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Overall close to Olympic qualification
Scott Overall produced the Blackheath & Bromley performance of the weekend when he smashed his own Club Record for the 5000 metres at the Mt Sac Relays meeting in the United States.
His time of 13.28.33 is just outside the 13.28 UKA B standard for the Olympic Games in Beijing. It took almost 10 seconds off his previous best which was set two years ago. He is easily the fastest Briton so far this year and will be making another attempt at the qualifying standard at Stanford in a couple of weeks time.
Scott's was not the only Club Record of the weekend as Dina Asher Smith equalled the existing under 13s record for 150 metres at the opening Kent Young Athletes Meeting of the season at Sutcliffe Park. Like Scott's performance her time of 19.7 is the fastest in the country this year. With both the Senior men and women in action at trophy meetings it made for a busy weekend for the Club with a very mixed bag of team results.
At the Sward and Kinnaird Meeting at Kingston the Senior Men won the Kinnaird Trophy for being the best track team but didn't feature in the Sward results as they did not have any field eventers.
Ed Harrison ran an impressive 53.04 in cold wet and windy conditions to win the A 400 Hurdles and Derek Paisley made it maximum points in the B event with 56.89. Also showing good form were Taiwo Sodeyi, who ran 14.65 for the 110 hurdles despite hitting hurdle 8 very hard, and Daniel Haque who won the 100 in 10.84. Other A string wins came from Andrew Rayner in the 1500 and Alex Bruce-Littlewood in the 2000 steeplechase plus the 4x400 team of Harrison, Paisley, David McKinlay and Femi Owolade.
The Senior women and under 15 girls were in action at the Alpha Beta meeting. Full results are not yet available but the Senior Women were 6th with the under 15s 8th due to the clash with the Kent League the following day.
There were mixed results in the team events at the Kent Young Athletes League meeting at Sutcliffe Park.
A depleted under 15 boys squad were 4th with the girls second while in the under 13s age group the girls enjoyed an emphatic victory with the boys second. This meant that overall the girls were first and the boys second.
Best performances for the under 15 boys came from Jonathan Pettet and Oliver Taylor who both achieved National Grade Two performances in winning the 200 and 1500. Amara Lalaemi Jacobs ran a grade two in the 100 but had to settle for the runners up spot while Eleanor Dumper won the discus.
Dina Asher Smith's 150 performance was the highlight for the under 13 girls where there was an impressive set of performances from a large enthusiastic squad who are new to the Sport. There were A string wins for Holly Fletcher (600), Amber Bryan-Issacs (70 hurdles), Shannon Cordell (2000 walk) and the 4x100 team of Dina, Shannon and Cheriece Hyltona and Aine Hurlock. Best performance for the boys came from Liam Cater who won the javelin with a promising throw of 30.84.
Further details of these events will appear on the Club website at www.bandbhac.org.uk
9:00am Monday 28th April 2008
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