James Bell broke his own U17 60m hurdle club record twice yesterday, winning his second race with 8.77 secs and just missing out equalling  his 60m club record by 1/100 second with 7.41secs.

Kyle Powell set a new PB in 60m of 7.56secs winning his first race of the day, and then ran the same time again in his second race.

There were a number of other solid pre-season performance from Ella Widdup-Gray, Jonathan Whinney and Ben Keville to suggest that they should all have good 2012 seasons.

U17 men

James Bell 60m 7.42 / 7.41

Kyle Powell 60m 7.56 / 7.56

James Bell 60m Hurdles 8.88 / 8.77 (club record) Kyle Powell 200m 24.17 Ben Keville 200m 25.05 Ben Keville Triple Jump 10.96m Chris Hursey Shot Putt 10.61m Jonathan Whinney High Jump 1.65m

U17 women

Ella Widdup-Gray High Jump 1.55m

Ella Widdup-Gray 300m 46.76

Harriett O'conner Shot Putt 6.88m

3 races were competed in this time around – no adults were available to race so it was left to the U13 girls, U15/U17 girls and U15/U17 boys to show off the blue and white quarters.

U13 girls competing were Anna Uren (7^th), Anna Pointon (8^th) in her first outing for the club, Issy Goffey (18^th) , reaching  a team 4^th postion on this occasion and a league position of 5^th.

U15/17G  had 4 competitors – a very strong Hannah Novakovic (1^st), Emma Uren (7^th), Jessica Nicholls-Mindin (8^th) and Alice Hewitt (11^th). This meant the team position was 2^nd on this occasion and a league position of 4^th.

U15/U17B had 3 SMRAC competitors – Ben Gibbons (10^th), Sathira Don (25^th) and Rob Eveson (35^th) who’s performances meant a team position of 8^th on the day and a league position of 7^th.

Thanks to all those who turned up to run – good performances all around.

The 5^th (and last of this season) is at Horsden Hill, Perivale on 11^th March – hopefully there will be a full turnout to race then.

Kim Weir (Team manager)

U13 girls -  4^th Harriet Johnson, 13^th Anna Uren, 14^th Morgan Louise Penney 28^th Issy Goffey. The first 3 girls won the Bronze team medal.

U13 boys – 26^th Nathan Farr and 30^th Freddie John

U15 girls – 2^nd Hannah Novakovic, 12^th Emma Uren, 14^th Jessica Nicholls-Mindlin – also Silver Team medallists.

U15 Boys  -17^th Patrick Goffey, 19^th Aaron Farr, 22^nd Miles Watson (6^th team position)

U17 women – 2^nd Lauren Major, 6^th Jocelyn Major

U17 men – 5^th Luke Penney, 11^th Ben Gibbons, 18^th Sathira Don, 20^th Robert Eveson. The first 3 lads won the team Bronze medals.

U20 men – 4^th Adam Villard, 6^th Ed Smith

Senior Women – 40^th Anne Hanton.

Thanks to all the coaches that put time, effort and energy into the coaching of these athletes.  Non of the above would happen without your contributions.

We are planning a get together for Christmas for all SMRAC members and anyone else you would like to bring along.

Neil Jennings will be acting as Quizmaster for a Quiz on a sporting theme from 8pm.

If you have any Music DVDs please bring them along, or we will have to spend the rest of the night listening to Robin’s Lionel Ritchie DVD on repeat.

A cash bar will be available along with a few light refreshments.

St Mary’s Richmond Athletics Club has four guaranteed entries to give out at the discretion of the committee.  You have to be 18 or over on 22 April 2012 in order to be eligible.

If you are interested in applying for one of these places, please contact Chris Brook on chris.brook@logica.com by 30 November 2011.

"There were 371 finishers in the men’s race, just four away from the all-time record field, but unfortunately there was a mix up in the finishing funnel with no “stoppers” being used, resulting in finishing discs being issued in the incorrect finishing order. With the huge field, neither timekeepers or judges were able to produce a complete set of results either. This means that I am still working on the senior men’s result but have decided to issue the results of the other five races in the meantime.

Despite having spent many hours on the men’s race already, I will continue to try and decipher for the information I have. Early this coming week I will issue a provisional set of results and give competitors and team managers a “one week amnesty” to suggest corrections as appropriate, before issuing the final results week commencing 21 November.

Sorry, but these were circumstances beyond my control.

Gavin"

Cheers