Hayley Carruthers and Rob Corney are your quickest parkrunners this weekend (June 8).

After her heroics at the finish line of the London Marathon it is great to see Hayley Carruthers back at the top of the UK parkrun rankings. The Birchfield Harrier ran 16:30 at the Walsall Arboretum event this weekend. Hopefully there will be opportunities for other female athletes to top the rankings in the next few weeks, but chances have just been lowered with the marathon ace and parkrun fanatic back in action.

Rob Corney was the fastest male with 15:04 at Dulwich parkrun in South London. The Reading Roadrunner had a huge breakthrough marathon perfjoamcne at Brighton this year with 2:19:13 for fifth place, knocking eight minutes from his personal best. Actually Corney has smashed all of his bests this year and this is a new parkrun best as well. Just in May there was also a 2:29 win at Windermere marathon and if you’ve run that hilly loop in the Lakes, you’ll be impressed.

Birchfield Harriers’ siblings, Chloe and William Richardson, both feature again this week. Regulars in the rankings, normally if you see one name then you know the other will be there too. Running at Canon Hill, Birmingham Chloe ran 17:42 to make it a 1-2 in the female rankings for her club. William Richardson ran 15:29 which was good enough for fifth place in the men’s rankings.

Scottish athlete Sean Chalmers ran a new parkrun best of 15:05, which is actually quicker than his 5k and 5000m marks. The Inverness Harrier was at Aberdeen parkrun this weekend and has already been running well over with a 31:06 and a 31:17 for the distance at the Jim Dingwall Round the Houses 10K and Land O’Burns 10k respectively.

Courtesy of the Richardsons, Cannon Hill, Birmingham, was the one of the fastest parkrun in the UK this week. Along with Dulwich only two events featured twice in a weekend of fast running across the whole of the UK.

Men’s top 10

1) parkrun: Dulwich

Rob Corney, 15:04, Reading Roadrunners

2) parkrun: Aberdeen

Sean Chalmers, 15:05, Inverness Harriers AAC

3) parkrun: Fountains Abbey

Kris Lecher, 15:17, City of Hull AC

4) parkrun: Edinburgh

Peter Avent, 15:26, Shettleston Harriers

5) parkrun: Cannon Hill, Birmingham

William Richardson, 15:29, Birchfield Harriers

6) parkrun: Cardiff

Morgan James, 15:41, Cardiff AAC

7) parkrun: Brighton & Hove

Paul Navesey, 15:42, Crawley AC

8=) parkrun: Bushy

Elliot Dorey, 15:44

8=) parkrun: Albert Park, Middlesborough

Andrew Wiles, 15:44, New Marske Harriers AC

10) parkrun: Dulwich

Jack Gregory, 15:45, Reading Roadrunners

Women’s top 10

1) parkrun: Walsall Arboretum

Hayley Carruthers, 16:30, Birchfield Harriers

2) parkrun: Cannon Hill, Birmingham

Chloe Richardson, 17:42, Birchfield Harriers

3) parkrun: Llyn Llech Owain

Lucy Marland, 18:06, Cardiff AAC

4) parkrun: Victoria Park, Glasgow

Catrina Frances MacDonald, 18:07, Morpeth Harriers & AC

5) parkrun: Hackney Marshes

Emma Prideaux, 18:07, Billericay Striders RC

6) parkrun: Sale Water

Sophie Wood, 18:08, Salford Harriers and AC

7) parkrun: Penrose

Emma Stepto, 18:11, Cornwall AC

8) parkrun: Torbay Velopark

Siân Longthorpe, 18:14

9) parkrun: Swansea Bay

Vicky Jackson, 18:21, Run4All Neath

10) parkrun: Preston Park, Brighton

Emma Dixon, 18:21, Brighton & Hove AC

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