Parr misses out as record time tumbles
HEBBURN'S Christopher Parr finished just outside the bronze medal position with a prominent fourth in Saltwell Harriers' 10km Road Race on Sunday, writes BRIAN KIRKLEY.
Ryan McLeod, defending his title in the race where his father Mike reeled off a staggering 17 consecutive victories – albeit on a different course – in the '70s and '80s was pressed by Morpeth's Nick Swinburn as the pair went clear.
But he surged home to win in a record time, taking 19 seconds off his 2007 mark with 31.08 minutes, with Swinburn also 10 seconds inside the old mark.
Parr, the 2006 champion, recorded 32.44, eight seconds behind Morpeth's Lewis Timmins.
Mike Jones, from South Shields Harriers, was 25th in the field of 223, clocking 36.50, and was second veteran over-45.
Michael Bunn, from Jarrow and Hebburn AC, finished 42nd in 39.15, and third over-50, with Shields' Peter Morgan 52nd in 40.26 and fifth over-50. Frank Strand was first over-65 with 52.08.
Dave Whitmore, in his 32nd successive Saltwell race, again won the over-70 award with 54.01.
Jarrow international Sonia Morley, now with Tynedale AC, won the women's section in 38.14, 44 seconds ahead of Gateshead's Mary Ferrier.
Marcus Cram was an emphatic winner of the under-17 boys' three-mile event. Although still only 15, Cram opened up a 250-yard gap over Luton's Sean Still in 16.10.
Jarrow's Mark Bunn was an impressive winner of the under-13 boys' 1.75-mile event, while Shaun Barrass gained another victory for the club in the under-15 event, in which Alex Parr finished sixth.
Stephanie Addison suffered a rare reverse in the 600m, but responded with another victory in the 60m at her home track, to increase her lead at the halfway stage after the second of Jarrow and Hebburn AC's Winter Indoor Grand Prix Series at Monkton Stadium.
Charlie Wynn-Davison won the under-13 boys' 600m by a huge margin from Houghton's Matthew Softly in 2.17.8, and was only a tenth of a second behind Jeremie De Costa with 8.9 seconds in the 60m.
Lucy Mulvain gained a fifth of a second gap over her Jarrow team-mate Abigail Smith to win the under-15 girls' 60m in 8.4secs, while in the second race Natasha Teasdale held off Birtley's Sophie Taylor to win in 8.8secs.
Jarrow's Rhys Garrick accelerated away from Gateshead's Chris Waite with 7.8secs in the under-15 boys' 60m.
Shields' Ashleigh Stone, now at Middlesbrough, was an emphatic winner
of the under-17 girls' 60m, more than half a second clear of her former Jarrow colleague Amy Hutchinson.
Ellis Heslop, of Monkton Junior Athletics Club, won the under-nine boys' 60m in 9.3secs in the Indoor Grand Prix Series for Minor Athletes.
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