2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League Exxon Mobil Bislett Games Meeting

Bislett Stadium, Oslo

Friday 3rd July 2009

WORLD and Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu faded to a surprise sixth place as the Brit was completely out classed by American rival Sanya Richards who continued her excellent outdoor season by setting a world leading 49.23secs to win her second Golden League victory and stay in the hunt for the $1 million jackpot challenge at the rain-affected Exxon Mobil Bislett Games in Oslo.

Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in the 5,000m and Finland's Javelin star Tero Pitkamaki, combined with Jamaican sprinter Kerron Stewart (100m), American Damu Cherry in the 100m hurdles and Yelena Isinbayeva in the pole vault all won their respective events to also continue their jackpot hopes.

In one of Europe’s most beautiful capital cities the superb Bislett Games were delayed by a storm of quite biblical proportions that required the international Golden League programme to finally begin one hour late of schedule, however, this break in competition had no affect on Sanya Richards, the elegant 24-year-old American star unbeaten in 2009 having won the opening Golden League meeting in Berlin with a 49.57secs clocking was simply a class apart racing to victory after flying out of the blocks on the rain-soaked track stormed to the win to firmly lay down a marker for next months Berlin World Championships.

Richards finished ahead of Olympic silver medallist Shericka Williams (49.98) of the Bahamas and Amantle Montsho (50.71) with Ohuruogu, who defeated the American in Beijing on the way to the World and Olympic double, trailing in a distance sixth in a very average 51.19.

Richards, having won her fifth US title in Eugene, Oregon, the previous week commented: "I've been feeling great in training these past few weeks. And I'm all the happier that my parents are here with me," said Richards, who said coach Clyde Hart had urged her to be patient and concentrate hard into the final stretch.

"I finished well. I am on form and I think I can go under 49 seconds soon, that's my best time today since 2006 and the fourth best of my career."

In the sprint events, former world record-holder and Commonwealth champion Asafa Powell won the men's 100m in a time of 10.07secs, edging Antiguan Daniel Bailey following a close photo finish as Britain’s Simeon Williamson finished fourth in 10.13.

Powell reflected: "My legs were heavy and I got off to a bad start. I just tried to win." Fellow Jamaican Michael Frater was third in 10.08."

Loughborough University graduate Jeanette Kwakye made her long-awaited season opener but finished last in the women’s 100m, the 26-year-old world indoor silver medallist and Olympic finalist recorded a time of 11.67secs in the race won by Olympic runner-up Keron Stewart of Jamaica in 10.99.

Trinidadian Renny Quow won the 400m in 45.18secs whilst, over the 800m Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy clocked 1:44.42 to defeat Saudi Arabia's Mohamed Al Salhi.

Africa, as ever, dominated the longer distances with Kenyan Collins Cheboi winning the 1500m in 3:36.24 ahead of compatriot Geoffrey Kipkoech Rono (3:36.96) and Morocco's Fouad Elkaam (3:37.19).

In the famous ‘Dream Mile’, Ethiopia's Deresse Mekonnen clocked a winning time of 3:48.95 to edge out Kenya's William Biwott who set a new world junior record of 3:49.29, as the 3,000m was an all-Kenyan affair where Richard Bartale crossed the line in 7:50.58 to beat compatriots Henry Kiplagat (7:54.00) and Mike Tuiny (7:57.54).

Britain’s European indoor 3,000m champion Mo Farah played pacemaker for the vast majority of the men’s 5,000m before being eclipsed by an African train as the superb Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele stormed to an impressive victory over the last two laps to win ahead of James Ckururi and Vincent Chepkok in a time of 13mins 04.87secs.

Farah faded to 11th place clocking a European lead time of 3:12.28 but the 26-year-old Londoner will need a massive improvement in tactics if he plans to make any impact at next months Berlin World Championships.

Loughborough graduate Andy Turner, the European and Commonwealth bronze medallist over the 110m hurdles continued his fine outdoor season, having won the title at the recent European Team Championships for Great Britain in Leiria, Portugal, last month the 28-year-old pushed the former world junior champion Antwon Hicks all of the way to the line with the American prevailing just three-hundredths of a second ahead of Turner who clocked a time of 13.44sec with Poland’s Arthur Noga third (13.46).

Damu Cherry of the United States won the women's 100m Hurdles to continue her claim for the jackpot prize taking victory in 12.68secs ahead of Jamaica’s Brigitte Foster-Hylton (12.75).

Scotland’s Claire Gibson won the 800m national race in an impressive 2:01.42 lifetime best inside the Commonwealth Games qualifying mark of 2:01.80. Gibson took the race on, front running to victory to eclipse the Scottish standard for next year's Games in Delhi by 0.38 seconds ahead of home athlete Ingvill Bovim of Norway (2:02.54) and Kenya's Nelly Jepkosgei (2:07.37).

With triple Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba having withdrew from the meeting in the week leading up to the event her 5,000m world mark of 14:11.65 was never under threat as fellow Ethiopian Meseret Defar won in a comfortable 14:36.38 with Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya second in 14:37.01 and Ethiopian Meselech Melkamu third in 14:37.50.

Kenya's Ruth Bisibori Nyangau won the 3,000m Steeplechase in 9:18.65 ahead of the Ethiopian duo Sofia Assefa and Mekdes Bekele. British record-holder Helen Clitheroe finished 10th in 9:52.58.

Russia's Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva edged victory in a very poor competition struggling with a knee injury clearing 4.71m to win on countback ahead of Monika Pyrek of Poland.

"I am happy to win, but not with the result," said Isinbayeva. "It was very difficult with all the waiting, it was one of the longest competitions I've ever competed in during my life, first to wait before my first jump, and then waiting for the rain to stop.”

In the infield Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki completed victory in the Javelin with a best throw of 84.63m, to defeat compatriot Teemu Wirkkala (83.54). Double Olympic champion and home favourite Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway was third with a mark of 83.15, whilst, reigning World champion Blanka Vlasic of Croatia won the High Jump competition with a height of 2.00m.

Four athletes were eliminated in Oslo from jackpot contention - as the Bahamas 400m sprinter Chris Brown, Antigua sprinter Daniel Bailey and American 110m hurdler Dexter Faulk were all defeated, whilst, German high jumper Ariane Friedrich missed the event to concentrate on her national championships.

The Oslo results ensure that six athletes are still in line to claim the $1 million dollars (700,000 euros) jackpot if they land wins at all six venues in the series. The 2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League series continues next Friday 10th July with the Golden Gala meeting at Rome’s Olympic Stadium.

Report by Mark Woolley.

Full results are available at: www.iaaf.org/gle09/results/eventcode=4191/index.html

The dedicated athletics-leics.com page for the 2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League is available on the following link: www.athletics-leics.com/btdkiaafgoldenleague2007b.html

Friday 3rd July 2009

LOUGHBOROUGH-based Charlotte Best (Crawley AC) highlighted the latest Nike BMC Grand Prix at Trafford on Saturday (27th June) by winning the 800m ‘A’ race in a time of 2mins 03.65secs to complete her second consecutive British Milers victory over the distance in the space of a five days - this despite the meeting being suspended due to heavy rain that left the track under several inches of water.

Best, the 24-year-old World University Games bronze medalist, coached by George Gandy, finished level with Cardiff’s Amanda Moss given the same time but was awarded the victory following a photo-finish. Fellow Loughborough graduate and ‘On Camp with Kelly’ squad member Rachael Thompson (Liverpool Harriers) finished sixth in 2:05.79.

Best had previously claimed victory at the Nike BMC Gold Standard race (23rd June) at the same Manchester venue when finishing two-seconds clear of Loughborough team mate Dani Christmas (Crawley AC) in a time of 2:03.40.

Other highlights of the meeting included Loughborough Alumnus Frank Baddick (Newham & Essex Beagles) and Chris Parr (Gateshead) finishing 5th and 6th in a high quality 1500m ‘A’ race with times of 3:42.80 - a personal best for Baddick - and 3:43.16 respectively as steeplechaser Jermaine Mays (Kent) won in 3:39.94.

Loughborough graduate Charlotte Wickham (Gateshead) set a new lifetime best of 4:26.55 to win the women’s 1500m ‘B’ race, whilst, fellow Alumni Sarah Maude (Charnwood AC) finished 7th in the ‘A’ race in 4:28.00 won by American-based Scot Lennie Waite (Rice University) in 4:17.05.

Juliet Doyle (Charnwood AC) finished third in the women’s 5,000m in 16mins 10.20secs as Scotland’s Freya Murray (Edinburgh) won with a fine new personal best of 15:44.37. Loughborough graduate Sonia Samuels (Sale) was 5th in 16:16.85.

Full results are available on the following link: www.britishmilersclub.com/results/results.aspx?meetingid=26408&pagenum=1#6

Sunday 27th June 2009

KATE DENNISON continued her fine run of form over the 2009 outdoor season with a fine runners-up position at the Internationales Hofer Commerzbank Stabhochsprung meeting in Germany to Poland’s Anna Rogowska, who trains during the summer at Loughborough University with Steve Rippon's squad.

Rogowska claimed victory with a height of 4.70m as Sale Harrier Dennison recorded a best of 4.50m.

Photo of Anna Rogowska pictured at Loughborough University with Steve Rippon's squad.

2009 European Team Championships

Estádio Municipal Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

Leiria, Portugal

Day 2 - Sunday 21st June 2009

THE Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland team finished in the bronze medal position at the inaugural European Team Championships in Leiria, Portugal, following a dramatic last gasp 4x400m men’s relay victory to edge out France into a podium place as Germany won the overall title.

Dwain Chambers led the way for Team GB in the sweltering conditions in Leiria replacing the injured Rikki Fifton to add the 200m title to his 100 metre success on the opening day, whilst, Andy Turner claimed victory in the 110m Hurdles and the men's 4x400m relay quartet lifted the team into bronze medal position when winning the last event of the day.

Chambers outclassed France's Martial Mbandjock and Alex Kosenkow of Poland, as the 31-year-old clocked 20.55secs (-0.9m/s) to take his second win of the weekend and confirmed that he plans to double up at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin in August.

Chambers commented: “I am very tired, the weather is very hot but I have to do this in order to became stronger, faster. The track is very fast, definitely a good track. In Berlin I will try my best at the 100 and 200 to win, of course, but most of all to have fun.”

Loughborough graduate Andy Turner secured Great Britain’s only other individual victory as the European and Commonwealth bronze medalist continued his fine outdoor season to win in 13.42secs (+1.3).

Turner reflected: “It was okay, I expected to be a bit faster, today. Conditions were fine, and the track is fast, so I expected a bit more. Anyway, time wasn't important, I just wanted the points for Great Britain.”

Team captain Christine Ohuruogu, the Olympic and world 400m champion despite not feeling too well stepped down in distance to compete in the 200m and finished third behind Russia's Yuliya Gushchina and Marta Jeschke of Poland, who clocked 23.01secs and 23.34 with Ohuruogu clocking 23.40.

Olympic Triple Jump silver medallist Phillips Idowu was in prime position looked to avenge the defeat at the hands of Portugal’s Nelson Evora who finished ahead of the Brit to take the gold medal in Beijing, however, following a very close contest, Idowu had to settle for second once again by a margin of by nine centimetres as Evora won with a leap of 17.59m.

In what can only be described as the farcical ‘Devil take the Hindmost’ races Loughborough-based Nick McCormick came out of the men’s 3,000m battered and bruised after the athletes bunched and fell after the opening lap, however, the 27-year-old Morpeth Harrier recovered to finish fourth in a time of 8mins 03.45secs as Spain’s Jesus España won in 8:01.73, whilst, fellow Loughborough athlete Laura Kenney clocked 15:53.29 to take 7th place in the women’s 5,000m.

Hannah England continued her fine weekend in Portugal as the 2008 NCAA champion finished fourth in the 1500m with a time of 4:09.25 this having ran the 800m the previous day after Jenny Meadows was a late withdrawal. Russia’s Anna Alminova, the reigning European indoor champion, won in 4:07.59.

Loughborough-based Steve Lewis gained additional points with a leap of 5.55m to take 6th place in the men’s Pole Vault, Milton Keynes Mervyn Luckwell finished 8th in the Javelin on his senior GB debut with a best throw of 72.40m.

Mustafa Mohamed gave Sweden their only win of the weekend with his 8:28.09 clocking in the men’s 3,000m Steeplechase as Britain’s Stuart Stokes came out of international retirement to replace Andrew Lemoncello finishing 8th in 9:05.13 as the 32-year-old Sale Harrier then launched a scathing attack on UK Athletics selection policy for last summer’s Beijing Olympics accusing the governing body of not selecting athletes that had achieved the qualifying standard which included Charnwood’s Mark Edwards in the Shot.

