MIZUNO PODIUM 5km, Battersea Park, London, December 31
Tomer Tarragano simply received the higher of Thomas Eager, with a 13:49 clocking, as Joseph Tuffin was run out of it within the closing levels.
The trio, along with Jacon Allen, Liam Dee and half a dozen extra had been headed for many of the race by Bournemouth’s asylum seeker Abdinasir Elmi, who was timed simply after the 1km mark in 2:50, some six seconds clear, they usually had been nonetheless the identical quantity adrift on the half-way level.
Thereafter, the opposite chasers started to fall away because the 5 had closed on Elmi by the 4km mark. Then, Tarragano and Eager, with Tuffin in tow, swept previous the tiring chief as, behind, the highest 15 all broke 14:30.
Tarragano, the BUCS silver medallist over the nation, who had not raced a 5km since 2021, when he ran 14:19, was in new territory right here, but it surely was little shock following his win within the Euro cross-country Trials and nineteenth spot in Turkey, that he received the drop right here.
Eager was additionally in new territory together with his 13:50 runners-up time, but it surely was a shock to see the 1:46.18 800m man headed in a dash for the road.
Third positioned Tuffin was one other to crack 14 minutes for the primary time whereas Elmi’s class is already now well-known.
The ladies had their very own elite race and Renee Walcott-Nolan, the Paris Olympic Video games 1500m semi-finalist, headed Poppy Tank on the line, after the pair had run kind of collectively all through, earlier than profitable by 5 seconds in 15:39.
The Studying pair of Mia Waldmann and Jess Gibbon had been monitoring a number of seconds down after simply over 1km with half-a-dozen others alongside for the experience.
Nevertheless, Walcott-Nolan and Tank had damaged clear by the half-way level, earlier than splitting nearer the end.
This was Walcott-Nolan’s first run on the roads for practically two years, when a 15:48 ‘under-the-lights’ right here in Battersea Park proved to be her private greatest till this 15:39. For Tank, the Euro-Cross runner earlier in December, her 15:44 was additionally a private greatest.
Extra on the occasion right here.
Tom Eager and Tomer Tarragano (Graham Smith)
Elite Males: 1 T Tarragano (B&H) 13:49; 2 T Eager (C&C) 13:50; 3 J Tuffin (BRAT) 13:53; 4 A Elmi (B’mth) 13:55; 5 J Allen (Excessive) 14:01; 6 L Dee (SB) 14:07; 7 B Bradley (AFD) 14:18; 8 D Nolan (Croy) 14:19; 9 F Richardson (C&T) 14:19; 10 C Brisley (NEB) 14:20; 11 J Millar (B&W) 14:21; 12 F Proffitt (Traff) 14:23; 13 J Grace (AFD) 14:24; 14 E Smith-Rasmusson (Newark) 14:29; 15 L Moses (N Ranges) 14:30; 16 D Nazareth (Belb) 14:32; 17 M Selby (Ton) 14:34; 18 C Gibbens (Ton) 14:38; 10 J Doye (WG&EL) 14:40; 20 G Mastrolonardo (York) 14:41
U17: 1 T Webb (Wells) 14:49
Open Race 1: 1 C Holder (HW, U17:15:40
Open Race 2: 1 E Pettit (Vale R) 14:50
M45: 1 R Laing (Kent) 15:59
U17: 1 S Molero (St Ed) 15:01
U15: 1 F Hayward (Wyc P) 16:05
Revée Walcott-Nolan (Graham Smith)
Elite Ladies: 1 R Walcott-Nolan (Luton) 15:39; 2 P Tank (Plym) 15:44; 3 M Waldman (Learn) 15:53; 4 J Gibbon (Learn) 15:58; 5 L Jones (Herne H) 16:12; 6 B Wooden (Salis) 16:21; 7 E Flanaghan (Omagh) 16:31; 8 G Hillier-Moses (N Ranges, W35) 16:33; 9 Millie Jordan-Lee (AFD) 16:36; 10 S Hicks 16:38
W45: 1 B Whitfield (Hill) 18:46
U17: 1 Okay Pye (AFD) 16:38
NOS GALEN 5km, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, December 31
Total: 1 B Reynolds (Card) 14:48 2 L Sheppard 15:01; 3 A Ede 15:01
Ladies: 1 L Cooper (W tempo) 17:35
BROADSTONE QUARTER MARATHON, Dorset, January 1
Total (6.55M): 1 R McTaggart (B’mth) 34:38; 2 H Tongue 3(U20) 35:01; 3 C Peck (Eg H, M40) 35:10
M50: 1 G O’Brien (Swin) 39:28
M60: 1 J Critchlow (Purb) 41:04
Ladies: 1 V Ingham (Poole) 39:46
CLEETHORPES NEW YEAR’S DAY 10km, Lincolnshire, January 1
Husband and spouse pairing Matt and Sophie Bowser got here out on high and M40 Matt notched up his sixth win within the seaside city with a 31:56 clocking.
