Former world junior half-marathon winner Kasse Tadesse, of Belgrave Harriers, led a 400-strong field home to win the Sutton Runners 10km road race in Beddington Park on Sunday.
He clocked 32 minutes 12 seconds to finish almost a minute clear of Dorking's Nick Hodges (33:08), with South London Harriers' Pawel Bal third (34:51), Ranelagh's Paul Doyle fourth and first veteran (35:00) and Stragglers' Chris Walmsley fifth (35:13).
Luis Gomez, in sixth (35:24) led Sutton Runners to fourth team out of 27, while the hosts' women were sixth out of 18.
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Men's teams: 1 Stragglers 44, 2 South London Harriers 50, 3 Ranelagh Harriers 97.
First over-50: Hugh Saxby (37:31). First over-60: Geoff Newton (Tadworth) 40:13.
Other Sutton Runners: Martin Giles 37.27, Chris Catt 38.23, Peter Nixon 38.29, Darren Ford 40.45,Vicky Foad 41.27, Jenny Sinfield 46.50,Therese Panetta 46.51, Penny Hubbard 48.21. Collingwood: 71 Andrew Stalley 41:15, 150 David Johnson 45:25, 177 Ben Cadey 47:06, 187 Nigel Pointer 47:40, 258 Nicola Dicks 51:44, 302 Rob Wilson 54:55, 319 Doug Whittle 56:04, 324 John Allen 56:44, 374 Lisa Shennan 1:03.14.
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