The women’s 4x400m quartet of Loughborough graduate Vicki Barr combined with Eilidh Child, Jenny Meadows and Loughborough Sports Scholar Lee McConnell gave Great Britain the opportunity to take third overall in the day’s penultimate event by placing third. McConnell made up two places on the anchor leg, over taking Germany and France in the final stretch.


In a thrilling finale in the men’s 4x400m 
the British squad of Conrad Williams, Rob Tobin, Richard Strachan and Tim Benjamin stormed to victory to win in 3:00.82 
and with the French team only finishing in 5th place Team GB edged ahead in the overall standings to take the third podium position.

The overall title was won by Germany on 326.5 points with Russia taking second with 320 points and Great Britain securing third on 303 points, ahead of France (301).

UK Athletics performance director Charles Van Commenee commenting on Team GB’s showing over the two days of competition said: "Coming to the competition you want to win, but finishing third is acceptable obviously we had some weak events - I knew that in advance. But there were some positives for me, so overall I would say it was an acceptable performance."
Final Team Standings:
1 Germany 326,5; 2 Russian 320; 3 Great Britain 303; 4 France 301; 5 Poland 289; 6 Italy 278; 7 Ukraine 265,5; 8 Spain 257; 9 Greece 216,5; 10 Czech Republic 213,5; 11 Portugal 200; 12 Sweden 138
Leading British Athletes Results:
Men

200 2 (-0.9): 1 Dwain Chambers (Belg) 20.55 

800: 4 Colin McCourt (Dund H) 1:48.41 

3000: 4 Nick McCormick (Morp/LSAC) 8:03.45 

110H 2 (1.3): 1 Andy Turner (Sale) 13.42 

3000SC: 8 Stuart Stokes (Sale) 9:05.13 

PV: 6 Steven Lewis (NEB/LSAC) 5.55 

TJ: 2 Phillips Idowu (Belg) 17.50/0.1 

DT: 7 Abdul Buhari (NEB) 58.79 

JT: 8 Mervyn Luckwell (Mil K) 72.40 

Women

200 2 (0.0): 3 Christine Ohuruogu (NEB) 23.40
1500: 4 Hannah England (Oxf C) 4:09.25

5000: 7 Laura Kenney (RSC/LSAC) 15:53.29

100HW 1 (0.3): 5 Phyllis Agbo (TVH) 13.73 

HJ: 10 Adele Lassu (Sale) 1.80

LJ: 10 Phyllis Agbo (TVH) 6.07/0.5

SPW: 12 Alison Rodger (Sale) 15.43
HTW: 6 Zoe Derham (Bir) 65.59

Full results are available on the following link:
www.sportresult.com/sports/la/framework/eaa2.asp

2009 Midlands Senior & U20 Championships

Alexander Stadium, Birmingham

Sunday 21st June 2009

LEICESTERSHIRE athletes were in fine medal winning form at the 2009 Midlands Senior & Under-20 Championships held at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium that witnessed a selection of top senior victories on the track for Paul Richardson (OWLS) and Hannah Whitmore (Charnwood) in the 1500m, Amber Sian Magee (Charnwood) set a championship record to win the 2,000m Steeplechase gold, Callum Priestley (Woodford G & EL) and Nicola Robinson (Coventry) prevailed in the high hurdles, whilst, on the infield Denae Matthew (Leicester Coritanians) claimed gold in the Triple Jump.

At the Under-20 level Laura Samuel (Leicester Coritanians) led the way with a new championship record-breaking performance in the Triple Jump as Josh Norman (OWLS) completed victory in the men’s 3,000m Steeplechase to also take gold.
Senior Championships

As the senior GB squad battled it out with the best of Europe’s elite athletes in the heat of Leiria, Portugal, at the inaugural European Team Championships back in the United Kingdom the territorial area championships were taking place across the country with the Midlands staged on the Mondo surface of the Alexander Stadium in Britain’s second city Birmingham.

Paul Richardson (OWLS) has seen a recent fine return to form and that was underlined with his excellent run to win the men’s 1500m in a time of 3mins 55.69secs as the 27-year-old finished narrowly ahead of Loughborough student Tom Gayle (City of Stoke) following a close finish.

Hannah Whitmore (Charnwood) heads the 2009 East Midlands 1500m rankings following her season opening 7th place finish (4:18.86) at the Watford Nike British Milers Grand Prix meeting the previous weekend and the 25-year-old World Cross Country Championships representative coached by Phil Banning, edged out former United Kingdom 3,000m Steeplechase record-holder Tina Brown (Coventry) to secure the Midlands title with a time of 4:20.02 this also following a tough competitive race.

Leicester’s United Kingdom indoor bronze medalist Callum Priestley (Woodford G & EL) showed his class to win outdoor gold over the 110m Hurdles as the 20-year-old defeated Birchfield Harrier Edirin Okoro with a time of 13.83secs.

Bath University student Nicola Robinson gave notice of her undoubted talent in the 100m Hurdles - having under gone ankle surgery two-years ago the former junior British international clocked a time of 14.23secs as the 22-year-old Coventry Godiva Harrier added Midlands outdoor gold to the indoor 60m Hurdles bronze medal achieved back in February. Joanna Eaton (Yate) set a new personal best of 14.40 to take silver with Birchfield Harrier Jade Surman third in 14.44.

On the infield Denae Matthew won Triple Jump gold defeating Leicester club mate Tamara Longwe with a leap of 12.51m.

There was also a silver medal for Loughborough student Ed Wormsley (Stroud & D) in the men’s 3,000m Steeplechase with a time of 9:37.31, fellow Loughborough athlete Sophie Hine (Rugby & N) collected silver in the women’s High Jump with a best of 1.75m, Seemita Gumbs (Birchfield) won bronze over the 400m clocking 56.84 and Loughborough graduate Emma Bailey (Rugby & N) also claimed bronze in the 100m (12.18).
Under-20 Championships

Performance of the day for Leicestershire athletes In the Under-20 championships came from Charnwood’s Amber-Sian Magee as the 18-year-old set a new championship record to win the 2,000m Steeplechase with a lifetime best of 7:31.85 finishing ahead of Louise Durman (Stroud & D) and Kathryn Stuart (Sphinx) to add the Midlands title to the domestic county title she won last month.

English U20 indoor champion Laura Samuel (Leicester Coritanians) who currently heads the United Kingdom U20 rankings continued her run of good form to win the Triple Jump in a new championship record of 12.72m outside of her lifetime best of 12.82 recorded when finishing fourth at the Bedford International Games last month.

Josh Norman (OWLS) battled his way to a hard fought gold medal in the 3,000m as the 18-year-old Leicestershire U20 cross-country champion defeated Ben Norris (Notts AC) by the narrowest of margins over the line winning with a time of 8:45.17 to 8:45.45 as team mate Sam Stabler (OWLS) collected bronze in 8:48.87.

Laura Samuel completed a busy afternoon by winning silver in the 100 metres giving notice of her flat speed with a time of 12.08secs as Emily Diamond (Bristol & West) won the title with a personal best of 11.80 and Charnwood’s Laura Haslam secured bronze in 12.28. Haslam also collected silver in the 200m with a lifetime best of 25.24secs as Chelsea Cooper (City of Stoke) won gold in 24.96.

Other highlights included Liam Phelan (Leicester Coritanians) winning silver in the 2,000m Steeplechase in 6:49.35 as Louisa Monk (Leicester Coritanians) also claimed a well-deserved silver in the 3,000m with a mark of 11:30.76 and Rutland’s Sarah Anne De Kremer (Corby AC) collected bronze in the women’s Javelin with a best throw of 35.76 metres.

Report by Mark Woolley.

Full results are available on the following link:
www.midlandathletics.org.uk/PDFS/2009_090621_MCAA_SENIORJUNTFCHAMPS_RESULTS.pdf

2009 European Team Championships

Estádio Municipal Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

Leiria, Portugal

Day 1 - Saturday 20th June 2009

GREAT Britain finished top of the standings on the opening day of the inaugural European Team Championships in Leiria, Portugal, leading by just one point ahead of Russia following an afternoon of top competition and a new national pole vault record for Loughborough-based Kate Dennison on the infield of the Estádio Municipal Dr. Magalhães Pessoa.

On a very hot afternoon there were five individual point scoring victories from Dwain Chambers (100m), Tim Benjamin (400m), Mo Farah (5,000m), David Greene (400m Hurdles) and Emily Freeman (100m) combined with a sprinted run by last minute replacement Hannah England in the 800m and Dennison’s pole vault performance.

Dennison finished an excellent fourth place in the pole vault after once again smashing her own British record by a huge margin of four centimetres to a new height of 4.55m.

Dwain Chambers was a class apart in the 100m as the European indoor 60m gold medallist clocked a time of 10.07secs (+0.2m/s) to take maximum points for Great Britain finishing ahead of Italy's Emanuele Di Gregorio (10.21) and Martial Mbandjock of France (10.27).

Chambers commented: “It went well, I'm very happy to be able to compete for myself and for my country,

“The atmosphere is excellent, someone should decide to have a major championship here on this fabulous track.”

Chambers, who admitted he particularly missed competing at the Berlin Golden League the previous weekend reflected: "The races I have aren't the calibre I want, but at least I've got races now."

Tim Benjamin had a lucky escape from being disqualified after stepping out of his lane on the final bend of the 400m as the 27-year-old gave further notice of his renaissance in the sport following long injury problems defeating Sweden’s Johan Wissman to win in a time of 45.57secs.

Benjamin commented: “The race was okay, not great, I know I can do much better, I have to start faster next time, but Great Britain are doing okay, and we have a chance to win.”

Former footballer, Welshman David Greene, gave Team GB their first victory of the afternoon winning in 49.26 powering down the home straight to defeat past reigning European champion Periklis Iakovakis of Greece on his international debut.


“I just wanted to win this one,” a delighted Greene said afterwards. “ The time wasn't important as I knew that it would be a fast race, but not so fast as the ones I will have in the future, this was my best time in this season and 12 points for the team, that's what matters.”

Late stand-in and Olympic 200m finalist Emily Freeman stepped down in distance to win the women’s 100m in a time of 11.42secs (+0.6m/s).

Freeman commented: “I'm obviously very happy with the victory, the time was okay and I hope to be in a better form in Berlin.”

European 3,000m indoor champion Mo Farah made the new elimination 'Devil Take The High Most' format for distance running at this event almost irrelevant as he took on the pace and cruised to victory in the men’s 5,000m defeating Spain’s Carles Castillejo in a time of 13mins 43.01secs.

Hannah England, the 2008 NCAA 1500m champion, as with freeman stepped down in distance to replace the injured Jenny Meadows, produced a storming final 100 metre to finish 4th in the women’s 800m in a new lifetime best of 1:59.94, securing the World Championships ‘A’ qualifying standard in the process.



World junior 1500m gold medallist Steph Twell gave notice of her ability to run at senior level to finish fourth in the 3,000m in a time of 9:09.65, whilst, Eilidh Child on her international debut impressed to also place fourth in 55.48, just 0.02 outside her personal best in the 400m Hurdles as Poland’s Anna Jesien took victory in 54.82.

Loughborough Sports scholar Lee McConnell finished third in the 400m with 51.92 as Tom Lancashire secured fifth in the 1500m clocking 3:43.19.

United Kingdom record-holder Helen Clitheroe finished 5th with a season’s best in the 3,000m Steeplechase as the 35-year-old clocked 9:44.67 in a race won by Germany’s Antje Moldner (9:32.65).

Leicester's Eden Francis finished 9th in the Discus as the 20-year-old Birchfield Harrier produced a best of 49.0 metres in the first round as the Ukraine’s Nataliya Semenova won the competition with 61.58.

