Essex Championships Days 2 & 3, 9th & 10th May 2009, Chelmsford

A fine blend of youth and experience brought glut of medals and podium places as the main two-day Essex Championships event concluded at sunny Chelmsford on Sunday.  

Veterans Mat Bland and Mark Bishop both struck gold in the oldest category. Bland shrugged off an early challenge to defend his veterans 1500m title while club president Bishop showed a glimpse of his old form as he powered to 400m victory

At the other end of the age groups both Alex Law and Freddy Keefe added to their titles from Day 1 last week.  Alex Law made it four U13 boys titles, adding the 100m to his earlier hurdles, discus and 200m golds while Freddy Keefe again front run to another PB as he added the two-lap 800 crown to his 1500 title, clocking the fifth fastest ever by a club u13.

The senior women were in superb form great form with four golds, four silvers and two bronze. Lucy Sargent and Harriet Scoot both bagged two medals. After being edged out of the shorter sprint on Saturday Lucy excelled in Sunday’s 200m final to win in her fastest time for two years. Harriet also bounced back from Saturday’s 1500m silver to dominate Sunday’s 800m to show she has now recovered well from injury. There was a clean sweep in the pole vault as the Stuart Tufton coached trio of Karen Baldwin, Danielle Ross & Leanne Blaney were 1-2-3.  Mel Harrison won her first county title for a few years in the discus and took shot bronze while silver service was provided by Claire Brennan (100H), Laura Bealey (400mH) and Emma Christmas (Javelin).

Jack Edgar-Hill won both U17 Men’s hurdles events in PB times and Brad Burr (JT) and Laurence Goodacre (SP) also won titles in this age group, as Jon Seekings added 400mH silver.

The U20 Men added half a dozen medals, two of each colour. Adam McCarthy was a fine winner of the 400m Hurdles and Joe Ramie’s triple jump PB sealed gold to add to his long jump silver. Georgie Bean was runner up in the javelin and Andy Lewis dipped under 50 secs for the first time to win 400m bronze.  Emmanuel Quarshie’s shot PB brought him bronze.  

The U20 Women also added six medals. Nicola Hill won Saturday’s sprint hurdles and on Sunday trimmed a second off her 400m hurdles best with 61.32s but had to settle for silver as Lauren Bouchard (Chelmsford) ran the U20 UK lead time this year.  Angela James won the javelin and high jump bronze, while silver and bronze went to Lauren Edgar-Hill (100mH) and Amy Cox (HT).

Ellie Bounds dominated the U17 Women’s 800 final just as she had the 1500 the week before and her winning time of 2:14.60s was over three seconds faster than her previous best. Katherine Knight got the better of Sophie Baggs as they won discus silver & bronze, while Holly Thomas produced another great result to win 80m Hurdles bronze.

Henrietta Adewole was the only club medallist for the U15 girls with a winning shot PB, and Ashley Purnell’s long jump silver was the U15 boys’ only podium place.  .

 

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Golds (19)

Silver: (13)

Bronze (10)
Veteran Men Mark Bishop - 400m; Mat Bland - 1500m   Russ Middleton - 400
Senior Men Vince Lazaro - LJ    
Senior Women Mel Harrison - DT; Harriet Scott - 800; Lucy Sargent - 200; Karen Baldwin - PV Claire Brennan - 100H; Harriet Scott - 1500;  Lucy Sargent - 200; Dani Ross PV; Zoe Young - LJ Mel Harrison - SP; Leanne Blaney - PV
Junior Men  Adam McCarthy - 400mH; Joe Ramie - TJ Georgie Bean - JT; Joe Ramie - LJ; Bradley Reece - HT Andy Lewis - 400; Emmanuel Quarshie - SP; Gabriel Makinwa - TJ
Junior Women  Nicola Hill - 100H; Angela James - JT Lauren Edgar-Hill - 100H; Nicola Hill - 400H Angela James - HJ; Amy Cox HT
Under 17 Men Jack Edgar-Hill - 100H & 400mH; Laurence Goodacre SP; Brad Burr - JT Jon Seekings - 400mH  
Under 17 Women Eleanor Bounds 800  Katherine Knight - DT Sophie Baggs - DT; Holly Thomas - 80H;
Under 15 Boys   Ashley Purnell - LJ  
Under 15 girls Henrietta Adewole - SP    
Under 13 Boys Alex Law - 100; Freddy Keefe - 800    
Under 13 girls      

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Women/Girls

Under 13s

800m  - Heat: Lydia Hallam 2:46.89s

Under 15s

100m  - 7th - Henrietta Adewole 14.15 (Heat & semi final: 13.98); 8th - Debbie Knight 14.39; (Semi final - 13.92 PB; Heat: 14.24); Semi Final: - Lauren Brockes - 14.11 (Heat: 14.49);

800m  - Heat: Amanda Blaxland 2:35.55; Hannah Bloy 2:43.00

75m Hurdles  - Heat: 4th - Debbie Knight 13.04 PB; Heat: 5th Rylie Trott 13.33s

Long Jump: 12th - Lauren Brockes - 3.95m;

