Competing in the Quaker Invitational held in Philadelphia PA, USA on 17/18 January 2025 Philip Kastner (Thames Valley) set a new Surrey Indoor Record for the Heptathlon of 5672 points. The previous record of 5542 points was set by John Heanley (WSEH) in February 2004.
Farrell Fabusiwa (Croydon H) has twice broken the Surrey U17M Record for 60m. Competing in the SLAN meeting at Carshalton on 5th January 2025 he set a new mark of 6.82 and then a week later on 11th January he improved that mark to 6.75 in the SEAA Championships held at Lee Valley. The previous record of 6.84 was set by Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Sutton & District AC) in January 2004.
On the 12th January, competing on the second day of the SEAA Championships, Farrell set a new 200m record of 21.83. Again the previous record of 21.88 was held by Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and was set February 2004.
EUROPEAN CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, ANTALYA, TURKEY, 8TH DECEMBER 2024
WILL BARNICOAT RETAINS U23 TITLE
Having won the U20 title in 2022 and the U23 title in 2023 Will Barnicoat (AFD) retained his U23 title and led the Great Britain & Northern Ireland team to team gold. Poppy Craig McFeely (Herne Hill) was placed 58th in the U23 Women event.
SOUTHERN INTER-COUNTY 10K ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP, BRIGHTON, 17TH NOVEMBER 2024
After an absence of six years Surrey successfully returned to the Southern Inter-Counties 10k, held within the Brighton 10k on Sunday, November 17th.
The Women's team finished second, with both Alice Crane (Dorking & Mole Valley) and Lisa Bailey (Stragglers) running 71 second PBs to finish 2nd (3rd overall) and 3rd in times of 34'11" and 34'50" respectively. Late replacement Nicky Hornzee (Stragglers) completed the medal winning team in 21st place with an almost two-minute PB of 38'34".
Peter Robbins (Ranelagh Harriers) led the Surrey Men's team, which placed 7th, with a time of 32'28" (22nd, and a 21 second PB), which was completed by Harry Mullard (Reigate Priory) in 34'04" (26th), Brandan Morrell (South London Harriers) in 34'13" (27th, and a 30 second PB) and Daniel Evans (Dorking & Mole Valley) in 34'20" (28th).
Scoring for the Men's and Women's teams was based on the cumulative time of the first three to finish.
TROFEO VANONI MOUNTAIN RELAY RACE, ITALY, 27TH OCTOBER 2024
For the first time England Athletics sent a team to the prestigious Trofeo Vanoni Mountain Relay Race in Italy on Sunday 27 October 2024. The women's relay is for teams of 2 and the England Team included six U23 Women of whom two were Surrey athletes, Alice Crane (DMVAC) and Ellen Weir (THH). Each runner in the team covered 5km with a climb and descent of 248 metres.
The women's race had 53 teams of U23, Seniors and Vets and the England U23 Women finished 3rd - (Alice Crane paired with Emilia Platt of Salford Harriers), 6th and 8th (Ellen Weir paired with Rosie Woodhams of Kendal).
Alice had the 5th, and Ellen 18th fastest times in the senior race of 108 competitors. And amongst two dozen U23W runners Alice had the quickest time and Ellen 9th.
SURREY MASTER CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, NONSUCH PARK, 26TH OCTOBER 2024
We apologise to the M55 teams as an error in the results procedure led to the wrong teams being presented with medals. The procedure has been corrected for future events and we are working to get medals to the affected teams as soon as possible.
SURREY CLUBS CROSS-COUNTRY RELAYS, NONSUCH PARK, 5TH OCTOBER 2024
EVENT CANCELLED FOR SAFETY REASONS. There is a possibility that it may be re-scheduled.
REQUESTS FOR PAYMENT FROM SURREY ATHLETICS OFFICIALS
If you are asked for an unexpected payment appearing to come from SCAA then please contact the Treasurer email: treasurer@surreyathletics.uk.
SURREY COUNTY ATHLETICS HISTORICAL INFORMATION - CAN YOU HELP?
Keith Burchell currently holds the archives for the Surrey County AAA and Surrey County WAAA. These are far from being complete. If you have any past information such as programmes, committee minutes, championship results etc that you are thinking of disposing then please contact Keith Burchell. In particular, sets of County Championship results prior to 1980 are sought.
RESPECT TO OUR TEAM MANAGERS
Surrey County Athletic Association does not accept or condone the use of offensive behaviour towards or abuse or bullying of team managers under any circumstances. Team managers are all volunteers and make their decisions on the basis of information available to them. While not everyone is likely to agree with all of their decisions they must respect them and all the hours of work and agonising that go into the difficult task these team managers carry out in the interests of encouraging athletics in the county.
CARDIAC RISK IN THE YOUNG
England Athletics is publicising this charity.
CRY is a charity that was established to raise awareness of conditions that can lead to the sudden cardiac death of young people. They operate a screening programme at a number of clinics around the UK and support this with mobile units that travel to other locations.
Full information about CRY and their services can be found on their website at www.c-r-y.org.uk. Young people between the age of 14 and 35 who would like to have cardiac testing can go to www.testmyheart.org.
You can also see www.uka.org.uk/governance/health-safety/cardiac-screening-for-athletes/ for information on work being done by UKA in this area.
Following the death of a young member of Croydon Harriers, Mike Fleet has been promoting this charity for several years and anyone wishing to have copies of his photographs has been asked to make a donation to CRY. Further, he has been exchanging for donations bookmarks signed by famous athletes to raise funds for this charity. We thank those of you who have shown your support in the past.
Mike Fleet has started an Olympians Charity "Art" project. His request is to Olympic athletes who would be willing to contribute a drawing, sketch or even a "work of art". The target is to obtain 100 items. Currently contributions include matchstick men and women, smiley faces, fine portraits, crayoned landscapes and water colours. Amongst the Surrey contributors are Shirley Cawley, Judy Vernon, Jack Parker and Martyn Rooney with promises from Shireen Bailey and Donna Fraser. Mike has also received pictures from Olympic Gold medallists, David Hemery, Kelly Holmes, Anne Packer and Tessa Sanderson. The plan is for a one-off book of the boldly signed originals to be publicly auctioned, and for the submitted art, to feature in a limited edition book of prints for general sale.
Contributions on A4 duplicating paper should be sent to Mike at 2 Ridge Park, Purley, Surrey, CR8 3PN. Any queries, please call 020 8647 1341.
BOOKING REQUEST
FORMS FOR PHOTO-FINISH, RACE CLOCK, RADIOS & FIELD COUNTDOWN CLOCKS
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