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Kent Young Athletes League 2015
Medway Park – 10th May
Blackheath and Bromley U13
and U15 boys and girls were
once again triumphant in
Sunday’s Kent league, fixture
No2, at a sunny but blowy
Medway Park. Our President
and first lady, Dave and
Hanna Cordell were at the
track early and selected the
best possibly site for the club of his best Archie Shipley
tent, out of the wind but with
a great sunny aspect. On to
the action and loads of great
performances contributed to
BBHAC comfortably winning
the overall combined match
by over 80 points. The U13
boys produced 17 personal
best performances, had two
boys competing on the track
for BBHAC the first time
and were top of the U13 boys
league table.
Harry Cowie was first to
compete and started his day
well with a personal best
18.05 to finish 3rd in the
hammer. This was followed
by another personal best
coming 2nd in the shot before
finishing the day winning the
Javelin B string with a throw
of 19.09. Field events are
often over shadowed by the
more visible track races but
Harry’s performances prove
how important they are as he
scored 26 points for the club, top 20, we will definitely be
nearly 20% of the total points working on that one!
scored.
Sean Lancaster continues to
score valuable points for the
club putting the shot just shy the final leg of the relay.
tried his hand at hurdling
for the first time and was
rewarded with a win in the B
string. Archie then produced
another personal best,
shaving a couple of tenths off 200m sprint and the tough two
his 100m time, placing second
in the B string.
A good series of jumps with a
best of 4.17, was good enough
for 3rd in the long jump and
Archie finished his day with
a rapid sprint down the back
straight as the relay boys
posted their fastest time of
the year and a win.
Jacob Byfield improved his
75m hurdle best by over a
second (he must be getting
some great coaching?), was
just short of his best in the
long and high jump but had a
great second bend in helping
the relay team to victory.
Tareq Bannour ran two
great new personal bests in
the 100m (12.52) and 200m
(26.05) to place himself
2nd and 3rd in the National
rankings, not bad for a 12
year old. Tareq also used his
strength to put the shot a
good distance but was marked
down as a no throw on a
technicality! With a throw
that could have put him in the
Tareq made up for the shot
disappointment by storming
down the home straight on
Sam Reardon made up for
his disappointment of being
knocked off the top of the
Parkrun grand prix league
table (by a girl!) by running
two new personal bests in the
lap 800m. Sam knocked well
over a second off his 200mm
running a rapid 27.88 and
had a strong race winning the
800m in 2:27.87. Sam was also
the lead off leg in the relay
team and had a good series of
jumps in the long jump.
Rowan Fuss had a busy hour
and three quarters squeezing
in three events, starting with
a second place in the 200m
before dominating the 800m
and running a strong but
totally controlled 2:22.46.
After barely catching his
breath it was over to the javelin
where he manged to get in a
fantastic 25.90 on his second
attempt, also finishing second.