Happy Birthday this week to Rebecca Andreou, Chloe Brassey, Adam Carpenter, Ella Collier, Ugochi Ekpecham, Charlie Etame, Oje Etome, Tony Henry, Dean Oamen, Mariana Toma, Ethan Walsh, Rick Ward, Paul Williamson, Murray Wilson

COMMONWEALTH GAMES TEAM ANNOUNCEMENTS – Congratulations to the following Shaftesbury Athletes who have been selected for the following teams – GUERNSEY – KYLIE ROBILLIARD (100m Hurdles), JERSEY – ZANE DUQUEMIN (Discus and Shot) and SHADINE DUQUEMIN (Discus), NORTHERN IRELAND – ZOE BROWN (Pole Vault) and DEMPSEY MCGUIGAN (Hammer), SCOTLAND – BETH POTTER (5000m and 10000m), ALLAN SMITH U23 (High Jump), DAVID SMITH (High Jump), GREGOR MACLEAN (Pole Vault), ANGUS MCINROY (Discus), NICK PERCY U23 (Discus), RACHEL HUNTER U23 (Hammer), CHRIS BENNETT (Hammer), GEMMA NICOL (4 x 400m Relay) and KRIS ROBERTSON (4 x 400m Relay).

The ENGLAND has been selected, but still to be published.

EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS – Congratulations to ZANE DUQUEMIN (Shot), YAMILE ALDAMA (Triple Jump) and JADE LALLY (Discus) have been selected to represent Great Britain & Northern Ireland in the European Team Championships which is being held in Braunschweig, Germany on 21-22 June.

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Happy Birthday this week to Sunny Adepegba, Kelly Bramhald, Georgina Emanuel, Oje Etomi, Betty Forde, George Grant, Gemma Harper, Andrew Holmes, Ailis McGovern, Shana Miller, Anna Pachla, Kylie Robilliard, Darryl Stone, Steffi Wilson

KRIS ROBERTSON – Congratulations to KRIS who was a member of the Scotland 4 x 400m Relay squad that achieved the Commonwealth Games qualification standard of 3:04.5 in Belgium.

ZOE BROWN – Congratulations to ZOE who vaulted a personal best 4.32m in the Welsh Championships in Cardiff on 1 June, and broken her own Club Record of 4.30m which she set in Tullamore, Ireland on 22 July 2012. Not jumping the gun but ZOE has achieved the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games standard off 4.20m, so watch this space when the team is announced next week. ZOE competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where she finished 12th (4.00m), and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester where she finished 7th (3.90m). Prior to this she competed in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a gymnast. Photograph taken at Cardiff attached

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Happy Birthday this week to Dick Bober, Sophie Bowen, Zoe Cavendish, Richard Charles, Ojie Edoburun, Caitlin Halbard, Thomas Hufton, Maayan Radus, Nicola Rogers, Sophia Staab

BETH POTTER – Congratulations to BETH who achieved the Commonwealth Games Scotland qualification standard for the 5000m, she ran a personal best 15:40.79 in the BMC Grand Prix at Watford on 17 May 

COUNTY CHAMPIONS – Congratulations to the following winners – BEDFORDSHIRE – DEREECE O’CALLAGHAN U20 (400m), EAVION RICHARDSON U17 (Long Jump) – BERKSHIRE – REBECCA KEATING U20 (Hammer) – DORSET – STEFFI WILSON U23 (100m and 200m), GABRIELLE ROWSELL U23 (Long Jump), ANDREW ELKINS U23 (Hammer) – HERTFORDSHIRE – JESSICA HURLEY U15 (300m), ADAM SHIRET U15 (800m), JAMIE DEE U17 (800m), MIA GROOM U13 (1500m), FINN HARVEY U13 (1500m), MATTHEW HALL U20 110m Hurdles), MATTHEW LALLY U17 (High Jump), YASMIN LAKIN U20 (Long Jump and Triple Jump), FIONA MCQUIRE U17 (2nd Claim Triple Jump, Shot and Discus), MICHAEL MILLER U15 (Javelin)  –  KENT – LUCY UNDERDOWN (Discus) – MIDDLESEX – GEORGIA BELL U23 (400m), LILY BECKFORD U20 (2nd Claim 400m), RACHEL CARTER U15 (75m Hurdles), GEORGE GRANT U17 (Pole Vault), DEAN OAMEN U20 (Triple Jump), IZAIAH TURNER U20 (2nd Claim Discus), DEMPSEY MCGUIGAN U23 (Hammer), FELLAN MCGUIGAN U20 (Hammer) – OXFORDSHIRE – TARA KAFKE (HCA 400m) – SUSSEX – LOUISA JAMES U23 (Hammer) – WARWICKSHIRE – ROMEO SITHOLE (HCA) (High Jump), ETHAN WALSH U20 (Pole Vault), JO BLAIR (HCA Javelin).

