NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE PREMIERSHIP, spherical 2, Woodford Inexperienced, London, July 7
Reigning champions Thames Valley Harriers had been aiming to regain the initiative on this second spherical match after being headed by close by rivals Harrow within the opener, however Woodford Inexperienced with Essex Women had been hoping to spoil the get together of their residence fixture.
Nonetheless, because the afternoon unfolded it grew to become clear that reigning Thames Valley would ultimately maintain sway.
After six occasions had been scored, primarily on the observe, they had been led by Blackheath & Bromley and Birchfield, for whom Jake Minshull gained the 400m hurdles in a private finest 50.47 to guide an occasion double. Birchfield Harriers additionally noticed Yanique Haye-Smith add the ladies’s race however they had been quickly to float straight away.
Blackheath’s factors got here from Angus Harrington, who took the 800m in 1:51.14 and, with the blustery wind pushing Luke Dorrell to a windy 100m PB of 10.24, the Heathens scored a double.
It was stronger for the ladies’s 100m, the place Blackheath piled up extra factors from Jennifer Eduwu’s win in 11.61, a time matched by team-mate Darcy Kuipers’ authorized private finest within the B race.
Blackheath nonetheless led after 10 occasions, albeit narrowly from Thames Valley, as first spherical winners Harrow trailed however they quickly posted their first win as Terry Fawden set a private finest 5:56.63 in successful the boys’s 2000m steeplechase. At this stage, simply three factors separated the remaining 5 golf equipment.
Hosts Woodford Inexperienced with Essex Women gained the primary area occasion, the ladies’s lengthy leap because of Mary Elcock’s private finest equalling 6.04m however then needed to wait a very long time earlier than Youcef Zatat added the boys’s shot put with 18.25m.
The boys’s 110m hurdles noticed Birchfield submit one other observe win via Will Richie-Moulin’s 13.99.
Windsor’s Charlotte Payne threw a season’s finest 68.97m within the girls’s hammer to move Thames Valley’s Kayleigh Presswell’s 62.59m and Glasgow had a win too, as Beth Harrison took the ladies’s 800m in 2:08.15.
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Charlotte Payne (Getty)
After 12 occasions Thames Valley had been now forward within the match as Blackheath and Harrow trailed they usually needed to thank their Kosana Weir who simply received the nod on Woodford’s Bea Wooden with a 9:27.25 3000m victory.
Harrow had been preventing again although as Marli Jessop ran a authorized 13.45 within the girls’s 100m hurdles, in order that because the afternoon wore on, the highest two golf equipment started to separate themselves from the remainder.
Three-time league winners Thames Valley opened out 41 factors over their conquerors within the first match and noticed Sarah-Anne De Kramer take the javelin with 45.26m and Lily Hulland the triple leap with a season’s finest 13.07m.
Glasgow was nicely out of it in fifth spot on the day however noticed Stephan MacKenzie win a detailed lengthy leap with 7.49m.
Windsor too weren’t difficult for a match win however had Phoebe Dowson take the ladies’s discus with a 54.10m season’s finest, as second positioned Jade Lally additionally threw a 2024 finest with 53.64m. There was additionally a season’s finest for Windsor’s Jake Norris within the males’s hammer at 76.71m.
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After their early successes, Birchfield weren’t doing so nicely however bounced again when Efekemo Okoro gained a keenly contested males’s 400m in 46.72 and their Amy Hillyard the ladies’s in 53.58.
These wins weren’t sufficient to see the Stags transfer up however there was one other for English Nationwide junior cross-country champion Aron Gebremariam within the 1500m with 3:50.36.
Late on the wins saved coming for Thames Valley as they started to stretch out their lead on Harrow as India Weir gained a good 1500m from their rival’s Suzannah Monk in 4:24.15.
Climate situations had been tough however a authorized following wind labored to the benefit of the Valley’s Muhammad Kounta’s 20.81 200m private finest.
However Harrow fought again as Pleasure Eze’s girls’s win in 23.46 was additionally a private finest with the wind once more simply contained in the restrict.
Nonetheless the Thames Valley wins got here and their banker Amelia Campbell’s 16.92m season’s finest was sufficient to take the ladies’s shot.
