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John’s report on the Veterans Cup Final – 31 August

Hi Everyone!

Please find the below results of the League Cup Finals at Stoke yesterday. Our small team of Andrea, Sandra, Fiona, Lorna, Richard, Graham, Paul, Ed, David, Kevin and yours truly put in some great performances with quite a few pbs and two new club records from Graham. We ended up in third place in the C Cup Final although a few of the performances would have won the A Final and several would have finished in the first three.

Ed competed in 5 events which he says is good preparation for the British Masters Decathlon which he competes in at Alexander Stadium on Sept 20/21st for which we all wish him a great competition. We will all be cheering for you!

It was great to see Sandra competing again after 2 years absence.

Paul had us all shouting out for him in the Combined Finals M40 1500m . Fifteen meters down from the first two at the bell he went storming past them at 200 meters and just kept going away from them. What a run! I am told it compares to my lead off leg of the 4x100m relay. Seriously it was great to be running again.

Kevins victory in the M35 Discus was an inspiration to us all as he has two slipped discs and today is in hospital for a procedure to ease the problem. Very shortly Kevin moves into the M50 age group when the Discus drops down to 1.5Kg. New club records beckon.

Grahams club M65 records are
  • High Jump 1.10m (replacing Jhalmans 1.04 set in 2004)
  • Hammer (5kg) 23.27m ( replacing his record of 22.73 set earlier this year)
Well done Graham!
On the final day of the European Championships Fred T got a silver medal as a member of the second placed French M35 4x400m relay team (you can see a picture of Fred with the team on the club Twitter page) and Donald B added a bronze to his three silvers as part of the M45 British 4x100m relay team (a drop down in age groups for Donald) . Well done Fred and Donald!!!
In talking with David Price yesterday I realised that I had missed his M70 throws with the 500 gram javelin for club record purposes since in a very few of Davids competitions he is able to throw the correct javelin for his age. We therefore have a new M70 club record: David Price M70 Javelin (500g) 33.32 m (2010). A belated well done David!
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European Masters update

WOW. What great performances from our guys in Izmir!!! Donald Brown took his third silver of the Championships by finishing second in the M50 200m Final in 24.28 secs. He already won silver medals in the 100m and 100m hurdles.
 Rob Andrew Izmir
Current British champion Rob Andrew also took the silver medal in the M50 800m Final in 2.05.58. You can see the video of the final here.
  
Fred Tremblay narrowly missed out on a medal finishing in 4th place in the M35 800m Final in 1.58.77. Video of the final here.
However, he won a silver medal today competing for France’s 4x400m relay team. 

Great running guys!!!

 
Report by John Topliss
 
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Little Aston 5 – and the winners were……………

Well done to everyone who ran in the Little Aston 5 this morning. The men’s race was won by Nick Corker (Royal Sutton Coldfield AC) in a time of 27.21, with James Jefferson from West Bromwich Harriers in 2nd place in 27.36. The women’s race was won by Danielle Hodgkinson (Birchfield) in a new course record time of 28.26. 2nd place was taken by Natasha Blunt (Taunton Forever Running Club). The team event was won by Birchfield.

Thanks to everyone who took part. The full results will follow.

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Upcoming weekend

It’s a big weekend of action for the club. The Little Aston 5 takes place this Sunday at 11am (with the 2 mile fun run starting shortly after). Entries are being taken on the day upto the race limit – if you are entering on the day please come down early to avoid disappointment. Race details

Elsewhere, our junior athletes are competing in the final Heart of England match at Leamington, whilst we also have Veterans competing at the Cup Final in Stoke and at the European Championships in Izmir (Good luck Rob, Fred and Donald!).

Please let us know how you get on – Tweet us at @Royal_Sutton_AC with your updates and photos.

Have a great weekend everyone – Go Team RSC!!!

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Weekend round up

Laura Whittle recorded a fast time of  9.49.75 in the 2 miles competing against the best in the world at the Birmingham Grand Prix. Needless to say, it is another club record – well done Laura!!!

At the European Masters Athletics Championships in Izmir, Turkey there were great performances by Donald Brown and Rob Andrew. Donald took the silver medal in the M50 100m in 11.67 in a very close final having won his heat in 11.85. Rob won his heat in the M1500m in the fastest heat time and goes in the final today.

Elsewhere, Nicholas Pryce reached the semi finals at the Inter County Championships, running 21.80 in the 200m heats and 21.87 in the semi final.