Newmarket 100 miles 2003

Newmarket, historic headquarters of horse racing Newmarket 100 miles 2003

Saturday July 26^th and Sunday July 27^th, 2003

At the Rowley Mile Racecourse in Newmarket, the Surrey Walking Club, aided by Peter Selby and Ron Wallwork hosted the 2003 Centurion race. The track led around the Millenium Grandstand and up and down the lane to the Racecourse. There were a lot of participants, making this one of the most successful Centurion races in years.

The race started at 2 in the afternoon in sunny, warm weather. During the evening and night, the walkers endured a lot of rain, sometimes flooding the roads on the track. Later that night, the rain stopped and at dawn the temperature started to go up again.

As seen in the results, there were 17 new Centurions (amongst which 1 French, 3 Belgian and 4 Dutch walkers). The RWV team from Rotterdam beat the LAT team from Amsterdam by a narrow margin. Not as narrow as the first place however. Peter Ryan, having a difficult last lap, almost lost his entire lead on Willem Mutze (finishing only 55 seconds later).

Peter received the Hew Neilson trophy for best new Centurion. The McNeir trophy for best over 65 was won by Jaap Visser. Unaware of their unique position, John Searson and Wendy Watson took numbers 999 and 1000. Still, we will have to wait untill next year (probably at King’s Lynn, see map) to meet the 1000^th Centurion (who will receive number 1002).

map of Great Britain

Bottom red dot: Newmarket, top red dot: King’s Lynn.

These are the final results. Below a list of participants who did not finish the race or did not reach 100 miles.

Position	Competitor	Club	Country	Finish	Centurion
1	Peter Ryan	City of Sheffield AC	GBR	19.57.35	984
2	Willem Mutze	RWV (Rotterdam)	NED	19.58.30	927
3	Sandra Brown	Surrey WC	GBR	20.23.25	735
4	Ian Statter	Surrey WC	GBR	20.29.30	968
5	Sylviane Varin	France	FRA	20.34.58	985
6	Chris Flint	London Vidarians	GBR	20.50.26	849
7	Paul King	Belgrave Harriers	GBR	20.59.44	972
8	Cath Duhig	Ryston Runners	GBR	21.27.43	986
9	Martin Fisher	Yorkshire RWC	GBR	21.27.46	788
10	Don Cox	Colchester AC	GBR	21.35.06	787
11	David Jones	Yorkshire RWC	GBR	21.39.08	987
12	Paul Altena	sv de LAT (Amsterdam)	NED	21.44.04	988
13	Wil Botman	sv de LAT (Amsterdam)	NED	21.56.48	989
14	Jim Bispham	Kendal AC	GBR	22.14.17	990
15	Adrie Zoon	RWV (Rotterdam)	NED	22.22.11	991
16	Marc Vandevoorde	RWV (Rotterdam)	BEL	22.31.29	992
17	Alf Short	LDWA	GBR	22.45.37	993
18	Robert DeWolf	RWV (Rotterdam)	BEL	22.46.57	980
19	Frans Devoght	RWV (Rotterdam)	BEL	22.53.19	994
20	Marcel Dekker	RWV (Rotterdam)	NED	22.55.33	957
21	Piet van der Kroft	RWV (Rotterdam)	NED	22.56.11	977
22	Hazel Fairhurst	Lancashire WC	GBR	22.57.18	982
23	Jan de Vos	sv de LAT (Amsterdam)	NED	22.57.58	995
24	Jos van Gorp	RWV (Rotterdam)	BEL	22.58.46	996
25	Jaap Visser	RWV (Rotterdam)	NED	23.07.52	944
26	Andrew Wilmot	Halstead Road Runners	GBR	23.33.19	997
27	Dave Evans	Lancashire WC	GBR	23.40.16	998
28	Ken Watts	London Vidarians	GBR	23.44.24	859
29	Hans van der Knaap	RWV (Rotterdam)	NED	23.46.01	938
30	John Searson	Spartan AC	GBR	23.49.22	999
31	Wendy Watson	LDWA	GBR	23.50.11	1000

Sue Clements, Huib Broekhoven, Dave Fall, Tony Bell, Bob Watts, Fred Baker, John Fenton, Julian Barnet, Co de Jong, David Toms, Serena Queeney, Paul Sargent, John Borland, John Harris, Frans Leijtens, Gerald Costello, Bob McGavin, Mario Immink, Leslie Ralph, Chris Cattano, Cathy Crilley, Bill Clare, Bill Coleman, Lou Myers, Peter Addison, Ian Sykes, Bob Dobson, Ian Hilditch, Ian Spinks, Alan Howard, Kevin Perry, Peter Beck, Geoffrey Hoggett, Pat Evans, Geoff Tranter, Steve Carroll, Allana Clare, Elise Hitchman, Paul Young and Dick Maxwell did not finish or fell short of the 100 miles mark. Kevin Marshall was disqualified.

map of the Rowley Mile Racecourse buildings
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The Rowley Mile Racecourse (without the dog leg along the entrance lane).

72 people started the race, only 31 made it, giving us 17 new Centurions. Congratulations.