The pair received married throughout 2024 and Sophie, the previous Miss Wallace, additionally retained her Cleethorpes title, doing so with a 34:46 clocking and being chased residence by Emily Soanes, whose 34:47 was a number of seconds exterior her greatest.
Total: 1 M Bowser (Linc W, M40) 31:56; 2 D McKinnon (Goole) 32:40
M50: 1 D Whiting (Bec) 35:23
Ladies: 1 S Bowser (Linc W) 34:46; 2 E Soanes (Bev) 34:57; 3 L Skinner (Off Sofa, W40) 34:41
W40: 2 N Curtis (Off Sofa) 36:40
W45: 1 N Curgenven 37:58
W60: 1 T Gibson (Wolds) 46:27
SERPENTINE NEW YEAR’S DAY 10km, Hyde Park, London, January 1
Malcolm French for the marketing membership stated: “The Royal Parks shall be holding Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens locked due to the excessive wind, so no New Yr’s Day race. We’ve requested them to permit us to reschedule.”
WYMONDHAM NEW YEAR’S DAY 10km, Norfolk, January 1
Total: 1 C Bowen-Jones (NEB) 32:35
M45: 1 R Dobson (New J) 34:02
M60: 1 M Tuff (Fenland) 39:28
Ladies: 1 M Marsh 39:23
W60: 1 V Jennings (Ips J) 49:28
ELY NEW YEAR’S EVE 10km, Cambridgeshire, December 31
Holly Archer, the European indoor 1500m silver medallist, ran her fourth sub-35-minute 10km of 2024, with 34:32, but it surely is not going to function on her Energy of 10 profile because the occasion had an ARC Licence.
Total: 1 A Melloy (C&C) 32;26; 2 C Darling (C&C) 32:40
M45: 1 D Raimondo (Saffron) 34:24
M55: 1 R Lowe (Harlow) 36:31
Ladies: 1 H Archer (C&C) 34:32
W45: 1 Okay Godof (Olney) 38:41
W60: 1 M Twitchett (C&C) 46:06
LOUGH 5, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Eire, December 31
Total: 1 E Mullan (Omagh) 25:15; 2 J Doherty (Finn V) 25:22; 3 Okay Kelly (Raheny) 25:28
M60: 1 T Hughes (Try) 29:55
Ladies: 1 C Cunningham (Chonaill) 30:37
W50: 1 Okay Wilton (Lisburn) 32:16
Nick Harris-Fry (Mark Easton)
St ALBANS NEW YEAR’S EVE 10km, Hertfordshire, December 31
Total: 1 N Harris-Fry (Orion) 32:58
M60: 1 S Townsend (Dac) 38:26
Ladies: 1 N White (N’brook, W40) 36:50
MARHAM FLYERS NEW YEAR’S EVE 10km, Norfolk, December 31
Total: 1 A Jakeman (March) 32:47
M45: 1 N Pollard (New J) 34:21
Ladies: 1 Okay Vargeson (3 Counties) 38:52
W60: 1 C Brown (Wym) 45:44
OLD FATHER TIME 5, Cardiff, December 31
Total (Masters solely race): 1 O Williams (Les C, M35) 26:20; 2 N Denton (Card M40) 27:01; 3 O Schiavone (Aber, M40) 27:04
M45: 1 J Thie (P’pridd) 27:12
M50: 1 H Evans (P Bryn) 28:04; 2 N Grinnell (Neath) 28:08
M65: 1 I Lloyd (Swan) 29:11; 2 P Reddaway (Ware) 30:26
M70: 1 A Davies (Swan) 31:05
M75: 1 R Morris (San D) 38:48
Ladies: 1 L Flynn (Les C, W40) 28:54; 2 Okay Roberts (Swan, W35) 29:45; 3 G Sales space (P’cawl) 30:29
W40: 1 L Jones (Les C) 31:27; 2 M Kowal (Swan) 31:58
W50: 1 S Bulpin (San D) 33:08; 2 J Dawkins ((Cornell) 33:59
W55: 1 C Fowler (Chep) 34:03; 2 J Hudson (C’philly) 34:38
W60: 1 E Wharmby (Brackla) 33:55
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