Distance: 6x3 miles
Team: Senior Men
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David Brown |
17:39 |
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Keith Brown |
19:27 |
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Andy Del Nevo § |
18:32 |
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Matthew Kiernan |
18:34 |
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David Brown |
18:20 |
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Keith Brown |
20:18 |
1:52:50, 19th (21 teams)
Shanghai fourth for Danvers
Newly
returned Croydon Harrier Natasha Danvers concluded her Olympic medal winning
season last Friday, with a respectable fourth of eight in the Shanghai Grand
Prix 400m hurdles.
Croydon boys’ encouraging effort.
A large
group of Croydon Harriers boys successfully made the transition from track to
country in the John Bolt Memorial Relays at Sparrows Den on Saturday, their
form suggesting that they will do well in the cooling months ahead,
With their
strengths spread across two teams, high corporate places could not be expected,
and the club A team finished mid field.
Jordan
Maurice shone with a 10:55 leg in which he ran virtually solo and still
produced a strong acceleration on the run in.
Joshua Haasz and Jacob Paul were the quickest of the club U13s.
Blackheath & Bromley XC Relays @ Sparrow’s Den, September 20th
Croydon
Harriers boys made an encouraging start to their Autumn
fixtures at Sparrows Den on Saturday in the Blackheath relays.
Jordan
Maurice looked especially sharp on his U15 anchor leg completed in 10:55, with
multi events medallist Jacob Paul closing in strongly for an 11:01 clocking and
Elliott Veheary make a welcome and successful return
to the club scene with his 11:11 effort.
Jacob Cross
and Joshua Haasz ran well for the U13s.
Distance: 6x 4km
Team: Senior Men
Andy
Del Nevo 15:53
Colin
Oxlade 16:14
Eric
Campbell 22:52
Andy
Del Nevo 16:18
Colin
Oxlade 16:51
1:29:32,
19th (22 teams)
Distance: 4x4km
Team: Senior Women
Gill
Lightfoot 22:11
Miriam
De Souza 20:30
Gill
Lightfoot 22:21
Miriam
De Souza 21:03
1:26:05
10th (10 teams)
IAAF/VTB
Bank World Athletics Final will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from September
13-14, 2008
Such has Beijing
Olympic finalist Martyn Rooney’s 400m progress been
this year, that the 21 year old Croydon Harriers 400m man declared himself
disappointed after his 5th place in 45.82sec in the IAAF World
Athletics Championships in Stuttgart on Saturday.
His lane
eight effort should be evaluated in the context of what was probably the
highest quality 400m field seen in action all season.
In first
and second places were Americans, Olympic Gold medallist LaShawn Merritt
44.4 59, and world number one Jeremy Wariner 2nd,
with Christopher Brown (Bahamas) 4th placed Olympian in 3rd
,and Olympic 400m gold medal hurdler Angelo Taylor 4th with fellow
Olympic finalist Johan Wissman Sweden trailing the
field in 8th.
Harriers Homecoming for Olympic Medallist
Natasha Danvers
Honoured on
Monday at a Civic Reception by the Mayor of Lewisham in whose Borough she now
lives, former Croydon Harrier Tasha Danvers the Olympic 400m Hurdles Bronze
medallist confirmed her return to the Albert Road Arena based club.
An added
bonus for this exciting development for the Harriers is the return too of her
mother Dorette who in her school days was a fine
young high jumper. Her experience and enthusiasm will be a great asset for the
club’s thriving O35 section.
Tasha who
described her return to the harriers as a Homecoming she had been contemplating
for some time delighted several young Cordoning who attended the reception with
her encouragement and is looking forward to meet others soon.
Later this
week she flies to the
Blessed by
long overdue sunshine all the Croydon Harriers in action at the Broadbridge Heath track last weekend with an amazing age
range of 69 they epitomised the wide attraction of athletics. They all achieved
PBs, and between them they set a Championship best
performance, four club records and won three gold medals, a silver and a
bronze.
