Happy Birthday from this Thursday 20 January to Charly Doyon, George Evans, Josephine chadwick, Shiloh Goodman, Matthew Grant, Jade Ive, Claudia Kerry-Roger, Michael Nicholls, John Otugade, Alex Petty, Lynda Robinson, Jabulani Sokoya and Alex Stapleton

RECENT NEW MEMBERS – We wish you a very warm welcome, and a happy, healthy and successful time with Shaftesbury to CALEB HILTON and ELIZABETH OTHULO

SHAFTESBURY BARNET HARRIERS SUBSCRIPTIONS – SBH Treasurer GEOFF MORPHITIS has sent me the following regarding subscriptions.
Our new year started on 1 October 2021. The SBH annual subscriptions is £50 and the current England Athletics annual registration is £15 – but increase to £16 if your EA renewal date is after 1 April 2022. The total is £65 – but increase to £66 if your EA renewal date is after 1 April 2022, and should now be paid NOW to; ACCOUNT NAME: SHAFTESBURY BARNET HARRIERS, BANK: 41308378, SORT CODE: 400426 – Please let me know when payment is made. I will still be collecting subscriptions for the year to 30 September 2021 from those members who did not pay. Thanks GEOFF

PETER TEMPEST PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK – PETER was club captain in the days when we were in the Southern Track & Field League.  PETER was also a very keen photographer and many of his athletic photographs appeared in Athletics Weekly

ABDUL SESAY – Many people will remember ABDUL from the 80s and 90s when he was a regular SBH cross country runner and attendee at the then Copthall Stadium Tuesday/Thursday night track sessions – he was a real stalwart of the club and a true harrier. The award couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
His full name is Dr ABDUL KARIM SESAY who is an Genomics expert, was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours for his services to charity and medical research.

WINDSOR, SLOUGH, ETON & HOUNSLOW INDOOR EVENTS 2022 CANCELLED – It has been announced that the indoor fixtures for Sunday 6 February and Sunday 6 March have been Cancelled.

SOUTHERN U13/U15/U17 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS –  Took place last Saturday/Sunday. As of the issue of this weeks Newsletter, there are sti;; some results missing from those they sent to the Power of 10. I managed to determine those results that were missing, which are identified in Red in the results below.

SBH CROSS COUNTRY CLUB CHAMPIONS – Congratulations to BEN KASPAR and JASMYN PERRIN who at the Wormwood Scrubs Start Fitness Metropolitan League, won the Under 11 Boys and Girls Club Championships.

START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE – The fourth fixture of five took place last Saturday 15 January at Wormwood Scrubs.
The day started with our Under 11s, in which BEN KASPAR finished 2nd and DENNYS PASCAL 8th and JASMYN PERRIN 22nd being our first finishers, BEN and JASMYN won the SBH XC Club Championship titles. The Boys team finished in 3rd place, and now have moved up from 4th to 3rd place overall, the Girls with only JASMYN competing are now in 7th place overall.
Under 13 Boys, with a team of 4 runners, with EUAN PHILLIPS, PRINCE VICTORUS JOHN and CHARLIE CUTLER finished 3rd, 4th and 9th respectively. At Uxbridge, our overall lead over Woodford Green and Essex Ladies was 35 points, following Saturday our lead has now been reduced to 13 points.
Under 13 Girls race, POSIE SHAW in her 13th consecutive race, made it 2 wins in succession, 4th at Claybury finished 2nd this time, the team finished in 4th place and slipped from 3rd to 4th place overall.
The Under 15 Boys/Under 17 Men fielded 8 runners with MAX WINFIELD and SPIKE BLAKE finishing 4th and 5th respectively, the team finished 3rd, but hold and overall lead of 87 points.
Under 15 Girls/Under 17 Women who over the past few seasons have been so dominate, are struggling with numbers, PHOEBE MUSIC finished 27th. with the team slipping from 10th to 11th place overall.
Senior Men had 14 runners, with WILLIAM RYLE-HODGES finishing in 8th place, the next 3 home were THEO MACHIN-PALEY U20, ASHWIN FOWKES-GAJAN U20 and DYLAN MICHEL U20, the team finished in 9th place, we are still in 12th place overall, with relegation a distinct possibility, the Veterans team moved up from 6th to 5th place overall.
Senior Women team struggled with numbers again, with CHARLENE JACOBS-CONRADIE V40 continuing her excellent form to finish in 10th place, the team who finished 6th at Claybury, the team finished in in 5th place, and moved up from 6th to 5th place overall.

The final fixture is on Saturday 19 February at Trent Park, so lets have a large turnout, especially you Senior Men.

