Melissa Courtney and Rowan Miell-Ingram ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this weekend (21st December).

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At Long Eaton parkrun it was Poole AC’s Melissa Courtney-Bryant who was miles ahead of the rest with an excellent 15:52 parkrun for the British international distance runner. It’s not actually a PB for the 3:58.01 1500m runner as she has run 15:31 at Poole parkrun back in 2022.

Which leads us nicely to the men’s rankings, which are dominated by results from that very same event. Rowan Miell-Ingram led home six runners under 15 minutes, with his time of 14:38 being the quickest of the bunch for the Radley AC athlete who will have Christmas dinner bragging rights over Quinn Miell-Ingram, who ran 14:40 (unless there’s a rematch on Wednesday and it goes the other way).

A Miell-Ingram sandwich for Rabjohns

Another two seconds behind Rowan and a hair in front of Quinn was Poole AC’s William Rabjohns, also in 14:40. There was also only another second back to Johnathan Cornish and two more to last week’s fastest finisher Adam Hickey, who wasn’t even aware of the bunch finish as he was in Southend again.

Olivia Tsim continues to improve after becoming a mother at the end of August and 16:36 is her quickest of the year at Cardiff parkrun. Another Poole parkrun performance completed the podium with Emily Parker running 16:43. In addition to this six women were under 17 minutes in total, therefore it was a strong week for fast parkruns.

The fastest event?

No prizes for guessing this week, it was Poole parkrun with seven results in the rankings!

Women’s Rankings

Men’s Rankings