MCAA Midland 7M & 5M CC Championships & Open‏

On the 28th of November there is a cross country championship event being held at Halesowen,

Paul Sanderson is wanting to send a strong team and try and take the mens and ladies titles.

We need to enter our team by 16th of november so please let me know if you can make it.

ctalbot23@hotmail.com or text 07740781760 or ring 01952 256887.

The mens race is 7mile and the ladies is 5mile.

I have had positive replies from Paul Williams, Jamie Davies, Richard Lucock, Rob Hughes, Kim Fawkes, Wayne Daspher, Simon Vines, Juliet Hoad, Ryan Ordige, Paul Ward, Michelle Clarke, Cheralyn Evans .........

NATIONAL ROAD RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS

National Road Relay Championships.

Chris Davies led the Telford Athletic Club senior mens 6 stage road relay team to the fastest time that the club have ever run in the prestigious National Six Stage Road Relay Championships held in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield. Having competed in this event for almost every year of the clubs history this was an outstanding team performance as the six men ran 1 hour 50 minutes and 30 seconds for the six legs of 5.8 kilometres,improving on their previous best set in 2003.
Davies from Newdale in Telford, has the best record in the country in the National Road Relay Championships, as he holds the course record of 16.25 in 2003, 14 seconds faster than anyone else, he also has the 4th fastest time of 16.42 set in 2007.

On Saturday he had to be up for 5.30 to do his morning post round before heading to Sutton Coldfield to take on the best in the country. This event attracts the best teams from throughout Great Britain who have to qualify through the area road relays. Mo Farah, the European Indoor 3000m champion, representing Newham and Essex Beagles was the star attraction amongst a host of other internationals in the mens and womens races.

Mark Dalkins fresh from his North Staffs League victory ran the opening leg in 17.36 finishing 22nd, the club's second fastset time of the day. Chris Rimmer went out on the second leg finishing 28th in 18.37, before handing over to Chris Davies. Davies stormed through the field despite having a slight ankle injury and improved 22 places to move Telford up to 6th in 16.42, which equals his time from 2007 as the 4th fastest ever. Chris Bagshaw ran 19.30 on the 4th leg before handing over to Chris Carter, promoted to the A team after his impressive run in the Midland relays, who ran 19.39 finishing 25th. Paul Ward who now lives close to the course ran the final leg in 18.26 finishing 22nd in a new club best time.

The race was won by Newham and Essex Beagles by over a minute from last years winners Belgrave, with Aldershot giving the Southern Counties a clean sweep in 3rd. Telford were the 5th MIdland club behind Tipton 8th, Birchfield 9th, Nottingham 12th and Bristol 13th.

Mo Farah who ran the 5th leg for Newham, had the fastest time of the day as he chased Chris Davies's much envied course record, he ran 16.33, the second fastest ever, 9 seconds quicker than Davies on the day but still 8 seconds slower than that the course record. Farah, the top distance runner in Europe is well supported by UK athletics with lottery funding and would not have had to do a mornings work before he raced.

Telford's womens team finished a very good 19th on the day in the womens 4 stage relay held over a slightly shorter 4.3 kilometre course. Cathy Ansell, now based in London as she starts a new university course returned home to run the first leg in 15.16 finishing 24th. Claire Martin ran the second leg in 15.01 moving up to 14th. Michelle Clarke ran the 3rd leg in 16.12 in 15th whilst Nellie Sanders completed the quartet in 16.29 finishing 19th in a total time of 1 hour 2 minutes and 58 seconds. Aldershot comfortably won the race with Chester le Street second and Norwich third, Telford were the 4th Midland team, behind Bristol 4th, Charnwood 6th and Birchfield 7th.

Telford had 2 B teams on the day and their times were Cheralyn Evans 17.20, Lisa Blagden 19.13, Juliet Hoad 22.08, John Sanders 20.38, Wayne Dashper 20.00, Richard Lucock 19.59, Jonathan Hockey 20.13, Paul Williams 21.42 and Dave Mansbridge 20.03.

Paul Sanderson

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Birmingham Cross country league Race 1: Senneleys

Photo courtesey of Brian Smith:http://www.flickr.com/photos/baldeagle/sets/72157622527667635/

Well where do I start, first of all I would like to thank John Bradley and Malcolm Dawes for arriving early with me and putting up the tent in what can be said was awful conditions, Thank you......