Under 11 Boys (Team 4 to score) – BEN KASPAR 2nd (6.57 1st 9 year-old), DENNYS PASCAL 7th (7.10 3rd 9 year-old), PRINCE-MOSES JOHN 18th (7.39), EDDIE PASCAL 21st (7.42), the 10 year-old winner was Marcus Muers of Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (6.54) 43 runners finished.
Team Result – 1st Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (128 points), 2nd SBH (124), 3rd Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (118), 16 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – 1st Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (497 points), 2nd London Heathside (380), 3rd SBH (370), 15th SBH ‘B’ (50) 20 teams finished

Under 11 Girls (Team 4 to score) – JASMYN PERRIN 22nd (8.57), the winner was Isabella Marriott of Trent Park (7.29) 33 runners finished.
Team Result – 1st Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (108 points), 2nd Woodford Green & Essex Ladies “B” (66), 3rd Trent Park (46), 12th SBH (11), 14 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – 1st Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (401 points), 2nd Herts Phoenix (174), 3rd Woodford Green & Essex Ladies “B” (160), 7th SBH (96), 17th SBH ‘B’ (5) 18 teams finished

Under 13 Boys (Team 4 to score) – EUAN PHILLIPS 3rd (11.12), PRINCE VICTORUS JOHN 4th (11.20), CHARLIE CUTLER 9th (12.17), JACK REDFORD 36th (14.17), the winner was Daniel Jells of St Mary’s Richmond (11.01) 44 runners finished.
Team Result – 1st Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (150 points), 2nd St Mary’s Richmond (138), 3rd SBH (128) 16 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – 1st SBH (553 points), 2nd Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (540), 3rd St Mary’s Richmond (330), 10th SBH ‘B’ (134) 23 teams finished

Under 13 Girls (Team 4 to score) – POSIE SHAW 1st (11.52), ERIN GIBLIN 18th (14.01), AMBER JACKSON 23rd (14.14) 33 runners finished.
Team Result – 1st Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (97 points), 2nd Highgate Harriers (71), 3rd London Heathside (67), 4th SBH (57) 13 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – 1st Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (516 points), 2nd London Heathside (498), 3rd Highate Harriers (315), 4th SBH (313), 19th SBH ‘B’ (9) 20 teams finished

Under 15 Boys/Under 17 Men (Team 4 to score) – MAX WINFIELD U17 4th (13.27), SPIKE BLAKE U17 5th (13.32), ANTONIO CONRADIE U17 21st (14.29), THOMAS CADWALLADER U15 31st (14.53), TOMMY NARVAEZ-WHITE U15 33rd (15.02), JACOB CLEMENT U15 41st (15.22), SAMUEL BORDOLEY U15 64th (16.37), MAX CAROLAN-BOSS U15 75th (17.28) the winner of U15 race was Charlie Brook of St Mary’s Richmond (14.01), the winner of U17 race was Ethan Primett of Herts Phoenix (12.48) 76 runners finished.
Team Result – 1st Herts Phoenix (266 points), 2nd London Heathside (244), 3rd SBH (239), 14th SBH ‘B’ (93) 24 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – 1st SBH (1200 points), 2nd Herts Phoenix (1113), 3rd Trent Park (1032), 9th SBH ‘B’ (732), 24th SBH ‘C’ (198) 31 teams finished

Under 15 Girls/Under 17 Women (Team 4 to score) – PHOEBE MUSIC U15 27th (17.21), MYA MAIRS-INGRAM U15 40th (18.30), ASHA HORBACKI U17 41st (18.42), the winner of U15 race was Adela Svihaikova of Thames Valley Harriers (15.06) and U17 race was Sophia Latham of Harrow (15.31) 52 runners finished.
Team Result – 1st Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets (161 points), 2nd Thames Valley Harriers (158), 3rd Highgate Harriers (155), 10th SBH (51) 18 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – 1st Thames Valley Harriers (682 points), 2nd London Heathside (630), 3rd Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets (597), 11th SBH (253), 24th SBH ‘B’ (25) 25 teams finished

Senior Men (Senior Team 12 to score, Veteran Team 5 to score) – WILLIAM RYLE-HODGES 8th (25.51), THEO MACHIN-PALEY U20 46th (27.38), ASHWIN FOWKES-GAJAN U20 72nd (28.35), DYLAN MICHEL U20 75th (28.39), ROBERT RIGBY V60 186th (31.24 2nd V60), DANIEL NICHOLLS 192nd (31.33), JONNY SHAW V50 198th (31.48), MARK COTTLE 215th (32.13), LENARD MICHEL V50 284th (34.33), TIM UNDERHILL V50 293nd (34.44), BARRY HAWS V45 301st (34.57), PAUL MACCARTHY V55 305th (35.05), DANNY DIGWEED 338th (36.03), PHILIP CUNNINGHAM V55 420th (42.34) the winner was Thomas Frith of Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (25.04) 440 runners finished.
Team Result – Division 1 – 1st Highgate Harriers (1405 points), 2nd Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets (1305), 3rd Thames Valley Harriers (1285), 9th SBH (540) 12 teams finished – Veterans Division 2 – 1st Harrow (245 points), 2nd Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (217), 3rd Ealing Eagles (189), 4th SBH (152) 12 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – Division 1 – 1st Highgate Harriers (6046 points), 2nd Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets (5127), 3rd London Heathside (4252), 12th SBH (1814) – Veterans Division 2 – 1st Harrow (945 points), 2nd Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (888), 3rd Ealing Eagles (734), 5th SBH (622)

