5000m World Masters Athletics Championship Lahti Finland

The M45's 5000m would have been a great race! Pommies 1st and 3rd!

Heat 2 was the "A"final where the Medals were handed out;

Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	45325	Ben Reynolds Great Britain & NI	15.14,90
2	45403	Helge Dolsvåg Norway	15.29,22
3	45328	David Taylor Great Britain & NI	15.38,26
4	45454	Jose Ramon Torres Spain	15.42,83
5	45296	Simon Anderson Great Britain & NI	16.06,15
6	45320	Stuart Mclay Great Britain & NI	16.19,92
7	45352	Paul Cowhie Ireland	16.21,27
8	45459	Gunnar Durén Sweden	16.36,75
9	45145	Reijo Niemi Finland	16.40,90
10	45448	Pere Melero Spain	16.42,00
11	45125	Eero Lettojärvi Finland	16.44,34
12	45416	Americo Valente Portugal	16.48,05
13	45076	Pasi Heinonen Finland	16.54,02
14	45218	Timo Vihma Finland	17.12,65
0	45414	Jose Costa Portugal	DNF
0	45430	Victor Stupnitskiy Russia

HEAT 1 was the 'B' Final

Heat 1

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	45069	Jari Hakola Finland	16.48,99
2	45172	Pertti Pylvänäinen Finland	17.03,16
3	45160	Ari Paukku Finland	17.10,66
4	45428	Alexey Semushin Russia	17.15,72
5	45499	Luis Eduardo Vega Venezuela	17.30,32
6	45396	Lucas Buikema Netherlands	18.05,13
7	45370	Massimo Palladini Italy	18.08,31
8	45433	Dragan Dracovic Serbia	18.25,12
9	45357	Bruno Bernabei Italy	18.29,85
10	45022	Jin Chen China	18.56,93
11	45360	Gino Capretti Italy	19.10,56
12	45063	Jorma Eskola Finland	19.18,03
13	45446	Roberto Garcia Spain	19.54,70
14	45344	Pramod Kumar India	20.04,36
0	45013	Klaus Wieltschnig Austria	DNF
0	45372	Enrico Pompei Italy	DNS

The M50 'A' Final was;

Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	50439	Sergio Fernandez Spain	15.56,35
2	50127	Seppo Kykkänen Finland	16.10,29
3	50436	Francisco Javier Delgado Spain	16.16,48
4	50109	Jukka Kauppila Finland	16.25,18
5	50346	Pier Mariano Penone Italy	16.27,13
6	50275	Bill Foster Great Britain & NI	16.31,15
7	50400	Roberto Ramos Rosario Puerto Rico	16.34,59
8	50007	Phillip Bowes Australia	16.40,59
9	50232	Pierre Faucheur France	16.52,95
10	50310	Anajafi Ahmad Iran	16.54,97
11	50052	Francisco Ardila Colombia	17.05,37
12	50419	Nikolay Zaytsev Russia	17.09,65
13	50083	Sauli Harjamäki Finland	17.41,84
14	50395	Julio Costa Portugal	17.50,53
15	50312	Seyd Hassan Hosseini Iran	18.31,45
0	50345	Daniele Pedrini Italy	DNF
0	50416	Leonid Tikhonov Russia	DNF
0	50221	Timo Vuorimaa Finland	DNS
0	50054	Jose Del Carmen Ramirez Riano Colombia	DNS
0	50055	Edwin Gutiérrez Brenes Costa Rica

THE M40 was interesting as the winner (Tim Hartley) would nearly have won the main final but the way they work it I believe he will not get a medal!