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Happy Birthday this week to Jack Cobb, Elby Cinnamond, Liam Dee, Andrew Elkins, Richard Horton, Shalman Igbokwe, Ashok Mathur, Callum McCormick, Claire Miles, Ruairi McElhatton.

GREGOR MACLEAN – Congratulations to Gregor who has been selected to represent Scotland in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, following his personal best 5.45m in the Pole Vault at the British Athletic League match in Cardiff on 10 May.

NEW CLUB RECORD – Congratulations to KYLE LANGFORD who lowered the 800m Under 20 record, running 1:47.41 at the BMC Grand Prix at Watford on 17 May, and was also a UKA World Junior Qualification time. The previous record was 1:48.30 set by RICHARD CHARLES in Manchester on 1 June 2013.

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Happy Birthday this week to Abigail Bach, Dave Bradley, Sophie Brassey, Matti Brooks, Mohamed Charkaoui-Essouni, Sophie Connor, Conor Homer, Rebecca Hurley, Georgie Marlborough, Robert Pick, Michail Stamatoyiannis, Lucy Underdown

JIM CUNNINGHAM 1934-2014 – It is with regret that we announce the death of our Dad, Jim. Amongst other things he had a life committed to family and athletics. He concentrated on middle distance and cross country and he joined Shaftesbury Harriers in 1951. He was Club Captain for five years and also a Club 9 mile champion. Later he became a Life Member and President of the club. He was a AAA qualified coach and started coaching young athletes when we joined Shaftesbury in 1972/3. Even in his late 60’s and early 70’s he was still coaching young athletes at Copthall on a Sunday morning.  He remained active until recently, competing in the local park run two years ago.

Andrew and Phil.

On a personal note I joined the club in February 1984, and it was not long after that I competed in my first Metropolitan League race. Jim came over to me ready for the race and gave me what he thought should be my race plan, “Just follow me”. Unfortunately I did not heed his advice, after the race we shook hands and this was the start of a long friendship.

Jim & I crossed swords on many occasions, especially at the Metropolitan League fixtures. Jim had competed in 33 races, starting on 19 December 1981 at Parliament Hill Fields and his last race was on 9 October 2004 at Ruislip. My last race against Jim was on 20 October 1994 at Welwyn Garden City which turned out to be the closest finish we ever had, and I passed him on the run in finishing in 205th place with Jim two places back. He certainly bent my ear after the race saying he never saw me coming as “his glasses were steamed up”, we shook hands and later enjoyed a cup of tea in the clubhouse.

Over the past few years Jim has e-mailed me on many occasions expressing how he enjoys reading the weekly newsletter, and some of his suggestions I was only too pleased to include.

For any of Jim’s friends who wish to attend his funeral, it is on Wednesday 21st May at 11.30am at St Mary Magdalen Church, Whetstone and then at Hendon Crematorium at 1.00pm.  A reception will be held at North Middlesex Golf Club, Friern Barnet Lane. Family flowers only.  If wished, donations to North London Hospice or Macmillan.