First Up in the juniors was Chloe Murphy, running in the U17 womens race in wet and windy conditions and with a injury to her hamstring came home in 5th position, well done Chloe. In the U15 boys race Luke Tatton was flying the flag, still with weather conditions against the athletes and on a tough course Luke had a spirited run to finish17th.In the U13 girls Isabel Bradley ran a superb race to finish 5th. In the U15 girls we had two athletes putting in great performances Lauren Pestana finishing in the top10 in 8th and making it a family affair Sarah Tatton came home in a great 12th place.

The first of the Midlands womens league races saw a small womens turn out, but none the less the size didn't matter because the ladies ran brilliantly. Cathy Ansell leading the women home in a fantastic 14th place overall, Michelle Clarke came home next in 29th also 3rd in her age group, Cherlyn Evans ran superbly to finish 69th. The women had to go through the stream which the organisers decided very cruelly to clean it out and widen it which ment it was nearly impossible for the ladies to hurdle it. On the tough undulating course we had Juliet Hoad coming back from injury to finish 111th, Lisa Blagden 123rd running strongly all the way to the finish and Susan Baker came in 186th. Well done to all the ladies. Looking forward to seeing your next race report.

The first of the mens race saw Chris Davies almost lead from start to finish showing impressive hurdling technique over the water and coming in a brilliant 3rd and second in the league, I don't have at the time of writing this report have full race results but here are the athletes who ran and there provisional results in the league:

Chris Davies 2nd
Mark Dalkins 3rd
Paul Ward 4th
Chris Bagshaw 13th
Will Joycee 16th
Richard Lucock 24st
Greg Wilson 30th
Chris Carter 36rd
Ioan Illie 37th
Johnathon Hockey 45nd
Jamie Davies 53th
Nick Andrews 64th
Simon Vines 68th
Rick Hailey 72nd
John Garmson 78th
Paul Williams 94th
Steve Jones 98th
Dave Tatton 132nd
Alan Mcdonald 134th
Malcolm Dawes 140th
Darren Fincham 181st

As soon as I get full results I will update the report, thank you ladies and gentlemen for running and showing the Birmingham League Telford are a force to run against. I hope you all had fun and I hope you felt well supported by your fellowTelford athletes.....

Full results are in and there are a couple of places different to how it looked but we finished with 59 points to Gloucesters 170 well done lads:
http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/images/ResultsDiv224Oct2009.pdf

Well done to all see the men at the next one, the battery Trophy will be interesting this year.

North Staffs XC2 Parkhall 07-Nov-09

Hi Everyone men and ladies:

On the 7th of November we see Telford go off to do battle on the paths around Parkhall Country Park in Stoke.
(Photograph courtesy of Bryan Dale Photography)

At the last race we saw a strong mens team take a great lead and a brilliant individual run by Mark Dalkins to take the individual win. The ladies had a small field with Michelle Clarke having a brilliant run to finish 4th and Cherlyn Evans 24th.

It would be nice to see some more women out to back up the good performances and for the men to continue with the impressive start of the league and put a big team out.

Please come and join us, let me know if you can make it, ctalbot23@hotmail.com

Look at link for directions and timetable: http://www.nsccl.co.uk/

Visit the website above for full results.

Once again Telford AC took a strong line up to the cross country events, which saw impressive individual wins for brother and sister Chris Davies and Sian Webb. The mens and ladies team both produced outstanding performances outscoring the other teams heavily. The mens team now have a large lead over Stafford tri of 304points. well done everyone, there was some very good performances this weekend, look forward to seeing most of you next weekend at stafford common for round 3.......

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2009

TELFORD ATHLETIC CLUB
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

All paid up members of Telford Athletic Club are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting, to be held at The White Horse Pub, next to Oakengates Leisure Centre, on Thursday 22nd October 2009 at 8.00 pm. The meeting will include financial, secretarial, cross country, track and field reports from the previous year, as well as the election of the club committee for the forthcoming year. If any members wish to propose any change or addition to the club constitution, or any other proposals, please contact Paul Sanderson in advance of the meeting. Copies of the constitution available on request.

Membership Fees for the year 2009/2010 will become payable after the AGM.
This meeting is for the members of the club, please come along and have your say.

If anyone would like to make a nomination for a committee position please use the form below that shows the current holder of each post.
All nominations need to be proposed and seconded by club members. Please bring this form to the meeting or hand it to any committee member.

