WORLD MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS, CANFRANC, SPAIN, 25TH - 28TH SEPTEMBER 2025.
Two Surrey athletes have been selected to represent Great Britain & Northern Ireland:-
Nancy Scott (AFD) has been selected for the Womens Classic Up-and-Down event and
Oscar Subuh-Symons (DMV) has been selected for the Mens Uphill event.
In the Uphill Race (6,4k with elevation of 990m), Oscar Subuh-Symons finished 47th in a time of 44'05", 6'15" behind the winner. He was the fourth GB athlete to finish, though only one place and four seconds behind the third.
In the Classic Race (14k with elevation of 775m), Nancy Scott finished 23rd in a time of 1:18'09", 7'09" behind the winner. She was the second GB athlete to finish.
In other selection news, following the World Championship Trials at Whinlatter Forest in August, Evie Warren (Guildford & Godalming) has been selected to represent England U23 at the Trofeo Vanoni Mountain Running Relay Race at Morbegno, Lombardy, Italy on Sunday October 26th. (This was the race for which Alice Crane and Ellen Weir were selected last year).
SURREY UNDER-17 MEN 200M RECORD, 14TH SEPTEMBER 2025.
Competing in the Stratford Speed meeting held on 14th September 2025 Farell Fabusiwa (Croydon) improved the record he set at this year's County Championships by 2 hundredths with his time of 21.08/-1.6.
SURREY UNDER-17 MEN LONG JUMP RECORD EQUALLED, 7TH SEPTEMBER 2025.
Competing in the Milton Keynes Open meeting held on 7th September 2025 Michael Maguire (Reigate Priory) jumped 7.47m/+1.3 to equal the Surrey Record for U17M Long Jump set by Bernard Yeboah (Croydon) in 2002.
SURREY COUNTY TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS PART 4
6/7 SEPTEMBER 2025, DAVID WEIR LEISURE CENTRE, CARSHALTON
including COMBINED EVENTS, TRACK WALKS & TRACK RELAYS.
Three Championship Best Performances were set:-
(1) U17 Women 4x100m - 47.68 Herne Hill Harriers (Princess Okoma, Olivia Stockwell-Green, Pyale Wifa & Ella Rennie). Previous CBP 48.49 by Guildford & Godalming AC in 2016;
(2) U20 Women 4x400m - 4:00.54 Herne Hill Harriers (Sophie Wright, Orla Wright, Lily-Rose Brown & Lucy Wright). Previous CBP 4:17.44 by Epsom & Ewell Harriers in 2019;
(3) U17 Women Heptathlon - 4741pts Jasmine Nkoso (Herne Hill). Previous CBP 4674pts by Clover Wynter-Pink (Croydon) in 1993.
SURREY UNDER-17 MEN 100M RECORD, 30TH AUGUST 2025.
Competing in the Be Fit Today Track Academy meeting held on 30th August 2025 at Lee Valley Farrell Fabusiwa (Croydon) became the sole holder of the Surrey U17M 100m record with a time of 10.47/+1.7. The previous record of 10.50 was set by him in May and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutton & District) ran 10.5 in 2004.
SURREY SENIOR WOMEN HIGH JUMP RECORD, 27TH AUGUST 2025.
Competing in the Diamond League Finals meeting held at Zurich, Switzerland on 27th August 2025 Morgan Lake (WSEH) set a new Surrey Record for SW High Jump of 2.00m. This was a UK National Record and beat the previous Surrey record of 1.97m which Morgan set in 2018.
WORLD MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS TRIAL RACE, WHINLATTER FOREST, 17th AUGUST 2025.
The trial race for the World Mountain Running Championships, held at Whinlatter Forest in the Lake District over 14km with 750m ascent, was won by Nancy Scott (AFD) in 1:09:07, with a winning margin of 91 seconds.
The win guarantees selection for the World Championships be held in Canfranc, Spain, 25th - 28th September.
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REQUESTS FOR PAYMENT FROM SURREY ATHLETICS OFFICIALS
If you are asked for an unexpected payment appearing to come from SCAA then please contact the Treasurer email: treasurer@surreyathletics.uk.
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.
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