New Marske Harriers

The last of the NYSD track and field meetings took place at Darlington on August 8 with all of the club's runners performing well

The Snaith twins filled the first two positions in the senior mens 100m with Kelvin winning in 11.9s and Allan second in 12.2s.

Mark Jackson was third in the senior men's 1500m in 4:44.0s and second in the long jump with 4.87.

Abi Silcock won the senior ladies triple jump with 8.63m and third in the 800m in 2:53.5s. Penny Wilson was sixth in the 800m U13 girls in 2:45.4 and Joanne Hutton third in the U17 girls 800m in 2:35.6s.

In the Darlington 10k road race, Shaun O'Grady had another good run to finish fifth in 32.14 on his 37th birthday. Helen Humphrey got back to form and finished third lady in 39.12.

Other NMH: 120th Geoff O'Grady 40.52s, 160th Dave Higgs 42.24s; 177th Mike Harper 43.10s; 202nd John Paddick 43.57s; 242nd Jim Conaghan 45.27s; 243rd Pat Wood 45.32s, 258th Lynn Woods 45.57s; 329th George Robinson 47.37; 331st Colin Scollay 47.47; 370th John R Smith 49.13s; 404th Diane Hannan 50.1; 669th Art Hannan 59.39; 765th Keith Bowen 66.24

On Saturday with the mens track and field team competed at Darlington in the Mens League Division 4NE, winning and gaining promotion.

Results: Mens: 100m A 1st Kelvin Snaith 11.7s; 200m A 2nd Kelvin Snaith 24.1s, B 4th Malcolm Maher 26.2s; 400m A 4th Paul Welham 57.1s, B 3rd Shaun O'Grady 59.5s; 800m A 2nd Paul Welham 2.05.9s, B 2nd Tony Livingston 2.07.7s; 110m hurdles A 2nd Phil Cole 21.5s, B 1st Mark Jackson 24.1s; 400m hurdles A 3rd Phil Cole 69.3s, B 1st Mark Jackson 70.0s; 1500m A 2nd Shaun O'Grady 4.16.7s, B 3rd Paul Welham 4.32.4s; 3000m steeplechase 1st Shaun O'Grady 10.07.3s; 5000m A 4th Andrew Sugden 18.55.7s; hammer A 1st Dave Hart 30.5m, B 1st Stewart Hart 19.04m; shot A 2nd Clive Coote 10.46m, B 3rd Stewart Hart 7.52m; discus A 3rd Stewart Hart 26.98m, B 3rd Dave Hart 21.30m; javelin A 4th Clive Coote 31.50m, B 3rd Charlie Burke 27.38m; long jump A 3rd Malcolm Maher 5.28m, B 4th Andrew Sugden 4.34m; high jump A 1st Kelvin Snaith 1.75m, B 1st Aaron Snaith 1.55m; triple jump A 3rd Mark Jackson 10.87m, B 1st Malcolm Maher 10.01m

On Sunday the ladies were at Leeds competing in the North of England Track and Field Division 4E and are in first position with one fixture to go and look like gaining promotion.

Results: U15s: long jump A 1st Hannah Cook 4.43m, B 2nd Rebecca Livingston 3.82m; javelin A 1st Jenny Grist 16.54m, B 1st Laura McPherson 14.95m; 800m A 5th Rebecca Livingston 2.53.8s; 100m A 2nd Hannah Cook 13.7s, B 1st Crystal Allan 14.9s; 200m A 3rd Hannah Cook 29.6s, B 3rd Crystal Allan 33.05s; 75m hurdles A 1st Crystal Allan 16.7s; 1500m A 2nd Penny Wilson, B 2nd Laura McPherson; shot A 2nd Jenny Grist 7.00m, B 1st Laura McPherson 5.36m; discus A 1st Jenny Grist 21.22m, B 2nd Rebecca Livingston 10.41

U17s: 300m A 1st Joanne Hutton 48.9s; 800m A 1st Joanne Hutton 2.40.1s; javelin A 1st Joanne Hutton 18.71m, B 1st Andrea Hutton 11.36m; shot A 1st Emma Wilson 4.51m, B 1st Andrea Hutton 5.66m

Senior Ladies: 100m A 2nd Danni Anderson 13.15s, B 1st Cheryl Fowler 16.0s; 200m A 4th Kathryn Wells 32.7s, B 2nd Michelle Douglas 33.45s; 400m A 3rd Kathryn Wells 72.2s, B 2nd Michelle Douglas 75.35s; 800m A 5th Kathryn Wells 2.52.6s, B 1st Michelle Douglas 2.53.0s; 3000m A 1st Helen Humphrey 11.14.8s, B 1st Abi Silcock 12.54.7s; 1500m A 1st Helen Humphrey 5.19.3s, B 1st Abi Silcock 6.01.7s; 400m hurdles A 2nd Danni Anderson 84.75s, B 1st Abi Silcock 90.45s; hammer A 3rd Michelle Douglas 17.52m, B 2nd Di Douglas 15.45m; discus A 4th Cheryl Fowler 17.43m, B 3rd Michelle Anderson 16.72m; shot A 1st Cheryl Fowler 7.57m, B 3rd Di Douglas 4.26m; long jump A 3rd Danni Anderson 4.56m, B 1st Kathryn Wells 4.00m; triple jump A 1st Danni Anderson 9.11m, B 1st Michelle Anderson 8.66m; 4x100m relay 1st Kathryn Wells, Michelle Anderson, Abi Silcock, Danni Anderson; 4x400m relay 1st Joanne Hutton, Michelle Anderson, Michelle Douglas, Helen Humphrey

On Sunday the club hosted the 'Victorian Road Race', winning both mens and ladies team races with Shaun O'Grady winning the Mens Individual.

