Track and Field Round Up

Tuesday, 29 May 2007

A number of our athletes have been in action over the past couple of weeks in the Northern Athletics Championships, Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Championships and CAU Inter Counties Championships. In the Northern Athletics Championships our club's only event winner was Mukhtar Mohammed who won the U17M 800m in a time of 1:56.72, a new club record. In the U17M 3000m Abdi Risak Ahmed finished in second place in a time of 8:50.48. Hannah Brightmore finished just outside the medals in fourth place in the U17W triple jump. However, in the Debyshire County Championships Hannah won the U17W triple jump with a distance of 10.5m. Paul Ttereve took gold in the senior men's 100m and bronze in the veteran men's 100m with a time of 13.0 seconds in both before winning silver in the veteran men's 200m. In the senior men's discus Daniel Brunt won with a throw of 43.86m. In the Nottinghamshire County Championships Tesni Ward (U17W) won two golds and one silver in the javelin, discus and shot putt repectively. Jessica Witton took gold in the U20W 400m and bronze in the 200m. Steven Connolly won gold in the U20M discus while brothers Luke and Thomas Peters both won medals in the javelin. Luke took gold in the U17M and Thomas silver in the U13B. In the CAU Inter Counties Championships on 26 May Gerald Phiri retained his senior 100m title, clocking 10.66 into a 0.7 metres per second head wind. Charlie Kavanagh finished seventh in the 110m hurdles while Jamie Williamson finished third in the shot putt with Daniel Brunt behind him in fifth. In the women's 3K walk, Rebecca Mersh came home in third place with Kathryn Grainger in fourth.

 

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