Senior Women (Senior Team 5 to score, Veteran Team 4 to score) – CHARLENE JACOBS-CONRADIE V40 10th (31.09 1st V40), NATASH TANNER U20 53rd (34.11), JO KENT V50 (2nd Claim) 58th (34.24), ELANA RONCATI U20 78th (35.41), the winner was Beth Hawling of London Heathside (28.33) 190 runners finished.
Team Result – Division 1 – 1st London Heathside (378 points), 2nd Highgate Harriers (331), 3rd Trent Park (275) 12 teams finished – Division 2 – 1st Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (200 points), 2nd Highgate Harriers “B” (160), 3rd London Heathside ‘C’ (153), 5th SBH (137) 12 teams finished
Team Result After 4 Fixtures – Division 1 – 1st London Heathside (1396 points), 2nd Highgate Harriers (1122), 3rd Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets (1084) – Division 2 – 1st Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (929 points), 2nd Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (761), 3rd London Heathside ‘C’ (752), 6th SBH (532)

Howard Williams Trophy (Juniors) – 1st Woodford Green & Essex Ladies (11 Wins, 97 points), 2nd London Heathside (1, 89), 3rd SBH (4, 88.5)
Howard Williams Trophy (Seniors) – 1st Highgate Harriers (2 Wins, 49 points), 2nd London Heathside (1, 48), 3rd Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets (0, 47), 12th SBH (0, 28)

Link to the Start Fitness Metropolitan League results – https://www.metleague.run/results/ now select ‘Read More’ on Race 4, now select ‘Spreadsheet Results Link’

THESE ARE THE SBH ATHLETES CURRENT CONSECUTIVE RACES, FOLLOWING THE WORMWOOD SCRUBS FIXTURE ON 15 JANUARY
(24) PHILIP CUNNINGHAM V50 & V55
(14) POSIE SHAW U11 & U13
(9) ASHWIN FOWKES-GAJAN U17 & U20
(8) DANNY DIGWEED
(6) DYLAN MICHEL U17 & U20
(4) PRINCE-MOSES JOHN U11, PRINCE VICTORUS JOHN U13, EUAN PHILLIPS U13, SPIKE BLAKE U17, MARK COTTLE SM, DANIEL NICHOLLS SM, CHARLENE JACOB-CONRADIE V40, JONNY SHAW V50, TIM UNDERHILL V50 and PAUL  MACCARTHY V55
(3) EDDIE PASCAL U11, JASMYN PERRIN U11, ERIN GIBLIN U13, SAMUEL BORDOLEY U15, MAX CAROLAN-BOSS U15, TOMMY NARVAEZ-WHITE U15 and ROBERT RIGBY V60
(2) PRINCE-MOSES JOHN U11, BEN KASPAR U11, JACK REDFORD U13, MYA MAIRS-INGRAM U15, ANTONIO CONRADIE U17, ASHA HORBACKI U17, ELANA RONCARATI U20, ARRY HAWS V45 and LENARD MICHEL V50

The current record for consecutive appearances is held by JOHN KELLY, who completed 28 races between 1985 to 1990.

SBH WINTER POINTS CHAMPIONSHIPS, THESE ARE THE TOP 3 POSITIONS FOLLOWING THE WORWOOD SCRUBS FIXTURE ON 15 JANUARY

Under 11 Boys – BEN KASPAR (24 points), EDDIE PASCAL (19) and HENRY RYAN (15) – Under 13 Boys – EUAN PHILLIPS (29 points), PRINCE-VICTORUS JOHN (27) and ARTHUR PHILLIPS (22)– Under 15 Boys – THOMAS CADWALLADER (24 points), TOMMY NARVAEZ-WHITE (21) and JACOB CLEMENT (19) – Under 17 Men – SPIKE BLAKE (23 points), MAX WINFIELD (21) and  LEO RONCARATI (15) – Under 20 Men – ASHWIN FOWKES-GAJAN (31 points), DYLAN MICHEL (27) and THEO MACHIN-PALEY (8) – Senior Men – DANIEL NICHOLLS (46 points), MARK COTTLE (42) and DANNY DIGWEED (38) – Masters Men 40-49 –BARRY HAWS (16 points) and PAUL LEWIS (8) – Masters Men 50-59 – JONNY SHAW (32 points), TIM UNDERHILL (25) and PAUL MACCARTHY (18) – Masters Men 60-69 – ROBERT RIGBY (24 points)
Under 11 Girls – JASMYN PERRIN (27 points), VERA DOUDKA (21), HETTIE HOLBROOK and MARISSA ELLIS BELL (8) – Under 13 Girls – POSIE SHAW (32 points), ERIN GIBLIN (21) and NYAH CAMPBELL-CAINE (12) – Under 15 Girls – MYA MAIRS-INGRAM (23 points), PHOEBE MUSIC (14) and ASHANI PERERA (8) – Under 17 Women – ASHA HORBACKI (23 points), LUISA STAAB (16) and LILI FOWKES-GAJAN (7) – Under 20 Women – NATASHA TANNER (16 points) and ELENA RONCARATI (15) – Senior Women – ELANA DIMMER (16 points) – Masters Women 40-49 – CHARLENE JACOBS-CONRADIE V40 (32 points)

