Veteran athletes excel in Derby on September 12-14 ahead of the European Masters Champs in Madeira.

John Wright followed up his 12.38/0.4 M65 100m British record at Sheffield last month with a stunning 12.15/0.9 world record in the heats at the British Masters Championships at Derby.

Wright's time improved the world M65 mark of 12.31 set by Damien Leake in Grass Valley, USA in 2018.

A few hours later Wright won the M65 400m in 60.78 before winning the 100m final in 12.40/-0.8.

Julia Machin, showed she is still going strong 36 years after she finished fifth in the European Junior Championships high jump when she improved her W55 world high jump record to 1.64m. She cleared it at the third attempt after a perfect record up to 1.60m.

She set her PB of 1.92m in 1990. Machin also won the triple jump with a 10.00m leap

Anne Gilshinan set Irish W60 records with solo runs in the 800m (2:28.13) and 1500m (4:56.90).

In the 800m she just missed the European age-group record by a few tenths and was even closer in the longer race to the world record.

Mark Symes fell a second short of his UK M55 1500m record with a 4:18.41 victory.

British team manager and former world champion Dean Richardson won the M50 race by 12 seconds in 4:11.61 while his fellow team manager from Florida, Stuart Lynn won the M65 200m in 26.75/2.1.

Monica Williamson came close to the UK W65 1500m record with a time of 5:31.69.

Janet Smith set a UK W60 hammer record of 44.57m.

Luke Sinnott won the M45 long jump with 6.45/0.8 leap to fall just nine centimetres short of John Charlton's 32 year-old UK mark while even closer was W60 Jo Willoughby who jumped 4.43/0.0 which left her five centimetres short.

Multi world hurdles champion Joe Appiah won the M50 long jump courtesy of a 5.70/0.2 leap and later won his speciality in 14.07/1.1.

Multi world senior hurdles finalist Will Sharman won gold in the combined M35-M40 110m hurdles in 14.56/0.0.

Another Olympian in action was Keri Lees (formerly Maddox) and the 1991 European Junior champion won the W50 300m hurdles in 49.12.

Catriona Pennet won the W40 80m hurdles in 12.11/0.9.

Anthony Roker who set a 300m hurdles mark on Friday won M75 hurdles gold in 14.67/-1.2 to go close to Tony Bowman's UK mark.

Bowman, now an M90, set what could be the first ever mark in that age group with a 32.50 clocking and also jumped what is believed to be an inaugural triple jump mark of four metres.

Sally Hine smashed the UK W75 80m hurdles record with 18.57/0.3.

Kathleen Stewart was close to her UK W85 200m mark with 42.30/-2.1 and not helped by a hefty headwind.

Rob McHarg won a M60 800m (2:13.34) and 1500m (4:40.02) double while Chris Loudon won the M40 1500m race in 4:03.23.

Kevin Murch was three metres down on his UK M65 javelin record with a winning throw of 45.33m.

World masters M50 shot champion Stephen McCauley won the discus with a 50.14m throw and also took shot gold in 14.87m.

Virginia Mitchell won the W60 400m in 65.68 while fellow World masters medalist from Florida Wole Odele won the men's equivalent in 57.55.

World Masters runner-up from Gothenburg last year Gavin Stephens won M45 400m gold in 51.09 and also took the 200m title in 22.94/1.8.

Tracey Ashworth won gold in the W50 200m in 26.55/1.0 while Lisa Boland went close to her W40 record over half lap with her 25.42/0.9 victory.

Mike Coogan was the winner of the M50 200m in 23.40/1.5.

Many of the British athletes next big competition is the European Masters Championships in Madeira where with an entry of well over 500 out of 4000 entries Britain will have the largest team.

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The next major domestic masters event for English cross-country runners is the English Masters International cross-country trial at Betley near Crewe on September 27.

There the leading finishers can guarantee a spot in England's team to take on Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in Leeds in the Masters International in November.