Six of the best for marvellous Claire Martin

Martin, from Aqueduct, returned to Dublin, the scene of her first title success, to triumph again and add to her substantial haul of silverware.

After winning inDublin in 2010, in her first year as an over-35 in the Masters Championships, she continued her winning ways in Glasgow in 2011, Belfast in 2012, Cardiff in 2013 and last year at Nottingham.

This year the annual championships returned to the Santry Demesne Park and Martin, who is now in the over-40 age category came home first in 21.48, 16 seconds clear of second-placed world 1500m champion and last year's winner Louise Rudd, who was also running for England.

The England team filled the first three in the race and comfortably won the team race with Ireland second and Scotland third, meaning that Martin collected two gold medals.

Martin's race was part of an overall all age group women's race in which she had to settle for second place behind the over-35 Irish International Anne Marie McGlynn, who was a member of the Irish team that won a medal in last year's European Cross Country Championships.

Having won the overall British title on four previous occasions, Martin has to settle for second this year.

But her six consecutive victories in the British and Irish Age group championships puts her in very good company as one of only seven athletes from any country to have won that many dating back to 1995. And there are only four British and Irish athletes who have ever won more than six.