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Key and quick links to results and reports Track & Field | Race Walking | Road Running | Cross Country Events coming up ... Wednesday 16 May - Rosenheim League (Men & Women), Battersea 6:45pm. Timetable Saturday 19 May - Southern Athletics League (Men & Women), Battersea 12 noon. Timetable Sunday 20 May, Bristol 10k inc. ERRA Championship. Sunday 27 May - British Athletics League National Division One, Lea Valley. Timetable Sunday 27 May - UK Women's Athletics League Division Three, Aldershot. Sunday 27 May - UKA 20k & 10k Race Walking Champs., The Mall, London. Wednesday 30 May - Rosenheim League, (Men & Women), Croydon Arena, 6:45pm. Timetable Alex moves closer to the Olympic Standard Saransk, Russia. No less than 67 countries took part in the IAAF World Cup of Race Walking at the weekend. Finishing a very creditable 55th in the 20k event Alex Wright moved a little closer to the Olympic Qualifying B Standard with 1:26:38. His next attempt at achieving the required 1:24:30 will come in three weeks at La Coruna in the World Cup Final. Paskar Owor - BUCS Champion Monday 7 May, Olympic Stadium, Stratford. Personal and Olympic Stadium records came the way of Paskar as he raced to the British Universities Championships 5000 metres title. Making some of the early pace he then settled into a role of following the leaders although always making sure he was in contention. A last lap of around 58 seconds could not be matched by the defending champion Adam Bitchell of Cardiff and Paskar was a delighted winner. His next race will be the Bristol 10k on 20 May. Video link showing the second half of the race. No medals for Belgrave men in London Marathon It's now official! Although it appears from the individual results that Belgrave placed placed second in the male team race behind Serpentine Runners and narrowly ahead of Kent AC, the official results have the Bels nowhere. Of course Marty Dent was unable to score with his 2:17.32 as he was contracted to run in his sponsor's kit but with James Kelly 2:22:22, Erwin McRae 2:23:44 and Kevin Gadd 2:47.43 we thought we'd done enough to add silver medals to the golden haul achieved by our women's team. It appears that Athletics is an unnecessarily complicated sport though and the official reason for us being unplaced is that Kev, although running under the name of Belgrave and wearing a club vest, entered early for the event last year, not waiting for the 'championship race entries' to to be opened up. He has thus been ruled ineligible for the championship even though he wanted to be part of it and was on the road at the same time. Unfortunately no amount of discussion will change the views of those who calculate the results and as our next man, Tim Weeks, was entered through one of the 'club places', he too does not count and the Bels therefore have a team which dnf'd. Bonkers! 2012 Fixtures Many dates added through to the end of the year. Will's review of the Women's Team results 2011-12. The Daily Telegraph reports that BOA lifetime bans are to be overturned ...
Above: April 20 and in windy conditions Andrew Connick takes up the running in the 10,000m at the Irish Universities T&F Champs. It was the first time he'd tackled a 10k and the long stages in the recent relays have obviously done him good because he took the silver medal in 31:59.03. Then on Friday 27 April he won the Tramore 4 mile Road Race in 20:21, so he starts the summer season in good shape.
Another international vest for Alex Wright Alex Wright has been named as a member of a strong team to represent Great Britain & Northern Ireland in the IAAF World Race Walking Cup to be held in Saransk, Russia on 12-13 May. The team of ten is the largest to be selected for the event since 1999. Now coached by our own Ray Hall again, Alex will compete in the 20 kilometre event. Qualification for the World Cup was achieved when Alex beat the required 89:00 by clocking 86:54 recently in Portugal where he placed 17th overall and received just the one warning. This represented a huge advance in his technical progress after a disqualification in Lugano a month earlier and was the result of technical work done with physio Raphael Rinaldi. Raphael (pictured above with Alex) believes that the young Belgravian can achieve an Olympic B qualification standard. Alex is returning from Leeds to work with Ray Hall in the run up to the World Cup. Southern Athletics League Saturday 21 April. Last Saturday saw the opening fixture of this men's and women's combined league. We were a bit short on numbers but an enjoyable time was had by all at Parliament Hill. Our home match at Battersea is next up on May 19th.
Watch out for exciting news regarding the involvement of Belgrave Harriers in the world of Triathlon. We 'dipped our toes in the water' a few years ago and in spite of unleashing an age-group world beater, having a couple of elite world aquathlon champions among our number and entering as a team in local triathlons, we were unable to maintain the infrastructure to keep things going. We now have a person on board whose focus is triathlon and organising tri-training for Belgrave Harriers. We have re-affiliated to Triathlon England and Cycling Time Trials and soon will be starting up swim classes. Contact us for more information. VLM ... Belles take the team golds ...
Above left: Two miles to go and Samantha Amend is on her way to a 2:44:19 timing to lead home a Belgrave trio that won the Women's Team Competition and the English National Marathon Championship. With Fiona Maycock (2:55:57) and Louise Blizzard (2:58:10) their cumulative time was 8:38:26. Serpentine Runners had been announced as winners but apparently some of their runners were ineligible. Above right: First scorer for Belgrave in the men's race was James Kelly with 2:22:22, just ahead of Erwin McRae 2:23:44. A game but unwell Will Cockerell came out of the race at 7 miles and we went back to Kevin Gadd's 2:47:43 to close in the team. Not scoring was Marty Dent who ran 2:17:32 in his New Balance sponsor's kit. |
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