The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
All-round masterclasses from PANVAC pair to lift GB titles
Max Hall and Sean Reidy each delivered an all-round athletics masterclass when becoming British indoor pentathlon champions at the weekend.
The Peterborough & Nene Valley AC duo won their age groups at the British Masters Championship in Sheffield, with Hall taking the over 35 title and Reidy the over 40 crown.
Hall, a newcomer to PANVAC who was ranked in the country’s top 10 decathletes at his peak, won the competition comfortably, setting a new British age group record of 3461 points in the process.
His record breaking performance even included a 60m hurdles personal best (PB) of 8.55.
Reidy has been a fixture on the local athletics scene since his school days, originally making his name as a top 400m hurdler. Since becoming a veteran he has branched out and is now happy to try his hand at almost any event.
This approach stood him in good stead at Sheffield. Having fallen back into second place after a slightly disappointing high jump, Reidy knew he had the edge on his rival Clint Nicholls of Basildon AC in the final event, the 1,000m.
Reidy needed to beat the Essex athlete by at least 15 seconds to claim gold, but went into the race with a PB of 2:44.89, 18 seconds up on that of Nicholls.
Knowing he had to produce something pretty special Reidy blasted away from the start, and completed the distance in a time of 2:48.07.
This was 20 seconds quicker than Nicholls and gave the PANVAC man a last gasp gold medal and a points tally of 3194.
Other PANVAC athletes were involved at the individual events in Sheffield and Sean Garmory ran a 7.34 60m and a 23.47 200m.
Alastar Phelan also took on both sprints, finishing behind Garmory with times of 7.90 and 25.11 respectively
Under 15 star Sienna Slater grabbed a fine 60m PB with an 8.28 clocking.
Slater also ran the 60m hurdles, finishing in 9.57.
Father and son Simon and Isaac Fell both went in the 3,000m with Fell senior winning the race in 9:30.82.
Under 17 Isaac ran a PB of 10:39.59.
Monika Janonyte finished • sixth in the long jump at the London Indoor Games at Lee Valley with a distance of 4.32m.
Helpston Harrier Jim •
Morris finished as second over 55 in the Farnborough Half Marathon on Sunday.
Morris clocked a time of 1:21.52 in the Surrey race.
Ladies Stableford: 1 Sue Pawson, 2 Karin Henderson, 3 Margaret Seed.
NENE PARK
Seniors
Am Am: 1 M. Gee, R. Card, A, Mason 85pts, 2 A. Rolf, N. Dodd, N. Rowles 83, 3 D. Robertson, D. Stimson, R. Gooding 82.
OMWinterLeagueRound 4
1 Thomas Whittle 39pts, 2 Neil Dodd 39, 3 Graham Muthwaite 36.
January stableford Division One: 1 Andrew Parker 39pts, 2 Joe Mcintyre 37, 3 Ray Tempest 36.
Division Two: 1 Dennis Stimson 39pts, 2 Richard Sowell 38, 3 David Hiles 37.
Division Three: 1 Geoff Hutton 37pts, 2 John Wilde 36, 2 Russell Fitzjohn.
Men SerpentineGreenWinter League Round 4. Division One: 1 Jason Latter 42pts, 2 Mark Turnbull 40, 3 Darren Hariot 40. Division Two: Chris Battle 37pts, 2 Lee Simons 37, 3 Ian Darville 37.
Ladies
9-Hole League TW
1 Elaine-Frankham Smith 19pts, 2 Jenny Walters 15, 3 Carol Alban 13.