Results roundup

What a great start to the season!!! We’ve now had the first round of fixtures and there have been some cracking performances by Royal Sutton athletes and a great team spirit shown in all the matches. In the last few weeks 10 new club records have been set, including two that broke previous records set in 1989.

  1. U20M Hammer Liam Goodall 41.01m
  2. U20M Hammer (7.26Kg) Liam Goodall 37.87m. This beats the old record of 37.14m set by Gary Booker in 1989 (27 years ago)
  3. U20M Long Jump Elliot Walker 6.44m. This beats his old record of 6.38 set recently
  4. U20M Triple Jump Elliot Walker 12.86 .This beats his old record of 12.71 set recently.
  5. Mens 4x400m relay Team  Shaun Evans/ Shem Nelson/ Lee Hetherington/ Nicholas Pryce . 3.24.5 . This beats the old record of 3.26.1 set in 1989 ( 27 years ago ) by Carl Warren/Jamie Hussey/Les Duffy and Mark Sturch
  6. Mens 4x100m relay Team . Kane Howitt/Donald Brown/Ethan Brough/Nicholas Pryce  43.8  . This equals the club record set last year by Nicholas Pryce/Shem Nelson/Cameron Kirkbride/ and Kane Howitt.
  7. Veteran (M50) Hammer Kevin Brown 35.34m (Telford)
  8. U20W Hammer Chrissie Prince 38.57m
  9. U20W Discus Chrissie Prince 30.98m
  10. Senior 5000m Laura Whittle 15.08.58

There have also been scores of new PBs. Well done everyone – keep up the good work!

Links to the results for each of the fixtures are provided below:

 

Updated club records

Screenshot_2016-04-22-22-39-23-1Just in time for the start of the athletics season here is the updated list of club records. All new records are marked in green. A number of athletes have already been busy setting new records in 2016 – well done to Elliot Walker (JM triple jump) and Maddie Hammond (U13 600m and 1000m). We’ve also added a few from the end of last year and earlier. Well done Freya Liddington, Hope Stirland, Jasmine Walker, Donald Brown and Kevin Brown.

RSCAC club records – 22.4.16

Good luck to everyone competing in the next few weeks – especially the U13s and U15s who kick off their season with the YDL match at Banbury this weekend. Go Royal Sutton!!!

National Road Relays

Screenshot_2016-04-22-21-28-14-1A great effort by our athletes at the National Road Relays with the women finishing 33rd and the men finishing 62nd.

For the women the fastest long leg was run by Kate McBrien whilst Helen Elsoueidi ran the fastest short leg. Rachel Thebridge, Emily Campion and Abby Gracie all improved their times from the Midland Road Relays.

For the men the top performance came from Tom Chew who knocked over a minute off his Midland time to run 29.38. Jerome Austin also had a great run, running our fastest short leg.

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RESULTS AND PHOTOS – BRYAN DALE WEBSITE

 

Midland Road Relays

Ollie H

Well done to all our athletes who competed at the Midland Road Relays on Saturday.

The men finished 15th (13th A Team), and qualify for the Nationals on 16 April.
The women finished 26th and qualify automatically for the Nationals.

The fastest long leg time for the men was run by Ollie Harradence, whilst Fred Tremblay ran the fastest short leg.
For the women Kate McBrien and Megan McBrien both had particularly strong runs.

Links to race results and Bryan Dale’s race photos website are available below.

Race results

Race photos

Kate M

 

100 club – March results

The results from the 100 Club March Draw are in and the winners are:
£50 no.16 Beryl Chapman
£30 no.27 Linda O’Connor
£25 no.17 Fay Pollock
£15 no. 8 Ally Jarvis
£15 no.66 Derek Prince
£15 no.47 Hazel Pollock

The next draw is Thursday 28th July. There are still numbers available. If you are interested please see John Mills or Phil Pollock at the clubhouse.

Shaun Evans finishes 13th at English Schools XC

Shaun Evans provided the highlight at the English Schools XC Championships last weekend at Wollaton Park. He produced possibly his best performance of the season to finish in 13th place. Well done Shaun! For the girls the top performance came from Georgia Curry who was 32nd.

It was great also to see a strong club representation in the Senior Boys race, with Alex Jones, Euan Cox and Alex Blackham joining Shaun in the West Midlands team and Jerome Austin turning out for Staffordshire. It will be great to add a few new faces to our senior team next year. Well done to everyone who took part.

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RESULTS

National XC Championships

IMG_2019There were some great individual and team results at the National XC Champs at Donnington Park on Saturday. In particular well done to Georgia Curry, Shaun Evans, Mel Woodward, Ellen Humpherston, Alex Jones and Euan Cox who all recorded top 100 finishes – great performances given the quality of the runners competing. There were also great team performances by our Senior Women, U17 men, U15 girls and U13 girls.
The photo is from Bryan Dale’s excellent Racephotos website: BRYAN DALE PHOTOS