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Happy Birthday this week to Sabrina Bakare, Chloe Edwards, Linda Elmore, Nathan Gammon, Chloe Goodson, Bilal Hasna, Joe Ive, Harshil Joshi, Leo Kaye, Noah Kaye, Kiran Kuri, Harry Kyriacou, Paul Laslett, Jenny Poll, Dominic Toolan, Carolina Weatherill

You may find the following Headlines and Results a little long (results from the past 3 weeks), so in true Shaftesbury spirit stick with it all the way to the “Finish Line”.

NEW CLUB RECORD – Congratulations to JESSICA HURLEY who set a new U15 300m time of 42.23 at the Hertfordshire Open Meeting on 5 May.

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Well I am back after a 2 week break. The reason I stood down was for personal family reasons, as it was becoming difficult to produce the newsletter. Following a discussion with Geoff Morphitis we agreed that I would continue producing the weekly newsletter, and will be issued on Thursday of each week.

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Happy Birthday this week to Tarlia Bailey, Matthew Craig, Michael Craig, Olive Curran, Melanie Ellis, Kevin Kapapiro, Scarlett Kent, James Noble-Brown, Dereece O’Callaghan, Simisola Oyesanya, Eniola Oyesanya , Robert Rigby, Efrem Tulu

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Happy Birthday this week to Fayyaz Ahmed, Ben Bellisario, Phillip Crout, Carmen Hogg, Julian Lamy, Phillipa Lowe, Michael Potticary, Ray Powell

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Happy Birthday this week to Dominic Bannister, Thomas Brennan, Richard Goodman, Alfredo Melao, Marie Sato, Yousif Shehabi, Barry Walsh

WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONS – The World Masters Indoor Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary from the 25-30 March. ANTHONY WHITEMAN V40 came away with 2 gold medals and GREG DUNSON V50 won a Gold Medal.

ANTHONY in his first appearance in a World Masters Championships won the Gold Medal in his number 1 event the 800m, he eased through the heats (2:01.42) then won his semi- final (2:03.44) in the final he moved up a gear or two winning the Gold Medal (1:52.60). ANTHONY stepped up to the 3000m and proved too strong for the opposition winning the Gold Medal (SB 8:49.86) finishing 12.82 seconds in front of the runner up, his run ranks him UK No.2 V40 in 2014. GREG DUNSON V50 was competing in his first Indoor Championships after winning 3 Outdoor Hurdles titles. GREG won his heat (8.78) and in the final secured the Gold Medal (8.53). NENGI OSSAI V35 competing in his first Indoor Championships opened his 60m account winning Heat 5 in a personal best (6.99) taking .11 of a second off his V35 time in 2011, which ranks him UK No.3 V35 in 2014. NENGI won his semi-final (7.04), in the Final he finished just outside the medals in 4th place (7.05).

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The fixtures shown are just the basic information. For all Information on each fixture (How to enter etc) please refer to the two attached documents. 

Events that have a MARCH closing date – are 13/15 Pentathlon at Lee Valley on Sunday 30 March, Entries close on Wednesday 19 March. Under 13/15 Open at Lee Valley on Sunday 30 March, Entries close on Sunday 23 March.

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Happy Birthday this week to Khalid-Ali Ahmed, Saleh Al-Minji, James Grant, Patrick Jacobs, Dita JaJa, Lianne Langford, Harry Lodovica, Kieran Moreland, Charlton Omorogbe, Ian Rawlinson, Elma Rizvanovic, Sarah Sharnia, Dian Taylor

SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS AT ENGLAND U15/U17/U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS – which place in Sheffield over the week-end, our UK No.1 U20 sprinter OJIE EDOBURUN U20 won the 60m Silver Medal (6.73) just 2 hundredths of a second behind the winner. DYLAN CARLSSON-SMITH U17 who is UK No.3 U17 in 2014 claimed the Pole Vault Bronze Medal (4.00m)

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The fixtures shown are just the basic information. For all Information on each fixture (How to enter etc) please refer to the two attached documents. 