SYA Cross Country 2 Oswestry 18-Oct-09

SYA Cross Country 2 Oswestry 18-Oct-09

Results are now available for the 2nd match in the Shropshire Young Athletes Cross Country series.
36 athletes ran across the age groups thanks to parents ferrying them up to Oswestry. Next fixture 15th November at William Brooks School, Much Wenlock 1.30pm start. We are at Much Wenlock the week before for Sports Hall Athletics.

Results published from the Excel Master

Results hosted on the Oswestry Olympians Juniors site

Margaret Cooper

TAC Presentation Evening

Telford Athletic Club Presentation Evening 2009

Friday 16th October 2009 – Park Inn Hotel, Telford

A fun night was had by all at the annual TAC presentation evening

2009 Award winners
See the 2009 photographs


Previous years awards presentation evenings on the TAC WebSite

ERRA National Road Relay 17-Oct-09

The ERRA National Road Relay Championship at Sutton Park
Birmingham on Saturday 17-Oct-09

Chris Davies gets 2nd fastest leg of the day (16:42) with a storming run to help TAC's A team to finish 22nd overall. Chris' course record of 16:25 (2003) still stands although Mo Farah came close yesterday with his 16:33. Mark Dalkins also had an excellent run on 1st leg battling with UK's finest athletes.

Photo : Mo Farah (Newham) taken by Nellie

Senior six stage -- Team Results -- Provisional

22 Telford AC 'A' 1:50:30

Mark Dalkins (22) 17:36
Chris Rimmer (28) 18:37
Chris Davies (6) 16:42
Chris Bagshaw (19) 19:30
Chris Carter (25) 19:39
Paul Ward (22) 18:26

73 Telford AC 'B' 2:02:35

John Sanders (83) 20:38
Wayne Dashper (83) 20:00
Richard Lucock (76) 19:59
J Hockey (75) 20:13
Paul Williams (76) 21:42
D Mansbridge (73) 20:03

Fastest of all legs
1 Mo Farah Newham And A 16:33
2 Chris Davies Telford Ac A 16:42

Times courtesy of www.race-results.co.uk for full listings please go to
http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2009/nat609.htm


Women's 4 Stage -- Team Results -- Final

TAC ladies achieved 19th place in the national road relays. Excellent!!!
Our fastest leg of the day was achieved in the B team by a certain Miss Undeclared (14:41) AKA Oxford bum.

19 Telford AC 'A' 1:02:58

Cathy Ansell (24) 15:16
Claire Martin (14) 15:01
M Clarke (15) 16:12
Denise Sanders (19) 16:29


61 Telford AC 'B' 1:13:22

Cheralyn Evans (66) 17:20
Lisa Blagden (70) 19:13
Juliet Hoad (73) 22:08
Undeclared (61) 14:41

Times courtesy of www.race-results.co.uk for full listings please go to
http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2009/nat409.htm


Background
The AAA 6-Stage Road Relay was inaugurated in 1969 but was not held in Sutton Park until 1986. The venue was again used in1989 and 1992, and from1995 onwards Sutton Park became the race's permanent home. The course length varied due to haphazard positioning of the cone that marks the turning point at the far end of the circuit. In 2001 a permanent marker was put down but it was some distance further out than had recently been the norm, increasing the recent individual times by something approaching 30 seconds. As a result, the best times from 2001 onwards are now recorded as the course records. The distance is described as being 5847m.

Chris Davies (Telford AC) Still holds the course record with 16:25 running on leg 2 25 Oct 2003

More info
http://www.belgraveharriers.com/statistics/AAA_Mens_6-Stage_Road_Relay.pdf

Sportshall Match 1 11-Oct-09

SHROPSHIRE SPORTSHALL LEAGUE 2009-2010
MATCH 1 BRIDGNORTH 11.10.09

Click here for results

The next league match is Sunday November 8th at Much Wenlock Sports Centre 2pm.
Telford are the organizers.

Margaret Cooper

Midland Womens Cross Country League

Photo courtesy of Brian Smith - see all of Brian's photos from last years event.
The ladies have got the season under way winning the first two North Wales leagues and had good individual performances in the first North Staffs league.... Now the big league is here with the first race of the Midland Womens League at Senneleys Park. Here is the full fixtures:

24th October: Senneleys Park

5th December: Birchfield

16th January: Sphinx

13th Febuary: West Bromwich

For further details look at: http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/

Team Captains For the Ladies are Nellie Sanders or Claire Martin

Good Luck for the season Ladies......

