More medals for GB athletes on day four in Gainesville, Florida, with world records also falling
Britain had another excellent day on day four in Gainesville as Sarah Roberts, Clare Elms and Ellie Stevens added to their medal hauls with 3000m golds while Susanna Wise and Andrea Jenkins also won world titles as British throwers continue to also excel.
Roberts produced an astonishing run in the W70 plus 3000m despite running in a field of 17 runners which meant she was often running in lane three to pass lapped runners.
The W75 world record-holder led through 1000m in 4:08.20 and she produced further kilos of 4:10.62 and 4:10.00.
Though she was passed by American Nora Carey, who won the W70 title in a world record 12:24.36, Roberts bettered the previous W70 mark too but more importantly took the W75 gold medal and improved her W75 record by seven seconds with her 12:28.82 clocking.
Furthermore her time took three minutes off of the Championships best and would have won a men’s medal in the age group and was only bettered by multi world champion Hans Smeet by a few seconds.
She left distance legend Jeannie Rice of the USA over a minute in arrears as she lapped the multi world record breaker who is a huge star in US running circles.
Sarah Roberts leads from Jeannie Rice and Nora Carey
In third Ros Tabor gained her second medal in Florida and also broke the previous championships record with 15:02.86.
Notably there more women in this category than in most of the M35 events.
Elms was equally dominant as she too lapped the field and won by a minute as she won her third gold in Florida but second individual medal.
Intending to run steadily, she was surprised the announcer said she was on world record pace after a few laps and given great encouragement, she changed plans to attempt a faster time but also suffered with back markers – one athlete she lapped seven times.
Clare Elms
She missed the listed world record by just over a second with 10:49.83 but has a yet unratified 10:43 from the Irish Championships still pending.
She took over 40 seconds off of the Championships record with kilo splits of 3:31.27, 3:38.95 and 3:39.61 in a race that unusually had seven different nations in the top seven.
Argentina’s Susana Tavaloni (11:50.15) was the best of the rest.
Ellie Stevens followed up her 800m victory with a championships best 9:43.13 in the W40 event.
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