Midland Track & Field League (Men & Women)
Promotion to Division One achieved!
This promotion has been achieved against great odds. As with the young athletes earlier, it was the whole team which secured promotion - athletes and their coaches, managers, officials and all other Club volunteers before and on the days of matches.
It shows the importance of every individual when we finish second equal but gain promotion on points scored. Every athlete who took part knows they contributed to the overall success (see below). I echo Chris Elson’s words, ‘a big thank you to the officials - Mike Strange, Pete Davenport, Murray Grant, Bill Kingston, Chris Preston and Martin Travis and the co-team managers, Mike Down, Murray Grant, Paul Weston, Martin Davies and Simonne Lowrey.
I would like to point out that our Club owes great thanks to Chris Elson himself who took responsibility at the beginning of the season to create the big lift-off and who was the main Team Manager throughout. This was on top of his normal job of Membership Secretary.
Final Match, Division Two, Alexander Stadium, Birmingham
Overall: 1 Birchfield Harriers 287; 2 Bristol & West
AC 259; 3 Charnwood AC 228; 4 Notts AC 220; 5 Halesowen 203; 6 Telford 172.
with 1 event to go
Final league positions after 4 matches
1 Birchfield 18; 2= Bristol & West AC and Charnwood 17; 4 Notts 14; 5 Halesowen 121; 6 Telford 6.
Promoted: Birchfield and Bristol & West AC (by virtue of scoring more points overall)
On behalf of the Management Committee I send congratulations and thanks to you all.
Mike Adams, Honorary Secretary
Bristol & West AC performances
Men
100: 1 Lloyd Rice 10.8 (=league record); B: 1 Derek Morgan 11.3 (fresh from 5th in European vets M35);
200: 5 Anthony Mattis 23.1; B: 2 Morgan 23.1;
400: 2 Gustav Klingstedt 50.4 (suffering from food poisoning); B: 2 Tom Marley 50.8;
800: 1 Rich Peters 1:51.9 (PB); B: 1 Tom Marley 1:58.0;
1500: 1 Jon Wills 4:03.9; B: 1 Craig Peters 4:05.9;
3000: 2 Steve Mitchell 8:26.8 (PB); B: 1 Dan Moore 8:57.4 (PB) (the British Masters M45 1500m champion);
3000SC; 4 Matt Hallissey 11; 30.4; B: None;
110H; 4 Steve Parker 18.8; B: 5 Martin Davies 27.8;
400H: 2 Parker 57.6 (a great PB by over 1s); B: 4 Nick Jarvis 66.2;
4x100m relay: 2 B&W 43.2; Lloyd ran a stormer failing by 0.1s to catch the Birchfield runner
4x400m relay: 1 B&W 3:26.0; (Steve Parker, Rich Peters - sub 51 clocking, Tom Marley and Paddy McLernon)
LJ: 2 Ding Yang 6.42; B: 5 Cameron Walker-Shepherd 5.15;
TJ: 1 Yang 13.06; B: 1 Paul Weston 12.90;
HJ: 2 Nick Jarvis 1.85; B: 2 Yang 1.80;
PV: 2 Walker-Shepherd 4.20; B: 2 Martin Davies 3.00;
SP: 2 James Preston 12.16; B: 5 Davies 7.71;
DT: 4 Preston 34.39; B: 4 Bill Kingston 25.60;
HT: 5 Preston 33.10; B: 4 Murray Grant 20.95; JT: 4 Klingstedt 44.01; B: 2 Mattis 38.89.
Women
100: 3 Leila Corfield 13.0; B: 5 Samantha Moore 14.3;
200: 6 Andrea Locke 32.5; B: 5 Moore 29.4;
400: 3 Ruth Mitchell 59.7; B: 4 Moore 73.8;
800: 2 Mitchell 2:14.8; B: 2 Kate Goodhead 2:28.5;
1500: 2 Claire Hallissey 4:41.0 (PB) (After the 3K!); B: 3 Suzanne Harding 5:04.3;
3000: 1 Hallissey 9:56.8; B: 2 Goodhead 10:13.5;
100H: 1 Corfield 15.0; (a majestic run) B: 1 Moore 18.3;
400H: 2 Corfield 62.5; B: 2 Hayley Pitman 65.8;
4x100m relay: 5 B&W 56.5;
4x400m relay: 3 B&W 4:13.8.
Women Long Jump
A 3 Samantha Moore Bristol & West 4.41 6
B 3 Laura Reed Bristol & West 4.28 4
Women Triple Jump (A string)
3 A Bristol & West 10.40 - Sam Moore?
2 B Laura Reed Bristol & West 9.69
Women High Jump (A string)
3 A Hayley Pitman Bristol & West 1.60
3 B Laura Reed Bristol & West 1.35
Women Pole Vault
2 A A Andrea Lock Bristol & West 2.60
2 B Ruby Juan Bristol & West 2.20
Shot
3 A Hayley Pitman Bristol & West 8.91 6
6 B Suzanne Harding Bristol & West 5.65 1
Women Discus
6 A Karen Clayton Bristol & West 19.36 3
6 B Ruby Juan Bristol & West 12.27 1
Women Hammer (A string)
6 A Karen Clayton Bristol & West 12.89 3
6 B Ruby Juan Bristol & West 12.37 1
Women Javelin (A string)
6 A Ruby Juan Bristol & West 11.85
6 B Suzanne Harding Bristol & West 8.65 1