Events that have a MARCH closing date – are Birmingham Open Meeting on Saturday 22 March and Sunday 23 March, Closing date paper entries Entries Closed, online entries Saturday 8 March. 13/15 Pentathlon at Lee Valley on Sunday 30 March, Entries close on Wednesday 19 March. Under 13/15 Open at Lee Valley on Sunday 30 March, Entries close on Sunday 23 March.

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Happy Birthday this week to Ade Adefolalu, Beth Anderson, James Brennan, Thomas Carey, Charlie Griffiths, Eleanor Hunt, Anthony Jackson, Andrew Magnall, Ellie McNamara, David Parker, Peter Stainer, Nadiye Woodroffe, Alice Yau

SHAFTESBURY TOP CLUB IN ENGLAND – What a day to remember at the National Cross Country Championships which took place in Wollaton Park, Nottingham on 23 February. The Under 17 Men’s team of JAMAL LEWIS, JAMIE DEE, ROBBIE LIGHTOWLER and, GREG COOKE became National Champions winning by 70 points, and now hold the cross country and road relay National titles.

There were Individual Silver Medals from RICHARD GOODMAN who has been outstanding on the country and finished just 8 seconds off the winner, JAMIE HARPER U13 in his third National (7th last year) was only 11 seconds behind. JAMIE along with THOMAS PATRICK, HENRY FULTON and FINN HARVEY won a well-deserved Under 13 team Bronze Medals. The Under 20 Men’s team of MICHAEL CALLEGARI, LIAM DEE, BEN ROCHFORD and MARK PEARCE also won the team Bronze Medals. The Senior Men’s team were only just outside the Medals finishing in 4th place, and what is very satisfying is they finished 5th in the 9 to score Championship. Finally the Under 15 Boys finished in 6th position.

Well done to you all, and especially to the Boys/Men’s teams whose results in the 5 Championships cemented our position as the Top Club currently in England. The aggregate points totals are as follows 1st Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers 1008 points, 2nd Aldershot. Farnham & District 1184 points, 3rd Bedford & County 1270 points and 4th Tonbridge 2404 points

We also won “The Persil Trophy” for the lowest aggregate score in the Senior, U20 and U17 Men’s Championships.

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HAVE YOU ENTERED YET – The Hertfordshire, Middlesex & Kent Championships which are on Saturday 15 March & Sunday 16 March, Closing date is Friday 28 February.

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HAVE YOU ENTERED YET – The Hertfordshire, Middlesex & Kent Championships which are on Saturday 15 March & Sunday 16 March, Closing date is Friday 28 February.

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Events that have a FEBRUARY closing date – are England Athletics Under 20, Under 17 & Under 15 Championships on Saturday 1 March & Sunday 2 March, Closing date is Saturday 7 February. March England Athletics Under 17 & Under 15 Combined Events Championships on Saturday 8 March & Sunday 9 March, Closing date is Saturday 14 February. BMAF Championships on Saturday 8 March & Sunday 9 March, Closing date is Saturday 22 February.

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Happy Birthday this week to Onochie Achike, Gerald Alterman, Lucy Boggis, Rachel Carter, Russell Devitt, Emma Dwan, Obi Egbunike, Rachael Fatuade, Alex Fugallo, Travis Hudson, Kyle Langford, Nicholas Nieland, William Prior, Yee Yewt Smart

EUROPEAN INDOOR TRACK & FIELD TOUR – England Athletics have selected a number of up-and- coming athletes a great development opportunity to experience International competition.

Congratulations to GREG CACKETT (60m) and SEB RODGER (400m) will be competing in Vienna, Austria on 28 January. Also ELLIE SPAIN has been appointed Team Coach for Vienna, Austria and Linz, Austria on 30 January.

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Happy Birthday this week to Tilly Adams, Manuella Alvarez, Jessica Brew, Josephine Chadwick, Crystal Collins, Charly Doyon, Molly Garden, Matthew Grant, Sam Hynes, Jade Ive, Jamal Lewis, Freddy Nash, Julia Nilova, John Otugade, Joseph Redwood, Chloe Rixon, Jaba Sokoya, Martha Whiting

JOHN KELLY – Congratulations to John who ran his 99th Senior race at the last Metropolitan League, and he is intending joining our other two Centurions at the next race at Wormwood Scrubs on 8 February. John’s first race was on 16 December 1978 (Aged 25) at Woodford, where he finished a respectable 48th (27.00) and was Shaftesbury’s first man home. Other SBH runners on that day were Russell Devitt, Gerry Elmore, John Hutchinson, Dave Mashiter, Ken Tollady, Crosby Walker and Doug Walsh.