Birmingham Cross Country Challenge

Photo courtesy of Brian Smith - see all of Brian's shots from last year.

Hi for anyone who wants to enter the Birmingham Cross country challenge, postal entries closed on the 12th of October. But you can still register on the Birmingham and district website until the 18th of October.

http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/

Senneleys is being run on the 24th of October.

The first Birmingham League race incorparates all divisions for the men and the Midlands Womens league. So I hope to see a large turn out for the men and ladies sides. Remember if you don't get in the challenge you can still run this classic cross country course for the Telford Team in the League.

If your running let Chris Talbot know on ctalbot23@hotmail.com or ring on 01952 256887 0r 07740781760

For results for the challenge please visit:

http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2009/index.htm

Scroll down untill you get to October the 24th, the junior results and womens results are shown there. A full race report will be given on the Birmingham x country league blog.....

Battery Trophy

Battery trophy information and standings can be found on the website.

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2009 Season Review

2009 Season Review

As September finishes, so another track and field season ends for Telford AC. The season has seen lots of outstanding performances and improvements in many of the club’s athletes.
The two biggest moments from the club came in international competition.

Bethan Partridge had been ranked a clear number one in the high jump under 20 rankings all season, and this season she was called up for the England Senior team to jump in Cork, Ireland. She jumped a big personal best of 1.80m, putting her in the top ten in the UK for seniors and way ahead of her nearest under 20 rival. She had many more international matches such as the Victoria Open in Australia at the start of the season and Antwerp at the end. She finished the season ranked 11th for UK seniors and 40th on the all-time under 20s rankings.

The other big success for the club was the success of our two Masters sprinters at the World Masters Championships in Finland. Richard Rubenis won a bronze medal in the 400m and Jim Tipper came sixth in the 200m final despite an injury. The two Telford athletes went in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays and won gold in both, setting a new British Record for the 4x400m.

Telford AC also had two national champions.

Chris Carter won the 1500m at the England Indoor Championships last winter, and Richard Rubenis won the British Masters Championship 400m, setting a new British record in the progress.

Aidan Reynolds (javelin), Sophie Worrall (long jump) and Hayley Rubery (pole vault) were selected for the UK School Games in Cardiff, where Aidan won a bronze medal.

Other important accomplishments of athletes include Bethan Partridge coming second in the u20 England Championships high jump; Hayley Rubery reaching the national standard in both pole vault and high jump; Callum Rubery coming fourth in the discus in the England Champs; Tino Dummett running the 100m for the Welsh Senior team; and Nancy Ndure jumping 1.65m in the u15 high jump for a ranking of tenth in the UK.

Hopefully next season will be just as successful for Telford athletes as the 2009 one has been. Athletes looking to make it big next season are Ben Simons in the long jump, Bethan Partridge in the high jump, Jim Tipper in the 200m, Richard Rubenis in the 400m, Tino Dummett in the 100m, Callum and Hayley Rubery in the discus, Toby Birtwhistle in the 800m, Becca Fagan in the shotputt, Danny Baeriswyl in the javelin, Micthell Jenderko in the 100m and Vinec Adiamah in the 100m.

Look out for the 2010 season review next October, and see how these aspiring athletes got on and see if any dark horses surprised the club with excellent performances. Keep a lookout for The Bollard, Telford AC’s magazine which comes out a few times a year at key points in the track and field season, if you want to keep up-to-date with the happenings at Telford Athletic Club.

Jim Tipper

Jim Tipper
Masters V35
Event:200m, PB:21.52, UK Ranking 2009:2
About Jim

Jim is an outstanding 200m athlete who holds the Masters World Record for the 4x100m. He started the season very strong indeed and looked set to run a very fast time but crashed out of the Midlands Champs due to injury and couldn’t race or train again until the World Masters Champs 6 weeks later. Through sheer determination he progressed through each round of the World Championships to the final, where he came a momentous sixth place, far ahead of anyone’s expectations. He went on to win two gold medals with the Great Britain relay team, snatching the British Record for the 4x400m. For next year he is aiming to go much faster than in 2009, if he stays uninjured he hopes to dip below 22 seconds for the 200m. He looks to become British Masters Champion at 100m and 200m and win a medal at the European Masters Champs in Hungary in 2010.