Link to the Men/Women Winter Points tables updated up to the 15 January – Mens 2021-2022 Points Tables Updated 15-01-22 With Start Fitness Metropolitan League Result    Womens 2021-2022 Points Tables Updated 15-01-22 With Start Fitness Metropolitan League Result

JANUARY CLOSING DATES FOR INDOOR FIXTURES – Entry details are shown in Upcoming Fixtures below.
EIS Sheffield BMAF Pentathlon and 3000m Championships and Open Events on Sunday 23 January (Entries Closied)
Newham 60m Sprint Series on Wednesday 19 January (Closing Date Saturday 15 January)
Lee Valley London U20 and Senior Games on Saturday 22 January and Sunday 23 January (No Closing Date Given)
Lee Valley London U13, U15 and U17 Games on Saturday 29 January and Sunday 30 January (No Closing Date Given)
Lee Valley Southern U20 and Senior Championships on Saturday 5 February and Sunday 6 February (Closing Date Tuesday 25 January)

RESULTS
SOUTHERN U13/U15/U17 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Took place at Lee Valley on 15-16 January.
Apologies but the results from the SEAA are incomplete, those results outstading are in Red.
An excellent day for SBH with so many personal bests achieved. We had 2 Southern Champions, firstly MOIESHA SAVAGE who won the Under 13 Girls 60m, with a personal best (8.24) ranking her UK No.2. Secondly ZICO JONES who won the Under 17 Men’s 400m, with a personal best (50.95) ranking him UK No.2, this was ZICO’S first ever 400m race. There were Silver Medals from MALACHI AMADI took the Under 17 Men’s 60m title (7.05), although in his Semi-Final he ran a personal best (6.98) ranking him UK No.4, and TRAVIS SCOTTOW (2nd Claim) took the Under 17 Men’s Shot title (PB 14.43m) adding 84cm to his 2021 put, and is ranked UK No.2 U17 in 2022. There were numerous other SBH runners who finished just out of the medals.

60m – U13B Straight Final NATHAN HERMAN 7th (PB 9.75)
60m – U13G H1 VERA DOUDKO 6th (PB 9.12), H2 MOIESHA SAVAGE 1st (PB 8.41), EVIE PINCHERLE 6th (PB 10.47) in the Final MOIESHA won the Gold Medal (PB 8.24) taking .17 of a second off her H2 time, and is ranked UK no.2 U13 in 2022
60m – U15B H1 HARRY PINCHERLE 4th (PB 8.03) taking .16 of a second off his 2 January time, H2 ASHA ESCOBAR 6th (8.64), H3 NATHAN HOWELL 4th (8.08), H4 LANI JAIYEOLA 6th (8.68) taking .57 of a second off his 2019 time, in Semi-Final 1 HARRY finished 6th (8.04)
60m – U15G H1 SIENNA CORBYN 3rd (8.46), H5 ONYEBUCHI ODIAKA 5th (PB 8.56) taking .07 of a second off her 2020 time
60m – U17M H1 OLIVER LAURENS 3rd (PB 7.51) taking .94 of a second off his 2020 time, H2 MEKHI SPENCE-FORDE 2nd (PB 7.12) taking .54 of a second off his 2020 time, JADEN AULIS 5th (7.78) taking .87 of a second off his 2019 time, H3 MALACHI AMADI 1st (7.14), NIKITA PETROV 7th (PB 7.90), H7 SAUGAT PUN 6th (PB 7.54) ) taking .24 of a second off his 2020 time, in Semi-Final 2 MALACHI finished 1st (PB 6.98) taking .03 of a second off his 9 January time, and is ranked UK No.4 U17 in 2022, MEKHI finished 2nd (PB 7.10) taking .02 of a second off his H2 time, in the Final MALACHI won the Silver Medal (7.05)
60m – U17W H2 TEMI BAKARI 6th (PB 8.96), H3 WERONKA KALINSKA 4th (PB 8.59), KATIE HARRIES 5th (PB 8.60) taking .03 of a second off her 2 January time, H5 NIA AKINTOKUN 1st (8.00), H7 ANNA ROSE 4th (8.13) ) taking .12 of a second off her 2019 time, in Semi-Final 1 ANNA finished 4th (PB 8.10) taking .03 of a second off her H7 time
60m Hurdles – U15G H1 SIENNA CORBYN 4th (PB 9.92)
60m Hurdles – U15B Straight Final ASHER ESCOBAR 5th (PB 11.06)
60m Hurdles – U17W H2 NIA FORBES-AGYEPONG 2nd (PB 9.41) in Semi-Final 2 NIA finished 7th (9.82)
200m – U15B H2 ASHER ESCOBAR 5th (PB 27.70) taking .08 of a second off his 2 January time
200m – U15G H1 ONYEBUCHI ODIAKA 4th (SB 28.79), H3 ANGEL MCLEOD 2nd (SB 27.70) in Semi-Final 1 ANGEL finished 3rd (SB 27.25) taking .45 of a second off her H3 time, no Final results available as yet
200m – U17M H1 JADEN AULIS 5th (SB 24.99)
200m – U17W H1 OLIVE HARVEY-DEW 4th (SB 29.36), LUCY CAMPOS 5th (SB 29.46), H3 LOLA MCCANn-EZEKIEL 3rd (PB 27.80) taking .27 of a second off her 2020 time, H4 ANNA ROSE 1st (SB 26.34), H5 WERONIKA KALINSKA 5th (PB 28.96), H6 TEMI BAKARE 5th (PB 27.64), H7 NIA FORBES-AGYEPONG 3rd (SB 27.17), AZARIA NWANKWO 4th (SB 28.27) in Semi-Final 1 NIA finished 2nd (27.30) in Semi-Final 3 ANNA finished 1st (SB 26.34) equalling her H4 time, LOLA finished 6th (28.25) in the Final ANNA finished 6th (26.59)
300m – U15B no results available as yet
300m – U15G H1 MACIE SUTHERLAND 5th (SB 45.35) no other results available as yet
400m – U17M Straight Final ZICO JONES won the Gold Medal (PB 50.95) and is ranked UK No.2 U17 in 2022
400m – U17W no results available as yet
800m – U13G no results available as yet
800m – U15G no results available as yet
800m – U17W no results available as yet
Pole Vault – U15G Straight Final ABIGAIL EDWARDS 4th (SB 2.70m) and is ranked UK No.4 U15 in 2022, CELINE SILVERMAN 6th (2.10m) and is ranked UK No.7 U15 in 2022
Long Jump – U13G Straight Final VERA DOUDKO 5th (SB 3.13m) adding 24cm to her 9 January jump
Shot 5kg – U17M Straight Final TRAVIS SCOTTOW (2nd Claim) won the Silver Medal (PB 14.43m) adding 84cm to his 2021 put, and is ranked UK No.2 U17 in 2022

