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Athletics Report 3
Alex Bruce Littlewood Busiest man of the day was injured, he volunteered to take
finished in second place in the Alex Pope who competed in one effort in this competition
3000m steeplechase despite six events contributing 26 of as well. He took all six jumps,
a fall in the water jump and the Club’s 289.5 points. finishing in 2nd place and
he followed this with third So having started the day improving his personal best by
place in the A string 1500 bottom we were up to 4th over half a metre to 14.39.
with a blistering sprint finish. but any two of the bottom six Likewise another volunteer
Remarkably just two seconds could go down and our low Duayne Bovell jumped a
covered the first nine finishers match points score would work seasons best of 12.64 in the B
and one of these was Under against us if we were level with string and they joined Kieran
20 Will Fuller who won the B a rival on League points. Daly and Tremayne Gilling
string in a new best of 3.56.96. 1. Woodford Green with in the 4x100 team which ran
Fellow juniors Will Ruiz and Essex Ladies 24 (1155.8), a seasons best of 41.57 to
Tom Desborough also set 2. City Of Glasgow 21 (880), finish second. Earlier Kieran
personal bests in the 800 and 3. Kent AC 12 (776.3), and Tremayne had won both
3000 steeplechase respectively. 4. Blackheath & Bromley strings of the 100m in times
12 (731.5), 5. Herne Hill 11 of 10.60 and 10.87 despite
The 5000m was also a high (771.8), 6. Thames Valley running into headwinds of -1.1
standard with nine athletes 11 (747), 7. Windsor Slough and -5.2. For good measure
under 15 minutes and one of Eton & Hounslow 9 (762), Dan Putnam recorded the
these was Graham Rush who 8. Gateshead 8 (713). fastest non scoring 100 of
ran a very useful 14.53.32 on 10.89.
his Club debut. British League Kieran and Dan then finished
Lee Valley – August 9th 2nd and 3rd in their respective
In the field the Club secured After a tense few weeks the 200m races in 21.60 and 21.75
near maximum points in big day arrived and on a and Dan would have gone
the long jump with Oliver bright sunny day we equalled quicker but for an Achilles
Newport second in the A our best result of the season injury.
string with 7.26 and Jermaine finishing third. Relegation was The Club’s other winner on
Olasan winning the B string avoided and we were third in the track was Alex Bruce
with 7.20. the final table. Littlewood who took the
Fine individual performances honours in the 1500 after
Jermaine also made a rare and a good team spirit ensured a titanic battle down the
triple jump appearance leaping every A and B string was home straight with Windsor’s
13.76 while in the A string filled even if those competing Alex Tovey. Just 25 minutes
Stefan Amokwandoh was 5th were not doing their main separated this and the 3000m
on his debut with 14.26. discipline. which saw Alex back on the
Jermaine Olasan was a perfect track again to finish third.
Tom Parker made a welcome example of this. He won his Likewise youngster Will
return to the team to finish specialist event, the long jump Fuller, who had interrupted a
second in the hammer with a leap of 7.28. Then, family holiday to come back to
with 52.49; Mike Van Den knowing we had our three compete for the team. He was
Dobbelsteen was 3rd in the best triple jumpers abroad or 4th in the B 1500 and then,
javelin with 50.66 and Louis
Mascarenhas set a new best of
45.52 in the discus.
