Well done to everyone who competed at Coventry today. The weather didn’t stop us producing many great performances. A special thanks to those who competed in extra events to fill the team sheet. The meeting was abandoned because of the horrific weather before the relays and no final points were read out. So check the Heart of England website tomorrow (Division 1) for full results. Thanks again to everyone for their efforts today.
Here’s Johns report from a very successful Midland Masters Track and Field Championships:
Here’s John T’s report from another successful day for the senior team:There were a couple of near misses . Emily Campion (0.6 secs over 3000m) and Nick Pryce (0.1 over 400m club record).
There is no training at Wyndley tonight because UK Athletics have exclusive use of the track. Friday training will resume next week. Enjoy your evening off!
Jasmine Walker (U15) competed at the National Javelin Carnival
Competition at Loughborough on Sunday, throwing against top-ranked
athletes. She finished 10th out of the 20 athletes, many of whom were in
the top year of the age group. She achieved a throw of 30m 46cm, her
first throw over the magic 30m mark and leap-frogged back to the top of
the WM Pof10 rankings; also moving up to 38th in the UK. This was
valuable experience for her in that she was able to watch how the top
throwers, (including the No1 and No2 UK-ranked athletes Bethany Moule
and Annabel Peach), warmed up and prepared for the event.
Much to the surprise of everyone present, the Lower YDL athletes were not victorious at Tipton. Despite a number of athletes achieving first and second place, they were pipped to the post by Dudley and Stourbridge who achieved 482 points to RSC 481. All the athletes present, worked really hard to produce in the majority of cases new PBs.
A big well done in particular to those athletes who took part in events that they were not familiar with and in some cases with very little notice – Harriet Martin, Jess Cope, Jack Wakefield, Caitlin Ralph, Zara Buchanan, James Moran and David Iliffe.
Some of our young athletes are doing particularly well in the Power of 10 rankings – Isabel Male, Daniel Olatundun, Elsa Buchanan and Maddie Hammond.
For the future, an analysis of the results from Tipton, shows that the Dudley and Stourbridge team fielded athletes in a larger number of events which enabled them to accumulate more points.
The good news is that after two of four competitions, RSC are joint first with Bicester on 13 points; DASH (Dudley and Stourbridge) and Tamworth are joint third with 11 points. However, the next two competitions are hosted by DASH and Tamworth, so it will need a big turn out for RSC to maintain first place.
Let’s go for it Royal Sutton!
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:
The full results are available below
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.
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:
The Under 17s and 20s finished their 1st competition of the year with a 3rd place finish on Sunday. There were many PBs and near PBs, and also some new club records! Well done to all who took part, with many doing extra events to support their team. Here are a few of the relay athletes.
Now to next weekend’s Heart of England on Saturday and Senior League on Sunday.
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!
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