Four British records for Luton Athletic Club's Sally Cooke

Luton Athletic Club’s Sally Cooke has had another outstanding season on the track.

Coached by Gordon Addison, she only returned to serious competition last year, winning the 100m, 200m and 400m at the British Masters Championships Over 50 age-group, setting British records in the 100 and 400m too.

Heading to the same event in Derby, Cooke won the 400m in a World Masters record time of 57.55secs, taking the record from Olympian Puerto Ricon, Marie Lande Matthieu who had held the record since 2007.

She followed this up by winning the 800m in 2.23mins only having run this distance once, six years ago.

It was therefore not unexpected when at Hendon she eclipsed Claire Elm’s 2.18.95mins British record running more than four seconds quicker in 2.14.5mins and within two seconds of the world record.

Cooke also set a 200m record of 26.27s at the Olympic stadium track at Stratford, a record held since 2008 by Averil McClelland.

Losing the 100m record to Linford Christie trained Michelle Thomas earlier in the season became the target and at the final open race at Watford, she equalled the record running 13.06secs becoming possibly the only athlete in history to hold consecutive British records at 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m.