North Wales XC 2 Bridgnorth 10-Oct-09

And here are the pictures...

And here are the results...

The sun was shinning a new course was set and the Telford Athletes proved more than a match for the occasion. With Telford having to swap venues it was frantic behind the scences to get the race organised and run smoothly, thanks to Maragret Kelcher, Margaret Cooper, Paul Sanderson, Peggy, John Bradley and Malcolm.

Down to the action, first up was the ladies where Claire Martin powered ahead to win, her second win in two races. Backed up brilliantly by Michele Clarke 4th, a fast finishing Nellie Sanders 6th, a superb run by Harriet Granfield finishing 14th in a tough field, showing what a star of the future she can be, Cherlyn Evans ran a guttsy race to finish 21st running most of the race not feeling well, congrats ladies excellent racing.

Next was the mens, a race that led to me having kittens with the great turn out, 24 runners started the race for us. With eleven of them finishing in the top 30 thats impressive bunching lads. With Chris Davies showing his strength to ease away from the field and never look to being caught from the whistle to tape. There was outstanding performances throughout the Telford Field with a great return to cross country for Paul "Wizzo" Ward in 5th, Greg Wilson 7th, Wayne The Dash 9th Rob Hughes returned to the Telford team 10th and Chris Baggshaw completed the team in 13th. The great racing didn't just stop with the first six home with an impressive 45points, we then had Richard Lucock in 15th, Dave Mansbridge returning to finish 18th, Johnathon Hockey after a good sexarathon performances finished 19th, Jamie Anderson 20th, Johnny " the web master" Sanders 26th and Peter Plant completing the B team in 42nd. But there is still more. Paul Williams came 47th, John Garmson 51st, Rick Hailey 55th, Steve Jones 65th, Malcolm Dawes 109th, Steve Needs 118th no jokes with blokes with tashes please,Darren Fincham 136th, Dave Davies 147th and the forever young Alan Hodgkiss coming in 152nd.

Thank you for everyone who came out either to run, help with preparations or to be vocal and shout on our Athletes its been a great day and I hope to see you all at the next round......

And here are the pictures...

And here are the results...

Mens team clear winners and our b team would have been 2nd.
Ladies team clear by 40 points well done and the master teams all winning there team slots as well.......

North Staffs XC1 Lyme Valley 04-Oct-09

North Staffs XC1 - Lyme Valley 04-Oct-09


A photo of Mark Dalkins (TAC, race winner, leading Alex Derricott on the second lap of the XC at LymeValley. Photo by Bryan Dale. Lots more photos of this event can be found on Bryan's site at http://www.racephotos.org.uk

Full results from all races on the day are available on the North Staffs XC web site.

Telford AC results from Lyme Valley:

Lyme Valley was the venue for the first north staffs league of the season. The weather was mixed with light to heavy showers, strong winds and a warming sun, this did not stop some truely brilliant performances with great runs from the ladies and an outstanding clear win in the mens, for Mark Dalkins. Running in the mens was Ryan Ordidge, a bright prospect for the future only just in the junior mens class and came through to be our fourth scoring team member.

Ladies:

Michelle Clarke 4th

Cheralyn Evans 24th

Mens:

Mark Dalkins 1st

Chris Bagshaw 8th

Richard Lucock 12th

Ryan Ordidge 20th

Jamie Anderson 25th

John Sanders 27th

Marc Gadsden 31st

Jamie Davies 46th

Paul Williams 54th

Dave Davies 207th

Alan Hodgkiss 232nd

Congrats to all who ran today, it has been another good day for Telford AC.

The team result for the men was an outstanding 1st by 149 points over Stafford Tri Club, looking at our top 6 finishers we would have come 2nd in div 1, just shows which legue we should be in congrats lads, unfortunately the ladies are not scored in this one due to having two runners.

Telford Games 2009 A BIG Success

Telford Athletics Stadium once again witnessed a spectacular day of athletics when it hosted the Telford Games on the 12th September, Telford Athletic Club’s annual host competition.


The two most anticipated showdowns of the day were the senior men’s 100m and 200m finals.
Callum Rubery won two gold medals and a silver at the GamesTelford athlete Jim Tipper reached the 200m final of the Masters World Championships this year, and he faced Telford’s 400m bronze medallist Richard Rubenis, who this year set the British Championship 400m record. Both also won two gold medals at the World Championships for the relays.

