CAU INTER-COUNTY TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BIRMINGHAM, 19-21 JULY 2024
There is no distinct CAU-only meeting. Team scores for the CAU championships are calculated using points achieved by individual athletes across all the age groups participating in the English Championships.
Surrey was placed 1st in the Women's event and 2nd in the Men's event and were first overall.
Competing in the Wanda Diamond League meeting held at the Olympic Park, Stratford on 20th July 2024 Jack Rowe (Aldershot, Farnham & District) set a new County record of 7:38.70 for the SM 3000M. This was an improvement on the previous record of 7:41.79 set by Gary Staines (Belgrave) in 2014.
Competing in the same race Will Barnicoat (Aldershot, Farnham & District) ran the fastest time by a Surrey Under-23 Man of 7:48.12. The previous fastest time of 7:59.7 was set by David Clarke (Hercules Wimbledon) in 1980.
SURREY COUNTY UNDER-20 WOMEN 3000M STEEPLECHASE RECORD
Competing in the English Championships at Birmingham on 19th July 2024 Anna Bloomfield (Epsom & Ewell) set a new County record of 10:41.31 for the U20W 3000M Steeplechase. This was an improvement on the previous record of 10:49.26 set by Rachel Clutterbuck (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) in April.
SURREY COUNTY SENIOR WOMEN 2000M STEEPLECHASE RECORD
Competing in the BMC Grand Prix held at Birmingham University on 6th July 2024 Stevie Lawrence (Croydon) set a new Surrey Senior Women County Record for 2000m Steeplechase with a time of 6:26.69. The previous record of 6:29.53 was set by Rosie Clarke (Epsom & Ewell) in 2016.
Congratulations to Georgie Bruinvels (Aldershot, Farnham & District), the winner of the W35 title, who has also won the other two W35 road race championships this year - 10 Miles and Half-Marathon. Furthermore, she has won the SW and W35 Cross-Country titles in the current competition year.
SURREY COUNTY UNDER-17 MEN 1500M RECORD
Competing in the BMC Grand Prix held at Loughborough on 22nd June 2024 Alex Lennon (Sutton & District) set a new Surrey Under-17 County Record for 1500m with a time of 3:48.17. The previous record of 3:51.81 was set by Gus Cockle (Aldershot, Farnham & District) in 2013.
Please confirm their participation by July 13th. If I do not receive confirmation by this date, their spot will be offered to another athlete. Once I receive confirmation, a timetable, kit, and other relevant information will be sent.
For non-score athletes, the standards for the 100m and 800m are provided below. If you would like to participate as a non-score athlete, please send an email with your request.
100m Boys: 13.30s
100m Girls: 13.50s
800m Boys: 2:25.00
800m Girls: 2:32.00
We have started to publish T&F ranking lists of Surrey athletes for the Senior/U20/U17/U15/U13 age groups. We are grateful to Marcus Hake and Phil Ryan who have volunteered to take on an age group. However, we still require some volunteers to input the performances for the following age groups:- U13G and U20M. If you would like to volunteer or require information on what is involved then please contact Webmaster.
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.
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
Word or Adobe PDF format.
