Top teenage performances from Joseph Skeens and Theo Creed, while Masters sensation Claire Elms is back on record.
Under 18s Joseph Skanes and Under 16s Theo Creed were the 3000m leaders and another British W60 record and world age best for Claire Elms.
These marks, along with Jack Cavanagh’s PB, highlighted a run of 10 Wimbledon races over seven-and-a-half rounds that saw more than 60 PBs on Wednesday night.
Despite cold conditions and a constant wind, Cavanagh reduced his PB to 7:54.09 as he retained the men’s title in the final race of the day.
A few weeks after representing Britain in the European Cup 10,000m, the Dutchman beat Jonathan Escalante-Phillips by around 70m in 8:06.72.
In fourth, South of England 17-year-old champion Joseph Skanes improved his PB to 8:09.21 to top the UK Under-18 rankings.
The prolific racer already had qualifying time for the European Under-18 Championship.
Under 20 Charlie Coles also smashed 8:10 for the first time in 8:09.84.
It wasn’t the UK’s only lead as Theo Creed, who already tops the under-16 1500m rankings after his run in the 1500m at Wimbledon last month, ran 8:25.21 to easily top his age group this year.
It took 26 seconds off the Hercules Wimbledon runner’s PB from last year’s meeting here.
In the 1500m at this venue on 28 May, Claire Elms improved her W60 world record either side of world bests of 5 miles (29:53) and 5km (17:45) on the road.
The 3,000 meters has traditionally been his favorite event. He won the South of England senior title in 2008, aged 44, a year after taking up track training and still holds the UK W50 (9:57.39) and W55 indoor world record (10:13.40). He set the W60 W60 3000m indoor world records in both 2025 and 2026, but twice fell short of the outdoor standard.
However, a back problem meant he was unable to run for five days before the event, so he was wary of whether he would be able to run flat, and the extra aid of walking failed when four-minute miler Matt De Freitas injured himself before the race.
She looked to be involved in a good women’s race (under-18 Katie Ilden won in a PB of 10:01.82) and after negotiating large groups of smaller runners in the first half, she planned Silke Schmid’s W60 world record of 10:28.94, which she took in 5:14.
However, he was unable to achieve his usual finish in the final lap and had to settle for a British record of 10:31.15 as he ran his fastest time for five years, 0.58 seconds off his UK 2025 mark.
Britain’s all-time masters record holder is more than 20 seconds off the middle distance record holder at the 62-year-old world outdoor games, previously held by Japan’s Mariko Yugeta.
Elms’ consistency around the 10:30 mark is remarkable, marking his best times since he had a bad dose of Covid in 2020.
2020: 10:30.05
2021 10:29.31
2022 10:34.68
2023 10:49.44
2024 10:33.34
2025 10:31.73
2026 10:31.15
Multiple-time record holder Peter Giles himself was targeted for the British W80 best after one kilometer but very isolated in the end, while W70 world miler Anna Garnier ran 12:59.32 following a move by meeting organizer Ben Noad.
Lauren Church was the fastest woman on the night with a time of 9:12.66, just missing out on her final set PB of 9:11.87 in Belfast.
M50 Chris Blackburn set a UK outdoor lead of 9:08.36.
Highest age score in the match
1 Claire Elms 99.96% (10:31.15 at 62)
2 Joseph Skanes 94.32% (8:09.21 at 17:00)
3 Theo Creed 94.13% (8:25.21 at 15:00)
4 Tom Mitten 93.17% (8:22.17 at 16)
5 Charlie Coles 93.03% (8:09.84 at 6pm)
6 Jack Kavanagh 92.95% (7:54.09 at 26)
