RIVERSIDE Runners ran away with all four team titles in the Colworth Marathon Challenge.

RIVERSIDE Runners ran away with all four team titles in the Colworth Marathon Challenge, with Paul Veitch the top club runner in fourth after the event’s three days.

The marathon challenge is held as three separate races – five miles, 8.1 miles and a 13.1-mile half marathon – with the times added up to give the overall rankings.

On Friday evening, Alan Turnbull took first place for the club in 27mins 43secs, with Veitch ninth, Andy Wray 12th and Malcolm Pritchard 19th to ensure Riverside took the team award.

The runners were back on Saturday for the 8.1-mile event, with Veitch leading Riverside home in fourth place. Pritchard was 15th, Wray 17th and Paul Ridley 20th, doing enough to take the team award for the middle distance. Phil Redden in 23rd was first male O50 and Norma Leckie in 108th picked up the award for first lady O55.

In Sunday’s final stage, the half marathon, Riverside men took the team award. Veitch was in seventh in 1hr 23mins 2secs, Dan Vajzovic finished eighth, Pritchard was 17th and Simon Boothby 18th.

With three team titles under their belt, it was no surprise when Riverside took the overall team prize as well. The final individual placings showed Veitch in fourth in 2hrs 41mins 34secs, followed by Pritchard in 12th, Boothby in 14th and Wray in 15th.

? HUNTINGDONSHIRE AC’s Sue Cahill improved her own club veterans record in the hammer by over two metres in the Southern Women’s League match at St Ives. She was also just a metre short of the veterans record in the javelin.

Thirteen-year-old Jessica Stirley won the girls U15 A string long jump to go third in the club’s senior rankings, and Gemma Duma won the B string win by two centimetres.

On the track, after running her best time of the season in the 800m, Sammie Skinner strode to a five-second victory in the Senior 400m B String, taking four seconds off her season’s best.

Full results: Women: 100m A Meredith Ash 13.7 (5), B Laurel Phelan 14.1 (4), n/s Holly Addis 14.6; 200m A Lily Seach 27.1 (3), B Meredith Ash 28.4 (4); 400m A Kayleigh Borkett 66.6 (2), B Sammie Skinner 68.2 (1); 800m Sammie Skinner 2:37.2 (3); 1500m A Helen West 5:37.9 (6); 3000m A Eleanor Smith 12:53.4 (5); 4x100m 52.8 (3); Long Jump A Holly Addis 3.61 (6), B Sandra Pedley 3.15 (7); High Jump A Sandra Pedley 1.20 (6); Shot Putt A Sue Cahill 6.76 (4), B Lily Seach 3.76 (9); Discus A Sue Cahill 17.99 (7), B Sandra Pedley 10.77 (8); Javelin A Sue Cahill 21.89 (6), B Sandra Pedley 11.88 (6)

Under 17 Women: 80m Hurdles Holly Addis 15.7 (2); 300m Hurdles Lily Seach 48.1 (2)

Under 15 Girls: 100m A Jessica Alden 14.4 (5), B Jessica Stirley 14.2 (4); 200m A Gemma Duma 31.0 (5), B Jessica Alden 31.7 (4); 75m Hurdles Jessica Stirley 15.8 (6); 4x100m 58.1 (5); Long Jump A Jessica Stirley 4.10 (4), B Gemma Duma 3.79 (1); High Jump A Gemma Duma 1.20 (5); Shot Putt A Rebecca Pedley 5.91 (5); Discus A Rebecca Pedley 11.75 (7); Javelin A Jessica Alden 14.92 (5), B Rebecca Pedley 11.65 (3)