A busy weekend of cross-country league action in the UK saw many top runners in action
BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE, Division 1, Stoke, November 12
University students took the top four places at Betley Court, as Edward Potter had a convincing win for Loughborough, Martin Duff reports.
With many top names missing thanks to the staging of the second race in the British Athletics Cross Challenge at relatively nearby Milton Keynes, Potter, who was ninth in this year’s English National, won comfortably by around 150 metres from the Birmingham University pair of Michael Ward and Tomer Tarragano, who was second in the final match of last winter.
In the team stakes, Birmingham comfortably headed their Loughborough rivals with their six scorers in the top 15. The rapidly improving BRAT club had four in the top 20 and headed their longer established Birchfield rivals to take third spot. Birmingham University also took the B team plaudits.
For the first time the League also recognised veteran athletes and it was Tipton who were first masters team home, as Birchfield’s Ed Banks, sporting the top No.1, who led in the individual standings. In a disappointment to many, there was just the single veteran age group highlighted but a clash with the British and Irish Masters International took away some top performers.
Overall: (results not processed yet by Po10)
1 28:34 Edward Potter Loughborough Students
2 29:05 Michael Ward University of Birmingham
3 29:10 Tomer Tarragano University of Birmingham
4 29:16 Thomas Patrick Loughborough Students
5 29:21 Charlie Davis BRAT Club
6 29:23 Joseph Tuffin BRAT Club
7 29:26 Brett Rushman University of Birmingham Junior
8 29:38 Max Heyden Loughborough Students
9 30:01 Elliot Moran University of Birmingham
10 30:03 William Mahoney Loughborough Students
TEAM: 1 Birmingham U 50; 2 Loughborough 86; 3 BRAT 134; 4 Birchfield 146; 5 Coventry G 275; 6 Warwick U 298; 7 Tipton 322; 8 Stoke 404; 9 Worcester 463; 10 Sutton Coldfield 552
B TEAM: 1 Birmingham U 158; 2 Birchfield 318; 3 Loughborough 350; 4 Stoke 558; 5 BRAT 613; 6 Tipton 715
M40 TEAM: 1 Tipton 31; 2 Stoke 43; 3 RSC 47; 4 Worcester 84; 5 BRAT 107; 6 Coventry G 136
B TEAM: 1 RSC 154; 2 Worcester 209; 3 BRAT 213
BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE Div 2, Gloucester, November 12
The pancake flat grassland course at Plock Court saw Severn AC host the division two match as Calum Hanlon took the individual honours, Martin Duff reports.
It was a relatively comfortable victory for the Leamington runner as Telford’s Dylan Gillett was 120 metres down in second. This division…
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