Author: Rascasse

Some world class results from our Masters athletes, over the week-end at the Midland Masters Champs, despite the mixed weather.

It was a golden day for many of the Royal Sutton Coldfield athletes who attended the Warwickshire County Track and Field Championships at Nuneaton.

Fifteen County titles were won by Sutton athletes last weekend including one in the Staffordshire Championships. The haul of medals included fifteen golds, two silvers and two bronzes. Two of the throwers attained English Schools’ qualifying distances, notably Megan Sharman with a personal best of 36.90m in the Hammer and Jasmine Walker who threw 34.97m in the javelin, breaking the County Championship record by over 6 metres. The fact that the club is becoming much stronger in the throwing competitions was evidenced by gold medals for under-13 Ethan Cook in the discus and for under-17 James Ward who won double gold in the discus and hammer. In addition, Elsa Buchanan threw a personal best of 21.36m in the javelin. In the senior women, Chrissie Prince remarkably won triple silver medals in the hammer, shot and discus with Sheri Smart gaining bronze in the discus.

The sprints were dominated by two impressive athletes. Up and coming under-13 star Isobel Male blew away the opposition in the 100m (13.04s) and the 200m (26.85s) and the senior men’s events were dominated by Kane Howitt who won the sprint double with the stunning times of 10.72s and 21.48s in the 100m and 200m respectively. Not to be outdone, Shem Nelson took the 400m in a time of 52.26s. There was also a personal best of 11.7s for under-17 Cameron Harris in the 100m.

Under-13 girl Sian Duval became the 800m Staffordshire champion by beating off some strong opposition with a very respectable 2m-33.7s. Her brother under-17 Lewis Duval also ran a personal best time of 4m-31.3s in the 1500m. Rising star Charlotte Prince won the 800m in a time of 2m-39.3s to become Warwickshire champion and she also took silver with a strong race in the 1500m event. Under-15 Charlotte Hey won gold in a blistering 1500m race against very strong opposition in a personal best time of 4m-57.2s. On the previous day Charlotte also took bronze with a personal best of 2m-26.4s plus she achieved personal bests in the javelin and long jump. In the U20 men’s 3000m steeplechase, there was a clear victory for Alex Blackham with a time of 10m-50.6s. Other notable performances came from Frederic Tremblay, 4th in the senior men’s 800m, and Tom Chew, also 4^th in the 1500m,  running a Personal Best in the process.

Other personal bests were achieved by Caitlin White (1500m), Martha Wood (800m), Lucy Carey (1500m), Zara Buchanan (1500m) and Hannah Smith in the hammer. The U11 boy’s Quadkids competition was dominated by winner Harrison North. His performances included a club record of 29.12m in the ‘Howler’ throw and a time of 10.8s in the 75m.

Well done to everyone that competed for these great results!

Full Power Of Ten results can be found here.

Report by Brian Higson

The last day of these Champs, which attracted 4,700 athletes from 75 countries, brought two 4th places for Lorna Foster and Donald Brown.

A few of our Masters Athletes have made the trip to Daegu, South Korea, to compete in the World Masters Indoor Championships. 

Following on from his British Indoor title two weeks ago, Kevin Brown won a Silver in Daegu in the M50 Discuss with a throw of 45.12m.
Considering he recently had major surgery on his back, this is a great performance! Well done Kevin.

Lorna Foster finished in 5th place in the W50 Discus with 24.66m, which is just shy of her club record.Well done Lorna !

Catch up on some great Team long distance racing which happened on the 23rd and 24th of July.

An  intrepid group of our Senior distance squad ventured out further & longer last weekend as they entered two mixed teams of 6 in the 24 hour relay event near Cirencester.

Running over a 5.6 mile multi terrain course the 1st team won the mixed team event setting a new record distance for mixed teams and finished an impressive 2nd overall completing 37 laps just one lap behind an all-male team of 8 and.

The 2nd team ran 33 laps to finish 7th overall and 5th mixed team. Each runner ran either 5,6 or 7 laps over the 24 hours covering 28 – 39 miles each !

Congratulations to Ollie Harradence, Simon Lees, Steve Marklew, Andrea Deathridge, Dean England, Russ Simpson (1st team); Dave Long, Paul Terleski, Chris Taylor, Gemma Sidaway, Matt Stenson and John Fletcher.

Special mention to Ollie who ran all his legs under 36 mins, ran the events fastest leg of the weekend & who also organised the event for the teams plus Andrea, who was the most consistent runner of the weekend.

Time to rest now…before looking to those autumn half or full marathons!

More info about the race can be found here.

Report by Steve Marklew (Senior Long Distance Squad Coach).