Fourth-placed Finish for Novuna GB & NI Women and a Win for Ramsden at European 10000m Cup

Great Britain’s women recorded a fourth-placed finish as a team at the European 10,000m Cup in La Spezia, Italy while there was success for Matt Ramsden in the men’s B…

Great Britain’s women recorded a fourth-placed finish as a team at the European 10,000m Cup in La Spezia, Italy while there was success for Matt Ramsden in the men’s B final.

Eight athletes lined up as part of the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland team across the men’s and women’s events, with four Brits in the women’s A final and another two in the B final.

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Three of the quartet in the A final finished within nine seconds of each other, with Jess Martin (Ryde Harriers) leading the way in 16^th in 33:09.61.

Team captain, Amelia Quirk (Bracknell AC, Luke Gunn) was a place just behind in 33:15.33, and Charlotte Danant (Camberley & District AC, Kyle Bennett) was 18^th in 33:18.04 on her senior international debut.

Lucy Jones (Herne Hill Harriers) was also making her senior GB bow and clocked 33:25.13 to finish 22^nd.

Fellow debutants Lizzie Wellsted (Colchester Harriers AC) and Holly Weedall (Vale Royal AC, Dean Miller) finished 11^th and 16^th respectively in the B final. Wellsted stopped the clock in 34:35.09, with Weedall coming home in 35:35.86.

That was enough for fourth overall, behind champions Italy, runners-up Ireland and third-placed Spain.

Both male members of the squad took to the start line in the B final and Ramsden (Blackburn Harriers & AC, Edmund Finucane) timed his charge to perfection to take the victory in 29:11.69.

Ramsden surged past Czechia’s Martin Zajic with around 150 metres to go and sprinted up the home straight to earn a notable success.

Jack Kavanagh (Holland Sports AC, Neil Danby), another debutant, was sixth 29:47.08.

Full results from the Cup can be found here.