Taking place at Bydales Schoo, having competed in three track events the previous day, Shaun O'Grady did not go off at the gun and 'sat in' for a couple of miles. Shaun then hit the front with Paul Bentley of M&C and with 2 miles to go Shaun dropped Paul and went on to win in 33.15s. Paul Bentley finished 2nd in 33.22s with Jeff Laws (Gateshead) 3rd in 33.26s. First veteran and 4th overall was Tony Livingston (NMH) in 34.09. Alan Stimpson finished 6th in 35.03s, Sheila Allen (Houghton & Peterlee) won the ladies race, finishing 14th overall in 37.26s.

Others: Next for NMH was Nigel Barnbrook, 21st (38.25s), Steven Helm 32nd (39.47s), John Rymer 36th (40.47), Dave Jones 37th (40.50), Matthew Wills 43rd (41.50), Geoff O'Grady 45th (42.20), David Stimpson 46th (42.22), Ian Enderwick 49th (42.57), Ronnie Sherwood 50th (43.05), 1st over 60, Stuart Edwards 53rd (43.23), 2nd over 60, John Paddick 64th (44.28), Mike Harper 65th (44.33), 3rd over 60, Jim Conaghan 74th (45.35), Pat Woods 77th (45.52), Brian Allen 78th (46.27), Trevor Taylor 80th (46.34), Shelli Kempson 81st (46.35), Lynn Woods 82nd (46.36), Keith Hildore 85th (47.07), Mick McGurk 90th (48.15), Colin Scollay 93rd (48.54), Dave Matthews 97th (49.57), David Whyte (51.01). First O50 was Harry Matthews in 8th (35.27), 2nd lady was Sarah Burgin 27th (39.31) 3rd lady in 47th (42.24) was Karen Reynolds of Aurora Harriers

Mandale Harriers

Rotherham

The senior men's team finished the season in fifth place in the North of England Mens League Division to retain their status as the North-East's top team in the Northern League.

Chris Tomlinson, the AAA indoor long jump champion and World Junior Championships qualifier, was again in outstanding form although he did not contest his main events.

He won his 100m in 11.1s and was close to his best over 200m in 22.4s before finishing second to Brian Hall, who is an established international in the high jump.

David Baldwin was third over 800m and Robert Cole scored heavily in the middle distance events with Des Fielden second in the 1500m.

The Mason brothers, Paul and Chris, won once again with prolific scores in the throwing events and Paul Wardingham and Kevin Allinson were in good form in the hurdles.

Team results: 1 Hull 29, 2 Cleethorpes 27.5, 3 Bolton 24.5, 4 Leeds 19, 5 Mandale 16, 6 Rotherham 12, 7 Hallam 10, 8 Salford 6

Leeds

The Northern Ladies League team are now second in their division and with a home fixture at Clairville next month they can clinch promotion.

In the senior section, club captain Frank Hubbard has been in top form with wins in the 100m and shot putt and second places in the 200m and 400m.

Claire Archer won the hammer and was highly placed in the three other throws with team manager Chris Walton also winning the hammer.

Joanne Pybus again starred in the U17 age group winning the long jump with a massive 5.26m and also won the 200m in 27.7s. Carley Gayles won the high jump and was second in the 300m hurdles while Katrina Brown won the high jump and was second in the 200m and took third place over 100m.

In the U15 section Zoe Verrill won both the 800m and high jump while Anna Kirby also won her 800m race and claimed second spot in the high jump. Arise Barrlay won her 100m in 13.4s and was just pipped for first place over 200m and she was second in her shot putt competition which Charlene Chung won.

League table: Leeds 11, Mandale 9, Scarborough 8, Morpeth 6, Hexham 5, Jarrow 3

Shildon

At the Wild Goose Chase, held at the Blacksmiths Arms, Preston-le-Skerne, Bob Davison was first back home in the 7k course in fifth place, claiming the first over 50 veteran prize in 29.10s. Next was 13-year-old Adam Gibson in 17th place in 34.05s, Chris Bowran 24th in 36.52s, Les Lump 27th in 37.23s and Debbie Halton 38th in 46.37s.

The club had two guests competing in the prestige Darlington 10k road race with holiday-makers Brian Bobolo and June Suchy from Canada running. They had been visiting relatives in Shildon and found the club after visiting their website and so trained with the club the previous week.

June and Brian are both active road runners and are members of Hamilton Harriers, Ontario. They are visiting Shildon, where June's father grew up, and enjoyed their visit to England as discovering their heritage has been their long time goal. The couple are already planning another visit to England next year to compete in the London Marathon.

Shildon results: 38th Keith Langridge 37.12s; 67th Martin Turnbull 38.37s; 78th Max Lindford 38.57s; 154th Chris Griffith 42.14s; 169th Jean P Hupin 42.48s; 255th Peter Devlin 45.47s; 270th Steve Scott 46.14s; 312th Ian Rudge 47.10s; 333th Brian Bololo 47.63s; 399th Gary Bainbidge 49.58s; Julie Ingram 52.56s; John Gray 53.36s; Tracey Pickering 58.02s; June Suchy 58.39s

Fun Run results: 9th Matthew Hewitson 5.27s; 21st Georgette Reid 5.58s; 41st Simon Hewitson 6.20s; 42nd Kelly Turnbull 6.22s; 151st Samuel Devlin 8.21s

Anyone interested in joining the club should contact club secretary, Mr N Stockley on (01388) 776083.