Men's British Athletics League Division One - 2004: Match 1, New River Stadium, Haringey

Fancy a long shot ....

1 Woodford Green with Essex Ladies 354; 2 Enfield & Haringey AC 311; 3 Newham & Essex Beagles 291; 4 Belgrave H 289; 5 Thames Valley H 249; 6 Birchfield H 243; 7 Shaftesbury Barnet H 243; 8 Sale H Manchester 186.

Things looked bad. The AW correspondent was predicting that Belgrave were on their way to an 8th consecutive League title starting with this - the opening fixture for 2004. Bearing in mind AW had also asked who would be second to us in the 12 stage relay, and our subsequent silver medal, the omens were bad. And we knew that our top sprinters were still abroad, our middle distance men were in Balmoral, and our top thrower for 2004, Scott Thompson was competing in the Scottish Universities Champs while another top thrower Kevin Brown was out for the season with a torn patella tendon. And then James Ellington pulled up in the sprint relay while we were leading, Clifton Green failed to appear for the javelin due to a car accident which hospitalised him and the League secretary declared that long jumper Darragh O’ Farrell was not registered. So he had to compete as a guest even though he had competed in the League for us in 2003. The gods were conspiring against us.

And it was such a good start. Mick Jones not only won the hammer but broke Howard Payne’s long standing UK vets record in the process. One happy bunny. Then new man Cameron Johnston won the B pole vault, backing up second placed A string Paul Williamson to get near maximum points. The first track event saw our only double win with Matt Douglas shading the A 400mH and 18 year old Ryan Dinham posting a big PB in the B race followed by a 47.8 split in the long relay. So an excellent start.

But whereas in 2003 we got bad starts and recovered as the match progressed this time we were to fall away to an unexpected and disappointing 4th place. But it would have been even worse without many of our juniors and new members drafted in to fill the many gaps. To the fore were the John Anderson coached squad of 4 decathletes (Mark Allen, Louis Evling Jones, Kevin Sempers and Will Sharman) who together amassed 60 valuable points. These young men can only improve in the year’s ahead and already were making an impression against top UK specialists. Noteworthy were Will’s third spot in the A sprint hurdles and Kevin Sempers fourth spot in the A high jump. Will Sharman covered four events and finished up our top scorer with 22 points. Some debut!

Other noteworthy results were: Kevin Nash’s lone winning run in the chase and Will Cockerell’s double in the 5000 and chase despite the London marathon still being in his legs, Set Osho winning the B 400, James Ellington missing the World Junior qualifying time in the 200 by just 3 hundreds of a second and Steve Sharp and Jon Blackledge with two silvers in the 1500. Also looking good was 21 year old Darren Gauson who finished third in the B 800 in his inaugural race for Belgrave.

Woodford Green won in great style with League newcomers Haringey and Enfield taking second spot. Sad to see Sale in bottom spot ahead of escape artists Shaftesbury Barnet. Our chances of retaining our title are now very slim. If you fancy a long shot get down to the bookmakers and hope that AW write us off.

100m: A (0.4) 1 N.Smith (Shaftesbury B) 10.51; 2 G.Eastman (Enfield &H) 10.63; 3 M.Thomas (Newham &EB) 10.88; 4 M.Tietz (Birchfield) 10.88; 5 A.Yambasu (Thames V) 10.96; 6 Dan Donovan (Belgrave) 10.96; 7 M.Miah (Woodford GwEL) 11.07; 8 G.Jones (Sale HM) 11.13. B (0.0) 1 G.Hedman (Woodford GwEL) 10.64; 2 P.Hession (Shaftesbury B) 10.68; 3 C.Tomlinson (Newham &EB) 10.84; 4 L.Green (Thames V) 10.91; 5 H.Ogunyemi (Enfield &H) 10.97; 6 S.Barns (Birchfield) 11.05; 7 Will Sharman (Belgrave) 11.29.

200m: A (0.0) 1 L.Baptiste (Enfield &H) 20.91; 2 P.Hession (Shaftesbury B) 20.98; 3 G.Hedman (Woodford GwEL) 21.05; 4 James Ellington (Belgrave U20) 21.19; 5 L.Green (Thames V) 21.72; 6 D.Daniel (Newham &EB) 21.79; 7 D.Cossins (Birchfield) 22.45; 8 A.Hopkinson (Sale HM) 23.16. B (1.2) 1 N.Smith (Shaftesbury B) 21.09; 2 G.Eastman (Enfield &H) 21.45; 3 C.Tomlinson (Newham &EB) 21.55; 4 A.Williams (Birchfield) 21.55; 5 C.Wilson (Woodford GwEL) 21.68; 6 G.Jones (Sale HM) 21.71; 7 A.Yambasu (Thames V) 22.12; 8 Dan Donovan (Belgrave) 22.16.