Photographs sent by TY HOLDEN, features MOIESHA SAVAGE after receiving her Gold Medal after winning the Under 13 Girls 60m and ZICO JONES after receiving his Gold Medal after winning the Under 17 Mens 400m

NEWHAM & ESSEX BEAGLE INDOOR 60m SERIES – Took place at Newham on 19 January.
60m – SM 1.1 DOMINIC ASHWELL 1st (SB 6.65), 1.3 JAMAL RHODEN-STEVENS 1st (PB 6.81) taking .13 of a second off his 2019 time, ALEX BEECHEY (2nd Claim) 1st (SB 6.99), 1.11 NENGI OSSAI V45 2nd (SB 7.29), 1.13 DITA JAJA U23 3rd (SB 7.47), 2.1 JAMAL finished 4th (PB 6.81) equalling his 1.3 time, 2.2 ALEX finished 7th (7.02), 2.7 NENGI finished 7th (7.44), 2.10 DITA finished 1st (PB 7.30) taking .11 of a second off his 2016 time,

NORTHERN U17/U20/SENIOR INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Took place at Sheffiel on 15-16 January.
400m – SM H4 ROBERT SHIPLEY (2nd Claim) 1st (SB 49.54) in Semi-Final 1 ROBERTS finished 2nd (SB 48.81) taking .73 of a second off his H4 time, in the Final ROBERTS finished 4th (SB 48.70) taking .11 of a second off his Semi-Final 1 time

LOUGHBOROUGH INDOOR OPEN MEETING – Took place at Loughborough on 15-16 January.
60m – SM H JUBRIL ADENIJI U20 3rd (PB 7.27), h8 JUBRIL finished 3th (PB 7.24) taking .03 of second off his H time
60m – SW F VANESSA ANSUAA U23 3rd (SB 8.23), G DARA APOOLA U23 1st (SB 8.39), h5 DARA finished 6th (SB 8.39) equalling her G time, h8 VANESSA finished 3rd (8.24)
60m – M50 A GARY SMITH V50 2nd (SB 8.73) taking .10 of a second off his 9 January time, and is ranked UK No.4 V50 in 2022, A GARY finished 2nd (8.74)
60m Hurdles – SW A MARLI JESSOP U20 5th (SB 8.73), h2 MARLI finished 2nd (SB 8.72) taking .01 of a second off her A time, and is ranked UK No.2 U20 in 2022
Pole Vault – SX A TRINITY O’CONNOR U23 4th (SB 3.11m), C ETHAN WALSH 4th (SB 4.71m) and is ranked UK No.4 in 2022, EMMA ANDERSSON 11th (SB 4.01m) adding 1cm to her 8 January height, and is ranked UK No.Equal 3rd in 2022
Long Jump – SM JOSH WOODS U23 3rd (PB 6.92m) adding 2cm to his 2019 jump, and is ranked UK No.8 U23 in 2022
Triple Jump – SX A KACEY WALTERS U20 1st (PB 11.47m) adding 99cm to her 2019 jump, and is ranked UK No.3 U20 in 2022, B EAVION RICHARDSON 2nd (SB 12.37m) and is ranked UK No.2 in 2022, AMELIA DALEY U20 5th (SB 11.24m) and is ranked UK No.2 U20 in 2022, C EFE UWAIFO (2nd Claim) 2nd (SB 15.73m) and is ranked UK No.2 in 2022