None could
have been more enthusiastic than sprightly 80 year old Ken Crooke who hardly
surprisingly took his gold medal unchallenged, and that despite taking a tumble
in the 1500m
The
impressive Irving brother, sister duo of U17 Kariym
and U13 Sherin Irvin took young men’s and girls titles, with M50 Ian Statter striking gold too, while U15 Jacob Paul won silver and
U13 Joshua Haasz took a bronze.
Kariym
Irving, the club’s best discus thrower was pleased with his 6.27m long jump,
and amassed 4509 points for his CPB and a Harriers record. His sisters win with
2352 points, another club record. put her atop the
Jacob
Paul’s 2505 points tally, the third Croydon record puts him
Runathon Cross Country Challenge
Trinity
School, co organisers with Croydon Harriers came third in this interesting 5
team handicap in Lloyd Park on Saturday.
Junior
Lucas of John Fisher was the overall winner, with Trinity juniors Alex Briggs
and William Holmes in 6th and 8th places, their first
runners home
Trinity’s
Mark Plackett had an outstanding run, heading the
Intermediates home in 12th spot, while team captain Nathan Stone was
the 8th to finish, placing 44th in the field of 84.
Oxted won
the team title with John Fisher second.
Rafi Rising Discus Star
Croydon
Harriers continually improving discus thrower Faraz Rafi’s 39.47m effort at Woking recently took him to 13th
in the
Olympic medallist Tasha returns to Harriers.
Croydon
Harriers were thrilled last week, when Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist
Tasha Danvers confirmed her decision to return to the Croydon club after a ten
year absence.
There was a
bonus with the news too for when the Albert Road, South Norwood Harrier’s
senior coach Mike Fleet had a phone call from Tasha’s mother Dorrett McKoy, confirming that
she too would be returning to the club, for which some years even earlier she
had been a promising young high jumper.
Alisha
Ellis, Emma Barlow, Matthew Kiernan and Terry Lapins,
four young Harriers who are very much seen as key to the club’s future and
Fleet attended celebrations at Lewisham as guests of the Mayor Sir Steve
Bullock, and were thrilled to meet their
Tasha told
them that her decision to rejoin the club, which had been in her mind for some
time, felt like “a happy home coming”
Tasha will
be attending the Lexus Croydon Charity 10k together with fellow Harrier’s
Olympians Donna Fraser and Martyn Rooney on Sunday 19th
October.
Entries are
coming well with over 200 already signed up. Yong athletes from 9-14 are also
signing up for the accompanying 3k Fun Run. Visit the Croydon Harriers website
and the 10k link for further details.
In
the 400m semis Martyn Rooney produced a personal best
of 44.60 secs to qualify for the final of the 400m
but couldn’t reproduce that form in the final he finished in sixth place
clocking 45.12 seconds for his run
A rejuvenated Martyn Rooney rose
to the occasion magnificently, bouncing back with a vengeance in the
Only two days after his energy-sapping individual final and
the day after the 4x400m heats, the young Croydon Harrier showed his true
mettle after receiving the baton in 7th place. A smooth change was followed by a fiercely
attacking 200m rewarded by two rival scalps including that of
The GB team of Steele, Tobin, Bingham and Rooney clocked a superb season's best of 2:58.81 and as Rooney said, with a young squad, there are exciting times ahead. Although this time they had striven valiantly for a medal, they did beat 4 previously higher ranked teams in the Final.
With the Olympic torch heading for London, Martyn Rooney and other up-and-coming Croydon athletes can look forward optimistically to the Games in 2012.
As Martyn Rooney impresses in
The 2006 winners acquitted themselves well with the opposition noticeably stepping up from the qualifying rounds in pursuit of the silverware.
The pick of the Harriers performances went to Richmond Baah who took the honours in the javelin by just one centimetre with his 50.77m throw.
Oweka Wanogho ran himself into third in the 200m (22.7s) after a solid bend, and then joined up with his 4x200m colleagues to also finish third in the last event of the evening.
