Africans again took the honours in the Hastings Half-marathon on Sunday with Sammy Nyokaye (Run Fast) putting some four minutes between himself and Tom Payn (Winchester) clocking 65:27 to 69:32. There was another two minutes before third placed Jeff Pyrah (Hastings) crossed the line in 71:56 and he was the first M40 runner to finish as well as the first Sussex runner to finish.
The leaders were well spaced out with more than ten minutes covering the first ten runners to finish.
Matt Bradford (Lewes) finished in sixth place in 72:36 with Dan Anderson (Hastings) seventh in 73:39, club mate James Mountford eighth in 74:58, Dave Bradford (Lewes) ninth in 75:33 and Paul Tomlinson (Haywards Heath) tenth in 75:30.
There were also large gaps between the leading runners in the Women’s race, which was won by Meryline Ondieki (Run Fast) in 81:36 ahead of Paddock Woods Maria Heslop who clocked 82:47.
Yvette Grice (Bodyworks) was the first Sussex runner home placing fourth in 83:40 while Joscelin Lowden (Lewes) was sixth in 86:19