Age knows no bounds for HW athletes

While teenager Chad Miller was strengthening his chances of representing Britain in next month’s IAAF World Junior Championships, some of the Club’s younger athletes were posting a string of lifetime best performances in Norway, and the club’s oldest active athlete was picking up six titles at the Surrey Masters Championships.

Miller continued his impressive season with some fine sprinting at the Memorial Leon Buyle international meeting in Oordegem, Belgium, on Saturday. He won his first 100m race in a personal best of 10.54 into a slight 0.3 metres per second headwind. He then went even faster with 10.43, finishing third in his second race over the distance with a slight 0.6 metres per second tailwind. His times improved on his previous best of 10.62 at Plaistow in May but, more significantly, his 10.43 was inside the IAAF World Junior Championships qualifying time set by the British team selectors of 10.45, and ranks him second among UK juniors this summer.

The 18-year-old also posted a personal best 200m time of 21.01 in winning his race over the longer sprint distance with a slight tailwind of 0.6 metres per second, just one-hundredths of a second outside the qualifying time set by the selectors. It improved on his 21.17 achieved at last month’s Loughborough international meeting and is the third fastest by a British junior this summer. The IAAF World Junior Championships are being held in Tampere, Finland, from July 10th to the 15th.

“He’s up for running some really good times in the World championships,” said Chad's father and HW coach, Paul. “I’m hoping the selectors will pick him for both sprints.”

Meanwhile, Hercules Wimbledon’s oldest active athlete, John Webster, who will be 79 at the end of the month, picked up pole vault, shot, discus, hammer, heavy weight and javelin men’s M75 gold medals at the Surrey Masters Championships at Ewell Court on Sunday. The 11-strong Hercules Wimbledon contingent won a total of 24 medals.

Lisa Thomas gained a double gold in the W50 400m and 800m, while Anna Garnier also did the double in the W60 800m and 1500m, in which she broke the Championship record with a winning time of 5:47.55. She also took silver in the 200m. Husband and wife Dominic and Emilie Bokor-Ingram also had a medal winning weekend, with Dominic taking gold in the M50 100m and 200m and Emily gold in the W35 100m and 200m. Dominic also broke the Championship record in the 200 metres with 24.39. Other winners were Matt de Freitas (M45 1500m), Richard Clark (M60 800m and 1500m), Martin O’Halloran (M60 5000m) and Paul Wignall (M65 100m and 200m).

Fifteen Hercules Wimbledon girls, led by their coach Anne Hegvold, spent four successful days in Norway over the weekend for the two-day BDO-Lekene Young Athletes meeting in Stjørdal where they posted no less than 34 personal best performances between them. Anna Barker won the year 12 600m in a lifetime best of 1:56.60 while Lulu Weisz took the Year 13 race in a personal best of 1:46.22 and Rebekah Riches took the Year 15 800m, with Georgina Clarke second.

More than 30 Hercules Wimbledon runners were competing in parkrun events at home and abroad. Teenager Ellen Weir was first female finisher in the Roosevelt Island event in Arlington USA in 21:23 while her dad Andy was men’s winner in 18:09. Adam Harwood headed home 18 Hercules Wimbledon runners on Wimbledon Common finishing second in 18:09 with teenager Hector Revill clocking a personal best of 18:12 in finishing fourth.

Last weekend Hercules Wimbledon athletes were in action in the South of England championships at Bedford and the London and Surrey Schools championships at Battersea Park and Kingston with the older athletes in action in their third Southern Veterans League meeting of the season at Walton on Monday starting at 6.30pm.

Reports and results in the next newsletter.

Results


June 2/3: BDO-Lekene Young Athletes meeting,Stjørdal Norway 15 HW girls: 
12 yrs 600m: 1 Anna Barker 1:56.60; 2 Bailey O’Leary 1:58.67. LJ: 4 Anna Barker 3.37.
13 yrs 600m: 1 Lulu Weisz; 1:46.22, 2 Lauren Armitage 1:46.46; 3 Millie Thorpe 1:47.17; 5 Ore Adewale 1:52.30; 6 Cate Coverley 1:53.99; 7 Hannah Hegvold 1:56.55; 10 Naina Raizada 2:04.87.  HJ: 2: Ore Adewale 1.25. 1500m: 2 Lauren Armitage 5:15.77; 3 Lulu Weisz 5:15.78; 4 Millie Thorpe 5:18.66; 5 Ore Adewale 5:33.72; 6 Cate Coverley 5:35.88; 7 Hannah Hegvold 5:38.08; 8 Anna Barker 5:39.38; 10 Bailey O’Leary 5:43.25; 11 Naina Raizada 5:47.46. LJ: 2 Lulu Weisz 4.50; 3 Hannah Hegvold 4.18; 4 Lauren Armitage 4.15; 5 Cate Coverley 4.02.
14 yrs 600: 5 Albane Fery 1:49.85; 7 Millie Doyle 1:52.72. HJ 5 Millie Doyle 1.15; 1500 4 Millie Doyle 5:10.94; 5 Albane Fery 5:21.14.
15 yrs 800: 1 Rebekah Riches 2:19.06; 2 Georgina Clarke 2:19.90; 5 Selma Hegvold 2:32.24; 8 Anya Stacey 2:38.06. 1500m: 2 Georgina Clarke 4:48.29; 3 Rebekah Riches 4:58.47; 5 Selma Hegvold 5:18.62; 8 Anya Stacey 5:41.25. LJ: 4 Anya Stacey 3.61
Full Results

 
June 2: Memorial Leon Buyle Oordegem Belgium: 100 M1/M2 (-0.3/0.6) 1/3 Chad Miller 10.54/10.43 200 (0.6) 1 Miller 21.01

