Heathside clean up Middlesex team titles and silver medals at Horsenden Hill, whilst club records tumble at Lea Valley

This week was one of great performances in hugely different conditions, from the Middlesex cross-country championships at the infamously muddy Horsenden Hill, where the youngsters achieved team titles and the women’s team won silver, to club record performances at the Lea Valley Athletics Centre.

The U13 Girls and U15 Girls with their trophies

Middlesex Cross Country Championships, Horsenden Hills 8.1.21

Simon Baker sent in the following report from Horsenden Hill:

 “After cancellation last year the County Championships returned at the weekend at a muddy Horsenden Hills.  Indeed  it could probably have been more accurately described as a Tough Mudder with overnight rain ensuring the course quickly turned into a muddy mess with standing water adding to the runners challenge.  This however did not deter the hardy Heathsiders who turned out in good numbers to race.  The Club finished with two team titles (U15G and U13G), 5 2nd places and one 3rd place.  Individually there was silver to Issy Watkins (U15G) and bronzes for Oliver O'Connor (U20M), Hattie Munday (U15G) and Kiara Corkin (U13G) as well as 16 other top 10 places.

The U11's started the action with Rory Willis our first runner home in 4th just 9 seconds behind the winner, Close behind Rory was Charlie Nicolson and Mikail Wahlid to secure 2nd place in the team competition.  Charlotte Beale in 13th was the first U11 Girl with Reke Szentes in 19th place as the team finished 5th.  The U13 Boys were well placed with Koppany Szentes in 6th and Ben Redland 9th but were hit with Sam Turner having to pull out half way although Alex Poutney in 17th did secure 3rd place for the team.  In the U13 race the club had 8 runners, Kiara Corkin again was first home finishing 3rd against her fierce rivals Posie Shaw (SBH) and Jorja March (Barnet).  Next home was Amy Kirk in a superb 5th place and with Ivy Gray 16th the team finished in 1st place 4 points ahead of Title Holders Highgate.

Picture of U15 Girls and trophy which was first awarded in 1935

The U15 races saw another dominant performance by our U15 Girls although Izzy Watkins was just unable to catch the race leader her 2nd place was supported by sister Milly's 4th place and Hattie Munday's 3rd place to easyily take the team title.  Indeed with Rubby walls 6th, Ishaana Cannell 9th and Lucy Corkin 10th our B team would have won silver.  In the U15 Boys race David Baah Okyere started stongly and was 4th after the 1st lap but faded a little on the 2nd with Gregory Berrisford Sweet finshing as the first Heathsider home in 11th with Tom Ballentyne  16th and David 19th to win the silver team medal.  We only had one complete U17/U20 team with the U17 Mens team of Roni Kizilkaya h Fred Beale and Janak Subberwal securing another silver medal for the club..  Elsewhere Maia hampton-Philips and Fabiene Weston ran in the U17 women's race and Oliver O'Connor ran a strong race to win bronze in the U20 mens race. Reliable sources have mentioned that it was the first time the Club has won either the U13G or U15G County titles, The U15G cup was first awarded in 1935

The Senior Women's race was pretty dramatic, while Hannah Viner (Highgate) secured the Gold medal leading from the start the team race was a very close run thing.  Brogan Wallace was our first finisher after establishing herself in the leading pack early on.  Josie Hinton was tracking close behind to secure 9th place, the scoring team was completed with Rhian Male and Ciera Kennedy in 19th and 22nd, Trent Park however had 4 runners home so took the title but Highgate were still waiting their 4th scorer who eventually crossed the line in 27th place leaving the Teams tied on points but Heathside awarded Silver based on countback.  The Mens race over a grueling 12,000m saw Dylan Evans (SBH) and Alex Lepetre (Highgate) battle it out at the front in what was now a very muddy course.  However Tom Aldred doggedly stuck at his race in a clear 4th place with james Wooldrige just 20s after in 6th place.  Further back the Heathside team were working hard together with 2nd and 3rd places in the team competition switching between Harrow and Heathside, however the group with Ismail Abukar 23rd, Matthew Rallison 24th, Harry Kleiman 25th and Francesco Melloni 27th the team were 3 points better than Harrow to take team Silver.

 We are now at the business end of the Cross Country Season with the Met League next weekend at Wormwood Scrubs and Southerns later this month.”

