Record Breakers
Posted by Concept2 News on the 5th of October 2001
As we predicted last newsletter (hah, get you Nostradamus), we didn't have to wait too long before Anna Bailey rebroke her newly set world record for the 50-59 Hwt Women's event. Competing in the last race of the day at the Nuneaton and Bedworth IRC and urged on by a crowd of 150 people, she came home in 7:08.3, over a second quicker than her time at the Birmingham IRC a week earlier.That wasn't the only effort this fortnight which had us tap-dancing around the office singing 'Dedication'. Canterbury's Jessie Welsh, already the 70-79 Lwt record holder for 2,000 metres, took advantage of having turned 80 years young by breaking the record for the 80-89 category as well. Her time of 10:05.5 takes just over 15 seconds of Wrexham's Barbara Burgham Davies who held with 10:20.9.Moving into the world of long-distance, Siobhan Norman has set a new marathon record for the 30-39 Lwt category, with 2:59:23, 24 minutes quicker than the previous record. In fact, we reckon that Siobhan's time is the second fastest time ever by a British woman, only a couple of minutes outside Fran Kerr's 30-39 Hwt record of 2:54:20.A full list of all records can be found at http://www.therowingcompany.com/v4/brit_world_records.htm