Great Britain will start Day 2 of competition on 165 points, with Russia in second on 164 as France and Germany lie third and fourth with 159.5 and 158.5 respectively.
Leading British Athletes Results:
Men

100 2 (0.2): 1 Dwain Chambers (Belg) 10.07; 1 Tyrone Edgar (NEB) 10.11; 2 Simeon Williamson (High) 10.19; 3 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutt/LSAC) 10.34 

400 2: 1 Tim Benjamin (Belg) 45.57 

1500: 5 Tom Lancashire (Bolt) 3:43.19 

5000 1 Mohamed Farah (NEB) 13:43.01

400H 2: 1 David Greene (Swan) 49.26 

HJ 9 Samson Oni (Belg/LSAC) 2.2

LJ: 5 Chris Tomlinson (NEB) 7.78/-0.3 

SP: 6 Carl Myerscough (BWF) 19.54 

HT: 12 Andy Frost (WG&EL) 62.59 

Women

100 2 (0.6): 1 Emily Freeman (Wake) 11.42; 1 Laura Turner (Harrow) 11.41; 2 Joice Maduaka (WG&EL, V35) 11.43; 6 Kadi-Ann Thomas (Mil K) 11.56 

400 2: 3 Lee McConnell (SB/LSAC) 51.92 

800: 4 Hannah England (Oxf C) 1:59.94 

3000: 4 Stephanie Twell (AFD) 9:09.65
400HW 2: 4 Eilidh Child (Pit) 55.48 

3000SCW: 5 Helen Clitheroe (Prest, V35) 9:44.67
PV: 4 Kate Dennison (Sale) 4.55

TJ: 10 Nadia Williams (SB) 13.21/0.4 

DTW: 9 Eden Francis (Bir) 49.00

JTW: 10 Laura Whittingham (Sale) 51.13

Full results are available on the following link:
www.sportresult.com/sports/la/framework/eaa2.asp

Saturday 20th June 2009

TWO of Leicestershire’s top middle-distance athletes produced fine performances to win the 800m races at the Nike BMC Gold Standard races in Watford on Wednesday 17th June as British international Hannah Whitmore won the ‘A’ race and the emerging teenage talent Freya Vincent set a lifetime best to win the ‘B’ event.

In the 800m ‘A’ race Hannah Whitmore (Charnwood) despite the gusty conditions at the Woodside Stadium clocked a season’s best of 2mins 08.86secs, having set her personal best in the race back in 2007 (2:04.86).

The 25-year-old coached by Welshman Phil Banning, fresh from a spell of warm-weather training in Potchefstroom, South Africa, will look to transfer her excellent winter form to the track over the summer having represented Team GB at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Amman back in March.

The Leicestershire county record-holder began her outdoor campaign over the 5,000m distance in Manchester at the end of May and was in action at the same Watford venue the previous weekend finishing 7th in the 1500m (4:18.86) at the BMC Grand Prix meeting.

Whitmore reflecting on her performance commented: “It was particularly windy out there so the time wasn't great, I was hoping for a bit quicker beforehand but taking the conditions into consideration I was quite pleased and it's always nice to cross the line in first place.”

Georgia Bell (Ealing, Southall & Middx) finished second in 2:11.16 with the 2008 World student cross-country champion Faye Fullerton (Havering Mayesbrook) securing 5th in 2:12.59.

The next generation of Leicestershire’s female middle-distance athletes was also on show in Watford as the ever-improving Freya Vincent produced an excellent performance to break her lifetime best over 800m to win the ‘B’ race as the 15-year-old representing Leicester Coritanians crossed the line in a time of 2:18.62 finishing clear of Banbury’s Connie McMillan (2:19.01).

Vincent’s team mate at the Coritanians, April Beeby, clocked a fine 2:26.79 to take fourth place also breaking her personal best for the distance (2:23.09) set at the Leicestershire County Championships back in May.

Report by Mark Woolley.

Full Results:
Men 800 A
1-1:51.29-Ed Jackson-SEN-M-04.01.82-Sale Harriers Manchester
2-1:51.47-Conor Healy-U23-M-02.06.87-Clonliffe/Ireland
3-1:51.58-Rikkie Letch-U17-M-24.10.92-Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow
4-1:51.81-Adam Cotton-U20-M-26.01.92-Birchfield
5-1:51.94-Mark Patterson-U20-M-23.01.91-North Down/Ireland
6-1:52.93-Tommy Carroll-U23-M-20.11.89-North Sligo/Ireland
7-1:54.01-John Eliasson-U23-M-03.05.89-Sweden
8-1:57.36-Desmond Manu-U17-M-07.09.92-Sweden
9-1:58.86-Oscar Edman-U20-M-30.07.90-Sweden
Men 800 B
1-1:54.67-Dave Ragan-SEN-M-26.03.83-Basingstoke & Mid Hants/Sheffield Hallam Uni
2-1:54.88-Matt Furber-SEN-M-28.10.84-Crawley/Hertfordshire Uni
3-1:55.83-Chris Lamb-SEN-M-11.09.84-Rugby & Northampton
4-1:57.46-Chad Lambert-U20-M-07.11.91-Marshall Milton Keynes/Middlesex Schs
5-1:57.49-Nathaniel Quigley-U23-M-19.04.89-Luton/Birmingham Uni
6-1:59.27-Dave McKinlay-SEN-M-30.08.84-Blackheath & Bromley/East Anglia Uni
Women 800 A
1-2:08.86 Hannah Whitmore SEN W 24.02.84 Charnwood
2-2:11.16 Georgia Bell U17 W 17.10.93 Ealing, Southall & Middx
3-2:11.56 Loulou Rowlands U20 W 26.05.92 South London
4-2:11.77 Sophie Tyers U20 W 09.06.91 Radley
5- 2:12.59 Faye Fullerton SEN W 31.05.84 Havering Mayesbrook
6-2:12.62 Vicky Fouhy U20 W 07.01.90 Chiltern/Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow/Birmingham Un
7-2:16.36 Catherine Appleby U20 W 13.01.92 Vale of Aylesbury
8-2:17.14 Maria Jangsten U23 W 12.04.89 Sweden
9-2:19.73 Rochelle Harrison U20 W 01.02.91 Lincoln Wellington
10-2:22.68 Kaylee Dodd U15 W 28.12.95 Basildon
Women 800 B
1-2:18.62-Freya Vincent-U17-W-26.04.94-Leicester
2-2:19.01-Connie McMillan-U15-W-14.11.94-Banbury
3-2:19.25-Sophie Billington-U15-W-12.09.95-Luton
4-2:26.79-April Beeby-U15-W-19.04.95-Leicester
5-2:28.22-Victoria Walker-U17-W-22.10.92-Watford
Men 1500
1-1-3:54.98-Mathew Almond-SEN-M-16.07.81-Coventry
2-3:55.74-Dale Clutterbuck-U20-M-01.01.92-Basildon
3-3:56.43-James Tydeman-SEN-M-04.10.83-Basildon
4-3:56.48-Dean Lacy-SEN-M-29.12.84-Cambridge H
5-3:58.04-Stuart Huntington-U23-M-02.12.88-City of Norwich
6-3:58.16-Christopher McGurk-U23-M-19.12.88-Notts/Oxford Uni/Achilles
7-4:00.10-Tom Straw-U20-M-28.02.91-Lincoln Wellington
8-4:01.53-Rhys Glastonbury-U20-M-20.03.91-Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow/Oaklands Col/Radley
9-4:01.57-Glen Watts-SEN-M-09.12.86-Shaftesbury Barnet/City of Norwich/East Anglia Uni
10-4:03.46-Josh Guilmant-SEN-M-30.08.83-Phoenix AC/Sussex Uni/Crawley
11-4:03.68-Tom Madden-U23-M-29.10.89-Coventry/Coventry Uni/Wirral
Women 1500
1-4:31.63-Amanda Jones-SEN-W-07.10.84-Swansea/Army
2-4:31.90-Nicola Rogers-SEN-W-28.05.83-Basildon
3-4:34.50-Amy Campbell-SEN-W-06.09.83-Southampton RC/Shaftesbury Barnet
4-4:36.58-Joanna Emery-SEN-W-30.11.80-Coventry
5-4:39.38-Emily Wallbank-U17-W-02.09.93-Bedford & County
6-4:42.22-Abigail Mackinnon-Austin-U17-W-02.09.92-Bedford & County/Team Bedfordshire
7-4:43.94-Georgia Ball-U20-W-28.04.92-Lincoln Wellington
8-4:44.04-Jodie Ledger-SEN-W-21.12.86-Worcester/Loughborough Uni
9-4:44.04-Calypso Finch-U17-W-22.07.94-Reigate Priory

Wednesday 17th June 2009

TRIPLE Olympic champion Usain Bolt clocked the fastest time in the world this year to win the 100 metres in a fabulous 9.77 seconds at the IAAF Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

However, the wind was a narrowly over the legal limit but the 22-year-old Jamaican firmly underlined his position as the overwhelming favourite for gold when the World Championships take place in Berlin in August.

Great Britain's Craig Pickering returned to his best to finish second in 10.08, Ronald Pogon of France was third in 10.17.

Mark Lewis-Francis was fifth in the 100m 'B' race in 10.40, after a year out injured as the Birchfield Harrier finished two places ahead of Welshman Christian Malcolm (10.57).

Bolt commenting on his stunning performance said: ““That’s probably the second worst start I ever had, I saw that I was behind and I really wanted to run a fast time here, so I really pushed hard to get back. That’s why you saw me really dipping at the line. I’m always good in the second half and that was when I got back into the race.”

Marilyn Okoro produced the best British performance of the night, winning a closely-contested 800m in a season's best of 2:00.21. Okoro held off the strong challenge of France's Elodie Guegan to take victory with Jenny Meadows finishing narrowly behind in 2:00.48. Newquay’s Jemma Simpson returning from her American base in Eugene claimed 7th place in 2:00.87.

Olympic champion Dayron Robles comfortably won the men's 100m Hurdles with an impressive time of 13.04, whilst, Ireland's Paul Hession won the 200m in 20.44 ahead of Zimbabwe's Brian Dzsingai.

Ethiopia's Meselech Melkamu set a world leading time in the 5,000m with a time of 14mins 34.17secs.

Bershawn Jackson, the Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist, also heads the world ranking following his win in a time of 48.32. The American finished ahead of the 2004 Olympic champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic (49.20) with Marek Plawgo of Poland securing third in 49.59.

Andy Baddeley claimed a fine runner-up position to Kenyan Haron Keitany in the Mile event with a time of 3:51.83 as Keitany prevailed in 3:49.57.
Leading British Results:
Men
100 A (2.1): 2 Craig Pickering (Mil K) 10.08; 8 Ryan Moseley (SB) 10.50 B (0.7): 5 Mark Lewis-Francis (Bir) 10.40; 6 Christian Malcolm (Card) 10.57
Mile: 2 Andy Baddeley (Harr) 3:51.83
Women
800: 1 Marilyn Okoro (SB) 2:00.21; 3 Jenny Meadows (Wig D) 2:00.48; 7 Jemma Simpson (N&P) 2:00.87

Full results are available on the following link: www.zlatatretra.cz/results.asp

2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League DKB-ISTAF Meeting

Olympic Stadium, Berlin

Sunday 14th June 2009

SANYA Richards ran the fastest time in the world this year to win the 400 metres at the opening 2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League meeting on the electric blue track of Berlin's imposing Olympic Stadium, the same venue in the German capital where the American hopes to turn the tables on Christine Ohuruogu at the World Championships in August and avenge her defeat tot he Brit at last summers Beijing Olympics.

Berlin marked the start of the final edition of the IAAF Golden League in its present format and begin the chase for the $1 million Jackpot. Having been reduced to six events in 2001 – the series will be re-launched next year under the title of the Diamond League and includes 12 meetings from around the world rather than just Europe, including two in the UK.

Richards, 24, who claimed bronze in the 400m at the Beijing Olympics when she faded badly over the line, won in Berlin in a time of 49.57 seconds, improving her own world best of 49.86 set at the Prefontaine Classic the previous week in Eugene.

Richards, a Golden League jackpot winner in 2007 when sharing the prize with Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, finished well ahead of Amantle Montsho (50.94) and Yulia Gushchina (51.10) with Scotland’s Lee McConnell fourth in 52.22.

Richards commented on her win saying: "I am really looking forward to coming back in August and leaving Germany with gold, it took some time for me to get over the disappointment of the Olympics last year but this is a new start and I'm looking forward to racing Ohuruogu at the World Championships.

"If I were to pick up an injury - hopefully I won't - I would certainly stop competing at Golden League meetings and others."

Richards victory means that she will be challenging Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele and Russian Yelena Isinbayeva for the jackpot after they clinched victories in the 5,000m and pole vault respectively.

Performance of the day especially for the huge 50,000 home crowd assembled in Berlin was a superb new German national high jump record for the bleach blonde Ariane Friedrich who claimed victory with a clearance of 2.06m - just three centimetres short of Stefka Kostadinova's world record set in Rome way back in 1987- defeating Croatia's Olympic silver medallist Blanka Vlasic, who was beaten by Friedrich at the final Golden League meeting of 2008, thus missing out on a jackpot share of $500,000.