Senior Men, 12,000m, 146 runners

Tom Aldred leads Heathsider men home through the mud in Horsenden Hill

1st D Evans (SBH) 43:54

4th Tom Aldred (V40) 46:14

6th James Wooldridge 46:35

23rd Ismail Abukar 50:11

24th Matthew Rallison 50:26

25th Harry Kleiman 50:31

27th Francesco Melloni 50:55

29th Ewan Gault 51:13

32nd Andy Barnes 51:39

39th Charles Hardy 52:27

43rd Peter Gould 52:53

46th Jake Spencer 53:06

57th Oliver Negus 54:43

59th Alex Sweet 55:12

87th Valentin Valeanu 59:54

88th Liam Hazelton 59:55

90th Joseph Clemoes 60:15

93rd Philip Hogg 60:39

101st Lee Connor 63:38

111st Steve Crowley 64:44

117th Rob Shulman 65:51

119th Matt Beard 66:24

Team:- 1st TVH 52 pts, 2nd London Heathside 109 pts (Aldred, Wooldridge, Abukar, Rallison, Kleiman, Melloni), 3rd Harrow 112pts 

Heathside ladies running to secure silver medal position in Horsenden Hill

Senior Women, 8,000m 97 runners

1st H Viner (Highgate) 32:26

5th Brogan Wallace 34:52

9th Josie Hinton 36:10

19th Rhian Male 37:52

22nd Ciara Kennedy 38:11

29th Genevieve Weston 39:52

41st Sara Black 41:32

58th Kimberli Butler 45:14

63rd Caroline White 46:40

80th Sue Eedle 51:13

82nd Rebecca Marshall 51:35

Team:- 1st Trent Park 44 pts, 2nd London Heathside 55 pts (Wallace, Hinton, Male, Kennedy), 3rd Highgate Harriers 55 pts

U20 Men 5,500m, 16 runners

1st E Ahmed (ESM) 21:46

3rd Oliver O'Connor 22:51

Team:- No LH Team

U17 men 5,500m 24 runners

1st S Greenstein (SBH) 22:54

6th Roni Kizilkaya 24:25

13th Fred Beale 26:13

14th Janak Subberwal 26:14

Team:- 1st SBH 8 pts, 2nd London Heathside 33 pts, 3rd St Mary's 35 pts

U17 Women, 5500m 16 runners

1st L Mannes (B&B) 26:20

8th Maia Hampton-Philips 30:45

14th Fabienne Weston 35:46

Team:- No LH Team

U15 Boys, 4000m 44 runners

1st T Chadwick (Highgate) 15:34

11th Gregory Berrisford-Sweet 17:10

14th Tom Ballantyne 17:21

16th David Baah-Okyere 17:27

29th Ben Ryan 18:16

37th Artie Feeny-Willings 19:09   

43rd Alex Butcher 20:46

Team:- 1st Highgate 9 pts, 2nd London Heathside 41 pts (Berrisford-Sweet, Ballantyne, Baah-Okyere), 3rd St Marys 44 pts

U15 Girls, 4000m 37 runners

1st L MacDonald (VPH&TH) 16:38

2nd Izzy Watkins 16:44

3rd Hattie Munday 17:22

4th Milly Watkins 17:31

6th Ruby Walls 18:09

9th Ishaana Cannell 18:27

10th Lucy Corkin 18:30

25th Ella-Mai Hancock 20:10

26th Amara Odeogberin 20:29

36th Maddison Frawley 23:00

Team:- 1st London Heathside 9 pts (I Watkins, Munday, E Watkins), 2nd TVH 27 pts, 3rd VPH&TH 40 pts

U13 Boys 3000m 40 runners

1st D Jeffs (SMR) 11:42

6th Koppany Szentes 12:35

9th Ben Redland 13:16

17th Alex Pountney 13:46

25th Samuel McDermott 14:49

Team:- 1st St Mary's 13 pts, 2nd SBH 14 pts, 3rd London Heathside 26 pts (Koppany, Redland, Pountney)

U13 Girls 3000m 37 runners

1st P Shaw (SBH) 12:40#

3rd Kiara Corkin 13:00

5th Amy Kirk 13:33

16th Ivy Gray 14:57

22nd Caitlin Roberts 15:23

28th Jessica Lappin 15:45

30th Lila Blustin 16:14

31st Maya Westgate 16:21

32nd Elkie Baker 16:24

Team:- 1st London Heathside 24 pts (Corkin, Kirk, Gray), 2nd Highgate 28 pts, 3rd St Mary's 36 pts

U11 Boys 1500m 35 runners

1st J Hayward (ESM) 8:04

4th Rory Willis 8:13

6th Charlie Nicolson 8:20

11th Mikail Wahid 8:29

13th Alex Kirk 8:40

19th Charlie Roberts 9:13

20th Alex Rankin 9:15

25th Pip Young 9:43

26th Connor Roberts 9:49

Team:- 1st ESM 14 pts, 2nd London Heathside 21 pts (Willis, Nicolson, Wahid), 3rd Harrow 32 pts

