Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club won four sets of team medals at the annual Surrey County Road Relay championships, staged at their Wimbledon Park track headquarters on Sunday.

Best of the medal winning squads were the veteran over-35 women's quartet who dominated their category with three of the fastest individuals.

Seasoned marathon runner Claire Grima got the team off to a solid start bringing them home well clear at the end of the opening 5km lap in 16 minutes 57 seconds, more than three minutes clear of the second veteran women's team and the fastest of all the veteran women runners.

Lisa Thomas stretched the team's lead to almost six minutes as she completed the seccond lap in 18:30 with Francesca Clarke (19:42) maintaining the gap.

Gina Galbraith sealed team success on the final lap clocking 18:38 to bring the quartet home almost 10 minutes clear of the silver medallists.

The success means Hercules hang onto the title they won in 2013 in a time more than five minutes faster than 12 months ago.

The senior men's team narrowly failed to retain the team title they won in 2013, and for the opening legs were led by the non-scoring B team.

Dominic Kiralfyi brought the team home fourth on the opening leg in 15:00, four seconds behind Alex Bellew who was running for the B team.

Steeplechaser Rob Tuer took the club's B team into the lead on the second leg where he clocked 15:06 with Joe Clark (15:05) in hot pursuit for A team in second place, three seconds behind.

Dimos Evengelidis, making his Hercules Wimbledon debut completed the third leg in 15:23 to keep the B team in second place while Cassian Hyde (15:41) slipped to third spot for the A team, 35 seconds behind the leaders.

Ben Toomer, posting the third fastest individual time of the day, finally got the A team ahead of the B squad with a 14:41 posting on leg four but was still 38 seconds down on the leaders.

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Anchor: Silver medal winner Fred Slemeck

Sean Crummy (16:08) kept the B team in third spot. Matt Sharp (15:07) held onto silver medal position with David Grima (16:42) slipping to fourth place for the B team with Fred Slemeck (15:19) anchoring the A team to silver medals behind South London Harriers.

Chris Ore (16:07) brought the B team home in fourth place.

The trio of Charles Lawrie (21:18), Stu Littlewood (22:30) and Dave Betts (20:59) also gained silver medals in the veterans over 60 category, posting the fifth, sixth and seventh fastest individual times of the day.

First leg runner Peter Lee was the fastest member of the veterans over 40 team which clinched the bronze medals clocking 16:49.

Other members of the medal-winning quartet were Mark Cahill (17:52), Frank Wood (18:46) and Stuart Fraser (17:06).

Hercules Wimbledon's Rechmial Miller followed up his England men's under 17 100m title-winning effort at Bedford by taking second place in the UK School Games 100m at Sportscity, Manchester, on Saturday, in a swift 10.83.

At the other end of the age scale, Peter Giles set a Hercules Wimbledon veterans over 70 club record of 42:22.0 in the Veterans AC 10000m track championship at Kingsmeadow Stadium. His time is also the fastest by a UK over 70-year-old this year.

This weekend, Hercules Wimbledon are competing in the Surrey track relay championships at the David Weir Leisure Centre, St Helier, Sutton, on both Saturday and Sunday.

Hercules Wimbledon's track and field training sessions take place at Wimbledon Park athletics stadium on Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting at 6.30pm and Sunday mornings at 10.30am. Further details from coaching coordinator Maurice Sharp on 020 8337 8707.