Category: Race reports

Well done to all our are athletes who competed at the county Champs last weekend. There were some fantastic performances and a great haul of medals. The standout performance during the weekend came from Maddie Hammond who won both the U13 800m and 1500m. The winning time of 2.26.5 in the 800m was a championship record. Maddie also won a silver medal in the 200m proving that distance runners can sprint.

There were also two new club records:

• Lauren Hammond in the U15 300m with a time of 43.99. She finished in third place in the Final beating the old record of 44.39 set by Jennie Hopkinson last year.
• Sherri Smart in the Senior Women’s Hammer with a throw of 30.92m. This beats her old record set last year of 30.16m.

The full results are available below

Saturday and Sunday results

Quad kids

What a great start to the season!!! We’ve now had the first round of fixtures and there have been some cracking performances by Royal Sutton athletes and a great team spirit shown in all the matches. In the last few weeks 10 new club records have been set, including two that broke previous records set in 1989.

1. U20M Hammer Liam Goodall 41.01m
2. U20M Hammer (7.26Kg) Liam Goodall 37.87m. This beats the old record of 37.14m set by Gary Booker in 1989 (27 years ago)
3. U20M Long Jump Elliot Walker 6.44m. This beats his old record of 6.38 set recently
4. U20M Triple Jump Elliot Walker 12.86 .This beats his old record of 12.71 set recently.
5. Mens 4x400m relay Team  Shaun Evans/ Shem Nelson/ Lee Hetherington/ Nicholas Pryce . 3.24.5 . This beats the old record of 3.26.1 set in 1989 ( 27 years ago ) by Carl Warren/Jamie Hussey/Les Duffy and Mark Sturch
6. Mens 4x100m relay Team . Kane Howitt/Donald Brown/Ethan Brough/Nicholas Pryce  43.8  . This equals the club record set last year by Nicholas Pryce/Shem Nelson/Cameron Kirkbride/ and Kane Howitt.
7. Veteran (M50) Hammer Kevin Brown 35.34m (Telford)
8. U20W Hammer Chrissie Prince 38.57m
9. U20W Discus Chrissie Prince 30.98m
10. Senior 5000m Laura Whittle 15.08.58

There have also been scores of new PBs. Well done everyone – keep up the good work!

Links to the results for each of the fixtures are provided below:

• YDL Upper age group
• YDL lower age group
• Midland League
• Midland Veterans League
• Heart of England League

Wow! What a run! Laura Whittle smashed her own PB last night to run 15.08 in the 5k at the Payton Jordan Invitational Meeting. The time is an Olympic Games Qualifying Standard. Fantastic running Laura!

A great effort by our athletes at the National Road Relays with the women finishing 33rd and the men finishing 62nd.

For the women the fastest long leg was run by Kate McBrien whilst Helen Elsoueidi ran the fastest short leg. Rachel Thebridge, Emily Campion and Abby Gracie all improved their times from the Midland Road Relays.

For the men the top performance came from Tom Chew who knocked over a minute off his Midland time to run 29.38. Jerome Austin also had a great run, running our fastest short leg.

RESULTS AND PHOTOS – BRYAN DALE WEBSITE

RSCAC is not only present in the Walking, Track and Field, or Cross Country scenes. We also do fell running.

Nick Corker had a great outing at the 2016 Anniversary Waltz fell race in the Lake District last Saturday, which also marked the 20th anniversary for this fell race.

In a field 332 runners strong, with an 11 miles race and more than 1,100m of ascent – or 3,609 foot if you prefer – some of which were so steep that they had to be done on all-fours, Nick finished in an excellent 17th place, and covered the distance in 1:49:22.

If you think that cardiac or sandy hills in Sutton Park are too difficult, and need a tip or two on how to climb or come down a mountain like a proper fell runner, have a word with Nick.

Race results here.

Well done to all our athletes who competed at the Midland Road Relays on Saturday.

The men finished 15th (13th A Team), and qualify for the Nationals on 16 April.
The women finished 26th and qualify automatically for the Nationals.

The fastest long leg time for the men was run by Ollie Harradence, whilst Fred Tremblay ran the fastest short leg.
For the women Kate McBrien and Megan McBrien both had particularly strong runs.

Links to race results and Bryan Dale’s race photos website are available below.

Race results

Race photos

Donald Brown won an incredible 2 Bronze medals at the European Masters Championships in Ancona, Italy in the M50 category.

In his preferred event, the 60 meters hurdles, Donald won a Bronze medal in a time of 8’92 after winning his heat in 9’17.

In the 60 meters flat, in a field of 57 competitors strong, Donald won his heat in 7’72, finished 2nd of his semi-finals in 7’64 to qualify for the Final where he was credited with 8th place in the same time of 7’64.

Today, Donald anchored the first leg and won another Bronze medal with Great Britain’s 4x200m relay team, with Ian Allen, David Kemp and Neil Tunstall, in a time of 1’40.77, a dead heat with Germany who finished fourth.

Well done Donald for an outstanding European Masters Championship !

Result links for all three races

60m hurdles results

60m results

4x200m results

Well done to Alex Blackham who won the popular 7 Pools Run race in Sutton Park on Sunday. Other strong performances from RSC athletes included 2nd place for Kate McBrien and 3rd place for Andrea Deathridge. Well done to all the RSC athletes who took part.

RESULTS

Shaun Evans provided the highlight at the English Schools XC Championships last weekend at Wollaton Park. He produced possibly his best performance of the season to finish in 13th place. Well done Shaun! For the girls the top performance came from Georgia Curry who was 32nd.

It was great also to see a strong club representation in the Senior Boys race, with Alex Jones, Euan Cox and Alex Blackham joining Shaun in the West Midlands team and Jerome Austin turning out for Staffordshire. It will be great to add a few new faces to our senior team next year. Well done to everyone who took part.

RESULTS

There were some great individual and team results at the National XC Champs at Donnington Park on Saturday. In particular well done to Georgia Curry, Shaun Evans, Mel Woodward, Ellen Humpherston, Alex Jones and Euan Cox who all recorded top 100 finishes – great performances given the quality of the runners competing. There were also great team performances by our Senior Women, U17 men, U15 girls and U13 girls.

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