U11 Girls 1500m 26 runners

1st Sofia Mossi 8:28

13th Charlotte Beale 9:43

19th Reke Szentes 10:28

21st Tamara Pushpananthan 10:42

24th Isla Kavanagh 11:08

Team:- 1st ESM 27 pts, 5th London Heathside 53 pts            

BeFit Academy Open, Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 9.1.22

Simon Baker sent in the following report from the Lea Valley Athletics Centre: “Not all action took place in the Mud of Middlesex with a host of Club records broken by our Young Athletes at Lee Valley.  Suraya Frost in her first hurdles race as an U15 set a new Club record by 0.6s.  Imani Quamina fell in the first hurdle but in the second race broke a Club record that has stood since 2008.  Our young Sprint talent Gabriel Edwards then smashed both the 60m and 200m U13 records and is the ranked No1 UK U13B in Both events..   Mia Rosen opted to miss the XC and set a new U15G indoor 800m record.  Elsewhere veterans Adrain, Tony and Angela all produced great performances and Trey Corlis just piped his coach Israel in the Hurdles.”

In addition there were 3 new Long Jump records broken at Lee Valley; Imani Quamina (U17W) 4.38m, Martha Jolly (U15G) 4.66m and Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 4.55m.

60m

R1 H15 5th Tony Killilea (V60) 8.79

R1 H15 7th Israel Nworgu (V55) 19.35

R1 H2 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 8.20 AAA Grade 2

R1 H13 6th Helene Kehoe (VW55) 9.52

R1 H5 3rd Martha Jolly (U15G) 8.29 AAA Grade 2

R1 H3 5th Suraya Frost (U15G) 8.97 

R2 H3 2nd Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 8.15 PB AAA Grade 2 New Club U13B Record by 0.17s

R2 H2 3rd Tony Killilea (V60) 8.74

R2 H8 3rd Martha Jolly (U15G) 8.27 AAA Grade 2

R2 H4 6th Suraya Frost (U15G) 8.92

R2 H2 4th Helene Kehoe (VW55) 9.45

200m

H8 5th Angela Pollitzer (VW70) 50.32

H10 2nd Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 27.49 PB New Club U13B Record by 0.9s

H16 1st Chrispin Lema 26.96

H16 3rd Tony Killilea (V60) 28.93

H16 4th Adrian Essex (V70) 30.08

300m

H4 3rd Angela Pollitzer (VW70) 1:22.49

H5 3rd Milton Cooper (U15B) 40.46

800m

H2 6th Mia Rosen (U15G) 2:25,11 PB New Club U15G Record by 9s

60mH

R1 H9 4th Adrian Essex (V70) 11.56

R1 H8 3rd Trey Corlis (U17M) 9.01

R1 H8 4th Israel Nworgu (V45) 9.02

R1 H5 DNF Imani Quamina (U17W) 

R1 H3 5th Casis Langley-Bradshaw (U17W) 10.59

R2 H1 2nd Suraya Frost (U15G) 9.81 PB AAA Grade 2 New Club U15G Record by 0.6s

R2 H9 3rd Adrian Essex (V70) 11.46

R2 H8 3rd Trey Corlis (U17M) 8.90

R2 H8 5th Israel Nworgu (V45) 9.15

R2 H5 4th Imani Quamina (U17W) 9.49 PB New Club U17W Record by 0.33s

R2 H3 5th Casis Langley-Bradshaw (U17W) 10.99

R2 H1 2nd Suraya Frost (U15G) 9.95

Long Jump

Pool A 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 4.55m AAA Grade 2 New Club U13B Indoor Record

Pool B 3rd Martha Jolly (U15G) 4.66m New Club U15G Indoor Record

Pool C 4th Imani Quamina (U17W) 4.38m New Club U17W Indoor Record

Pool C 8th Adrian Essex (V70) 3.82m

Parkrun

Many Heathsiders ran in parkruns this weekend.  Congratulations for first place finishes go to Catrin Tyler (Finsbury Park, 19:57), Seyfu Jamaal (Highbury, 15:16), Worcester Pitchcroft (Julia Bijl, 18:03), Western Springs (NZ) (Keith Burrows, 18:52). Prize for the most exotic-sounding and the second most distant parkrun goes to Michael Gray (Woy Woy in Australia).  Full results can be found here.

Compiled by Emilia from reports by Simon Baker and photos from Simon Baker and Caroline White.

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