Many athletes end the year with PBs as 12 men go sub-30:00 and nine women dip inside 35 minutes in Clitheroe

Ribble Valley 10km, Clitheroe, December 29

Marc Scott and Jess Judd were among the athletes to end their year on a high as they claimed 10km road race victories at an event which also incorporates the North of England 10km Championships.

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Scott retained his title in a PB and course record of 28:32 to place him joint fourth in this year's UK rankings, while Judd also ran a personal best of 32:17 (32:20 gun time) to move into the top 20 on the UK all-time list and sixth on the 2019 rankings. Judd had clocked 32:11 at the Age UK Leeds Abbey Dash in October but that course was later found to be 23 metres short.

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Behind Scott, triathlete Ben Dijkstra and 1500m specialist Charlie Da'Vall Grice also finished inside the previous course record, clocking 28:53 and 28:55 respectively as a total of 12 men dipped inside 30 minutes.

Also among them was 18-year-old Joshua Cowperthwaite who clocked 29:37 (29:36 chip time) in sixth to just miss the British under-20 best of 29:35 set in 1991.

Judd led a total of nine women inside 35 minutes, with Rachael Franklin second in 33:24 and Holly Archer third in 33:27.

Corrida de Houilles 10km, France, December 29

Daniel Simiu Ebenyo and Norah Jeruto broke the course records to claim a Kenyan double, clocking respective times of 27:12 and 30:32.

Ethiopia's Haftu Teklu and France's Jimmy Gressier ran the same time of 27:43 in second and third, which is a European lead by Gressier, while the women's race runner-up was Ethiopia's Nigsti Haftu Tesfay in 30:52 ahead of her compatriot Gete Alemayehu in 31:08. Liv Westphal finished fourth in a French record of 31:15.

Britain's Phil Sesemann ran a PB of 28:26 to place eighth, while Emile Cairess (28:39), Ben Connor (28:40), Josh Griffiths (28:42) and Kieran Clements (28:54) also finished inside 29 minutes.

Charlotte Taylor-Green was 22nd in the women's race in 35:25.

San Silvestre de Lisboa 10km, Portugal, December 28

Spain's Adel Mechaal won the men's race in 29:08 ahead of Portugal's Samuel Barata in 29:09, while Jessica Augusto clocked 33:09 to win the women's race ahead of Ana Dulce Felix in 33:51 in a Portuguese one-two.

Clevedon AC Boxing Day Races, North Somerset, December 26

Triathlete and duathlete Emma Pallant won the women's four-mile race in 23:07 ahead of Stephanie Barnes (23:16) and Jenny Spink (23:19).

Felix McGrath won the men's race in 20:51 ahead of Andrew Chambers (21:02) and James Rodgers (21:35).

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