COMMONWEALTH GAMES, BIRMINGHAM, 2ND - 7TH AUGUST 2022
SILVER MEDALS FOR JADE LALLY & LAWRENCE OKOYE
RELAY SILVER MEDALS FOR IMANI LANSIQUOT & HARRY AIKINES-ARYEETEY
Tuesday, 2nd August - Imani Lansiquot (Sutton & District) was 2nd in the second heat of the 100m to qualify for Wednesday's semi-finals. Her time was the 7th fastest across the 7 heats. Lawrence Okoye (Croydon Harriers) was 2nd in qualification group B (3rd across the 2 groups) to qualify for Thursday's final. Jade Lally (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers) 2nd in Women's Discus final.
Wednesday, 3rd August - Imani Lansiquot was 3rd in the 1st of 3 100m semi-finals. She missed qualifying for the final by 1/100th of a second.
Thursday, 4th August - Morgan Lake (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) was equal 1st in qualification Group B of the High Jump to qualify for Saturday's final. Jessie Knight (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) 3rd in heat 2 of Women's 400m Hurdles to qualify for final on Saturday. Lawrence Okoye 2nd in Men's Discus final.
Friday, 5th August - Katie Snowden (Herne Hill Harriers) was 2nd in heat 2 (of 2) in the 1500m and automatically qualified for Sunday's final.
Saturday, 6th August - Morgan Lake was 4th in High Jump final. In the heats of the 2 4x100m relay Imani Lansiquot and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutton & District) both ran the 2nd leg - the women were 2nd in heat 2 and the men were 1st in heat 1 which means both teams automatically qualify for Sunday's final. Owen Heard (Harrow) was 5th in Pole Vault final and Jessie Knight was 5th in 400m Hurdles final.
Sunday, 7th August - In the Men 4x100m England were first in the final - Harry Aikines-Aryeetey did not run the final but received a Gold medal because he ran in the heats. In the Women 4x100m England were second in the final - Imani Lansiquot ran the 2nd leg in both the heats and the final so she wins a Silver medal. Katie Snowden was 7th in the 1500m final. Jessie Knight ran the last leg in the 4x400m final the team was disqualified.
Wednesday, 3rd August - Will Barnicoat was 8th in heat 1 (of 2) of 3000m. He did not qualify for the final.
Thursday, 4th August - Tyler Panton ran the 3rd leg in heat 2 (of 4) of the Men 4x100m. The team did not finish.
Competing in the BMC meeting at Eltham on 20th July 2022 Alex Lennon (Sutton & District) set a new record of 4:02.45 for the U15 Boys 1500m. He set the previous record of 4:04.12 when winning the English Schools title earlier this month.
ENGLAND U23/U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS & WORLD TRIALS, BEDFORD, 16TH/17TH JULY 2022
GOLD MEDALS FOR TOBY DRONFIELD & HENRY FISHER Toby Dronfield (Blackheath & Bromley) won the U20 Triple Jump and Henry Fisher (Blackheath & Bromley) won the U23 800m. Surrey athletes also won 2 Silver medals and 3 Bronze medals
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, EUGENE, OREGON, USA, 15TH - 24TH JULY 2022
JESSIE KNIGHT WINS RELAY BRONZE.
Friday, 15TH JULY - Both Surrey athletes were drawn in Heat 2 (of 3) of the 1500m. The qualification for Saturday's semi-finals was 1st 6 + 6 next fastest. Adelle Tracey (Guildford & Godalming) representing Jamaica was 6th to automatically qualify and Katie Snowden (Herne Hill Harriers) was 10th and qualified as the 6th fastest non-automatic qualifier.
Saturday, 16TH JULY - Morgan Lake (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) withdrew from the High Jump following a positive Covid test. Chris McAlister (Thames Valley Harriers) was 6th in his heat of the 400mH and did not qualify for the semis. Imani Lansiquot (Sutton & District) was 4th in her 100m heat and did not qualify for the semis. In the 1500m semfinals Adelle Tracey and Katie Snowden were again drawn in the same heat finishing 8th and 10th respectively - neither qualified for the final.
Sunday, 17TH JULY - Lawrence Okoye (Croydon Harriers) was 13th over the 2 Discus qualifying pools and the top 12 qualify for the final.
Monday, 18TH JULY - Rose Harvey (Clapham Chasers) ran in Marathon - she retired after 25k after suffering from cramp. Jade Lally (Shaftesbury Barnet) was 8th in Pool A of the Discus - she was 18th across the 2 pools - only the top 12 qualified for the Final.
Tuesday, 19TH JULY - Jessie Knight (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) was 4th in her heat of 400mH to gain an automatic qualification for Wednesday's semis.
Wednesday, 20TH JULY - Jessie Knight was 7th in the second of three 400mH semi-finals.
Thursday, 21ST JULY - Adelle Tracey (Guildford & Godalming) representing Jamaica was 3rd in her heat of the 800m to automatically qualify for the semis to be held on Friday.
Friday, 22ND JULY - Imani Lansiquot ran the 2nd leg for the GB & NI 4x100m relay team which won their heat to qualify for Saturday's final. Adelle Tracey was 3rd in the first of 3 semis for the 800m but did not qualify for the final.
Saturday, 23RD JULY - In the final of women 4x100m Imani Lansiquot ran the 2nd leg - the team was 5th.