A delighted Friedrich reflected on her record commenting: “I was really happy to jump a German record. I had never been thinking about jumping it. Heike Henkel held the record for such a long time and she is a real idol in Germany. Every kid knows Heike Henkel, not every kid knows Ariane Friedrich, so I am l really proud of being a little bit her successor. It will be difficult to be a full successor but that is something I will try to do. 



“Also, I want to try to make High Jump interesting again, to interest our kids, and make them interested not only in the High Jump but also athletics. I also want to raise the interest and enthusiasm for the World Championships.”

In the 100m sprints pre-race favourite Daniel Bailey of Antigua took victory in 10.03secs with Britain's former World University Games gold medallist Simeon Williamson second in 10.13. Fellow Brit and Loughborough University student James Dasaolu pulled-up with ten metres to go and crossed the line in last place.

In the women’s race Kerron Stewart of Jamaica, the 100m Olympic silver medallist cruised to victory ahead of American rival Stephanie Durst in 11 seconds dead.

Stewart commented: “Today was a good race, I made a couple of technical mistakes but it was ok. I just pray that it all continues like this and I remain healthy.

“The World Championships is my first goal this year, every other thing will just fall into place after that. I have put in so much hard work that I now expect great thing from myself.”

American Dexter Faulk clocked a personal best of 13.18secs to take victory in the 110m Hurdles ahead of compatriots Ryan Wilson (13.21) and Olympic silver medallist David Payne (13.22). Compatriot Damu Cherry won the women's 100 Hurdles in 12.76secs.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Chris Brown battled hard with Congo's Gary Kikaya to win the men’s 400m in 45.68secs.

"The win was good and the feel of the competitiveness was very great," Brown said. "I just want to thank the Lord for this victory and allow me to go and come away healthy."

Commonwealth champion Augustine Choge stormed to victory in the 1500m leading a powerful Kenyan 1-2-3 over the line setting a new lifetime best of 3mins 29.47secs as Haron Keitany and William Biwott finished in 3:30.20 and 3:32.34 respectively also setting new personal bests.

Choge will race again in at the Golden Spike in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Wednesday (17th June) in an even stronger test of his speed, he’ll contest the 800m, where’s he recorded a 1:48.7 lifetime best back in 2004.

In the 5,000 metres Ethiopia's imposing multiple world and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele looked at his imperious best to take victory in a time of 13mins 00.76secs increasing his three-year winning streak in the event.

Yelena Isinbayeva eased to victory in the Pole Vault with a 4.83m clearance to head the world rankings for 2009 and looks well on course to match her jackpot performance of last year. After clearing at her opening 4.68m and 4.83m on her first attempts the Russian failed at 4.93m. Poland’s Monika Pyrek and Anna Rogowska were second and third, clearing season’s bests of 4.78 and 4.68 respectively.

South African Godfrey Mokoena, the Olympic silver medallist, dominated the Long Jump with a best of 8.33m to equal his season’s best.

Estonia’s Gerd Kanter won the men’s Discus event with a mark of 67.88 set in the fifth round, as German Nadine Kleinert’s with a throw of 19.39 claimed victory in the women’s event.

Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen had to settle for second place as rival, Finland's Tero Pitkamaki, won the Javelin competition with a season's best throw of 86.53m. Double Olympic champion Thorkildsen who placed second with a throw measuring 85.48m achieved in his first attempt, was not satisfied, after he achieved a winning throw of 88.97m in Finland last weekend.

In the pre-meeting support races Marlon Devonish led a UK clean sweep in the 100m 'B' race ahead of Loughborough-based world junior gold medalist Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Tyrone Edgar.

Robin Schembera produced another German victory for the home crowd following a strong kick off the final bend to take the 800m in a time of 1:45.96. Britain’s Michael Rimmer was second in a season’s best of 1:46.31 following a storming last 100 metres moving through from fourth place with Kenyan Reuben Bett (1:46.68) third. Tom Lancashire seems to excel in Golden League meetings having set a lifetime best last year at the Bislett Games in Oslo the 23-year-old improved that mark with a 3mins 34.29secs clocking to take 7th place.

Emily Freeman ran a personal best of 11.33 in winning the 100m 'C' race, matched by Ashlee Nelson (11.36) in second. Laura Turner finished second in the 'B' race in 11.46 with Kadi-Ann Thomas fourth in 11.59.

Great Britain claimed two welcome victories in the 4x100m relays as 2008 world junior silver medallist Ashlee Nelson anchored the British quartet, that also included Laura Turner, Emily Freeman and Montell Douglas, home in 43.18secs, whilst, in the men’s event Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Rikki Fifton and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey won in 38.52secs ahead of Germany and France.

After a nearly three-week break, the 2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League series resumes on Friday 3rd July with the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo.

Report by Mark Woolley.

Full results are available at: www.iaaf.org/gle09/results/eventcode=4192/index.html

The dedicated athletics-leics.com page for the 2009 ÅF IAAF Golden League is available on the following link: www.athletics-leics.com/btdkiaafgoldenleague2007b.html

Tuesday 16th June 2009

NICKI NEALON and Kate Ramsey, two of Great Britain’s top F40 Masters athletes went head-to-head over 5,000m and 1500m at the 2009 Midlands Masters Track & Field Championships held at Solihull’s Norman Green Stadium on Saturday (13th June) with honours even for the duo.

In very hot conditions with a slight breeze, Nealon, representing Huncote Harriers claimed gold in the 5,000m in a time of 17mins 49.2secs breaking a 14-year-old (1995) record of Judith Meeton (18:33.6) with Ramsey (Barrow) taking silver also inside the old mark in 18:29.3.

The 1500m was held just over an hour later with Ramsey taking the title in a time of 4:55.6 to also break the previous record set in 2004 by Jane Pidgeon (4:58.1), Nealon followed in 5:04.9.

Ramsey also currently holds the Midlands Masters Championships F35 records at 5,000m and 1500m, although those marks may be under challenge by Charnwood’s Tara Krzywicki who has made an immediate impact at Masters level in 2009.

Welsh international Rob Sheen representing Leicester Coritanian AC won the M45 category 5,000m gold medal in a time of 16:39, whilst, in the field events Andy Wilkinson (Huncote) claimed Pole Vault gold.

Full results are available on the results page: www.athletics-leics.com/results.html

Wednesday 10th June 2009

HIGH jumpers Samson Oni and Steph Pywell led the way for a selection of top performances by Loughborough athletes at the inaugural Super8 Twenty20 style athletics meeting in Cardiff.

In front of a crowd of 2,500 despite early rain showers in the competition that aims to emulate the success of Twenty20 cricket and boost falling attendances at athletics meetings in the United Kingdom Loughborough graduate Steph Pywell (Birmingham) won the women’s high jump title as her 1.80m effort could not be beaten, whilst, the inform Samson Oni (London South) prevailed in the men’s event with a best height of 2.22m ahead of fellow Loughborough athlete Robbie Grabarz (London North).

The 2009 European indoor 4x400m silver medallist Vicki Barr (Loughborough) eased to 400m victory with a time of 53.56secs to secure maximum points for Team Newcastle.

Craig Pickering (London North) won the men’s 100m in 10.24secs ahead of Canadian international and Loughborough’s BUCS champion Seyi Smith (Birmingham).

Elaine O’ Neill was a deserving 100m winner for London South clocking 11.74secs into a headwind ahead of London North’s Kadi Ann Thomas.

In the men’s 110m hurdles, Chris Baillie representing Glasgow won ahead of Leicester’s Callum Priestly (Birmingham) after both finished in 14.00secs.

In the men’s 1500m Jermaine Mays (London South) won in a time of 3.50.33 with Loughborough graduate Chris Parr taking third for Newcastle in 3:51.59.

Sheffield's Laura Whittingham won the women’s javelin victory with a throw of 55.45m, with Loughborough’s former British universities champion Rosie Semenytsh (London North) third in a season’s best of 48.24.

In the shot competitions Loughborough’s BUCS gold medallist Kieren Kelly (London South) and Leicester’s Eden Francis (London North) finished in third place respectively with marks of 18.24m and 15.46.

A close contest was eventually won by the London North team with 118 points, just two ahead of Birmingham with London South a point further back in third. The hosts Cardiff finished eighth and last with 82.5 points.

The event was marred by a sponsorship row with the American super brand Nike following the withdrawal of Kelly Sotherton, Hannah England and Greg Rutherford. The trio are sponsored by Nike, who wanted their athletes to wear branded kit in Cardiff, but the Super8 vests have no sponsorship, carrying just the event logo and team name.

Highlights of the meeting will be shown on Friday 12th June at 6.30pm on Sky Sports 2. Repeats on Sky Sports Xtra at 11pm and Sky Sports Xtra on Saturday 13th June at 8.00am- repeated at 1pm.

Full Results:
Men
100 (-0.2): 1 Craig Pickering (Mil K) 10.24; 2 Seyi Smith (Sale) 10.45; 3 Christian Malcolm (Card) 10.53; 4 Nick Smith (SB) 10.53; 5 Richard Kilty (Gate) 10.63; 6 Tom Martin (Sale) 10.71.
400: 1 Richard Strachan (Traff) 45.95; 2 Robert Tobin (BMH) 46.70; 3 Nigel Levine (WSEH) 46.95; 4 Matt Elias (Card) 47.57; 5 Kris Robertson (SB) 48.14; 6 Dwayne Lewis (Bir) 48.35.
800: 1 Paul Bradshaw (B'burn) 1:50.04; 2 Sam Ellis (Barns) 1:50.81; 3 Richard Hill (Notts) 1:51.18; 4 Kieran Flannery (Gate) 1:51.27; 5 Oliver Heeks (Orion) 1:51.73; 6 Joe Durrant (Camb H) 1:52.08; 7 Neil Burnside (SB) 1:52.21.
1500: 1 Jermaine Mays (Kent) 3:50.33; 2 David Forrester (SHS) 3:50.77.
110H (-1.1): 1 Chris Baillie (VPCG) 14.00; 2 Callum Priestley (Bir) 14.00; 3 Julian Adeniran (SB) 14.38; 4 Daniel Davis (WG&EL) 14.45; 5 Suote Nyananyo (Bord H) 14.88; 6 Paul Whittle (B'burn) 15.44.
HJ: 1 Samson Oni (Belg) 2.22; 2 Robbie Grabarz (Bed C) 2.16; 3 Brian Hall (Bolt) 2.11; 4 Robert Mitchell (Dund H) 2.11; 5 Jamie Thomas (Bir) 2.06; 6 Ben Mourbey (C'field) 2.01.
PV: 1 Robbert Jansen (NED) 5.11; 2 Luke Cutts (Sheff) 5.11; 3 Joe Ive (Sutt) 4.71; 3 Egryn Jones (WSEH, V35) 4.71; 5 Max Eaves (NEB) 4.56; 5 Rhys Searles (Dearn H, U20) 4.56; 7 Ben Gregory (VoA, U20) 4.56; 8 Richard Hurren (NEB) 4.56.
LJ: 1 Chris Tomlinson (NEB) 7.96/0.6; 2 Jonathan Moore (Bir) 7.53/-0.1; 3 Leigh Smith (Bir) 7.22/0.7; 4 Richardo Childs (Brec) 7.04/-0.1; 5 Anthony Timms (Leeds C) 7.03/0.8; 6 Nick Newman (Sale) 6.95/1.5; 7 David Martin (CI) 6.93/-0.2; 8 Steven Small (Sale) 6.86/0.4.
SP: 1 Carl Myerscough (BWF) 20.26; 2 Garrett Johnson (SB) 19.63; 3 Kieren Kelly (NEB) 18.24; 4 Jamie Stevenson (NEB) 17.50; 5 Rimantas Martisauskas (Sale) 16.73; 6 Ryan Spencer-Jones (Bir) 16.35; 7 Craig Sturrock (Gate) 15.55; 8 Sam Herrington (Bir) 15.47.
JT: 1 Chris Hughff (NEB) 73.67; 2 James Campbell (Chelt) 72.07; 3 Mervyn Luckwell (Mil K) 70.93; 4 Lee Doran (Sheff) 70.79; 5 David McKay (W Ches) 65.47; 6 Stuart Harvey (WG&EL) 65.23; 7 Matt Smith (Exe, U20) 63.06; 8 Neil Crossley (Chelt) 60.11.
Women
100 (-1.0): 1 Elaine O'Neill (WG&EL) 11.74; 2 Kadi-Ann Thomas (Mil K) 11.85; 3 Melinda Cooksey (Tip) 11.87; 4 Louise Bloor (Traff) 11.92; 5 Annabelle Lewis (KuH) 12.04; 6 Lucy Evans (Sale) 12.06.
400: 1 Victoria Barr (R&N) 53.96; 2 Jenny Meadows (Wig D) 54.01; 3 Henrietta Kodilinye-Sims (NEB) 54.58; 4 Nadine Okyere (Bir) 55.18; 5 Dawn Wilson (WSEH) 55.55; 6 Gemma Nicol (SB) 55.63; 7 Katie Flower (Scun) 56.90.
800: 1 Amanda Moss (Card) 2:05.05; 2 Susan Scott (VPCG) 2:05.75; 3 Emma Jackson (Stoke) 2:05.95; 4 Celia Brown (Cov) 2:06.16; 5 Danielle Christmas (Craw) 2:06.29; 6 Karen Johns (NSP) 2:06.58; 7 Vicky Griffiths (Liv H) 2:09.81; 8 Lucy Dowsett (C&C, U20) 2:10.04.
1500: 1 Charlene Thomas (Wake) 4:15.01; 2 Rose-Anne Galligan (AFD) 4:17.35; 3 Claire Gibson (Camb H) 4:17.85; 4 Laura Weightman (Morp, U20) 4:24.98; 5 Rebecca Craigie (Vale R, U20) 4:29.62; 6 Karen Harewood (Corby) 4:30.02.
100HW (1.1): 1 Tasha Danvers (SB) 13.39; 2 Louise Hazel (Bir) 13.66; 3 Gemma Bennett (SB) 13.66; 4 Heather Jones (Carm) 13.70; 5 Lauren Dewdney (Gate, U20) 14.13; 6 Grace Smith (Sale) 14.29; 7 Catriona Pennet (Edin) 14.99.
HJ: 1 Stephanie Pywell (Sale) 1.80; 2 Kay Humberstone (Traff) 1.76; 2 Julia Machin (was Bennett) (E&E, V35) 1.76; 4 Adele Lassu (Sale) 1.76; 5 Eloise Newman (Harrow) 1.72; 6= Julie Crane (Sale) 1.67; 6= Jayne Nisbet (Edin) 1.67; 8 Jennifer Baker (Dur, U20) 1.62.
PV: 1 Anna Massey (was Olko) (Sale) 4.07; 2 Rianna Galiart (NED) 3.97; 3 Emma Lyons (Sale) 3.97; 4 Maria Seager (WG&EL, U20) 3.97; 5 Holly Bleasdale (B'burn, U20) 3.67; 5 Bryony Raine (Card) 3.67; 7 Rachel Gibbens (Mil K) 3.67.
LJ: 1 Phyllis Agbo (TVH) 6.40/1.1; 2 Amy Woodman (Bir) 6.16/0.1; 3 Louise Hazel (Bir) 6.12/-0.3; 4 Alex Russell (Wig D, U20) 5.79/-0.2; 5 Sarah Warnock (Edin, U20) 5.67/1.7; 6 Imogen Miles (Card) 5.62/-0.1; 7 Chelsea Cooper (Stoke, U20) 5.50/-0.4; 8 Jayne Hansom (Gate, U17) 5.35/0.2.
SPW: 1 Melissa Boekelman (NED) 16.69; 2 Alison Rodger (Sale) 15.59; 3 Eden Francis (Bir) 15.46; 4 Rebecca Peake (Sale) 15.41; 5 Amy Hill (Sheff) 14.82; 6 Tesni Ward (Sheff, U20) 12.75.
JTW: 1 Laura Whittingham (Sale) 52.58; 2 Melissa Boekelman (NED) 48.49; 3 Rosie Semenytsh (WSEH) 48.24; 4 Katy Watts (Ports) 46.53; 5 Hayley Thomas (Thurr) 44.37; 6 Eloise Manger (Chor AC) 44.33; 7 Lianne Clarke (Neath) 42.73; 8 Simone Huggins-Ward (Cov) 42.24.

