NORTH Yorkshire and South
Durham Harrier League champion
Gary Dunn scored a comfortable
victory in the third Tees Barrage
10K at Stockton.
The Thirsk and Sowerby Harrier
clocked a modest 32 mins 12
secs, nearly two minutes outside
the course record set in 2006 by
Morpeth Harrier Martin Scaife.
Dunn beat another Morpeth
Harrier, Terry Wall, by an emphatic
38 seconds, with North
York Moors runner Paul Lowe
third in 32 mins 53 secs.
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It was the 39-year-old Yorkshireman's
second 10K victory in
just over a week, having won the
Fountains race in 33 mins 49 secs
on April 27.
The women's race was won by
22-year-old World Student Cross
Country championships international
and Northern cross country
championships silver medallist
Sarah Tunstall. The Kendal
AC runner clocked 36 mins 33
secs, finishing 78 seconds clear of
Sunderland Harrier Michelle
Holt, with Carolyn Summersgill
(Middlesbrough and Cleveland)
third in 38.02.
Tunstall, who ran for the York
Acorn club before moving to
Cumbria, won the Mermaid 10K
at New Marske in March and last
year won the Victorian, Richmond
Castle and Fountains 10Ks.
Results - Men: 1 G Dunn (Thirsk & Sowerby)
32 mins 12 secs; 2 T Wall (Morpeth) 32.50;
3 P Lowe (North York Moors) 32.53; 4 M Whitfield
(Bingley) 33.07; 5 M Jeffries (Billingham
Marsh House) 34.06; 6 R Bellamy (NYM M40)
34.07; 7 K Patterson (BMH M40) 34.36; 8 G
Grounds (BMH) 35.06; 9 A Tatham (Quakers)
35.25; 10 G Hetherington (Sedgefield M40)
35.44. M50 M Pearson (New MNarske) 41.22/
Women: 1 S Tunstall (Kendal) 36.33; 2 M
Holt (Sunderland) 37.51; 3 C Summersgill
(Middlesbrough & Cleveland) 38.02; 4 L Noble
(Sund)38.20; 5 B Whitfield (Bingley) 40.03.
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