England Athletics Champs, FP5000s, Ultra X Wales, Victoria Park HM

The Finsbury Park 5000s was the big Heathside event of the week, there was also the Ultra X in Wales, England Athletics Champs and the Victoria Park half marathon

FP5000s, Finsbury Park, 17.7.26

The Finsbury Park 5000s was held last week -  as always an extremely popular event, and with a large Heathside turnout .

Results

1st Seyfu Jamaal 14:17.67     SB             (Race 7)

2nd Samuel Macaulay 14:51.50             PB   (7)

4th Jake Evans 15:07.24                           (7)

19th James Hurrell (V40) 15:32.56       (7)

20th Isaac Edwards 16:11.76                 PB             (5)

33rd Jack Goody 16:45.20                       (5)

36th Victor Tanguy  16:57.30                   (5)

47th Filippo Minelle (V35) 17:26.16      SB             (4)

48th Edouard Gillard 17:29.31                                 (5)

53rd Harry Owrid 17:33.29    PB             (4)

61st Eliza Bond (SW) 17:43.58               PB             (6)

63rd Alexander Carr (V35) 17:49.47                      (4)

64th Kwasi Agyei-Owusu (V40) 17:50.64              PB             (4)

68th Olly Chrich 18:02.26      PB             (3)

70th Christopher Darby 18:07.72          SB             (3)

73rd Lily Woolcock (SW) 18:10.29                          (6)

78th Nicholas Hodges-Gibson (V35) 18:19.92                      (3)

79th Matthew Coudert 18:21.07            PB             (2)

83rd Amelie Randall (U18W) 18:28.70 PB             (3) New Club Record

84th Will Floyd 18:33.87         SB             (3)

87th Francesca Stocco (SW) 18:37.01 PB             (3)

89th Joe Starkey (V40) 18:44.46                               (3)

92nd Chris Hartley (V60) 19:06.05                          (3)

93rd Ant Conlin 19:08.78       SB             (2)

95th Mimi Blake (SW) 19:13.29              SB             (2)

96th Matthew Humphreys (V50) 19:15.73            SB             (2)

97th Richard Paton-McDermott (V40) 19:21.87                    (3)

102nd Adam Botkai 19:35.62                  (3)

104th Phil McGaw (V45) 19:43.89         SB             (2)

105th Laurence Grafton 19:44.57                          (3)

106th Ben Smallwood 19:47.71                               (2)

110th George Tonkinson 19:50.71                           (2)

111th Marcus Tillotson (V50) 19:53.73                  (1)

112th Chris Prickett (V45) 19:58.36      SB             (2)

114th Hongbin Gu (V35) 20:04.20                           (2)

116th Helena Flippance (SW) 20:08.86                 (3)

121st Stephen Topp (V45) 20:26.37                        (3)

123rd Maura Bellio (W35) 20:26.83      SB             (1)

124th Trevor Wilson (V55) 20:28.49      SB             (1)

125tfh Rachael Cowan (SW) 20:30.34 PB             (1)

127th Gavin Evans  (V65) 20:44.44                         (2)

130th Emma Simpson (SW) 20:56.85  PB             (1)

135th Hazel Guo (SW) 21:32.65             PB             (1)

137th Oleg Dobrokhotov (V35) 21:48.60               PB (1)

139th Marcus Lloyd (V60) 22:07.09                        (1)

140th Daniel Wrapson (V40) 22:07.48 SB             (1)

144th Elena Marquez (W35) 22:20.60  PB             (1)

148th Fabio Espirito Santo 22:46.98    SB             (1)

Ciera Kennedy DNF                                   (2)

Rebecca Piggott (W40) DNF (6)

Ultra X Wales 25K 25.07.2026

Ania Borowska-Sonmez took part in a trail race in Wales and reported back “The Ultra X Wales 25k is a race set in the Black Mountains near Abergavenny. "25k" being more of a suggestion than a fact, with the route covering 30k and 1400m elevation gain. Relentless climbs, steep rocky descents, and stretches pushing through overgrown fern-covered hillsides made for a proper Welsh trail day: scenic, remote, and gritty.”

Despite the testing conditions Ania had a brilliant race and was 4th woman and 3rd in age.

Results

11th Ania Borowska-Sonmez 3.50.21 4th woman, 3rd in age (F senior)

Victoria Park Half Marathon, Victoria Park, 25.07.26

2nd Saito Kazuya 1:19:46                    1st in age (V45)

England Athletics Age Group Championships, Bedford, 25-26.7.26

Simon Baker reported: “The last domestic Track and Field Championships took place at the weekend at the newly refurbished Bedford International Athletics Stadium.  However with many of the best U18s who competed the previous week at the European U18 Championships missing it offered an opportunity for others to win national titles.  Sadly a number of Heathsiders U16 medal contenders such as Charlie Nicolson opted not to enter.  Of the Heathsiders who did take part Gabriel Edwards finished 5th in heat and didn't progress, Mkel Alexander qualified from his heat but drawn in lane 1 for the semi final he couldn't make the final.  A very tired Elkie Baker led the Discus until round 4 but could not respond in the final rounds finishing in 2nd.”

Results

200m

H3 4th Mikel Alexander (U18M) 22.30s Q

SF1 8th Mikel Alexander (U18M) 22.37s

100mH

H3 5th Gabriel Edwards (U16B) 13.71s

Discus 

2nd Elkie Baker (U18W) 42.13m 🥈

Parkrun

105 Heathsiders took part in parkruns at the weekend. Congratulations on first places go to Brendan Barclay (Lordship Rec), Cathy Jeremiah (Normanyby Hall), Francesca Stocco (Valentines), Ula Cartright-Finch (Milton Country), Conor Brown (Carlow Town), Ben Jacobs (Grovelands), Lucy Browne (Whitekirk Hill), Alan O’Shea (Marple) and Ciera Kennedy (University of Stirling).

The full list of results can be found here

Compiled by Caroline White with thanks to Simon Baker and Ania Borowska-Sonmez for reports and Lenny Martin for photos