Wednesday 10th June 2009

BEN CHALLENGER opened his outdoor campaign in positive mood with a fifth place finish in the high jump at the Gothenburg 2009 Folksam Grand Prix meeting as Russia's Aleksandr Shustov claimed overall victory.

The 31-year-old Leicestershire-born athlete, now coached by Sweden's Yannick Tregaro who guided compatriot Kajsa Bergqvist to the world title in 2005, returned to the sport last year following an horrific injury where he ruptured his Achilles tendon whlist competing at the Loughborough International meeting two-years ago.

Challenger, pleased with his opening competition in Gothenburg in which he recorded a best height of 2.10m to finish joint fifth on countback with Sweden's Mehdi Alkhatib as Shustov won with 2.28m, reflected on his performance commenting: "I was so nervous for such a small competition, but the Swedish people were very supportive as I also wore the local club vest for the competition.

"My warm up was perfect clearing 2 metres first time, followed by 2.05 first time and then coming very, very close to 2.15 in warm up.

"Like all competitions there was always a little bit of messing about and they made us wait around 40 minutes before we competed. But this is quite normal.

"I started at 2.05m and cleared first time. I felt a little bit close and Yannick (Tregaro) agreed so we brought it back a foot. The same went for 2.10m which I cleared this first time and felt a little bit close, so brought it back another foot.

"From there I attempted 2.14m but failed on all three attempts, however, I was happy to get the cobwebs out whilst still working on the run-up and technique with Yannick.

"It was good because I enjoyed it which has been a good few years since I have been able to say that. My team mate Emma Green (Sweden's no. 1 female ranked high jumper) performed really well and it was good as it spurred me on.

"Yannick was very positive and pointed out my faults which I felt while jumping and he said that there is alot more to come this year which is good. This year is just about working on technique and getting a good base for for the future."

Article by Mark Woolley.

Full results are available on the following link: http://88.131.109.176/folksam/goteborg/resultatlista.php

Monday 8th June 2009

KATE DENNISON has broken the British Pole Vault record at the Memorial Josefa Odlozila meeting in Prague with a jump of 4.51m.

The 25-year-old Loughborough-based Sale Harrier has returned to form and fitness with terrific impact in 2009 season producing a indoor British record of 4.46m at the Aviva Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham back in February and now tops this with a new outdoor height within the Berlin World Championships A qualifying standard and surpasses the previous mark set by Janine Whitlock who reached 4.47m in 2005.

Dennison, coached at Loughborough by Australian Steve Rippon, commented: “I warmed up well and was feeling really good. I knew I was in good shape in training and I would have loved to have taken the bar higher but it was a low key meeting and the crowd had almost disappeared so I decided not to because you need crowd support when you’re going for records.

“There’s a street meeting on Wednesday so I’m going to stick around in Prague for that and hopefully jump higher, then focus on the European Team Championships.

“Obviously my main focus is on the World Championships, It’s great to get the standard out of the way early so I can focus on jumping higher. I’ll need 4.50m-4.60m to make the final so if I can jump like that before I go that would be great.”

Photo by Nigel Farrow.

http://sdc.lboro.ac.uk/shownews.php?news_id=989&cat_id=16&level=1

Saturday 6th June 2009

LOUGHBOROUGH sports scholars David Gillick and Lee McConnell with victories over 400m led a host of top performances at the AtletiCAGenève EAP Meeting in Switzerland, that included current student James Dasaolu smashing his personal best to win the 100m.

Ireland’s David Gillick, the double European indoor champion over the distance, clocked a season’s best of 45.53secs at the Stade Bout-du-Monde in the Swiss capital to take victory ahead of Britain’s Conrad Williams who recorded a new lifetime best of 45.70.

Scotland’s Lee McConnell continued her fine positive start to the 2009 outdoor campaign to win the women’s international 400m in 51.98 ahead of 800m specialist Marilyn Okoro (52.88) and the veteran Donna Fraser (53.17). 


There were a string of high quality performances in the 100 metres for British athletes as former World junior champion, Loughborough student Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, equalled his season’s best of 10.17 (+0.9) set in Pavia inside the Berlin World Championships ‘A’ standard to finish second to compatriot and university team mate James Dasaolu, the England Under-23 champion claiming victory in a new lifetime best of 10.09 PB (+0.9).

European indoor finalist Craig Pickering was third (10.31) as Loughborough’s BUCS champion, Canadian international Seyi Smith, claimed fourth (10.33). Mark Lewis-Francis continued his comeback with a season’s best of 10.59 to finish eighth. 
Loughborough-based Leon Baptiste won the ‘B’ race in 10.52 (-1.6).

In the 200m Coventry’s former world indoor champion Marlon Devonish won the opening race in 20.60 (+1.9) with Leon Baptiste taking third in 20.92 as Christian Malcolm finished sixth (21.21).
 Rikki Fifton went under the ‘A’ standard to win the ‘B’ race improving his lifetime best with a 20.46 (+0.5.) clocking.



Teenager Ashlee Nelson claimed victory over 100m in 11.43 (+1.2), ahead of Laura Turner (11.45), with the reigning British record-holder Montell Douglas fifth (11.67). 




In the 400m Hurdles Perri Shakes-Drayton, the reigning United Kingdom domestic champion won in 57.01secs as Loughborough student Justine Kinney finished fourth in a new personal best of 57.51. 

Fellow Loughborough athletes Meghan Beesley and Sarah Adams finished 5th and 6th respectively in the ‘B’ race with times of 58.16 and 60.68.

Emily Freeman secured a further British victory in the 200m with a fine season opening performance clocking 23.09 (+0.1) in her first competitive race since the semi-finals of last summers Beijing Olympics.

Freeman out sprinted Donna Fraser (23.71) and Kadi-Ann Thomas (23.80) as Loughborough graduate Nicola Sanders, the 2007 European indoor 400m gold medallist, finished fifth in 23.89. 
Meghan Beesley finished second in the ‘B’ race in 24.38 ahead of Loughborough Alumni Vicki Barr (24.56).

In the Triple Jump competition Loughborough sports scholar Nathan Douglas won the men’s competition with a best of 16.52 metres.
Leading British Results:
Men

100 1 (0.9): 1 James Dasaolu (Croy) 10.09; 2 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutt) 10.17; 3 Craig Pickering (Mil K) 10.31; 4 Seyi Smith (Sale) 10.33; 8 Mark Lewis-Francis (Bir) 10.59. 2 (-0.6): 1 Leon Baptiste (E&H) 10.52; 4 Tim Abeyie (WG&EL) 10.73; 1 Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun (Kent) 10.36. Nat 1 (0.2): 1 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutt) 10.38; 2 Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun (Kent) 10.47; 3 Mark Lewis-Francis (Bir) 10.64
200 1 (1.9): 1 Marlon Devonish (Cov) 20.60; 3 Leon Baptiste (E&H) 20.92; 6 Christian Malcolm (Card) 21.21; 1 Rikki Fifton (VP&TH) 20.46; 3 Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun (Kent) 20.87; 5 Simeon Williamson (High) 21.25; 6 Tim Abeyie (WG&EL) 21.49 

400 1: 2 Conrad Williams (Kent) 45.70; 3 Robert Tobin (BMH) 46.29; 4 Richard Strachan (Traff) 46.37; 6 Richard Buck (York) 46.70; 2 Graham Hedman (WG&EL) 46.61; 3 Chris Clarke (Mil K, U20) 46.91; 7 Nick Leavey (WG&EL) 47.66; 8 Dale Garland (Bir) 47.68; 3 Richard Davenport (Glouc) 48.03; 1 Tom Druce (CI) 48.31; 7 Nathan Wake (Herts P, U20) 49.93; 1 James Bower (Barns) 48.01 

110H 1 (-1.6): 3 Matthew Hudson (Leeds C) 14.68; 6 Robert James (Bir) 15.18. 2 (-0.6): 2 Matthew Hudson (Leeds C) 14.44. 3 (3.1): 3 Robert James (Bir) 14.97 

400H: 3 Dale Garland (Bir) 51.19; 4 Lloyd Gumbs (SB) 51.82. 

