With the workforce clearly a lot smaller than when it topped the European Masters Championships in Madeira final summer time, Britain loved loads of success on the opening 4 days at a really humid Daegu, writes Steve Smythe.
Pleasure of place goes to John Wright who improved his world M65 100m document to 12.03.
He gained by 5 metres however did appear to irritate his hamstring with the 200m, 400m and relays to return. His earlier world document was 12.15 in Derby final yr and right here he ran a championships document of 12.23 in his semi-final.
European champion Rob McHarg gained the M60 800m by over seven seconds in 2:09.06.
The 1:48.32 800m performer David Proctor gained the M40 800m by over a second in 1:53.59.
Sarah Roberts is not but on the identical kind as final yr when she gained world masters athlete of the yr award however she gained the W75 800m by 22 seconds in 3:12.56 and in addition gained the 10km. Each instances famend American masters athlete Jeannie Rice took silver.
Britain’s most profitable ever masters 400m/800m competitor Virginia Mitchell simply gained the W60 800m.
One other so as to add to her repute was Evaun Williams, Britain’s finest ever masters thrower, who gained the W85 hammer.
Alison Wilder wanted a final-round 11.99m triple soar to regain the lead of the W35 occasion.
Douglas Graham gained the M45 pole vault with a 3.75m leap.
Joe Appiah set a British M55 document within the lengthy soar, taking silver with 6.12m behind Italy’s Stefano Tari.
Whereas lots of Europe’s prime masters have not made what’s a really costly journey for a 13-day championships, there have nonetheless been many notable performances principally from non-Europeans, although the general commonplace of the championships may be very patchy in some occasions with fewer Europeans.
American Kenton Brown set a M80 world 100m document of 14.16 whereas Thailand’s Somdanga Boonnok set a world document within the W70 80m hurdles with a 15.61 victory.
The 2024 world indoor bronze medallist (behind Duguma and Jemma Reekie) Noelle Yarigo, a five-time international outside championships semi-finalist, simply gained the W40 800m in 2:10.55.
The 2008 Olympian Toyin Augustus of Nigeria got here near the W45 80m hurdles world document of 11.47 however did set a championships document of 11.53.
Jamaica’s former 10.13 sprinter Ramone Branswell set a M35 championship 100m document of 10.44.
The 1986 Commonwealth bronze medallist Phil Spivey gained the M65 hammer with a 56.80m throw.
The 1986 pole vault winner from Edinburgh, Andy Ashurst was fifth within the M60 decathlon.
The 1996 silver medallist James Beckford might solely end third within the M50 lengthy soar whereas double world indoor 800m bronze medallist Joetta Clark-Diggs was a detailed second within the W60 100m.
On the roads, other than Roberts, Madeleine Armstrong-Plieth gained the W45 10km whereas Steve Allen gained the M70 10km stroll however was behind 1980 Olympian M75 runner-up Ian Richards.
World Masters Championships, Daegu, Korea, August 22-September 3 (outcomes from the opening days under)…
Males
M35: 100 (-0.3): 1 R Branswell (JAM) 10.443000SC: 4 PETER BALL 10:32.26
M40: 800: 1 DAVID PROCTOR 1:53.59
M45: 100 (-0.6): 1 L Martinez (ESP) 11.06HJ: 1 M Azami (JPN) 6.91/1.4PV: 1 DOUGLAS GRAHAM 3.75JT: 1 J Park (KOR) 57.09; 2 GAVIN JOHNSON ASSOON 56.78
M50:LJ: 1 N John (GRN) 6.64; 3 J Beckford (JAM) 6.33TJ: 4 GRANT STIRLING 12.28
M55:800: 1 A Harris-Larasen (NED) 2:04.33; 2 STEVE BALDOCK 2:08.46LJ: 2 JOE APPIAH 6.12/1.
M60: 100 (-0.6): 1 D Gibbon (USA) 11.74800: 1 ROB McHARG 2:09.06Dec: 5 ANDY ASHURST 5181
M65: 100 (0.6): 1 JOHN WRIGHT 12.03 (WR); 2 A Berger (AUT) 12.57800: 3 DAVID CLARKE 2:20.222000SC: 1 D Lee (USA) 7:09.29 (WR)SP: 2 ALLAN LEIPER 13.14HT: 1 P Spivey (AUS) 56.80; 3 RAY BACON 42.20; 5 LEIPER 41.32Dec: 1 V Zaniauskas (LTU) 7495
M70: 100 (-0.9): 1 G Zorn (GER) 12.87; 2 STEPHEN PETERS 12.91HJ: 2 DAVID BLUNT 1.40
M75: 100 (-0.2): 1 M Kish (USA) 13.49; 2 JAMES LINDSAY 13.92SP: 3 MARK WYNDHAM-JONES 11.35HT: 2 WYNDHAM-JONES 40.02
M80: 100 (0.4): Ok Brown (USA) 14.16 (WR)Dec: 1 J MacDermott (IRL) 4878
M85: 100: 2 ANTHONY TREACHER 17.64
M90: 100: 1 R Tseren (MGL) 18.29800: 2 COLIN SPIVEY 4:21.67
Ladies
W35:100 (0.2): 1 N Berridge (AUS) 11.81TJ: 1 ALISON WILDER 11.99/1.4
W40: 800: 1 N Yarigo (BEN) 2:10.55; 3 SIAN LEWIS 2:18.98TJ: 3 LUCIE VENABLES 8.88/1.1
W45: 80H: 1 O Augustus (NGR) 11.53SP: 1 T Nasonova (UKR) 14.46
W55: 80H: 1 A Murphy (USA) 12.49
W60:100 (1.0): 1 I Opitz (GER) 13.39; 2 J Clark Diggs (USA) 13.43800: 1 VIRGINIA MITCHELL 2:34.145000: 1 S Gibbs (NZL) 19:59.24; 2 FIONA USHER 20:46.6080H: 1 N Jakstiene (USA) 13.11HJ: 2 EMILY MacDONALD 1.55
W65: 800: 2 CATH WHEELER 2:55.3160H: 1 S Stagles (AUS) 13.462000SC: 1 J Wickham Essery (ESP) 9:03.71
W70: 80H: 1 S Boonnok (THA) 15.61 (WR)
W85: HT: 1 EVAUN WILLIAMS 27.45
Highway
Males:10km: 1 P Wanjiru (KEN, M40) 31:14M50: 2 BRIAN WILDER 34:05
Ladies:10km: 1 A Lund (USA, W40) 38:22W40: 3 REBECCA LUXTON 41:51W45: 1 MADELEINE ARMSTRONG PLIETH 41:23W60: 1 S Gibbs (NZL) 42:23; 4 FIONA USHER 44:12W65: 3 GWEN KINLOCH 47:34W75: 1 SARAH ROBERTS 50:16; 2 J Rice (USA) 57:25
Males:10kmW: 1 M Chin (HKG, M35) 47:24M70: 1 STEVE ALLEN 66:13M75: 2 IAN RICHARDS 62:41
Ladies:10kmW: 1 V Denisselle (FRA, W40) 51:33
