Category: Race reports

The results of the meeting of 1 August are now available. Eight new club records were set. Well done to everyone. The new club records were:

• Gordon Chapman – M80 2K Walk 15.44.0
• Graham Felton – M60 Shot ( 7.26Kg) 8.68m
• David Price – M70 Javelin (700g) 29.73m
• Fleur O’Brien – W60 800m 3.28.4, Long Jump 2.12m
• Maureen Lewington – W65 Javelin 17.03m, Discus 16.53m, Shot (3Kg) 7.19m

The results are now available here for final the league match on Saturday.  The league table is available here.  We won by 31 points clinching the league title in the process.

There were fantastic performances by everyone who took part.

In the men’s events Nicholas Pryce continued his excellent season winning the 100m and 200m A races convincingly, whilst junior athlete Kane Howitt had a great run to win the 100m B race.  Kieran Smith competed in multiple events recording victories in the 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 1500m and high jump, whilst Kevin Brown again dominated the throwing events, winning the hammer and discus and finishing second in the shot putt

In the women’s events Charmaine Riley won the 200m A race, whilst Charlotte Newman recorded fantastic victories in the 100 and 200m B races.  Megan Evans and Janice Pryce took maximum points in the triple jump, whilst Janice also won the long jump B event, recording a new club age group record in the process.

Other winners in the A events were Adam Barnes (400m), Rachel Smith (800m), Ollie Haradence (3000m) and Nick Corker (3000m steeplechase), whilst Lydia Sergiew and Lizzie Farrow recorded PBs to finish 2nd in the 400m and 3000m respectively.

In the B events there were victories for Rachel Smith (400m) and Fred Trembley (1500m), whilst Madeleine Stearn, Fiona Smith, Paul Terleski, Dave Long, Steve Marklew and Russell Simpson all had 2nd place finishes.  Alistair Brauns won valuable points for the club in the long jump, triple jump and 400m, whilst Theo Larcombe was a close 3rd in a competitive 800m race.  We also had victories in the men’s and women’s 4x100m relays and the men’s 4x400m relay.

We set 4 new divisional records during the season – Well done to Nicholas Pryce (100m, 200m), Kevin Brown (Discus) and the 4x100m team.  Details of the records are available here.

It’s not just Team GB that are doing great!  Another fantastic performance from the senior athletics team today saw us win the final Midland Athletics league match in style and claim the overall title.

Brilliant performances from everyone who took part with lots of victories on both the track and field!

The results and a full report to follow…………..

A number of athletes won medals at the Midland Championships at Leicester at the weekend:

• Megan McBrien was 2nd in U20 Women 1500m (Lizzie Farrow was 4th in the same event);
• Kieran Smith was 2nd in the U20 Men 2000m steeplechase; and
• Stefan Anderson was 3rd in the U17 Boys 100m and 200m.

Royal Sutton’s senior men took the honours at the Worcester Pitchcroft 10k today.  Ollie Harradence won the overall race in a time of 33.00 minutes and Simon Corker won the Veterans race in a PB of 36.10.  Paul Terleski finished in 6th place and Colin McAuley also finished well up the field.  Well done guys!

Nicholas Pryce set a new club record in the 200m with a fantastic run at the Birmingham Games yesterday.  His time of 21.83 beats the old record of 21.9 set by James Simmons in 1989.  Nick won the B race – his time would have been good enough for 4th place in the A race.  Well done Nick!

Report by John Topliss

Congratulations to Kate Ingle, who won the English Schools Championships with fantastic run in the 1500m steeplechase at Gateshead yesterday.  She won by a massive 10 second margin in a time of 4.54.36 (which is a new club record as well).

Well done also to Gabrielle Kinney, who finished 5th in the Senior Girls 800m and Elemena Saunders who ran in the Inter Girls 800m.

Royal Sutton AC’s senior team put on another fine display last Sunday, with victory in the 3rd match of the season.

The star performance on the day came from Kieran Smith who won the A events for the 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, high jump and 2000m steeplechase.  Nicholas Pryce continued his excellent season with commanding victories in the 100m and 400m A races, whilst Kevin Brown produced some outstanding displays in the field winning the A events for the hammer, shot putt and discus.  His discus throw of 52m broke the division record and means he is the top ranked discus thrower in the UK for his age group by a distance of over 10 metres.

In the women’s events Charmaine Riley maintained her unbeaten record in the league with victories in the 100m and 200m and Charlotte Last had a great victory in the pole vault, as did Rachel Smith in the high jump.

Other winners in the A events were Megan Evans (triple jump), Rebecca Robinson (800m), Fred Tremblay (800m) and Nick Corker (5000m).

In the B events we had victories for Maddie Stearn (110m hurdles), Nicholas Mbewe (200m), Emma Overy (400m), Adam Barnes (400m), Amy Johnson (800m), Paul Terleski (1500m), Nick Corker (2000m steeplechase) and Dave Long (5000m).

There were lots of other great performances – well done to everyone who took part!  A special thanks also to all our officials and everyone who helped out on the day.

Results are available here and League standings here.  In addition to the results shown Kane Howitt and Luke Fleming took the 1st two places in the non scoring 100m and Simon Corker recorded a massive PB as a guest runner in the 5000m.

The final match takes place on 4 August at Kidderminster – Let’s have another great turnout!

• Janice Pryce leapt to exactly 10.00m in the W50 triple jump which would have been a new British record if a wind gauge had been available. Earlier on she had won the W40 100m and the W40 long jump.
• Kevin Brown won the M35 Discus with a monumental throw of 51.08m to put him top of the British M45 rankings by a long way.
• Graham Felton easily won the M60 100m and then set a new club record in the M60 Discus with a throw of 31.22m.  He also took second place in the M50 Shot.
• Gordon and Beryl Chapman both won their age divisions in the 2000m walk with Gordon breaking his M80 club record by over 7 seconds.
• Sandra McDonald sprinted away from the rest of the field to win the W50 100m.
• Fleur O’Brien knocked more than a second of her W60 100m time and then set a new club record in the 400m before setting another PB in the Discus.
• Nick Corker took the lead from the start in the M35 1500m and just kept increasing his lead with a superb piece of front running to record a great time of 4.14, which is also a PB in this age group.