LJ: 2 Ezekiel Ewulo (WG&EL) 7.47/1.4; 3 Steven Small (Sale) 7.36/1.6; 7 Gary Wilson (Belg) 7.01/4.4 

TJ: 1 Nathan Douglas (Oxf C) 16.52/1.8; 3 John Carr (SB) 15.88/1.8; 6 Gary Wilson (Belg) 15.32/0.3 

Women

100 1 (1.6): 1 Laura Turner (Harrow) 11.48; 5 Montell Douglas (B&B) 11.75; 8 Anyika Onuora (Liv H) 11.82; 1 Ashlee Nelson (Stoke, U20) 11.43; 2 Laura Turner (Harrow) 11.45; 5 Montell Douglas (B&B) 11.67; 1 Kadi-Ann Thomas (Mil K) 11.81; 5 Anyika Onuora (Liv H) 11.98; 1 Lucy Evans (Sale) 11.94 

200 1 (0.1): 1 Emily Freeman (Wake) 23.09; 3 Donna Fraser (Croy, V35) 23.71; 4 Kadi-Ann Thomas (Mil K) 23.80; 5 Nicola Sanders (WSEH) 23.89. 2: 2 Meghan Beesley (Bir) 24.38; 3 Victoria Barr (R&N) 24.56. 4; 1 Lucy Evans (Sale) 24.20

400 1: 1 Lee McConnell (SB) 51.98; 2 Marilyn Okoro (SB) 52.88; 3 Donna Fraser (Croy, V35) 53.17 

400HW 1: 1 Perri Shakes-Drayton (VP&TH) 57.01; 4 Justine Kinney (WSEH) 57.51. 2: 5 Meghan Beesley (Bir) 58.16; 6 Sarah Adams (Leic C) 60.68
LJ: 4 Jade Nimmo (Falk, U20) 5.90/0.4

Full results are available on the following link: www.eap-circuit.org/IMG/pdf/Resultats_AtletiCAGeneve_2009.pdf

Thursday 4th June 2009

TARA KRZYWICKI continued her impressive impact on Masters athletics by smashing two Midlands V35 league track records over 800m and 3,000m at the Tamworth Stadium on Monday evening (June 1st).

The Yorkshire-born athlete representing Charnwood AC having turned 35 back in March stamped her class with immediate effect by winning the British Masters Cross Country Championships Vet35 title in Ruthin the same month - and on a warm night in Tamworth, Krzywicki showed the benefits of her sparkling return to form in 2009 coming into the race on the back of a spell of warm weather training in southern Spain she set a new record over 800m in a time of 2mins 16.8secs with a fine solo victory.

Krzywicki, the former British senior 3,000m Steeplechase record-holder then followed this with an equally dominating performance over 3,000m virtually lapping the whole field to cross the line in a time of 13:35.6.

Monday 1st June 2009

LOUGHBOROUGH graduate Andy Turner continued his superb winning streak over the 110m Hurdles clocking a time of 13.30secs on the track of the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadium to head the European rankings for 2009 at the FBK-THALES Games in Hengelo, Holland.

Olympic and world 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu finished second over 200m in an impressive 22.85secs behind Laverne Jones of the US Virgin Islands, who recorded a national record of 22.46secs.

In the women’s 1500m Hannah England (Oxford City AC) made a fine start to her outdoor season setting a new personal best of 4:05.87 and gaining the ‘A’ qualifying standard for the IAAF World Championships in the race won by Ethiopia’s Gelete Burka in 3:58.79, the fastest time in the world this year. Commonwealth champion over the distance Lisa Dobriskey clocked 4:09.66 to finish in 15th place overall.

Fellow Loughborough-based athlete Charlotte Best (Crawley AC) finished in tenth place in the 800m with a time of 2:05.38 as Jenny Meadows (Wigan) finished third in 2:00.15 one place ahead of Marilyn Okoro (Shaftesbury Barnet) 2:00.58 as reigning world 1500m champion Maryam Jamal of Bahrain won in 1:58.98.

Simeon Williamson ran the second fastest 100 metres time by a European this year with 10.09secs to finish third to Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles who recorded the first-ever sub-10-second performance on Dutch soil, crossing the line in a time of 9.97 ahead of American Rae Edwards (10.02).

Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie failed in an attempt to lower his own world hour record in the windy conditions. The 36-year-old world marathon record-holder clocked up a distance of 20,822 metres, short of his two-year old best of 21,285m.
Leading British Results:
Men
100 (-0.1): 3 Simeon Williamson (High) 10.09; 4 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutt/LSAC) 10.17; 5 Marlon Devonish (Cov) 10.22; 6 Ryan Moseley (SB) 10.22. h2 (1.4): 1 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutt/LSAC) 10.18; 3 Marlon Devonish (Cov) 10.24; 5 Ryan Moseley (SB) 10.29. h1 (1.3): 3 Simeon Williamson (High) 10.18; 8 Christian Malcolm (Card) 10.50
110H (0.3): 1 Andy Turner (Sale/LSAC) 13.30; 7 Allan Scott (SB) 13.91
Women
100 (0.1): 6 Joice Maduaka (WG&EL, V35) 11.50; 7 Montell Douglas (B&B) 11.62
200 (0.3): 2 Christine Ohuruogu (NEB) 22.85; 3 Joice Maduaka (WG&EL, V35) 23.22; 6 Donna Fraser (Croy, V35) 23.64

800: 3 Jenny Meadows (Wig D) 2:00.15; 4 Marilyn Okoro (SB) 2:00.58; 10 Charlotte Best (Craw/LSAC) 2:05.38
1500: 7 Hannah England (Oxf C) 4:05.87; 15 Lisa Dobriskey (LSAC) 4:09.66
100H (1.2): 9 Gemma Bennett (SB) 13.40

Full results are available on the following link: www.fbk-games.nl/uitslagen_2009/

Monday 1st June 2009

LOUGHBOROUGH-based pole vaulter Kate Dennison, the reigning United Kingdom record-holder opened her 2009 outdoor season with a best clearance of 4.30m to finish runner-up in the women’s pole vault competition in the coastal town of Sopot in Poland on Sunday (31st May).

Sunday 31st May 2009

EDEN FRANCIS was in record-breaking form in the sunshine of the Bedford International Stadium as the 20-year-old followed her fine performance at the Throws Festival in Halle, Germany, the previous weekend by lowering her lifetime bests in both the Shot and Discus competitions

The Leicester athlete competing for Birchfield Harriers recorded a mark of 16.53 metres for the Shot and 59.27 (inside the World Championships B standard) for the Discus to comfortably win both competitions.

Charnwood's AAA indoor champion Mark Edwards also gained victory in the men's Shot with a best of 18.44.

Sprinter Mark Lewis-Francis overcame pre-race nerves on his comeback to win over 100m in his first track outing for 18 months.

Returning from a long-term Achilles tendon injury, the 26-year-old claimed victory in the 'B' event with a slight following wind in 10.06secs.

Jessica Ennis also showed good form, three weeks after winning with a lifetime best score at the Multistars meeting in Desenzano - her first heptathlon since finishing fourth at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.

The 23-year-old Commonwealth bronze medallist set a BIG meeting High Jump record of 1.89 metres and narrowly failed to improve upon that clearance.

Loughborough University's Robbie Grabarz (Bedford) won the men's High Jump competition with a leap of 2.22 metres, whilst, Lloyd Gumbs (Charnwood) prevailed in the 400m Hurdles in 51.34secs.

Leicestershire's Nicola Robinson (Coventry Godiva), was fourth in the 100m Hurdles in 14.17, whilst, Loughborough student Sarah Adams was third in the 400m Hurdles in 59.48.

Laura Samuel finished fourth in the Triple Jump with a leap of 12.82m setting a new lifetime best for the event.

Full results are available on the following link: www.big2009.net/big2009_results.pdf

Saturday 30th May 2009

BEIJING Olympian Helen Clitheroe set a season’s best to win the 1500m ‘A’ race at the opening NIKE (BMC) British Milers Grand Prix meeting incorporating UKA Endurance Initiative races at Manchester’s Sport City.

The 35-year-old reigning United Kingdom 3,000m Steeplechase record-holder part of John Nuttall’s training group at Loughborough University clocked a time of 4mins 13.98secs to finish ahead of Ireland’s Hazel Murphy (4:17.29) with current Loughborough student Stevie Stockton (Vale Royal) fourth in a new lifetime best of 4:19.09.

Katrin Wootton (Bedford) led home the field in the women’s 5,000m in a time of 15:45.35 ahead of Hatti Dean (Hallamshire), Charnwood team mates Sarah Maude and World Cross Country Championships representative Hannah Whitmore finished 9th and 11th respectively with times of 16:36.26 and 16:49.97 as Loughborough’s BUCS 2,000m Steeplechase champion Ruth Senior (City of Norwich) divided the duo (16:39.49).

Other highlights included Loughborough Alumnus Lewis Moses (3:47.03) and Chris Parr (3:47.59) finishing second and third respectively in the men’s 1500m ‘B’ race as Simon Horsfield (East Cheshire) prevailed in 3:46.31.

Dani Christmas (Loughborough) clocked 2:05.97 to finish 6th in the women’s 800m ‘A’ race as Scotland’s Claire Gibson won in 2:02.24. Ben Green (Loughborough) finished 7th in the men’s 800m ‘A’ race in 01:49.96.

