The first of six North East Masters Track & Field fixtures took place on Monday 15th May at Jarrow. As ever with Masters Monday night meets, it was an incredibly busy night with 224 athletes from 42 clubs in the V35 to V85 age groups descending on Monkton Stadium to run, jump and throw – looking to earn points for themselves and their clubs.
DHAC had seven athletes making the trip covering most of the events on offer. The fixture consisted of 100m, 400m and 3000m races on track and Long Jump, High Jump, Javelin, Hammer and Weight Throw in the field.
Between them our athletes set two personal bests and set or broke six club records.
TRACK
100m:
V50M: Mark Stewart – 13.4s (PB & Club Record)
V65M: John Hall – 14.5s (Club Record)
400m:
V50M: Mark Stewart – 62.4s (PB & Club Record)
V65M: John Hall – 66.6s (Club Record)
3000m:
V35M: Adam Harker – 10:16.0
V60W: Sue Phillips – 13:05.4 (Club Record)
V80M: Laurie Cummings – 15:37.2
V85M: Ian Barnes – 18:04.3 (Club Record)
FIELD
We had just one athlete taking on the field events:
V40W: Sarah Johnson
Javelin – 21.96m
High Jump – 1.30m
Long Jump – 4.08m
A cracking start to the Masters season, full results can be found HERE
Not much rest for the athletes as a some of them will be competing on Saturday 20th with the “youngsters” in the Senior League and then moving on to the next NEGP fixture at Jarrow on Wednesday 24th May.