Results

World Masters Daegu – 22/23 March

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

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 !

Donald Brown qualified for the M50 60m Hurdles Final, by finishing in second place in his semi-final with 9.16. The Final is tomorrow and he is in Lane 6.

Have a great race Donald.

John Topliss

New Club Record and Personal Best times for Royal Sutton sprinters at MCAA 3rd indoor meeting, Alexander stadium 19th March

Isabel Male, u 13 girl achieved a new club record in her 60 m debut (8.5 seconds). Isabel recorded the second best time of the day in heat 3 of the 60 m race. Moving up the rankings, to heat 1 in the 100 m, she recorded the best time of the day 13.46 seconds.

Aaron Oshenye, u 13 boy ran well in both the 60 m and 100 m, very narrowly missing out on personal best times.

Daniel Olatundun, u 15 boy ran 8.01 seconds in his 60 m debut. Daniel achieved a considerable improvement in his time for the 100 m, a PB 12.25 seconds.

Rachel Iliffe, u 20 women, achieved a PB in both her 60 m and 100 m race.

A great start to the season!

Sportshall Regional Final

Last Saturday, 4 RSCAC athletes represented Team Birmingham in the Regional Sportshall Final.  Charlotte, Daniel, Isabel and Rhianna all performed amazingly.  Their performances led to the Under 13 Girls finishing second overall and the Under 13 Boys finished as overall champions!

The victory for the Under 13 Boys means that Daniel will go to Manchester next month to compete in the National Sportshall Final.  Good luck Daniel!

Izzy, Daniel, Charlie, Rhianna

Club Connect Relay Victory

Massive news for Royal Sutton…

On Saturday 18th February our U15 boys team were Club Connect relay WINNERS at the Barclaycard Arena in the Birmingham Grand Prix.  It was a thrilling 4 x 200m relay race with a very close finish.  We are extremely proud of Daniel, Matthew, Connor and Joe, who won £250 prize money for the club. (Photo below.)

Our other relay teams were out in force too.  The U13 girls of Izzy, Zara, Charlotte and Caitlin finished in second.  The U13 boys of Aaron, Zak, Oliver and Praise were 5th. The U15 girls team finished 6th (Jess, Charlotte, Lucy and Elsa).  The U17 girls team of Jenny, Emma, Rachel and Caitlin were 5th, as were the U17 boys (Cameron, Sam, James and Ben). Well done everyone!

winning club connect.jpg

The National

Well done to all our athletes who braved the cold, mud and rain at the National on Saturday. The event took place at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham and saw our athletes competing against the top runners from across the country. The top performances came from Shaun Evans, who finished in 10th place in the Junior Men’s race and Georgia Curry, who finished 17th in the Junior Women’s race. The were great runs by all our other athletes – well done everyone!!!

The full results, reports and videos are available on the England Athletics Website.

Club Championships

Now the cross country is (almost) over we can finally wash those spikes and start thinking ahead to the athletics season.  To kick off the season Royal Sutton will be hosting its own Club Championships for U11s to U20s. This will be a great chance to try out a new event, check out your early season form or just have a lot of fun competing. The event will take place on Saturday 8 April at Wyndley. Entries to be submitted at the clubhouse before Thursday 30 March, with further details in the below Flyer and Entry Form. Get training!!!

FLYER

ENTRY FORM

XC Catch up – WM Young Athletes League (12 Feb)

Our young athletes finished the cross country season in style with some great performances in the final league match at Wolverhampton. Competing in cold and blustery conditions the team finished 4th out of 20 clubs on the day. The strong result meant we finished the 5 race season in 4th place overall. The outstanding performance came from Charlotte Prince who won her fifth consecutive race to claim the title in the U11 girls race. Well done Charlotte!!! The U11 girls secured bronze medals in the team event. There were further medals for the U13 girls (silver) and U11 boys (bronze).

A number of runners had excellent performances on the day. The following runners recorded top 20 finishes –
  • U11 boys – Ethan Cook (6th),
  • U11 girls – Amaya Tisdale (11th)
  • U13 boys – Jack Wakefield (10th), Ethan Patel (19th)
  • U13 girls – Lucy Carey (16th), Sian Duval (20th)
  • U15 girls – Charlotte Hey (6th)
  • U17 Women – Ellen Humpherston (12th)
More importantly lots of runners put in great performances across the season supporting the club and winning valuable points. Links to the results and Mark Kirsten photos are available below. Well done everyone!!!