Heathside promoted to SAL top division
The big news this week is that our runners, throwers and jumpers have excelled by being promoted to the Southern Athletics top division for the first time. Our club chairman Jerry Odlin described it as a ‘great achievement’ and congratulated team managers Richard Macaulay and Lily Woolcock for their ‘excellent team management’ and also thanked the athletes, coaches, officials and supporters for their ‘consistent effort this season’. Male team manager Richard described it as a ‘massive win for Heathside’ after a ‘fantastic season’.
Southern Athletics League, Match 4, Ware, Saturday August 7
Simon Baker reports: The sun shone on Saturday with our seniors taking on the last Southern Athletics Meeting of the year with promotion still in our hands but with both Dacorum and Woodford just 1 pt behind only a win would guarantee our first ever season in the First Division.
With the coach full to bursting, expectations were high heading up the A10 to Ware and with good reason as the team, a blend of young athletes, masters and seniors blew away the competition to win by 60 points, almost 100 if you disregard Herts Pheonix who we are paired with.
There were 15 event wins:- Carlos Mingoes (100m), Leon Seale (200m & 400m), George Warren (800m), Yann Sevestre (2000mSC), Trey Corlis (HJ), Prithvi Raj Sharma (TJ), Izzy Watkins (800m), Lily Woolcock (1500m), Rebecca Piggott (5000m), Genevieve Weston (1500mSC), Asia Emanuel (LJ), Jeanne Vellard (SP), Elkie Baker (DT), Men's 4x100m and Mixed 4x400m. The club managed clean sweeps in both A and B strings in 10 events SM 100m, 2000mSC and HJ and SW 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 1500mSC, SP and DT. We won both mixed 4x400m relays.
A brilliant effort from all involved; team managers Richard Macaulay and Lily Woolcock, the club coaches officials and the athletes who have put so much effort into this season.
Results
Team-
1st London Heathside 313 pts
2nd Herts Pheonix 251 pts
3rd Bexley AC 216 pts
4th Peterborough & Nene Valley 194 pts
5th Huntingdonshire AC 176 pts
6th Kent AC 155 pts
Men
100m
Carlos Mingoes 10.89 A 1st
Neo Fujiwara 11.28 B 1st PB
Asha Osei 11.27 ns
Muizz Ottun 11.49 ns PB
Joash Lindo (U23) 11.66 ns
Elliot Simmons 11.73 ns PB
Mikel Alexander (U17) 11.77 ns
Kwame Blankson (U17) 12.19 ns PB
James Pothalingham 12.30 ns PB
Tobias Fernandez Borkel 12.59 ns
Jordan Gboho (U17) 12.68 ns PB
Emmanuel Adesina (V45) 21.15 ns
200m
Leon Seale (U23) 22.23 A 1st
Neo Fujiwara 23.17 B 2nd PB
Unknown 23.24 ns
Elliot Simmons 23.82 ns PB
James Pothalingham 25.65 ns
Tobias Fernandez Borkel 26.27 ns PB
400m
Leon Seale (U23) 49.1 A 1st PB
Mikel Alexander (U17) 56.27 B 3rd
Joshua Ndionyemma (U23) 57.37 ns PB
Daniel Tang (U20) 58.64 ns PB
Peter Wootton 58.88 ns PB
Tam Mergia (U17) 60.19 ns
800m
George Warren (U23) 1:56.79 A 1st PB
Richard Macaulay 2:05.71 B 4th
Tam Mergia (U17) 60.19 ns
Daniel Tang (U20) 2:19.04 ns
Artie Feeny-Willings (U20) 2:25.19 ns
1500m
Barry Kelly 4:12.02 A 4th PB
Richard Macaulay 4:29.62:B 4th
Federico Forti (V40) 5:44.72 ns