In the 100m, Rubenis got a blistering start and looked like he was going to win, but Tipper came charging through to win in 11.2 seconds, Rubenis just behind with 11.3.
Telford’s newest 200m runner Mike Dickens took the bronze medal in 11.7, a metre clear of Coventry athlete Michael Thomson in fourth.
The highly-ranked Birchfield athlete Justin Grimes of Birmingham joined the Telford trio in the 200m. Tipper showed his dominance of the event with a win in 22.7, while Rubenis just managed to hold off Grimes for second place in 22.9, Grimes also getting the same time. Mike Dickens of Telford finished with a solid time of 23.5, comfortably ahead of the fifth place finisher.

Photo Finish
One of the most exciting events of the day was the under-20 men’s 800m. Toby Birtwhistle, one of Telford’s best junior athletes, lined up against Will Ganley of Wolverhampton & Bilston AC, a very tough competitor. Ganley took the lead early in the race and pulled ahead, Birtwhistle tagging along behind. As the bell went to signify the last lap, Ganley sprinted off and put even more distance between himself and the Telford athlete, but Toby kept his composure and used his phenomenal speed to catch up to Ganley on the final straight, where he pulled level. Using his last reserves of energy, Toby blazed down the track and passed Ganley with barely ten metres to go, winning in 1 minute 59.5 seconds. Ganley got second place in 1’59.7.

Second Gold
Toby also won the senior men’s 400m. He faced one of Telford’s best 400m runners Pete Arnold, and Ben Riekstins, the under-20’s 400m record holder for the Telford Games.Riekstins got the best start and led for most of the race, but Birtwhistle came past on the crown of the bend for the gold medal in 51.9, ahead of Arnold (52.5) and Riesktins (53.1).

Other Performances



Telford AC’s Bethan Partridge (pictured above), member of the England Senior Women’s High Jump team, effortlessly won the high jump with a 1.75m jump and the triple jump in 11.44m, both clear ahead of the rest of the field. She also won a silver medal in the long jump with a jump of 5.07m.
Georgia Haydon of Telford charged to an overwhelming victory in the under-11 girl’s 600m, winning in 2’02.2, over nine seconds ahead of second place.

Telford’s Nancy Ndure won the under-15 girl’s high jump, clearing a massive 1.65 and equalling the Championship Record. She also came second in the long jump and was looking like she would win the 75m hurdles before she hit a hurdle and fell, unfortunately ending her race.

Sophie Worrall won two golds and a silver, winning the under-17 women 200m final in 27.0 and the long jump in 5.32, and grabbing second place in the 80m hurdles with 12.3.

Hayley Rubery, one of Telford’s best female athletes, won not only the under-17 women’s discus by 8m with a throw of 32.43, she also won the senior women’s pole vault in 2.90m ahead of Hereford’s Sarah Jones with 2.60m.

Becca Fagan won the under-17 women’s shotputt with 9.96, and Jess Bailey won the under-17s 1500m in 5’18.1.

In the under-20 women, England girl’s basketball team captain Amelia Reynolds won the 3000m final in 11’21.0, and got second place in the senior women’s shotputt with 8.77m.

Helen Martin won the senior 100m in 13.3 seconds.

Men’s Performances
Ian Taylor won two medals, getting gold in the discus with 38.85m, and 11.34 in the shotputt for silver.
Dale Wilkinson got gold in the men’s 1500m with 4’25.2, followed by fellow Telford athlete Simon Vines, running 4’33.6 for second.

Ben Simons came back from injury to win the long jump in 7.16m without a full run-up, still way over a metre clear of the rest of the field.

Telford rivals Danny Baeriswyl and Rob Millar once again clashed in the under-20 men javelin, this time Millar just coming out on top with a throw of 47.83, edging Baeriswyl’s throw of 47.15 for the gold medal.

Mitchell Jenderko won the under-17 men’s long jump with a jump of 6.08m, and grabbed a bronze medal in the 100m in a time of 11.6.

The most bizarre combination of medals went to Callum Rubery, who not only effortlessly won the under-15 boy’s discus in 37.59 and got silver in the shotputt with a throw of 10.37, but also won the under-15’s high jump, clearing 1.50m.

Nick Pearce came second in the high jump with 1.45m.

European veteran’s pole vault gold medallist John Bradley, also president of Telford Athletics Club, won the veteran’s pole vault with 2.80m.

