WADAC athletes win medals at World Masters Championships

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nMany congratulations to our fantastic Vets who travelled to Perth, Western Australia to compete in the World Masters Championships and to do us proud by bringing home some medals to go along with the GB kit and the memories.
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nThe detailed results are repeated below but leading the way for WADAC and for the GB team was Lucy Elliott with Gold in the cross country event on Day 1. In an inspiring chase to reel-in and pass her main rival in this age group, Sally Gibbs from New Zealand, Lucy really set the tone for the Championships. In most events there was very sharp competition at the front end with many inspiring performances across the age groups - Lucy ran an age graded 95% to win her 2nd Gold in the 5,000m but her 95.9% in the 1,500m was only good enough for silver behind a lady from South Africa. Balancing that top-end was a lovely spirit of friendship and participation down the field and across the nations.
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nMost of the WADAC travellers at these championships are endurance athletes and had to wait for the final day when the full and half-marathons were held. Step forward Joy Radford, denied by injury of the opportunity to contest her track events and held together by kinesiotape Joy picked up our 4th individual medal with bronze in the Half Marathon and, together with Gill Goodwin, added the team silver to her collection. Carrie Oliver and Graham Bungay also won team silvers in their age groups of the half. In the full marathon Steve Oliver managed a team bronze while Steve Goodwin had to suffer the unenviable fate of being a non-scoring finisher for a silver-medal team. These again were high quality races with for example in the V40 mens half 71'29 was only good enough for a bronze medal and in the V45 mens marathon 2h53 was a non-scoring finisher for the gold medal winning Aussies.
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nAbove all however this was an event to be part of, to draw inspiration from the performances of others and to make the most of the friendships our sport can provide. It was also the perfect excuse for a lovely holiday and many of the WADAC team are still out there......
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nDetailed Results:
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nLucy Elliott W50Individual Gold in 8km XC (29'29.48) plus Team Gold in XC (1st GB scorer)Individual Gold in 5,000m (17'31.01)Individual Silver in 1,500m (4'48.55)
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nJoy Radford W60Individual Bronze in Half Marathon (1h45'05) plus Team Silver (1st GB scorer)
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nCarrie Oliver W5513th in 5,000m race walk (38'23.57)8th in half marathon (1h59'55) plus Team Silver (1st GB scorer)
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nGill Goodwin W6010th in half marathon (2h23'33) plus Team Silver (3rd GB scorer)
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nGraham Bungay M509th in half marathon (1h22'35) plus Team Silver (3rd GB scorer)
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nSteve Oliver M5521st in 8km XC (32'47.71)13th in 10,000m (40'25.03)8th in marathon (3h21'42) plus Team Bronze (1st GB scorer)
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nSteve Goodwin M6017th in 5,000m (20'32.36)13th in marathon (3h53'41)