June 3: Surrey and Sussex Masters Championships Ewell Court M45: 1500: 1 Matt De Freitas 4:36.96; M50: 100/200: 1/1 Dominic Bokor-Ingram 12.13/24.39 CBP; 3/3 Mark White 12.54/26.00; 1500: 2 Peter Lee 18:41.68. M60: 800/1500: 1/1 Richard Clark 2:35.74/6:13.76; 5000 1 Martin O’Halloran 23:13.08. M65: 100/200: 1/1 Paul Wignall 14.33/30.51. M75: PV/SP/DT/HT/HvyH/JT: 1/1/1/1/1/1 John Webster 1.60/6.20/17.98/26.62/9.82/21.33. W35: 100/200: 1/1 Emilie Bokor-Ingram 13.65/27.87. W50: 400/800 1/1 Lisa Thomas 67.00/2:35.86. W60: 200/800/1500: 2/1/1 Anna Garnier 36.12/2:53.90/5:47:55 CBP.  
Full results

June 4: European Athletics Classic Meeting, Prague CZE, Men 400m: 3 Dwayne Cowan 46.18
(Dwayne is currently ranked 3rd in the 2018 UK 400m lists with his time of 45.68 posted at the Commonwealth Games)

June 6: Rosenheim League, Match 3, Wimbledon Park

Team results: Men
1 Holland Sports 54; 2 Hercules Wimbledon 50; 3 Belgrave 45; 4 Serpentine 37; 5 Croydon 23; 6 Herne Hill 17. 

Team results: Women
1 Hercules Wimbledon 63; 2 Belgrave 53; 3 Serpentine 47; 4 Herne Hill 29. Croydon & Holland Sports did not appear. 

June 8: European Athletics Classic Meeting, Chorzow POL, Men 400m: 5 Dwayne Cowan 46.18


parkrun 5km results
June 2: 

Roosevelt Island, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Arlington. USA
1 Andy Weir (Thames H&H) 18:09 HW: 4 Ellen Weir (1st F) 21:23 (70 finishers) 

Wimbledon Common
1 Matthew Glitz (Unattached) 18:07; 2 Adam Harwood (HW) 18:09 Other HW: 4 Hector Revill (U15-PB) 18:12; 9 Morgan Rennie 19:35; 36 Alexandros Tsagkas 21:24; 37 Gabriel Durand 21:25; 40 Shaun Overy 21:29; 45 John Townsend 21:55; 50 Dominic Fraser 22:01; 62 Ben Revill 22:19; 64 Simon Woodington 22:21; 73 Paul Jones 22:37; 76 Simon Bodle 22:41; 81 Matthew Rockwell Wolf 22:51; 84 Tor-Ivar Guttulsrod 22:55; 125 David Lanfranchi 24:15; 174 Peter Metcalf 25:39; 180 Alastair Brown 25:44; 393 Niamh Wilson 32:01 (504 finishers)

Havant, Hants
1 Lewis Banner (Portsmouth) 17:27 HW: 6 Thomas Whorton 21:28 (253 finishers) 

Bushy Park, Teddington
1 Callum Gillett (Guildford & Godalming) 16:12 HW: 11 James Greene 17:41; 20 David Scrimshaw 18:17; 188 Barry King 22:13; 406 Katarina Scrimshaw 24:56; 650 Andrew Balcerkiewicz 27:33 (1313 finishers)

Norwich
1 George McFarlane (Unattached) 17:13 HW: 13 Jim Carrington 19:19 (481 finishers)

Frimley Lodge Park, Surrey
1 Mark Symes (Aldershot F&D) 16:49 HW: 17 Chris Coles 19:51 (535 finishers)

Nonsuch Park, Cheam
1 Ryan Griffiths (Epsom & Ewell) 17:16 HW: 27 Tom Cheetham 20:02; 99 Kirsty Wheeler 23:21 (692 finishers)

Richmond Park
1 Dan Afshar (West 4 H) 17:45 HW: 118 Fenella Willis 24:50 (433 finishers)

Kingston
1 Ollie Garrod (Epsom & Ewell) 16:13 HW: 246 John Wasbrough 40:10 (258 finishers)

Monday, May 28: Vitality London 10km (HW Results) Full results, as noted in last week's newsletter, are here

1 Mo Farah (Newham & EB) 29:44 HW: 26 Jonny Cornish 31:06; 38 Ben Toomer 31:18; 45 Richard McDowell 31:32; 51 Andrew Penny 31:37; 111 Jonny Earl 32:54; 121 Finn Johnson 33:08; 236 David Grima 34:44; 346 Adam Harwood 36:14; 418 Claire Grima (3rd W40) 36:53; 490 Guy Cotter 37:39; 574 David Scrimshaw 38:21; 656 Piotr Tymula 38:58; 678 Gina Galbraith (7th W40) 39:10; 697 Lucy Wertheim 39:19; 960 Alexandros Tsagtas 41:02; 1038 Dimos Evangelidis 41:33; 1042 Stewart Bond 41:34; 1085 Charles Hampden-Smith 41:46; 1243 Belal Ahmed 42:39; 1341 Gary Forde 43:05; 1399 Lisa Thomas 43:20; 1767 Simon Woodington 44:44; 1890 Yu Hidema 45:13; 1869 Alison Purnell (6th W55) 45:29; 2179 Tom Morris 46:12; 2545 Richard Steed 47:26; 3656 Kirsty Wheeler 50:25; 3664 Charles Lawrie 50:26; 13809 Sophie Toomey 1:23:30 (14488 finishers