Athletics New Zealand results round up

BERGEN, GERMANY, 27 September 2009
36th Hochfelln Berglauf
Jonathan Wyatt notched up his seventh victory in the annual Hochfelln Berglauf mountain race over 8.9km rising 1001m. Wyatt recorded 42m 50s. His best time on the course was in 2003 when he ran 40m 52s.
In an earlier race on 12 September in Lienz Austria, Wyatt won the Dolomitenmann 12km rising 1950m in 1h 23m. He won last year in 1h 22m.

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, 3 October 2009
Smarna Gora, Final race in 2009 WMRA Grand Prix Series
Jonathan Wyatt finished sixth in 40m 59s for the 9.5km ascending 750m and descending 290m, 55 seconds behind the winner Antonio Toninelli of Italy.
Wyatt was fourth last year in 41m 42s and won in 2006 and 2002.
Wyatt secured 335 points from his best four results in the seven race series to win the 2009 World Mountain Running Grand Prix series. It was the eighth time, the six times world mountain running champion has won the world Grand Prix series.
In the same race in Slovenia Anna Frost was second in the women’s race in 47m 20s. Andrea Mayr of Austria won in 45m 42s.

SELECTION of RESULTS from the STATES
Rochelle Sceats was 9th at the Mason Invitational cross country in Centreville Virginia. Sceats covered the 6km in 21m 47s. Hugo Beamish was 5th in 23m 40s in the Dellinger Invitational 8km cross country at Springfield Oregon. Matthew Mildenhall was 16th in 23m 59s. At the Notre Dame Invitational 8km at South Bend Indiana Hayden McLaren was 22nd in 24m 18s. The previous week at the Codfish Bowl cross country at Franklin Park Boston Massachusetts Holly Van Dalen was first in 17m 32s with Lucy Van Dalen second in 17m 34s.

WELLINGTON
Highlights from the Under Distance meeting at Newtown Park on Saturday.
Sarah Hosegood 60m 8.09s (+1.4), 300m 42.75s. Yaride Rosario 60m 7.30s, 150m 17.79s. Ryan Rosali 2nd 60m 7.32s, long jump 7.09m, triple jump 13.63m. Michael Wilson 300m 35.51s. Nick Kalivati 600m 1m 28.2s. Richard Thomson shot put 14.21m. Peter Baillie masters 2000m walk 9m 55.3s.

DUNEDIN
Hill Free Half Marathon, 4 October 2009
Oliver O’Sullivan won in 1h 16m 23s, from Louis Tomlin 1h 18m 5s and Tom Hunt 1h 19m 9s. The women’s half was won by Hannah Musgrave in 1h 35m 39s, from Mel Aitken 1h 36m 44s and Andrea McCheyne 1h 37m 30s. Dougal Thorburn won the associated 10km in 32m 28s while Rachel Kingsford won the women’s 10km in 36m 11s.

INVERCARGILL
St Pauls Off Road Half Marathon, Sandy Point, 4 October 2009
Kathy Maclachlan was first in the women running 1h 32m 9s. Glen Ballum, M19, was the outright winner in 1h 18m 56s from Ricky Gutsell M45-49 1h 21m 17s.

TRANSFER OF ALLEGIANCE
Jessica Penney, Athletics New Zealand 2005 Junior Female Athlete of the Year, has received a transfer of allegiance clearance from the IAAF, transferring her allegiance from New Zealand to Australia, effective from 26th August 2009. Penney, the 2007 New Zealand long jump champion, was fifth, in a New Zealand W19 record of 6.37m, at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing.

OBITUARY – Bob Carter
Prominent Masters Official and Administrator Bob Carter of Christchurch died on Friday morning, aged 63.
Carter died suddenly while out on a training run.
Carter had been a member of the New Zealand Masters executive since 1991 and has been Vice-President of the NZMA since 1998.
He was a Council member of Athletics New Zealand, representing the NZMA in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2009 having attended the AGM in Wellington just over two months ago.
He was President of the Canterbury Masters Association and chairman LOC for the 2010 NZMA track and field championships in Christchurch. This will be a big gap to fill. Carter had plenty of experience in this area having been on the LOC for the Oceania masters track and field championships in Hastings in 1991 and in Christchurch in 2006. He was on the LOC for the NZMA national track and field champs in Christchurch in 2007.
He has officiated at six world masters track and field championships and was due to go to Sydney this week to officiate in athletics at the world masters games.
More recently he was the chief referee at the New Zealand cross country championships in Christchurch in August where he was also responsible for the course measuring.
Being an engineer he specialised in operating the electronic measuring devise used for throwing events.
Carter was previously based in Gisborne, where he was a Life Member of the Gisborne Runners and Walkers Club. He arrived in Christchurch in 2003 and immediately immersed himself into Masters Athletics, Cross Country and Road and Track and Field as an official and administrator.
As a competitor he attended the WMA world championships in Gateshead in 1999, M50 5000m 18m 9s and 10km 38m. Also Brisbane in 2001 he was 14th in the M50 cross country.
Quiet and unassuming, but very knowledgeable and a highly respected official, he is a sad loss to the sport and his absence will be greatly missed.