Happy Birthday this week to Lis Ahlstrom, Kate Barber, Sagie Benaim, Rainer Burchett, John Dryden, Teigue McAuliffe, James Trapmore, Layla Walker-Lawrence, Victoria Webster

COMMONWEALTH GAMES – Glasgow on 27 July to 2 August

DAY 1 27 JULY – SHOT 7.26kg Pool A ZANE DUQUEMIN (Jersey) produced a seasons best (18.90m) to finish in 4th place, adding 4cm to his March put and ranks him UK No.1 in 2014

Hammer 4kg Pool A RACHEL HUNTER U23 (Scotland) produced a throw of (61.91m) finishing in 6th place, in the Final RACHEL improved to (63.29m) earning her a final position of 7th place

DAY 2 28 JULY – SHOT 7.26kg Final ZANE DUQUEMIN (Jersey) could not quite match his Qualifying put due to a slight injury, and finished in 9th place (18.16m)

High Jump Pool A DAVID SMITH (Scotland) was jumping with an injury finished equal 6th (2.11m), Pool B ALLAN SMITH U23 (Scotland) did not start

Triple Jump Pool B YAMILE ALDAMA V40 (England) qualified for the final in 2nd place with her 1st jump (13.29m)

Hammer Pool A CHRIS BENNETT (Scotland) finished in 4th place (68.01m) with his 1st attempt, DEMPSEY MCGUIGAN U23 (Northern Ireland) finished in 6th place (66.16m) with his 3rd attempt, both CHRIS and DEMPSEY qualified for the final

Decathlon WILLEM COERTZEN (South Africa) 100m Heat 3 3rd (PB 10.88 888 points) taking .01 of a second off 2009 time, Long Jump Pool A 5th (7.40m Total 1798 points), Shot 8th (13.70m Total points 2508 points), High Jump 8th (1.87m Total points 3195 points), unfortunately due to an injury WILLEM was unable to start the 400m.

DAY 3 29 JULY – 10000m Final BETH POTTER (Scotland) had what can only be described as the race of her life, and with just 10 laps to go she led the 3 Kenyan athletes for 4 laps. BETH finished in 5th place having a domestic battle with Kate Avery of England who just piped her on the line. BETH ran a personal best (32:33.36) taking 12.33 seconds off her May time, and ranks her UK N0.5 in 2014, also a New Club Record eclipsing the 32:36.07 set by SARAH WALDRON on 6 April 2012

Triple Jump Final YAMILE ALDAMA V40 (England) did not start

Hammer Final DEMPSEY MCGUIGAN U23 (Northern Ireland) finished in 11th place (64.79m), CHRIS BENNETT (Scotland) finished in 12th place (61.92m)

DAY 4 30 JULY – 800m Heat 4 MARILYN OKORO (England) finished in 5th place (2:03.90) and qualified for the Semi-Final

400m Hurdles Heat 2 SEB RODGER (England) finished in 4th place (50.45)

Discus Pool A NICK PERCY U23 (Scotland) finished in 5th place (56.71m), Pool B ANGUS MCINROY (Scotland) finished in 7th place (56.28m), ZANE DUQUEMIN (Jersey) finished in 8th place (57.26), ANGUS and ZANE qualified for the Final

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Happy Birthday this week to Nathan Bloom, Dylan Carlsson-Smith, Jeremy Chor, Gabrielle Coveney, Akin Coward, Victoria Dawes, Niall Fleming, Martin Grey, Freya Hufton, William Levy, Gemma Nicol, Dominic Thompson

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place in Eugene. Oregon, USA from 22-27 July

Day 1 22 July – 100m Heat 4 OJIE EDOBURUN had an impressive win (10.43 w-0.2 m/s) and qualified for the Semi-Final . OJIE has been seeded to run Heat 1 and with the athletes drawn in this heat may have to run somewhere near his personal best time of 10.32 to qualify for the final.

Day 2 23 July – 100m Semi-Final Heat 1 OJIE EDOBURUN in what proved to be the fastest of the 3 heats OJIE certainly upped his game to finish in 3rd place (10.36 w0.0 m/s) qualifying for the final. The Final was a fast race with the 2 Americans taking the honours OJIE finished in a creditable 6th place (10.45 w-0.6 m/s)

NEW WORLD RECORD – ANTHONY WHITEMAN has broken his own World V40 800m record, running 1:48.05 at the BMC Grand Prix in Stretford on12 July. His previous record was 1:48.22 which he set in Indianapolis, USA on 6 June 2012. ANTHONY said he was quite shocked with the time, and is his fastest time since 2003 and ranks him 14th overall in the UK this year.

