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Additional summer holiday athletics sessions now available

To coincide with the launch of the London Olympics, Royal Sutton is pleased to announce additional summer holiday athletics sessions for children aged 8-15 years.  The courses are designed to give children a fun introduction to athletics.

Royal Sutton will be running a free morning (9 am – 12 midday) or afternoon (1 pm -4 pm) of athletics on Monday 13 August at Wyndley.

The club will also be running two 3 day programmes, also at Wyndley Leisure Centre.  The first programme will run from 6-8 August and the second will run from 20-22 August.  The cost of the 3 programme is £30 and the course runs from 10am to 2.30pm daily.

You can book all sessions at Wyndley Leisure Centre  (0121 464 7742).  Places are strictly limited so book quickly before all the places are taken!

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U15/U17/U20 Midland Championships – 14/15 July

A number of athletes won medals at the Midland Championships at Leicester at the weekend:

  • Megan McBrien was 2nd in U20 Women 1500m (Lizzie Farrow was 4th in the same event);
  • Kieran Smith was 2nd in the U20 Men 2000m steeplechase; and
  • Stefan Anderson was 3rd in the U17 Boys 100m and 200m.

Other RSC athletes competing were Theo Larcombe, Georgia Curry and Lydia Sergiew.  Full results are available on the Midland Counties AA website here.

Well done to everyone.

John Topliss

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Worcester Pitchcroft 10k – 15 July

Royal Sutton’s senior men took the honours at the Worcester Pitchcroft 10k today.  Ollie Harradence won the overall race in a time of 33.00 minutes and Simon Corker won the Veterans race in a PB of 36.10.  Paul Terleski finished in 6th place and Colin McAuley also finished well up the field.  Well done guys!

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Birmingham Games – 8 July

Nicholas Pryce set a new club record in the 200m with a fantastic run at the Birmingham Games yesterday.  His time of 21.83 beats the old record of 21.9 set by James Simmons in 1989.  Nick won the B race – his time would have been good enough for 4th place in the A race.  Well done Nick!

Report by John Topliss

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Aviva English Schools Championships – 6/7 July

1st placeCongratulations to Kate Ingle, who won the English Schools Championships with fantastic run in the 1500m steeplechase at Gateshead yesterday.  She won by a massive 10 second margin in a time of 4.54.36 (which is a new club record as well).

Well done also to Gabrielle Kinney, who finished 5th in the Senior Girls 800m and Elemena Saunders who ran in the Inter Girls 800m.

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Endurancelife Real Relay – 5 July

Well done to Andrea Deathridge and Clive Sayer who completed a 10 mile leg of the Endurancelife Real Relay today.
The event, which involves hundred of runners, is an attempt to follow the entire 8,000 mile route of the official Olympic Torch around the British Isles in one continuous non-stop journey, running every step of the way.  Andrea and Clive’s leg was from Blake Street Station via Aldridge and Stubbers Green, to Great Wyrley.
If you are interested in finding out more about this event click here.
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Midland Athletics League – 1 July

Royal Sutton AC’s senior team put on another fine display last Sunday, with victory in the 3rd match of the season.

The star performance on the day came from Kieran Smith who won the A events for the 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, high jump and 2000m steeplechase.  Nicholas Pryce continued his excellent season with commanding victories in the 100m and 400m A races, whilst Kevin Brown produced some outstanding displays in the field winning the A events for the hammer, shot putt and discus.  His discus throw of 52m broke the division record and means he is the top ranked discus thrower in the UK for his age group by a distance of over 10 metres.

In the women’s events Charmaine Riley maintained her unbeaten record in the league with victories in the 100m and 200m and Charlotte Last had a great victory in the pole vault, as did Rachel Smith in the high jump.

Other winners in the A events were Megan Evans (triple jump), Rebecca Robinson (800m), Fred Tremblay (800m) and Nick Corker (5000m).

In the B events we had victories for Maddie Stearn (110m hurdles), Nicholas Mbewe (200m), Emma Overy (400m), Adam Barnes (400m), Amy Johnson (800m), Paul Terleski (1500m), Nick Corker (2000m steeplechase) and Dave Long (5000m).

There were lots of other great performances – well done to everyone who took part!  A special thanks also to all our officials and everyone who helped out on the day.

Results are available here and League standings here.  In addition to the results shown Kane Howitt and Luke Fleming took the 1st two places in the non scoring 100m and Simon Corker recorded a massive PB as a guest runner in the 5000m.

The final match takes place on 4 August at Kidderminster – Let’s have another great turnout!

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New club record – U17 boys 4x100m relay

Our relay boys have done it again and broken a record that, before this year, had stood since 1993.  Representing West Midlands Schools in an invitation Under 17 Boys 4x100m Relay at the Olympic Trials at Alexander Stadium on Saturday, the Sutton quartet of Alister Breuns, Nicholas Mbewe, Kane Howitt and Paolo Odogwu scorched around the track to record a time of 45.55.  This improved the record they set earlier this year by 0.35 secs.  Congratulations to the team with special congratulations to their coach Tony Ashford.  The updated club records are available to view on the Performances page here
Report by John Topliss
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Midland Track and Field League – 1 July

The senior team will be travelling to Burton on Sunday to compete in the 3rd league fixture of the season.  Following a victory in the last match at Wyndley the team will be looking to put in a good performance to maintain our promotion push. 

We are in need of a couple of qualified field officials to help us with two events:

  • 1300 – Long Jump (Men)
  • 14.20 – Shot Putt (Women) 

As points are awarded for officials we are really keen to fill these positions.  If anyone can help (Qualified or not) please contact John Topliss or Megan Evans.