The wind additionally had an have an effect on on the boys’s triple leap however within the absence of any recognized wind speeds there have been 4 over 15-metres led by the evergreen Tosin Oke for Woodford at 15.64m.
With the match all however determined, the hosts additionally added the ultimate occasion of the observe programme as in one other novel improvement it featured A and B strings in a combined 4x400m relay.
At this level with just a few area occasion outcomes nonetheless to be added to the factors whole, Thames Valley nonetheless led Harrow by 46 factors, however then first match winners’ Conor Martin took the boys’s javelin with a private finest 66.57m.
This was from Windsor’s Paralympian Dan Pembroke with 65.48m.
One of many final occasions to declare noticed Thames Valley additional improve their lead within the match because of second ranked under-23 Nemiash Munir’s 4.12m season’s finest within the girls’s pole vault. With a pb of 4.15m, the bar was raised to 4.22m however no new mark was achieved.
With one match win every, Thames Valley and Harrow go into the ultimate match on the third of August to resolve the championship.
Match: 1 TVH 612.5; 2 Harrow 561.5; 3 B&B 452.5; 4 WG&EL 448; 5 Glasgow 437; 6 WSEH 419; 7 Sale 375.5; 8 Birchfield 314
Males
100 (2.9): 1 L Dorrell (B&B) 10.24; 2 N Walsh (Sale) 10.35; 3 H Taylor (Harr) 10.37
200 (1.8): 1 M Kounta (TVH) 20.81; 2 L Dorrell (B&B) 2085; 3 J Broome (Sale) 21.09
400: 1 E Ekoro (Bir) 46.72; 2 D Putnam (B&B) 46.92; 3 A Cooper (Harr) 47.34
800: 1 A Harrington (B&B) 1:51.14; 2 J Owen (WG&EL) 1:52.85; 3 L Cotterill (WSEH) 1:53.84
1500: 1 A Gebremariam (Bir, u20) 3;50.36; 2 B Potrykus (WGEL) 3:51.51; 3eq A Milligan (Harr)/B Rock (TVH) 3:55.71
3000: 1 J Kavanagh (B&B) 8:18.12; 2 J Doye (WG&EL) 8:29.56; 3 C Hudson (Harr) 8:29.89
110H (no W): 1 W Richie-Moulin (Bir) 13.99; 2 S Connal (Glas) 14.20; 3 R Cottell (B&B) 14.35
400H: 1 J Minshull (Bir) 50.47; 2 B Francis (Glas) 51.79; 3 S Clarke (TVH) 51.92
2000SC: 1 T Fawden (Harr) 5:56.63; 2 J Kicera (TVH) 5:59.83; 3 V Weerakkody (WG&EL) 6:18.77
HJ: J Clarke-Khan (TVH) 2.12
LJ: 1 S MacKenzie (Glas) 7.49; 2 J Lelliott (Harr) 7.44; 3 M Fotheringham (Glas) 7.45
TJ: 1 T Oke (WG&EL, M40) 15.64; 2 S Okome (Sale) 5.45; 3 J Aki Sawyer (WSEH) 15.04
PV: 1 T Walley (Sale) 5.02; 2 J Phipps (Bir) 4.82; 3 A mCfarlane (Glas) 4.62
SP: 1 J Zatat (WG&EL) 18.25; 2 A Lockhart (Harr) 15.60; 3 D Claydon (B&B) 15.27
DT: 1 D Claydon (B&B) 51.27; 2 A Peck (Glas) 48.36; 3 M Plowman (WG&EL) 47.79
HT: 1 J Norris (WSEH) 76.71; 2 J Paget (TVH) 68.53; 3 T Campbell (WSEH) 65.26
JT: 1 C Martin (Harrow) 66.67; 2 D Pembroke (WSEH) 65.48; 3 C Evans (TVH) 63.00
4×100: 1 TVH 40.79; 2 B&B 40.80; 3 WG&EL 40.88
Ladies
100 (3.3): 1 J Eduwu (B&B) 11.61; 2 E Modeste (TVH) 11.65; 3 P Akpe-Moses (Bir) 11.71
200 (1.9): 1 J Eze (Harr) 23.46; 2 F Aginbileje (B&B, U20) 23.63; 3 Okay Dubarry-Homosexual (WG&EL) 23.90
400: 1 A Hillyard (Bir) 53.58; 2 Z Clark (TVH) %4.42; 3 R Greve (WGEL, U20) 55.20
