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Middlesex and Surrey Championship results

Well done to everyone who competed at the Middlesex and Surrey Championships at the weekend. Results as follows:

Middlesex Champs

U17 Ella Widdop-Gray. H/Jump 1st 1.69m PB

U17 Harriet Conner. Discus 2nd 24.75. Shot 3rd 8.22.

U13 Isolde Goffey. 800m 2nd  2.48.12. 100m 6th s/final 13.85

U13 Isobel Dougan. 100m 6th H3 16.59. 200m 8th 35.20.

U20 Adam Villard. 800m 3rd 2.05.10… Continue reading

Throws results

Some recent success from the throws squad, well done everyone!

Southern Athletics League

Harriet Connor: Discus – 21m59, Shot – 8m57 (PB), Javelin – 17m42

Young Athletes League

Sam Collingridge: Discus – 25m19

Chris Hursey: Shot – 11m87 (PB), Discus – 37m60 (PB), Javelin – 38m62

Harriet Connor: Discus – 26m74, Shot – 9m33 (PB), Javelin – 18m62… Continue reading

British University Championships

3 of our athletes competed at BUCS for their respective unis over the weekend of 5th/6th May.

Jo White (Bath) came 2nd with a new PB in the 200m 24.28s, Nigel McCarthy (St Mary’s) competed in 100m 12.27s (well of his PB) but tore a hamstring. Harry McCulloch competed for Brighton in the 4x400m.

Full results here:

http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=16558&sectionTitle=Results+and+News

YAL – 20th May and 17th June 2012

If you wish to compete in the Young Athlete League on 20th May and 17th June please contact Kathleen and Derek Farr here

OLYMPIC TEST EVENT – 8th May 2012

Kyle Powell competed for Great Britain at the Olympic Test event on Tuesday and put in a fine performance to finish 3rd in a new PB of 23.38secs finishing behind 2011 IPC World Champion Yohansson Nascimento of Brazil and 2011 IWAS World Junior Champion Ola Abidogun of Great Britain.

Kyle’s time was inside the Olympic ‘A’ standard for the T45/46 category .

Kyle also ran in the 100m… Continue reading

Calling all club coaches and volunteers

2012 Are You Ready Club Conference

Saturday 26th May Leatherhead Leisure Centre KT22 9BL

The 2012 Are You Ready Club Conferences are fast approaching and some of the conferences are filling up fast. To ensure you don’t miss out please sign up as soon as possible: www.englandathletics.org/clubconference.

The conference is appropriate for all volunteers, whether you are chair, secretary, welfare officer, health and safety officer… Continue reading

Match Report Southern Athletics League Saturday 28th April 2012, Bromley

The senior men and women’s team travelled to Bromley for their first ever Southern Athletics League meeting on Saturday. In cold, wet and windy conditions the team picked up a solid third place behind hosts Blackheath & Bromley and Epsom & Ewell.

Stand-out performances came from Anthony Jackson who won the A-string 800, 1500 and 5,000m and Kate Brook who competed in 11 events and picked up a massive… Continue reading

SMRAC Quadkids Competition – Sunday 15th April

St Mary’s Richmond AC (SMRAC) hosted a Quadkids competition on Sunday 15th April 2012, to celebrate 100 days to go until the Olympics.  This was also promoted as part of the England Athletics ‘Try Athletics’ campaign.

Quadkids is a short form of athletics competition where each athlete completes in four events and scores points for each event which are totalled together to provide the overall score for that athlete… Continue reading

Kingston Throws competition – 14 April 2012

Very good results for SMRAC athletes over the weekend:

Shot U17 Ladies Harriet O’Connor 8.30 – Personal Best

Discus U17 Ladies Harriet O’Connor 26.78

Javelin U20 Men Jack Owen 44.11 – Personal Best

Shot U15 Men Sam Collingridge 10.41 – Personal Best

Discus U15 Men Sam Collingridge 25.31 – Personal Best

Shot U17 Men Christopher Hursey 11.85 – Personal Best  (Club Record)

Discus… Continue reading

Hercules Wimbledon Open at Crystal Palace

Well done to all athletes who competed in the Hercules Wimbledon Open at Crystal Palace on Sunday. The best performance of the day was in the High Jump by Prakash Lee who jumped a PB of 1m59 to go into the UK top 20 for U15s. Full results available here