This is going to be a bumper edition with so much going on over the last few days.
We’ll start with some significant news in the throwing world. The bulk of our members are runners but we have some excellent field eventers and throwers, after all we are an athletics club with almost 60 years of history and a great record of producing Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth athletes who hurl things great distances. It appears the next one of that production line is Ethan Kendrick who pocketed a superb silver medal at the England Athletics U20 & Senior Championships in Bedford. Ethan threw a shiny new PB of 64.91 to take the runners up spot. Huge congratulations to Ethan, and also to Matt Sutton and Steve Pearson who spend hours coaching, it’s great to see the trios hours rewarded with a fantastic result.
Also in the throwing field, and to catch up on one I think we missed, there was a gold medal for Lee Thornton in the Midland Masters Throws Pentathlon Championships at a roasting hot Oxford. Lee finished on 2747 points, over 600 clear of his nearest rival to claim the top spot on the podium.
There was some track action at Birmingham University where they hosted the Ivy League match, featuring athletes from the universities of Pennsylvania and Cornell in the US against the best of Brum. Louise Hackett placed 4th over 3000m in 10.15.25, our very own Nacardo Lewis ran the 3rd leg in a victorious Birmingham University team in the 4 x 100m relay, clocking a total time of 43.36. There was more running in circles at the BMC meeting in Loughborough where Theo Ulfig placed 4th over 1500m in 4.18.53, and there was talk of athletes running at Trafford and Watford but having trawled through the results I can’t see that anyone took up that offer.
We had another Triangular League fixture where the younger charges pulled on the vest and did the club proud, we don’t have the final league positions yet but do have individual performances. Elijah Enwerem placed 1st in the U14B A 80m hurdles in 14.4, Shaylen Walsh was 4th in the U12G A 75m in 14.3, Ocean Schloss was 1st in the U12G B in 11.4, Matilda Cosnett was 5th in 12.7, in the U12G NS race over 75m Isla Gaunt placed 2nd in 12.3, Abigail Evans was 3rd in 13.0, and in the second NS race over the same distance Holly Doody placed 4th in 12.9, and in the third NS race Clara Edwards placed 2nd in 13.2, and in the fourth Olivia T was 3rd in 13.8. In the U12B A race over 75 metres Farrell Sogbesan was 2nd in 11.4, in the B race Jenson James-Bowen was 2nd in 11.9, in the NS races Samuel Worrall was 1st in 11.3, Teddy Walton placed 1st in 11.2, Isaac Heinke was 2nd in 11.5, Edison Bowden was 2nd in 11.9, Emmanuel Garacho was 3rd in 12.0, Joseph Blunt was 1st in 12.0. Over 50 metres Eli Hat placed 6th in 10.0 in the U10 race 1, in race 2 Noah Oxley was 3rd in 9.0, Archie Burch was 4th in 9.0, in race 3 Jude Martins was 2nd in 8.2, Adeline Aston was 3rd in 9.2, Luke Horton 4th in 9.8, in race 4 Phoebe Tett was 2nd in 9.2, Henry Storrie was 3rd in 9.4, Tejbir Gill was 6th in 11.2, and in race 5 Hugo D, Devonshire possibly, was 1st in 8.4, Louisa Evans placed 2nd in 8.7. Over 100m Syonne Hepburn placed 3rd in 15.6 in the U14G A race, in the B race Siobhan Hepburn placed 3rd in 16.0, Chloe Cashmore-Jones was 4th in 16.2, Abigail Wight was 5th in 17.4. In the NS races Isla Birch was 3rd in 16.3, Anaiya Patel was 4th in 16.0. In the U14B A race Tate-Blu Quintyne-Smith was 4th in 13.9, Elijah Enwerem was 2nd in 14.1 in the B race. Over 600m Phoebe Tett was 2nd in 2.14.6, Isabelle Bowden was 5th in 2.17.7, Louisa Evans was 7th in 2.23.1, Adeline Aston was 10th in 2.35.2 and Tejbir Gill was 12th in 2.51.7 in the U10G. In the U10B race over the same distance Henry Shaw was 1st in 2.04.2, Hugo D placed 2nd in 2.05.6, we have an unnamed athlete