Club Track & Field Championships 2017

We were again blessed with a fine day at Track Coulsdon for our track and field championships on 17th September. There were a few spots of rain early on but the sun then came out and we had a very good afternoon. The track was busy with around 130 competitors and lots of supporters so it was a great atmosphere. The afternoon started with the U11 girls 150m and Phoebe Kemp won from her sister Annice with Anna-Li Flynn in 3rd place. Tate Williams won the U11 boys 150m with Jack Chaudhury in 2nd and Archie McCabe in 3rd. Gemma Rainsford had a great run to win U13 girls 200m with new recruit Maya Barnwell in 2nd and Maddie Vickers in 3rd. Deji Bello ran really well to win the U13 boys 200m in 28.3 with George Williamson in 2nd and Raul Patel in 3rd although Mason Owuso did run the fastest time of 27.9 in a different heat. Matthew Wood won the U17 boys 200m in 24.6 and Charlie Goriup the U20 race in 24.1. There were some excellent performances in the U11 600m races with Keira Fricker winning the girls race,from Maia Morrell in 2nd and Rebecca Waller in 3rd. Jack Chaudhury ended his great season with a win in the boys race from Ethan van Huyssteen and Max McCrory. Alice Stanley ran well to win the U13 girls 800m race, from Maddie Vickers in 2nd and Rebecca Collins in 3rd place.  Brandan Morrell convincingly won the U13 boys 800m from Felix Welsh with Ian Cotton in 3rd place. Owen Waite in great form won the U15 boys 800m in a new PB of 2.17.4 with Thomas Porter in 2nd in 2.20.2. Zak Hansen won the U17 boys 800m with George Tovey in 2nd place. Gemma Rainsford won the U13 girls 100m from Maya Barnwell in 2nd and Grace Dudgeon in 3rd place.

Deji Bello completed the sprint double winning the 100m in 13.9 with U11 Tate Williams finishing in 2nd place and Roel Guiaguin in 3rd. Skye Serwah won the U15 girls 100m from Jessica Alexander in 2nd and Bryona French in 3rd place. Charlie Goriup won the combined age 100m with Matthew Wood in 2nd and Blake Williams in 3rd. Ella Price won the U17 girls 100m. Charlie Goriup continued his busy afternoon winning the 400m in 56.6. There was a tie in the U15 girls 300m with Katie Mooney and Li-Norah Flynn finishing together in 52.6.Mackenzie Bull won the U15 boys race in 47.6. There were so many U11s girls and boys that we ran heats with the winner of each heat and the fastest losers proceeding to the final.  Both the girls and boys final were hotly contested. In a very close girls race Phoebe Kemp won with Laila Morrell in 2nd and Lorelia Guiaguin in 3rd place. In an even closer race for the boys there was a tie for first between Oliver Owen and Tate Williams with Ethan van Huyssteen in 3rd place. The last track event before the relays was the mile and Alex Lyne retained the Emery Carr Cup with a solid run winning in 5.02.7, with U15 Alex Lyne in 2nd and Brandan Morrell U13 in 3rd. Ellie Osmond (U15 girl) led the ladies home in first place with Jennifer Duffy in 2nd and Mary-Kate Flynn (U17) in 3rd.

Turning to the field there was an amazing competition in the U13 boys long jump with Deji Bello winning with a new PB of 4.46m, with Roel Guiaguin finishing 2nd with a new PB of 4.20m and Brandan Morrell 3rd with 4.12m also a PB. Gemma Rainsford won the U13 girls long jump with 3.56m from Rebecca Collins in 2nd and Maddie Vickers in 3rd. Megan Waite won the U13 girls discus with Alice Stanley in 2nd place and Gemma Rainsford in 3rd.  Jessica Alexander won the U15 girls discus and Joanna Barnaby won the U17 title. Jessica Alexander won the U15 girls long jump with Jasmine Matthews in 2nd place and Katie Mooney in 3rd. Ella Price won the U17girls long jump and Charlie Goriup won the U20mens long jump with a fine jump of 5.17m with Matthew Wood taking the U17 boys event with a jump of 5.62m. Annice Kemp won the U11 girls long jump from Phoebe Kemp with Emily Waller in 3rd place. With an outstanding jump of 4.08m Oliver Owen won the U11 boys long jump, with Ethan Van Huyssteen in 2nd place and Tate Williams in 3rd. Megan Waite won the U13 girls shot with 6.30, and Brandan Morrell won the U13 boys shot. Skye Serwah won the U15 girls shot with 8.33m with Li-Norah Flynn in 2nd place.  Joanna Barnaby won the U17girls shot with 11.03m from Ella Price in 2nd place and Mary-Kate Flynn in 3rd place.