Heat 1

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	40270	Tim Hartley Great Britain & NI	14.50,47
2	40476	Seppo Honkanen Finland	16.53,31
3	40083	Esa Katajamäki Finland	17.07,34
4	40185	Marko Turunen Finland	17.15,34
5	40483	Luca Pinotti Italy	17.38,57
6	40222	Marc Simon France	17.49,96
7	40006	Shawn Claydon Australia	18.28,81
8	40314	Zamani Akbar Iran	18.34,32
9	40031	Michal Frabsa Czech Republic	18.35,92
10	40233	Holger Hoffmann Germany	23.35,10
11	40304	Rajesh Kumar India	27.03,34

'A' Final

Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	40327	Valerio Brignone Italy	14.46,22
2	40005	Cesar Troncoso Argentina	15.08,00
3	40445	Francis Burdett United States	15.14,69
4	40242	Steffen Meyer Germany	15.47,50
5	40323	Mauro Biglione Italy	15.53,81
6	40336	Fabrizio Galassini Italy	15.57,92
7	40194	Marko Veijalainen Finland	16.08,76
8	40452	Michael Heffron United States	16.09,95
9	40458	Michael Strickland United States	16.14,24
10	40453	Matthew Holappa United States	16.17,56
11	40248	Uwe Schimkus Germany	16.36,19
12	40017	Eric Wozny Belgium	17.38,99
13	40313	Siadati Seydkazem Iran	20.28,93
0	40317	Piero Bogazzi Italy	DNS

Our Brendan ran the 5000m in 15m47 for 6th place in the M35, he has run much faster and I'm sure he'll be disappointed not to have come away with a medal. He will be contesting the 1500m,the 10,000 and the Marathon later on in the Champs! Good Luck!

Mens M35 5000m

1	35262	Jose Ramon Arredondo Spain	15.19,93
2	35058	Jaakko Kero Finland	15.20,57
3	35042	Marko Heiskanen Finland	15.20,65
4	35278	Deogracias Villalta Spain	15.31,05
5	35236	Bernard Te Boekhorst Netherlands	15.39,69
6	35010	Brendan Whelan Australia	15.47,67
7	35140	Carsten Brod Germany	15.53,53
8	35246	Vitaliy Mayorov Russia	16.21,13
9	35117	Jari Vanhanen Finland	16.41,05

In the M45 800m , 1500m World record holder Borrego was beaten in a fast semi, so could make real interesting in the final if the Canadian pushes him again; Also another Canadian in Heat two showing they could be a force!

Heat 1

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	45038	René Pedersen Denmark	2.08,51	Q
2	45398	Corné Haast Netherlands	2.08,59	Q
3	45295	Kofi Agyei Great Britain & NI	2.09,08
4	45009	Scott Lawrence Australia	2.09,60
5	45298	Mark Kevin Ashby Great Britain & NI	2.13,42
6	45457	Sandy Bengtsson Sweden	2.14,31
7	45337	Mark Reeves Hong Kong	2.15,30
8	45127	Niko Lindberg Finland	2.20,42
0	45333	Derek Watson Great Britain & NI	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	45020	Paul Osland Canada	2.05,57	Q
2	45421	Vladislav Kutsaev Russia	2.05,85	Q
3	45441	Alec Michael Toll South Africa	2.06,31	q
4	45097	Jukka Kaukola Finland	2.06,89	q
5	45318	Lawrence Mangelshot Great Britain & NI	2.07,19	q
6	45301	Alex Bryce Great Britain & NI	2.07,46	q
7	45060	Arto Elomäki Finland	2.10,63
8	45474	Curtis Johnson-Brereton Trinidad & Tobago	2.13,34
9	45186	Petteri Sahakangas Finland	2.31,64

Heat 3

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	45021	Michael Sherar Canada	2.03,45	Q
2	45442	Jesus Borrego Spain	2.04,64	Q
3	45003	Hecini Aissa Algeria	2.04,91	q
4	45440	Tobias Phillander South Africa	2.05,47	q
5	45175	Pekka Raudaskoski Finland	2.08,15
6	45367	Alessandro Manfredi Italy	2.11,27
7	45237	Andy Gannaway Great Britain & NI	2.11,88
8	45205	Kari Taskinen Finland	2.39,55
0	45512	Singh Kuldeep India	DNF

Sorry for these results being M45 centric but not really got space to post all ages or both sexes!