Happy Birthday this week to Karan Basu, Michael Callegari, Amber Duverney, Henry Fulton, Joe Headland, Rebecca Keating, Junaid Khan, Shay Kohler, Janany Krishnakanthan, Philip Llewellyn, Dempsey McGuigan, David McKenzie, Scott McKenzie, Mohamed Mohamed, Daryll Neita, Donovan Reid, Chandi Uduwawala

KYLE LANGFORD – Competed in the British Athletics Grand Prix in Birmingham on 24 August, Congratulations to KYLE who set a British Junior record in the 600m race (PB 1:16.30) which ranks him UK No.1 U20 in 2014. With the Olympic 800m Champion David Rudisha in the race he was not overawed by the top class field and was closing fast on the leaders eventually finishing in 7th place.

NEW CLUB RECORD – Congratulations to OJIE EDOBURUN who at the CAU Inter County Championships in Bedford on 23-24 August, lowered his own Under 20 club record to (10.16 w1.9 m/s) which he recorded in the Semi-Final. In the Final he ran a windy (10.15 w3.6 m/s) which eclipses Trevor Cameron’s time of (10.29 w3.7 m/s) which was set in Sheffield on 11 June 1994.

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Happy Birthday this week to Frank Attoh, Evey Becker, Kimmel Gordon-Tindle, Oyinade Omidiora, Fatoumata Savadogo, Philip Shelley, Stuart Singer, James Sothcott, Ellie Spain

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS – Took place in Zurich, Switzerland on 12-17 August.

DAY 5 16 AUGUST – 4 x 400m Relay Heat 2 RICHARD MORRISSEY ran a very solid Leg 3 for the Ireland team, which finished in 3rd place in a new Ireland National Record (3:03.57) qualifying for tomorrow’s Final.

DAY 6 17 AUGUST – 4 x 400m Relay Final RICHARD MORRISSEY ran Leg 3 again for the Ireland team, which finished in a superb 5th place breaking their own Ireland National Record which they set in the Semi-Final (3:01.67)

NICK PERCY USA BOUND – NICK is off to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln soon where he will study Health, Exercise and Nutritional Science. The University is one of the oldest in America, and recently celebrated its 145th Anniversary on 15 February 2014. Nebraska is a mid-western state and Lincoln is an up-and-coming city of 300,000 people.

Two recent (Huskers) athletes competed in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for Jamaica. Chad Wright finished 6th in the Discus final throwing (60.33m) and Nicholas Gordon in the Long Jump heats jumped (7.37m). Carl Myerscough one of GBs most successful athlete (Shot) is a former Husker, and holds the UNL record in the Shot (21.92m) and Discus (65.10m)

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Happy Birthday this week to Yamile Aldama, Dean Benzaken, Melissa Courtney, Daniel Greenstein, Rachel Hunter, Lidia Kyriacou, John Naylor, Kemi Olonade, Zachary Randall, Ian Tullet, Edwin Yamoah

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place in Zurich, Switzerland on 12-17 August.

DAY 1 12 AUGUST – 400m Heat 2 RICHARD MORRISSEY ran a personal best (46.20) finishing in 6th place qualifying as one of the fastest losers for tomorrow’s semi-final. RICHARD took .22 of a second off his previous PB set in 2013.

400m Hurdles Heat 3 SEB RODGER running his 2nd fastest time of the year, qualified fairly comfortably in 3rd place for tomorrow’s semi-final (49.88)

10000m Final BETH POTTER U23 competing just 10 days after her superb Commonwealth Games, PB at 10000m and her fine run the 5000m, was showing some signs of tiredness when finishing 14th (32:53.17) another fine performance

DAY 2 13 AUGUST – 400m Hurdles Semi-Final 1 SEB RODGER produced his best run of the year (49.47) finishing in 4th place, just missing out on qualification to the final. SEB took .04 of a second off his May time, and is ranked UK No.4 in 2014.

400m Semi-Final 2 RICHARD MORRISSEY running from Lane 1 was slightly below par finishing in 8th place (46.64)

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Happy Birthday this week to Shani Anderson, Lily Beckford, Neil Burnside, Juliet De Freitas Vile, Emily Ferenczi, Avigdor Fogelman, Zoe Levin, Euan Mackenzie, Hana McEwan, Kayomie Thompson, Gerda Vaitkaityte

COMMONWEALTH BRONZE MEDAL FOR JADE LALLY – Following her 6th place in Delhi in 2010, JADE won a well-deserved Bronze Medal. Her 6 throws were a model of consistency with 3 season’s best throws, JADE’S Bronze Medal throw came in the 5th round (60.48m) which is only 28cm behind her personal best set in 2011. She is now firmly the UK No.1 Discus thrower in 2014, and has now recorded 5 throws this season further than the UK No.2 Kirsty Law (57.15m)

COMMONWEALTH GAMES – Glasgow on 27 July to 2 August

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 (SB 57.28m) adding 46cm to his May throw, and is ranked UK No.6 in 2014, ZANE DUQUEMIN (Jersey) finished in 8th place (57.26), ANGUS and ZANE qualified for the Final

DAY 5 31 JULY – 800m Semi-Final MARILYN OKORO (England) finished in 8th place (2:06.75)

100m Hurdles Heat 3 KYLIE ROBILLIARD (Guernsey) finished in 6th position (14.20 w-0.4 m/s)

Discus Women’s Qualifying JADE LALLY (England) with her 3rd throw finished in 5th place (57.13m) qualifying for the Final, SHADINE DUQUEMIN U23 (Jersey) finished in 14th place (48.77m)

Discus Men’s Final ZANE DUQUEMIN (Jersey) finished in 8th place (59.39m), ANGUS MCINROY (Scotland) finished in 12th place (54.12m)

DAY 6 1 AUGUST – Pole Vault Final GREGOR MACLEAN (Scotland) was injured in warm-up and therefore was unable to clear the opening height

Triple Jump Pool A NATHAN FOX (England) qualified for the final with his 1st attempt (16.17m w0.8 m/s), DANIEL LEWIS (Jamaica) qualified for the final also with his 1st attempt (16.17m w0.5 m/s)

4 x 400m Relay Men’s Heat 3 KRIS ROBERTSON (Scotland) ran on Leg 1 with Scotland finishing 3rd (3:03.94) which is a Scottish record

4 x 400m Relay Women’s Heat 2 GEMMA NICOL (Scotland) ran on Leg 3 with Scotland finishing 4th (3:33.91)

DAY 7 2 AUGUST – 5000m Final BETH POTTER (Scotland) following her outstanding run in the 10000m, BETH produced another top performance finishing in 9th place (15:44.38)

Triple Jump Final which took place in torrential rain NATHAN FOX (England) finished 6th (16.26m w0.6 m/s) which was his 5th attempt, DANIEL LEWIS (Jamaica) finished 7th (16.09m w0.6 m/s) which was his 2nd attempt

Pole Vault Final ZOE BROWN (Northern Ireland) failed to clear her opening height (3.80m) with the conditions absolutely horrendous

4 x 400m Relay Men’s Final KRIS ROBERTSON (Scotland) again ran Leg 1 with Scotland finishing 5th (3:04.07)

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