800: 1 B Ansell (Glas) 2:08.15; 2 A Svihalkova (TVH) 2:10.09; 3 C Sharp (B&B) 2:10.17
1500: 1 I Weir (TVH) 4:23.72; 2 S Monk (Harr) 4;24.15; 3 C Buckley (TVH) 4:27.03
3000: 1 Okay Weir (TVH) 9:27.25; 2 B Wooden (WG&EL) 9:27.79; 3 Okay Olding (TVH) 9:44.68
110H (1.4): 1 M Jessop (Harr) 13.45; 2 A Broadbest-Blake (TVH, W35) 13.95; 3 F Docherty (Sale, U20) 13.97
400H: 1 Y Haye-Smith (Bir) 59.18; 2 O Brennan (WSEH) 59.73; 3 S Elliss (B&B) 60.26
2,000SC: 1 A Barbour (WSEH)6:48.72; 2 S Stoddart (Glas) 7:15.45; 3 A Paton (Glas) 7:16.86
HJ: 1 B Coulson (Bir) 1.72; 2 P Rogan (TVH) 1.67; 3 R Burrell (Bor) 1.62
LJ: 1 M Elcock (WG&EL) 6.04; 2 D Snell (B&B, U20) 5.91; 3 C Nwafor (TVH, U20) 5.88
TJ: 1 L Hulland (TVH) 13.07; 2 A Omitowoju (Harr) 12.55; 3 M Elcock (WG&EL) 12.46
PV: 1 N Munir (TVH) 4.12; 2 S Barbour (Glas) 3.92; 3 M Bailey (Harr) 3.72
SP: 1 A Campbell (TVH) 16.92; 2 C Agyepong (B&B, U20) 15.09; 3 M Joseph (Harr) 13.63
DT: 1 P Dowson (WSEH) 54.10; 2 J Layy (TVH, W35) 53.64; 3 Z Obamakinwa (B&B) 52.50
HT: 1 C Payne (WSEH) 68.97; 2 Okay Presswell (TVH) 62.59; 3 P Wingate (TVH) 56.56
JT: 1 S De Kramer (TVH) 45.26; 2 R Burrell (Bir) 42.53; 3 L O’Dell (Harr) 41.81
4×100: 1 Harrow 45.63; 2 WG&EL 45.61; 3 TVH 47/08
Combined 4×400: 1 WG&EL) 3:23.53; 2 TVH 3:25.01; 3 Harrow 3:25.60
Standings after 2 matches: 1 Thames Valley 11 (1217.5); Harrow 15 (1207.5); 3 WSEH 9 (882.5); 4eq Glasgow 9 (873); 4eq WG&EL 9 (873); 6 Blackheath & Bromley 7 (797.5); 7 Birchfield 4 (702); 8 Sale 4 (747); 8
NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP NORTH, spherical 3, Bedford, July 7
Sheffield and Trafford got here into this third-round match virtually assured that they’d contest the Premiership qualifier after every successful one of many earlier matches, whereas hosts Bedford & County needed to try to make up for 2 earlier poor outcomes.
All of that occurred as Trafford and Sheffield now go to the Premiership knock out and hosts Bedford did enhance to 3rd on the day.
Trafford and Sheffield had been tied on league factors after the primary two matches and Sheffield gained the 400m hurdles via Ben Schofield in 53.1, however Trafford held sway right here successful by 77 factors to take the lead after three matches.
They then adopted up with Callum Winchester-Wright successful the boys’s 100m in 10.72 and Leone Ashmeade the ladies’s in 11.88.
Nisha Desai added the ladies’s first occasion for Trafford the place there have been solely two match runners out of a attainable 12 however her membership led after 5 occasions had been scored.
In a good males’s 800m Notts’ Nairobi Smith-Mills squeezed residence forward of Trafford’s Joe Hudak however takers had been few within the girls’s two-lapper the place Trafford scored via Kate Meeson.
Trafford nonetheless led after 11 occasions had been scored and, in a poorly supported males’s 2000m steeplechase junior Joe Daly simply got here out on high in a gradual race.
