Record-breaking run at Ham track

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 12

Record-breaking run at Ham track

A. Gempton (Olympic) broke the Canterbury under 17 boys’ 3000 metres record at an athletics meeting at the Dam University track last evening. Two other Canterbury agegroup records were equalled, and

R. Lindsay (Unlverslty-Shlrley) failed by o.2sec to break the under 17 boys’ 400 metres record. Gempton’s time for the 3000 metres was Bmln 48.4aec, which chopped 3sec off the old record. Second in the event was O. Hesp (Unlverslty-Shlrley), about 20 yards back.

C. Muir (University-Shtriey) equalled the boys’ under 15 400 metres record with a time of 53sec, and in the girts’ under 15 grade, the St Margaret’a College pupil,. Mias J. Beckett, equalled the 100 metres record of 12.4 sec: The co-record holder in the event. Miss B. Peterson (Technical), was second in 12.8 sec. Lindsajfran his 400 metres in SO.3SCC and was disappointed at not breaking the record of 50.2 sec. Last Saturday he recorded 49.65ec for the distance but was not allowed a record because there were runners over the age of 17 competing in the event.

The New Zealand junior 100 metres champion, IL Sutherland (Unlverslty-Shlrley), won the junior mens* 100 metres in ll.lsec, a relatively slow time, and the national junior 200 metres champion, M. Sweet (Uni-verslty-Shlriey), took the junior 200 metres, also in a slow time.

Although there had been rain over the two days before the meeting, the track was not heavy, and one official commented that the slow times among the senior athletes were due mainly to “end of season lethargy."