Shauangh Brown came away from the European Indoor trials at Sheffield with a silver medal in the shot putt. The Blackheath & Bromley threw 14.91 to beat some of the best athletes in the country including Great Britain's top multi eventer Jessica Ennis. Another young senior Jermaine Olasan just missed a medal as he finished in 4th place in the long jump with a new indoor best of 7.34 which he achieved in the last round of the contest.

Serita Solomon was 6th in the 60 metre hurdles final while under 20 Megan Southwart was knocked out in the heats.

Second claim member Ned Quiney had a good leap of 4.96 in the pole vault, a height that gave him 12 equal position in his first National championship in the senior age group.

Another first year Senior Dan Putnam ran 49.09 in the heats of the 400 metres.

Alex Bruce Littlewood won the Senior Mens race at the Kent League fixture at Swanley an event which was postponed before Christmas because of the poor weather took. This means with one race left he heads the overall individual placings. With Ross Braden 32nd, Richard Daniel 38th and Brendan McShane 50th the Club came 4th in the team race. James Donaldson was 83rd.

The Senior women also have one match to go although they did not have a race at Swanley. The final meeting will be a keenly fought affair with three clubs capable of winning the League title. B&B currently enjoy a narrow lead from Medway and Maidstone, and Tonbridge.

The meeting at Swanley was, however, the last of the Winter for the younger age groups and there was both success on the day and in the overall positions for the season. The Club enjoyed a clean sweep in the under 20 womens race with victory for Mel Kane with Clare Parkin second and Danielle Critchley third. Michelle Fewster was 5th and this ensured both team victory on the day and in the overall contest. Danielle was the individual champion.

Will Mercer was 5th in the under 17 mens race and this ensured that he was runner up for the season. Chris Miles who was 8th on the day came 4th. For the women Hope Stenning was 7th and Catherine Brooks 9th. Although they did not complete a team on this occasion, they did finish third for the season.

Kate Curran led them home the under 15 girls team in 4th place with Lucy Sidey 5th, Samantha Leighton 10th, Sonia Woolhouse 12th, Isobel Jackson 15th and Holly Fletcher 19th. They were second in the team race and second overall for the season.

The boys were fourth with first scorer Richard Webb 13th followed by William Fuller 14th, Alex Punnett 18th, Josh Dowling 22nd and Thomas Desborough 23rd.

There was an excellent turn out in the under 13 girls race. First home was Georgina Taylor in second place thus securing herself the overall title for the season. Charlotte Rhule was 5th, Jessica Keen 9th, Shannon Riskey 11th, Leah Everson 17th, Mary Guy 18th, Isobel Vowles 24th, Elizabeth Ibidunni 26th and Molly Dent 27th. They won the team race on the day and the team title for the season.

Charlie Davis had another good run for the under 13 boys team finishing in third place with Bradley Stickings 5th. Bradley was second overall individual for the season.

Some of these athletes had been competing in the South East Inter County Schools races at Reading the previous weekend. Danielle Critchley was 20th in the Senior Girls race while Will Mercer was 35th in the boys contest.

Amber Reed took 22nd place in the Intermediate Girls race with Bethany Frost 55th. First home in the Junior Girls race was Lucy Sidey in 39th place with Charlotte Rhule 57th and Samantha Leighton 76th while Richard Webb was 70th in the boys race.

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