The next member of the 100 club should be Philip Cunningham who has now run 94 races. So all you U17/U20 runners are probably looking forward to joining the 100 club in around 2040.

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Happy Birthday this week to Hannah Brown, Rhodri Meredith, Stephanie Paparizos, Mark Pearce, Anya Rodriguez, David Stone, Shaquille Thomas

BARNET SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place this Wednesday 15 January at Allianz Park. Age-groups are Years 7, 8 & 9, 10 & 11, 12 & 13 Boys and Girls. Barnet teams will be selected from this race, to run in the Middlesex schools.

KNOLE PARK CHAMPIONSHIPS, SEVENOAKS – This year was the 40th year of probably the most prestigious race in the Schools Calendar. With four of our runners representing St Albans School they won the Under 19 Championship (9.7k) for the first time in 10 years. With 6 to score they has a total of 106 points, 2nd were Judd School (who had won the championships for the previous 6 years) 162 points and Shrewsbury School were 3rd with 179 points.

Results MARK PEARCE 4th (32.44), ROBBIE LIGHTOWLER 5th (33.31), JOE REDWOOD 10th (34.07), ADAM THORPE 28th (35.52), 42 schools finished a team, 335 runners finished.

In the Women’s Under 19 Championships SOPHIA PARVIZI-WAYNE running for Highgate School finished 2nd, and awaiting results to be published

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Happy Birthday this week to Frank Bailey, Frankie Fox, Julian Goater, Mark Goddard, Taariq John-Clarke, Alexander Journet, Naomi Kendall, Gabriella Kyriacou, Stephen Murphy, Gerry O’Brien, Darel Ritter, Trudy Thompson, Mary Wu

DAVE BEDFORD HONOURED – DAVE was awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to athletics and charitable fundraising.

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On behalf of the club we wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Successful and Injury fee New Year. The next issue of the Newsletter will be on 6 January.

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Happy Birthday this week and the following week to Alexis Abayomi, Daniel Abrey, Jackie Agyepong, Femi Ayodele, Dave Bedford, Gemma Bennett, Ronan Breen, Thomas Bryant, John Carr, Aron Chase, Joe Chott, Willem Coertzen, Dominic Easter, Charles Fogg, Michael Fox, Charles Gunning, Sarah Heath, Glynne Jenkins, Chimdi Kema, Kojo Kyereme, Jerome Lule, Angus Mckenzie, Abi Oyepitan, Tim Parkin, Martyn Pattinson, Maria Pereverzina, Beth Potter, Harry Sagel, Curtis Samuels, Rachel Shaw, Allan Scott, Ciara Stewart, Matthew Webster

On behalf of the club we wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Successful and Injury free New Year. The next issue of the Newsletter will be on 6 January.

BOXING DAY – There is only one place to spend Boxing Day morning and that is at the Club house in Allianz Park for the annual Boxing Day run.  Start is at 11am so be there at 10.30 or just before to register.  Entry fee for the run is just £1 and there are prizes for each age group male and female winners could win £5000.  Free  Hot drinks, a raffle with magnificent prizes donated by members.

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Just received information on the following – MIDDLESEX CHAMPIONSHIPS which is on Saturday 15 March and Sunday 16 March at Lee Valley. Entry fee £5 per event, No under 13s. Entries close on Friday 28 February (Entry form attached). The HERTFORDSHIRE and KENT championships take place at the same meeting (awaiting entry forms).

