Elkie National Champion at England U17 / U15 Champs
EA Champs
BMC 5000m
Olympic Park 10K
Serpentine Last Friday 5K
Parkruns
England Athletics U17 / U15 Athletics Championships, Birmingham 8 -10 Aug
Simon Baker reports ;
“ The weekend saw the last of the individual national championships with the younger U15 and U17 athletes competing at the Alexander Stadium which this time next year will host the European Athletics Championships. With the age group changes next year this is the last time they will feature these age groups. The Championships also incorporated combined events competitions and a range of Para Athletics events making the three days an outstanding advert for the sport in the UK.
Even to make the championships is an achievement as you need to have the qualifying standard. 6 Young Heathsider's took part with 2 making finals one the semi finals and one National Champion!
The Club had two U15's taking part, Myla Miller ran 13.02s in the 100m while Gabriel made the 80mH final and was in contention for bronze until he hit the last hurdle and finished 6th. Technical events live by these small margins.
In the U17's Kyra continued her improvement in the 300mH one of the hardest events running a PB. Mikel Alexander finished 2nd in his heat with the 9th fastest time but was run out of the semi-final finishing in 4th. Malakai one his 100mH heat and started well in the final but clipped the last 3 hurdles to finish 4th .
In the U17W Discus Elkie took the lead in the 2nd round and threw her furthest 41.41m in the 4th round to add the National title to the English Schools she won last month. Elkie joined the club as an 8 year old primarily for XC and 800m but took up throwing so she could get into the team for MYAL matches. 8 years later she is a National Champion.
Well done to all the athletes on what has been another fantastic year for the club's young athletes “.
100m
H5 8th Myla Miller (U15G) 13.02s
200m
H3 2nd Mikel Alexander (U17M) 22.65s Q
SF3 4th Mikel Alexander (U17M) 22.73s
80mH
H6 2nd Gabriel Edwards (U15B) 11.63s Q
Final 6th Gabriel Edwards (U15B) 11.58s
100mH
H4 1st Malakai David McKenzie Callum (U17M) 13.41s Q
Final 4th Malakai David McKenzie Callum (U17M) 13.21s PB
300mH
H3 6th Kyra Smith (U17W) 47.97s PB
Discus
1st Elkie Baker (U17W) 41.41m 🥇
BMC Regional Races Eltham 13 Aug
5000m
8 Oliver Newton 17m 10.17s
9 Rebecca Piggott 17m 18.76s
12 Lily Woolcock 17m 59.85s
moving on to road races ;
Run Through Foundation London 10K Olympic Park 3 Aug
12 Edouard Gillard 35m 35s
46 Kazuya Saito 37m 37s 4th V40
61 Mathew Jones 37m 03s
210 Melvin Lewis 37m 31s
253 Kieran Marriott 41m 31s
258 Peter Otto 36m 38s
559 Nadja Broehr 47m 51s
693 Michael Leung 47m 46s
1383 Sofia Cecchin 53m 42s
1769 Caitlin Leach 55m 42s
and from the previous week …
Serpentine Last Friday 5K Hyde Park 25 Jul
Rebecca was first woman home, and there were respective Top 10 finishes for Ben and Sarah, who was also first in her age group
10 Ben Jacobs 17m .00s
17 Rebecca Piggott 17m .22s 1st F
23 Matthew Jones 18m .01s
50 Sarah Swinhoe 19m.29s 7th F 1st FV 55
76 Marcus Tillotson 21m .06s
133 Steve Crowley 24m 21s
Parkrun
79 Heathsiders participated in Parkruns at the weekend, amongst which were 1st place finishes from Chloe Wilkinson ( Hackney Marshes ), Wayne Morley ( Cirencester ), Valentin Valeanu ( Grudziadz ), Rebecca Piggott ( Lordship Rec ), and Andy Barnes ( Simmons ) ; fastest time to Chris Gracie ( 16.09 Strathclyde )
results can be found here
compiled by Mark George, with report from EA Champs from Simon