ATHLETICS: Godiva duo lift track awards.COVENTRY GODIVA sprinters Phil Kerry and Karen Oughton scooped the awards for the best track performances in the National Junior League match at Nuneaton with sparkling wins over 100 metres. Both ran personal bests - Kerry clocking 10.8 seconds and Oughton 11.9 - before going on to add wins over 200 and 400 metres. Holidays and other commitments affected the Godiva squad for the Trent Division match, but there were a number of individual highlights as the men finished sixth overall of the eight competing teams and the women seventh, only two points behind fifth-placed Royal Sutton. Sam Montague, 17, produced three personal bests for a win treble in the long jump (6.22), triple jump (12.54) and javelin (39.84) as well as running an excellent leg in the 4 x 400 metres relay to underline his decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. potential. Alex Smith
Boys: 1 Tamworth 304, 2 Royal Sutton 202, 3 Wolverhampton 184, 4 Telford 181, 5 Tipton 170, 6 Coventry 132, 7 Cannock & Stafford 130, 8 Nuneaton 104. Women: 1 Telford 258, 2 Tamworth 234, 3 Nuneaton 154, 4 Wolverhampton 147, 5 Royal Sutton 119, 6 Tipton 118, 7 Coventry 117, 8 Cannock & Stafford 75. RUGBY & Northampton finished fourth in the men's field in their National Junior League match at Stourport with a depleted women's team in sixth. Paul Nash was in superb form in the hammer, winning with a new personal best of 50.77 metres, to give the men a flying start and this was quickly followed by another winning personal best in the long jump (6.36) from Gary White who went on to complete a double in his favoured event, the triple jump (13.84). Dale Hancock (3.50) secured maximum points in the pole vault pole vault Track-and-field event consisting of a vault for height over a crossbar with the aid of a long pole. It became a competitive sport in the mid-19th century and was included in the first modern Olympic Games. , and the men ended the meeting with a tremendous win in the 4 x 400 relay - Tom Glover, who 20 minutes earlier had finished second in the 2,000 metres steeplechase, handing over in fourth place at the end of the first leg, but Ross Glover running a storming 51.1 to take the lead and Tom Causebrook and Chris Lamb bringing them home Bringing Them Home is the title of the Australian "Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families". to a narrow victory over Yate in 3-36.8. Going into the women's high jump with a personal best of 1.53 metres, Fiona Wright had first time clearances at 1.45, 1.50 and 1.55 before going over 1.60 to win the competition. There was a winning sprint double from Emma Bailey in the 100 (12.9) and 200m (26.1). COVENTRY Godiva's Steve Arnold led from gun to tape to win the Midland 10,000 metres track race walking title at Tamworth. Arnold powered home in 51-38.14 with clubmate Glyn Jones timed at 63-58.92. Mark O'Kane (12-11.32) won the boys 2,000 metres, and there was a third title for Godiva in the girls 1,000 m where Enya Tabram (6-32.02) was followed home by Joleen Yeomans (6-38.31) to give the club a one-two after a ding-dong battle. Claire Yeoman yeoman (yō`mən), class in English society. The term has always been ill-defined, but generally it means a freeholder of a lower status than gentleman who cultivates his own land. (13-13.57) took second in the girls 2,000 metres. OCTOGENARIAN oc·to·ge·nar·i·an adj. Being between 80 and 90 years of age. n. A person between 80 and 90 years of age. Janis Gercs rewrote the record books at the British Veterans championships. Now in his 81st year, Gercs came away from Hendon with four gold medals and seven records in the 80-plus age group - winning the shot (7.84), discus (24.03) and hammer (17.99) in British and championship records and the javelin (20.73) in a championship best. |
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