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Medal joy for Cambridge Harriers
CAMBRIDGE Harriers battled victoriously against strong head winds on Good Friday to win the men's team prize and gain the women's silver medal at the Folkestone 10, which doubled up as the Kent 10-mile championship.
Rob Jackaman managed a new personal best and was the first Cambridge Harrier home, finishing fifth overall in a time of 57m35s.
Matt Winn-Smith was the second Harrier to cross the line in 59m45s, finishing ninth overall.
Mark Cross was next home in 63m07s, which ensured the first three Cambridge Harriers' times secured the men's team gold medal.
Claire Gibson was chasing Tina Oldershaw all the way, but had to settle for second place by clinching the silver medal in 62m21s, only 12 seconds behind Oldershaw.
Meanwhile, Clare Elms and Barry Ferguson won four medals between them at the World Masters indoors championships in Clermont Ferrand in France last week.
Ferguson improved his British record in the M65 60m hurdles to finish in 9.68s behind Swede Jan Soderstrom's time of 9.49s.
The Cambridge Harriers runner then led off the silver medal winning team in the 4x200m relay.
Elms was involved in an exciting three-way battle for gold in the W40 3,000m, but had to settle for bronze, despite a clear lifetime best of 9m54.88s.
This was only two seconds down on the British record, despite the 1,000ft altitude generally having an adverse effect on times in the longer races.
Elms then made a valiant attempt to win gold at her British record distance of 1,500m.
She led for much of the last lap but tired in the straight being first overtaken by world champion Nathalie Loubele of Belgium and then European champion, and fellow Brit, Bernadine Pritchett just before the line.
As Elms leaned, she toppled over and had to virtually roll across the line to take third place in 4m42.97s.
10:05am Thursday 27th March 2008
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