B & B enjoy success on the National stage

1:58pm Thursday 2nd August 2007

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Michael Skinner ran a season's best in the 5000 metres at the World Championship Trials in Manchester. However, the Blackheath & Bromley athlete had to settle for the silver medal behind British number one Mo Farah.

Skinner was the Club's only medallist of the weekend but Montell Douglas just missed out as she placed fourth in the 100 metres. Having already run 11.28 this year she should at least get a place in the Great Britain 4x100 metre squad for the World Championships.

Training partners Victoria Thomas and Rachel Blackie finished 7th and 8th in the Women's Hammer final with distances of 53.43 and 53.26.

Duayne Bovell ran well in the men's 100 to make the semi final.

Meanwhile the National Masters Championships were taking place in Birmingham with the Club's athletes picking up five gold, seven silver and six bronze medals.

Highlight was a new British Record for Colin Brand in the over 70's javelin with 38.23 and he also won the discus and claimed bronze in the shot putt.

Barbara Terry won the over 60's discus and she also won silvers in the shot, hammer and weight.

Peter Hannell took the over 60s 3000 walk title and Clem Leon retained his over 50s high jump title with a leap of 1.55.

Clem also took silver in the triple jump and there were a hat trick of silvers for Beatrice Simpson in the over 50s javelin, weight and hammer to add to a bronze in the discus.

Gordon Hickey struck bronze in the over 70s javelin and on the track there were third places in the over 50s 5000 for Alan Camp and in the over 50's 1500 for Ken Daniel.

At Luton the Senior Women produced a remarkable team performance to finish second in their latest Southern League match of the season. No one would have predicted this at the start of the meeting as with the clash with all the other meetings on this weekend there were only five athletes available.

However the fantastic five of Katy Benneworth, Maureen Miller, Carolyna Jones Baldock, Stephanie Allerton and Anne Cilia all covered five individual events each to produce a memorable result.

On the track there were double wins in the 400 hurdles (Stephanie and Carolyna) and 400 (Maureen and Stephanie) and Katy won both the 100 and 200 metre races.

In the field Maureen claimed second place in the shot to add to her runner up spot in the B string hammer.

The afternoon reached a rousing climax with Stephanie, Carolyna, Katy and Maureen winning the 4x400 by nearly a 100 metres.