Mini Marathon 2008

London Mini Marathon – Sunday, 13^th April 2008

Despite an excellent individual victory in the Girls 13-14 race, Havering’s young athletes failed to win the Adidas London Mini-Marathon in successive years on Sunday.

On the day, the strength in depth of both the Bromley and Richmond squads proved too much for the Havering team to overcome but 3^rd place overall was no disgrace. The Mini-Marathon is traditionally run over the last three miles of the main London Marathon course and is a tremendous experience for all young runners.

The Borough’s success in the competition over the past ten years has been due in no small part to a core of athletes from the local club, Havering Mayesbrook. It was one of these extremely promising athletes, Eleanor Bounds, who took centre stage on Sunday. Eleanor completed the three miles in 18 mins 30 secs resulting in a winner’s trophy and an appearance on television during the BBC’s coverage of the main Marathon.

The Havering girls were also strong in the 15/16/17 race with excellent runs from Georgie-Lou Sales in 4^th place and Ingrid Deane in 5^th. Jennifer Holland made the top-30 in 25^th place.

The boys’ 15/16/17 year olds were equally impressive with top-30 positions for Grant Twist (14^th), Matt Bloy (15^th), Daniel Shanney (25^th) and Callum Sutton (30^th).

In the youngest age group (11/12), the star for the girls was Rebecca Stanley with a superb 4^th place. For the boys, there was an impressive performance from the fast improving Freddy Keefe who finished 9^th in his first year in the age group.

Havering’s record in this event is second to none among the 33 London Boroughs and Team Managers Jean and Doug Tierney were quick to praise the efforts of all who took part.

Girls 11/12

4. Rebecca Stanley 19:21; 25. Avril Loynes; 37 Lydia Hallam 22:09; 70. Hannah Bloy 22:51; 102. Isabel Harris 23:41; 110. Roseanne Bett 23;49;123. Katie Rogers 24:14; 129. Shannon Cummins 24:24; 151. Amber Amey 25:08.

Girls 13/14

1. Eleanor Bounds 18:30; 10. Sidnie Sales 19:15; 20. Rachel Sadler; 23 Rebecca O'Neill 20:03; 33 Amanda Blaxland 20:27; 41 Shannon Sullivan 21:04; 60. Sharmila Golan 21:43; 66. Patsy McWeeney 21:50; 79 Holly Thomas 22:21

Girls 15/16/17

4. Georgie-Lou Sales 18:17; 5. Ingrid Deane 18:25; 7. Zoey Littlechild 18:31; 25 Jennifer Holland 19:53; 33. Alex Beard 20:26; 36. Gemma Phillips 20:34; 55. Christina Holland 21:19; 60. Emma Fox; 99. Becky Owen; 125. Jade Timothy; 136. Michelle Lovell 23:41

Boys 11/12

9. Freddy Keefe 18:33; 36. Finbar Smyth 19:40; 38. Nicholas Duffey 19:42; 48. James Kidd 19:56; 53. Charlie Sadham 19:59; 59. Jordan Fox 20:21; 106. Mitchell Charleston 20:52; 218. Theo Atkins 25:00

Boys 13/14

46 Ryan O'Mahoney 18:23; 62. Thomas Davis 18:42; 98. Josh Coomes 19:18; 66. Tyler Bennett 19:30; 136. Adam Wileman; 144. Chris Hyde 20:30; 153. Ross Earney; 165. Thomas Sultana 20:54; 181. Glen Wileman; 219 Connor Dyer 25:09; 210. Luke Overton 25:11

Boys 15/16/17

14. Grant Twist 15:47; 15. Matt Bloy 15:51; 25. Daniel Shanney 16:28; 30. Callum Sutton 16:34; 32 Thomas Shanney 16:40; 42. Jamie Buckley-Stanton 17:04; 56. John Whitehead 17:26; 62. Liam Bush 17:30; 78. Chris Lowe 17:46; 147. Will Truman 18:57

Club Members: Havering Barking & Dagenham

Non-HMAC Members in Havering Team




*Marathon* Graham Pritchard was again first club member home in the marathon proper finishing in a PB of 2h 52m 39s. Three other club runners beat the sub-three hour barrier to enter the club's all-time top 20. Other finishers: Graham Hogan 2:53.57; Steve Rand 2:58.44; Martin Chester 2:59.38; Ian Anthony 3:00.36; Denise Harris 3:34.51; Panos Kakoulis 3:45.52; Graham Knight 3:49.09; Lesley Felton 3:58.33