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Nina Rillstone of Auckland ran one of the fastest marathons by a New Zealander in her debut at the 42.2km distance, running 2h 29m 46s in the Nagano Olympic Commemorative marathon in Japan on Sunday.
Rillstone, fresh from her 15th place at the world cross country championships in Fukuoka two weeks ago, covered the first half of the race in 76m and came home over the second half in under 74m.
Rillstone who turned 31 on Saturday now comes in fifth on the all time rankings headed by Allison Roe with 2h 26m 46s.
Her coach John Bowden of Auckland is delighted with the news.
"It would be the fastest debut by a New Zealand woman and the fastest by a New Zealander for a least ten years," said Bowden.
"Nina may run the New York marathon in November or the Osaka marathon in January," he added.
Meanwhile in Canberra on Sunday last week Shireen Crumpton won the women's section of the Canberra Marathon in 2h 42m 55s and former New Zealander Mark Hutchinson, now living in Queensland, won the inaugural Australian 50km championship in 3h 9m 5s.
Bernardine Portenski added another world age group running record to her collection with a world 55-59 10,000m record of 37m 22.37s at Newtown Park Wellington on Sunday.
Portenski cut 25 seconds off the previous record held by Edeltraud Pohl of Germany since 1992.
The 56 year old said that she attempted the record two months ago, but missed out.
"I've been freshening up for the Rotorua Marathon, so I thought I was in the right shape to have a go again," she said.
Portenski now holds the world record in the 55-59 age group over the mile, 3000m, 5000m and now the 10,000m.
"I would like to get the marathon record as well, but it is a pretty tough time of 2h 51m.
"If I survive Rotorua, I might go on and at crack at the record in the Christchurch marathon in early June," said Portenski.
Counties Manukau won the interprovincial teams event for athletes aged 12 and 13, at Ericsson Stadium over the weekend.
Wellington were second with Canterbury third.
Counties athletes dominated the 13 boys, Japeth Vaoa winning the grade from Wayne Ulgia and Albert Nikora. Vaoa was outstanding in the high jump clearing 1.77m. Ulgia won the long jump with 6.13m and the 100m in 12.01s.
Kelsey Berryman of Canterbury won the 13 girls on points from Sophie Healey of North and Anna Roche of Wellington. Berryman was over the 80m hurdles in 12.88s and out to 5.25m in the long jump while Healey won the 200m in 26.32s and the 400m in 58.74s.
Wellington athletes won the grade 12, Manaaki Walker-Tepania in the boys and Chelsea O'Callaghan in the girls.
Results;
Teams
Counties Manukau 1, Wellington 2, Canterbury 3, Auckland 4, Waikato Bay of Plenty 5, Otago 6, North 7, Manawatu Wanganui 8, Taranaki 9, Tasman 10, Southland 11, Hawkes Bay Gisborne 12.
Individual
13 Boys: Japeth Vaoa (CM) 1, Wayne Ulgia (CM) 2, Albert Nikora (CM) 3.
13 Girls: Kelsy Berryman (Cant) 1, Sophie Healey (Nth) 2, Anna Roche (Wgtn) 3.
12 Boys: Manaaki Walker-Tepania (Wgtn) 1, Joshua Cocker-Valu (Akld) 2, Shane Ayrton (Wgtn) 3.
12 Girls: Chelsea O'Callaghan (Wgtn) 1, Claudia Hyde (WBOP) 2, L'Rey Renata (CM) 3.
Kim Hogarth ran a personal best of 14m 2.14s to finish seventh in the 5000m at the Mt Sac Relays meeting in California over the weekend.
source Athletics New Zealand
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