ASHFORD AC’s Rachel Hanagan broke a 23 year old club record in a fine weekend in the U20 heptathlon at Stoke.
Rachel finished a splendid sixth with a personal best points tally of 4,205 after a victory in the 800m in a personal best 2:24.78 and second in the 200m in 26.17. She set another best in the high jump with 1.49m and a season’s best 5.24m in the long jump.
Her points tally broke Karen Hambrook’s club record in the heptathlon set in 1987.
Caroline Hatley also competed well finishing 17th in the U17 heptathlon with season bests in the long jump and high jump.
Ashford multi eventer Chris Blandford was 17th in the U20 men’s decathlon with a personal best javelin of 51.09m and more bests in the 110m hurdles (20.40) and 100m (12.48) with a seaon’s best 400m of 56.10 and high jump of 1.54m.
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Rachel sets new mark
Golden day for senior women
The successful senior women
ASHFORD AC’s senior women had a splendid day at the Kent Relays championships at the Black Lion track in Gillingham.
Highlight was a well deserved gold in the 4x400m race where Laura Hanagan, Caroline Hatley, Sam Beckett and Rachel Hanagan came from behind to take top honours.
Always playing catch-up Sam managed to hand over to Laura in second place after the third leg and she tucked in behind the leader to storm home down the final straight to secure a brilliant gold.
In 4x100m Sam, Rachel and Caroline were joined by Lucy Holmes to secure a hard earned bronze and there was another third for the quartet of Sam, Lucy, Caroline and Caitlin Dock in another fine run in the 4x200m final.
It was a remarkable performance by Sam who only got home at 4am after taking a second in the final of the Street Athletics in Manchester to get up and help the three senior women’s squads to the gold and two bronze medals.
The club secured another bronze in the U15 girls 4x100m event with fine runs by Sophie Hamlyn, Kayleigh Miller Leslie, Lauren Bamford and Hester Hill.
The U15 4x200m squad just missed out the medals in fourth after a good effort by Kayleigh, Lauren and Hester joined by Abigail Purkis.
Janine cops gold
Kelsey Howard and Kate Funnell at Glasgow
ASHFORD AC’s Janine Brown stunned even herself in taking a superb gold at the National Police UK Championships held in Scotland.
Despite awful conditions with rain and wind she claimed victory in the 800m with a season’s best 2:29.3 and also took bronze in the 1500m race in another season’s best of 5:06.3.
The event was also trials for the European track and field championships being held in the Ukraine over September 22-25 but Janine said she was not seeking selection as she needs a break after a long and demanding season with injury and marathon training.
But she aims to be back with road and cross country events for Ashford and Kent Police after her break.
Another Shepway athlete enjoying success is Vicky Silk who was back on form with two golds in Dublin strengthening her claim for selection for selection in the world championships in New Zealand in January.
She threw consistently in the discus to win with a personal best 18.88m improving her best by 84cm and she went close to setting another best in the shot with a winning throw of 6.13m in another impressive series.
She now has two meetings left with the Diamond League meeting at Crystal Palace on August 15 and then in Slovakia in late August for the IWAS world championships.
Kate Funnell and Kelsey Howard represented the Folkestone School for Girls at the Four Nations U17 International Athletics meeting at Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow with Kate coming fourth and Kelsey fifth.
With race walking an emerging discipline within athletics at the moment, it is quite a coup for the school to have two athletes competing at this level, in the same age group and at the same time being good friends.
Kate also recently competed in the Aviva UK Championships at Birmingham joining Lisa Dobrisky in featuring the club’s colours at the highest level in the BBC televised event.
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