Richards-Gray sets two new PBs

Richards-Gray also set a wind-assisted V40 personal best of 26.03, both performances earning him the silver medal.

Roger Bruck described his own results in Abingdon as “encouraging rather than startling”. In his first competition since recovering from a pulled hamstring suffered towards the end of the indoor season, Bruck still picked up four gold medals. He said: “There were very few athletes in my V75-79 age group, so I found myself competing with the V70-74 ‘kids’.”

Bruck, 79, leapt 1.15m in the high jump which led to his selection for the V70 category of the English Masters Inter Area Challenge in Coventry in July.

Long-distance athlete Sara Black, 46, of London Heathside, posted a PB of 42.12 at the Crouch End 10K in London.