Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club

Our very own Donald Brown has been shortlisted for the Athletics Weekly Readers’ Choice Award for Best Britsh Male Athlete. Please follow this link and scroll down to cast your vote: https://www.athleticsweekly.com/uncategorized/aw-aoty-2019-vote-1039926297/

Winning this award would be the perfect end of a great year for Donald. For those who may not be fully aware of his achievements this year, they are as follows:

World Masters Championship:

1. Gold 60m Hurdles
2. Silver 4 x 200m relays
3. Bronze 60m

European Masters Championships:

4. Gold 100m
5. Gold 200m
6. Gold 100m Hurdles
7. Silver 4 x 100 Relay

National Outdoors Masters Championships:

8. Gold 100m
9. Gold 200m
10. Bronze 100m Hurdles

National Masters Indoor Championships Lee Valley

11. Gold 200m
12. Silver 60m
13. Silver 60m Hurdles

British Records:

14. 100m Hurdles – 14.83
15. 100m Hurdles – 14.62
16. 300m – 39.17

Personal Bests:

17. 60m – 7.60
18. 60m Hurdles – 9.02
19. 100m Hurdles – 14.62
20. 100m – 11.73
21. 200m – 24.06.

World Rankings:

22. No1 for the 100m
23. No1 for the 200m
24. No1 for the 60m Hurdles
25. No1 for the 100m Hurdles

Royal Sutton Coldfield AC:

26. Outstanding Athlete of the Year Award (Clare Fancote Award)

Good luck Donald!

100 Club drawn 28th November.

£50 no.65 Helen Keetley

£30 no.62 Val Eames

£25 no.72 Bruce Deakin

£15 no.29 Linda O’Connor

£15 no.19 Fiona Smith

£15 no.9 John Topliss

Next draw Thursday 19th December – single number for £100. Who will win big for Christmas?

Thank you all for your support. Numbers are still available, £16.20 per number. If interested, please see John Mills at the clubhouse. A great Christmas gift at a very reasonable price!

All sessions are at the track tonight – Plantsbrook sessions for those doing indoor sportshall competitions resume on 14/01/20.

Join RSCAC coach Joe Caines and friends on Sunday 24 November. Suitable for athletes and parents / carers. All details below.

A busy week with AGM last night and first aid course tonight, but tonight’s first aid session was well worth rushing from work for. An extremely beneficial evening for RSCAC coaches. Thanks to John from St John’s for delivering an excellent course.

Our friends at Sutton Runner (on Boldmere High Street) are offering 20% off for one week only (16th – 21st September).  Don’t forget to take your membership card!

LA5 results (& 2 mile Fun Run results) are now on the LA5 tab.