ATHLETICS: Parsons storms to veterans triumph (From The Oxford Times)

ATHLETICS: Parsons storms to veterans triumph

9:10am Thursday 27th October 2011 in Results/fixtures

OXFORD City’s Dave Parsons ran another impressive time to cruise to vet 60 victory at the Stroud Half Marathon.

Parsons, who turns 65 next month, clocked 1hr 23mins 53 secs to finish 55th overall.

Runners faced a strong headwind for most of the second half of the race, but this did not stop Parsons beating his nearest rival by eight and a half minutes.

His 2011 best of 1.22.52 for the 13.1-mile distance puts him fifth in the vet 60 rankings, while Parsons is also in the UK’s top five for 10K.

Teammate Rob Webster was the second vet 45 home, finishing 22nd in a time of 1.20.07.

Headington Roadrunners’ Adrienne Hopkins was third vet 35 lady, clocking 1.34.41.

Radley’s Lauren Tolmie ran 1.28.10 to put her 13th in the UK under 23 rankings.

OTHER RESULTS

Oxford City: 24 E Mezzetti 1hr 20mins 14 secs.

Headington RR: 27 R Skilbeck 1.20.22, 35 C Payne 1.21.45, 561 R Payne 1.44.43, 992 O Adams 1.57.06, 1116 G Tsverik 2.00.03.

Witney RR: 256 E Kay 1.35.12 pb, 606 A Church 1.46.36, 708 H Smith 1.49.57.

Woodstock: 107 J Webb (SL) 1.28.00 pb.

VENICE MARATHON

Abingdon Amblers: 443 N Hamilton 3hrs 12mins 54secs, 4603 L Hamilton 4.24.31.

BUPA GREAT BIRMINGHAM RUN

Didcot Runners: S Howes: 1.51.56.

TRIONIUM GREENSAND MARATHON

Didcot Runners: K Reade 4.11.24.

ABINGDON AMBLERS 5,000m

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

1 L Newell 16mins 09.2secs, 2 P Fernandez 16.13.5, 3 l Rice 17.36.5, 4 O Stepney 17.50.9, 5 J Rice 18.01.2, 6 M Juffkins 19.54.2, 7 C Parker 20.20.2, 8 S Smith 20.21.1, 9 D Berger 20.50.9, 10 J Moore 21.06.2, 11 K Adams 21.10.3, 12 S Matthews 21.13.0, 13 J Oliver 21.13.9, 14 J Wiblin 22.32.4, 15 C Penton 22.51.1, 16 P Bencok 23.02.3, 17 M Edwards 23.02.9, 18 D Roberts 23.03.3, 19 P Wilson 23.08.4, 20 G Lodowski 23.16.5, 21 S Douglas 24.37.3, 22 A Durham 26.07.7, 23 X Putnam 26.08.0, 24 M Wiblin 26.09.9, 25 N Blatchford 26.14.6, 26 J Howard 26.23.8, 27 E Moore 33.35.2, 28 M Piper 33.35.6.

THE Oxfordshire Athletics Network (OAN) have been awarded the Network of the Year award for the South East Region.

The ceremony was held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham.

The OAN received the award for development of clubs and coaches during the last 12 months.

It was received by Liz Purbrick, Disability Support Officer for the South East region.