Category: Race reports

Great performances from our U17/U20 team at Wyndley on Sunday with a win for RSC and lots of fantastic individual performances, including (at least) four new club records:

• U20 long jump – Elliot Walker broke his own club record of 6.20m with a jump of 6.32m. He had a superb series of jumps.
• U20 triple jump – Elliot Walker with a jump of 12.43m. This breaks the old club record set in 1999 by Adam D’Arcy
• U17 Pole vault – Bonita Deathridge (2.25m). This was Bonita’s first competition and she breaks the record of 2m set by Charlotte Last in 2012.
• U17 4kg Hammer  – Chrissie Prince breaking her own record with a throw of 33.46m

Well done everyone – In particular Elliot, Bonita and Chrissie and their coaches (Meg, Ernie and Graham).

RESULTS

John T

Graham Felton reports on some great performances and new records set by RSC athletes over the weekend:

“Some great news over the last few days. Firstly Chrissie Prince, competing at the Mason Trophy, came 5th in the Discus and 7th in the Hammer. The Hammer Competition took 3 hours 40 minutes in total and the first 7 girls all achieved England Schools Standard. Chrissies throw of 41.78 metres sets a new PB and Club Record for U17 Girls 3Kg Hammer

On Monday Jennie Hopkinson won 2 Silver Medals at the Independent Schools National Championship at Alexander Stadium:

• 100 metres 12.9 seconds New PB and equals Fiona’s Club Record set in 1977.
• 200 metres 27.2 Seconds New PB.”

Please find a link to the provisional results from Saturday’s meeting: PROVISONAL RESULTS

Excellent performances by everyone young and old. Thanks for all your support. A report will be sent to the Sutton Observer this week. There were six new club records set:

• Elliott Walker Junior (under 20) Long Jump 6.20m . also very close to the triple record.
• Connor Notley Junior (under 20) Discus (2 Kg) 33.45m
• Nick Corker M40 3k steeplechase 10.36.6
• Graham Felton M65 Shot (7.26 Kg) 7.60m  and Discus (2Kg)19.66m
• Senior Mens 4x100m relay 43.8 secs Nicholas Pryce/Shem Nelson/Cameron Kirkbride/Kane Howitt.

We had some great performances by our athletes at the Midland Masters Championships at Nuneaton Sunday.

• Kevin Brown M50 1st Discus and Shot with new Club records .Due to his recent injury these had to be standing throws.
• Lorna Foster W50 1st Shot,2nd Javelin,2nd Discus,and 3rd Hammer. A busy weekend for Lorna after competing for the Senior team at Corby on Saturday.
• David Price M70 1st Javelin
• Richard Henry M40 2nd 100m
• Jhalman Singh M75 2nd Shot.

Royal Sutton again had a winner at the Great Midlands Fun Run, with Nick Corker winning this years race.

We also had a winner in the buggy category, with Mark Rickards completing the course dressed as Forest Gump whilst pushing his daughter in a buggy.

Well done to all the other RSC runners who took part in a 7,000 strong field.
The results will be available from Friday in the Observer and online.

Here are the results of Wednesday’s meeting: MVL Results – 27 May There were many excellent performances with the men finishing in 3rd and the women in 5th places.

We had two women competing in the League for the first time, Mel Woodward and Rachel Joyce with Mel breaking two club records and setting an inaugural record in the W35 Triple Jump. The details of the records are (all W35)

• 800m 2.27.0 (Old record was set by Chris Rollason in 1989)
• 3000m 10.31.7 ( Old record set by Andrea D in 2013)
• Triple Jump 7.29m (inaugural record).

Six Royal Sutton athletes made the trip to London for the BUPA London 10k. Mark Bridges ran the fastest time for the men in 35.49. Andrea Deathridge returned to flatter firmer ground following her recent success on the fells to run 39.20. Well done also to Paul T, Matt S, Clive H and Vici R.

Just had 2 days at the Warwickshire Championships where Sutton athletes were on usual top form.
We have at least four county champs.

Our county champions are:
Nick Pryce (senior men 200m in 21’76), Shaun Evans (u 20 1500m & new PB in 4’08.70),  Alex Jones (U17 800m & new PB 2.00.70) & Meg Evans (senior women long jump in 4m98).

Other successes were: Alex Blackham 2nd in U17 1500 Steeplechase, Ellen Humpherson 3rd in U15 1500m. Maddie Hammond came 2nd overall in the Girls Under 13s 800m race with a new PB of 2 mins 36.76.   Freya Liddington (u13 long jump bronze medal.) Jennie Hopkinson (U15) 200 metres. Ist in Heat 27.68 new PB. 7th in final & 100 metres 3rd in heat 13.21 new PB. 6th in final. Regan Keating(U15) 100 metres. 6th in heat 14.72 new PB. Shot 5th in final 6.59 metres new PB. Hannah Smith (U17) Hammer 4th in final. Fiona Smith ( W50) Hammer 4th in Senior Womens final. Chrissie Chantelle Prince (U17) 2nd and Silver Medal in Shot. 2nd and Silver Medal in Discus. 3rd and Bronze Medal in Hammer. Ethan Brough for his 4th places in U17 100 and 200.

Well done all the RSC crowd, you did us all proud !!

Hi Everyone , Just came across the results of last weeks Inter Counties Fell Running Champs at Betws-y-Coed where Andrea Deathridge was representing Warwickshire . She was 24th overall and the second finisher for the County in a time of 48.10 over a course in excess of 10K and helped Warwickshire finish in fifth place. Additionally she was the second W40 in the race. Well done Andrea .Great stuff (Not bad for a pole vaulter).

John Topliss

Our U17s and U20s continued their strong start to the season with a 3rd place finish in their latest YDL fixture at Banbury.

In the sprints Ethan Brough provided the highlight, claiming victories in the U17 men’s 100m and 200m. Kane Howitt was 2nd in the U20s 100m and 200m, whilst there were strong performances by Ella Bissell (300m) and Jerome Austin, Joel Kirsten and Charlotte Newman in the 400m.

We had a great day in the throws, with Chrissie Prince winning the discus, hammer and shot and Connor Notley winning the discus and hammer. There were also wins for both Hannah Smith and Lucy Wood in the U20 hammer A and B events and Liam Goodall in the U17 shot putt, and a personal best for William Bonner in the U20 shot putt.

There was also success in the middle distance events where the outstanding result came from Alex Blackham who knocked 20 seconds off his PB to win the 1500m steeplechase. There were also wins for Alex Jones, Verity O’Shea, Lois West, Amy Tuckett and Georgia Delaney and a personal best for James Petley.

There were four new club records – two each for Chrissie and Connor:

Connor Notley:

• Under 20 Discus (1.75Kg) 40.59m
• Under 20 Shot (6Kg)    11.70m

• Under 17 Hammer (3Kg) 41.54m
• Under 17 Discus (1 Kg)  33.40m Equals her record set in 2014.

Well done everyone!