The women’s 1500m ‘B’ race featured six Loughborough athletes as Abbey McGhee (4:24.41) finished runner-up to the winner Julia Russell (Trafford) followed by Alexa Joel (5th in 4:28.73), Jaki Fairchild (4:28.77), Kirsty Milner (4:29.03), Jordan Kinney (8th in 4:29.34) and Jess Coulson (11th in 4:32.31).
Full Results:
BMC 800m A (Mens)
1 3 3 01:48.03 Damien Moss Rugby & Northampton / St. Mary's
2 1 1 01:48.31 Paul Bradshaw U23 Blackburn / UWIC
3 9 9 01:48.48 Andreas Bube U23 Denmark
4 2 2 01:48.76 Graeme Oudney Belgrave / Pitreavie / Dundee Uni
5 5 5 01:49.07 Richard Hill Notts / UWIC
6 7 7 01:49.65 Ed Jackson Sale Harriers Manchester
7 6 6 01:49.96 Ben Green Warrington / Loughborough Uni
8 8 8 01:50.71 Chris Smith U23 Wirral / Birmingham Uni / Liverpool
9 14 10 01:52.31 Rory Graham-watson Cambridge Uni / Windsor Slough
BMC 800m B (Mens)
1 18 9 01:49.71 Andrew Osagie U23 Harlow Ac / St. Mary's Uni
2 17 8 01:49.75 Joe Durrant U23 Cambridge H / Birmingham Uni
3 10 1 01:51.49 Nick Samuels Sale Harriers Manchester / Loughb
4 16 7 01:51.56 Adam Cotton U20 Birchfield
5 12 3 01:51.75 Michael Cole U23 North Devon / St. Mary's Uni / Enfi
6 15 6 01:52.01 Chris Brown U23 Mansfield / City Of Sheffield
7 11 2 01:52.19 Neil Burnside Shaftesbury Barnet / Ayr Seaforth
8 13 4 01:52.76 James Senior U20 City Of Norwich
BMC 800m C (Mens)
1 20 2 01:49.77 Eivind Jenssen U23 Norway
2 28 10 01:50.87 Torje Klevmo U23 Norway
3 27 9 01:51.20 Steven Morrow U23 Ballymena & Antrim / Border / Lough
4 23 5 01:52.95 Chris Bryant Sale Harriers Manchester / Liverp
5 21 3 01:52.97 Jack Hallas U20 Wakefield
6 22 4 01:53.25 Stuart Ross U20 Victoria Park City Of Glasgow / T
7 25 7 01:53.37 Craig Robertson U23 Pitreavie
8 26 8 01:54.02 Alex Budd City Of Portsmouth
BMC 800m D (Mens)
1 30 2 01:50.69 Ross Murray U20 Gateshead
2 35 7 01:51.03 Thomas Atkinson U20 Wakefield
3 31 3 01:51.61 Marc Elliott Gateshead / Newcastle Uni
4 32 4 01:51.92 Ross Clarke U23 Basildon / Woodford Green With Es
5 29 1 01:52.14 Tom Smith U20 Kingston Upon Hull
6 34 6 01:52.42 Jorge Thomas Cardiff / Leeds Uni Cross Country
7 33 5 01:55.05 Davey Platt U20 North Devon / Yeovil
8 36 8 01:55.60 Sam Walsh U23 Swansea / Bath Uni
BMC 800m E (Mens)
1 42 6 01:53.84 Chris Kays U20 East Cheshire
2 41 5 01:54.34 Ryan Stephenson North Shields Poly / Gateshead
3 37 1 01:54.84 Michael Wilsmore Tamar / Royal Navy
4 44 8 01:55.65 Jarryd Dunn U20 Birchfield
5 39 3 01:56.62 Martyn Gibbons U23 Notts / UWIC
6 40 4 01:58.51 Chris Lamb Rugby & Northampton
BMC 800m F (Mens)
1 50 6 01:52.96 Christopher Harvey U20 Cannock & Stafford
2 45 1 01:53.92 Nico Constanti U20 Gloucester
3 46 2 01:54.13 James Griffiths U23 Vale Royal / Loughborough Uni
4 48 4 01:54.72 Nick Goolab U20 Belgrave / Birmingham Uni
5 53 9 01:54.83 Ollie Crux U23 Ashford Ac / St. Mary's Uni
6 52 8 01:54.86 Ben Akin U17 Preston
7 71 10 01:55.15 Andy Prophett Cheltenham / Derby
8 47 3 01:55.21 James Miller Cheltenham / Police
9 51 7 01:55.30 Nathan Bibby U23 Preston
BMC 800m G (Mens)
1 59 6 01:55.42 Stephen Bennett U20 Preston
2 60 7 01:55.63 David Rigby U23 Preston / Loughborough Uni
3 55 2 01:55.77 Sam Yates U17 Ribble Valley
4 57 4 01:56.27 Tom Coney U20 Wakefield
5 58 5 01:57.25 Michael Hobson U23 Bexley / St. Mary's Uni / Kingston
6 56 3 01:57.30 Lewis Bostock U20 Notts
7 62 9 01:57.34 Andrew Mariani U23 Woodford Green With Essex Ladie
8 54 1 01:57.35 Will Fielding U17 Preston
9 61 8 01:57.77 Adam Clansey Liverpool Pembroke Sefton
BMC 800m H (Mens)
1 68 6 01:57.74 Chris Matthews U17 Blackburn
2 72 10 01:58.16 Josh Oguntayo U17 Sale Harriers Manchester
3 67 5 01:58.87 Chris Davies Swansea
4 65 3 01:58.99 Robert Nixon Notts / Birmingham Uni
5 70 8 01:59.40 Lee Whiteley U23 Sale Harriers Manchester
6 66 4 01:59.63 James Bleakley Trafford
7 64 2 02:04.22 David Barratt U20 East Cheshire
BMC 800m A (Womens)
1 76 4 02:02.24 Claire Gibson Kilbarchan / Glasgow Caledonian U
2 74 2 02:04.39 Tara Bird U23 Woodford Green With Essex Ladie
3 78 6 02:04.65 Emma Jackson U23 City Of Stoke / Keele Uni
4 77 5 02:05.56 Hannah Brooks U23 Crawley / Birmingham Uni
5 75 3 02:05.87 Celia Brown Coventry
6 79 7 02:05.97 Danielle Christmas U23 Crawley / Loughborough Uni
7 73 1 02:06.26 Ingvill Makestad Bovin Norway
8 80 8 02:06.76 Karen Harewood Corby / Rugby & Northampton
BMC 800m B (Womens)
1 86 6 02:05.93 Leigh Lennon U20 Newham & Essex Beagles / Wigan &
2 89 9 02:06.16 Rachael Ogden Worthing
3 81 1 02:06.18 Claire Nichols Woking / Team Southampton
4 88 8 02:06.29 Karen Johns North Shields Poly
5 84 4 02:07.25 Rachael Thompson Liverpool H / Loughborough Uni
6 83 3 02:07.72 Martina Mccarthy Dublin City / Ireland
7 87 7 02:08.59 Georgia Peel U17 Aldershot Farnham & District
8 90 10 02:09.15 Phillippa Aukett Shaftesbury Barnet / Birmingham U
9 91 11 02:09.57 Harriet Scott Havering Mayesbrook / London Uni
10 85 5 02:13.53 Kelly Johnson Wakefield
BMC 800m C (Womens)
1 97 6 02:10.08 Oriel Hardman U20 Bolton
2 101 10 02:10.42 Alexandra Bell U17 Pudsey & Bramley
3 100 9 02:11.01 Lauren Proctor U17 Wakefield
4 93 2 02:11.52 Suzi Boast U20 Bedford & County / St. Mary's Uni
5 92 1 02:11.84 Cally Read U20 Cannock & Stafford / Birchfield
6 96 5 02:11.92 Vicky Fouhy U20 Chiltern / Windsor Slough Eton
7 98 7 02:12.38 Seonaid Murray Liverpool H / Liverpool Uni
8 99 8 02:15.83 Jade Allen U20 Rotherham
BMC 800m D (Womens)
1 103 2 02:11.90 Nisha Desai Morpeth / Trafford / Nottingham Uni
2 102 1 02:13.12 Natalie Sharp U20 Kilbarchan
3 108 7 02:14.15 Ruth Watson Sale Harriers Manchester
4 107 6 02:14.38 Emma Mcintyre Sale Harriers Manchester
5 109 8 02:15.68 Rebecca Newton U20 Hallamshire
6 268 9 02:18.95 Kristie Leybourne Newham & Essex Beagles / Blackpo
BMC 800m E (Womens)
1 114 5 02:13.37 Emily Dudgeon U17 Edinburgh / Team Edinburgh
2 118 9 02:15.24 Ellie Buchan U17 Aberdeen
3 112 3 02:16.39 Rebecca Syrocki U23 Blackheath & Bromley / Loughborou
4 113 4 02:16.87 Samantha Jacks U20 City Of Norwich
5 119 10 02:16.93 Sarah Hopcroft U20 Birchfield
6 111 2 02:18.47 Carly Robertson U17 Bingley
7 110 1 02:19.26 Lauren Bugler U17 Preston
BMC 1500m A (Mens)
1 129 10 03:40.63 James Brewer U23 Cheltenham / Bath Uni
2 123 4 03:41.05 Jermaine Mays Kent
3 133 14 03:41.17 Colin Mccourt Tayside
4 131 12 03:41.31 Ricky Stevenson U23 New Marske / Teeside Uni
5 128 9 03:41.64 Niall Brooks U20 Sale Harriers Manchester
6 121 2 03:41.97 Jonathan Taylor U23 Morpeth / Teeside Uni
7 127 8 03:42.56 David Forrester U23 St. Helens Sutton / Liverpool Uni
8 132 13 03:44.23 Mark Draper Bedford & County
9 126 7 03:44.40 Gary Bradbury U23 Woking / Loughborough Uni
10 130 11 03:44.85 Alastair Hay Central / Thames Valley / Queen Mar
11 120 1 03:45.13 Morten Toft Munkholm Denmark
12 124 5 03:45.52 Gavin Massingham Sunderland / Sunderland Uni
BMC 1500m B (Mens)
1 145 12 03:46.31 Simon Horsfield U20 East Cheshire / St. Mary's Uni
2 150 17 03:47.03 Lewis Moses U23 Newton Aycliffe / Loughborough Un
3 146 13 03:47.59 Chris Parr Gateshead / Loughborough Uni
4 144 11 03:48.78 Paul Hutton Gosforth / Loughborough Uni
5 149 16 03:49.33 Andreas Bueno U23 Denmark
6 141 8 03:50.23 Steve Mitchell U23 Bristol & West / Helsby (bicc) Rc
7 134 1 03:51.15 Brian Markham U23 Ennis Track / Aldershot Farnham
8 140 7 03:51.24 Harry Ellis U20 Warrington
9 148 15 03:53.22 John Millington Tipton
10 135 2 03:54.27 Paul Erwood Marshall Milton Keynes / Bournemo
11 137 4 03:55.76 Ieuan Thomas U23 Cwmbran / UWIC
12 139 6 03:56.99 James Trollope U23 Birchfield / Coventry Uni
13 136 3 03:57.49 James King Milford / Ireland
14 142 9 03:58.72 Matthew Nicholson Morpeth
BMC 1500m C (Mens)
1 160 10 03:48.60 Daniel Clorley U20 Luton / Team Bedfordshire
2 157 7 03:49.63 Paul Richardson Charnwood / Owls Leicester
3 153 3 03:50.34 Alex Tovey U23 Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslo
4 155 5 03:50.79 Michael Salter U20 Leeds City / Birmingham Uni
5 154 4 03:51.15 Julian Kuppler Australia
6 166 16 03:51.19 Andy Wiles U23 New Marske
7 161 11 03:52.03 Scott Pilkington Corstorphine / Napier Uni
8 156 6 03:52.26 Thomas Farrell U20 Border
9 170 17 03:53.68 Mark Pollard Belgrave / Inverclyde
10 165 15 03:54.17 Harry Jones U23 Cardiff / UWIC
11 162 12 03:54.20 Tommy Carroll U23 North Sligo / Ireland
12 163 13 03:54.44 Richard Morrell U23 Middlesbrough (mandale)
13 152 2 03:55.10 Lee Reynolds Herts Phoenix
14 151 1 03:57.16 Tom Wade U23 Aldershot Farnham & District / S
15 158 8 03:58.31 James Ellis Winchester / Birmingham College
16 164 14 04:00.50 James Poole U23 Blackheath & Bromley / Loughborou
BMC 1500m D (Mens)
1 177 11 03:54.56 Harry Harper U23 Liverpool H / Birmingham Uni
2 173 7 03:54.68 Andrew Heyes U20 Hallamshire / Oxford Uni
3 167 1 03:55.94 Paddy Hamilton Annadale / Border
4 176 10 03:56.37 Chris Carter U20 Telford Ac
5 178 12 03:56.52 Tim Burt U23 Ashford Ac
6 174 8 03:56.54 Nick Hooker U23 Leeds City
7 175 9 03:57.13 Martin Reid City Of Sheffield / Sheffield Hal
8 171 5 03:57.66 Danny Barkes Mansfield
9 180 14 03:59.29 Craig Ruddy U23 Inverclyde / Central
10 181 15 04:00.07 Stephen Emery U23 Rugby & Northampton / Loughboroug
11 179 13 04:02.79 Darragh Flynn U20 Raheny Shamrocks / Ireland
12 169 3 04:05.65 Adam Grice Leeds City / Leeds Uni
13 172 6 04:05.84 Gareth Klepacz Team Southampton / Southampton Un
14 182 16 04:10.25 Mathew Jackson U20 Warrington / St. Helens Sutton / Sa
BMC 1500m E (Mens)
1 191 9 03:53.18 Philip Hurst U20 Elswick / Gateshead
2 196 14 03:55.47 Joe Wade U23 Aldershot Farnham & District / S
3 189 7 03:55.55 Luke Minns U23 Blackpool Wyre & Fylde / Central
4 194 12 03:56.18 Adam Clarke U20 Hastings Ac
5 184 2 03:56.44 Thomas Crowley U20 Bingley
6 192 10 03:57.08 Dominic Shaw U23 New Marske / Tees Valley Tigers
7 190 8 03:57.61 Carl Smith U20 Chester-le-street / Birmingham Un
8 198 16 03:58.41 Derek Hawkins U23 Kilbarchan
9 193 11 03:58.64 David Horniman U20 Trafford
10 200 18 03:59.59 Ben Warren Hailsham / Sussex Uni / Harrow
11 187 5 04:02.33 Tom Phillips U23 Woodford Green With Essex Ladie
12 186 4 04:02.91 Luke Carroll U17 Cheltenham
13 185 3 04:06.14 Jamie Roden U20 Sale Harriers Manchester
14 197 15 04:09.32 Dominic Easter U23 Shaftesbury Barnet
15 199 17 04:10.15 James Kraft U23 Scarborough / Sheffield Hallam Un
16 195 13 04:11.68 Joe Gratton U20 Hallamshire
17 188 6 04:13.27 Matthew Allott U20 Staffordshire Moorlands
BMC 1500m F (Mens)
1 215 15 03:58.33 Karl Billington U20 Blackburn
2 208 8 04:00.40 Nathaniel Quigley U23 Luton / Birmingham Uni
3 202 2 04:01.76 Dale Worton U20 Wakefield
4 214 14 04:02.02 Luke Allen U23 City Of Norwich / St. Mary's Uni
5 210 10 04:02.41 Matt Willmott U20 Marshall Milton Keynes
6 209 9 04:02.52 Matthew Crehan U20 St. Helens Sutton
7 213 13 04:03.07 David Forrester U20 Liverpool Pembroke Sefton
8 204 4 04:03.50 Joe Townsend U23 Leeds City
9 205 5 04:03.64 Sebastian Foy U23 Cheltenham / Loughborough Uni
10 212 12 04:03.71 Andrew Campbell U20 Inverclyde
11 211 11 04:03.84 Geoff Belcher U20 Leeds City
12 207 7 04:05.39 Alasdair Russell U23 Kendal / Central Lancashire Uni / B
13 201 1 04:05.82 David Vernon U17 Nithsdale
14 206 6 04:08.05 Daniel Ryan Blackheath & Bromley / Loughborou
15 203 3 04:08.84 Shane Kerr U23 Armagh / Loughborough Uni
16 216 16 04:11.32 Paul Green City Of Sheffield
BMC 1500m A (Womens)
1 230 14 04:13.98 Helen Clitheroe V35 Preston
2 226 10 04:17.29 Hazel Murphy Dundrum South Dublin / Ireland
3 222 6 04:17.75 Stacey Smith U20 Gateshead / Teeside U
4 227 11 04:19.09 Stevie Stockton U23 Vale Royal / Loughborough Uni
5 237 17 04:19.09 Sarah Kelly Dundee Hawkhill / Tayside / Fife / K
6 224 8 04:20.72 Laura Weightman U20 Morpeth
7 218 2 04:21.07 Louise Small U20 Aldershot Farnham & District
8 223 7 04:21.87 Liz Brathwaite Herts Phoenix / Oxford Uni
9 219 3 04:26.72 Emelia Gorecka U17 Aldershot Farnham & District
10 220 4 04:27.27 Lizbeth Pedersen Norway
11 221 5 04:27.85 Helen Singleton Wakefield
12 232 16 04:28.59 Ellie Stevens Derby / Larne
13 225 9 04:29.03 Kate Avery U20 Shildon / Gateshead
14 217 1 04:30.92 Gemma Miles Kendal
15 229 13 04:31.32 Hanne Lyngstad Norway
BMC 1500m B (Womens)
1 242 10 04:24.31 Julia Russell Hallamshire / Trafford / Sheffield
2 246 14 04:24.41 Abbey Mcghee U20 Victoria Park City Of Glasgow / L
3 249 17 04:28.49 Katie Clark U20 Kingston Upon Hull
4 244 12 04:28.69 Melissa Courtney U17 Poole Ac / Team Dorset
5 247 15 04:28.73 Alexa Joel Havering Mayesbrook
6 234 2 04:28.77 Jaki Fairchild U23 Trafford / Loughborough Uni
7 253 21 04:29.03 Kirsty Milner U23 Trafford / Loughborough Uni
8 238 6 04:29.34 Jordan Kinney U20 Royal Sutton Coldfield / Loughbor
9 241 9 04:30.36 Jessica Russon U20 New Marske / Tees Valley Tigers
10 252 20 04:31.63 Laura Parker U20 Wells City / Yeovil / St. Mary's Un
11 231 23 04:32.31 Jess Coulson Stockport / Loughborough Uni
12 243 11 04:34.14 Kate Holt U17 City Of Stoke
13 245 13 04:34.37 Lucy Dowsett U20 Cambridge & Coleridge / Birmingha
14 240 8 04:34.87 Sarah Hood Edinburgh / Edinburgh Uni
15 265 22 04:35.11 Joanna Emery Coventry
16 235 3 04:35.39 Bryony Proctor U23 Blackheath & Bromley / St. Mary's
17 250 18 04:37.44 Abbie Vernon U20 Rotherham
18 248 16 04:38.83 Dani Nimmock U20 City Of Norwich / St. Mary's Uni
19 233 1 04:45.58 Laura Dunn U23 Edinburgh Southern / Edinburgh / Ba
BMC 1500m C (Womens)
1 267 14 04:31.79 Amanda Jones Swansea / Army
2 260 7 04:34.87 Caryl Jones U23 Carmarthen / Taf Running & Orient
3 273 20 04:37.79 Iona Lake U17 City Of Norwich
4 261 8 04:38.37 Deborah Niccol U23 Bristol & West / UWIC
5 259 6 04:39.02 Emily Stewart U20 Dundee Hawkhill / Kingdom Athleti
6 257 4 04:39.66 Elspeth Curran U23 Kilbarchan
7 262 9 04:40.58 Cara Sloss U23 Kilbarchan / Victoria Park City O
8 263 10 04:41.44 Lucy Farnell U17 Birchfield
9 266 13 04:43.03 Kirsty Longley Liverpool Pembroke Sefton
10 255 2 04:44.71 Rachel Deegan Sale Harriers Manchester / Oxford
11 254 1 04:45.07 Bethan Strange U23 Cardiff / UWIC
12 264 11 04:48.49 Emily Merrick U20 Bristol & West
13 256 3 04:54.32 Dannii Johnson U17 Birchfield
14 270 17 04:57.20 Michelle Stone U20 Kingston Upon Hull
15 271 18 05:00.21 Rachel Atherton U20 Cannock & Stafford
16 269 16 05:10.12 Jodie Spencer U20 Kingston Upon Hull
BMC 5000m A (Mens)
1 314 14 13:43.31 Andy Vernon Aldershot Farnham & District / S
2 310 10 14:03.96 Jonathan Mellor Liverpool H / Liverpool John Moor
3 309 9 14:06.77 Sean Connolly Ireland
4 308 8 14:08.14 Mark Hanrahan Leevale / Ireland
5 312 12 14:08.43 Lee Merrien Newham & Essex Beagles / Bath Uni
6 398 21 14:10.61 O'neill Brendan Ireland
7 311 11 14:13.31 Matthew Bowser Lincoln Wellington / City Of Shef
8 306 6 14:13.38 Ben Tickner Wells City / Kent
9 305 5 14:14.97 Gareth Raven V35 Sale Harriers Manchester
10 307 7 14:15.36 Simon Deakin Leeds City
11 301 1 14:17.01 Carl Hardman Salford H / Bolton
12 304 4 14:18.20 Mitch Goose U23 City Of Norwich / St. Mary's Uni
13 302 2 14:18.39 Ryan Mcleod Loughborough Uni / Gateshead / Tipt
14 319 19 14:18.68 Marcin Fudalej Marshall Milton Keynes / Poland
15 316 16 14:18.71 Andrew Norman Altrincham / Trafford
16 317 17 14:25.75 Simon Jones Belgrave
17 313 13 14:25.75 Steve Sharp Belgrave
18 320 20 14:43.88 Owain Matthews Bedford & County
19 315 15 14:45.35 Chris Powner Winchester / Loughborough Uni
20 303 3 15:06.31 Alexandre Roch Cambridge & Coleridge / Switzerla
BMC 5000m B (Mens)
1 332 12 14:25.25 John Mccole Liverpool H
2 324 4 14:29.44 Mark Hood Sunderland / Northumbria Uni
3 331 11 14:33.14 Dewi Griffiths U20 Carmarthen
4 333 13 14:35.40 Martyn Cryer Woodford Green With Essex Ladie
5 334 14 14:35.73 Ben Fish Blackburn
6 349 21 14:36.35 Peter Street Preston / Loughborough Uni
7 322 2 14:36.36 Ben Jones Coventry
8 329 9 14:36.55 Craig Gundersen U23 Liverpool H / Birmingham Uni
9 325 5 14:37.88 Dave Norman Altrincham / Sale Harriers Manche
10 328 8 14:38.21 Josh Lilly Severn / Birmingham Uni
11 330 10 14:39.66 Matthew Bond Sale Harriers Manchester
12 347 20 14:46.24 Jonathon Hay Aldershot
13 326 6 14:46.45 Marc Hobbs Swansea
14 337 17 14:47.90 Simon Ryan U23 Raheny Shamrocks / Ireland
15 323 3 14:50.86 Martin Conroy Sligo / Swansea / Ireland
16 339 19 14:52.42 Craig Hopkins U23 Swansea / Uw Swansea
17 335 15 15:19.21 Neil Addison Shaftesbury Barnet
BMC 5000m C (Mens)
1 343 4 14:44.81 Ian Kimpton Lincoln Wellington / Oxford Uni
2 350 11 14:44.84 Steven Marriott Tipton
3 352 13 14:51.73 Ashley Harrell U23 City Of Norwich / St. Mary's Uni /
4 342 3 14:57.01 James Mee U23 Mansfield / Birmingham Uni
5 345 6 15:09.07 Neil Phillips Team Southampton / St. Mary's Uni
6 340 1 15:12.12 Stuart Robinson Blackpool Wyre & Fylde
7 344 5 15:14.49 Tim Prendergast Woodford Green With Essex Ladie
8 351 12 15:26.78 Ben Norris U20 Notts
9 348 9 15:31.88 Anthony Valentine Bolton
10 346 7 15:42.59 David Fitzmaurice U20 Clonliffe / Ireland
11 357 18 15:58.33 James Fairbourn U23 Belgrave / Loughborough Uni
12 354 15 16:02.34 Adam Elliott Sale Harriers Manchester / Loughb
13 355 16 16:22.21 Daniel Woolford U23 Bristol & West / Team Bath / Bath U
BMC 5000m A (Womens)
1 369 12 15:45.35 Katrina Wootton Bedford & County / Coventry Uni
2 399 22 16:06.53 Hattie Dean Hallamshire Harriers
3 365 8 16:09.87 Linda Byrne Dundrum South Dublin / Ireland
4 371 14 16:10.14 Michelle Sikes Oxford Uni / United States
5 361 4 16:10.75 Tina Brown Coventry
6 358 1 16:29.44 Rose-anne Galligan U23 Aldershot Farnham & District / N
7 372 15 16:32.37 Lauren Deadman Havering Mayesbrook
8 360 3 16:35.09 Marieke Falkmann U23 Netherlands
9 368 11 16:36.26 Sarah Maude Charnwood / Loughborough Uni
10 378 21 16:39.49 Ruth Senior U23 City Of Norwich / Loughborough Un
11 362 5 16:49.97 Hannah Whitmore Charnwood
12 370 13 16:54.04 Stacey Johnson U23 Cannock & Stafford / Birmingham U
13 373 16 16:57.61 Hollie Rowland U23 City Of Norwich / East Anglia Uni
14 377 20 17:01.43 Tessa Walker Salford H
15 374 17 17:29.18 Natasha Doel U23 Aldershot Farnham & District / S
BMC 3000SC A (Mens)
1 388 10 08:54.20 Bruce Raeside Notts / Cambuslang
2 386 8 08:58.35 Mark Kirwan Raheny Shamrocks / Ireland
3 384 6 08:59.08 Rory Chesser U23 Ennis Track / St. Mary's Uni / Irel
4 387 9 09:00.20 James Wilkinson U20 Leeds City / Birmingham Uni
5 381 3 09:03.04 Conor Mcnulty U23 Kilbarchan / Strathclyde Uni
6 380 2 09:11.78 Emmett Dunleavy Sligo / Ireland
7 385 7 09:23.44 Lawrence Walker U20 Warrington / Liverpool H / Birmingh
8 382 4 09:24.40 Glen Cormish U23 Sale Harriers Manchester
9 379 1 09:26.92 Edward Womersley U23 Stroud / Loughborough Uni
10 383 5 09:38.44 Noel Collins U20 Omagh / Ireland