400m: A 1 M.Audu (Woodford GwEL) 47.40; 2 A.Fernandez (Thames V) 47.95; 3 M.Brown (Newham &EB) 48.72; 4 R.Nicholls (Enfield &H) 49.22; 5 Geoff Dearman (Belgrave) 49.30; 6 D.Hough (Shaftesbury B) 49.86; 7 I.Lowthian (Sale HM) 50.10; 8 G.Djan (Birchfield) 51.37. B 1 Set Osho (Belgrave U20) 49.07; 2 A.Davis (Woodford GwEL) 49.75; 3 J.Hopkins (Enfield &H) 49.93; 4 B.Gibb (Shaftesbury B) 50.26; 5 A.Bellis (Sale HM) 50.64; 6 A.Gordon (Newham &EB) 51.20; 7 D.Stevens (Birchfield) 52.25; 8 R.Johnson (Thames V) 53.69.

800m: A 1 M.Shone (Woodford GwEL) 1:52.44; 2 D.St Clair (Enfield &H) 1:53.78; 3 I.Lowthian (Sale HM) 1:55.22; 4 A.Hennessey (Thames V) 1:55.81; 5 Graeme Oudney (Belgrave U20) 1:56.88; 6 R.Griffiths (Shaftesbury B) 1:57.26; 7 L.Dale (Newham &EB) 1:57.47; 8 R.Cox (Birchfield) 1:58.59. B 1 T.Snow (Woodford GwEL) 1:53.23; 2 R.Fowler (Enfield &H) 1:54.10; 3 Darren Gauson (Belgrave) 1:54.72; 4 L.Chandy (Thames V) 1:55.06; 5 P.Lipman (Shaftesbury B) 1:55.28; 6 A.Walling (Sale HM) 1:57.80; 7 M.Abdi (Newham &EB) 2:00.30.

1500m: A 1 M.Shone (Woodford GwEL) 3:54.96; 2 Stephen Sharp (Belgrave) 3:55.03; 3 A.Donaldson (Newham &EB) 3:55.12; 4 J.Moorhouse (Birchfield) 3:55.80; 5 N.Gamester (Enfield &H) 3:55.82; 6 A.Moses (Shaftesbury B) 3:57.57; 7 K.Johnstone (Thames V) 4:01.58; 8 A.Walling (Sale HM) 4:11.09. B 1 T.Snow (Woodford GwEL) 3:56.63; 2 Jonathan Blackledge (Belgrave) 3:57.83; 3 P.Moores (Birchfield) 3:58.19; 4 C.Smith (Thames V) 4:03.13; 5 K.Kyereme (Shaftesbury B) 4:06.18; 6 A.Ali (Newham &EB) 4:06.69; 7 S.Mitchell (Enfield &H) 4:09.95; 8 S.North (Sale HM) 4:32.73.

5000m: A 1 S.Hepples (Newham & EB) 14:23.51; 2 P.Jacobs (Enfield &H) 14:28.33; 3 S.North (Sale HM) 14:30.61; 4 D.Wardle (Thames V) 14:42.31; 5 J.Trapmore (Shaftesbury B) 14:44.88; 6 T.Payn (Birchfield) 14:46.52; 7 Richard Ward (Belgrave) 14:55.17; 8 C.Winward (Woodford GwEL) 15:22.80. B 1 R.Russell (Thames V) 14:53.65; 2 M.Whitehouse (Birchfield) 14:59.30; 3 S.Murphy (Shaftesbury B) 15:11.63; 4 Will Cockerell (Belgrave) 15:37.26; 5 K.Pogue (Enfield &H) 15:46.43; 6 B.Hellmers (Newham &EB) 15:49.36; 7 B.Rotelo (Woodford GwEL) 16:21.87.

110mH: A (-0.4) 1 T.Anthony (Enfield &H) 14.29;2 C.Baillie (Birchfield) 14.29; 3 Will Sharman (Belgrave) 14.31; 4 D.Malins (Newham &EB) 14.57; 5 C.Roberts (Thames V) 14.71; 6 G.Smith (Shaftesbury B) 14.76; 7 A.Hopkinson (Sale HM) 15.38; 8 B.McConville (Woodford GwEL) 15.58. B (0.6) 1 D.Bradley (Birchfield) 14.57; 2 R.Henry (Enfield &H) 14.79; 3 P.Tohill (Newham &EB) 15.06; 4 Kevin Sempers (Belgrave) 15.15; 5 A.Zulewski (Thames V) 15.33; 6 T.Carey (Shaftesbury B) 15.52; 7 J.Wright (Woodford GwEL) 15.75.

