Club athletes excelled themselves at the Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire county championships last weekend. Across all of the age groups our athletes won 33 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze medals, setting new championship best performances in the process.

As Rob Andrew said on the Forum we get additional team points for providing officials at Young Athletes League matches. We had insufficient officials at Wavertree and lost 11 points as a result. Had we had an additional 3 officials we would have finished in 2nd place rather than in 3rd place in the match. At each match we need to provide:

2 Track Judges
2 Timekeepers
6 Field Judges (2 graded minimum)
 
Clubs are awarded 2 points per official (10 points max) plus an additional 5 points for full team of officials. Making a maximum 25 points that the officials can gain for the team. All three of our opponents at Wavertree got the maximum 25 points.

Andrea and Rob are the two graded Field Judges that we need. However, where we do need officials is as Timekeepers and Track Judges.

Can you please let Rob or Andrea know if you could help out by being an official at matches and I'm sure that we can organise someone to show you what to do at the next Young Athletes match on 18 May in Sheffield.

Many thanks to John Howley for organising the event and to all the other chaps who mashed the tea, compared, officiated etc, for a well run and successful event. Below are the results from the Jeff Ford Memorial Open Walks and the Festival track & field events.

Jessica Ennis threw 40.06m in the javelin, beating her PB for this event by almost 2 metres. Not bad considering how cold it was.

All Results (including amended time for athlete number 55 in the 800m)