placing 5th in 2.16.1, Arhcie Burch was 8th in 2.18.5, Luke Horton was 9th in 2.20.6 and Eli Hat placed 12th in 2.35.0. In the U12G races over 600m Abigail Evans was 2nd in 1.56.9, Ocean Schloss was 4th in 1.57.4, Isla Gaunt was 6th in 2.05.2, and Holly Doody placed 3rd in 2.07.2, Clara Edwards was 4th in 2.07.5 and Olivia T was 8th in 2.21.4. In the U12B 600m Teddy Walton was 1st in 1.47.7, Joseph Blunt was 3rd in 1.59.8, Samuel Worrall was 4th in 2.00.3, and in a separate race Isaac Heinke was 1st in 1.53.1, Edison Bowden was 3rd in 2.01.5, Emmanuel Garacho was 5th in 2.04.2. Over 800m Chloe Cashmore-Jones was 2nd in 2.37.6, Amaiya Patel was 8th in 2.53.5, Isla Birch was 9th in 2.58.2 and Abigail Wight was 10th in 2.58.8 in the U14G, and in the U14B race Finley Anslow was 2nd in 2.28.3. Teams from the club placed 1st in 8.18.8 and 2nd in 9.00.2 in the 3 x 400m non-scoring walk relay. The club placed 3rd in 35.0 and 4th in 35.6 in the U12G 4 x 50m relay, in the U12B version the club were 2nd in 34.2 and 1st in 34.3. In the U14G 4 x 100m the club placed 4th in 65.6 and in the boys version placed 3rd in 57.3.
In the field events Tait-Blu Quintyne-Smith was 4th with 4.15 in the U14B long jump, George Shaw placed 10th in 3.80. Tom Rowbotham was 2nd in the U14B shot with 8.45, George Shaw was 4th with 5.68. Amber Hay won the U12G howler with 17.34. In the U12B long jump Farrell Sogbesan was 2nd in 3.62, Seth Owen-Stuart was 5th with 3.39, Jenson James-Bowen was 6th with 3.36. Shaylen Walsh was 8th clearing 1.00 and Siobhan Hepburn was 9th with 0.90 in the girls high jump. And in the U12B howler Seth Owen-Stuart was 6th with 27.90. In the U12G long jump Shaylen Walsh placed 8th with 2.78 and Amber hay was 9th with 2.75. In the boys high jump there was a win for Tate-Blu Quintyne-Smith with 1.38, Farrel Sogbesan was 3rd with 1.20, Seth Owen-Stuart was 5th with 1.15, Jenson James-Bowen was 9th with 1.00. In the U14B javelin George Shaw set a league record with a throw of 25.72 for 1st place, Tom Rowbotham was 3rd in 20.90, and finally in the U14G long jump the Hepburn girls placed 8th and 9th with Siobhan jumping 3.16 and Syonne 2.83.
We were on the tarmac with Paul Dean and Dave Newport at the A J Bell Great North 10k, where Paul clocked 37.37 to take 80th place and Dave ran 40.49 in 270th. And we were on the towpaths from Wolverhampton to Birmingham in the Birmingham, Black Country Half Marathon where Tony Cheema placed 27th in 1.33.30, just holding off the ladies race winner Megan Judge of Black Pear Joggers. Andy Horton placed 91st in 1.41.04 and Michelle Wilding placed 603rd in 2.09.57.
We were up in the hills too first in Buxton in Derbyshire where Dan Maskew took part in the Warslow Fell Race over 10k of steep technical ups and downs with 675 metres of ascent. Dan finished in 4th place in 59.49. We were also in Capel Curig in Wales where Jonny Morris took part in the Moel Siabod Fell Race over 8.7k and 700 metres of ascent, coming home in 3rd place in 52.49, taking the first senior spot as the two in front of him were under 23s. There was some midweek action closer to home in Shropshire for the Stiperstones Fell Race, advertised as a challenging 6.8k with 420 metres of climbing. Jonny was again at the sharp end, this time claiming the win in 29.47, Rob Sannwald-Dunn was 12th in 35.48, Paul Dean placed 20th in 38.26, and Craig Smith was 78th in 48.32.
And finally, in a race that appears under the heading of road and distance on Power of 10 but was more like a fell race was the Andy Holden 5k, part of a new 3 race series from Tipton Harriers. Racing, if that’s the right word, over the slopes of Baggeridge Country Park were Paul Rogers who came home in an impressive 25th place and 1st M60 in a time of 22.05 and Dave Norman who was 63rd and 3rd M55 in 25.45.
Dave Norman
