Essex Championships Day One – Chelmsford Monday 4th May 2009

There were

 

Golds  (10)

Silver : 

Bronze (5)   

Under 17 Men     Laurence Goodacre - DT
Under 17 Women Kike Oniwinde - JT; Eleanor Bounds (1500);    
Under 15 Boys Dan Wilson - DT    
Under 15 girls Debbie Knight - DT & JT   Debbie Knight - DT
Under 13 Boys Freddy Keefe - 1500; Alex Law: 200, 75mH & DT  Jordan Fox - 200; Lewis Middleton - LJ
Under 13 girls Georgie Taylor - DT;    Rebecca Fox - DT

RESULTS

It was the most successful opening day of the Essex Championships for several years as club athletes racked up 10 golds and five bronze medals at the Day One events Chelmsford on Monday.

Alex Law continues to hit the headlines as he became U13 county champion in all three events he contested. He opened with a discus win and went on to comfortably add gold medals with commanding victories in the 75m hurdles and 200m. Alex now tops the national hurdles rankings and is runner up in the discus as well as sixth in both 100 & 200. Jordan Fox won 200m bronze.

The discus events provided a massive medal haul. As well as Law’s U13 boys’ discus gold, Georgie Taylor won the U13 girls’ equivalent with a new best of 27.23m, runner up on the club all-time lists and fourth best in the UK this year.  Dan Wilson was victorious in the U15 boys discus and bronze medals in this event also went to Laurence Goodacre (U17M), Debbie Knight (U15G) and Rebecca Fox (U13G).

The gold rush continued in the 1500m as Freddy Keefe stretched his lead at the top of the U13 boys’ national rankings to run away with gold and move up to seventh on the club all time rankings. Eleanor Bounds similarly made all the running in the U17Women’s 1500m to slice five seconds off her best to add gold.

Club athletes won both girls’ javelin golds as both Kike Oniwinde (U17W) and Debbie Knight (U15B) both launched the spear further than their competitors.

Link to full results

  
U13 Boys:

200 1st - Alex Law - 27.09 (heat: 27.56); 3rd - Jordan Fox 28.51s (heat: 28.44); heat: Lewis Middleton 31.25

75m Hurdles 1st - Alex Law - 12.81 (heat: 12.70;

1500:  1st - Freddy Keefe - 4:43.58 (PB) (Heat: 5:10.52)

DT - 1st - Alex Law - 25.42m; 5th - Jordan Fox 21.26m (PB)

LJ - 3rd Lewis Middleton - 4.43w PB; 6th - Jordan Fox  4.14w

U15 Boys:

1500 - 8h Ryan O'Mahoney 4:44.53s (Heat: 4:38.11s PB); 12th - Josh Conners 4:53.20s (Heat: 4:48.90 PB); Heat - Nick Shade 5:11.86

DT - 1st - Dan Wilson - 32.33m

U17 Men:

1500m 5th - Jamie Buckley Stanton 4:23.34 (PB) Heat: 4:26.48 (PB); 8th - Joseph Waked 4:30.18 (Heat: 4:22.49 PB) Heat: Massi Dendani 4:34.09 PB

DT - 3rd - Laurence Goodacre 36.77m

U13 Girls:  

1200m - Heat: Lindsay McLachlan 4:40.33

DT - 1st - Georgie Taylor 27.23  3rd - Rebecca Fox - 18.39

HJ - 4th -  Georgie Taylor 1.20

SP - 4th -  Georgie Taylor 6.67

U15 Girls

200m - Heat: Rylie Trott 30.9; Lauren Brockes 31.0

1500m - 6th Amanda Blaxland 5:12.41 PB (Heat: 5:19.79 PB) ; Heat: Hannah Bloy 5:38.07 PB

JT 1st - Deborah Knight 27.86m

DT 3rd - Deborah Knight 24.41; 4th Erin Baggs 22.69 PB; Hannah Bloy 15.61 PB

U17 Girls:

1500m 1st - Eleanor Bounds 4:40.59 PB (heat 4:56.49); 5th - Rebecca O'Neill 4:58.17 (Heat: 4:59.13); Heat: 6th Rachel Sadler 5:12.60; Heat: 7th - Amber Turner 5:15.41s

JT - 1st - Kike Oniwinde - 38.47m

Link to full results