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PRESS REPORT 4th Septmber 2005 -
Dagenham Off Road 5,Serpentine 5k, Vets AC 5000m, SWL
Braintree
Ilford AC's Terry Knightley finished in 2nd Position in a time of 32 minutes 58 seconds which won him the First Veteran (MV40) Trophy.
Next In for Ilford was Darren Botterill in 37 minutes 20 seconds followed by Breege Nordin in 39 Minutes and 30 seconds and then Suki Jandu in 49 minutes 26 seconds.The Ladies race went to Julia Lewis who finished in a time of 35.50.
Ilford Ac's super veteran John Batchelor is fast returning to fitness since being dogged by injury problems over the last year. John ran 19:23 on the road last Friday at Serpentine 5k and followed this by an impressive win in the male 60 category in the blazing heat of Sunday's Vets AC 5000m Championship.
On Saturday the Ilford Ladies and girls took part in their last track meeting of the season @ Braintree, in the Division 3 North. The meeting was a double header with Ilford up against Braintree & Forest. The squad was made up of 1 Senior athlete, and 8 athletes of u/17,u/15 & u/13s.
Sarah Kigozi out shone all the other athletes with good performances in both the 100m & 200m. Sarah started with a powerful run in the 100m coming home in fine style in a time of - 13.1sec, shaving 0.3sec of her previous best, and finishing in 1st place. Not content with that Sarah completed the sprint double with yet another PB in the 200m coming home first with a time of - 27.4sec again 0.3sec of her previous time. She then went on to throwing the javelin and was pleased with 1st again.
Julianna Dougan ran the 100m as well and producing her best time for a while coming home in 2nd place with a time of - 13.4sec just outside her PB. Julianna then went onto compete in the shot put and discus finishing in 3rd place in both respectively. Clarissa Dougan threw slightly below par in the discus & javelin but still recorded a 1st in javelin & 3rd in discus.
Lydia Hall who has some injury worries took part in the high jump and was a good performer leaping to a height of 1m 30cm to finish in 1st place. Aimee Jones who was competing a day before her 13th Birthday rang a very reasonable 800m. It was a very close race and Aimee was just pipped at the line for 2nd coming in at a time of - 2min 40.3sec. The other u/13 girl competing was Kirsty Nweze, her debut in the southern women's. Her long jump was solid and the leap of - 3m 98cm was good enough for 2nd place, just shy of her PB. Kirsty then took part in the 200m and was equally good running a time of - 29.6sec coming 2nd. They rounded of with a 4x100m relay (Julianna, Clarissa, Kirsty & Sarah) finishing with a time of 55.05sec and a 2nd place.
Jessica Manning the u/17 was coming back after missing sometime of training. In the long jump although missing her first 2 jumps corrected her stride pattern to make a leap of - 4m 65cm and a 3rd place. In the Javelin she threw - 22m 77cm to finish 1st and had a go at the shot putt for the first time. With this she was still able to perform well putting a distance of - 7m 59cm to finish 2nd. Our final competitor was our only Senior athlete. The recently married Clare Thake who had not long comeback from holiday did well in all the events she took part in. In the 100m she finished 3rd and 200m was again the same result. Clare then went onto perform in the field. Her shot putt of - 5m 68 gave her a 1st place. The Javelin was a 3rd place and for the first time Clare had a go at the hammer finishing again in 3rd place. With a few coaching lessons I think Clare will be able to get the hang of it.