Brandan Morrell won the U13 boys javelin with Ian Cotton in 2nd place and Samuel Owen in 3rd place.  Saskia Barton won the U15 girls javelin with a throw of 21.33m with Jessica Alexander in 2nd. Owen Waite won the U15 boys javelin with 24.33m. There were some good performances in the U17girls javelin with Ella Price winning with a throw of 27.16m from Joanna Barnaby in 2nd throwing 20.50m and Mary-Kate Flynn in 3rd place throwing 19.55m. Charlie Goriup threw 36.51m to win the U20 mens event, and Matthew Wood 24.42m to win the U17mens title. There was good competition in the speed bounce and howler throws, with Annice Kemp and Laila Morrell tied for 1st place in the U11 girls speed bounce with 50 jumps, Phoebe Kemp 2nd with 49 jumps and Anna-Li Flynn 3rd with 47 jumps. Sam Rank won the U11 boys event with Finn Duffy in 2nd and Theo McCarthy in 3rd. The U13 girls event was won by Maddie Vickers with Alice Stanley 2nd and Gemma Rainsford 3rd.Top speed bouncer Roel Guiaguin  tied with Alex Yague in the U13 boys with Felix Welsh in 2nd and Robert Jefferson in 3rd. Emily Waller won the U11 girls howler event with Madison Lee in 2nd and Rebecca Waller in 3rd.Ethan van Huyssteen won the U11 boys event with George Williamson in 2nd and Harry Chaudhury in 3rd place. Tori Barton won the U13 girls howler, with Mason Owuso winning the U13 boys, from Felix Welsh in 2nd place and Deji Bello in 3rd.

The afternoon finished with 4x100m relays and there were 21 teams in total. Steve Knight our starter did an amazing job and what could have been utter confusion all went very smoothly with 3 great races to finish the afternoon.

A big thank you to all the officials, helpers and parents for their assistance over the afternoon in making the event such a success and a great experience for our athletes.   

    

News

Surrey Combined Events

Congratulations to Gabriella Thoburn who won silver medal in the U13 Girls Pentathlon at the Surrey Combined Events Championships on Sunday 10th September.  A full report will be in the next gazette. 
 

1500m & 5000M Champs

With additional lighting and electronic timing Track Coulsdon was ready to host some great races in our 1500m and 5000m club championship on Thursday 7th. September (writes Anne Roden).

The evening started with two 1500m races. The first race was won by Mackenzie Bull in a new PB of 5.18. He was followed home by Katie Jefferson in 5.34.1 and Ian Cotton in 5.41.8.The second race was won by Sam Sheppard who took the junior championship for the second year in a time of 4.22.7. He was followed home by Harley Norman from Epsom and Ewell who ran 4.24.2, Alex Lyne in 3rd in 4.25.6, Toby Phillips in 4th in 4.26.4, both U20s, and then a fine run by Rowan Fuss U15 in 5th in 4.26.8. Felix Vaughan from Reigate was next in with a time of 4.29.2. There were solid runs from U15s,  Nick Smith, Jack Burton and Joe Seal who filled the next slots, and then Thomas Porter who ran a new PB of 4.38.3.  It was great to see Gianluca Ercolano running and he was next to finish in 4.41.2, hopefully we will see him competing on the country this season. Owen Waite was next in with a new PB of 4.50. Brandan Morrell was the first U13 boy and although he was disappointed with his time on the night he has had a very good track and field season.

As with the 1500m there were two 5000m races. The first race was won with a strong run by Paul Mitchell V50 in 18.55, with Steve Vincent having an excellent run to take 2nd in 19.18 and Declan Flynn was 3rd in 19.24. Ian Kitching V65 finished 5th in a great time of 19.47. Katie Wills was the first lady home in 6th place in 19.51. The second race saw a real battle at the front. For the whole of the race Ryan Evans, Tom Higgs, and Andy Hamilton were in the lead and it was difficult to tell who was going to take the title. Coming down to the finish the three were locked together, but with metres to spare Ryan just managed to get the better of Tom with Andy in 3rd place.  A great race. Alex Penfold from Croydon was next to finish in 4th place and he was followed home by Alix Ramsier in 5th. Billy Casserley had a fine run in 6th place as did Neil Reissland in 7th.   John Foss V55 was 11th. Mary James had a great run to finish in 18.16.

A very good evening of racing. Thanks must go to Ben Noad who gave me lots of assistance in organising the event and who did a great job of pace making over the evening and to the people who came along to help set up  the timing and lights in the early afternoon, and to the people who stayed to help put all the equipment away. Also our track judges and timekeepers who did such an excellent job.     

 

English Schools T & F Champs

We had 3 athletes qualify for these very prestigious championships at Alexander Stadium Birmingham on 7th and 8th 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 6th 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 15th 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 4th win of the season with both the track and field performing well at Twickenham on 8th 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 2nd 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 2nd 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.