Donald Mathewson wins World M65 1500m Masters Title

Race favorite Spain's Jesus Borrego won the M45 1500m title at the World Masters Championship by a 'country mile', love to see a video of this race, hopefully in a few days someone will post it on YouTube. Huge margin of victory! Well done Scott!

M45 1500m Final

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	45442	Jesus Borrego Spain	4.01,66
2	45020	Paul Osland Canada	4.07,19
3	45294	Markus Zerres Germany	4.07,46
4	45328	David Taylor Great Britain & NI	4.10,33
5	45440	Tobias Phillander South Africa	4.11,95
6	45398	Corné Haast Netherlands	4.19,44
7	45175	Pekka Raudaskoski Finland	4.21,16
8	45009	Scott Lawrence Australia	4.22,15
9	45339	Andras Telek Hungary	4.22,90
10	45218	Timo Vihma Finland	4.23,34
11	45600	Petr Louda Czech Republic	4.23,53
12	45301	Alex Bryce Great Britain & NI	4.23,66
13	45427	Valery Semenov Russia	4.24,21
14	45296	Simon Anderson Great Britain & NI	4.24,77
15	45265	Wolfgang Krechel Germany	4.27,45
0	45464	Björn Hellgren Sweden	DNF

The M50 might have been a very close race if Keith Bateman had run, as it was, the eclecticaly named Anselm Le Bourne ran out a clear winner in a great time. Keith will run M55's very soon, no competition there! California in 2011 Keith?

Other results shortly!

M50 1500m Final

Heat 1

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	50496	Anselm Le Bourne United States	4.11,58
2	50290	Steven Smith Great Britain & NI	4.14,51
3	50382	Andrew Stark New Zealand	4.16,37
4	50471	Olexandr Byelym Ukraine	4.18,79
5	50232	Pierre Faucheur France	4.19,07
6	50292	John Thomson Great Britain & NI	4.19,23
7	50381	Ian Calder New Zealand	4.19,34
8	50481	David Cannon United States	4.21,61
9	50390	Stanislaw Lancucki Poland	4.29,65
10	50113	Viljo Kirjavainen Finland	4.30,48
11	50278	Richard Holland Great Britain & NI	4.32,14
12	50011	John Morton Australia	4.35,65
13	50513	David Mcgregor England	4.36,78
14	50345	Daniele Pedrini Italy	4.39,85
15	50241	Thomas Bastian Germany	4.44,88
16	50401	José L. Ruíz Laboy Puerto Rico	4.55,08

M55 1500m Final

Heat 1

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	55358	Jorge Ortiz Rivera Puerto Rico	4.25,63
2	55241	Walter Rentsch Germany	4.25,89
3	55253	Alastair Dunlop Great Britain & NI	4.26,08
4	55247	David Bedwell Great Britain & NI	4.26,35
5	55371	Nikolay Pushilin Russia	4.26,81
6	55023	Francois Martel Canada	4.26,84
7	55216	Yves Levasseur France	4.32,83
8	55321	Masao Sono Japan	4.33,70
9	55378	Igor Vakin Russia	4.34,39
10	55423	Thomas Hartshorne United States	4.35,14
11	55011	John Herridge Australia	4.37,62
12	55367	Alexey Krivonosov Russia	4.39,20
13	55009	Bjorn Dybdahl Australia	4.45,26
14	55441	Manuel Sangronis Venezuela	5.09,15
15	55013	Bob Pearce Australia	5.16,94
0	55050	Jakob Skjoldan Denmark	DNS

M60 1500m Final

Well Done Kevin Solomon, Sean Ryan, and Neil Gray! (will post result later)

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	60260	Johann Schrödel Germany	4.43,40
2	60013	Kevin Solomon Australia	4.44,39
3	60330	Hans Smeets Netherlands	4.44,39
4	60397	Viktor Soloviov Ukraine	4.46,05
5	60204	Markku Veijalainen Finland	4.47,82
6	60314	Yorimitsu Aoyagi Japan	4.49,35
7	60248	Josef Konrad Germany	4.58,42
8	60070	Ahti Finning Finland	5.03,17
9	60226	Jean Marc Legrand France	5.05,04
10	60011	Sean Ryan Australia	5.19,51
11	60335	Harald Odegard Norway	5.20,45
12	60021	Vladimir Suddenkov Belarus	5.25,87
13	60006	Neil Gray Australia	5.34,11
14	60401	Joseph Burleson United States	6.34,98
0	60064	Kalevi Alatalo Finland	DNF
0	60408	Ronald Pate United States	DNS

I am stunned at just how good the Australian results have been in these Championships!

Here we have Donald Mathewson, World Champion in the M65's !! Brilliant to dip under 5mins ( maybe like a sub 4 1500m performance?)

Plus other Class runners like Peter Sandery, Albert Clarse and John Oldfield competing in this race.

M65 1500m Final

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	65009	Donald Mathewson Australia	4.59,04
2	65241	Ragnar Jakobsen Norway	5.00,00
3	65051	Jaakko Heikkinen Finland	5.02,34
4	65185	Michael Dixon Great Britain & NI	5.04,79
5	65044	Stig Haglund Finland	5.07,39
6	65043	Sten Haglund Finland	5.07,99
7	65004	Albert Carse Australia	5.08,73
8	65195	Michael Smith Great Britain & NI	5.11,23
9	65013	Peter Sandery Australia	5.12,94
10	65029	Ramiro Garcia Colombia	5.17,46
11	65236	Barry Jones New Zealand	5.18,51
12	65191	John Horton Great Britain & NI	5.21,98
13	65011	John Oldfield Australia	5.50,80
14	65025	Roger Cobbledick Canada	6.26,86
15	65220	Tomone Kobayashi Japan	7.02,35
0	65243	Arne Mjelde Norway	DNS

Alan Bradford add yet another Silver medal to your incredible CV, you are, in my opinion THE Greatest Masters competitor we have ever produced. I take my hat off to you for another superb performance - Go Queenslander!!

M70 1500m Final

ank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	70276	Sidney Howard United States	5.19,51
2	70002	Alan Bradford Australia	5.20,60
3	70246	Yury Savenkov Russia	5.23,01
4	70011	Karl Nothdurfter Austria	5.23,76
5	70250	Manuel Alonso Spain	5.24,92
6	70168	Hans Joachim Rother Germany	5.37,04
7	70135	Thomas Bartling Germany	5.42,33
8	70019	Roger Davies Canada	5.43,16
9	70133	Bernard Vantours France	5.43,28
10	70052	Jorma Hirvonen Finland	5.43,69
11	70252	Angel Cano Spain	5.49,75
12	70033	Poul Bachmann Madsen Denmark	5.53,82
13	70227	Walter Hume New Zealand	5.56,54
14	70153	Gerhard Klauder Germany	6.12,85
15	70150	Winfried Helm Germany	6.16,62
16	70224	Jose Mauro Casteñeda Cortes Mexico	6.26,48