Despite a lot of injury issues over the course of the season the women’s team finished 13th overall in the league. A strong final fixture saw Nicole Frith finish in 11th, Petra Vymetalova 62nd, Sarah Sheppard 73rd and Jo Wilkie completed the scoring team in 96th. Hannah Randall, Lucy Goode, Angela Pippard and Clare Hawling also all ran fantastically, being vital in the B team and Masters Teams.
The men’s team had a consistent season and fought hard throughout to ensure they remained in Division 2 next year. In the final fixture Robert Finch led them home in 30th, with Harrison Miles close behind in 38th. All Daitt finished in 57th, Matt Dwerryhouse was 67th and Cameron White was 82nd. Completing the scoring team was Andy Gore in 98th, the only member of the team to compete in all 4 fixtures this year – no wonder he made club history this year becoming the Harrier to have competed in the most Birmingham Leagues. 113!!
Andrew Kaighin, Ross Swain, Phil Turbard, Kevin Goodwill, Ian Giles and Michael Ede all ran superbly to form the B team
]]>In the first race of the day Jess Bailey came out on top winning the U11 girls category by 10 seconds. In the U11 boys race Joseph Bradshaw produced his best race of the season finishing 2nd, an improvement of 14 places on his previous top finish!
Moving up to the U13 race it was another victory for Jack Shingler, securing himself the overall league title in style. Sebastian Heath ran well to make it two Harriers in the top 3 with a 3rd place finish. Ivy Wightman also secured league victory with a 2nd place finish in the U13 girls race.
We had two 2nd place finishes in the U15 category with Oliver Wilson and Scarlett Eagland both producing superb runs.
Our U17 men and women impressed with Erin Musty taking 1st and Tom Wightman and Maddie Thomson both finishing in 3rd.
Steph Lane and Harrison Miles led the men and women home as 3rd Senior Lady and 23rd Senior Man respectively. There were plenty more top three finishes in our senior races too. Sarah Sheppard was 2nd L40, Milly Foster took 3rd U20, Clare Hawling was 1st L60, Michael Eded finished 3rd M65, Heath Bampton was 2nd M55, Andy Gore 3rd M50 and Martin Foster was 1st M45.
Congratulations to all our athletes on a fantastic season!!
]]>Anyone from the club who is interested – either an existing or potential race organiser – can find a brief overview of such a course at Race Directors – England Athletics.
]]>Aidan John made it into the sem-final of the U17 60m with a club record equalling performance of 7.10. Impressively Aidan then equalled the club record a second time in the semi-final – the club record (set in 1996!) is definitely living on borrowed time now!
Oliver Marchant also competed in the U17 60m running well to finish 5th in his heat in 7.50. Oscar Beattie produced a big PB in the heats of the U17 200m, his time of 23.12 knocked 0.38 off his previous best and qualified him for the semi-final. In the semi-final Oscar backed up his performance with his second fastest time ever 23.16!
Bexley Turbard competed in the U20 pole vault and produced a seasons best clearance of 3.90 for 13th.
]]>Sulaiman was competing in day one of the Scottish combined events champs where he also ran 7.54 for the 60m, jumped 6.45 in the long jump and threw 11.19 in the shot put
]]>The club had two gold medalists;
- Sam Wilson in the senior boys race won by 17 seconds
- Jack Shingler in the junior boys race took victory by 14 seconds
There were also 3rd place finishes for Patrick Paul in the inter boys category and Erin Musty in the senior girls competition.
On top of this 5 more athletes made the top 10! Full Harrier results below:
- Senior Boys – Sam Wilson 1st, Ben Yates 29th, Daniel Norris 34th
- Inter Boys – Patrick Paul 3rd, Tom Wightman 12th, Jack Pennell 13th, Rhys Haines 50th
- Junior Boys – Jack Shingler 1st, Alistair Spurr 6th, Monty Wilkins 46th
- Minor Boys – Benjamin Lewis 8th
- Senior Girls- Erin Musty 3rd, Harriet Smith 34th, Milly Foster 51st, Kate Agobar 53rd
- Inter Girls – Maddie Thomson 6th, Jessica Sheppard 23rd
- Junior Girls – Ellie Thomson 8th, Ivy Wightman 14th, Rosie Atkins 20th, Kimberley Hodgkinson 24th
- Minor Girls – Eliza Nolan 4th, Niamh Pettingell 51st
Senior sprinters Conrad Beard, Sophie Temple and Kirstie Constable competed in the 60m with all three of them making it through the heats to the finals. Conrad’s best time of 7.92 lowered his PB by 0.28. Sophie Temple also ran below 8 seconds for the first time with a superb PB of 7.91 and Kirstie Constable was in seasons best form with 8.56.
U15 Isla Harvey competed in the 60m and 60m hurdles. Isla won her hurdles heat in a PB of 9.92 before lowering it further in the final with a time of 9.81. She then ran her 3rd PB of the day in the 60m with a brilliant 8.81.
U20s Bexley Turbard and James Pound competed in the pole vault. Bexley cleared a seasons best of 3.78 and James jumped to a new PB of 3.58.
]]>Alastair Mackie broke the club’s U13 indoor 60m record running 9.10 in Cardiff last month. The previous record of 9.52 had stood for 22 years!!
Phenomenal start to the year, how much quicker will Alastair go?! ]]>
(It should also be noted that Kaitlyns time is also below the outdoor club 3000m record by 7 seconds.)
Kaitlyn has also run 4:43.22 for the mile indoors last month, while no official indoor mile record exists for the club this is a massive 9 seconds below the outdoor record so can assumed to be a club best!
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