WALTON ATHLETES CLAIM 17 MEDALS AND 11 BRITISH TITLES

Walton masters athletes turned out in force for the British Masters Championships at Lee Valley over the weekend.

Saturday saw Jo Flowers W45, Susie McLoughlin W40 and Fiona DeMauny W35 take gold in the 400m, running 63.74, 59.42 and 60.13 respectively. Chris Taplin M50 ran a season’s best finishing 2nd in 54.19. Susie, Chris and Jo joined up with Stuart Channon M40 to run in the 60m. Susie and Chris both won their races.

Jo Locker W40 and Fiona finished off the first day of competition with a 1500 and both bagged a gold medal, Jo ran 4.56.19 and Fi ran 4.48.56.

Debbie Singleton W55 competed in the hammer and discus claiming a silver medal with a throw of 23.09m in the discus.

On Sunday saw the return of Susie, Fiona, Jo Flowers, Jo Locker and Stuart back for some more of the action! Susie claimed her 3rd gold medal of the weekend running a championship best performance of 26.26 in the 200m. Not to be outdone Fiona stormed round the 800m in a CBP time of 2.16.34. Lizzie Amos W40 and Chris Ness joined Fi in the 800m with Lizzie claiming a silver medal in a time of 2.22.74 and Chris digging deep in a tough race with a time of 2.20.68. Chris also High jumped 1.50.

Jo Flowers and Stuart came 3rd and 4th in the 200m running 28.28 and 24.37 respectively.

Tina Howell landed the silver in the triple jump with a leap of 10.20m. Meanwhile, in the winter throws competition, Joe Eastwood won the M65 javelin with 34.09m.

Jo locker ran in the final race of the weekend, the W40 3000m, finishing on a high with a gold medal.

A great weekend of performances from all the athletes. Good luck to those travelling out to Madrid next weekend for the European Masters Championships.

Eleven Walton athletes made the short trip on Saturday to compete in Nationals at the iconic venue Parliament Hill with the traditional uphill start. With a tremendous atmosphere and big fields taking to the start line in each race to charge up the famous start there was some impressive performances.

In the under 13 Boys race Ollie Emment ran another great race, unintimidated by the very tough course he rose to the challenge to continue his fine season on the country to come home in 19th place, out of 570 finishers.

Three athletes in the under 15 Boys race Jack Gemmell, Tom Jones and Ross Hurst committed themselves well over the very tough course. Jack finished in 95th, Tom 114th and Ross 151st out of 504 finishers.

In the under 17 men’s race again three Walton athletes lined up, Ollie Coppellotti was first Walton athlete home in 158th closely followed by Joshua Taylor in 164th and Michael Cottrill in 268th out of 356 finishers.

Matt Pharaoh and Isaac Mammen were the two Walton representatives in the Junior men’s race over 10km. Both running well. Matt coming home in 178th and Isaac in 204th.

Only two female athletes took part both in the under 17 womens race. Both girls committed from the start Charlotte Vaughan came home in 50th and Rachel Pharaoh 119th out of 276 finishers.

Well done to the athletes who represented the club so admirably on Saturday on this historically tough course.