4×1 for the records
On the 24th June Alan Davidson, Rhys Kirby, Jack Kirby and Jordan Thurston bolted round Harrow’s track to break a 37 year old club record. The 4 young sprinters ran a blistering 43.5 seconds in the U20 m 4x100m. Congratulations! Results here.
Julia at her best yet just misses the podium
Julia Bleasdale finished an agonising 4th place on Thursday in the women’s 5000m final at the European Championships in Helsinki. Julia’s time of 15:12.77 was a pb and club record and just .02 of a second from a bronze medal and only 1.02 seconds behind the race winner, Olgo Golovkina of Russia. Results here.
GATESHEAD CALLING
Seven Hillingdon junior athletes have acheived qualifying standards and have been selected by their counties to compete in the English Schools Championships at Gateshead on the weekend of 6/7 July reports Charlie Hailstone. The seven :- Nicola TIKARE 100 M. Rebecca MILES 300 M H. Jack KIRBY 100 M H. Rhys KIRBY 110M H Alan […]
GIRLS BREAK RECORDS AFTER 30 YEAR WAIT
U17F Nicola TIKARE and Rebecca MILES both broke 30 year old club records during the month of June reports Charlie Hailstone. Nicola ran 100m in 12.3 at Carshalton in the Southern Athletics League on 9th June. Rebecca ran 400m Hurdles in 67.0 at Harrow in the National Junior League on 24th June. Rebecca also broke […]
See You At Shapwick
On Sunday 22nd July The Charles Bennett Olympic Mile event, takes place in Shapwick,Dorset reports Alan Chidley. Named after one of the most famous members of our club,who lived in Shapwick,and was the first British person to win an Olympic Gold Medal for Athletics. Anyone who would like to take part in this unique event […]
RIP Len Carter
We have just heard that Len Carter a former member of Ruislip & Northwood A.C.,Life Member of Hillingdon A.C. and former international sprinter has died at the age of 68.
UKA sinks senior competition
UK athletics have stooped to a new low by forcing the SEAA to cancel the Senior Open Events meeting at Crystal Palace in July. This event was a replacement to the full senior SEAA champs that UKA with support of England Athletics wouldn’t permit taking place in the south of England this year. In my opinion […]
AVIVA ENGLAND ATHLETICS U23 & U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS & THE WORLD JUNIOR TRIALS 16th – 17th June 2012 BEDFORD
Every cloud has a silver lining reports Stevan Dokic. Matthew Fayers took a well earned silver medal in the U20 1500m final on Sunday. Matt had qualified for the final easily the previous day in a shade over 4 minutes and set about hunting gold in the medal race. Thecontest up to the bell was […]
LADIES LADIES LADIES!!!!!!! & GENTS
A big huge thanks to the ladies who were at the veterans track and field last fixture –not only were we extremely light on numbers!!!!! It was raining, windy, cold and like November instead of June but…………. as ever they turned out……. the “Cavalry” Maria, Lucy, Angela, Christine and Cathy to fill as many events […]
Gosunder/5K training race results. June 14th 2012
Results can be found here.