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!
Results
National Javelin Carnival Success
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.
Lower YDL Team narrowly squeezed into second place at Tipton
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!
Warwickshire County Championships
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:
- Lauren Hammond in the U15 300m with a time of 43.99. She finished in third place in the Final beating the old record of 44.39 set by Jennie Hopkinson last year.
- Sherri Smart in the Senior Women’s Hammer with a throw of 30.92m. This beats her old record set last year of 30.16m.
The full results are available below
Results roundup
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.
- U20M Hammer Liam Goodall 41.01m
- U20M Hammer (7.26Kg) Liam Goodall 37.87m. This beats the old record of 37.14m set by Gary Booker in 1989 (27 years ago)
- U20M Long Jump Elliot Walker 6.44m. This beats his old record of 6.38 set recently
- U20M Triple Jump Elliot Walker 12.86 .This beats his old record of 12.71 set recently.
- Mens 4x400m relay Team Shaun Evans/ Shem Nelson/ Lee Hetherington/ Nicholas Pryce . 3.24.5 . This beats the old record of 3.26.1 set in 1989 ( 27 years ago ) by Carl Warren/Jamie Hussey/Les Duffy and Mark Sturch
- Mens 4x100m relay Team . Kane Howitt/Donald Brown/Ethan Brough/Nicholas Pryce 43.8 . This equals the club record set last year by Nicholas Pryce/Shem Nelson/Cameron Kirkbride/ and Kane Howitt.
- Veteran (M50) Hammer Kevin Brown 35.34m (Telford)
- U20W Hammer Chrissie Prince 38.57m
- U20W Discus Chrissie Prince 30.98m
- Senior 5000m Laura Whittle 15.08.58
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:
- YDL Upper age group
- YDL lower age group
- Midland League
- Midland Veterans League
- Heart of England League
Upper Age YDL 3rd Place
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.
Laura Whittle runs 15.08 at Payton Jordan
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!
PRESENTATION EVENING 2016
The last two Presentation Evenings have been both very popular and successful and the club’s Management Committee would like this year’s event to be even better.
We are in the planning stage at the moment and knowing that nearer the event a number of the organisers are unavailable, we are looking for someone to work alongside the organisers and committee members.
You could be the one that brings that little bit extra to our Presentation Evening !
Interested?
See Katie Jennings or John Mills at the club or email johnmills12@yahoo.com
YDL 3rd place finish at Banbury
Well done to all U13 and U15s who secured a 3rd place finish in the Lower Age YDL at Banbury today. A great start to the season.
Updated club records
Just in time for the start of the athletics season here is the updated list of club records. All new records are marked in green. A number of athletes have already been busy setting new records in 2016 – well done to Elliot Walker (JM triple jump) and Maddie Hammond (U13 600m and 1000m). We’ve also added a few from the end of last year and earlier. Well done Freya Liddington, Hope Stirland, Jasmine Walker, Donald Brown and Kevin Brown.
Good luck to everyone competing in the next few weeks – especially the U13s and U15s who kick off their season with the YDL match at Banbury this weekend. Go Royal Sutton!!!
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