Throwers in fine form as Avon win opening league match
BRISTOL & West AC’s throwers played a key role in a thumping victory for Team Avon in the opening UK Youth Development League Midland Division Premier South West Upper Age match at Yate.
Josh Schrijver opened a busy weekend with wins in the under-20 men’s discus and shot, a double he repeated 48 hours later at the Brewer Games in Cheltenham. Schrijver is top of the South West Rankings in both events and 13th and 10th, respectively, in the UK.
Owen Garrett was even busier in the under-17s age group, winning the B competitions in the discus, throwing a PB of 41.43m, shot and javelin. He then tackled all three events in the Brewer Games, winning the shot and discus and placing second in the javelin with 43.94, just four centimetres off his PB.
Additionally, Moni Brady was runner-up in the under-20s shot and discus, plus third in the javelin, while in her first competition of the year, Maja Kupiec won the U17s discus and Safiya Willams was second in the U17s shot.
England Schools international Nyree Perry won the U17s pole vault, with Sophie Hornung securing a double success, while Eleni Francis and Lily Bailey matched that in the U20s long jump. Ethan Canning narrowly missed his PB to finish second in the U17 men’s long jump.
In her first season with B&W and working with coach Paul Weston, Rosa May won the U20s triple jump, while in the U20 men’s event there was a super winning PB of 13.81m for Destiny Sadiku to go top of the West Rankings and eighth in the UK.
In the sprints, Ella Bowell clocked season’s bests to win the U20s 200m and 100B races, while Ryan Brady was third in the U20 men’s 100m and 200m.
Eleanor McIntosh, who is coached by Nick Harris, won the U17 women’s 300m in a PB of 41.45secs, with Holly Sanigar winning the B race and also claiming maximum points in the 800m, having clocked a PB of 2:15.08 at Exeter last week.
Patrick Kyle went third in the SW Rankings with victory in the U20 men’s B110m hurdles, having won the Gloucestershire senior men’s title the previous day in 15.2secs.
In the middle distances, there were good runs by Ishmael Bradley, Nicholas Pestell, Oliver Draper, Amelia Honor and Molly Thomas, who ran a PB in the U20s 3000m. UK Youth Development League Midland Division Premier South West Upper Age U20/17s -Overall: 1 Team Avon 655pts; 2 Cheltenham & County Harriers 436; 3 East Wales 352.5; 4 Swansea Harriers 343.5; 5 Cardiff Archers 314.
Bristol & West AC athletes
U20 men: 100 (+1.2w): 3 Ryan Brady 11.42; 200 (+1.5w): 3 Brady 23.56; 800: 2 Nicholas Pestell 2:02.57 (PB); 3000: 1 Ishmael Bradley 9:17.80; 110B (+1.0): 1 Patrick Kyle 14.87; TJ: 1 Destiny Sadiku 13.81; SP: 1 Joshua Schrijver 13.00; Discus: 1 Schrijver 41.21; 4x100m relay: 3 Team Avon 47.14 (Louie Nelson, Kyle, Nick Van Beneden, Brady); 4x400m: 1 Team Avon 3:47.22 (Mike Callan, Pestell, Freddie Cooper, Sam Rudge).
U20 women: 100B (+2.0w): 1 Ella Bowell 12.40; 200 (+0.9w); 1 Bowell 26.06; B: 1 Eleni Francis 26.43; 800: 2 Amelia Honor 2:32.28; 3000B: 1 Molly Thomas 11:36.97 (PB); LJ: 1 Francis 5.52; B: 1 Lily Bailey 5.30; TJ: 1 Rosa Ford 10.33; PV: 1 Nyree Perry 3.30; B: 1 Sophie Hornung 2.90; SP: 2 Moni Brady 8.00; Discus: 1 Brady 20.65; Jav: 3 Brady 15.91; 4x100m relay: 1 Team Avon 48.92 (Rosa Ford, Francis, Bailey, Bowell); 4x400m relay: 1 Team Avon 4:26.41 (Ruby Brook, Poppy Clark, Honor, Bailey).
U17 men: 800B: 1 Oliver Draper 2:15.07; 400H: 4 Samuel Rudge 62.80; LJ: 2 Ethan Canning 6.12; Discus B: 1 Owen Garrett 41.43 (PB); Shot B: 1 Garrett 13.11; Jav B: 2 Garrett 42.04; 4x400m relay: 3 Team Avon 3:54.57 (Henry Watson, Draper, Charlie Haines, Josh Maxwell).
U17 women: 300: 1 Eleanor McIntosh 41.45
(PB): B: 1 Holly Sanigar 43.80; LJ: 2 Rosa Ford 5.06; Shot: 2 Safiya Williams 8.33; Discus: 1 Maja Kupiec 20.09; Jav B: 1 Flora Thomson 27.21; 4x300m: 1 Team Avon 2:57.96 (Ruby Woodman, Sanigar, Jasmine Richards, Laura Chance).
» Mayalee Osola finished third in the U20 women’s heptathlon at the Somerset Championships at Yeovil with a personal best score of 4,614 points. Of the seven disciplines, Osola recorded five PBs in the 100m hurdles (14.58secs), high jump (1.58m), long jump (5.37m), shot (4k, 9.34m) and javelin (600G, 29.89m).
» In his first 5000m of the season, Kurt Taylor clocked 14mins 12.78secs at the Battersea Park Comeback meeting, with clubmate Jack Millar running 14:37.81.
» There was an amazing personal best for Bristol & West AC’s Kate Maltby at the England Athletics 5k Road Championships in Cheshire
last weekend. Maltby, who is now racing as a veteran over 35, finished fifth in 16:07 to shave one seconds off the time she set in Germany six years ago.
» B&W’s Ben Robinson had a busy Bank Holiday weekend. On Saturday, he won the Gloucestershire 5000m title (15:21.0) and on Monday he romped to victory by more than a minute (31:49) in the Glastonbury 10k, with club-mate Matthew Robinson 10th (35:46) and first veteran. Pete Mountain (43:36) was fourth M60.
» Racing the Cardiff 5k, B&W M40 veteran Owain Jones finished 44th in 15mins 30secs, with club-mate David Awde 67th in 15:50.
» Good luck to Elaina Gard this weekend as she will be representing Great Britain in the 30-34 age group at the World Triathlon Long Distance Championships in Ibiza.