English Schools T & F Champs

We had 3 athletes qualify for these very prestigious championships at Alexander Stadium Birmingham on 7^th and 8^th July 2017 and what great performances they all managed. Starting with Oli Preest who was representing Surrey Schools in the Junior boys 200m and was part of the Surrey 4x100m relay team. Oli got to the final of the 200m where he finished joint 6^th in a new personal best 23.08 having also run personal bests in the heat and semi-final. He then was part of the Surrey team that won the gold medals in the 4x100m relay.

Julia Tomzcak who had such an outstanding cross country season continued her great form into the track season where she has looked outstanding while representing the club in the Southern Athletic League. In her first English Schools Championship and representing London schools, Julia had an amazing run in the Senior girls 3000m where she took the silver medal in a new personal best time of 9.32.49, knocking 25 seconds off her previous best.

That leaves us with Philip Bartlett who has also been performing really well this year and who was representing Surrey Schools in the Intermediate boys’ discus. Philip knows what it is like to win a medal at the English schools having previously won gold as a Junior boy in the discus, and he repeated the feat taking gold with a new personal best of 49.46m.

This performance earned Philip an English vest for the International Competition held in Dublin on the 15^th July 2017. This boy is definitely a big time performer as he won the competition with a new personal best of 52.57m, what a performance!

Congratulations to all of these young athletes for some really stunning performances and thanks to the coaches who have worked so hard with them.   

Southern Athletics League Match 4

An outstanding team performance ensured our 4^th win of the season with both the track and field performing well at Twickenham on 8^th July.

Shanice Harrison completed her third sprint double of the season, winning the 100m and 200m A string races, with Lohita Allen-Aigbodion winning the B string 100m, and Leah Teibowei, a welcome return to the team, winning the B string 200m. We had a clean sweep of wins in the middle distance races with Amy Billups winning the A string 400m and 800m, Laura Manning the B string 800m, April James-Welsh the B string 400m and A sting 1500m, and Mary James the B string 1500m. In the 5000m Laura Manning was 2^nd in the A string race with Linda Ingram winning the B string race. Lohita Allen-Aigbodion was a close second in the 100m hurdles and Ella Price won the B string race, her first attempt at this distance. In the field Ella jumped 4.40m for the third place in the A string long jump, with Lohita second in the B string. Ella set a new PB in the javelin of 25.14m for third place with Joanna Barnaby winning the B string with 21.30m also a PB. Joanna also won the B string shot with 9.25m a new PB, and was second in the A string discus. Frankie Evans won the A string hammer and was second in the A string shot. Team captain Jill Lula won the B string hammer. We won both the 4x100m relay, and the 4x400m relay, despite dropping the baton in the short race, well done Shanice!

For the men despite setting new PBs in the sprints Bill Porter had to settle for second places, being beaten by a very good  St.Marys sprinter (10.5 and 21.5).Gift McClaren comfortably won both the B string 100m and 200m races. Charlie Goriup and Sam Birch won both 400m races, Sam finished 2^nd in the A string 800m with James Lyne winning the B string race.We also had double wins in the 1500m with Alex Lyne and Billy Casserley, and in the 3000m races with Ryan Evans and Tom Higgs, all looking very impressive. Andy Tindall improved on his  V55 British record in the 3000m steeplechase with 11.12.9 congratulations tohim, with Simon Manning winning the B string race. Richard Morris and Simon Manning won both the 110m and 400m hurdle races. In the field the Mens team captain Darren Brown had a seasons best of 12.09m in the triple jump to win the A string, and was second in both the A string long and high jumps. He was ably assisted by Simon Manning who won the B string triple and long jumps, and was second in the B string high jump. Simon was second in the A string pole vault with hurdler Richard Morris second in the B string! Erasmus Dwemoh won the A string shot with 13.21m and set a new PB in the hammer with 37.52m  to finish second in the A string, Ben Myburgh comfortably won the B string hammer. Nathan Fergus won both the B string shot and B string discus, with Tom Bullen winning the A string discus and finishing second in the A string javelin with a new PB of 40.19m. Simon Manning was second in the B string javelin. Although given the same time as the winners our 4x100m relay team were placed second, and our 4x400m team looked really good and won by half a lap. 

This was a very strong team performance, well done to all of our athletes.