North of England League Division 1
Uclan Arena – Preston, Lancashire.
Sunday 12th of July 2015
The third league meeting of the 2015 track and field season took Kingston’s senior team out towards the west coast of England, to the Uclan arena in Preston, where we renewed competition with Preston AC, Sale Harriers, Wakefield Harriers, Blackburn Harriers and Derby AC.
Our senior athletes were joined by a healthy contingent of our youth team members, some of whom had spent the previous two days up at Gateshead, competing in the English Schools Championships.
It was another most creditable and wholehearted team performance, which was exemplified by the number of personal best and seasons best performances achieved by our athletes.
Kingston finished in 4th place on the day and we collected 4 league points. This leaves us standing 3rd in the league table with 12 points, just one point behind joint table toppers Wakefield and Blackburn who both have 13.
The stage is set for the final league clash of the season which will be held at Thorne Park in Wakefield on Saturday the 8th of August.
Performance details of the senior athletes at Preston are as follows.
Callum Giles, who has also been running for Trafford AC this season in the British League, was the winner of the 100 metres at Preston where he ran a time of 11.5s. He also took second place in the 200 metres, where he clocked a time of 22.8s.
In the women’s sprints Megan Hoult won the 100 metres race where she registered a time of 12.1s. Megan took 3rd place in the 200 metres where she ran a time of 25.7s.
Jessica Cappleman ran a season’s best time of 2:33.5s in the 800 metres race and then backed up in the 1500 metres which she ran in a time of 5:33.0s, picking up precious match points for the team.
Renowned biathlete Gregan Clarkson ran a season’s best time of 16:11.6s in the 5000 metres race, to take a 4th place finish.
Daniel Holiday, who also doubles up as the men’s team manager was the winner of the 400 metres race, in which he recorded a season’s best time of 58.5s.
Dan saw further action in the high jump where he cleared a height of 1.55m, to set another season’s best, and followed this up with a throw of 30.83m in the javelin competition.
Rebakah Arandle took 2nd place in the pole vault, clearing a height of 2.80m.
In the long jump Matthew Elvidge jumped a season’s best distance of 6.38m, to win the ‘A’ competition and Sam Dewsbury was the winner of the ‘B’ competition with a jump of 6.29m.
James Wardle jumped a new PB of 10.75m, to take 4th place in the triple jump event. He also recorded a new PB in the discus ‘B’ event, with a throw of 12.77m.
John Twiddle and Darren Gibson, two of Kingston’s veteran athletes made their presence felt in the throwing circles.
In the ‘A’ shot putt John took 3rd place with a throw of 11.65m and Darren was 4th in the ‘B’ with a season’s best effort of 8.24m.
The hammer found John taking 4th place in the ‘A’ event, with a throw of 41.12m and Darren finishing 3rd in the ‘B’ where he threw 34.40m.
John Twiddle also competed in the discus ‘A’ event where he finished in 4th place with a throw measuring 31.63m.
Abbi Carter was once again much too strong for the opposition throwers in the hammer. She won the event with a throw of 56.96m. Abbi also won the discus competition in the same fashion with a season’s best throw of 31.33m.
In the shot putt, Abbi took 4th place with a throw which measured 9.80m.
Details of all the day’s performances by our youth team athletes are as follows.
Joseph Cooper took on both the men’s 100 and the 200 metres sprint races. He took 3rd place in the 100 and ran a time of 11.2s. In the 200 Joe ran a new personal best time of 22.7s for another 3rd place finish.
Luci Preston also took 3rd place in the women’s 100 metres race, where she ran a time of 13.0s.
She also took on the 400 metres ‘A’ race where her run of 63.4s earned her a 5th place finish. Luci specialises in the 100 and 200 metre races but will do anything else required to help out her team.
16 year old Chloe Constable ran in the women’s 200 metres where she recorded a time of 28.9s.
16 year old Marcel Dalee ran a new PB of 51.8s for a 4th place finish in the men’s 400 metres ‘A’ race. Joshua Taylor-Brown also ran a new PB of 55.9s in the 400 ‘B’ race.
Marcel and Josh were back in action in the men’s 800 metres. Marcel ran a time of 2:01.7s for a 5th place finish in the ‘A’ race, and Josh took 4th place in the ‘B’ with a time 2:07.0s.
15 year old Jessica Fields was the winner of the women’s 400 metres ‘B’ race and she recorded a time of 64.8s.
Reigning Humberside cross country champions Harry Powell (under 20) and Shaun Smith (under17) contested the 1500 metres races. Harry ran 4:20.8s for 5th place in the ‘A’ race and Shaun took 2nd place in the ‘B’ with a time of 4:23.1s.
15 year old Natalie Varga took 3rd place in the women’s 100 metre hurdles ‘A’ race, setting a new PB of 20.2s.
16 year old Jessica Lee was 2nd in the ‘B’ and she too set a new PB of 20.0s.
Natalie and Jess saw further action in the high jump with both girls registering new PB’s, Natalie with a clearance of 1.30m and Jess clearing 1.15m.
Jack Michaels ran a new PB of 61.7s to take 3rd place in the men’s 400 metres hurdles race.
Amelia Robinson who has just turned 16 ran a new PB of 67.2s, to take 2nd place in the women’s 400 metres hurdles.
The men’s pole vault competition saw 15 year old Harry Stutely clear a new personal best height of 3.30m for 3rd place in the ‘A’ event and 16 year old Nathan Hood clear 3.00m to take 3rd place in the ‘B’
The women’s pole vault was won by Natalie Varga, who cleared a height of 2.50m.
Harry Stutely returned to the fray in the high jump where a height clearance of 1.40m gave him a 5th place finish.
The women’s long jump saw both of the Jessica’s in competition. Jessica Lee took 5th place in the ‘A’ event with a jump of 4.21m, and Jessica Fields jumped a season’s best of 4.19m for 5th place in the ‘B’.
Luci Preston took 3rd place in the women’s triple jump with a season’s best effort of 9.53m, in the ‘A’ event and Jessica Lee took 2nd place in the ‘B’ with a jump of 9.33m.
Nathan Hood was placed 3rd in the men’s triple jump with a best effort on the day of 10.72m. Nathan also took 3rd place in the javelin event where he threw a new PB of29.44m.
The women’s discus competition was won by 15 year old ‘English Schools’ finalist, Sophie O’Hara, with a throw of 34.28m.
Sophie also took 3rd place in the shot putt competition with a throw of 8.93m.
‘English Schools‘, silver medallist Maggie Okul made light work of the hammer competition, picking up a comfortable victory with a throw of 49.92m.
Maggie also took 4th place in the javelin ‘A’ event, with a throw of 26.23m, and Sophie O’Hara threw a season’s best of 19.20m, to take 4th place in the ‘B’.
Relay Results
Women’s 4x 100 metres
The Kingston Quartet of Jessica Fields, Megan Hoult, Chloe Constable and Luci Preston, finished in 4th place in a time of 51.8s.
Women’s 4 x 400 metres
Amelia Robinson, Jessica Fields, Luci Preston and Chloe Constable, finished 4th in a time of 4:15.2s.
Men’s 4 x 100 metres
The Foursome of Joe Cooper, James Wardle, Matt Elvidge and Callum Giles took 4th place in a time of 44.7s,
Men’s 4 x 400 metres
Jack Michaels, Marcel Dalee, Joe Cooper and Daniel Holiday finished 4th with a time of 3:34.9s.