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200m Match |
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3 Oweka Owangho |
CRO |
22.7 |
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400m Match |
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5 Darren Wollen |
CRO |
52.3 |
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800m Match |
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4 Martin Rowe(M35) |
CRO |
2.04.2 |
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800 NS |
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2 James Buchanan |
CRO |
2.09.7 |
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9 Dave Warren(V50) |
CRO |
2.48.3 |
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1500m Match and NS |
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6 Martin Rowe(M35) |
CRO |
4.29.8 |
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3000m Match & NS 1 |
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8 James Buchanan |
CRO |
9.23.8 |
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3000 NS 2 |
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4 Colin Oxlade(V45) |
CRO |
10.21.5 |
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11 Matthew Kiernan |
CRO |
10.49.0 |
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14 Terry Lapins |
CRO |
11.28.3 |
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20 Dave Warren(V50) |
CRO |
12.52.5 |
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23 Eric Campbell(V40) |
CRO |
15.15.3 |
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110m Hurdles Match & NS |
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7 Terry Lapins |
CRO |
21.8 |
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4 x 200m Relay Match |
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3 CRO |
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CRO |
1.32.6 |
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High Jump Match |
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4 Kariym |
CRO |
1.6 |
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Mervyn Glover SMR NoHt |
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Triple Jump Match |
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6 Lee McLaughlin |
CRO |
12.1 |
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Shot Match |
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5 Kariym |
CRO |
11.02 |
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Javelin Match |
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1 |
CRO |
50.77 |
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Southern Mens League Division 2 @ Norman Park, 2nd August
Croydon Harriers’ senior men have an anxious wait on their hands to discover if they’ve done enough to maintain their Southern league 2nd division status.
After finishing third in a high quality five-club fixture at Norman Park on Saturday, the final standings show Croydon top of the six-strong relegation zone.
But with the creation of a new national league, meaning many clubs will be taken of the competition potentially the Harriers may have just done enough.
On the day, Croydon’s athletes did everything in their power to stay up in an attempt to ensure their fate wasn’t placed in the hands of external factors.
Triple jumpers Trever Okoroafor (14.74m) and Chuxx Onyia (14.39m) made a welcome return to the fray, after a season blighted with injuries, finishing ahead of the opposition by over a metre.
The Harriers enjoyed similar success in the long jump with Paul Ogun (6.91m) and Kariym Irving (6.19m) also taking the double victory.
Ogun then joined his sprint relay team colleagues of Lee McLaughlin, Oweka Wanogho and debutante James Kastye to storm to victory in the 4x100m.
Croydon’s fate now lies with the Southern league, who are expected to announce their decision in the next week.
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Event |
A String |
B String |
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100m |
James Kastye 2nd 11.4s |
Lee McLaughlin 1st 11.1s |
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200m |
Oweka Wanogho 2nd 22.7s |
Darren Wollen 1st 23.0s |
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400m |
Darren Wollen 3rd 51.4s |
Martin Rowe 3rd 54.7s |
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800m |
Martin Rowe 2nd 1.59.2 |
Ian Wright 3rd 2:09.6 |
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1500m |
Dave Symons 4th 4:39.6 |
Martin Rowe 3rd 4:54.8 |
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5000m |
Dave Symons 4th 16:06 |
James Buchanan 2nd 16:13.2 |
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3k Chase |
James Buchanan 4th |
Terry Lapins 4th |
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110m H |
Terry Lapins 3rd 22.5s |
Ian Statter 4th 23.6s |
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400m H |
Terry Lapins 5th 71.2s |
Ian Statter 5th 79.7s |
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Triple Jump |
Trevor Okoroafor 1st 14.74m |
Chuxx Onyia 1st 14.39m |
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Long Jump |
Paul Ogun 1st 6.91m |
Kariym Irving 1st 6.19m |
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High Jump |
Ned Quiney 2nd 1.75m |
Kariym Irving 2nd 1.60m |
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Shot Putt |
Richard Irving 2nd 11.09m |
Mike Carlisle 2nd 9.98m |
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Hammer |
Chris King 4th 29.75m |
Mike Carlisle 2nd 29.62m |
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Pole Vault |
Mike Carlisle 1.80m 5th |
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Javelin |
Tony Richards 4th 35.58m |
Peter 4th 30.75m |
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4x100m |
Oweka, Lee, Paul, James 1st |
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4x400m |
Martin Rowe (56.3s) Lee McLaughlin (54.4s) Oweka Wanogho (50.9s) Darren Wollen (51.5s) 3rd 3:32.9 |