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Latest News
Road Running
It was a great double for the Vosser family at the
Purbrook Ladies' 5, with Madeline winning the F45 category and Hannah winning the U20.
Southern Women's Track and Field League
See
Dave True's photos from the event at Kings Park on 27th June.
RR10 @ Manor Farm Country Park Wednesday 24 June
New:
photos thanks to Sue and Dave True.
The club did extremely well in this race winning both the Men’s & Ladies’ events.
Gavin Smith and Dave Knapman led the ‘A’ team home with a first and second respectively. Julian Mann, Mike Davies and Ian Berry all finished in the top ten. Michaela Mc Callum was first lady home finishing 4th. Support came from Katherine Jones and Sue True, both finishing in the top ten to ensure a clean sweep for their ‘A’ team.
The next race is at the Itchen Valley Country Park on July 8th at 7-30 p.m. Further details can be found at
the RR10 web site. Hope to see you there. Derek Smith (acting Team Manager)
Celebrity Question of Sport
For a chance to spend an evinging with some fantastic sports stars including
Iwan Thomas MBE, British 400m record holder and Jason Dodd, Ex-Southampton FC Captain and Coach,
why not come to the
Celebrity Question of Sport
on Friday 3rd July in Romsey?
Road Running
Toby Lambert made it six consecutive wins in the
Torbay Half Malf Marathon, finishing in a superb 1:08:11.
Juniors
Winchester Juniors' excellent season continued with a string of medal winning performances at last weekend's County Schools championships. Gabriella Oliver (300m Hurdles), Rebecca Knapton (1500m), Jen McLachlan (3000m), Nicola Ferris (Long Jump) and Jamie Knapp (1,500) all won Hampshire Schools Titles at Southampton, whilst Amy Rochford took the 800m title in the Wiltshire Championships at Salisbury and younger sisters Phoebe and Lucy Rochford had both won 800m SW District titles at their championships in Bournemouth. Thanks to Neville Semple for compiling the full results which can be found in the July edition of Chatterbox.
Road Running
See some more
photos from the Welsh Castles Relay thanks to Sue and Dave True.
Track and Field
Ian Berry has some great photos from the
Vets Track and Field Event hosted by WADAC at the new Winchester track.
RR10
See Moyna Lee's
photos from the 3rd June RR10 at Deerleap Enclosure, Ashurst.
Track and Field
- See some
photos from the Southern Women's Track and Field event at Salisbury, 30th May 2009, with thanks to Sue and Dave True.
- Vets Track and Field: see
Ian Berry's photos from the Basingstoke Vets meeting on 18th May.
Road Running
See
Ian Berry's photos from the
Welsh Castles Relay.
Road Running
- Congratulations to Toby Lambert, winner of the
Poole Festival of Running 10K. See
club runners' results and
photos thanks to Sue and Dave True.
- The
Final 2008-2009 Grand Prix pages are now available, thanks to Andy Carton.
Great North Run
Dentaid Charity places available in Great North Run -
details.
Track and Field
See
fixtures for details of a floodlit open meeting at Havant on September 16th.
Ultra
Well done to Steve Goodwin and Marie Evans, who ran the the 32 mile
Dartmoor Discovery Ultra marathon together, completing it in in 5:18:32.
See the July issue of Chatterbox for a race report.
Regents Park 10K
Well done to Stephen Thompson, who won the 6th June event in the monthly
Regents Park 10K Series in 35:27.
Chatterbox
June 2009 edition now available online - see
Chatterbox page. Please send contributions to
John Walker.
Neolithic Marathon and Half Marathon
Congratulations to Andy Carton, who came 14th in the Neolithic Marathon on May 3rd in 3:26:08 and Lou Walker, 91st in the Neolithic Half Marathon in 2:01:54. The Marathon went from Avebury to Stonehenge. As well as the full and half marathon, there was an opportunity enter as a relay team, walk, race with your dog over 4 or 13 miles and for the first time this year ride your bike.
Juniors
See
photos from Wessex League meeting at Andover on 7th June, thanks to tony Miller.
Track and Field
Basingstoke & Mid Hants Athletics Club Sprints & Jumps open meeting with electronic timing on the 24th of June (7:00 – 9:30).
See
www.bmhac.co.uk/fixtures/OpenMeeting.html for more information and an entry form.
Major medal haul at the County Championships
Congratulations to all the athletes who competed in Hampshire County Track & Field Championships with the team coming away with 21 medals, including two from the previous weekend with a win for Nicola Ferris in the under 20 Multi events and a second for Jess maw in the under 15's. Charlie Maw (u13 boys) went home with the biggest collection of medals with Gold in the High Jump and Pole Vault plus Silver in the 75 meter hurdles and Long Jump. Callum Upton (u13 boys) achieved a famous double winning the 800m and 1500m and added a Silver in the 200m. Sarah Burgin (u20 women) gave a demonstration of how to win an 800m race with a fantastic kick with 250m to go. Congratulations once again to all, Neville Semple has kindly summarised the
club's performances and medal winners here and demonstrated a flair for statistics in the
Medal Table.
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