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The curtain came down on this summer’s track and field action at Jarrow on Saturday, with both the North East Masters Open Pentathlon Championships and NEMAA 5000m and 10000m Championships being held, and it was a very successful afternoon for all the Morpeth Harriers taking part.
In the Men’s Pentathlon (which included Long Jump, Javelin, 200m, Discus and 1500m), Neil McAnany was 1st in the Over 60 category with a jump of 4.19 metres, a Javelin throw of 19.75m and a Discus of 22.39m. He also recorded 29.24 seconds for the 200m and 5 minutes 9.76s for the 1500m, and broke the existing NEMAA Pentathlon record into the bargain. His success was matched by Over 35 Nisha Desai in the Women’s event, whose busy season finished with a resounding victory in the event, also breaking the NEMAA record which she herself had previously set while up against stiff opposition from athletes from Crook and District and Darlington Harriers. In a slightly different selection of events, Desai recorded throws of 6.90m in the Shot Putt and 21m in the Javelin, along with a Long Jump of 4.95m. She backed this up with a run of 27.06s for the 200m and 2:18:28 for the 800m. The North East Counties Pentathlon took place at the same time, with Mark Snowball finishing in 5th place with Long Jump of 3.86m, throws in the Javelin and Discus of 17.96m and 12.39m respectively, and runs of 27.66s for the 200m and 4:29:26 for the 1500m, the latter two times both personal bests for the distances. Meanwhile in the track 5000m, Over 65 Gavin Bayne’s clocking of 19 minutes dead also represented a new Championship record, with him finishing well over a minute ahead of his nearest rival. Comments are closed.
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