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Happy Birthday this week to Chris Bennett, Tom Brooks, Timothy Buckle, Margaret Cooper, Jeremy Dempsey, Deanna Emeny, Thomas Fulton, Matthew Lally, Michael Miller, Mustaf Mohamed, Harry Scott

KYLIE ROBILLIARD SELECTED FOR COMMONWEALTH GAMES – Kylie has been selected to compete for Guernsey in next year’s games in Glasgow. On speaking to Kylie she is pumped up and exited on her selection, and she has achieved the selection criteria required (14.6) on numerous occasions this year with her best in 2013 (13.69). Kylie hopes to be running in the region of 13.3’ and 2’s next season in preparation for the games.

RACHEL FELTON SELECTED FOR ENGLAND – Rachel has been selected to run for England in the Belgium Cross Cup event in Brussels on Sunday 22 December. The selectors have picked athletes that did not go to Belgrade for the European Championships in an effort to give further athletes the opportunity for top class competition.

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Happy Birthday this week to Jordan Archer, Thomas Bedford, Michael Bower, Lola Cohen, Sophie Cohen, John Kelly, Dan Watts, Glen Watts.

Special congratulations to John Kelly on reaching his 60th birthday on Tuesday 10 December

20TH EUROPEAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS – Congratulations to RICHARD GOODMAN and MICHAEL CALLEGARI on their performances in a somewhat cold Belgrade. RICHARD was 2nd in the U20 race in 2011, also the GB&NI won the team Gold Medal. This year  running in the U23 race he also won an excellent team Gold Medal, and was 5th man home finishing in 21st place (24.41). MICHAEL was third GB finisher in the junior race, finishing in 22nd place (18.35), the team just missed out on a medal finishing in 4th place.

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Happy Birthday this week to Andre Beswick, Gregory Dunson, Linda Fogg, Samuel Morris, Marie Munk Jakobsen, Nonso Okolo, Nick Percy, Ross Sambrook, Nick Smith, David Vaughan

CONGRATULTIONS TO RICHARD GOODMAN U23 AND MICHAEL CALLEGARI U20 – Who have been selected to represent GB & NI in the European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on Sunday 8 December. We have realistic chances of medals in both teams, with RICHARD in the Under-23 team and MICHAEL in the Under-20 team.

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Happy Birthday W/C 18 November to Neil Addison, Jamie Dee, Lola Downes, Greg Hurley, Emily Neilan, Eloise Newman, Taneisha, Robinson-Scanlon, W/C 25 November to Amanda Bailey, Clifford Barley, Kate Jones, Sean Lodovica, Andrew Mensah, Gareth Price, Imogen Smith, Sam Taylor-Outridge, Pascaline Wangui

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW MEMBERS WHO HAVE HAD A GREAT YEAR, CLOSING DATE IS THIS FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER ‘SO VOTE NOW’ – Athletics Weekly is holding its ‘Readers Choice Awards’, and we have two athletes in the following categories. British Junior Female Athlete – SABRINA BAKARE and British Breakthrough Athlete – SEB RODGER. This is the link to vote http://athleticsweekly.com/news/awards-2013

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Happy Birthday this week Wilson Aduntow, Katie Alcock, Greg Cackett, Alfie Castang, Max Castang, Woody Castang, Nathan Davies, Hannah Dickson, Sam Griffiths, Tony Packham, Saam Kyu Smart, Matthew Webster, Anthony Whiteman, Nadia Williams

STOP PRESS – SBH PREMIERSHIP CHAMPIONS 2013 AND WIN LEAGUE CLUB OF THE YEAR 2013 TROPHY – The British Athletic League AGM was held on Saturday 16 November. There were two important announcements.

Following confirmation of the disqualification (for a drug offence) of a City of Manchester athlete who had competed in Round 4 of the BAL Premiership at Allianz Park, the match was rescored with the original result of 1st SBH 366, 2nd City of Manchester 319 and 3rd City of Sheffield 308 was revised as follows: 1st SBH 366, 2nd City of Sheffield 310, 3rd City of Manchester 295

The revised final Premiership table now reads: 1st SBH 28 League Points (1341 Match Points), 2nd City of Manchester 28 (1248), 3rd City of Sheffield 18 (1058).

