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Janine cops gold

July 24th, 2010 by News Desk

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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U13s show the way

June 2nd, 2010 by News Desk

A SUPERB display by Ashford U13 boys helped keep the club in the title race in the Kent Young Athletes League meeting at Erith.
They finished a fine second spurred by three double successes and victory in the relay.
Alex Lynch led the way winning the 75m hurdles with Ben Isaac taking the B string honours and they were joined by George Hogben and Luke Busumbru to take the 4x100m relay. Lynch also also took second in the long jump and third in the 200m.
Another winning double came in the discus where Luke dominated the A event winning with 19.25m while Lewis Hagger took B honours with a fine 13.17m.
Isaac had a convincing win in the A javelin with 25.64m with Edward Miller the B winner with an equally impressive 22.48m. Ben also won the B 200m while Miller secured victory in the B 100m.
Hagger also capped a busy day with second in the B high jump wher Hogben finished third in the A event and Lewis was also second in the B shot with George third in the A throws.
Also in action were Jacob Sivyer and Sam Marsh.
The U15 boys were lifted by a a double second in the 100m from Nathan Fatola and George McClennan.
Nathan was also third in the long jump, fifth in the discus and anchored the 4x100m squad that took a fine second along with Temi Banwo, Max Reeves and Wesley Potter.
McClennan notched a very close second on the line in the 400m and was fourth in the 800m where Declan O’Driscoll was third in the B race.
Other thirds came from Reeves in the A 80m hurdles and B discus and Potter in the B long jump.
The U13 girls also had a good day just edged into third while the U15s emulated the boys by also taking fifth.
Young Emem Umoh was the U13 star winning the 150m on the line with Eleanor Potter third in the B race and Emem also won the B javelin, where Annamarie Gould was second in the A event, and was also second in the A long jump.
Eleanor won the B 1200m walk with Amber Guyatt in second in the A walk and there wasa double second for Amber and Annamarie in the 600m.
Emem was joined by Mary Coleman, Georgia Bamford and Emily Hamlyn for second in the 4x100m relay. There was another two A & B second places in the discus for Coleman and Rebecca Cock while in the shot Coleman was third in the A competition and Bamford second in the B contest.
There were three victories for the U15 squad with Lauren Bamford winning the A 75m hurdles convincingly and Rebecca Roddy claimed A success and Charlotte Roberts the B honours in the 1200m walk.
Lauren also claimed thirds in the A 300m and shot and a second in the 4x100m relay along with Hamlyn, Amber Currie and Hester Hill.
Hester was third in A high jump and B discus while there were A and B thirds for Hamlyn and Currie in the long jump and Polly Abbott and Erin Maxwell in the javelin.
The girls’ teams finished third overall on the day.

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Bright start for senior men

May 4th, 2010 by News Desk

ASHFORD Athletic Club senior men’s team started the 2010 season with a solid  third place finish at home on Saturday May 1.

 Star performer was jumper Matt Morsia who leaped to a club record of 14.64m in the triple jump and a season’s best of 6.82m in the long jump to win both events in some style. Ryan Harris completed a double in the triple jump winning the B-string with a season’s best jump of 11.75m.

 Sprinter James Bridge scored good points winning the B 100m in the fastest time of the match with 11.30s and worked hard into a strong headwind to finish second in the 200m A race. Gary Carr started his season with a solid third in the A 100m  and  B 200m.

 Team captain Matt Hogben had a busy day competing in the 400m hurdles, high jump and 3000m steeplechase to score valuable points for the team.

 Young Christian Brown competing for the first time scored points in the 400m hurdles and ran a non scoring 100m and 200m.

 Youngster George Huxley made his debut for the senior team and finished well to place second in 400m B-string. Ashley Cochran ran a season’s best of 53.02s for fourth in a close A race.

 Peter Davey leaped to a season’s best in the long jump to finish third in the B event with 5.93m just 2cm off winning the event. In 110m hurdles  Davey ran a strong race into a slight headwind to finish third with a time of 16.96s. Peter also was second in the high jump B string to complete a busy day. 

 In the pole vault supervet Mick Goodall started his season with a vault of 3.10m to finish fourth in the A-string while Luke Williams made a first appearance in an Ashford vest and vaulted 3.0m for second in the B event, a position he also achieved in the B 110m hurdles.

 The team had a number of key middle distance athletes missing due university commitments but Andy Robertson, Warren Uden and Phil Heathfield competed well to pick up valuable points for the team.

 In the 5000m John Brasier made his debut for Ashford AC and finished well to record a time of 16.37.08s for fourth in the A race with veteran Kevin Williams returning from injury to for third in the B string.

 In the throws Jon Ward and Chris Kingsland scored good points across the shot, discus and hammer.

Jon was second in the discus and third in both the hammer and shot A events. Chris Kingsland started his day with a big personal best of 33.40m to finish secondin the B-string, he followed this with a victory in the B shot and second in the discus.

 In the javelin Chris Blanford threw a season’s best of 44.15m for third in the A-string as did John Rolfe who finished second in the b-string with 40.24m

 The day ended with good points in the relays with the 4x100m team second and the 4x400m squad third.

Team manager Pete Le Rossignol would like to thank all the officials, volunteers and supporters for their help at the match. 

 The team, currently are 12th in Division One, travel to Portsmouth for the next match on  May 15.

 Any athletes interested in competing for Ashford Athletic Club senior team should contact Team Manager Pete Le Rossignol by e-mail on info@ontrackathletics.co.uk or call 07838 122 568.

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