Several of our younger athletes performed at this local open meeting.

Full results Results

A good turn out from the ladies saw fifteen runners turn out for the 11th race in the series, the Birchwood 10k.

Club Championship Results Birchwood 10km     Club Championship Race List

Club Championship Ladies     Club Championship Men

Try to support the club by running in the next two events which are the road relays. Teams have to be entered soon, please see your coach or Helena to secure an entry as soon as possible.

Daniel Lamb won a silver medal at the Northern U/15 Championships leaping 5.33, just one centimetre short of winning the title.
Daniel also finished fifth in the 100m (12.02), while Alex Bottomly threw 23.09m for seventh place in the javelin and Jorden Pilkington grabbed tenth place in the high jump. Jacob Beesley threw the discus despite having a bruised knee and enjoyed the experience of competing against quality athletes.
Laura Fairclough raised her hammer best to 28.23m for eighth place and Lauren Marshall took eleventh in the long jump, with 4.61 and recorded 13.83 in the 100m.

Four of our senior men ran in the penultimate race in this 5k series.

Full results Results

Promotion for St Helens Sutton AC
The last match of the Northern Senior League was held on Saturday 9th athletes from St Helens Sutton AC had a great day and managed to win the match by 3 points. Incredibly they even managed to have a great day with the weather! The team came second overall in the final standings so this means they will gain promotion to Division 2 next year. Once again the team spirit was fantastic and the athletes performed out of their skins with some great performances and quite a few personal bests.

For the women, it was a welcome return for Rachael Woosey who won the 100m B race in 13.1 and the B High Jump with 1.45m , Jess Leonard had a good day winning the 400m in 60.1 and coming fourth in the 100m and the 200m. Her time of 60.1 set two club records breaking Caoline Morley's U17 and U20 records. Lucy Griffiths came third in the 200m B race in 29.9. Maria McGoldrick came third in the 400 B race in 66.5 and fourth in the 800 A race, sister Rachel winning the 3000m B race in 11.42.8. Courtney Dodson came third in the 800m B race in 3.16.7. Gemma Connolly won the 3000m in 1.33.5 and came second in the 1500m in 5.10.6. Sonia Monahan made her Track and Field debut coming second in the 1500m B race in 5.53.6. Amy Hughes competed in the 100mH, 400mH, long jump, triple jump and high jump gaining the team valuable points, Emma McClatchy won the pole vault clearing a height of 2.20m, second in the javelin throwing 26.24, and for the B team second in the hammer with 15.77m, and second in the triple jump, jumping 8.75m. We had two wins in the shot putt, Trish Spark winning the A team with a throw of 8.13m and Louise Hogg 5.72 for the B team. Trish also won the hammer 38.7m and came fourth in the discus. Karen Marsh was the star of the day by competing in the 110mH, 400mH, long jump, javelin and discus despite having fractured toes!

For the men, Matthew Lamb came second in the 100m in 11.7 and fourth in the 200m in 24.4, Lochlainn Fisher won the B team long jump with a PB of 5.15m and came fourth in the 200m B race. Jonathan Causer and Adam Woosey both got PB’s in the 400m, Jonathan with 55.1 and Adam with 54.7, Adam also came second in the 800 B race with 2.06.2. Tom Griffiths ran an excellent 800m winning in a time of 1.58.1 a new PB, then went on to win the 1500m in 4.08, whilst Ian Costello cam second in the B race in 4.25.9. Jamie White once again won the 3000m S/C in 10.30.5 and Peter Code come second for the B team in 14.01.3, he also ran the 400mH and won the B team pole vault clearing 2.50m. Barry Graney ran the 5000m in 18.20.5 and Peter Johnson in 19.56. Phil Robinson won the pole vault, ran the 110mH and the 400mH, then won the B team high jump, triple jump and javelin. Taylor Caton Hand came third in the 100m B race, then won the long jump with a PB of 6.82, the triple jump with 12.11 and second in the high jump with 1.70. Tom McKeever won the javelin with a throw of 48m. Mike Hughes came second in the hammer throwing 27.17, and for the B team won the discus with 25.54, and came second shot with 8.26. Stephen Winn threw the Shot 8.57m and the hammer 22.70, and Nathan Orr threw the discus 27.54m.

Huge thanks to everyone from athletes, officials, timekeepers, track & field judges, results recorders, tea and refreshment sales and supporters. Congratulations to you all for a great team effort over the season.

Christopher Lamb broke new territory by competing in the newly-established Octathon held over two days at Bedford. He recorded 3685 points finshing fourth nationally but taking the gold medal as the Northern Champion! Christopher's marks were 12.3 (100), 59.9 (400), 3.18.72 (1000), 12.70 (80H), 1.59 (HJ), 2.50 (PV), 23.86 (DT) and 44.44 (JT). Many congratulations to the new Northern Champion and club record holder.

Six races into the champs and there have been some good turnouts so far with almost everyone enjoying themselves. The exception being big Dave Hampson, who was heard to say "Never again!" after completing the 2 Lads fell race from Horwich. I think he said the same after the Shepherd's Skyline three years ago, so I'm sure that we can tempt him back. We had six runners at both Two Lads and Harrock Hill, giving the club a strong presence with the coveted white, red and black vest proudly on show. In the ladies championship Sonya Monaghan has been the only competitor, chalking up three victories and is looking certain to be crowned "Queen of the Fells" at the end of the year. Come on ladies - let's see a few more of you at the last four races.

It's a bit harder to tell who's leading the men as everyone has done a different number of races. Applying a "best 3 out of 6" (I think that makes sense as the final results will be best 5 from 10), fell runner extraordinaire and downhill king Mark Liptrot leads the way with 5 points and 2 victories. Closely followed by Greg Carns with 5 points and 1 victory. Currently in third place is fell-convert Gary Oldham with 6 points and 1 victory. Gary has an impressive 100% attendance if you ignore Rivington Pike which no-one went to and is clearly relishing being off-tarmac.

It has been mentioned that with no-one turning up the Easter weekend fixture at Rivington Pike it might be worth adding another race into the fixture list – any suggestions welcome. The next race is at Hade’s Hill, Whitworth near Rochdale on Thursday 4th September. Let’s see if was can get a record turnout!