Weekend update with records galore
Jemma Reekie was the weekend's headline performer with the fastest female indoor 800m in the last 14 years in Glasgow and a UK record to boot! Cardiff saw the fastest male and female parkrun times with Charlotte Arter running a world best time. Elsewhere our U20 stars were running records in Vienna.
At the Scottish Championships in Glasgow Jemma Reekie (handicap -1.0) clocked a new British Indoor 800m record and world leading mark of 1:57.91 as she took victory in an invitational 800m in Glasgow. Reekie flew past Laura Muir (handicap -1.9) and maintained her speed, breaking Jenny Meadows’ previous mark of 1:58.43 that had stood since 2010 and recording the fastest time in the world in 14 years.
Muir herself moved up to third on the all-time British Indoor 800m list with a 1:58.44 clocking, while Adelle Tracey (handicap -0.8) came home third in a new indoor PB of 2:00.23
In Japan, Charlotte Purdue (handicap -2.4) and Callum Hawkins (handicap -6.6) took podium finishes in an incredibly fast-paced half marathon. Purdue took second place in the senior women’s race, clocking 68:23 in the process as Namibia’s Helalia Johannes produced a national record of 68:10 for victory. Hawkins, who won this race last year in 60:00, found himself edged out into third position in a close-fought finish that saw him across the line in 60:01.
Brett Robinson of Australia produced a national record, as did second place Yusuke Ogura (JPN) in 59:57 and 60:00 respectively to take the top two spots.
At the Indoor Classic in Vienna, Keely Hodgkinson (handicap 1.0) broke Kirsty Wade’s British Indoor Under-20 800m record with a staggering 2:01.16 effort, taking more than two seconds off her previous personal best and breaking the European Junior record in the process.
The European U18 gold and U20 bronze medallist from 2018 and 2019 respectively was joined in the record books by European U18 3000m champion, Thomas Keen (handicap -4.1) as he cut the tape third in the men’s 1500m, but his 3:41.44 effort saw him eclipse Matt McLaughlin’s 3:42.87 effort from 2013.
In the men’s 800m, Alex Botterill (handicap -5.1) climbed up to fifth in the 2020 world rankings for the 800m as he clocked 1:47.93 to win the men’s equivalent
At the BUCS XC Championships in Edinburgh, Southampton Solent’s Mahamed Mahamed (handicap -6.3) continued his excellent cross country form by storming to victory on the men’s long course, winning by 37 seconds from Bangor’s Joe Steward (handicap -2.0), the duo clocking 32:06 and 32:43 respectively, with Jayme Rossiter (handicap -3.9) holding off Daniel Jarvis (handicap -5.2) for third in 32:50, with both recording the same time.
Triple European U23 Championship gold medallist Anna Emilie Moller (DEN) replicated Mahamed’s success in powering to a 46-second victory from Jessica Judd (handicap -2.1), 28:03 to 28:49 respectively. Jennifer Nesbitt (handicap -1.6) held on to ensure she took third place for Cardiff Met in 29:22, edging out Charlotte Dannatt (handicap 0.2), who finished fourth in 29:25.
Charlotte Arter (handicap -2.1) revised her own 5k parkrun world record clocking with a15:49 showing in the Cardiff parkrun. Her effort revises her previous best of 15:50, set last year on the same course, as she finished in eighth place behind the fastest UK parkrun man of the weekend, Paul Graham (handicap -4.1) who was first in 14:50.
Other results from the weekend are on the following links: