National Junior League
In the 3rd National Junior League, Southern Premier, fixture of the season WGwEL's U/20 team paced a solid 5th, which leaves them in 5th place in the overall League standings. Woodford scored 404 points, as Shaftesbury won with 525 points. Amongst a good all-round team performance, there was a fine sprint double from Sam Watts, and a personal bests from others, including 400m Hurdlers John Pride and Ben Phillips, and in the high jump for Sam Moodie.
Last year's world youth 200m finalist, Sam Watts, continued his fine sprinting, winning over both 100m and 200m. In the 100m Sam won comfortably with a time of 10.84 secs (+1.2), and in the 200m, had a much larger margin of victory as he clocked a fine 21.60 secs w (+2.2). Both John Pride and Ben Phillips were winners over 400mH, as both set personal bests. John winning the "A" race with 56.25 secs, and Ben the "B" as he went under 57 secs for the first time with 56.81 secs. There was also a fine 800m victory for Omar Mansour with 1m54.77 secs, and other men's track highlights included a 3rd over 400m for Austin Joseph with 49.72 secs. In the field Anthony Oshodi suffered a rare defeat, 2nd by 2cm in the shot with 16.93m, and he was also 3rd in the discus with 46.85m, as Youcef Zatat won the "B" with 43.46m. In the hammer, Peter Clarke was 4th with 58.44m, whilst younger brother, U/17, Harry threw the heavier U/20 implement for the first time in competition and placed 3rd with 49.90m. Tom Richards was 3rd in the javelin as Youcef Zatat gained further valuable points with 2nd in the "B" with 37.55m and 2nd in the "B" shot also with 11.68m. In the jumps Peter Kirabo gained valuable points in all three, his best placing being 3rd in the High Jump with 1.75m. The men's 4x100m team of David Olupitan, Omololu Abidoden, Austin Joseph and Hasif Bedford were 3rd in 44.19 secs, and 4th in the 4x400m with 3m25.37 secs (Ben Phillips, Omar Mansour, John Pride and Austin Joseph.)
Amongst the women's performances, Sam Moodie added 7cm to her high jump personal best as she won with 1.72m a height which movers her to 10th in this year's UK U/20 rankings. Sam also won the "B" pole vault with 2.90m and picked up other useful points in the 100mH and discus. Other good placings, included Georgina Ferrari, 2nd in the "B" 400m with 61.39 secs. In the "A", Sophie Fuhr was 5th with 62.66 secs, having earlier placed 7th over 400mH. Rachel Dean was 2nd in the "B" 400m H with 70.85 secs, Claudia Conway, 2nd in the "B" 1500m with 5m22.21 secs, having earlier run the "A" 800m. There were good points in the 1500m steeplecahse , with Katie Stockings 4th in 6m03.22 secs, and Lauren Freeman, 3rd in the "B" with 6m 22.95 secs.Whilst the women didn't have quite the same strength in depth that the men did, they did nevertheless all rally round with many doubling up and covering most of the events.
The full results are available here