For full results of the Games, visit Telford Games page.
Photo's from some of the morning events available on Johnny's Gallery.

Stroke of Luck
Despite the mild weather this summer, a heatwave struck on the weekend of the Games, making it a very enjoyable day for all spectators and athletes. For Telford’s athletes, the next competition is the Shropshire Championships next May and the Shropshire School’s Championships for the younger ones in the same month.

The Telford Games was the conclusion of a year’s competing and training for many athletes, and all the athletes are now looking forward to a good winter’s training to make them better than ever next year.

Telford Games

Telford Athletic Club
Present
THE TELFORD GAMES
Telford Athletics Stadium
Saturday 12th September 2009

UNDER UKA RULES
• Awards to the first three in each event
• Over 13's three trialsFirst five have three more
• Under 13's three trials only.

Entry Fee: £2.00 per event. (Payable to Telford Athletic Club)
To: Mrs V. Wilkinson, 59 Cannongate, Oakengates, Telford TF2 9DZ.

Telford Games Official Secretary: Elaine DaviesContact Elaine for any enquiries relating to The Telford Games.email: mselainedavies@aol.commobile: 07742756888

• Entries close 25th August 2009
• Free trackside parking
• All ages as at 31st August 2009.
• Minimum age nine on the day.
• Enclose a SAE for timetable/confirmation/directions (posted out 1st week in September).

RESULTS
2009 Entry Form
2009 Results
2009 Report

2009 Photos

2008 Results
2007 Results
Best Ever Performances

U11 Boys:
60m. 150m. 600m. Cricket Ball Throw, Long Jump.
U13 Boys:
100m. 200m. 800m. Long Jump, Javelin, High Jump.
U15 Boys:
100m. 200m. 800m. Long Jump, Shot, High Jump, Javelin, Discus.
U17 Men:
100m. 200m. 1500m. Pole Vault, Javelin, Long Jump, High Jump.
U20 Men:
100m. 200m. Triple Jump, Javelin, Shot.
Sen. Men:
100m. 200m. 400m. 800m. 1500m. Shot, Javelin, Long Jump, High Jump, Pole Vault, Discus.
Vet. Men:
Pole Vault
U11 Girls:
60m. 150m. 600m. Cricket Ball Throw, Long Jump.
U13 Girls:
100m. 200m. 70m. Hurdles, 800m. Long Jump, Shot, Discus, Javelin
U15 Girls:
100m. 200m. 75m. Hurdles, 800m. Long Jump, Shot, High Jump, Javelin, Discus.
U17Women:
100m. 200m. Long Jump, Shot, 1500m, High Jump, 80m. Hurdles, Javelin, Triple Jump, Discus.
U20Women:
100m. 1500m. Triple Jump, Long Jump, High Jump, 100m. Hurdles, 200m, Javelin.
Sen.Women:
100m. 200m. Pole Vault, 100m. Hurdles, Javelin, Long Jump, 1500m, shot.

The Badger Bite 04-Oct-09

Not a wet as last year...In fact the sun was shining as a record number of runners - 350! - turned out for this very popular 6KM off road tester.


In the ladies race TAC's Claire Martin battled with Debbie Walters to take second place. Nellie was third lady improving on her time from last year by over a minute. All three ladies smashed the course record. Juliet Hoad completed the female TAC squad.

Paul Ward running for Wrekin Road Runners won the race and also took the course record. We think Paul was keen to get back to spend time with his hero, Don Goodman!

Previous winner Dave Mansbridge was first TAC man home in 4th place with Johnny Sanders in 8th nicely sandwiched between the two leading ladies.

Full results will appear on the Badger Bite web site and a brilliant set of photos from Brian Smith are free on Brian's Flickr site.

Everyone piled into the Seven Stars at Beckbury for the presentation where soccer super star Don Goodman presented the prizes.

Birmingham Cross country League

The big one is just around the corner, Senneleys Park has it all parkland and water jumps make it a classic cross country course.

On the 24th of October Telford will once again toe the line with all divisions and prove we should be up in the top leagues.

Please join us and help take Telford Back up into Division 1

Let me know if your running via e-mail ctalbot23@hotmail.com or ring 01952256887

directions can be found at:

http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/images/Senneleys_info_sheet.pdf

The Info is for 2006, mens race is still at 2.30, U17men is now at 11.30.

For a time table have a look at:

http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/images/2009_ENTRYFORM.pdf

This gives a full timetable.