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Athletics Report
competing. Robert Suckling,
despite not feeling 100% led
the team off with a strong leg, gold. Naomi Kingston ran a
Joseph Georgiadis followed
with a powerful leg, handing
over to Cameron Swatton
having a great run, letting
Peter Guy bring the team
home in 14th having run the
8th fastest individual leg of
the day.
The U15 boys team of George
Pope, Callum Myatt, Angus
Harrington and Michael
Eagling combined well to
finish inside the top twenty,
placing 19th. The U17 boys’
team finished just outside the
top twenty crossing the line
in 22nd but a great effort was
put together by the quartet of
Niyi Akin Agunbiade, Marco
Arcuri, Charlie Davis and
Alex Leggatt.
National Road Relays
Sutton Park
5th October 2014
Thirty eight Blackheath and
Bromley HAC U13, U15 and
U17 young athletes made
the long journey to Sutton
Coldfield, Birmingham for
this year’s National Road
Relays and finished the day
winning gold and bronze
medals and having recorded
some magnificent results.
The National young athletes
road relays attract over 1000
athletes so standards are
always top class and our
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BBHAC U15 girls were top
of the tree winning a terrific
superb first leg finishing 2nd
(running the 4th fastest time
of the day), handed over to
Yasmin Austridge who did
well to hold on to 4th position Lundy the difficult task of
letting Katie Ann McDonald
power back to lead the field,
(running the 2nd fastest time
of the day) and crossing the
line some 12 seconds in front
of the second placed team.
Such is our strength in the
U15 girls age group we were
able to field strong B & C
Teams. The B team of Jenny
Allen, Stephanie Taylor &
Millie Smith were 27th and
the C team of Jessica Sellar,
Grace Scopes and Amy Leach
were 38th.
In a tremendous team
performance the U13 boys
also saw Peter Guy come
home in second place on the
first leg (having run the 4th
Peter Guy leading the South of England XC relays at Wormwood Scrubs
fastest leg of the day), Joseph
Georgiadis then set about
running a superb second leg
(11th fastest of the day ) and
opened up a massive lead over
the rest of the field crossing
the line in third giving Keir
holding on to bronze medal
position. Keir made this
look easy with a fantastic leg
bringing the team home nearly
40 seconds clear of the 4th
team. The B team consisted
of Ben Gardiner, Cameron
Swatton & young Barnaby
Corry guesting for the team
and finished well in 39th.
The U17 team of Shannon
Riskey, Kelsey Fuss and Jess
Keene put together a great
relay to finish a fine 9th place.
Jess recorded the 5th fastest
time of the day and Kelsey
the 7th fastest.The B team
of Joanna Clowes, Mary Guy
and Jenny Sheasby finished a
fine 38th. Francesca Pickup