Author: RSCAC Admin

The senior athletics team kicked off the season on Saturday with a match at Leamington. Despite having a greatly depleted team there were some fantastic individual performances. Nicholas Pryce won the 100m and 200m in style, whilst there were also victories for Kevin Brown in the discus and Nick Corker in the 2000m steeplechase.

There were PBs for Luke Flemming (200m, 400m and long jump), Stuart McCaw (400m and high jump), Kane Howitt (triple jump), Paul Davey (800m), Vikram Balachandar (1500m), Russell Simpson (2000m steeplechase) and Janice Pryce (javelin). Meanwhile, John Topliss showed why he is known as the Tornado with a fantasic throw in the discus

For the women Megan, Charmaine, Janice and Fiona (with a cameo performance from Hannah Jennings) worked tirelessly, competing in multiple events to pick up lots of points.

The day ended with a fantastic victory for the men’s 4x400m team (Luke, Stuart, Fred and Nicholas).

Many thanks to our officials – Jane, Linda, Katie and Hannah.

The full results are available here.  The next match is at Abingdon on 9 June. Let’s get a great team out – no excuses allowed!

On Saturday the club competed in the British Masters Road Relays in Sutton Park. With resources stretched to the limit due to other athletes competing at the season’s first senior T&F match three teams were entered.

For many of the athletes this was the first competitive outing since running the London Marathon. Despite tired legs there were some good performances and a good club turnout. The women’s 35 team provided the highlight finishing 12th with Andrea Deathridge and Kate McBrien both running very fast legs (the team was in 2nd place for some of the race!). The men’s 45 team finished 19th, whilst the men’s 35 team was one runner short. Race photos are available on Bryan Dale’s website here. The leg times are provided below.  

M35 Paul Terleski (17.06m); Colin McAuley (18.08m); Clive Hackforth (18.35m); David Bowen (18.41m); Simon Ralph (18.05m); Richard Lewis (20.59m); Subodh Dave (18.58m)

M45 Tony Hinchley (17.21m); Simon Corker (17.06m); Steve Marklew (17.46m); John Fletcher (19.07m); Robert Owen (24.54m); Paul Jenkins (20.05m)

W35 Andrea Deathridge (18.35m); Kate McBrien (18.28m); Suzanne Browne (23.19m); Carol Woodfield (23.42m)

Well done to all who competed in cold and wet conditions at Kidderminster and Stourport. The results are now available on the Power of Ten website here

Congratulations to Nicholas Pryce who set a new club record in the 200m with a time of 21.82 seconds at the BRAT open meeting last Wednesday. The record was set in cool and blustery conditions and shows that Nick is in great early season form. The full results are available here.

The results are also now available on the Power of Ten website for the YDL fixture on 4 May involving our U13s and U15s. A link is available here. Well done to everyone who competed.

Our Veterans athletics team travelled to Telford last Wednesday for their 1st fixture of the season. There were a number of notable performances – in particular Gordon Price and Richard Lewis had great debuts, Donald Brown ran well on his return from injury and Bunny Kyd and Roy Humpherson picked up valuable points in the distance events. Janice Pryce and Graham Felton both won in the 100m and picked up lots of points in the field, whilst Fred Tremblay ran well in a quality 400m and finished the night with a great last leg in the 4x200m relay. The results are available here.

The next match is at Stoke on 29 May. Lets have a great turnout for this fixture. If anyone wants to compete please speak to John Topliss or Roy Humpherson.

The U17 and U20s kicked off the athletics season last weekend with the 1st ever Youth Development League fixture at Banbury. There were some great early season performances. The results are available here.

The U13s and U15s have their first fixture this weekend at Tilsley Park. Good luck to everyone competing

Congratulations to everyone who completed the London Marathon today. We had some fantastic performances – Ollie Harradence was the first Royal Sutton runner home in a super fast time of 2.34. Next back was Russell Simpson in a PB of 2.47, whilst we had three other runners break 3 hours (Steve Marklew, Chris Taylor and Colin McAuley).  Our first ladies home were Andrea Deathridge who ran 3.13 on her marathon debut and Kate McBrien who ran a PB of 3.13.

There were also PBs for Dave Bowen, Clive Hackforth, Mark Rickards, Matt Stenson and Sue Browne, with Sue knocking 14 minutes of her previous best!

Results are available on the London Marathon website here. Enter Royal Sutton in the club category and you’ll get the results for all 15 runners. Well done everyone!