There was another run-a-way victory for the Brighton & Hove City team in Division two of Southern Athletics League on a gentle summer’s afternoon, not many of those so far this season, at the Withdean Stadium.
Amassing 257 points to Epsom and Ewell’s 182, S.Factor’s, from Lewisham, 130 and Chichester, who are continuing to suffer with lack of women on 48 this total could well see them remain at the top of the table.
Whereas the City men’s element of the team dominated the track events, winning every event from the 100 metres to the 110m hurdles, their women were at their strongest in the field events winning every event from the pole vault through to the javelin throw.
Without any doubt the best performances of the afternoon came in the women’s shot and discus events where Claire Koom-Dadzie (Smithson) is fighting her was back to top form.
With a series of throws just below the fifty metre-mark her top discus throw was 48.32m, the seventh best throw by a British thrower this season.
Her shot putt has always been a secondary event for her but her throw of 11.19 was comfortably clear of Cardinal Newman school teacher Julia Machin, competing for Epsom. Machin was ..
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The Final timetable for the Masters Track & Field Championships is now available on the Track & Field News section of the website.
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Day two saw the wind change direction for the second day of the Sussex Track and field championships at Crawley's K2 Centre so the sprinters had to battle into, at times, a 3m head wind, but this did not prevent Championships best performances being set in field events.
At the end ..
Fortune shone on the Sussex Track and Field championships on Saturday. Not only was it one of the dry bright days in this rather damp patch we are in but there was also a healthy breeze to whisk the sprinters to fast time.
So much so in fact that most of ..
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There was another run-a-way victory for the Brighton & Hove City team in Division two of Southern Athletics League on a gentle summer’s afternoon, not many of those so far this season, at the Withdean Stadium.
Day two saw the wind change direction for the second day of the Sussex Track and field championships at Crawley's K2 Centre so the sprinters had to battle into, at times, a 3m head wind, but this did not prevent Championships best performances being set in field events.
Fortune shone on the Sussex Track and Field championships on Saturday. Not only was it one of the dry bright days in this rather damp patch we are in but there was also a healthy breeze to whisk the sprinters to fast time.
