Newbury A.C continued the fine start to the season with 2nd place in the 3rd of 5 Southern Athletic League fixtures, to keep them near the top of Division 2 West.
Men’s 4 x 400 winning relay team
Izzy Fry booked her place in the GB team for the under 20 European Championships to be held in Sweden next month. Running in the BMC 5000m race in Loughborough on Saturday evening, Izzy sliced 28 seconds off her previous best time to record 16mins 22.55, 8 seconds inside the GB European qualifying time, and a time that currently ranks her 4th in Europe in the under 20 age group for 5000m. Her time also took 20 seconds off Jackie Coopers long standing Senior club record that has stood since 1987.
Report from James Craggs
The last few weeks has been a busy period for Newbury Vets with two fixtures in the Southern Vets Western Division (Matches 2 and 3). Both fixtures held at Abingdon saw the women place 5th on both occasions and the men 5th and 3rd. In the first of the fixtures, the men’s total was only two points off 3rd place.
Individual wins in the first fixture on May 20th came from
- Liz Harkness W60 Shot
- Anne Stewart Power M50 800 and 3k
- Bob Broadbridge M50 Discus
Whilst in the second fixture on June 3rd wins came from
- Bob Broadbridge Hammer, M50 Shot
- Wayne Lillis M50 800
- Craig Beecham Long Jump, 400B
A thoroughly enjoyable season comes to an end at the next match at Reading on Sunday 14th July. Further details will be out shortly
Please note that the deadline for letting Matt Green know if you want any tickets ordering for the upcoming Newbury races and Diamond League club social events is the 16th June 2019.
Report from Keith Baker
Match 3 of the Wessex Young Athletes League, in Guildford on June 9th,was again hit by heavy rain in the afternoon, but did not hamper performances.
Presently, NAC is in danger of not fielding any teams for next Sunday’s Ridgeway Relay event which would be an unfortunate milestone for the club.
http://www.marlboroughrunningclub.org.uk/races/ridgeway-relay
At present, the solitary team we are fielding is still two runners short.
If anyone can attend this event, please let me know on conormcg56@gmail.com ASAP and I will add you to the team list.
It would be a real shame if NAC couldn’t enter even one team for this iconic event.
Mike Wheeler & Stephen Elsmere had a 1-2 finish overall and in the senior men’s championship.
In the Veterans men’s championship Nige Popplewell was 9th finisher and took the win. Mike Sheridan was 32nd and takes 2nd place.
Rebecca Elsmere finished in 99th position (9th Female) to take the senior women’s championship victory.
Liz Harkness finished in 247th position (1st VW70-74) to take the senior women’s championship victory.
Good runs at the Yateley 10K from Sheila Marshall – 2nd F65 in 54:44 and Liz Harkness – 3rd F65 in 56:58, who also improved her F70 club record by 38 seconds.
Report from Keith Baker
These are the highlights from Match 2 of the Wessex Young Athletes League on a showery blustery day at Swindon on June 2nd. Continue reading
Race results
Race photographs
Photographs courtesy of Mike Robbins can be found here. Continue reading