group competitors.
Selman, backed up by Richardson and Michael Deason, took the lads’s Plate forward of England, Northern Eire and Ulster.
Within the ladies’s group competitors, England with their clear sweep of the rostrum took the honours, with Eire in second and Northern Eire & Ulster third.
In different notable report performances, Ciaran McGonagle set an Irish 100km report of 6:50:28 in sixth place and first M40.
Shettlston Harrier John Duffy, who turned 60 two days earlier than the race, set a Scottish M60 100km report of 8:50:59, bettering the 8:58:51 recorded by Invoice Hutchison at Perth in 2016.
Ronnie Richmond (Rob Sara)
UKA and Scottish 50km Championship
In a day of information, Ronnie Richmond and Andy Davies, each GB internationals on the distance, ran collectively for virtually the entire race, serving to one another to distinctive instances. On the finish of lap 19 of the 21 laps, they had been locked collectively at 2:32:16
On the bell, Davies had damaged clear to have a slim lead of 10 seconds.
On the final 2.382km lap, Richmond turned that round to take the UKA 50km title in 2:48:25, simply eight seconds away from Davies with 2:48:33.
They had been each underneath the earlier GB street report of two:49:01 set by Dan Nash in 2019 and simply exterior the long-held British observe 50km mark of two:48:06 set by former Olympic marathoner Geoff Norman in 1980.
The ladies’s 50km championship additionally doubled because the Scottish 50km championship. This race was extra clear reduce with Central AC’s Jen Wetton in her first foray past the marathon, main from the beginning and recording a superb 3:29:03, lower than a minute exterior the course report of three:28:07 set by Hannah Oldroyd in 2019.
Alison McGill, utilizing the race as a stepping stone, as she builds to defending her West Highland Approach title in June, took the silver.
Full outcomes HERE