(updated 27th July 2012)

Following sterling work by Newcastle City Council and members of Elswick Harriers, this year’s Elswick Cup went ahead without any problems, and on a successful night for Tyne Bridge Harriers the club won the Men’s team prize and made a clean sweep of the Veteran Men awards.

The 5k race around Exhibition Park and Newcastle Town Moor was won by Nick Swinburn (Morpeth) in a time of 14m55s, with his team-mate, Matthew Nicholson, finishing 2nd in 15m25s. Elswick Harriers occupied 3rd and 4th spots (Tadele Muolugeta and Mark Mcleod respectively), but a tremendous showing of strength in depth meant Tyne Bridge collected the Men’s team prize, with Marc Fenwick (5th), Keith Smith (6th) and Kenny Mac (7th) forming the winning team.

Keith, Kenny and Paul Hilton collected the Top 3 individual prizes in the Veteran Men category.

The ladies from North Shields Poly narrowly pipped their counterparts from Tyne Bridge to win the Women’s team prize (unfortunately, a clerical error with the results meant Tyne Bridge were mistakenly announced as winners on the night).

On a personal level, there were several outstanding performances, with PB’s a plenty. Most notably, Paul Hilton recording his first ever sub 17min time for 5k (16:53); Keith Rooney who knocked 40 seconds off his time; Charlotte Carpenter got an amazing PB, reducing her PB from 25:21 to 23:51; and Lizzy Clamp, running 24:16, a minute quicker than her previous best of 25:16.

Congratulations to all the above.

 

PositionNameTime
5Marc Fenwick16.03
6Keith Smith16.32
9Tony Carter16.50
10Paul Hilton16.54
22David Daniels18.19
27Andy Lisle18.41
30John Tollitt18.48
39Jon Finlay19.18
51Dave Rowe20.25
55Carolina Freeman20.48
58Colin Dilks21.02
61Alan Wallace21.21
64Chris Murther21.37
67Lucy Matheson21.56
72Keith Rooney22.18
75Mal Steel22.35
81Natalie Mee23.30
83Jane Lowes23.36
86Charlotte Carpenter23.51
90Lizzy Clamp24.16
91Julie Shaw24.17
94Dominic McBride25.00
99Mark Allison25.21
105Donna Houghton27.25
108Alison Habebi27.37
111Michael Duff28.03
112Joanne Lee28.55

 

 

 

Full results can be found here.

 

The start of the Elswick 5k Cup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROONEY!! ROONEY!!

 

 

 

Mark (Run Geordie Run) Allison

 

 

Race winner, Nick Swinburn (Morpeth Harriers)

 

 

Marc Fenwick

 

 

 

Keith Smith

 

 

Kenny Mac

 

 

 

Tony Carter

 

 

Paul Hilton

 

 

 

David Daniels

 

 

Andy Lisle

 

 

 

John Tollitt

 

 

 

Jon Finlay

 

 

Dave Rowe

 

 

 

Carolina Freeman (1st Tyne Bridge female)

 

 

 

Colin Dilks

 

 

 

Alan Wallace

 

 

 

Chris Murther

 

 

 

Lucy Matheson

 

 

 

Keith Rooney

 

 

 

Mal Steel

 

 

 

Mal Steel (determined not to be beaten to the line)

 

 

 

Natalie Mee

 

 

 

Jane Lowes

 

 

 

Charlotte Carpenter

 

 

 

Lizzy Clamp

 

 

 

Julie Shaw

 

 

 

Dominic McBride

 

 

 

Mark Allison

 

Donna Houghton

 

Alison Habebi (Centre)

 

Michael Duff

 

Joanne Lee

 

Many thanks to Steve Garrett (Sportypix) for the fantastic photographs.

 

Visit here for more great shots from the race.

 

 

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5 Responses

  1. Many thanks to the members who went along to support the race and well done to all those who ran and recorded a PB.

  2. Grrreat stuff folks! Everyone looking strong in the photo set and getting top times….and at the lighting-fast end check out Captain”sub 17″ Hilton!

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