The Start Fitness North Eastern Harrier League presentation evening will take place at
Start Fitness in Grainger Street, Newcastle on Thursday 12th April 2018. Please arrive from 5:30 for a prompt 6pm start. Can all clubs that have won a trophy make an effort to have someone there to receive it. The whole team is welcome to turn up. All individual prize winners are asked to attend in person but, if that's not possible, can someone be nominated from the club to collect it. There are trophies for 1st placed team in each age group. For the seniors, it's first team in each of the 3 divisions. For individuals, there are prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each Grand Prix category. Full results can be found on the website: http://harrierleague.com/results/2017-18/ Morpeth Harrier Rory Leonard certainly drew his 2017/18 Cross Country season to a close with success,
and on a high, when he finished an excellent ninth in the Senior Boys event at the ISF World Schools Cross Country Championships, in the splendour of Paris, France on Wednesday 4th April 2018. Leonard was third counter in an England squad which finished as second team behind Morocco. He finished twenty-six seconds behind event winner Cherrad Oussama of Algeria, who were third in the team contest. This was a truly World Class performance by Leonard, who has had a really superb season, both for his club, the region, and now internationally. He was joined in the England Team success by Matthew Willis of Wrexham, the English Schools Champion, who finished fifth, and Cambridge and Coleridge’s Tom Keen, the Inter County Silver medallist behind Leonard, who on this occasion finished seventh. Today, Wednesday 4th April 2018, marks the Opening Ceremony for the 21st Commonwealth Games, which take place on Australia’s Gold Coast, with competition in all sports, including disability,
lasting until Sunday 15th April 2018, a total of twelve days of competition. More than 4,500 athletes from 71 nations are taking part, including Morpeth Harrier Laura Weightman, who is representing England in the final of the Women’s 5,000metres. Laura will appear on the eleventh day of competition, on Saturday 14th April 2018, in a hotly contested twelve and a half lap event, alongside the likes of World Champion Helen Obiri of Kenya, and fellow Brits Emma Mitchell of Northern Ireland, Eilish McColgan and Steph Twell, both running for Scotland, and Wales’s Melissa Courtney. Her event is due to start at 15.20 (Local Time), (6.20am GMT), and it will be her first taste of the longer distance at such a level, however she is quietly brimming with confidence on the chances of a medal. The preparation has gone well, under the guidance of coach and mentor Steve Cram, and she recently enjoyed a 1500m track win in Queensland, which proved if anything she has acclimatised well, and is ready and waiting for the action. Track and Field action gets underway on the fifth day of competition, Sunday 8th April 2018, and all events in this category take place in the 25,000 capacity Carrara Stadium, set in a suburb of Queensland. A familiar face to Laura may take opportunity to watch her in action, in the form of Sian Hurley, (formerly Ellison), who is now fully resident in Australia, and has recently competed in sport, such as Triathlon. Morpeth Harriers & AC would like to wish Laura all Best Wishes in yet another quest for a medal, and no doubt, as on previous occasions, will have some on the edge of their seats. On a positive note, Laura medalled at the 2014 Games in Glasgow in the Women’s 1500m, where she won Silver, hopefully the podium will beckon once again. Posting a finishing time of 33m12s, Ross Floyd became the sixth Morpeth Harrier to win the annual
North Tyneside 10k on Sunday1st April 2018, which was being run for the fourteenth occasion. Following an early tussle for race supremacy with Tyne Bridge’s Carl Smith, also a previous winner in 2014, Floyd eventually made a break for home on the downward stretch from Tynemouth’s Gibraltar Rock, and was relatively untroubled throughout the rest of the race to the finish line near St Mary’s Island. Floyd won with nineteen seconds to spare over Smith, with another Tyne Bridge Harrier Sparrow Morley finishing third in 34m54s. Another seven Morpeth Harriers accompanied Floyd in the race, they were, Mark Snowball (11th) 36m17s, Matthew Boyle (26th) 37m51s, Paul Brown (96th) (7th O/50 Man) 41m17s, Helen King (110th) (2nd O/40 Woman) 41m46s, Vicky Gibbs (119th) (1st O/35 Woman) 42m12s, Stephen Johnstone (154th) (17th O/45 Man) 43m32s, and Jim Alder (155th) (7th O/55 Man) 43m38s. The runs by King and Gibbs were both excellent in terms of Women’s performances. Returning to race winner Floyd, this was his sixth appearance in the event, having finished third in both 2010, and 2014, sixth in 2011, ninth in 2008, and a low key eighteenth in 2009, so now to have eventually achieved a win proved a very timely boost for him, and these performances also clearly outline his progression to a high status athlete. The event had a total of 1,783 finishers. |
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