ASHFORD AC had a superb opening day to the Kent Championships with a championship U20 record among their 20 medals.
High jumper Debbie Martin soared to a record 1.65m with Caroline Hatley claiming the bronze medal with 1.50m and Caroline added the bronze in the long jump in a clean sweep for Ashford in the event.
The superb Rachel Hanagan secured the long jump with 5.12m, from teammate Lucy Holmes with 4.63m and Caroline on 4.44m. Hatley claimed the gold in the 100m hurdles with an excellent 15.7.
It proved a fruitful age group for Ashford with Rachel also landing silver in the 400m in 58.1 while Amber Regardsoe took silver in the discus with 27.23m and Sam Beckett was second in the 100m in 13.1.
Stevie Langford was another to rise to challenge in the high jump with the senior women’s gold with 1.70m with teammate Kara Gibbs in fourth with 1.40m.
Chris Blandford was the pick of the U20 men with gold in the javelin with a mark of 50.36m while Will Dickinson landed silver in the triple jump with 9.96m while George Huxley was a fine third in the 200m in 23.4.
In the senior men Pete Davey ran a superb 16.7 to win the 110m hurdles and the club’s pole vaulters again scored with a third for Luke Williams with 3.50m. Steve Lake just missed a medal in the long jump with fourth with 5.49m. Chris Kingsland performed well again withg fifth places in the discus and shot finals.
The junior men also produced four medals with silver for Jack Goss in the U15 1500m in 4:27.1 and Alex Lynch landing the U15 shot bronze with 9.22m and the discus bronze with 21.03m while Ben Cox took bronze in the U17 high jump with 1.65m.
Nathanial Fatola just missed out in the U17 100m with fourth in 11.8 and Cox seventh in the final while Tom Williams was sixth in the 400m and there was a sixth for Ben Isaac in the U15 long jump.
The U17 women showed huge promise for the future with a succession of finals, two silvers and a bronze.
Kayleigh Miller-Leslie was second in the 80m hurdles in 12.0 with Lauren Bamford fourth with 12.6 and Kirsten Hooten was runner-up in the javelin with 26.59m. Kayleigh was also fifth in the 100m final.
Hester Hill secured bronze in the high jump with 1.40m and was seventh in the 300m final. Liz Highwood was a fine fifth in the discus with 24.99m.
In the U15 girls high jump Emem Umoh was fourth with 4.71m with Ciara Ewart 12th.
In total Ashford claimed 13 golds, 17 silvers and 18 bronze medals in another highly successful weekend.
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Championship best for Debbie
Wayne secures Masters titles
ASHFORD AC’s Wayne Howe had a good weekend at the KCAA Masters championships in Erith taking the M50 javelin gold with a convincing personal best 40.14m and also took the county title in the discus with 32.12m.
Wayne also claimed silvers in the hammer with a personal best 35.09m and shot with 9.56m.
Pete Davey had a fine victory in the V35 100m winning in12.28 and also claimed the silver in the 110m hurdles with 16.33. Steve Langford secured theV50 long jump with 5.20m.
At the other end of the age scale Ashford secured four medals in the Kent Combined events championships at Erith.
They did a clean sweep on the U15 girls pentathlon with rising star Kayleigh Miller-Leslie taking the gold from teammates Lauren Bamford and Hester Hill.
In the U17 hepathlon Laura Hanagan was outstanding winning the title with 3906 points while Lucy Holmes was sixth.
Ashford had a fine double in the U13 championships with Ben Isaac winning the 75m hurdles title in 12.43 holding off teammate Alex Lynch who clocked 12.86.
Alex also lifted a bronze in the 200m with 28.79 after winning his heat in 28.46.
Emily Hamlyn took a silver in the 70m hurdles with 12.45 but narrowly missed out qualifying for the final in the 150m.
In the boy’s shot Edward Miller claimed silver with 7.16m with teammate Jack Munford third with 5.47m and Miller just missed another medal taking fourth in the 100m with 14.11..
Daniel Steadman took the silver in the javelin throwing 29.77m and reached the final of the 800m finishing in fifth place while Amber Guyatt missed a medal on countback in the girl’s high jump taking fourth with 1.25m.
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.
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