Posts Tagged ‘Veterans’

Veterans keep up pressure

May 31st, 2011 by News Desk

ASHFORD AC maintain their second place in the SC Veterans League with good performances at Sutcliffe Park and Canterbury.
Pete Davey secured victories in the M35 400m (54.5) and 100m (11.9) and at the longer distances Kevin Williams also shone with wins in the M50 3000m (10:11.9) and 800m (2:21.6).
Ashford also enjoyed wins in the field events Wayne Howe taking the M50 hammer (34.51m) and discus (34.39m) while Steve Lake followed up his win in the B M35 100m (13.0) with success in the M35 triple jump (11.58m) and third in the long jump (5,25m).
Mick Goodall won the M50 pole vault with 2.50m and added points in the M60 400m and 100m while Les Wood won the M60 triple jump with 8.40m.
Steve Langford won the M50 jump in a tight countback on 4.94m and took a fine second in the long jump with 9.92m.
Other seconds came from Gary Macdonald in the M50 walk, Guy van Damme (M35 400m), Dave Fox in the M60 discus and the 4x200m relay squad of Davey, Lake, Iain Presnell and Langford.
Valuable points were obtained by Presnell (M50 400m, M35 pole vault and M50 100m), Peter Walsh and Ian King (M35 3000m) and King also scored in 800m and hammer while Paul Wheeler took on the M35 B 800, Chris Kingsland (M35 discus) and Peter Walkden was third in the M35 2k walk.

Pete’s a record breaker

February 18th, 2011 by News Desk

The British Masters Indoor Pentathlon championships took place at the Lee Valley complex on Sunday, with just the one representative from AAC, Peter Davey, taking part.
Having enjoyed an excellent outdoor season in 2010, Peter was looking forward to the event; even having a short notice shot putt session with Ted Hawkins’ group on the Tuesday evening.
Competing in the M35 age group, the events were 60mHurdles, Long Jump, Shot Putt, High Jump and finally the 1000 metres. As expected, Peter’s Shot Putt was his weakest event, but other four disciplines brought out good performances from Peter, including an indoor pb in the High Jump in which he cleared 1.66 metres.
Peter’s total score of 2656 points was comfortably good enough to take the Gold medal and the score was also a club Vets record. In addition Peter took the club Vets records in the High Jump, Long Jump and the 1000 metres for very encouraging start to 2011.

Wayne secures Masters titles

September 20th, 2010 by News Desk

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.