400mH: A 1 Matt Douglas (Belgrave) 51.2; 2 N.Stewart (Newham &EB) 51.2; 3 K.Nomura (Enfield &H) 53.1; 4 L.Collins (Sale HM) 53.2; 5 D.Brandwood (Birchfield) 54.0; 6 T.Patton (Thames V) 54.4; 7 T.Carey (Shaftesbury B) 54.6; 8 K.Deighton (Woodford GwEL) 56.3. B 1 Ryan Dinham Belgrave U20 52.84; 2 B.Sumner (Enfield &H) 53.49; 3 J.Wright (Woodford GwEL) 55.77; 4 R.Gascoyne (Sale HM) 56.37; 5 D.Russell (Shaftesbury B) 57.93; 6 J.Browne (Thames V) 58.56; dq R.Smith (Newham &EB).

3000mSC: A 1 Kevin Nash (Belgrave) 9:06.75; 2 A.Hennessy (Thames V) 9:22.55; 3 J.Sear (Woodford GwEL) 9:30:51; 4 E.Malloch (Shaftesbury B) 9:34.15; 5 D.Marsh (Sale HM) 9:56.84; 6 J.Martin (Enfield &H) 10:19.49. B 1 M.Davies (Woodford GwEL) 10:04.02; 2 M.Newton (Sale HM) 10:07.11; 3 G.Briggs (Thames V) 10:13.12; 4 Will Cockerell (Belgrave) 10:24.05; 5 D.Christian (Enfield &H) 11:30.58.

4x100m: 1 Newham &EB 42.09; 2 Enfield &H 42.44; 3 Thames V 42.64; 4 Woodford GwEL 42.79; 5 Belgrave 43.77 (Kevin Sempers U20, Will Sharman, Dan Donovan, James Ellington U20); 6 Sale HM 46.74; 7 Shaftesbury B 48.73; dq Birchfield.

4x400m: 1 Woodford GwEL 3:15.40; 2 Newham &EB 3:15.60; 3 Belgrave 3:18.70 (Geoff Dearman 50.5, Tim Bayley 50.5, Gavin Selway U20 49.9, Ryan Dinham U20 47.8); 4 Enfield &H 3:20.70; 5 Thames V 3:23.30; 6 Birchfield 3:24.10; 6 Shaftesbury B 3:29.10.

High Jump: A =1 D.Stone (Shaftesbury B) & L.Crawley (Birchfield) 2.00; 3 M.Crowley (Enfield &H) 2.00; =4 Kevin Sempers U20 & P.Tohill (Newham &EB) 1.95; 6 G.Dyball (Woodford GwEL 1.90; 7 P.Ringel (Sale HM) 1.85; 8 R.Wood (Thames V) 1.80. B 1 A.Scarr (Enfield &H) 1.95; 2 B.McConville (Woodford GwEL) 1.90; 3 Louis Evling Jones (Belgrave U20) 1.85; 4 C.Hall (Birchfield) 1.85; 5 N.Oboh (Newham &EB) 1.80; 6 H.Winthrop (Shaftesbury B) 1.80; 7 A.Zulewski (Thames V) 1.75; 8 G.Plunkett (Sale HM) 1.60.

Long Jump: A 1 L.Burgess (Enfield &H) 7.22; 2 A.Hall (Woodford GwEL) 7.07; 3 C.Davidson (Newham &EB) 7.06; 4 L.Smith (Birchfield) 6.97; 5 L.Achike (Shaftesbury B) 6.84; 6 Will Sharman (Belgrave) 6.63/0.9; 7 P.Greenland (Thames V) 6.44; 8 J.Hilton (Sale HM) 6.36. B 1 N.Dowsett (Woodford GwEL) 6.92; 2 P.Jones (Birchfield) 6.90; 3 J.Jegede (Newham &EB) 6.88; 4 R.Blair (Shaftesbury B) 6.75; 5 J.Ramos (Enfield &H) 6.62; 6 Louis Evling Jones (Belgrave U20) 6.52/?; 7 S.Nash (Thames V) 6.38; 8 G.Plunkett (Sale HM) 5.97; guest Darragh O'Farrell (Belgrave) 7.08/1.8.

Triple Jump: A 1 T.Oke (Woodford GwEL) 15.97; 2 L.Achike (Shaftesbury B) 15.96; 3 P.Ferdinand (Birchfield) 15.59; 4 T.Salou (Newham &EB) 14.97; 5 Julian Flynn (Belgrave) 14.71w/3.1; 6 E.Ayomelechi (Thames V) 14.54; 7 S.Batt (Enfield &H) 14.11; 8 J.Hilton (Sale HM) 13.75. B 1 G.Wiencke (Shaftesbury B) 14.38; 2 S.Benson (Thames V) 14.28; 3 M.McKernan (Birchfield) 14.24; 4 S.Ojo (Woodford GwEL) 14.14; 5 G.Jackson (Newham &EB) 13.98; 6 Louis Evling Jones (Belgrave U20) 13.55/?; 7 J.Ramos (Enfield &H) 12.50; 8 R.Gascoyne (Sale HM) 12.18.

