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Bronze in the Masters Relays

Relay start

The over 50's event gets underway

Stockport Harriers over-50's relay team managed to claim a bronze medal with an excellent third place in the British Masters Athletic Federation Road Relay Championships at Sutton Park, Birmingham.

Thanks to a second place on the first leg by Len Best, the team of Alan Pover, Frank Riley, Hoss Yousefian, John Wharf and Ben Gregory, were alway in the hunt for a medal. They narrowly missed out on a higher position, finishing only 8 seconds behind silver medallists Invicta and the gold going to Oxford, who were over 2 minutes clear.

Great Manchester Run

Dan Lawton

On Saturday the Great Manchester Junior Run took place around the Manchester City FC Stadium for local young athlete boys and girls of all age groups.

In the Mini Run for under eight year olds, run over a mile, Stockport Harriers had a great number of young athletes taking part in a field of over a hundred, Dan Lawton (pictured right) came out the winner with a time of 6 minutes 20 seconds, taking to the front in the last 400 metres of the race.

In the Junior Girls' race last years winner Leah Kay again lead all the way around the two mile run to finish well clear and was backed up by a number of team mates filling the top ten places.

In Junior Boys' race the Harriers just missed out taking a top place finish, but again they was a good number of athletes finishing in the top half of the field.

In main race the following day, Stockport were well represented in the Woman's elite race with Jenny Murray, Jenny Knass, Vicky Barrett, Michela Stepto, Jackie Newton and Nicola Pickford.

First home for Stockport in the Men's race was Bill Shone in 76th with 36:48 from a field of around 20,000.

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