A fantastic well done to Reading ACs Kevin Cranmer who won silver medal at the World Masters Championships in Tampere, Finland in the M40 age category last week.

Kevin, coached by Mike Dyer, surpassed his previous personal best performance by almost seven hundred points attaining a club record final score of 6,056 points. Going into the final event, the 1,500m Kevin knew it was close and there was every chance of being shunted off the podium by a competitor and so Kevin, known for his habit of always going off too fast in a 1,500m race and then paying the cost later in the race, deliberately set off at a moderate pace to carry him through the line and hopefully hold on to the silver medal position. With some encouragement from the spectating fans the plan paid off and Kevin attained the silver medal, his first world championship podium position.

Kevin’s performances in each discipline of the decathlon were:

100m: 12.54 secs

Long jump: 5.80m

Shot put: 9.76m

High jump: 1.71m

400m: 55.55 secs

110m hurdles: 18.61 secs

Discus: 25.73m

Pole vault: 3.60m

Javelin: 38.30m

1,500m: 4:59.65 mins