SBH therefore retained their premiership title first won in 2012 and will be representing GB&NI in the European Champion Clubs Cup for Senior’s in Portugal on 24 and 25 May 2014.

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Welcome to first Issue of the SBH Indoor fixtures and results newsletter. The fixture card included fixtures at Lee Valley, but we will also provide information on Crystal Palace, Newham & Essex Beagles, Thames Valley Harriers and Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow Indoor meetings. 

Please enter yourselves for all events, also the British Athletics Indoor Championships are on Saturday 8 February and Sunday 9 February in Sheffield, the World Indoor Championships are on Friday 7 March until Sunday 9 March in Sopot, Poland, and finally the World Masters Indoor Championships are on Tuesday 25 March until Sunday 30 March in Budapest, Hungary.

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Happy Birthday this week Wilson Aduntow, Katie Alcock, Greg Cackett, Alfie Castang, Max Castang, Woody Castang, Nathan Davies, Hannah Dickson, Sam Griffiths, Tony Packham, Saam Kyu Smart, Matthew Webster, Anthony Whiteman, Nadia Williams

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Welcome to first Issue of the SBH Indoor fixtures and results newsletter. The fixture card included fixtures at Lee Valley, but we will also provide information on Crystal Palace, Newham & Essex Beagles, Thames Valley Harriers and Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow Indoor meetings. 

Please enter yourselves for all events, also the British Athletics Indoor Championships are on Saturday 8 February and Sunday 9 February in Sheffield, the World Indoor Championships are on Friday 7 March until Sunday 9 March in Sopot, Poland, and finally the World Masters Indoor Championships are on Tuesday 25 March until Sunday 30 March in Budapest, Hungary.

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Happy Birthday this week Shadine Duquemin, Andrew Eleftheriou, Olivia Fitzpatrick, Richard Johnson, Billy Kelsey, Daniel Lewis, Makeda Lewis, Mali Lewis, Charles Romito, Patrick Sarota, Suzu Sato, Allan Smith, Trecia Smith, Dave Thomson, Isobel Thompson, Tahlia Weller-Harris, Leyla Woodroffe

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Happy Birthday this week Lewa Adebayo, Jessica Concannon, Bethany Halbard, Glasford Jones, Simon Keene, Chisom Nwachukwu, Richard Samuel, Eben Sarpong, Joe Sherry, Claire Simm, Louise Watton

Special congratulations to Simon Keene on reaching his 60th birthday on Monday 28 October

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALLAN SCOTT – Allan has been appointed as Apprentice Coach at Scottish Athletics. The apprenticeship programme will support former top-class athletes in becoming coaches and was launched by sportsscotland.

The Coaching Futures initiative will see eight sports employ athletes who will use their knowledge and expertise to help develop and inspire the next generation of champions.

At a launch event on Wednesday night (9 October), the eight apprentices, who started their roles at the beginning of the month, were given an inspirational talk by Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend.

NICK PERCY – has been short-listed for Scotland’s Under 20 Athlete of the Year award, which will be announced at the awards dinner on 26 October. Nick has been nominated along with Jake Wightman and Shaun Wyllie. 

European U20 medallists NICK PERCY and JAKE WIGHTMAN shared the honours in that age-group with Wightman having won gold in Italy at 1500m with silver medallist Percy following up his age-group success with a Scottish senior title and early selection for the Commonwealth Games – at 18.

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Happy Birthday this week Serena Clarke, Amy Clemens, Eromo Egbor, Nathan Fox, Robert Gayler, Nabil Haque, Alexander Kola, Nana Nottinson-Nyaaku, David Pearlman, Callum Scutt, Victoria Walker, Richard Williams

Special congratulations to Joyce Smith on reaching her 76th birthday on Saturday 26 October and Gerry Elmore on reaching his 71st birthday on Friday 25 October

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Happy Birthday this week Andrew Amoah, Georgia Bell, Catriona Bradley, Daniel Bramble, George Groom, Lloyd Gumbs, John Herries, Dominic Holmes, William Hooten, Daniel Lewis, Gregor Maclean, Megan McInnes, Geoff Morphitis, Rory Mudd, Folu Ogunyemi, Ben Rose, George Rose, Hugh Starkey, Adam Thorpe, Ken Tollady, Jordan Townsend-Simpson

Special congratulations to Bryan Smith on reaching his 75th birthday on Thursday 3 October, and Tony Smith on reaching his 80th birthday on Sunday 6 October.

