Championships Catch-up

It was a run away victory for Kristian Brown in the South of England combined events at the Horspath Stadium in Oxford placing first in seven of the ten events to win with 6162 points. Day one started with the 100 metres with a time of 11.38s and then followed long jump (6.51m) shot putt (12.98m). High jump (1.68m 5th place) and 400 metres (50.77s). Day two events went 110 hurdles (15.30s), discus (39.19m), pole vault - no height achieved, javelin (59.31m) and finally the 1500metres (5m 06.32s - 3rd place). The full results show that no competitor managed to clear a height in the pole vault... A gold medal for Stephen Adesina in the U17 men octathlon, oddly no other starters. Full marks therefore that in this circumstance he should come up with a personal best score of 3944 points. Events and performances were 100 metre hurdles (15.51s), long jump (6.10m), shot putt (11.01m), 400m (59.46s), discus (26.56m - a PB), javelin (30.07m) and 1500m (5m 12.47s) In pentathlon events Arsenii Handzii placed 4th in the under 15 age group via (80m hurdles12,79s), long jump (5.54m), shot putt (10.29m), high jump (1.65m) and 800m (2m 37.61s) for a score of 2358 points. In the same event Harry Lee placed 8th with 2021 points. For the girls events Chelsea Clark in 5th position came up with a PB 2317 points via 75m hurdles(12.73s), long jump (4.13m), shot (7.62m), high jump (1.45m) and 800m 2m 56.35s)

A GREAT WIN - for Ben Felton taking the Essex County 10000metre championship with 31m 36s at Braintree - his time just shy of a personal best.

ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER - Kristian Brown lifted the javelin title with a PB and a new club record of 68.83m in an England Championship meeting staged at Melbourne Park. The previous record held by Ralph Hume an American Airman based at Wethersfield of 62.10m had stood for an unbelievable 51 years and 6 days.

A PB ALSO FOR - Jessica Hopkins in the shot putt with 14.75m, sister Maegan still a junior placed 6th with 13.00m. Other CAC members included Thomas Hewes high jump 1.98m and Bradley Reed 110 metre hurdles 14.94s.

EYAL 4 Another Huge win for CAC Juniors

Well what another outstanding performance by our youngsters with an impressive win over our closest rivals for being Champions for 2023.

Only a disaster in our final match at Basildon could prevent this as you will see from the league table below. Scoring over seven hundred yet again, four on the trot. No other club has managed more than two - and points can make a big difference for look at the fight for second place.

We now hope the final takes place, the league are still waiting for a host club to take

this on.

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Report Written and Compiled by Roy Meadowcroft

Regarding the number of wins and PB's they were so numerous that, sorry if any are missed out.

An Amazing Night for CAC in the Essex Relay Champs

It was weather they say only fit for ducks but perhaps even they would have `ducked` this one out so it

was some what surprising that three club records should come about with such conditions. Just maybe the athletes were in a hurry to get back to the dressing room at Melbourne Park.

Of course Sam Steadman has shown great form this season and joined by Marcus Fazackerley, Jakub Skamla and Daniel Brown they improved on the 4 x 300 time set in 2015 as they clocked 2m 37.82s but behind a strong Havering team. Two 3 x 800 records with winning places , the under 15 girls via Lottie Wilkin, Hetty Harrison and Ezra Harrold clocking 7m 12.04s and the under 17 men with Jacob Hurrell, William Sweeney and Archie Durham who took 17 seconds off the old record with there 6m 13.92s Further gold medal performances came from the under 15boys (46.73s) and under 17 men (44.47s) in the 4 100mand the under 13 girls in the3 x 800 (7m 45.53s). Silver medals for the under 13 boys in the 4 x 100 (54.96s), the under 17 men 4 x 400 (3m 43.78s), the under 15girls 4 x 300 (3m 01.14s), under 15 boys 3 x 800 (6m 49.30s) and the under 17 women 3 x 800 (7m 56.80s). Add in three third placings, under 15 girls 4 x100, under 17 women 4 x 400 and the under 13boys 3 x 800 it was a good tally from the 16 events on the programme.

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Report written by Roy Meadowcroft