Friday 29th May 2009

LOUGHBOROUGH Alumni Andy Turner continued his fine positive start to the 2009 outdoor season by claiming victory in the 110m Hurdles at the Artur Takac Memorial meeting in Belgrade as the 27-year-old Sale Harrier clocked 13.29 seconds (+2.1) to finish ahead of American Dexter Faulk (13.44), with compatriot Chris Baillie 7th (13.96.) 


Highlight of the meeting for British athletes in the Serbian capital was produced by the European three-time junior cross-country champion Steph Twell in 5000m where the 19-year-old St Marys student smashed her personal best to take victory in a new meeting record.

The reigning world junior 1500m champion ran a lifetime best of 15mins 47.53 seconds inside the ‘B’ standard for the IAAF World Championships in Berlin. 



Loughborough graduate and 2007 European Under-23 gold medalist over the distance, Laura Kenney, finished fifth in an encouraging 15:40.31 for the George Gandy coached athlete.

European Under-23 champion Simeon Williamson claimed the third victory of the night for British athletes defeating Craig Pickering in the final with a 10.10 seconds clocking, again as with Turner into a tailwind that affected the sprints throughout the evening.

American Rae Edwards finished runner-up given the same time as Williamson with Pickering third in 10.16.
Leading British Results:
Men
100 (3.0): 1 Simeon Williamson (High) 10.10; 3 Craig Pickering (Mil K) 10.16; 5 Ryan Moseley (SB) 10.26. h1 (1.5): 2 Craig Pickering (Mil K) 10.26. h2 (1.0): 1 Simeon Williamson (High) 10.26; 3 Ryan Moseley (SB) 10.34
110H (2.1): 1 Andy Turner (Sale/LSAC) 13.29; 7 Chris Baillie (VPCG) 13.96
Women
100 (1.5): 3 Joice Maduaka (WG&EL, V35) 11.59
200 (1.4): 4 Joice Maduaka (WG&EL, V35) 24.42
1500: 3 Charlene Thomas (Wake) 4:14.79; 4 Emma Pallant (AFD) 4:14.83
5000: 1 Stephanie Twell (AFD) 15:18.46; 5 Laura Kenney (RSC/LSAC) 15:40.31; 9 Charlotte Purdue (AFD, U20) 16:02.04

100HW (2.0): 6 Gemma Bennett (SB) 13.53

Full results are available on the following link: www.rezultati.isp.telekom.rs/schedule.htm