M55, M60, & M65 5000, World Masters Champs Lahti

Wow Australia sure is the powerhouse of M65 5000m running, no fewer than 5 athletes took part in Lahti. Well done Peter Sandery in collecting yet another World Champs medal!

m65 Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	65044	Stig Haglund Finland	18.33,27
2	65160	Peter Lessing Germany	18.36,23
3	65013	Peter Sandery Australia	18.42,44
4	65009	Donald Matthewson Australia	18.46,66
5	65004	Albert Carse Australia	19.06,17
6	65262	Vladimir Malykh Russia	19.22,16
7	65275	Jose Antonio Arias De La Cruz Spain	19.28,28
8	65029	Ramiro Garcia Colombia	19.53,00
9	65135	Einari Vainikka Finland	20.06,38
10	65181	John Frederick Batchelor Great Britain & NI	20.07,89
11	65022	Renato Ferreira Severo Brazil	20.21,47
12	65280	Joaquim Mas Spain	20.26,63
13	65191	John Horton Great Britain & NI	21.00,97
14	65224	Masao Sugiura Japan	22.02,96
0	65218	Toshihiro Fujisaki Japan	DNF
0	65278	Emilio De La Camara Spain	DNF
0	65014	Bob Schickert Australia	DNF
0	65206	Jalalvandi Khosro Iran	DNS

Heat 1

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	65271	Vincent Basista Slovak Republic	18.48,44
2	65253	Angel Martínez Cartagena Puerto Rico	20.02,71
3	65011	John Oldfield Australia	21.25,38
4	65308	Oleksandr Volskyy Ukraine	22.08,58
5	65293	Sven-Olof Johansson Sweden	22.10,32
6	65216	Alfredo Stella Italy	22.30,11
7	65231	Arvids Zeps Latvia	22.42,41
8	65016	Chris Windle Australia	23.17,98
9	65198	Ioulios Abbott Greece	23.24,75
10	65024	Verner Christensen Canada	23.31,06
11	65329	Alwin Friedrich Wurster South Africa	24.06,19
12	65146	Andre Sautiere France	25.56,33
13	65252	Alan Holiday Great Britain & NI	26.34,45
14	65238	John Waite New Zealand	28.20,49
15	65259	Viktor Kozhevnikov Russia	29.08,06
16	65235	Alan Eustace New Zealand	30.15,30
0	65220	Tomone Kobayashi Japan	DNF

m55
More good performances in the M55 5000m, the ever green Nigel Gates, holder of the M45 3000m World Rec 8m27 leading the way though I'm sure Ronnie would have chased him hard as for Keith Bateman from next year!!

Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	55256	Nigel Gates Great Britain & NI	16.38,78
2	55334	Martien Van Der Hoorn Netherlands	16.44,44
3	55244	Wilhelm Schüttler Germany	16.47,74
4	55109	Heimo Kärkkäinen Finland	16.59,10
5	55367	Alexey Krivonosov Russia	17.07,93
6	55011	John Herridge Australia	17.35,39
7	55009	Bjorn Dybdahl Australia	17.37,19
8	55305	Sergio Lovanio Italy	17.40,48
9	55383	Miroslav Kovac Slovak Republic	18.03,86
10	55402	Nils Nestor Sweden	18.36,15
11	55056	Margus Rein Estonia	19.11,64
12	55257	Archie Jenkins Great Britain & NI	19.39,22
13	55031	Karl-Heinz Herrmann Chile	20.53,02
14	55310	Gaetano Petrizzo Italy	23.31,04
0	55224	Klaus Goldammer Germany	DNF
0	55397	Xose Luis Otero Spain	DNF
0	55392	Luis Ramon Fernandez Spain	DNF

m60 Heat 2

Rank	#	Name / Nat	Result		React
1	60294	Gregori Fuks Israel	17.10,87
2	60243	Franz Herzgsell Germany	17.11,92
3	60115	Kauko Kuningas Finland	17.55,05
4	60351	Alexey Gavrilov Russia	18.26,63
5	60248	Josef Konrad Germany	18.30,09
6	60023	Omer Van Noten Belgium	18.32,39
7	60359	Anatoli Romanov Russia	18.42,75
8	60381	Börje Nilsson Sweden	18.48,19
9	60074	Raimo Hartonen Finland	18.48,65
10	60344	Domingos Manuel Moreira Portugal	18.59,78
11	60053	Pjotr Itrustsov Estonia	19.10,55
12	60356	Valery Kryokov Russia	19.23,15
13	60010	Peter Moore Australia	19.50,61
14	60331	Ian Morrison New Zealand	19.52,48
0	60335	Harald Odegard Norway	DNF
0	60374	Jesus Mauleon Spain	DNF
0	60021	Vladimir Suddenkov Belarus	DNS