The National Road Relays, which were due to take place in Sutton Park on 13/14 October, have been cancelled. This is a result of an outbreak of e coli 0157 which has been linked directly to Sutton Park. A full statement from the ERRA is available here.
Results
Annual Award Winners
Well done to the athletes and coaches who were awarded prizes at the Annual Awards evening on Friday. It was great to celebrate some fantastic performances from the last 12 months. In particular, congratulations to Bunny Kyd who was awarded honorary life membership for his great contributions to the club. Details of the winners of the major club awards are listed below:
- Clare Fancote award male – Kevin Brown
- Clare Fancote award female – Katie Ingle
- Best single performance male – Nicholas Pryce
- Best single performance female – Janice Pryce
- Best all rounder male – Nick Corker
- Best all rounder female – Chrissie Prince
- Most improved athlete male – Charlie Hornby
- Most improved athlete female – Elmena Saunders
- Attitude to club male – Kane Howitt
- Attitude to club female – Maddie Stearn
- Most promising newcomer – Connor Nottley
- Most promising newcomer female – Jasmine Skipp
- Club person of the year – Stuart Goodall
- Team of the year – U17 girls cross country team
- Cross Country overall junior male – Alfie McBrien
- Cross Country overall senior male – Ollie Haradence
- Athlete’s Athete award – Theo Larcombe
Presentation Evening – 21 September
Come and celebrate a successful year for Royal Sutton. The annual presentation evening takes place this Friday (21st September) at the All Saints Church Centre on Belwell Lane, Four Oaks (7.30-11pm). Awards will be given to athletes in each age group. Tickets are still available from the coffee bar and cost £6 each, to include a disco and jacket potato. Family discounts are available.
Also, make sure you vote for your “Athletes Athlete Award.” This is an award chosen by you for the athlete you feel deserves this recognition. You can vote at the coffee bar. This years nominees, who have been chosen by their coaches are:
Hannah Smith; Georgia Curry; Shaun Evans; Theo Larcombe; Roy Humpherson; Eleanor Williams; Russell Simpson; Katie Ingle; Charlie Hornby and Kieran Smith
See you all on Friday!
Little Aston 5 – more photos now available
More photos of the Little Aston 5 are now available on our FLICKR pages. A link to the new photos is available here.
Little Aston 5 mile road race and 2 mile fun run
Well done to everyone who took part in Sunday’s Little Aston 5 mile road race and 2 mile fun run. Congratulations to James Trollope (Birchfield) who blazed round the course to claim overall victory in a new course record time of 25.48. 2nd runner home was Ollie Harradence (Royal Sutton) in a time of 26.38.
The women’s race was won by Sian Slade (Birchfield) in a time of 32.39 with Rachel Pounds (Bolton Harriers) in 2nd place.
In the 2 mile fun run the race winners were Shaun Evans and Georgia Curry (both Royal Sutton). Georgia’s time of 13.47 was a course record – fantastic effort! Well done also to Kieran Mullis, Melissa Adkins, Lucy Corker (all Royal Sutton) and Tom Hurley who were age group winners in the fun run.
The results are available here:
Little Aston 5 fun run results – 2012
Little Aston 5 prizewinners – 2012
Thanks to everyone who helped out on the day to make it a really successful event. See you all again next year!
Video of our day with the Olympians
http://www.uka.org.uk/e-inspire/uka-tv-news-and-interviews/30-08-12-abgp-startrack/ Check out this link. You can see a write up and video of the wonderful day when Christine Ohuruogu, Greg Rutherford and Lawrence Clarke came to RSCAC. Some parents and crowd members even get a time on camera!
Photos from yesterday to buy
For those of you who maybe interested, Photographs from Greg Rutherford, Christine Ohuruogu and Lawrence Clarke’s visit are available on-line at:-
Best regards
Alan Spink
Olympians visit RSCAC!!!
WOW! What a day. I think we’ve all just about recovered from the excitement of yesterday. We were truly honoured to be visited by GB athletes Lawrence Clarke, Christine Ohuruogu and Greg Rutherford.
Startrack athletes impressed the Olympians with their athletic prowess, while Christine, Greg and Lawrence gave advice and encouragement to help them become Olympians of the future.
It was an amazing day. Through a question and answer session with the stars we found out that Greg plans to get selected for the GB 4 x 100m team in the future and he also thinks he might be able to beat Bolt! (At the long jump.) The athletes posed for many photos and gave loads of autographs; they really did everything they could to inspire those around them.
Thank you so much Christine, Greg and Lawrence. We’re all so grateful to you for giving up your time to come and see us. Best of luck for tomorrow’s Diamond League. And a big thanks to UK Athletics for selecting our club to host such an exciting event.
Midland Veterans T&F League – 1 August
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 full results are available here:
This was probably Maureen’s last competition as she will be moving to Scotland at the end of the month. Maureen, who went to three Olympics (1964, 1968 and 1972), has been a great servant to the club since joining as a Master/Veteran, winning many medals in the sprints whilst representing GB and RSCAC at World and European Masters Championships. She will be sorely missed. We wish her and Peter a wonderful time in Scotland.
Report by John Topliss
Royal Sutton Coldfield AC 
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