CLUB NEWS

DAVID PROCTOR IS DOUBLE EUROPEAN CHAMPION.

DAVID PROCTOR beat Europe's middle distance powerhouses to become double European Masters M35 800m and 1500m Champion. The championships were held in Pescara, Italy and welcomed around 6000 athletes from all over Europe. Dave's double victory contributed to GB & NI finishing an excellent 2ndbehind hosts Italy. He won his 2 lap medal in 1:56.04 and the 1500m in 3:58.73. Said Dave, coached at Wythenshawe Park by NORMAN POOLE, “I'm very happy given I'd struggled with illness and injury for so many months this year. Things really started going my way only in July so I decided to give both events a go. I'm so excited to win two European Titles. This season has been a lesson in patience and perseverance so I'm as proud of not having given up as I am of my two European titles.”

 

JACKIE CORDINGLEY REPRESENTS ENGLAND MASTERS

Super fast L60 JACKIE CORDINGLEY qualified to represent England Masters. In the Knutsford 10k, she easily dipped under the qualifying mark with 44.18, enough for her to again don her England Masters kit - in the Great Birmingham 10k in May 24th. This is Jackie's 4thEngland Masters selection and her 1stin her L60 category. She's previously represented England Masters as an L55 in the Chester Marathon (2017), Great Birmingham 10k(2018) and the Great Bristol 10k (2019) that was cancelled due to Covid.

LAURA BARBER PB's IN WORLD ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS

LAURA BARBER travelled to Riga, Latvia with her Sale Harrier friends for the World Athletics Road Running Championships. For the first time in worldwide history, these championships added the inaugural World Championships – an open, mass participation series of races so runners like Laura and her friends could earn the unique World Championship medal …..but Laura did much, much more..... In the half marathon, she recorded a magnificent PB of 83.15, a chunky 35 second improvement on her 2021 Manchester HM and almost 2 minutes faster than she'd earlier run in March's Wilmslow HM. Sophie Wood was 2nd in that World half marathon open race in Riga. And with Laura 8th, they represented us well on the International stage.

STEVE & CLARE Mc CARRON RUN CLUB'S FASTEST MARATHONS

STEVE & CLARE Mc CARRON ran fantastic PB's in the MBNA Chester Marathon and both their times were the club's fastest Vet-45 of 2023. Steve's time of 2:39.36 improved his PB by 1 ½ minutes that went all the way back to the 2017 Manchester Marathon and was also six minutes faster than he'd run earlier in April's Manchester Marathon. As a result, he consolidated his position as the club's fastest M45 marathoner of 2023.

His wife Clare also became the club's fastest L45 marathoner of 2023 with her PB of 3:12.17, a chunky five minute improvement on her 2017 Manchester Marathon.

LISA WORMLEIGHTON HITS NEW HEIGHTS

LISA WORMLEIGHTON recorded a lifetime best performance in the Rochdale HM (2:09.11) her latest in a series of PB since she joined Sale Harriers less than a year ago. In the summer she recorded a brilliant PB of 26.56 in the Sizzler 5k, then in September a PB of 57.19 in Run Media City 10k. She generously ran for Springhill Hospice in Rochdale who looked after her Mum before she passed away 12 months ago and was very proud to raise for them an amazing £885. She said “I’ll never be able to repay fully what they did for my mum and our family but I try to do what I can to give back”

LUCY ARMITAGE SELECTED FOR ENGLAND DEBUT

LUCY ARMITAGE has been selected to represent Great Britain and to make her international debut at a cross-country event in Spain in November. Fast improving Lucy was selected by the England Cross-Country Association on the basis of her being on the fringe of making international championship teams. Congratulations, Lucy.

SONIA STILL SMASHING PB's AT 44

SONIA SAMUEL'S latest PB of 55.14 in the Great South '10' was more than a 1 ½ improvement on her previous 2017 best and now ranks her No. 1 in the UK over every distance from 5 miles to the Marathon.......including L40 parkruns. On top of her earlier 5 miles and 10k PB's and 4th in the elite race of the Gt. North Run, Mum Sonia, who has competed at the highest levels of British athletics for quarter of a century, has had a great 2023.

 

THIRTEEN PB's IN MANCHESTER HALF

Was it FECHIN Mc CORMICK and DAWN HOLDING's shout-outs in the early stages of the Manchester half-Marathon along Deansgate, marshalling on behalf of St. Ann's Hospice or the club's support through Sale that put a spring in runners steps but fourteen of the twenty-six Sale Harriers who ran the Manchester Half Marathon recorded lifetime best performances. Well done...

PHIL ROBERTSON (68.25) Not quite a PB but great to see his club vest flying high at the sharp end

MATT HARRISON (73.17) A 1 minute PB

ALEX BRADFORD (73.21) A 2 minute PB

ANDREW CURVIS (76.20) A 1 minute PB

JON SMALLEY (77.05) A 3 minute PB

BEN REES (78.24) A 3 minute PB

TORRIN BLAZEBY (80.38) A 1 minute PB

BEATRICE CORDINGLEY (81.46) A 2 minute PB

OLIVER HIGBY (84.43) A 4 minute PB

CHRIS TOPPING (85.04) A 5 minute PB

WAYNE SHAW (86.23) Debut

ANDREW COLLEY (88.19) A 22 minute PB

CHRIS MILES (88.55) Debut

LUCY COOKE (89.02) An 11 minute PB

PETER HORSFALL (1:51.49) Debut.

 

NORTHERN & NATIONAL ROAD RELAY & MACCL

(You'll be now familiar with the club performances in the Northern & National Road Relay Championships and MACCL at Heaton Park last weekend. However, a few photos you've not yet seen will cheer you up!) (PS If you spot an error do let me know).