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Duo shine in nationals

April 23rd, 2010 by News Desk

Emem and Charlotte at the National Sportshall finals

ASHFORD AC Under 13 girls Emem Umoh and Charlotte Dryland were in action for Kent in the Under 13 girls National Sportshall finals, at the NEC arena Birmingham on Sunday.

The Kent girls came third out of 12 teams, with Emem taking the silver medal in the vertical jump and Charlotte was fifth in the speed bounce with 84 bounces.

The speed bounce was won in 86 bounces with three girls sharing the gold.

The Ashford duo were competing against girls a year older than themselves, as they both are in this age group again next year.

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Sportshall squad on form

February 18th, 2010 by News Desk

sportshallwebbASHFORD Athletic Club had a storming time in the Sportshall Inter-Regional finals at Burgess Hill with the 18 youngsters in the medals and all recording personal bests.
Three helped the Under 13 Kent team win the competition and qualify for the UK finals in Birmingham on April 18 after securing two golds and a bronze.
Emem Umoh won the vertical jump with a 63cm leap and gold also went to Charlotte Dryland winning the speed bounce with 83. The bronze was taken by Amber Currie in the four lap race with a best time of 55.3 seconds.
Oliver Williams starred for the Under 13 Kent boys with two silver medals shining in the standing triple jump with 7.84m and runner-up in the four lap race with 23.3. Also in the U13 squad were Alex Lynch, Kieran Regan, Ben Isaac and Ben Phillips.
Nathan Fatola had a super day in the Under 15 boys with two silvers and a bronze in the all-round competition. His silvers came in the triple jump with 7.86m and two lap race in 22.8 seconds.
There was also a bronze for Tom Snare in the shot with a fine 12.14m putt. Also in action from Ashford were Tom Williams and Temi Banwo who helped Kent finished third team in the South East competition.
The Kent Under 15 girls had Caitlin Dock, Kayleigh Miller-Leslie, Abigail Purkis, Lauren Bamford and Sophie Hamlyn in action in a top class competition. Caitlin and Lauren just missed out on medals with equal fourths in the speed bounce competition and Caitlin was the best Kent performer in the all rounder competition on equal ninth. Good news for the club is most of the athletes have another year in their age groups to improve even more.

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Indoor delight for club

February 16th, 2010 by News Desk
Sophie Hamlyn, Lauren Bamford and Kayleigh Miller-Leslie

Sophie Hamlyn, Lauren Bamford and Kayleigh Miller-Leslie

ASHFORD had a brilliant couple of days at the Kent Indoor track and field championships at the Lee Valley Centre winning 10 golds, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals.

One of the star performers was young Oliver Williams who took a full house of medals in the Under 15 age group with gold in a tight high jump contest with 1.50m, silver in the 60m hurdles with 9.73 holding off teammate Max Reeves and two bronze medals.
Oliver was third in the 200m with 26.19 and also in the 60m sprint (7.91) which was won by teammate Nathan Fatola who powered to a superb club record 7.77. Reeves was fifth in the sprint final.
Kara Gibbs took gold and silver in the senior women winning the high jump with 1.40m and second in the pole vault with 2.80m with teammate Emmeline Rendell in third with 2.70m as did Rachel Hanagan.
Rachel is ranked 9th in the country in the U20 triple jump after winning the Kent title with 11.14m and added the silver in the long jump with with 4.87m. Sister Laura leapt to a new indoor personal best of 10.21m in taking gold in the U17 triple jump.
Lauren Bamford won gold and silver taking the U15 county title in the 300m with a personal best 45.28 but was just edged out by clubmate Kayleigh Miller-Leslie in the 60m hurdles dash. Kayleigh took gold with 10.33 and Lauren clocked 10.45.
Also in the U15 girls Sophie Hamlyn claimed the county title in the long jump with 4.04m while at the other end of the age range Gary Macdonald won the M50 1km walk with 9:32.85.
Pete Davey and James Bridges secured senior men’s silver medals in the 60m hurdles and 200m respectively with 9.21 and 23.47 times while veteran Jon Ward took silver in the men’s shot 12.39 with Chris Kingland just missing a medal in fourth with 11.03m.
In the U20 men Tom Chambers held off teammate Hadley Pressley to take the 200m silver with 23.49 to Pressley’s 24.58 and Sam Beckett had a good weekend second in the U20 women’s 800m and third in the 400m. Sam was also fifth in the 60m sprint.
Amelia Jones was a fine second in the U17W 800 while Abigail Purkis set a personal best 28.15 in taking the bronze in the U15 200m with first year teammate Amber Currie making both the 60m and 200m finals.
Tom Williams took silver in the U17 triple jump with 11.73 and just missed another medal in the 60m hurdles fourth in 9.53 as well as a fifth in the 200m.
Jack Huxley took bronze in the U15 boys pole vault with a fine 2m vault and there were 200m personal bests for Caitlin Dock and Steve Walder. Others to go close to medals were Luke Williams fourth in the men’s pole vault (3.30m), Erin Maxwell fourth in the U15G high jump and fifth in the long jump and Lucy Holmes was fifth in the U17W shot.

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