Sheffield had countered with Alice Barnsdale taking the ladies’s hammer with 60.55m and William Lane the pole vault with 4.82m however Emily Madden-Forman had a 1.72m clearance within the excessive leap for Trafford as Sam Danson gained the boys’s lengthy leap with a authorized 7.24m.
Sheffield saved attempting with a double led by Henry Curtis within the 110m hurdles with 14.87m towards a breeze and Kaya Walker the boys’s excessive leap with a 2.02m clearance.
Liverpool had been having a lean day till Jade Morgan gained the ladies’s 5000m in 17:25.14 and Nick Wedderman narrowly gained the boys’s discus with 52.31m from Sheffield’s Chiks Osammor’s 52.19m. Emma Alderson then added the ladies’s 400m for the Merseysiders in 56.43.
Notts had challenged within the first two matches however ended up fourth right here however did have Imogen Smith win the ladies’s Pole vault with 3.72m and Milan Campion the boys’s 3000m
Each hosts Bedford and Milton Keynes whose Lateefah Agberem gained the ladies’s lengthy leap after which triple with a windy 13.10m as crew mate James Ericsson-Nicholls added the boys’s hammer had been placing on a greater present right here.
Bedford then had junior Jasmine Wilkins win the ladies‘s 200m in 24.18
Because the afternoon drew to a detailed Trafford took each 1500m races with Kate Meeson the ladies’s in 4:44.92. and a double within the girls’s javelin led by junior Neve Davenport’s 41.67m. They additional stretched their lead as Sagesse Nguie gained the boys’s 200m in 21.18 and had two of the one three runners within the girls’s steeplechase gained by Bethany Reid.
Match: 1 Trafford 551; 2 Sheffield 474; 3 Bedford & C 402; 4 Notts 354; 5 Liverpool 319; 6 Milton Keynes 275
Standings after 3 matches: 1 Trafford 17 (1687); 2 Sheffield 16 (1647); 3 Notts 10 (1402); 4 Liverpool 10 (1276); 5 Bedford & County 7 (850); 6 Milton Keynes 4 (663)
NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SOUTH, spherical 3, Kingston, Surrey, July 7
Kingston & Polytechnic performed hosts at The Weir Archer Centre as Tonbridge continued their seemingly simple march on to the Knockout spherical and the Kent primarily based outfit took good early factors within the opening two area occasions the ladies’s lengthy leap and hammer.
Crawley led the early factors rely from Tonbridge and Belgrave, because of Adam Dray’s 800m led in a double victory and Mia O’Hara’s 12.57 girls’s 100m clocking earlier than Matthew Grindrod added the steeplechase and Callum Holder the excessive hurdles.
Hosts Kingston scored a few early wins because of Joely Bytheway’s 400m hurdles and Tom White’s 10.96 100m and later had Kira Holt lead a double within the 100m hurdles.
After 11 occasions Tonbridge had assumed the match led from Belgrave, whose Chinedu Okereke gained the boys’s lengthy leap with 6.51m.
Bournemouth had been final right here however that they had received in on the successful act with Emily Area’s 2:12.35 800m earlier than Brian Webb took the boys’s excessive leap with 2.10m.
There was a giant flip round within the match by midafternoon, after 30 occasions had been scored, as Belgrave opened out a 75-point benefit and had had a double within the girls’s 5000m led by Felicity Harrison as they had been the one two runners and the ladies’s 400m via junior Arabella Wilson’s 56.60.
This was over Crawley with Tonbridge the run-away victors within the first two matches a detailed third, regardless of a double win from their Kirsty-Anne Ebbage within the girls’s hammer and discus. Tonbridge additionally gained the boys’s discus and 400m with modest performances and Bronwyn Yeandle the ladies’s pole vault with a 3.53m clearance earlier than Lewis Church took the boys’s shot.
In a gentle males’s 1500m Crawley had Adam Dray take the race however Belgrave piled up extra factors with second and third. Crawley added extra factors after Katie Mackison’s girls’s javelin win with 44.65m as James Pratt’s 59.26m within the males’s occasion gave them a double.
Hugo Hewitt within the males’s 3000m and junior Amelia Cox in one other poorly supported occasion the ladies’s 1500m steeplechase, boosted the Crawley tally.
Hosts Kingston & Poly posted a win within the girls’s 1500m via Rebecca Keddie’s 4:38.78, but it surely was Belgrave who got here out on high after two relay wins, together with the brand new 4x400m combined remaining occasion on the observe.
