5000m Time Trial Results

20 June 2026 - What a great night on the track! A cool, calm winter's night - perfect time trialling conditions and this was borne out by 21 new PBs set tonight. Fastest man was Anton Weatherhead with a blistering quick 15:21 (a new pb). Katrina Andrew was the fastest woman with 16:57.

There is a good story behind the Time Trial Trophy pictured here. It was last awarded in 1966 and has been missing since then - yes for 60 years. Then it resurfaced in Whangarei when a relative of the last person it was awarded to got in touch with the club. Ben Evans, one of our Whangarei members ferried it down to Auckland a few months ago. It's great to have it back!

We decided to award the trophy to the person who made the most significant improvement in their 5000m pb on the night. There was some stiff competition with 4 athletes making more than 5% improvement: Sam Jones (5.01%), Sarah Lewington (5.33%), Joshua Parkinson 5.59%, Blair Wadams 6.78%. But the standout on the night and winner of the Time Trial Trophy is Elliott Kingston who took a massive 1 minute, 27 seconds off to set a new pb of 19 minutes 10 seconds - a whopping 7.03% improvement. Elliott runs with the Lightning Bolts on Wednesday nights and this performance underlines the progress he is making with his running. Congratulations Elliott!

A big thank you to everyone who helped make it work tonight: Pete, Clare, Brigid, Bazyl, James Fisher, James Clendon, Lani, Jo, Timo, Theo, Terence, Jessebelle, Maelee, Tim M and Dion. Thanks to all the pace runners - Jack, Stella, Dion (x2), Simon, Rohan, Sam, Chris and Keith (x2).

And thanks to Ange and her team at Rokeby Protein Smoothies for providing yummy refreshments.

Here is a link to the full results. Please let us know if you spot any mistakes!

5000m TT 20 June 2026 Results.pdf

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We will post some photos of the event soon too, so look out for those. See you next time.