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Athletics Report 9

Campbell all added to our haul. Match Four, Manchester.
Table After Two Matches: 20th August.
1. Swansea Harriers 15.0 (653), We also had the most number In the end it didn’t happen. We
2. Cardiff AAC 14.0 (615), of grade one performances finished in 6th place in the final
3. Harrow AC 13.0 (608), 4. from Dan Putnam (twice), match which left us 5th overall.
Camron Lyttle, Dean Hylton,
Blackheath & Bromley H & With a number of people
AC 9.0 (569), 5. Sale Harriers Phil Sesemann, Tom French, missing with injuries and others
Scott Huggins, Matt Blandford
8.5 (560.5), 6. Windsor Slough ill or unavailable this was not
Eton & Hounslow AC5.5 (473), (twice), Jonathan Ilori, Rob a surprise. What was a bit of a
Sutherland. Coleman Corry,
7. Glasgow City AC 4.5 (430), 8. surprise was that the two teams
Basingstoke & Mid Hants AC Peter Guy and Reece Young who came up got promoted
all made good debuts. It was
2.5 (410.5).
a great team effort. But for a again. I can’t remember that
couple of weak events we would happening before and they were
Match Three, Bedford. have been higher still. In the both Welsh!
15th July. hammer and javelin we scored Although we didn’t have a lot
And so we came to the Big 12 points in total. Cardiff of athletes we did have a lot of
Day Out with all five divi- scored 52 and Sale 46. quality. Pleasingly there were
sions competing at one venue. personal bests for Rob Suther-
Bedford was chosen because, Our score of 318 points was land (long jump) and Luc Du-
not only does it have an outdoor the highest we have scored in rant (shot), Adam Herring ran
throws circle, it has an outdoor this division since 2000, the last his fastest outdoor electric time
javelin runway. So with an early time we were promoted to the and James Habergham ran his
start technically the field events top division. No one who had fastest 4x400 split. What have
could run to time. Neither it scored that number of points in they got in common? They all
nor the track did so for various a match had not finished in the did all four matches this season
reasons. I suspect that those in top two in the last 10 years. as did the ever dependable Lew-
favour of the concept took lots Final match score. 1. Sale. 354, is Ely and Dan Putnam. There
of positives from the day while 2. Cardiff. 328.5, 3. Blackheath was also a pb for Ross Braden
those who were sceptical about & Bromley 318, 4. Windsor in the 5000, his third middle
its viability could take lots of Slough Eton & Hounslow 281. distance pb in three matches.
negatives away. I’m with the 5. Harrow 259, 6. Swansea 227,
former, and the AGM voted for 7. Glasgow 216.5, 8. Bas- Everyone did well with Dan
another one in 2018. ingstoke 183. Putnam gaining two second
Our day could not have started places in the sprints and
confirming himself as our top
better as, not only did Phil Table After Three Matches: points scorer this year. Phil Ses-
Sesemann win the 3000 metres, 1. Cardiff 21. (943.5), 2. Swan- emann and Will Fuller doubled
he did so with a League Record. sea 18 (880), 3. Harrow 17 (867), up in the middle distance with
To add to the celebrations Ross 4. Sale 16.5 (914.5), 5. Black- Will running the 5000 just 25
Barden set a pb in the B string. heath & Bromley 15 (887), 6. minutes after the 1500. Both
We had the most number of A Windsor 10.5 (754), 7. Glasgow had actually run the previous
string wins as Phil Sesemann 6.5 (646.5), 8. Basingstoke 3.5 day at the BMC meeting at
again in the 1500, Dan Putnam (593.5) Stretford (where Will improved
(200), Jonathan Ilori (triple So unless Cardiff had a com- his best to 3.45 in the 1500 and
jump), Scott Huggins (pole plete disaster at the final match, was fastest Briton). So too did
vault), Matt Blandford (shot) they would be promoted. Us or James Habergham before racing
and the 4x100 quartet of Dan one of three other clubs would the 800, 400 and 4x400.
Putnam, Dean Hylton, Camron go up with them.
Lyttle and Shamar Thomas