League 2001
Newport Harriers
McDonalds National League
| National Young Athletes League 2001 |
Newport Harriers |
The boys went on their final trip this year in the mcDonalds series of races to the Exeter arena. Four boys have made their final appearances in the Mcdonalds series. Newport Harriers would like to thank Gareth Day, Daniel Reilly, Alec Porter and Gareth Downey for all their support in the McDonalds series and wish them every success as Junior Athletes.
It should be noted that we arrived 15 minutes late and the meeting had been held up for 10 minutes. In their opening events neither gareth downey, matthew reilly and alex leach were permitted proper warm up time or in the case of the throwers normal number of throws. All aforesaid narrowly missed P.B.'s at this time.
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Zoe Llewellyn was declared Athlete of the Match in the MacDonalds Young Athletes League for girls at Tipton on Sunday. Llewellyn a very promising young middle distance runner easily outpaced the opposition in the under 13 girls 800 metres winning in 2m28.5s. For good measure she also won the 150 metre A race to underline her range of ability. Rebecca Williams also enjoyed a good day winning the 75 metre and 150 metre B races as well as taking 2nd place in the long jump. Holly Bird 4th in the 75 metres and the 800 metres B race and Louise Wood 5th in the shot competed well on their club debuts.
Rachel Conway easily out jumped the opposition in the under 15 girls long jump and Rebecca Hodges ran a good race before having to concede victory in the 800 metres. The talented middle distance runner aggravated an old injury however and had to pull out of subsequent competition, not wishing to cause more damage before the Welsh Championships on June 16th/17th in Cardiff.
Lisa Boswell in her first competition for the club produced a promising opener with 18m37cm for 3rd place in the javelin and Hodges took 3rd place in the B event. Lucy Bebbington (75m hurdles), Rachel Conway (100 metres) and Nicola Wood (1500 metres) all picked up useful 4th places as well as competing in non-specialist events to help the club's cause.
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The boys were also in action on the same day and return several good results. Quite a few of the lads came away with personal bests and young Lee Jones got a grade 4 award in the long jump. The under 15's had the best of the day with 7 wins, Matthew Lewis took the only track win in the 200m (25.5), the rest were all field events. Ryan Hodge did a treble with the Discus (28.26) , the Shot (9.36m) which were both PB's and the Javelin (17.63m), whilst Matthew Reilly took the B string Shot (8.60m) and Discus (27.46m) with 2 PB's. Jason Leach was the other winner in the B hammer with 14.86m.
In the Under 17's Gareth day set himself 2 new PB's in the 800 (2:08.8) and 1500 (4:32.3) with two 2nd places. Gareth Downey was the only winner in this age group taking the B string 100m hurdles in 15.8 seconds.