We’ll start this week’s update with some track & field action in the Staffordshire County Championships at Stoke where Tom Warrender made his long-awaited return to action placing 4th in the 5000 for Senior Men in 17.00. In the U14 100 there was a win for Ava Robinson in 13.03, Samantha Agomoh won the U16F 100 in 12.16, with Thillana Owen placing 3rd in 13.00. Aupromeyo Mukherjee won the U16M 100 in 11.57, Shae McIntosh was 3rd in 12/08, and Tyann Mahey placed 6th in 13.00. Leo Norris was 3rd in the U18M 100 in 11.33. There was a silver medal to La-Taunya Samuels in the Senior 100 clocking 12.10. in the longer sprints over 200 Samantha made it a double on the day winning the U16F in 24.51, Thillina claimed another bronze medal with 27.20, Aupro also bagged another gold winning in 24.80, and there was another double in the U20s age group with Leo Norris picking up a gold, clocking 22.77, La-Taunya also pocketed her second medal, upgrading her 100 silver into a 200 gold with a time of 25.40.Ethan Kendrick won the U20M hammer with a throw of 59.36, he has been selected to represent GB & NI at the forthcoming Loughborough International meeting which demonstrates how far he has come and the work put in by both Ethan and his coach, Matt Sutton. Rocco Hawley placed 7th in the U16M 1500 in a time of 4.52.78.
In the Worcestershire Championships there was superb gold medal for Jude Martins in the U10 quadrathlon, he recorded 49.00m for event 1, 8.08 in event two, 24.42 to win the howler, Jude was 2nd in the 400 in 1.17.10, had another 2nd place in the long jump recording 1.73, only 6 cms behind 1st place. The called it a quadrathlon but appear to have five events, still a Worcestershire County Champion is still a Worcestershire County Champion. And in the 3000 walk Ema Hurbanova was 1st U18 covering the distance in 21.01.77 and Amie Thursfield was 1st U16 stopping the clock in 21.06.09.
There was some road race action at the Market Drayton 10 where Dan Maskew was first home for the club in 7th place clocking 34.56, Andy Jarvis finished in 39.40 in 60th place, Lee Wright came home in 97th place in 41.28, Louise Webster was 14th female and 460 overall in 50.53, and Christine Smith crossed the line in 1.29.47 in 1680th place. Over the 5k distance there was a 5th place finish for Natalie Griffiths, placing 39th overall in 21.49 in the Middlewich 5k.
There was some action of the University track in Birmingham on Wednesday where Tammy Saunders won her heat of the women’s 200 in 24.75, Lucie Tait-Harris was 6th over 800 in 2.39.12, Nahum Worrall placed 5th in a PB of 2.18.45, Gary Worrall was 3rd in 2.09.64, Jonathan Yang was 6th in 2.07.11, a PB in his heat. Over 1500 there was a 7th place for Theo Ulfig in 4.25.69 and a 10th place finish and a PB for Rocco Hawley in 4.27.03.
Talking of universities our collegiate cousin in Michigan, Louise Hackett, took part in the Len Paddock Open where she placed 2nd in the 3000 in 9.53.04 and ran a leg of the 4 x 400 relay team who placed 2nd, running around 62 seconds for the second leg as the squad finished in 4.03.51.
And in the Shropshire fells there was an 18th place finish for Paul Dean in the Caradoc Classic, over 5.6k and including 286 metres of ascent, all for £7. Paul crossed the line in a time of 30.02.
Dave Norman
