Essex Championships Days 2 & 3, 15th & 16th May 2004, Chelmsford

A strong showing from the ladies squad helped HMAC athletes to 36* medals, 20* of them gold, at  the Essex Championships at Chelmsford this weekend.

The senior women notched up 10 medals - with Kate Brewington contributing five! Kate competed in six of the seven heptathlon events and came away with two golds in the long and high jumps, a javelin silver, and bronzes in the shot and hurdles. But she had to settled for fourth place in a good quality 200m event.

Adding to the senior medal tally were Claire Brennan who held off strong challenge to win 400m hurdles gold, Mel Harrison who took the senior discus, and Lesley Felton who came out on top in the vets 400m. In the senior 400m there was a silver medal for Laurie Cossey, while Sarah Deacon (Hammer) and Hannah Gamester (long jump) also gained runners up gongs.

Mel Harrison also starred in the junior women's 9 medal haul winning the junior discus in a new PB exceeding the 40m barrier for the first time, adding another P for hammer silver, and gaining bronze in the shot. Sara Luck won the 800m in this age group, while Kirsty Smith took triple jump gold and Lynsey Clark added silver in the same competition. Clark also won discus bronze. Nina Brennan ran well for 400m hurdles silver and Danielle Ross smashed her pole vault PB in placing second in that competition.

 The u17 women added another seven medals, five of them gold. Lucy Sargent again excelled adding the club u17 and u20 long jump and 100m records to her already impressive CV, and equalling the club senior 100m record for good measure. Her 100m heat time of 11.90s equalled Linda Smith's 21-year-old record and took her into the UK all-time top 30 and she went event faster in taking the gold medal with an 11.75s clocking, aided by a wind above the legal limit.  On Sunday in virtually still conditions she erased Tina Castling's 25 year-old u17 & u20 long jump record when she propelled herself to a superb 5.75m.

Chloe van Wulven was another to take double gold with a season's best 80m hurdles win, and recovering from early failures to win the high jump. Lisa Schofield sliced another four tenths off her hurdles best time in placing fourth.  Alex Winch also claimed gold in the u17 3000m walk. Lauren McVicar took silver in a new PB in the 300m.

Megan Foley and Katie Richardson took part in a high calibre 800m race, with Megan holding on to bronze as a fast finishing Katie smashed her PB by a few seconds.  Lauren Clarke had also set a new PB on her way to a final place.

In the u15 girls events Victoria Winch won gold in the combined 3000m walk while in the somewhat faster-moving 100m sprint Frankie Calder twice bettered her PB and came through for bronze in a tight finish. Ingrid Deane also gained 800m bronze, having carved three seconds off her PB in her heat, as did Hayley Thomas who set a new landmark in qualifying before placing fifth in the final.

Trevor Keys provided the highlight for the senior men, reducing his PB by 17 seconds in a thrilling race to lift the Essex AAA most valuable trophy, the Atlanta Cup, last won by a Havering athlete 29 years ago in 1975. Matt Russell was in superb sprint form running faster than before in placing third in the 100m on Saturday and going one better in the 200m on Sunday. In the junior men's age group Simon Parker gained the only podium place with a 200m bronze, while Andrew Meech improved his PB in his 800m heat.

There were two medals for the u17 men as Joe Forde added four metres to his hammer PB with his gold medal effort, and the improved Davis Nefs smashed his best in winning 400m silver.  Ashley Reece improved his 800m PB in both heat and final but was just out of the medals in a high class race.

The final medal came in the u15 800m as Matt Bloy again bettered his PB, placing third, and he also set a new 400m landmark in his heat, placing fourth in the final. Grant Twist added a new PB in qualifying for the 800m final.

*Based on results known to date - days 2 & 3 only - please fill in any gaps!

Link to full results

  

	Golds (15):	Silver (11) :	Bronze (9)
Senior Men (3)	Trevor Keys - 5000m	Matt Russell - 200m	Matt Russell - 100m
Senior Women (10)	Kate Brewington - LJ & HJ Claire Brennan - 400m H   Mel Harrison - DT          Lesley Felton - Vet 400m	Kate Brewington - JT      Sarah Deacon - HT      Hannah Gamester - LJ     Laurie Cossey - 400m	Kate Brewington - 100h & SP
Junior Men (1)			Simon Parker - 200m
Junior Women (9)	Sara Luck - 800m            Kirsty Smith - TJ                  Mel Harrison - DT	Lynsey Clark - TJ          Danielle Ross - PV              Mel Harrison - HT             Nina Brennan - 400 H	Mel Harrison - SP        Lynsey Clark - DT
Under 17 Men (2)	Joe Forde - HT	David Nefs - 400m
Under 17 Women (7)	Lucy Sargent - 100m & LJ  Chloe Van Wulven - 80H&HJ Alex Winch - 3k walk	Lauren McVicar - 300m	Megan Foley - 800m
Under 15 Boys (1)			Matt Bloy - 800m
Under 15 girls (3)	Vicky Winch - 3k walk		Ingrid Deane - 800m          Frankie Calder - 100m

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Women/Girls

Under 13s

800m  -   Heat - Rebecca Luck 2m 51.51s

Under 15s

100m - 3^rd Frankie Calder 12.85w (PB)

800m  - 3^rd Ingrid Deane 2m 24.06s (Heat 2m 23.10s - PB); 5^th Hayley Thomas 2m 26.78s (Heat 2m 24.79s -  PB); Heat - Rachel Newman 2m 36.13s

