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ENGLISH SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP BIRMINGHAM 10TH AND 11TH JULY

This year’s Championship is being held at Alexander Stadium Birmingham. The competition is the most prestigous schools competition in England and is held over two days. Athletes selected for Surrey will have already competed at district and county level as well as having  achieved minimum entry performances. Surrey is one of the largest counties, but is restricted to taking 60 athletes making selection even harder.

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South of England U15 & u17 Championships 29/30 May at Ashford

Four Walton athletes competed in the South of England under15 & under 17 championships at Ashford over the weekend, defying the poor conditions to perform well.

Reece Barnett came 3rd in the under 15 boys Long Jump , he jumped 5:59 (although he was not happy with 3rd!), and Camilla Papa flew back from Germany (getting up at 4 am ) and came 5th in the under 15 girls 75mts Hurdles final in a new PB 12:09 into a – 4.0 mts per second headwind and was 9th fastest in the 100 qualifying, 13:43 again into -4.0 headwind.

Ben Kennard ran a new pb of 4.31.40 in the heats of the under 17 mens 1500m and in the under 17 mens 800m Hugo Fleming ran 2.01 to qualify for the semi final, 1,59 to reach the final and came 7th in the final with 1.57.57.

Camilla had been in Germany competing in the ISST Schools championships where she won all her four events, 100m in 12.84, 200m in 26.25, 400m in 61.15 and long jumping 4.86

Junior Club Championship 2013

The junior Club Championship for U13s, U15s and U17s has for the last few
years been decided on a points table, based on AAA standards

Girls, boys, men and women must compete in at least three junior
league matches to qualify. Senior matches do not count. Under 17 men must
compete in at least two non scoring junior league matches to qualify.
The difference being due to the fact that there are fewer competitions
for under 17 men.

The best three events score. Other recognised competition performances will
be taken into account only if the requisite number of league matches have been
attended and the athlete has competed in at least three individual events in
each match. If these conditions are not met only the performances achieved in
league matches will be taken into account.

There are still enough matches left for any Club member to
qualify.

Anybody wanting to compete should contact the relevant team Managers. There
are opportunities for any athlete to compete regardless of standard

U13s are school years 6and 7

U15s are school years 7 and 8

U17s are school years 9and 10
U11s have their own Championship where they must do a run, jump and throw.
The best of each is scored as for the juniors.

Any performance in a junior competition will be taken into
account.

All the competitions are listed on the Club web site.

Surrey County Champs 8th/9th May at Kingston

Walton athletes had another successful weekend at the county championships continuing our recent trend of increasing participation and improved results.

A total of 28 athletes competed and picked up 27 medals including nine county titles.

No under 13 boys entered but four under 13 girls did and they came away with three titles and four medals. Sophie Mace won the shot and the discus and was 3rd in the javelin, producing pb’s in all three events. Megan Houska was the other gold medallist, in the high jump. Nina Giambrone was unlucky with two 4th places, in the 200m and the long jump. Lydia McNulty ran a pb for 5th in her heat of the 800m and Lydia and Megan finished 8th and 10th in the long jump. Nina and Sophie were 4th and 5th in the heats of the 100m

Three under 15 boys won 5 medals between them. Matthew Szepietowski won the hammer with Curtis Knight 2nd. Matt was 2nd in the javelin with Curtis 5th. Reece Barnett won the silver in the long jump and Curtis picked up a bronze in the shot. Curtis was also 5th in the discus with Matt 7th in the 200m. All four of Curtis’s throws and Matt’s hammer were pb’s.

Camilla Papa improved her 200m pb three times winning her heat and semifinal and claiming the silver medal in the final. Lucy Paskell finished 5th in the final having improved her pb twice. Camilla also ran pb’s in the heat and final of the sprint hurdles, finishing 4th. In the 100m Camilla set another three pb’s winning her heat and semi and finishing 2nd in the final . Lucy Paskell came 6th in the final having set a pb in the heat and Lucy Weir ran a big pb in her heat.  Beth Hamlet knocked a big chunk off her 800m pb to come 4th in her heat, just missing out on a place in the final. Lucy Weir also came 7th in the long jump.

Three under 17 men took part. Hugo Fleming came 2nd in his 800m heat and then 3rd in the final. Kyle Treherne  ran a pb for 6th in his 800m heat, Ben Kennard improved his pb’s for 400m hurdles and 1500m, winning the silver over the last few strides in the hurdles and coming 7th in the 1500m

Last year Carla Letheby won four titles, this year she improved upon that winning five. She won all four under 17 women’s throws and also entered and won the under 20 women’s discus. Sinead O’Brien was runner up in the hammer and the shot and came 4th in the discus; hammer and discus were both pb’s. Lisa O’Brien won silver in the sprint hurdles and bronze in the long jump. Lisa also came 5th in the 300m hurdles with Kate Lee 7th

There were three under 20 entries. Mark Partridge came 4th in his 200m heat, qualifying for the final where he came 7th. Martin Norman was 6th in his heat of the 400m. In the women’s 400m Nicola Aylett was 6th in her heat.

Kaylee Price was the only senior woman to enter and she won the silver medal in the 100m hurdles.

Six senior men took part. On the track Adam McCarthy won the bronze medal in a very tight finish in the 400m hurdles and David O’Connell was 5th in his heat of the 400m. In the jumps there were bronze medals fro Greg Conlon in the pole vault and Alex Fraser in the long jump. In the throws Rob Smith produced his best ever hammer series and won the bronze medal with a pb and in the shot there was a pb for Jason Kennard to come 5th with Rob in 6th.

The improvement in entrants and results over the last five years is impressive, congratulations to all the coaches as well as the athletes.

 Year Walton
Entrants
 Gold Silver Bronze  Total
Medals
 2006    12    4    1    2     7
 2007    15    3    4    3   10
 2008    22    6    3    3   12
 2009    26    7    8    3   19
 2010    28    9   10    8   27