3000m
Jake Evans (U23) 9:02.3 A 3rd PB
Federico Forti (V40) 12:02.8 B 4th PB
Tam Mergia (U17) 10:47.9 ns PB
110mH
Trey Corlis (U20) 15.24 A 2nd PB
Israel Nworgu 17.62 B 1st
400mH
Thomas Wassermann (U20) 61.88 A 2nd PB
Malakai David McKenzie Callum (U17) 63.73 B 1st
2000mSC
Yann Sevestre 6:48.52 A 1st PB
Peter Wootton 7:08.34 B 1st PB
High Jump
Trey Corlis (U20) 1.83m A 1st PB
Prithvi Raj Sharma (U20) 1.80m B 1st
Pole Vault
Malakai David McKenzie Callum 2.65m A 5th PB
Long Jump
Carlos Mingoes 6.16m A 3rd
Prithvi Raj Sharma (U20) 5.70m B 2nd
Triple Jump
Prithvi Raj Sharma (U20) 12.84m A 1st
Neo Fujiwara 11.64m B 2nd
Shot Putt
Kurt Fullerton (V45) 9.98m A 2nd PB
Israel Nworgu 9.13m B 2nd PB
Discus
Thomas Wassermann (U20) 23.61m A 5th
Hammer
Thomas Wassermann (U20) 22.42m A 4th
Israel Nworgu 17.49m B 4th PB
Javelin
Thomas Wassermann (U20) 30.43m A 6th
James Pothalingam 29.25m B 4th PB
4x100m
2nd London Heathside A 43.56
London Heathside B 45.56 ns
London Heathside C 47.29 ns
Mixed
4x400m
1st London Heathside A 3:47.70
1st London Heathside B (Vellard, Alexander, Watkins, Macaulay) 4:08.67
Women
100m
Asia Emanuel (U17) 12.73 A 2nd
Magdeline Paitoo (U17) 13.1 B 1st
Cara Brown 13.96 ns PB
Caitlin Leach (U23) 14.43 ns
Imani Quamina (U20) 13.05 ns
200m
Magdeline Paitoo (U17) 26.76 A 4th
Samiyah Wilson (U17) 27.20 B 2nd
Noelle O'Regan 28.19 ns
400m
Jeannie Vellard 60.43 A 2nd
Noelle O'Regan 62.81 B 1st
800m
Issy Watkins (U20) 2:19.07 A 1st
Lily Woolcock 2:29.30 B 1st
Genevieve Weston 2:49.49 ns
1500m
Lily Woolcock 4:54.87 A 1st
Emily Clarke 5:01.62 B 1st PB
Kimberli Butler 6:31.16 ns
5000m
Rebecca Piggott 17:55.91 A 1st
Ysabel Drewett 19:01.24 B 1st PB
Francesca Stocco 19:26.14 ns
100mH
Kyra Smith 17.3 A 3rd PB
Imani Quamina (U20) 18.3 B 2nd
400mH
Kyra Smith 78.25 A 4th PB
Genevieve Weston 91.83 B 3rd
1500mSC
Genevieve Weston 6:25.09 A 1st
Emily Clarke 6:25.19 B 1st PB
High Jump
Jeanne Vellard 1.43m A 3rd PB
Francesca Stocco 1.38m B 2nd PB
Pole Vault
Genevieve Weston 1.00m A 2nd
Molly Harrison 1.00m B 1st PB
Long Jump
Asia Emanuel (U17) 5.09m A 1st
Magdeline Paitoo (U17) 3.95m B 3rd
Triple Jump
Genevieve Weston 6.59m B 2nd
Issy Watkins (U20) 8.54m A 4th PB
Shot Put
Jeanne Vellard 9.52m A 1st PB
Noelle O'Regan 7.98m B 1st
Rene Travis (U17) 7.64m ns PB
Kimberli Butler 4.57m ns
Discus
Elkie Baker (U17) 35.44m A 1st
Noelle O'Regan 22.06m B 1st
Hammer
Imani Quamina (U20) 16.54m A 5th
Lorna Stevenson 15.18m B 4th
Rene Travis 20.02m ns
Joash Lindo (U23) 11.82m ns
Javelin
Molly Harrison 14.37m A 5th
Kyra Smith (U17) 12.01m B 4th PB
4x100m
1st London Heathside (Emanuel, Smith, Paitoo, Quamina) 50.61
Parkruns, Saturday August 17
A total of 96 of our runners took part in Parkruns on Saturday and we picked up six wins: Andy Barnes in Thames Path (16:28), Sam Macaulay in Mile End(16:50), Christopher Gracie in Finsbury Park (17:04), William Griffiths in Blickling (18:10), Jose Sabroso in Sunny Hill (19:15) and Jessica Vinluan in Thurock (25:08). Full Heathside parkrun results here
Report by Gavin Evans with thanks to Simon Baker and Jerry Odlin.