THREE club records were broken as Reading AC veterans contested their first 2017 track and field league match at Horspath on Monday.

Men’s captain Hari Sewell led by example as he finished second in the M50 100m (13.1secs), then reversed the placings by winning the M50 400m (58.4).

Ron Davies, now aged 74, finished second in the M60 100m as he equalled his own M70 club record (15.4), while Karen Burles took second in the A race of both the W35 100m (13.5) and 400m (65.2).

She was well-supported by Claire Mills, who came third in the W35 100m B race (15.7s) and ladies captain Lucy Daniells, who battled hard in the 400m B-race to take second spot (68.9s).

In the W70 category, Sue Lowry took second in both the 100m (19.0) and 400m, where she smashed her own club record in 96.5s.

On the field, Nigel Spratley-Kemp scored maximum points as he was a clear winner of both the M35 shot (12.24m) and hammer (29.41m).

He was joined in the shot by Martin High, who threw 7.45m to finish fourth in the M50 event, and in the hammer by non-scorer Davies, whose 20.65m was a new M70 club record.

W60 thrower Stella Bacon won the javelin (15.09m) and Daniells took third place in both the W35 hammer (13.16m) and high jump (1.15m).

Michael Dzandu excelled in both the horizontal and vertical jumps with a win in the M35 long jump (5.08m) and second place in the high jump (1.40m).

Also in the long jump, Davies was second in the M60 event (3.10m), while Mills was third W35 (3.77m).

Reading’s ladies scored very well in the 1500m, with Sue Francis third in the W35 A race (5m18.6), Julie Rayfield winning the W35 B race (5:36.8) and Debbie Taylor first in the W50 race (5:42.7).

In the 4x100m relays, the ladies – made up of Burles, Rayfield, Mills and Daniells (pictured above) – finished third in a time of 60.3s, which smashed the previous club veteran ladies record by 1.4s.

The men claimed fifth with a depleted team, a result they matched for the overall competition. The ladies finished fourth