Mini Marathon 2009

London Mini Marathon – Sunday, 26^th April 2009

Havering’s young athletes maintained their magnificent record in the adidas Mini London Marathon on Sunday when they won the event overall once again.

Run over the final 4km of the main Marathon course, the event involves competitors from all 33 London Boroughs and takes place immediately before the main event.

Most of the Havering team are members of the local club, Havering Mayesbrook, and their experience showed with a series of excellent performances.

Pride of place went to Freddy Keefe who won the boys 11/12 age group race beating some 200 athletes in the process. In this age group, top-30 finishers were Nick Shade (9^th) and James Kidd (16^th).

In the girls equivalent race, Havering had five athletes in the top-30 – Lydia Hallam (11^th), Rosie Brett (15^th), Lindsay McLachlan (23^rd), Heidi Surman-Wells (24^th) and Rebecca Christmas (25^th).

In the boys 13/14 race, both Adam Edwards (4^th) and Ryan O’Mahoney (8^th) made the top-10. Close up were Hoseah Gikungu (12^th) and Thomas Davis (13^th). In the girls race, there were top-30 finishes for Amanda Blaxland (27^th) and Rebecca O’Neill (30^th).

In the older boys race (15/16/17), both Jamie Buckley-Stanton (10^th) and Callum Sutton (18^th) made the top-20. For the girls in this age group, 15 year old Eleanor Bounds (Havering Sports Council’s Young Athlete of the Year) ran a terrific race to finish 6^th whilst Ingrid Deane competing in the event for the final time, also ran well to finish 11^th.

Overall, the Havering youngsters finished 1^st in two age groups (11/12 boys and 15/16/17 girls), second in two (11/12 girls and 13/14 boys), 9^th in the 15/16/17 boys and 11^th in the 13/14 girls.

There were also some very good performances from Havering Mayesbrook athletes representing Barking & Dagenham.

In the 11/12 girls age group, Avril Loynes finished 12^th and in the 13/14 race, Rebecca Stanley finished 10^th. Two girls finished in the top-20 in the 15/16/17 race – Zoey Littlechild was 13^th and Rachel Sadler 20^th.

For the boys, Joseph Waked ran very well to take 27^th place in the 15/16/17 race.

Girls 11/12

11 Lydia Hallam 20:35; 12. Avril Loynes; 15. Rosie Brett 20:46; 23. Lindsay McLachlan 21:14; 24. Heidi Surman-Wells 21:16; 25. Rebecca Christmas 21:16; 52, Francesca Smith 22:20.

Girls 13/14

10. Rebecca Stanley; 27 Amanda Blaxland 20:13; 30. Rebecca O'Neill 20:27; 54.Hannah Bloy 21:25; 81 Shannon Sullivan 22:18; 128. Sarah Busby; 136. Shannon Cummins 23:54; 147. Lindsay Wiggins 24:03; Isabel Harris 24:08

Girls 15/16/17

6. Eleanor Bounds 17:57; 11. Ingrid Deane 18:47; 13. Zoey Littlechild; 20. Rachel Sadler; 43. Gemma Phillips 20:41; 52. Sidnie Sales 20:59; 54. Jennifer Holland 21:07; 74. Harine Waked; 83. Lauren Stripling 22:12; 119. Michelle Lovell 23:42

Boys 11/12

1. Freddy Keefe 16:37; 9 Nicholas Shade 18:02; 16: James Kidd 18:28; 56. Jordan Fox 19:49; Mitchell Chesterton 19:54; 90. Sam Bishop 20:27; 153. Luke Smith 21:38; 207. Fraser Scott 23:00

Boys 13/14

4. Adam Edwards 16:55; 8. Ryan O'Mahoney 17:10; 12. Hosea Gikungu 17:17; 13. Thomas Davis 17:17; 32. Josh Connors 17:52; 86. Chris Hyde 19:03; 93. Will Gazzard 19:12; 157. Finbar Smyth 20:17; 224 Shane Moodey

Boys 15/16/17

10. Jamie Buckley-Stanton 15:54; 18. Callum Sutton 16:16; 27. Joseph Waked; 69. Daniel Shanney 17:26; 80. DeanLeftley 17:42; 105. Thomas Shanney 17:59; 111. Liam Bush 18:04; 135. Massi Dendani 18:29; 140. Andrew Wood 18:34; 168. Ross Earney ; 22.8 Glenn Wlieman

Havering Barking & Dagenham

Non-HMAC Members in Havering Team




*Marathon* Steve Rand was first club member home in the marathon proper finishing in a PB of 2h 54m 48s. Three other club runners competed. Other finishers: Pat Gahagan 3:30.34; Lesley Felton 3:56.33; Angela Thompson 4:17.33

Photos: Gary Howard