3000m walk -  1^st Victoria Winch 19m 15.20s

75m Hurdles: Heat: Catrina McAuliffe 13.37w  

Under 17s

100m -  1^st Lucy Sargent 11.75w (heat: 11.90 - club u17 & U20 record, = SW record PB); 4^th Lauren McVicar 12.81w (heat 12.71w PB)

300m - 2^nd Lauren McVicar 41.74s (PB)

800m - 3^rd Megan Foley 2m 14.09s; 4^th Katie Richardson 2m 14.42s (PB); 7^th Lauren Clark 2m 23.36s (Heat 2m 16.58s - PB); Heat: Robyn Matson 2m 26.55s; Helen Roche 2m 29.67s

80m Hurdles -  1^st Chloe Van Wulven 11.57w;  4^th  Lisa Schofield 12.20w (PB)

3000m walk -  1^st Alex Winch 19m 37.72s

Long Jump - 1^st Lucy Sargent 5.75m (club u17 & U20 record, PB); 8^th  Lisa Schofield 4.76m

High Jump -  1^st Chloe Van Wulven 1.63m; 

Junior Women / U20s

100m Hurdles -  5th - Nina Brennan 18.0s

400m Hurdles -  2^nd  - Nina Brennan 69.95s

200m   7^th  Kirsty Smith  27.87s (Heat 27.44s - PB)

800m -  1^st  - Sara Luck 2m 14.87s

1500m   5^th  Harriet Scott 5m 06.56s

Triple Jump 1^st  Kirsty Smith - 10.98m; 2^nd  Lynsey Clark - 10.45m (PB);

Pole Vault -  2^nd  - Danielle Ross 2.20m (PB); 

Shot - 3^rd  - Melanie Harrison 11.15m

Discus: 1^st   - Melanie Harrison 40.03m (PB); 3^rd  -Lynsey Clark - 37.76m;  5^th - Nina Brennan 24.79m

Hammer -  2^nd  - Melanie Harrison 39.03m (PB); 

Senior Women

100m - 6th Hannah Gamester 13.39w

200m - 4th Kate Brewington 25.56s

400m  2^nd  Laurie Cossey 60.75s

800m 6th Lesley Felton 2m 23.80s

100m Hurdles - 3^rd Kate Brewington 14.19w (+2.1); 5^th Claire Brennan 15.48w

400m Hurdles - 1^st  Claire Brennan 68.78s

Long Jump - 1^st  Kate Brewington 5.99m ?w 2^nd   Hannah Gamester 5.10m

High Jump - 1^st  Kate Brewington 1.68m

Shot - 3^rd Kate Brewington 11.28m

Discus - 1^st   - Melanie Harrison 38.92m; 5^th  Sarah Deacon  34.40m 

Hammer - 2^nd Sarah Deacon  44.??

Javelin - 2^nd Kate Brewington 35.73m

Veteran Women

400m   1^st    Lesley Felton 64.2s 

Men/Boys

Under 13s

800m Heats: Simon Brown 2m 31.60s; James McAusland 2m 48.74s; Steve Payne 2m 50.36s

Under 15s

400m 4th Matt Bloy 56.86s (Heat 56.31s PB); Heat: Daniel Winters 61.83s

800m 3^rd  Matt Bloy 2m 09.05s (PB) 6th: Grant Twist ??  (heat: 2m 18.5s PB); 7th Joe Webster ??

Heat: Daniel Winters 2:24.8; Jamie Harrington 2:36.2

Javelin 1^st   Bone Buwembo 42.60m 

Under 17s

400m - 2^nd  - David Nefs 53.0s (PB); 4th Michael Waller 53.5 (Heat 53.10) Heat - Christian Newton 61.98s

800m - 4th Ashley Reece 2m 1.88s (PB)

Hammer 1^st Joe Forde 43.79m (PB) 

Javelin 3^rd  Harry Tyler 41.81m 

Junior Men/u20

100m 5th - Simon Parker 11.70   

200m 3^rd - Simon Parker 23.54s  

800m 6th - Martin Heys 2:00.36s (Heat 2m 00.48s);  7th  Andrew Meech 2:01.17s (Heat 1m 58.15s PB ) 

1500m 8th - Martin Heys 4m 08.85s; 9th Andrew Meech 4m 09.08s 

Long Jump  4th Mark Gardiner 5.83m

Senior Men

100m 3^rd Matt Russell 10.54w 

200m 2^nd Matt Russell 21.63s; Heat  Scott Spencer 23.59s

400m 4^th Scott Spencer 51.3secs 

800m (Heat) Neil Collins - 2m 09.38s 

1500m 8th Chris Coates 4m 14.56s; 9th Neil Collins - 4m 16.93s; 10th Tony Collins - 4m 28.78s 

5000m 1^st Trevor Keys - 15.07.65; 6^th Matthew Bland 15.57.8; 8^th Ryan Prout 16.18.2; 10^th Graham Pritchard 17.09.5

110m hurdles  6^th Kevin Benton 16.68s 

400m hurdles  4^th Kevin Benton 61.70s 

3000m s/c 4^th Rob Warner 10m 12.05s

Javelin 9th Sam Harrison 46.90m  

Discus 4th Kevin White 28.62m

Hammer Danny Gamester 46.88m; Kevin Deacon 44.18m

Photos - Saturday

Photos - Sunday (only up to 1pm - sorry!)