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Happy Birthday this week to Moses Arthur, Reinier Busitil, Jessica McMorrow, Leslie Odamtten-Addy, Louis Persent, Valerie Rowe, Paul Ruocco, Derek Surrey

8 MEDALS WON AT THE ENGLISH SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS – Which took place in Birmingham on 11-12 July

Congratulation to Gold Medallist REBECCA KEATING U20 (Hammer), Silver Medal came from AILIS MCGOVERN U20 (Pole Vault) and Bronze Medals from LILY BECKFORD U20 (400m), LIAM DEE U20 (1500m), JAMIE DEE U17 (3000m), SOPHIA PARVIZI-WAYNE U20 (3000m), ETHAN WALSH U20 (Pole Vault) and FELLAN MCGUIGAN U20 (Hammer)

200m – U15B Heat 1 OLY AROWOJOLU U15 2nd (PB 23.39 w-0.1 m/s) taking .31 of a second off his June time, in the Final OLY finished 5th (23.55 w2.9 m/s)

400m – U20W Heat 1 LILY BECKFORD U20 (2nd Claim) 1st (56.47) in the Final LILY won the Bronze Medal (54.90)

800m – U17M Heat 1 JAMAL LEWIS U17 1st (1:55.77), U20M Heat 1 BEN ROCHFORD U20 4th (1:53.95) in Semi-Final 1 BEN finished 6th (1:54.32)

1500m – U15M Heat 1 GEORGE GROOM U15 7th (4:21.83), Heat 2 JEREMY DEMPSEY U15 3rd (4:17.07) in the Final JEREMY finished 7th (4:17.10), U20M Straight Final LIAM DEE U20 won the Bronze Medal (3:50.52)

3000m – U17M Straight Final JAMIE DEE U17 won the Bronze Medal (8:43.25), U20W Straight Final SOPHIA PARVIZI-WAYNE U20 won the Bronze Medal (PB 9:38.48) taking 1.15 seconds off her June time, and is ranked UK No.8 U20 in 2014

75m Hurdles – U15G Heat 2 RACHEL CARTER U15 5th (PB 12.11 w1.5 m/s) taking .08 ofa second off her June time

High Jump – U17M Straight Final MATTHEW LALLY U17 6th (1.93m), U20W Straight Final MEGAN SMITH U20 (2nd Claim) 6th (1.63m)

Pole Vault – U17M Straight Final DYLAN CARLSSON-SMITH U17 4th (PB 4.30m) adding 5cm to his June vault, and is ranked UK No.4 U17 in 2014, the 2nd & 3rd finishing athletes also cleared 4.30m., GEORGE GRANT U17 10th (PB 4.00m) adding 5cm to his June vault, U20W Straight Final AILIS MCGOVERN U20 (2nd Claim) won the Silver Medal on count back (PB 3.80m) adding 5cm to her June vault, and is ranked UK No.5 U20 in 2014, U20M Straight Final ETHAN WALSH U20 won the Bronze Medal (4.60m)

Long Jump – U17W Straight Final EAVION RICHARDSON U17 4th (5.55m)

Triple Jump – U20W Straight Final YASMIN LAKIN U20 5th (11.57m w0.0 m/s)

Hammer 5kg – U17M Straight Final BILLY PRAIM-SINGH U17 (2nd Claim) 4th (PB 57.82m) adding 24cm to his June throw, and is ranked UK No.8 U17 in 2014

Hammer 6kg – U20M Straight Final FELLAN MCGUIGAN U20 won the Bronze Medal (64.76m), JAMES HAMBLIN U20 (2nd Claim) 4th (64.27m)

Hammer 4kg – U20W Straight Final REBECCA KEATING U20 won the Gold Medal (52.22m)

Javelin 600g – U15B Straight Final MICHAEL MILLER U15 5th (45.80m)

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Happy Birthday this week to Carol Backhouse, Nengi Ossai, Molly Patch, Jake Salem, David Smith

NEW CLUB RECORD – Congratulations to ZOE BROWN who vaulted (4.42m) in the Cork City Games on 8 July. Adding 2cm to her own record which she set on 22 June

NEW CLUB RECORD – Congratulations to CHRIS BENNETT who at the UK Championships broke the Club Senior Hammer Record. CHRIS threw in the (72.58m) in the Final eclipsing MICK JONES (72.48m) mark set in Crawley on 26 June 1996 incidentally MICK is currently coaching CHRIS.

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Happy Birthday this week to Brenda Atkinson, Euan Dickson-Earle, Rebecca Fall, Jack Fitzpatrick, Rebekah Gardiner, Louisa James, Thomas Patrick, Aidan Reynolds, Megan Smith, Ray Tucker, Geoff Williams, John Wright

KYLE LANGFORD – Congratulations to KYLE who has been selected to represent Great Britain & Northern Ireland in the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon on 22-27 July. KYLE ran a personal best 1:47.41 in the 800m at the BMC Grand Prix at Watford, which ranks his UK No.1 U20 in 2014. He will looking to improve on the Bronze Medal he won at last year’s World Youth Championships

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