Shot  - 1st  Henrietta Adewole 9.17m PB 5th - Debbie Knight 8.35 PB

Under 17s

800m -  1st  Eleanor Bounds 2:14.60s PB; 4th - Becky O'Neill 2:22.62 Heats: Rachel Sadler 2:27.65s PB ; Amber Turner 2:29.69 PB ; Michelle Lovell 2:54.69

80m Hurdles -  3rd - Holly Thomas 12.14 (Heat: 12.04s PB) Heat: Nicola Peachey 13.35s

300m Hurdles -   4th - Nicola Peachey 49.31s PB ; 7th - Jessica Seekings 56.76

Discus - 2nd  Katherine Knight 29.65; 3rd - Sophie Baggs 28.48; 5th - Shelley Wilson 23.46

Junior Women / U20s

100m  7th - Lydia St Ange - 13.55s

200m  5th  Nicola Hill 25.40w - 8th - Angela James 27.96 PB

100m Hurdles  1st  Nicola Hill 15.22s - 2nd  Lauren Edgar-Hill -16.66s; 4th - Angela James 17.78 PB

1500m    6th - Ingrid Deane 5:06.06s 10th - Gemma Phillips 5:22.94s

400m Hurdles -  2nd Nicola Hill 61.32s PB - 4th - Lauren Edgar-Hill - 72.16

High Jump  - 3rd - Angela James 1.45

Javelin  - 1st - Angela James 27.47

Hammer  - 3rd - Amy Cox 26.30

Senior Women

100m -  2nd  Lucy Sargent 12.14

200m - 1st  Lucy Sargent 24.25 (Heat: 26.04); Heat: Nina Brennan 29.15s

400m - 7th Laura Bealey 60.87 (Heat:  59.79s ); Heat: Nina Brennan 63.48s  PB

800m - 1st  Harriet Scott 2:09.40s

1500m 2nd  Harriet Scott 4:30.85s;

100m Hurdles -  2nd - Claire Brennan 16.10s

400m Hurdles -  2nd - Laura Bealey 65.66 PB; 4th - Claire Brennan 67.59s

Javelin -   2nd - Emma Christmas 41.16; 6th - Zoe Young 31.07

Discus - 1st  Mel Harrison 37.94m

Shot -  3rd - Mel Harrison 11.58m

Long Jump -   2nd - Zoe Young 4.89

Pole Vault - 1st- Karen Baldwin 2.70m =PB ; 2nd - Danielle Ross 2.50m; 3rd - Leanne Blaney 2.30 =PB

Men/Boys

Under 13s

100m - 1st  Alex Law 13.16 (Heat 13.16); 8th - Lewis Middleton 14.86 (Heat: 14.85)

800m -  1st  Freddy Keefe 2:19.63s PB;

Under 15s

100m:   5th - Ashley Purnell 12.69s (Heat: 12.83)

800m  Heat: Finbar Smyth 2:26.9s PB

Javelin   4th - Patrick Lear 32.52m PB

Long Jump:  2nd - - Ashley Purnell 5.28   PB

Under 17s

100m - Heat: Steven Hagan-Barnard 12.90s

400m - Heat: Massi Dendami 57.43 PB

800m - Heats: Jamie Buckley-Stanton 2:07.3s PB; Massi Dendami 2:07.6s PB

100m Hurdles - 1st- Jack Edgar-Hill 14.03s PB (heat: 14.27s); Heat: Jonathan Seekings 20.2s PB

400m Hurdles -  1st- Jack Edgar-Hill 61.83 PB ; 2nd - Jonathan Seekings 79.57s

Javelin  1st- Brad Burr 58.53m

Shot: -  1st- Laurence Goodacre 13.70

Junior Men/u20

200m - Heat: Adam McCarthy 24.70 PB 

400m - 3rd - Andy Lewis 49.79s PB (heat: 50.29s)

400m Hurdles - 1st - Adam McCarthy 57.36

Long Jump 2nd - Joe Ramie 6.40m; 4th - Gabriel Makinwa 5.54w; 5th - Adam McCarthy 5.27

Triple Jump  1st - Joe Ramie 13.93m PB; 3rd - Gabriel Makinwa 11.78

Javelin  2nd - Georgie Bean 48.71m

Hammer  2nd  Bradley Reece 46.93 PB

Discus 4th - Bradley Reece 38.65 PB 

Shot 3rd-- Emanuel Quarshie 13.66m PB 

Senior Men

400m 4th - Scott Spencer 51.94s; 8th - Craig Moore 55.63s

800m:  10th - Neill Collins 2:06.69s

1500m -  12th - Neill Collins 4:17.21

Javelin 4th - Sam Harrison 51.53m

Long Jump 2nd - Vince Lazaro 6.43m

Veteran Men

400m - 1st- Mark Bishop 52.59; 3rd-- Russ Middleton 57.62

1500m - 1st- Matt Bland 4:17.16s

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