Sunday, 24TH JULY - In the final of women 4x400m Jessie Knight ran the 3rd leg - the team was 3rd.
In the Junior Girls Javelin (500g) in the final round Jessica Howells (Guildford & Godalming) set a new Surrey County Under-15 Record with a throw of 41.43m. Shortly afterwards Elise Christian (Guildford & Godalming) improved that record by throwing 42.45m. The previous record of 40.93m was set by Paula Holguin at the 2015 English Schools championships.
In the Junior Boys 1500m Final Alex Lennon (Sutton & District) set a new Surrey County Under-15 Record with his winning time of 4:04.12. This improved the previous record set by Rikkie Letch in 2007 by three hundredths of a second.
Hercules Wimbledon AC have had to change the date for the tribute for Pete Mulholland. The venue will be confirmed nearer to the date. Pete, who was a past president of Surrey County Athletic Association passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic and this is the first opportunity for people to pay their tributes to him.
All are welcome, but please could you indicate here if you are likely attend, just to give the Club an idea of numbers for catering. If you confirmed before you will need to re-confirm using this new link.
REQUESTS FOR PAYMENT FROM SURREY ATHLETICS OFFICIALS
We have noticed recent requests for payment of monies in emails which appear to have been sent by an SCAA official. These are not genuine and should be ignored and certainly not replied to. It is not the practice of SCAA officials to request payment from individuals using a Surrey Athletics email address. The Surrey Athletics email addresses have been created to allow the athletics community to communicate with appropriate SCAA officials and are published on our website to facilitate this. Unfortunately, we are not able to stop unauthorised people sending emails that give the impression that they have been sent from an SCAA official. In general, scepticism is a good reaction to any such requests for money.
NATIONAL UNION OF TRACK STATISICIANS (NUTS)
The NUTS athletics archive/museum has been installed at Coombe Wood School, Melville Avenue, Croydon CR2 7NY. They are on the lookout for donations and or loans of the following:-
(1) Books; (2) Programmes; (3) Photos; (4) Trophies; (5) Medals; (6) Club Badges & Vests (including clubs that no longer exist); (7) Old or Olympic kit; (8) Unwanted stopwatches (Do not have to work); (9) Documents; (10) Old running shoes, any pre-war would be wonderful. especially Laws, Fosters etc; (11) Other relevant items suitable for display or reference. Should you have any of the above that you would like them to consider or if you wish to make an appointment to visit, please contact Mike Fleet 020 8647 1341 or email mike@mafleet.co.uk.
SURREY COUNTY ATHLETICS HISTORICAL INFORMATION - CAN YOU HELP?
Keith Burchell currently holds the archives for the Surrey County AAA and Surrey County WAAA. These are far from being complete. If you have any past information such as programmes, committee minutes, championship results etc that you are thinking of disposing then please contact Keith Burchell. In particular, sets of County Championship results prior to 1980 are sought.
RESPECT TO OUR TEAM MANAGERS
Surrey County Athletic Association does not accept or condone the use of offensive behaviour towards or abuse or bullying of team managers under any circumstances. Team managers are all volunteers and make their decisions on the basis of information available to them. While not everyone is likely to agree with all of their decisions they must respect them and all the hours of work and agonising that go into the difficult task these team managers carry out in the interests of encouraging athletics in the county.
CARDIAC RISK IN THE YOUNG
England Athletics is publicising this charity.
CRY is a charity that was established to raise awareness of conditions that can lead to the sudden cardiac death of young people. They operate a screening programme at a number of clinics around the UK and support this with mobile units that travel to other locations.
Full information about CRY and their services can be found on their website at www.c-r-y.org.uk. Young people between the age of 14 and 35 who would like to have cardiac testing can go to www.testmyheart.org.
You can also see www.uka.org.uk/governance/health-safety/cardiac-screening-for-athletes/ for information on work being done by UKA in this area.
Following the death of a young member of Croydon Harriers, Mike Fleet has been promoting this charity for several years and anyone wishing to have copies of his photographs has been asked to make a donation to CRY. Further, he has been exchanging for donations bookmarks signed by famous athletes to raise funds for this charity. We thank those of you who have shown your support in the past.
Mike Fleet has started an Olympians Charity "Art" project. His request is to Olympic athletes who would be willing to contribute a drawing, sketch or even a "work of art". The target is to obtain 100 items. Currently contributions include matchstick men and women, smiley faces, fine portraits, crayoned landscapes and water colours. Amongst the Surrey contributors are Shirley Cawley, Judy Vernon, Jack Parker and Martyn Rooney with promises from Shireen Bailey and Donna Fraser. Mike has also received pictures from Olympic Gold medallists, David Hemery, Kelly Holmes, Anne Packer and Tessa Sanderson. The plan is for a one-off book of the boldly signed originals to be publicly auctioned, and for the submitted art, to feature in a limited edition book of prints for general sale.
Contributions on A4 duplicating paper should be sent to Mike at 2 Ridge Park, Purley, Surrey, CR8 3PN. Any queries, please call 020 8647 1341.
BOOKING REQUEST
FORMS FOR PHOTO-FINISH, RACE CLOCK, RADIOS & FIELD COUNTDOWN CLOCKS
SCAA has photo finish, race clock, radios and field countdown clocks for hire. You can download forms to request a booking for any of these by clicking on the buttons below. The forms come in either MS
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