BIRMINGHAM XC LEAGUE DIVISION 1 – Took place at Smethwick on 15 January.
Men 9500m – BEN WILLS U23 (2nd Claim) 15th (30.16)

CHILTERN XC LEAGUE – Took place at Milton Keynes on 15 January.
Women 5600m – PHILIPPA LOWE (HCA) 12th (23.15)

MIDLAND WOMENS XC LEAGUE DIVISION 1 – Took place at Burton Dassett on 15 January.
Women 4100m – INDIRA PATEL U20 6th (25.36), EMILY HATHAWAY U20 46th (29.32)

PARKRUN – Can you make sure that you are registered as ‘Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers’, as the link I use to select all results only shows SBH athletes. If anyone is also officiating can you please contact me and advise me where and when. 

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Cassiobury on 15 January.
KEVIN WALDEN V35 5th (19.25) this was his 14th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Gladstone on 15 January.
JULIAN LAMY 2nd (17.50) this was his 29th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Hackney Marshes on 15 January.
BARRY CHISHOLM V60 177th (27.16) this was his 229th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Norwich on 15 January.
ALEX STAPLETON U 29th (19.37) this was his 10th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Oak Hill on 15 January.
BRADLEY SINGER 32nd (21.55) this was his 162nd Parkrun, STUART SINGER V60 51st (23.10) this was his 315th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Panshanger on 15 January.
RUSSELL DEVITT V70 190th (36.16) this was his 209th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Pieschener Allee on 15 January.
AMY FRY V35 21st (51.01) this was her 12th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Poole on 15 January.
HUGH RICHARDS V75 464th (29.33) this was his 168th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Rickmansworth on 15 January.
DAN WATTS V35 1st (17.16) this was his 13th Parkrun, CECILIA MARTINEZ MUNEZ V35 48th (22.00) this was her 9th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Sunny Hill on 15 January.
SEAN SUTHERLAND V50 10th (PB 23.30) this was his 2nd Parkrun, SHONA MICHEL V50 28th (28.25) this was her 51st Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Woking on 15 January.
REBEKAH HOUNSELL 13th (21.31) this was her 64th Parkrun

UPCOMING FIXTURES FOR THE NEXT 4 WEEKS, FOR THE PERIOD THURSDAY  20 JANUARY DECEMBER UNTIL WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY – The current 2021 Summer Fixture Card can be found on the SBH website – http://sbharriers.co.uk/fixtures-results/fixture-cards/ – also the contact details for all Team Managers can be found on the SBH website – http://sbharriers.co.uk/athletics/track-field/team-managers/
There are certain fixtures, that you will have to enter yourselves and pay the appropriate feel.

LEE VALLEY LONDON U20 AND SENIOR INDOOR GAMES – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Saturday 22 January and Sunday 23 January.
Timetable: The timetable is provisional and based on 2019 entries. Field event pools will be displayed 1 week before the event. Track will be seeded on the day. Timetable for the U20/Senior can be downloaded here
To enter please use this link – https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2022/GBR/ligu20sen/
No Closing Date Given
Note: You will have to enter yourself and pay the appropriate entry fee

BMAF PENTATHLON AND 3000m INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS AND OPEN EVENTS – Takes place on Sunday 23 January at EIS Sheffield, Coleridge Road, Sheffield (Satnav S9 5DA)
Events are for ages 35 and over, places are limited for open events.
Entries Closed

AOC SPORT INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR COLLEGES – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Wednesday 26 January.
The Championships will take place for member colleges, and is open to students aged under 20 on 31 August 2021.
Entries Closed

SOUTHERN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place on Saturday 29 January at Beckenham Place Park, Beckenham (SatNav BR£ 1SY).
Start Times – 11.00am U15 Boys (4.5k), 11.20am U13 Girls (3k), 11.35am U13 Boys (3k), 11.50am U15 Girls (4.5k), 12.10pm U17 Men (6k), 12.40pm U20 Women (6k), 13.05pm U17 Women (5k), 13.30pm U20 Men (8k), 14.05pm Senior Women (8k), 14.50pm Senior Men (15k). In the Senior Men’s any athlete has not started his 3rd lap by 60 minutes they are advised they will be unlikely to complete the course in 90 minutes when times will stop being recorded.
Entries Closed

LEE VALLEY LONDON U13, U15 & U17 INDOOR GAMES – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Saturday 29 January and Sunday 30 January.
Timetable: The timetable is provisional and based on 2019 entries. Field event pools will be displayed 1 week before the event. Track will be seeded on the day. Timetable for the U13/U15/U17 can be downloaded here
To enter please use this link – https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2022/GBR/ligu13u15u17/
No Closing Date Given
Note: You will have to enter yourself and pay the appropriate entry fee

