Oxford City's vet 50 team clocked up another convincing victory to take the gold medal at the BMAF cross country relays in Mansfield.

Two laps of an undulating course saw the four-man team of Chris Sykes, Trevor Dixon, Richard Grant and Brian Green beat their nearest rivals Wirral by more than two minutes.

Sykes started off with a fine leg of 14mins 3secs, then Dixon stretched the lead with a leg of 14.30.

Grant (15.20) and Green (14.35) completed the victory.

Sykes, Dixon and Green ran the three fastest vet 50 times of the day.

In the vet 60 race, Roy Treadwell (16.17), Martin Reynolds (19.34) and John Exley (18.09) finished fifth, while the vet 40s were 11th.

  •  WHITE Horse Harrier Paul Jégou finished second at the Clarendon Half Marathon in a time of 1hr 24mins.
  •  WOODSTOCK Harriers' ultra marathon specialist Paul Brackett clocked 12hrs 34mins in the London to Brighton 56-mile road race.

OTHER RESULTS

ARGENTAN HALF MARATHON

Abingdon: 21 P Egerton 1.20.43, 191 S Matthews 1.36.08, 230 J Oliver 1.37.50, 245 D Berger 1.39.11, 366 A Garner 1.44.47, 386 S Egerton 1.45.37 pb, 593 N Gough 2.00.41, 627 M Piper 2.05.11 pb.

HALF MARATHON RELAY RESULTS

Abingdon: 23 J Stimpson & J Wigmore 1.42.11, 42 T Prior & J Howard 1.58.04.

NORTH WORCESTERSHIRE MULTI-TERRAIN

Abingdon: H O'Shea (1st LV55) 1.24.28.

BUPA GREAT NORTH RUN

Abingdon: 605 N Hamilton 1.29.39, 1604 A Hargreaves 1.36.11, 5551 I Ramsell 1.47.36, 13894 L Hamilton 2.01.36.

CRICKLADE HALF MARATHON

Headington RR: 2 S Wolanski (1st LV45) 1.31.35.

Oxford City: 13 E Mezzetti 1.23.31 pb, 31 A Matthews 1.31.21 (1st V60).