National Junior League
WGwEL's U/20 Team placed 7th in the final National Junior League Premier Division fixture of the season at Bromley on Sunday. It was a tight fixture both at the top where Shaftesbury Barnet won on the day, and also the League by just 1.5 match points, and also at the bottom, where just 14 points covered positions 5th to 7th, but Woodford just lost out in the relegation battle and also finished 7th overall in the League. They will now have to compete in the play off fixture at the end of the season to retain their Premier Division status. A strong turn out would ensure every chance of success in achieving that aim. Woodford's performance was a fine team effort with many athletes taking on more than one event, sometimes several, but in the end still with some key gaps, albeit fewer than the previous fixture, they were not able to do quite enough. From an individual perspective, maybe the highlights were Omololu Abiodun's 200m victory in a personal best, together with a fine 4x400m relay leg.There was also a fine personal best in the discus of 44.84m for Yousef Zatat.
Omololu Abiodun's 200m victory in the "A" 200m was in a new personal best of 21.83 secs (+0.1), and came after he had placed 5th in the 100m with 11.01 secs ( w?), and before he contributed a fine 48.02 secs leg to the winning 4x400m relay team, which also included Paul Scanlan, Austin Joseph and Tyler Bown to record a fine 3m19.61 secs. Scanlan was also busy, gaining useful points in the "B" 400mH with 65.30 secs, no doubt leaving himself a little tired for his speciality the flat 400m, where he placed 3rd with 50.42 secs, but then winning the "B" 200m in 22.44 secs (-0.2). Joseph won the "B" 400m with 50.12 secs, having earlier placed 5th in the "B" 100m with 11.53 secs. Another of many busy athletes was Peter Kirabo, 6th in the 400mH with 63.67 secs, 6th in the 100mH with 18.55 secs, 6th in the high jump with 1.70m, 7th in the long jump with 6.03m (-0.6), and 5th in the triple jump with 13.94m. In the "B" 110mH Simon-Peter Omooba performed well placing 2nd with 16.93 secs (-0.6). The throws produced quite good points with Harry Clarke 4th in the hammer with 55.75m, and 7th in the "B" discus with 25.34m; Kurtland Martyr was 3rd in the "B" hammer with 39.87m, 5th in the javelin with 44.03m and 3rd in the "B" shot with 11.48m, and Youcef Zatat was 3rd in the discus with 44.84m, 4th in the shot with 12.76m and 5th in the "B" javelin with 39.11m.
In the longer track events, Liam Blaikie was 7th in the 800m with 2m05.68 secs, 5th in the 1500m with 4m21.50 secs and 6th in the 2km s/ch with 6m56.75 secs Sam Benge was 6th in the "B" 800m with 2m06.90 secs and 5th in the "B" 1500m with 4m59.42 secs. Sean Kenny placed 7th in the 3000m with 10m15.35 secs The 4x100m team of Colin Wint, Paul Scanlan, Austin Joseph and Omololu Abiodun were 4th with 43.36 secs.
The women were also very busy covering as many events as possible. In the sprints Chloe Michaud was 8th inn the 100m with 13.1 secs (+0.8), and 7th in th 200m with 27.57 secs as well as gaining useful high jump points with 1.50m for 5th. Kumi Fauole was 7th in both "B" sprints with 13.52 secs (+0.6) and 29.50 secs. Suna Yokes placed 6th in the 400m with 63.00 secs and also placed 7th in the 100mH with 24.68 secs. In the "B" 100mH Rachel Dean was unlucky to fall, but she did complete the race, 6th in 23.96 secs. She had earlier placed 3rd in the 400mH in a personal best of 68.18 secs and also was 5th in the long jump with 5.17m (+1.5) and 4th in the triple jump with 10.79m. In the "B" long and triple jump, Ebony Bobb-Semple placed 4th and 5th respectively with 4.61m (+1.7) and 9.34m. In the pole vault Stephanie Smith was 5th with 2.15m, and also placed 8th in the javelin with 12.10m, and 5th in the "B" 1500m with 5m58.79 secs. The "B" javelin saw Chelsea Ives also 8th with 9.78m, and Chelsea also gained valuable points 7th in the "B" shot with 6.60m, 6th in the "B" hammer with 13.03m and in the "B" 400mH, 5th with 83.79 secs. Victoria Onyeka was a good 4th in the discus with a personal best of 33.44m, and also 7th in the hammer with 16.18m and 6th in the shot with 8.42m.
n the other track events the 3000m brought maximum points as Lauren Macgregor won with 10m59.76 secs, and Becky Hewitt won the "B" with 11m16.53 secs. Becky was also 5th in the 1500m s/ch with 6m13.62 secs, as Lauren Freeman was 3rd in the "B" with 6m42.62 secs and also 7th in the 800m with 2m55.16 secs. In the "B" 800m Isobel Moss was 6th with 2m38.65 secs and later 5th in the 1500m with 5m33.40 secs. Both of the women's relay teams placed 7th, the 4x100m team of Chloe Michaud, Rachel Dean, Ebony Bobb-Semple and Kumi Fauole recorded 53.13 secs, whilst the 4x400m team of Suna Yokes, Rachel Dean, Lauren McGregor and Isobel Moss recorded 4m36.13secs.