Medals galore for Harborough AC master athletes at the British Championship

On Saturday, in extremely windy conditions, Harborough Masters Athletes were in action at the British Masters Athletics Championships. Despite the -1.8 wind reading, Sue Frisby won the gold medal in the W60 80 m Hurdles race in a seasons best of 13.35 secs and in the same event, Jill Roginski came second in a personal best time of 14.7 secs for the silver medal. Sue also went on to win the W60 300m Hurdles in 52.65 for another gold medal. Jill finished in Silver medal in the W 60 Javelin with seasons best of 20m 87cm and a Bronze medal in W 60 LJ with a PB of 3m 80. Chris Monk had two outstanding races, finishing in gold medal position in both M 70 100m (13.49 secs) and 200m (28.45 secs). Maria Shaw was in action on the Sunday again very blustery conditions. She finished in Silver medal position in W40 800m in an impressive 2:30:01.

Earlier in the week the Vets track and field athletics team were in action at the league match held at Rugby. There were some outstanding performances with Shelia Berry finishing 2nd in the Long Jump and Discus whilst Linda New came 2nd in 2km Walk and Discus. Sue Frisby came 1st in W60 100m , Pam Hilliam 3rd in W70 100m, Shelia Berry 3rd in W50 100m and Jill Roginski was 1st in W60 HJ. Lianne Brookes, making a comeback, came 2nd in pole vault. Hazel O’Connell came 3rd in W40 1500m in a time of 5.56.4 whilst Judy Rowley in her debut for W60 800m came second. The men’s team were down in numbers but Chris Monk, Anton McCalla, Dave Ward, Pete Leach and Iain Barber all put in sterling performances to accrue as many points as possible.
Harborough’s Women’s team finished the match in third place and the men 8th. The women’s team are now placed in third position in the league, 1 point behind the second placed team.