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Happy Birthday this week Nelly Adeyemo, Oluwagbafunmi Arowojolu, Shereen Charles, Joshua Dowling, Nicole Fox, Lidia Herridge, Yasmin Lakin, Luc Lee, Lee McConnell, Samuel Miorandi, Ryan Moseley, Irene Peaty Miller, Ned Quiney, Tilly Sutherland-Young, Matthew Sullivan, Lisa Webb, Sam Wilson, Eunice Yeboah

ROBBIE LIGHTOWLER WORLD BIATHLE CHAMPION – Robbie won the Youth 15-16 Final in Limassol, Cyprus on 5 October, and won in a time of 9 minutes 23.985 seconds beating Fabian Meeusen of Switzerland by 2.5 seconds. The race started with 1K run, then a 200m Swim, and finishing with a 1K run, unfortunately the results do not include his split times. Great Britain also won the team Gold Medals with Robbie 1st, Harrison Yarnold 5th (9m34.884s) and Zack Holland 8th (9m46.413s).

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­Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Weekly Newsletter 26 August 2013

Happy Birthday this week Karan Basu, Henry Fulton, Kimmel Gordon, Fatoumata Savadogo, Eliza Shelley, Philip Shelley, James Sothcott, Matthew Webster

INTER COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIPS – took place in Bedford on 24-25 August, with 13 Humbugs at the championships and we had 4 Gold Medals from GREG CACKETT (100m), GLEN WATTS (3000m Steeplechase), ANGUS MCINROY (Discus) and JADE LALLY (Discus, 2 Silver Medals from GREG CACKETT (200m) and GEMMA BENNETT (100m Hurdles) and 1 Bronze Medal from KRIS ROBERTSON (400m).

Full Results 100m – Men Heat 1 GREG CACKETT 1st (10.34 w0.9 m/s), in the final GREG took the Gold Medal (10.27 w1.2 m/s), Women Heat 1 SABRINA BAKARE U20 2nd (12.36 w-1.2 m/s), in the final SABRINA finished 4th (12.22 w-1.4 m/s)

200m – Men Heat 2 GREG CACKETT 1st (21.11 w-1.6 m/s), ANTONIO INFANTINO U23 3rd (21.20 w-0.7 m/s), in the final GREG took the Silver Medal (20.83 w1.2 m/s) and ANTONIO finished 4th (PB 21.04 w1.2 m/s) taking .03 of a second off his 2012 time, and is ranked UK No.8 U23 in 2013.

400m – Men Heat 3 KRIS ROBERTSON 1st (47.31), in the final KRIS took the Bronze Medal (47.37), Women Heat 1 GEMMA NICOL 1st (53.47), and did not compete in the final

100m Hurdles – Women Heat 2 GEMMA BENNETT 1st (13.41 w1.9 m/s), in the final GEMMA took the Silver Medal (SB 13.33 w2.3 m/s) and is ranked UK No.4 in 2013

3000m Steeplechase – Men GLEN WATTS had an emphatic win to take the gold Medal (9:10.70)

Long Jump – Men DAN BRAMBLE 5th (6.78m w-1.0 m/s)

Triple Jump – Women YASMIN LAKIN U20 6th (11.52m w-0.1 m/s)

Shot Put 4kg – Women LUCY UNDERDOWN 8th (11.00m)

Discus 2kg – Men ANGUS MCINROY took the Gold Medal (52.03m)

Discus 1kg – Women JADE LALLY took the Gold Medal (56.53m) and LUCY UNDERDOWN took the Bronze Medal (45.16m)

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