NEWHAM 60m SPRINT SERIES – Takes place at the Terence McMillan Stadium, 281 Prince Regent Street, London (Satnav E13 8SD) on Wednesday 2 February.
Entries Closed

NORTH WEST LONDON LEAGUE – The fourth fixture of five which takes place on Saturday 5 February at Bannister Stadium, Uxbridge Road, Harrow (Satnav HA3 6SW). Age-Groups U11 to U17.
Awaiting final details.
Note: You do not have to be pre-entered, just turn up and run. Will any of our Female athletes please see JEREMY SOTHCOTT who will give you a race number

ENGLAND U15, U17 & U20 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place at the English Institute of Sport, Coleridge Road, Sheffield (Satnav S9 5DA) on Saturday 12 February and Sunday 13 February.
Entries Closed

LEE VALLEY ESSEX AND EASTERN COUNTIES INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Saturday 12 February and Sunday 13 February. Age-group U13 up to Senior.
Entries Closed

NEWHAM 60m SPRINT SERIES – Takes place at the Terence McMillan Stadium, 281 Prince Regent Street, London (Satnav E13 8SD) on Wednesday 16 February.
Please use this link for entry information – https://entry4sports.co.uk/#/
Closing date for entries is Saturday 12 February

CHARLES HICKS –The following article was published in the January edition of Athletics Weekly.
Newly crowned European Under 23 cross country champion CHARLES HICKS tells KATY BARDEN how he is aiming to emulate the athletics greats whose images hung on the walls of his school gym and filled him with sporting inspiration.

Link to his article – SBH AW article Charles Hicks Jan 22

RON PICKERING MEMORIAL FUND GRANT AWARDS 2022 – 2022 marks the 31st year of RON PICKERING Memorial Fund Grants to young athletes. In the more than 30 years since the death of the renowned Coach and Commentator in February of 1991, the RPMF has been able to support thousands of young athletes with Grants totalling more than £2million.
Like many other charities, the impact of the Covid Pandemic on our Fundraising activities over the past years has been very difficult for the RPMF. In what continued to be a difficult year for all athletes with uncertainties around Covid and competitions, we received over 450 applications during October and November of 2021.  After much deliberation, the RPMF was able to award a total amount of nearly £40,000 in grants to 178 talented young British athletes.

Among the grant recipients this year were a number of young athletes that made a major step forward in 2021, including European Under 23 Champions ISOBEL BOFFEY and JEREMIAH AZU, and European U20 Champions ED FAULDS, and MEGAN KEITH who come on strong at the end of the year to take the European Cross-Country title.
This year it is pleasing for us to see 19 awards to athletes with a disability, slightly more that 10% of the total awards, including grants to Race-Runners Gavin Drysdale and Thomas Talbot.

With good distribution around the country and almost 100 clubs with athletes receiving 2022 RPMF Grants, the highest number of awards went to members of Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers with 10 recipients, including European Junior Bronze Medallist HENRY MCLUCKIE. The full list is, DOMINIC ASHWELL, DANIEL BAINBRIDGE, BRAD DAVIES-PUGHE, ALANNAH FASHANU, JOSH FAULDS, KRISTIAN IMROTH, MARLI JESSOP, HENRY MCLUCKIE, CALVIN SMITH and JOSH WOODS.

SOS – SAVE OUR SCHOOLS – The following article was published on the Athletics Weekly website recently.
The English Schools Athletic Association again finds itself without a sponsor and in financial crisis as its centenary anniversary looms, writes CHRIS COHEN.

Schools Athletics is rightly held to be a hugely important part of the landscape of the sport in England and across the UK. The centenary of the English Schools Athletic Association (ESAA) is fast approaching, having been founded in 1925 by foresighted teachers and with the support of members of parliament, aristocrats and even a future king. The Duke of York, later to become King George VI, was the first President of the organisation and took an active part in its founding, with Lords Desborough, Lonsdale, Castlerosse and Percy as Vice Presidents. Although we no longer have royal patronage, the Association is still entirely volunteer-led with nobody in the organisation taking any salary from its activities, but a large group of teachers and retired teachers still working for the benefit of young athletes and their love of the sport.

Covid has brought many organisations to their knees – and it could herald the end for the ESAA. Despite working incredibly hard to produce an amazing championship under difficult circumstances in 2021, despite not receiving any sponsorship funding from their title sponsor, New Balance, which had its own challenges, and receiving reduced funding over the previous couple of years from England Athletics, the future looks bleak. New Balance has announced that their sponsorship agreement for funding the track & field and cross-country championships will not be renewed. Many people who understand these things agree that the senior sport in this country would not have been so successful over the years had it not been for the existence of the ESAA. Valuable work has been done in recent years highlighting the high numbers of athletes who competed at the Schools Championships and went on to both represent their country but also to win medals at the highest level, at Olympics and World Championships, as well as those who have gone on to be successful in other sports.

