Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club

Connor Notley set a new club record in the discus whilst competing for the West Midlands in the Mason Trophy on Saturday. His throw of 34.07m beat the previous record set by Ronald Comrie in 1997. Elemena Saunders was also competing and she recorded a 2nd place finish in the 800m with a time of 2.18. The results from the event are available here.

We also had athletes competing in a Heart of England fixture at Coventry. The results should appear on the Heart of England website in due course. A link is available here.

Congratulations to Katie Ingle who had another fantastic victory at the weekend to win the 3k steeplechase at the English Athletics U20 Championships and Euro Trials. She ran a time of 10.29.

Nicholas Pryce also competed at the event and got to run alongside Adam Gemili in the heats of the 100m. He reached the semi final of the 100m running 10.81 and 10.90 in his two races and also ran 22.02 in the 200m.

Videos of the action are available on the Athleticos website here.

The Little Aston 5 mile road race and 2 mile fun run takes place this year on Sunday 1 September. The race starts and finishes at Little Aston Primary School and takes in the undulating country lanes. There are trophies for the 1st two finishers and the first team and prizes for the 5 year age categories.

Entry forms are available below and further details are available on our Little Aston 5 page.

Little Aston 5 entry form.

Some great performances at the BMC Regional Races at Birmingham University on Wednesday. Stuart McCaw ran a PB of 2.00 in the 800m – particularly impressive given this is only his second race over the distance since returning after a three year break. Gabrielle Kinney won the 800m women’s A race in 2.13 whilst Elemena Saunders ran a great time of 2.16. The results are available here.

We had five athletes competing at the Midland Masters Track and Field championships and all of them came home with medals. Kevin Brown won gold medals in the M45 Discus and Shot Putt. His Discus throw of 47.99m places him top of the British rankings for his age group. Janice Pryce won gold in the W50 triple jump and silver in the long jump, whilst Donald Brown won gold in the M45 100m and silver in the 200m. David Price won gold in the M70 javelin whilst Jhalman Singh won silver in the M75 shot putt.

A number of our distance runners were in action in various races at the weekend. Andrea Deathridge was 3rd in the Two Castles 10k on Sunday. Simon Corker finished 9th (1st M45) in the Aldridge 10k whilst Colin McAuley and Dave Liddall were 4th and 8th respectively in the 7 Pools Run. Well done all!

The senior athletics team put in a great performance at the second league fixture at Abingdon, finishing in 3rd place. There were fantastic performances by everyone, but in particular by the younger members of the team – Ruth Hayes won the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles, whilst Luke Flemming won the 200m B race and had two second place finishes in the 100m and 400m. Joella Spencer won the 100m B race, Charlotte Newman was 3rd in the 400m and Madeleine Stearn and Connor Notley won lots of points in the field events.

There were also victories in the A events for Megan Evans (triple jump), Nicholas Pryce (200m), Fred Tremblay (800m) and Nick Corker (3000m steeplechase), whilst in the B events there were victories for Charmaine Riley-Nelson (200m), Stuart McCaw (800m), Vikram Balachandar (1500m) and Russell Simpson (3000m steeplechase).

There was a second place finish for Dave Long in the 3000m and great runs by Kanisha Hector and Marcus Smedley in the 200m and 1500m respectively.

In the field Fiona Smith broke the W50 4kg hammer record with a throw of 21.32m, whilst Lorna Foster had a fantastic debut competing in multiple events and Graham Felton won lots of points in the throws.

Thanks also to all our officials for helping on the day and winning us those crucial extra points.

The next fixture is at Dudley and Stourbridge on Sunday 7 July. Put the date in the diaries.