EVERGREEN Sunderland Harrier
Brian Rushworth challenges
for his third British Masters Gold
medal in Oxfordshire today.
The 45-year-old Wearside college
lecturer, who won the North-
East senior men's cross country
crown a record ten times, has not
looked back since joining the veterans'
ranks five years ago, winning
six consecutive regional titles
in an unbeaten sequence.
Rushworth has also excelled at
national level, winning the
British Masters over-40 championships
at Durham and Belfast
in 2004 and 2005 and finishing
runner-up in each of the next two
competitions. He also won the
bronze medal on his masters
debut it 2003.
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Now Rushworth moves up into
the over-45 category, where he
will be strongly fancied to add to
his impressive medal collection
and also help Sunderland retain
their 40-49 team title won at
Mansfield last year. His teammates
will again be Tim Field,
Tom Doughty and Paul Merrison.
Rushworth is still regarded as
one of the North-East's leading
cross country runners in any age
group and earlier this month became
the oldest athlete to win selection
for the region's Inter
Counties team which won the senior
title at Nottingham.
* Gateshead Harrier Ross Murray,
English National Championships
Under-17 silver medallist
and former English Schools
champion, will be a member of
Great Britain's junior team in tomorrow's
World Cross Country
Championships in Edinburgh.
Morpeth Harrier Ian Hudspith is
first reserve to the senior team.
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