Prestigious occasion within the North East of England sees the evergreen Samuels and Johnson come out on prime
BLAYDON RACE, Newcastle, Tyne & Put on, June 9
Common north east winners Calum Johnson and Carl Avery got here out on prime of the lads’s race over almost six-miles whereas Sonia Samuels was a girls’s part winner over junior Charlotte Dillon.
It was Johnson’s third win on this prestigious occasion having beforehand emerged on prime in 2022 and 2024 following a fourth spot in 2018.
The 2024 Inter-Counties cross-country champion had a margin of 24 seconds over Avery, who simply bought dwelling forward of Finn Brodie and Adrian Bailes in an in depth conflict for the runners-up spot.
For Avery, who additionally adopted Johnson dwelling final yr, it was his fourth second putting right here.
The 2016 Olympic Video games marathoner Samuels headed the entire males in her over-45 age group to take the ladies’s class by precisely the identical 24 seconds profitable margin for her third win within the race after victories in 2017 and 2024.
It was Dillon’s first outing within the Blaydon race and got here after a 3rd spot on this yr’s junior Inter-Counties cross-country championships.
Total (6M): 1 C Johnson (Gate) 28:09; 2 C Avery (Morp) 28:33; 3 F Brodie (Morp) 28:34; 4 A Bailes (Birt) 29:34; 5 Z Kettle (Tyne Br) 29:40; 6 J Tulley (Morp) 29:43; 7 M Headley (Tyne Br) 29:50; 8 D Richardson (Gate) 29:54; 9 J Ridding (Sund) 29:54; 10 G Hughes (B’hill) 30:13; 11 A Dumez (M’boro) 30:16; 12 J Largey (NE Proj) 30:18; 13 M Watson (Excessive) 30:20; 14 B Hodgeson (B’ham M) 30:23; 15 J Douglas (Gate) 30:26
M40: 1 Okay Swainson (Sheff RC) 31:21
M45: 1 M Kearney (Elvet) 32:25
M50: 1 M Anderson (C’mont) 33:35; 2 M Denison (L Fell) 33:45
M55: 1 M Turnbull (Elsw) 36:39
M60: 1 P Redmond (Sund) 37:07; 2 B Hetherington 37:17; 3 M Salkeld (J&H) 37:30; 4 J Ripon (Elsw) 37:40
M65: 1 T Tinsley (C’mont) 39:36
Girls: 1 S Samuels (Sale, W45) 32:10; 2 C Dillon (Hought, U20) 32:34; 3 M Cardno (Hallam) 33:33; 4 A Leadbetter (Newc W) 33:40; 5 A Sneddon (J&H) 33:55; 6 H Warburton (Tyne Br) 33:58
W40: 1 S Attwood (Criminal) 33:45
W45: 2 J Heslop (E;sw) 35;47
W50: 1 D Foster (T’dale) 36:57; 2 L Brief (T’dale) 38:50
W55: 1 W Chapman (Sund) 37:35
W60: 1 J Murdy (S Shields) 39:07
W70: 1 L Valentine (Wash’ton) 50:38
