June 2004

National League Fixture May 2004 Sunday, June 6 2004
The Tamworth women's team claimed victory at the second match in the National Junior Athletic League, Trent Division, while the men came a creditable third from the eight teams competing.

The women won with 243 points from Derby AC 239, Leicester Coritanian 160, Cannock and Staffs 157, Rugby and Northampton 110, Coventry Godiva 107 and Peterborough 74.

The men's match was won by City of Stoke AC with 317 points, from Cannock and Staffs with 250. Tamworth were a close third with 236, from Derby AC 232, Coventry Godiva 159, Rugby & Northampton 126, Leicester Coritanian 114 and Peterborough 89.

Starring for the girls was Jenna Lander who won athlete of the match for a tremendous personal best hammer throw of 46.49cm.

Alana Smetham also threw a grade one 38.51m to take the B event. These two girls were more than 10m clear of any other competitor. Jenna also took third place in the B shot.

Gemma Wheelhouse was third in the A shot with a personal best effort of 9.02m. Gemma also came third in the A discus with Claire Perry second in the B event.

Rebecca Furber came close to her best throw when finishing second in the A javelin with 33.37m, Laura Castledine came second in the B event.

It was also a wonderful day for Lara Hooper and Sarah Williams. Both girls set new personal bests in the pole vault of 2.45m, Lara finishing second in the A and Sarah winning the B event.

Lara also set a new PB in the triple jump to finish second in the B event with 9.83m and, just for good measure, she came third in the 3,000m. Sarah came second in the A triple jump with 10.17m, as well as taking second place in the 400m hurdles B race. She also ran the final leg of the 400m relay.

Katherine Snowden equalled her PB in taking second place in the A 400m hurdles before setting a new PB of 1:04.5mins in the 400m flat race.

Abi Aubury and Rebecca 'Ribz' Hallam also worked hard for the team. Abi finished fourth in the 800m in 2:34.2mins before taking third place in the 150m.

Ribz came fourth in the B 400m and second in the B 1,500m.

In the very competitive sprint events, Justine Passey finished fourth in both the A 100m and 200m. Claire Free performed well to come fifth in the B 100m and Zoe Albini was third in the B 200m.

Claire and Zoe teamed up with Sara Benson and Rebecca Findlay to come fourth in a very close sprint relay. Claire and Sara also competed in the longer relay.

Sara came third in the A long jump with a season's best jump of 4.68m. Rebecca Findlay came third in the B high jump with 1.45m and won the B 100m hurdles.

Danielle Allen was fourth in the A high jump with a clearance of 1.50m and also came fourth in the A 100m hurdles and third in the B long jump.

For the men's team, young throwers Alex Berrow and David Levett continued their remarkable progress. Throwing a heavier weight than their age group, Alex set PBs in the hammer of 34.42m, the shot of 10.05m and the discus of 24.18m. David set a new PB of 34.80m in the hammer to finish fourth in the A event, also coming fourth in the B shot and fifth in the B discus.

Javelin thrower Tom Hardman again improved his best effort with this weight to record 43.60m to finish third in the A event.

Michael Pierpoint finished fourth in the B javelin and set a new PB to come second in the B 3,000m.

Ricky Hallam had his usual busy and productive day, coming second in his specialist event, the pole vault, with a clearance of 3.65m and also coming second in both the B 400m hurdles and the A 110m hurdles.

Neil Rudd again broke his PB in the 400m to finish second in 52.7secs and he also took fourth place in the B 200m.

Martyn Naunton ran well to come through into third place in the A 3,000m in a time of 9:18.9mins before finishing fifth in the A 2000m steeplechase in 6:46.9mins.

David Lines came third in the A 400m hurdles in 1:04.3mins and also came second in the B 400m and 110m hurdles.

The 100m relay squad of Mark Humphries, Richard Bown, Chris Mawbey and Daniel Cash showed their expertise at baton changing as they came second in 44.8secs.

Richard also jumped 6.03m to take third place in the A long jump and finished fifth in the B 100m, Chris finished third in the B long jump and fourth in the A 200m with 23.7secs, and Daniel equalled his PB of 1.70m to come fifth in the A high jump and third in the B triple jump.

In his first junior league event, Tom Adams, who is still only 14-years-old, did well to finish fifth in the B 800m and second in the B steeplechase. Adam Smith came fourth in the A triple jump with 12.27m and second in the B high jump with 1.65m.

In the 1,500m, Stephen Tonks came fifth in the A event and Adam Bache was fourth in the B race. John Jenkins, after finishing sixth in the A 800m, ran a storming final leg in the 400m relay to bring the team home in second place.
Posted by:chris