Cardiff wins for Evans and Ngeno – UK road race round-up

Quick times in Wales plus leading results from the Big Half in our domestic round-up featuring road, cross-country and fell

CARDIFF CDF 10km, September 3

Kenyan Alfred Ngeno won the men’s race in 28:33 exactly a minute clear of Kadar Omar who was an isolated second. Shaun Antell in third just squeezed inside 30 minutes.

Alaw Evans won the women’s race in a PB 34:48, taking a few seconds off her 2019 best which was set when she was a teenager while second place went to 2008 Olympian Kate Reed.

Alaw Evans (Run4Wales)

Overall:
1 A Ngeno 28:33; 2 K Omar 29:33; 3 S Antell 29:58; 4 D Griffiths 30:01; 5 D Nash 30:08; 6 K Taylor 30:10; 7 J Butler 30:12; 8 K Clements 30:28; 9 M Ward 30:35; 10 J Morrow 30:38

Women:
1 A Evans 34:48; 2 K Reed W40 35:16; 3 O Tsim 35:50; 4 S Antell W35 36:34; 5 D Morris W40 37:05; 6 C Hammett W35 37:26; 7 F Spruit 37:35

W60: J Thompson 42:33

THE BIG HALF, London, September 3

Jack Rowe and Calli Thackery pulled off impressive victories in a high quality domestic race and Sir Mo Farah set a British M40 record of 62:43.

A detailed report is here

Jack Rowe (Mark Shearman)

Men
1 J Rowe AFD 61:08; 2 M Mahamed 61:16; 3 A Butchart 62:15; 4 M Farah M40 62:43 (UK M40 record); 5 J Mellor 62:54; 6 Z Mahamed 63:32; 7 S Jamaal 63:34; 8 A Clarke 63:55; 9 M Aadan 63:58; 10 A Sharif 63:58; 11 A Heyes 64:05; 12 E Cross 64:37; 13 A Lepretre 64:39; 14 P Sesamann 64:43; 15 C Johnson 64:47; 16 J Allen 65:30; 17 D Hamilton 65:57; 18 M Sharp 66:20; 19 P Graham 66:25; 20 S Eglen 66:26; 21 S Heath 66:30; 22 J Millar 66:33; 23 S Bramwell 66:37; 24 T Menges 66:49; 25 O Bell 67:00; 26 C Tharme 67:32; 27 M Hashi 68:10; 28 N Bester 68:30; 29 T Butler 68:30; 30 E Chuck 68:32; 31 R Thompson 68:34; 32 I Bailey 68:38; 33 M Smith 68:39; 34 J Ramm 68:39; 35 S Jackson M40 68:39

Calli Thackery (Mark Shearman)

Women
1 C Thackery 69:15; 2 R Harvey 70:02; 3 A Donnelly 70:31; 4 C Evans 71:23; 5 L Partridge 72:25; 6 L Reid 73:57; 7 S O’Gorman 74:14; 8 T McCormick 74:42; 9 K Estlea 74:46; 10 J Farley 75:17; 11 T Barlow 75:45; 12 R Murray 76:08; 13 H Dixon 77:30; 14 A Culling 77:39; 15 C Bruce 77:47

OVERTON 5, Hampshire, September 3

Nearly 500 runners crammed into this small Hampshire village and, with its two long hills again provided a stern test but Lucy Elliott came out on top of the women’s race in 30:11, Martin Duff reports.

The 57-year-old, who holds the W55 British 5km road best time, went third on the five mile all-time lists with her time to top the age group rankings this year.

Overall:
1 A Greenleaf (Win, M40) 25:31; 2 F Slemeck (Win) 25:55; 3 R Waldron (Soton)…