Fast performances by Helen Godsell and Steve Peters at the England Masters Inter-Area match
Stephen Peters and Helen Godsell were in record-breaking form in York at the England Masters Inter Area where teams from Wales and Scotland also competed on Sunday (Aug 17).
Godsell started her day with a 15.05/1.0 UK W70 100m record which gave her a near two second victory.
She followed that with a three second victory over 200m in 31.81/-1.8 with a hefty headwind costing her a chance of nearing the European record as the wind direction changed later in the afternoon.
Peters, now aged 72, and easily Britain’s greatest master sprinter of all time as well as a world-famous psychologist, set his record in the M70 100m with a 12.75/1.7 clocking. This gave him a five metre win over John Browne and improved on Glen Sutton’s 10-year-old 12.79.
Peters also won the 200m in 26.26 which was down on his 26.03 record from his fixture last year with 400m and 300m hurdles World champion Ian Broadhurst chasing him home in second in 27.23.
M65 John Wright won the M60 400m in 56.51 ahead of World masters indoor bronze medalist Wole Odele’s 57.75 which tops the younger W60 age group rankings.
Some checking Power of 10 thought Wright had smashed the British record as it listed his 58.1 as the British best.
However, last year when winning the World Masters gold in Gothenburg in an European record 56.22 (breaking legend Guido Mueller’s 20 year-old 57.63) Power of 10’s parameters decided was too fast to be true and ignored it in their age-group rankings.
Wright had also won 200m gold in Sweden in 25.61 but here in Derby, with the 400m already in his legs, he sped to a sensational 24.85/0.8 though the trackside clock initially suggested he had run faster than Peters’ European and UK best of 24.84 which is clearly on borrowed time.
In age-graded terms, beating Peters’ 12.75 at 72 and Wright’s 24.85 at 66, the day’s top performance came from multiple record breaker Clare Elms in the 3000m.
She had gone into the meet hoping to attack her own 1500m world record but unlike last year the organisers split the W35 and W50 races despite only 13 runners in total in the two races. Therefore, she lost the opportunity to follow faster younger runners so settled for a tactical race just stretching out in the last 400m ahead of Kate…
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