Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Weekly Indoor Newsletter Thursday 11 November 2013

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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Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Weekly Newsletter Thursday 28 October 2013

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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Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Weekly Newsletter Thursday 21 October 2013

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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Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Weekly Newsletter Thursday 14 October 2013

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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Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Weekly Newsletter Thursday 7 October 2013

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 Thursday 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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