All of the information from Temple Newsam because the British Athletics Pass Problem spread out on Saturday
One year in the past Amelia Quirk was once busy successful the British Universities Pass Nation identify in Leeds for Birmingham College. This weekend she returned to town to take victory in the newest leg of the British Athletics Pass Problem.
Within the males’s race, Logan Rees took the win at an match which was once supported via Sportsshoes and which integrated a UK House Global and space fit, along with the Celtic Problem which supposed groups from England, Scotland, Wales, Eire, Midland Counties, Northern Athletics and South of England all took in this difficult route.
Amelia Quirk beat fellow England team-mates Jess Gibbon and Mia Waldmann after a nice show. The a couple of GB & NI world began conservatively, sitting in a big pack which was once led via Scotland’s Scout Adkin for lengthy levels, with Quirk and Gibbon additionally pushing the tempo on the entrance. Because the laps spread out, the pack stayed in combination however Quirk eyed the lengthy uphill segment to the end because the position the place she would make her transfer when the time got here.
Amelia Quirk (Graham Smith)
With lower than part a kilometre to head, Quirk pressed forward at the uphill stretch, opening an opening on Gibbon to wheel away to a forged victory. Gibbon got here thru shut in the back of for 2nd, narrowly forward of Waldmann whilst Adkin was once simply pipped at the line via the fast-finishing Sophie Tarver.
Quirk mentioned: “I just felt good, and I think I am not always the best at executing races, but I did really well. There was probably about 10 or 15 times that I was telling myself ‘it is time to go, it is time to go!’ but I had to tell myself not to. Every time we reached the little hill at the bottom, I was moving through so easily, so I knew that was where I was going to make my move, but I had to wait until the last lap.”
Rees and James Kingston loved a combat within the senior males’s race, but it surely was once the Scottish athlete who confirmed his energy to take some of the highest wins of his profession to this point.
Logan Rees (Graham Smith)
Rees and Kingston have been locked for lengthy levels of the route with Jack Millar sticking with them for almost all sooner than the duo broke away at the closing loop and a part.
Rees – who was once the second one Pass Problem finisher in Cardiff in November – regarded made up our minds during, but it surely was once Kingston who headed the sector as they entered the overall circuit. With distance operating down, Rees made a staggering dash for the road up the overall hill, streaking away to seal an outstanding victory forward of Kingston, with Millar maintaining on for 3rd forward of England’s Cameron Allen.
Rees mentioned: “I used to be beautiful content material sitting with the large team and waited till it broke up slightly, so I went as overdue as I may, and I controlled to carry on. I’ve now not had a just right race out of doors of Scotland this iciness, so it was once just right to get one right here.
“I am a mountain runner by trade in my youth, so I was well suited to the course today. Every year of training, the endurance is building, and it is all coming together.”
Eliza Nicholson (Graham Smith)
Within the under-20 girls’s race Eliza Nicholson broke clear of Isobel Holt midway during the closing lap to win. Zara Redmond got here thru strongly for 2nd with Lucy Wilkinson 3rd and Holt fourth.
Quinn Miell-Ingram led an all-England podium within the under-20 males’s race. The Radley athlete was once in rivalry for a lot of the race. Such was once the character of the competition, it took till the overall lap for the sector to sooner or later be strung out.
Quinn Miel-Ingram (Graham Smith)
Jake Stevens made the primary large transfer with 2km to head as he dictated the tempo at the most sensible finish of the route with Miell-Ingram and Matthew Pickering retaining themselves hooked up to their team-mate as the overall levels performed out. Because the route became left again uphill for the overall run-in, Miell Ingram had the energy to energy clear of his England compatriots to take the Pass Problem and House Global victory.
Pickering held off Stevens in 2nd with some other England athlete, Liam Conway in fourth.
Freya Renton (Graham Smith)
Eire’s Freya Renton secured a nice victory within the under-17 girls’s race to seal the Celtic Cup. Ellarose Whitworth was once the primary Pass Problem scorer as she got here thru in 2nd position with Isla McGowan 3rd.
Matthew Clark (Graham Smith)
It was once an England blank sweep within the under-17 males’s race with a robust kick from Matthew Clark incomes the win forward of Luke Dunham and Myles Fraser.
Kara Gorman (Graham Smith)
Kara Gorman contined her nice Pass Problem shape with win No.3 of the collection. She was once dominant within the under-15 ladies race, successful with ease forward of Beth Lewis and Heidi Woodley.
In an exhilarating dash end, Ewan Withnall held off the problem of Osian Parry to seal Pass Problem win No.3 of the season. Withnall – winner in Cardiff and Liverpool – fought up the steep end and, regardless of the Welshman’s highest efforts, the Burton athlete held at the prolong his lead within the Collection. Additional again, Oscar Acquire took 3rd.
Ewan Withnall (Graham Smith)
Madison Kindler and Thomas Hastings took the wins within the under-13 races.
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