National Junior League 2001: Match 1, Hayes

At Hayes stadium, Belgrave's junior men, winners of the National Junior League title last season, had a tough time, finishing third to Enfield & Haringey and Shaftesbury Barnet. Lawrence Oboh completed an impressive 100m/200m double in 10.8/21.7 seconds and outstanding 15 year-old Gary Wilson long-jumped 6.24 metres to win the B event. Prolific racer Richard Ward won the 800 metres in 1:54 but his hard weekend (he had run at Birmingham in the AAA 12-Stage Road Relay the dat before) caught up with him in the 1500m where he had to settle for second in 4:05. 'The Simpsons' had the measure of the 400m by winning both A and B races in 48.9 seconds and 53.0 seconds respectively.

1 Enfield & Haringey 313; 2 Shaftesbury Barnet 301; 3 Belgrave H 277; 4 Harrow 266; 5 Aldershot F&D 233; 6 Milton Keynes 219; 7 Blackheath 217; 8 Swansea 129.

100m: 1, L.Oboh 10.8. 200m: 1, L.Oboh 21.7; 3 J.Ellington 23.5. 400m: 1 J.Simpson 48.9; 1 A.Simpson 53.0. 800m: 1 R.Ward 1:54.1; 2 C.Watson 1:57.4. 1500m: 2 D.Watson 4:05.4; 7 S.Hodgson 4:50.1. 3000m: 2 F.Bernard-Gaudin 9:16.5. 110mH: dnf T.Sinclair; 2 J.Hardie 16.9. 2000mSC: 5 F.Bernard-Gaudin 6:31.2; 2 J.Skilbeck-Nelson 6:52.9. HJ: 2 J.Hardie 1.85; 2 S.Augustine 1.75. LJ: 2 O.Eyong 6.38; 1 G.Wilson 6.24. TJ: 1 D.Wellstead 13.73; 2 S.Augustine 12.34. SP: 2 G.Sprigings 13.28; 8 J.Hardy 8.43. DT: 5 J.Hardy 31.06; 3 G.Sprigings 30.73. JT: 6 J.Hardy 36.23; 3 G.Sprigings 32.87. 4x100m: 2 Belgrave 44.8. 4x400m: 4 Belgrave 3:34.7.

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