Results

RSCAC athletes cemented the clubs position as one of the top Master’s clubs in the country, with awesome results at the British Outdoor T&F Championships at Alexander stadium last weekend.

They won no less than 9 medals, 4 Golds, and broke 3 club records in the process.

This bodes well for some of our Masters athletes who will be competing at the European outdoors, Izmir (Turkey) at the end of the month, and at the Vets Cup Final at Stoke on the 31st August.

Here is how they did :

Lorna Foster W50  Shot Put 3rd and 2nd British competitor (a Dutch competitor was just ahead of Lorna) so should receive silver medal.

Wow – What a result!!! A fantastic team performance saw the senior athletics team win the final fixture of the season.

The star performance of the day came from Nicholas Pryce who broke his own club record in the 100m with a time of 10.6, won his 200m and 400m races, recorded a 30m javelin throw and finished the day off with superb legs in the relays. What a day!!!

Kane Howitt scored stacks of points in the sprints and jumps, Lana Partridge and Megan McBrien dominated the middle distance races, whilst our throwers (Kevin Brown, Connor Notley, Graham Felton, Chrissie Prince, Lorna Foster and Fiona Smith) were all superb. In particular, Chrissie recorded fantastic wins in the shot putt and discus. Special mention also to Vici Richardson who ran a great 3k to win us 5 points only a few days after completing a 24 hour endurance race.

There were club records for Andrea Deathridge (W40 400m hurdles – 84.6), Fiona Smith (W50 Women Hammer (4Kg) – 25.72m), Graham Felton (M65 Hammer (7.26 Kg) – 18.81m) and Nick Corker (M35 3k steeplechase 10.01.8).

In summary, everyone contributed hugely with many people competing in multiple events and others competing in new events (both on Saturday and throughout the season). A fantastic team effort – Well done everyone!!!

Thanks as always to our officials and supporters who braved the at times apocalyptic conditions. As always your efforts are greatly appreciated!!!

And finally thanks to John T and Fiona S for all their support and efforts through the season as Team Managers.

Look out for a report in this weeks Observer.

Laura Whittle had a storming last 400m to finish 6th at the Commonwealth Games 5K race in Glasgow, and be 2nd home for the home nations.

Running a fast but sensibly paced race for most of the race, Laura overtook all the runners immediately ahead of her in the last 800m, and ran her second ever fastest 5k in less than ideal conditions.

No doubt that the crowd in Hampden Park cheered Laura on for what was an amazing finish !

Well done Laura we are all proud of you !

Results here.

Better late than never, a few results to catch up on. The YDL results for the lower and upper age group meetings are now available on the PoT.

YDL – Lower age group

YDL – Upper age group

There were some particularly strong performances for the throwers. At the U13/U15 meeting Regan Keating set a new club record of 8.57 metres in the under 13 shot, which takes her to number 4 in the West Midlands rankings. She came 2nd in the ‘A’ competition – Not bad after 6 weeks training and in her first competition!

• U17 Hammer 41.84 metres (now ranked 2nd in W Mids)
• U17 Discus 38.65 metres (now ranked 4th in W Mids)