They now go to the Premiership knockout match with Tonbridge. Nonetheless, the winners didn’t current a competitor in two of the occasions. In distinction, final placers Metropolis of Portsmouth missed out on greater than 1 / 4 of the poit scoring alternatives.
Match: 1 Belgrave 548; 2 Tonbridge 491; 3 Crawley 465; 4 Kingston & Poly 389; 5 Bournemouth 342; 6 Portsmouth 299
Standings after two matches: 1 Tonbridge 17 (1744); 2 Belgrave 15 (1574); 3 Crawley 10 (1355); 4 Portsmouth 9 (1232); 5 Kingston & Poly 8 (1172); 6 Bournemouth 4 (1013)
NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP WEST, spherical 3, Yeovil, Somerset, July 7
The Invoice Whistlecroft Stadium at Yeovil once more noticed Swansea make the journey throughout the Severn Bridge, as fellow Welshmen Cardiff battled with Yate and Basingstoke & Mid Hants to find out the second spot within the mini-league.
Nonetheless, as Swansea ran out match winners, it was solely by 12 factors over their rivals however Yate slipped up badly in a good scoring match.
The 2 Welsh golf equipment had been scoring nicely early on and, after eight occasions had been tallied it was Swansea forward of Cardiff, whose Jacob Reynolds gained the 800m.
Swansea noticed Emily Jenkinson take the ladies’s 800m and Stanislav Kivalenko the boys’s 100m in a authorized 10.57.
Cardiff’s Rebecca Chapman gained the primary area occasion on the programme, the ladies’s lengthy leap with 5.52m as Swansea gained the ladies’s hammer with Zoe Dakin after membership mate Jack Houghton had taken the opening observe 400m hurdles.
Yate had been additionally urgent for qualification to the knock out and Lily Bailey led a double within the girls’s excessive leap with 1.62m and the boys’s hammer with Toby Conibear, however their quest proved to be in useless.
Nonetheless, they wheeled out UK third ranked under-17 pole-vaulter Arisa Burgess, who gained the occasion with 3.32m however she was one among solely three, from a attainable dozen opponents within the occasion as their Katie Robbins gained the 400m with 56.91.
Hosts Yeovil received in on the successful act early too as Ellen Barber gained the ladies’s 100m in 12.14 they usually had been one among solely two golf equipment to enter anyone within the males’s 2000m steeplechase and, after 15 occasions had been battling with Cardiff for second within the match over 40 factors behind Swansea, who had Jacob Edghill win the lengthy leap with 6.42m. and Jake Cowl the excessive hurdles.
Yeovil’s Roberto Lopez-Smith added the boys’s pole vault with 4.62m and Lottie Garratt the ladies’s triple leap with 11.44m, however Cardiff had Lauren Cooper win the ladies’s 5000m with 16:53.97 however there have been solely 5 runners as an alternative of a dozen right here.
Because the afternoon wore on the scores tightened regardless of Swansea’s Jake Cowl taking the excessive hurdles towards a wind in 14.97, junior Evan Cole the excessive leap and Phoebe Brown the ladies’s javelin with 40.61m.
Junior Kinga Kudzia saved Swansea’s wins coming within the 200m with 25.12 however Cardiff’s Luke Hamley gained the 3000m.
Yeovil had loved a sequence of modest wins however they closed the sector occasion programme with high ranked under-20 Ben Jones successful the boys’s javelin with a better of 62.27m.
Southampton had few vivid spots however they did win the boys’s 400m because of Jack Higgins’ 47.68.
On the finish on the observe Cardiff gained the ladies’s steeple with Lauren Cooper’s second victory and two relays to Swansea’s one and it was throughout with the 2 Welsh golf equipment progressing to the Premiership qualifier.
Match: 1 Swansea 499; 2 Cardiff 487; 3 Yeovil 462; 4 Southampton 416; 5 Basingstoke & Mid Hants 361; 6 Yate 348
Standings after two matches: 1 Swansea 18 (1718.50); 2 Cardiff 13 (1471); 3 Basingstoke & Mid Hants 10 (1241.50); 4 Yate 9 (1323); 5 Yeovil 8 (1222); 6 Southampton 6 (1141)
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