Category: Race reports

Check out our FLICKR page to see some great photos taken by Marc Kirsten of yesterday’s match at Wyndley.

The results are available now on the PoT

Katie Ingle had a fantastic run to win the U20 3000m steeplechase title at the England Athletics U20/U23 Championships at Bedford. Her time was 10.26.22. With the qualifying time secured a few weeks ago, the victory confirms Katie’s place in the GB team for the World Junior Championships in Oregon.

Margaret Riley provides a summary of an eventful race: “The race was a combined U/20 and U/23 event and Katie covered the leaders from the gun.

Lap two proved eventful as Katie hit the barrier in the home straight and fell heavily. She was back on her feet immediately and chased down the leader. At the next water jump she had another fall but again managed to regain her rhythm and by lap five had taken on the lead. She was overhauled in the final 100m by the leading U/23 athlete but managed to take the U/20 Championship title and qualify for Eugene.

This is the third year in a row she has taken the title – surely a record for any middle distance athlete from RSCAC ?”

Well done Katie!

Nicholas Pryce and Gabrielle Kinney were also competing. Nicholas qualified for the finals of the 200m with a time of 21.71. He finished 5th in the final in 21.75. Gabrielle ran well in the heats of 800m running 2.16.43.

Results and reports are available on England Athletics website

Connor Notley and Chrissie Prince both set new club U17 Discus records on Saturday at the Mason Trophy meeting. They were representing West Midlands Schools against other areas schools. The details are:

• 3rd Discus Connor Notley 36.38m
• 4th Discus Chrissie Prince 32.86m

A number of other RSCAC athletes were also competing and the full results are available on the PoT. Well done to everyone who took part!

Report by John Topliss

Well done to everyone who competed at the Shugborough Relays. We have now updated the Grand Prix points. Well done to Rob Andrew who took top points out of the 28 athletes competing. Steve Marklew remains the runaway leader in the men’s competition whilst Vici Richardson leads the women’s competition.

2014 Grand Prix Scores – 20.6.14

John Topliss reports on some great results at the Midland Championships and another club record:

Muninder Singh Hayer put in a fantastic performance to win a bronze medal at the England Athletics Senior Disability Championships at the Alexander Stadium last weekend. Competing in the F32 category Muninder finished in 3rd place in the Seated Club Throw with a distance of 11.54m. The event was won by Paralympic medallist Stephen Miller. The result was all the more impressive given that this was Muninder’s second ever competition and given that injury had prevented him from training during the last four weeks. Well done Muninder!

RSCAC had another successful outing at this year’s Shugborough Relays, with 8 teams entered, and 32 runners taking part!

All this thanks to the organisational brilliance of Roy Humpherson.

On a fast 2 miles course, two of the fastest legs came from Ollie Harradence (10.38), and Rob Andrew (10.57).

After the first leg, Ollie’s team “Not So Old“, was actually in the overall race lead of the Men Vet 160 Years category.
This was until Russell Simpson (11.26) ran a great second leg for the other RSC team “Nearly Vets“, gaining 4 places to bring the team into the overall club lead, a position which they retained and secured through Fred Tremblay (11.01) and Tony Hinchley (12.09), who anchored the team home in 4th place out of 36 team. “Not So Old” finishing 6th overall.

The “Old Speedsters” team whose 4 members aggregated a respectable 201 years, finished in a superb 3rd place in the Men’s Ultra Vets 200 Years category. The team was formed of Rob Andrew (10.57) who ran the second fastest leg on the day, John Fletcher (13.32), Colin McAuley (11.41) and Steve Marklew (11.41).

There were also great performances from Paul Davey (11.06) and Vici Richardson, both hitting a 2 miles PB, as part of the “Rose Between Thorns” mixed team.

In the “Men’s Open” category, the “Young Pretenders” team formed of Dave Long (11.48), Paul Terleski, Chris Taylor (11.35), and Mark Rickards (12.01), finished 13th out of 42, with Paul Terleski running a very fast second leg in 11.18, gaining 7 places in the process.

In the Ladies Vets 160 Years Category, Bunny will be pleased to know that strong runs from Katherine Lewis (15.33), Sarah Smewin (19.38), Carol Woodfield (16.40) and Lyn Ellis Taylor (17’55), saw the team “Bunny’s Angels” finish 14th out of 31 teams.

Apologies for all those who ran and didn’t get a mention (there was a lot of us, and this is only the produce of my afternoon’s tea break at work). You can always go and indulge yourself on RacePhotos website here.

Full club results can be found here, and the overall results there.

The relays form part of the RSCAC Grand Prix Competition whose latest standings will be published soon.

See you all next year.

Paul Davey had a successful day at the 2014 Police UK Track & Field and Tug of War Championships, which took place at Uxbridge, on wednesday. Paul came back with two medals !

In the High Jump, a recently discovered talent, Paul won Bronze after clearing two Personal Bests of 1m55 and 1m60.

He then followed with Bronze in the 800m, before heading up North back to Shugborough to anchor a leg at the popular relays, as part of the “Rose Amongst Thorns” RSCAC team.

Well done Paul for a very successful police championships.

Fred Tremblay travelled back to France last weekend to compete in the 800m at the French National Championships. Competing against 13 other runners in hot conditions he battled through the field to finish in a fantastic 3rd place in a time of 2.00. Check out the RACE VIDEO to see Fred in action. Well done Fred!!!