The first of these was MARY MILNE, who won the English Schools high jump title in 1925 and went on to finish fourth at the 1934 British Empire Games (forerunner of the Commonwealth Games) with the same height as the bronze medallist. Two years later the first ESAA champion won an Olympic medal, also in high jump. This was DOROTHY ODAM, who later won an Empire Games gold and went on to hold the world record at 1.66m. The first Olympic champions from the English Schools Championships were MARY BIGNAL (later RAND) and ANN PACKER, who each won gold in Tokyo in 1964. In 1976 the first athlete from the Schools’ Championship won Olympic gold in another sport, when DANNY NIGHTINGALE won gold in the modern pentathlon. When the sport started holding World Championships, ESAA was quickly represented among the champions when DALEY THOMPSON and, a day later, STEVE CRAM, won gold in the first edition in Helsinki in 1983. In addition to track & field and cross-country championships, the first Combined Events Championships was held in 1988, with KATH MERRY winning the junior event and then going on to Olympic 400m bronze behind CATHY FREEMAN at Sydney 2000. In total, 135 ESAA athletes have won European Championship medals, 35 of them gold; 278 have won medals at British Empire or Commonwealth Games, of which 81 have won gold. ESAA has produced fourteen Olympic champions and 77 medallists, with Mo Farah the most recent, as well as 71 World Championship medals, of which 13 were gold, the most recent being DINA ASHER-SMITH and KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON in 2019.

The effects of the loss of a title sponsor will be hard-hitting. The track & field championships, normally held over two days, require the athletes to arrive and stay as a county team, meaning that almost 2000 athletes and their team staff need accommodation for two nights, along with over a hundred technical officials. ESAA has always subsidised the cost of accommodation for the athletes, meaning that well over £100,000 is spent annually on hotel costs, leaving the athletes to find another £100,000 plus. Clearly, the overnight stays could be reduced or removed but this would take away the huge educational benefits for all the young people and especially the first away-from-home experience for young athletes taking their first steps into sport that could take them to higher levels. Many top-class athletes talk fondly of their first experience at the championships and what they learned by being away from home in a team setting. KEELY HODGKINSON was recently asked what the English Schools Championships did for her career. Her answer gives some idea of their importance. “The English Schools Athletics Association Championships was always the first thing I would put on my annual competition calendar each year as a young developing athlete,” she said. “It’s basically the Olympics for kids! “I loved my experience at this competition over the years. It was the first time I felt like a real athlete as we stayed overnight with the team and I had to learn how to prepare for heats and finals. I also had to learn new skills like knowing when to focus and when to relax, when to eat and what to eat and to communicate with others and make new friends. “All these things have stood me in good stead for when I then went on to represent Great Britain & NI at junior level and then senior teams. The English Schools ‘Kids’ Olympics’ fuelled my desire to make the actual Olympics.”

Other than the Track & Field Championships, ESAA also hosts an annual cross-country championship (on March 19 this year in Kent) with six races of over 300 athletes in each from all 45 counties and areas of the country, from the Isle of Wight to the Isle of Man, from Cornwall to Cumbria, a Combined Events Championship, again with all three age groups represented by up to 45 athletes in each event, a much bigger turn-out than any other similar national event. On the same weekend, the national Race Walk Championships are held, giving athletes in all aspects of the sport an opportunity to test themselves against their peers and to vie for an opportunity to gain selection for the English Schools teams at the Home International events that are an important part of the calendar and, in years when the World Games take place, to be at the pinnacle of schools’ athletics. 

Read More: Class of 2021 show their talent

In fact, England are the world champions, having achieved this status when the boys finished second to Brazil and the girls’ teams won their team competition. They were also runners-up in the most recent edition of the World Schools Cross-Country Championship. Representation at the top level is not all that ESAA stands for though, and, in fact, its Schools Cup competitions in track & field and cross-country, attract many thousands of young people from hundreds of schools every year to compete firstly in local events within their county, reaching eventually to the national finals, hosted across the country at the end of the summer and autumn terms respectively. This is in addition to the hundreds of thousands who take part in the area and county rounds of the national championships. 

Read More: 2021 English Schools Cross Country Cup coverage

Without adequate funding, all of this is at risk, both the opportunities for the masses and the first steps on the ladder for future Olympic and world champions. Hopefully, there is a company out there that sees the benefits that come from a link with a hugely successful and well-organised youth sport. Past sponsors like TSB Bank were very positive about the benefits they gained from their link with the Association in terms of long-term account-holders who are still customers years after opening their accounts when the bank hosted county and school events. As the Association moves closer to its centenary in 2025 it is essential a way is found to fund its activities properly to allow our young people to continue to have the opportunities they have had in the first hundred years.

BIRMINGHAM 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES – You may wish to sign up to receive their Newsletter. Link – https://www.birmingham2022.com/register-your-interest/. This is the link to the current schedule for the 25 events – https://images.birmingham2022.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/11441664_CWGs_Daily_Competition_Schedule_FINAL.pdf.