WINCHESTER BOASTS SOUTH OF ENGLAND INDOOR CHAMPIONS

At the recent Under15/17 Championships held on 21/22 January at Lee Valley Winchester athletes gained a number of podium places including 3 golds.

Winners were Fiona Brown in the U17 Shotput with an indoor PB of 10.86m, Charlie Maw in the U17 Pole vault  with 3.70m and  Sam Adams who won the U17 Triplejump with 13.27m.

Silver medals were gained by Sam Adams again, competing on the Saturday before his triple on the Sunday, cleared 6.54m for second place and William Stirling-Stainsby, as reported in last month’s Chatterbox took 2^nd place in the U15 400m. Also, competing in the U20 Shotput, Alex Hill-King had a putt of 11.46m for an excellent second place.

Josh Baker, newly in the U17age-group, competed in the Highjump and finished 8^th with 1.70m equalling his outdoor best of last year.

Some of the above also competed in the London Games on February 4^th with similar results. Fiona again won the Shot, this time with 10.53m but with a winning margin of about 1m! Charlie Maw again won the Polevault, this time with 3.50m.   Sam again contested the long and triple jumps, though improving his triple he finished second with 13.42m and a Longjump of 6.31m gained him 3^rd place. Also in this meeting Scott Barker entered the U17 400m and ran well for the second fastest time of the day with 52.04s.

The above results saw our athletes placed on the UK Ranking Lists as follows:-

 Sam Adams, Triple  …..2^nd and by only 2cm to the London Games winner.

                       Long…….6^th.

Charlie Maw, PV……….7^th.

Fiona Brown  SP………..5^th.

Scott Barker    400m……10^th.

Alex Hill-King SP             24^th.

William Stirling-Stainby, 400m… 6^th.

Tony Bateman

Junior track and field fixtures

See below details of the Young Athletes Track and Field fixtures for the coming season

National Young Athletes League

Note only 3 matches this season due to Olympic timetable

6th May Bracknell

20th May Reading

17th June  Winchester & District AC - hosts

Wessex Young Athletes League

Winchester – 22 April 2012

Winchester – 24 June 2012 (hosting)

Oxford – 15 July 2012

Oxford – 22 July 2012

Outcome of recent UKA Junior T&F rules changes

False Start Rule: The current international false start rule of DQ at the first failure has been applied to Seniors from 2010. It is decided that this rule will now include the U20 and U17 Age Groups with effect from 1st April 2013.

U15 Boys and 400m v 300m rule proposal:  It is agreed that U15 boys will run 300m in Championship events and U15 National League.  Other competition providers can use their discretion and include a 400m for Under 15 boys within their programmes if they so wish.

Under 15’s should not be able to run two 1500’s in one day:  This usually occurs in events such as County Championships where the competition provider holds a heat and final in one day. It is agreed that there will be no change to this rule, only to monitor the situation in case of any bad practice.

Under 17 athletes should only move up one age group: It was agreed that this rule is not implemented however there will be continued monitoring through P10 of U17 athletes along with competition pathway initiatives to ensure there is a measured pathway for these athletes at such a critical age.

YEAR 4 and 5 Session Returns Thursday 12th Jan 5:30

Jane Gandee will  be co-ordinating this session but we still need more parental support to ensure this session continues.   Please contact Jane on Thursday to see how you can help

Junior session resumes at 6:30 - NO YEAR 4/5 5:30 session

The Junior session will resume on Thursday 5th January at 6:30

PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE NO YEAR 4/5 TRAINING ON THURSDAY 5TH JANUARY

As you may be aware Laura our community coach has found a new job in London and the University is advertising to fill this role.  We do not expect to have anyone in place before the end of February at the earliest.

Most of the work Laura was doing will be covered but she was also taking the Year 4 & 5 session from 5:30-6:30 on Thursdays.  In order for this session to continue for the next few months we need to arrange coaching cover for this session.   It will be up to the parents of the Year 4 and 5 Group to co-ordinate and run the sessions.  If training suggestions and advice are needed then coaches in the 6:30 session will be happy to advise.

Hopefully this can be sorted as soon as possible so the 5:30 session can resume.

If you think you can help in any way to keep this session going please email juniors@wadac.org,uk asap