Bracknell’s Chris Bolt reappeared in the Bushy Park parkrun in Saturday after an absence of almost three years – and comp- leted a hat-trick of wins.

However, his time of 16 minutes, eight seconds was the slowest of his three winning times.

It was 29-year-old Bolt’s first race since finishing fourth in the Berkshire cross country championships in December. Bolt ran for Britain in an U23 international in 2002.

He led a quartet of Bracknell runners over the line with clubmates Alex Mouradian (16:12), Jamie Ashton (16:15) and Mitch White (16:39) next to finish.

Hayley Yelling, who competes over 10,000m for England in next month’s Commonwealth Games, won the women’s event in 17:16.

Rod McCulloch warmed up for the following day’s Harry Hawkes race, in which he was third, by finishing seventh in a personal best 17:18.

Croydon veteran Andy Del Novo clocked a pers- onal best of 18:29 in winning the Kingston parkrun from Ranelagh’s Mark Herbert (18:37). Stragglers’ Julie Garner was first woman (23:11).

West 4 Harriers’ Dan Afshar won the latest of the parkrun races in Old Deer Park. In the fourth staging of the event, he crossed the line in 18:07.

Herne Hill’s Jonathan Stead won on his first appearance in the Richmond Park event, where he beat almost 200 runners to finish in 17:49.

Over-45 veteran Pete Clarke, from Hercules Wimbledon, posted the top age-graded effort, finishing fifth in 19:14.

Serpentine’s Andrew Taylor also made a winning debut when he beat more than 160 runners to win the Banstead Woods parkrun in 17:34 from Sutton Runners’ Chris Catt (18:27) and Stragglers’ Trevor Ford (18:33).

Teenager Steph McCall was first woman in 21:14.

Sutton & District teen- ager Alex Penfold made it eight wins in 20 appearances in the Roundshaw Downs parkrun.

Over-50 veteran Peter Walsh posted the top age-graded effort in finishing second in 20:09.

Unattached runner Paul Metham (16:51) won the Wimbledon Common event.

Serpentine’s Catherine Wilding (20:00) was first woman.