Pole Vault: A 1 S.Simpson (Birchfield) 5.00; 2 Paul Williamson (Belgrave) 4.80; 3 M.Beharrell (Sale HM) 4.60; 4 B.McConville (Woodford GwEL) 4.60; 5 K.Hughes (Newham &EB) 4.40; 6 S.Day (Shaftesbury B) 4.20; 7 G.Conlon (Thames V) 4.20; 8 C.Wilson (Enfield &H) 3.60. B 1 Cameron Johnston (Belgrave) 4.40; 2 P.Tohill (Newham &EB) 4.00; 3 J.Wright (Woodford GwEL) 3.80; 4 J.Doughety (Sale HM) 3.80; 5 J.O'Hara (Shaftesbury B) 2.50.

Shot: A 1 E.Van Vreumingen (Thames V) 17.89; 2 E.Udechuku (Woodford GwEL) 17.72; 3 M.Proctor (Newham &EB) 17.29; 4 S.Rider (Birchfield) 15.98; 5 Chris Gearing (Belgrave U20) 15.52; 6 N.Vince (Shaftesbury B) 14.57; 7 M.Wiseman (Sale HM) 13.86; 8 F.Miele (Enfield &H) 13.48. B 1 N.Loggenberg (Newham &EB) 14.65; 2 A.Soalla-Bell (Shaftesbury B) 14.45; 3 G.Sluitor (Thames V) 13.04; 4 C.Saggers (Enfield &H) 12.83; 5 P.Howard (Woodford GwEL) 11.81; 6 Mark Allen (Belgrave U20) 11.77; 7 A.Thomas (Birchfield) 11.58.

Discus: A 1 E.Udechuku (Woodford GwEL) 61.24; 2 M.Wiseman (Sale HM) 51.90; 3 E.Van Vreumingen (Thames V) 51.25; 4 F.Miele (Enfield &H) 49.46; 5 S.Rider (Birchfield) 47.80; 6 M.Proctor (Newham &EB) 46.00; 7 G.Hagan (Shaftesbury B) 44.89; 8 Chris Gearing (Belgrave U20) 42.83. B 1 M.Goldbourne (Sale HM) 50.96; 2 G.Sluitor (Thames V) 48.41; 3 N.Loggenberg (Newham &EB) 45.58; 4 N.Woolcott (Enfield &H) 43.36; 5 A.Thomas (Birchfield) 41.24; 6 N.Vince (Shaftesbury B) 37.79; 7 Mark Allen (Belgrave U20) 37.77; 8 C.Howe (Woodford GwEL) 35.39.

Javelin: A 1 M.Tarren (Birchfield) 62.87; 2 A.Lovett (Enfield &H) 61.99; 3 S.Bennett (Woodford GwEL) 61.70; 4 G.Plunkett (Sale HM) 60.83; 5 J.Lundman (Newham &EB) 59.42; 6 S.Millar (Thames V) 51.42; 7 Stuart Faben (Belgrave) 47.61; 8 S.Jamieson (Shaftesbury B) 42.30. B 1 P.Howard (Woodford GwEL 59.14; 2 T.Johnson (Birchfield) 55.33; 3 L.Doran (Enfield &H) 54.96; 4 J.Harvey (Thames V) 50.48; 5 D.Strevens (Newham &EB) 47.71; 6 M.Wiseman (Sale HM) 45.36; 7 Mark Allen (Belgrave U20) 45.30; 8 S.Spiriak (Shaftesbury B) 41.18.

Hammer: A 1 Mike Jones (Belgrave M40) 71.15 (UK M40 Record); 2 A.Frost (Woodford GwEL) 68.76; 3 W.Beauchamp m(Newham &EB) 67.48; 4 M.Floyd (Sale HM) 65.30; 5 C.Saggers (Enfield &H) 61.50; 6 M.Bell (Birchfield) 59.56; 7 C.Walsh (Shaftesbury B) 54.61; 8 R.Kioner (Thames V) 51.12. B 1 S.Bown (Newham &EB) 65.24; 2 C.Howe (Woodford GwEL) 57.90; 3 John Osazuwa (Belgrave) 53.54; 4 M.Sutton (Birchfield) 51.90; 5 J.Joseph (Enfield &H) 42.88; 6 N.Fogg (Shaftesbury B) 42.79; 7 E.Van Vreumingen (Thames V) 41.44; 8 M.Wiseman (Sale HM) 40.14.

Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.