Ben East threw himself in to History at the weekend, in his first outdoor meeting of the season at Bournemouth Ben in the under 15 age group threw the Javelin to an amazing 63.88, not only smashing his own club record, he threw the fourth longest throw in the uk ever for his age group, but one of the longest in 10 years. Ben went straight in to UK number one spot which he should hold for the rest of the season
UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships
10th March 2018
Two Team Kennet athletes represented Berkshire in the UK Inter Counties at Prestwold Hall, Loughborough, on a very muddy course. Luca Vicaria came 206th in the U15B race and Emily Faulkner came 55th in the U20W race helping the Berkshire U20W team to 4th place, the highest placed
Berkshire team.
English Schools’ Cross Country Championships
17th March 2018
A week after running in the Inter Counties Emily Faulkner represented
Berkshire Schools at Temple Newman, Leeds. It was vey windy on the course and Emily came 120th out of 323 runners. The Berkshire team finished 6th on the day.
Team Kennet’s Stuart Bladon took part in the UK multi Sports Events Championships over the weekend at Sheffield, in the under 17s Heptathlon. Comprising seven events day 1 saw Stuart finish the day in eight place, clocking 7.55 in the 60m sprint for a new personnel best, leaping 1.86 in the high jump and 5.85 in the long Jump later saw him clear 3.46 for a new club u17 indoor record in the pole vault, Day 2 lifted Stuart up with a fast 8.79 in the 60m hurdles, throwing the shot 11.11 and then running the 1000m in 2.52.47 to earn Stuart a 4th place overall out of 26 athletes, setting a new personnel best and club record points tally of 4488.
Team Kennet coach and athlete Deborah Montgomery added more silverware to this years tally, in the UK Masters Championships held at Lee Valley Deborah came 2nd in the veteran 50 age group in the Shot throwing 10.22 and the came Third in the Hammer with 32.52.
Club coach Simon travelled to Lisbon to do the Lisbon half marathon over weekend coming home in 1.58 with some 40000 taking part.
Club chairman Nick Bull was Seaton in Devon’s 10000th park run finisher since November 2016. Nick came 22nd in the event on the day.
Stuart Bladon took part in the UK u17 Championships in Sheffield at the weekend, clearing 1.85 in the High Jump he managed to finish 4th just missing out of the medals. Winner of the event Dominic Ogbechie leapt 2.22 to break the World age group record.
Team Kennet’s Deborah Montgomery won the Veterans 50 age group Masters Shot putt Championships over the weekend held at Lee Valley In her first Indoor Championship she threw a massive 10m 40cm to win the event and put her 3rd in the all-time all comers rankings list.
Several club athletes took part in the under 17 London Games Indoor Track and Field competition over the weekend.
Stuart Bladon broke two club records for indoors, firstly in his favoured event the high jump clearing 1.90 to take third place and a personnel best, then threw a best in the Shot 11.47 setting another best achievement, and at the end of the day in the 60m clocking 7.59 for another personnel best.
Anna Montagne won her 300m heat in a superb 44.27 and then came 5th in the Long Jump 4.76.
Oliver Bazin took part in three events the Triple Jump being his best 11.27, he leapt 5.12 in the long jump and clocked 8.02 in the 60m sprint
Sportshall U13 &U15 Championship – 14th January 2018
Sunday was the U13 and U15 Sportshall Championship Match at Eton, with 14 Team Kennet athletes taking part.
The U15 Boys, Harry Booker and Oliver Gregory took part in the individual competition coming 11th and 14th respectively. In the field events Harry came 1st in the shot with 11.25m and Oliver 3rd with 10.68m. Harry also came 3rd in the speedbounce with 80 jumps.
In the U13 boys, Oliver Humphrey came 5th in the 2 lap time trial with 22.3s and Sam Campbell 5th in the speedbounce with 73 jumps. As a small team they came 6th overall. In the individual competition Oliver came 13th, Sam 16th and Harry Davis 21st.
The U13 Girls had Aimee Dickson place 2nd in the speedbounce with 81 jumps, Annabel Todd 5th in the 6 lap time trial with 79.8s and Annabel Gibson 5th in the Obstacle Course with 18.1s. The team came 6th overall with the individual placings of Annabel Todd 10th, Annabel Gibson 14th, Aimee Dickson 17th, Ella Ward 23rd and Charlie Pennicott 34th.
The U15 Girls were our only full team on the day coming in 5th place. Anna Montagne took 2nd in the 4 lap time trial with 45.7s, Ellie Armstrong 4th in the vertical jump with 55cm and Sophie Weadon 4th in the shot with 9.19m. In the overall individual competition Anna came 10th, Ellie 19th, Sophie 23rd and Phoebe Hoaen 26th
The last competition of the season is on 28th January.
