Heathside junior women win Met League gold

This week’s report focuses on the final Met League meeting at Trent Park where U13 Filip Kounoupas took gold as did our junior women, and the overall Met League standings, which also saw our junior women coming first while our senior women and U11 girls came second and our men, third. The report also features the Masters champs at Lea Valley which saw Ivan Ross breaking the M50 club record in the 60m hurdles (10.98) and Adrian Day taking a gold medal in the V65 400m (66.74). And at the England indoor junior championships in Sheffield, Trey Corlis ran a PB and club U20 record in the 60m hurdles (8:10).

Contents:

1 Met League, Trent Park, Feb 8

2. Met League overall results

3. Vets AC and Eastern Masters Champs, Lea Valley, Feb 9

4. England Athletics U15/U17/U20 Indoor Championships, Sheffield, Feb 8

5. Parkruns

Metropolitan League, Trent Park, February 8

As always, there was a strong Heathside turnout for the final Met League meeting of the year – both from our runners and from our many marshals.

There were several impressive performances and none more so than our U13 star Fillip Kounoupas who completed the muddy 3,000m in 11:57. A strong team performance saw our junior women (U15 & U17) coming first, as they did in the overall Met League standings.

Among the seniors, both our men’s and women’s teams came third in Trent Park. The first Heathside women was Jessica Prior’s in eighth place followed by Josie Hinton in 10th. Our first man was Sam Macaulay in 18th place. As always V45 Tom Aldred put in an impressive run, coming second in his age group and 32nd overall.

Results

U11 Boys (1800m 43 finishers)
1st W Stockdale (SBH) 8:24
19th Kai Duberry 9:26
24th Billy Aldridge 9:36
26th Ralph Wilcox 9:40
37th Ari Talwar 10:58
39th Dominic Jeles 11:27

Team:- 1st SBH 157 pts, 4th London Heathside 70 pts, 15th London Heathside B 5 pts

U11 Girls (1800m 32 finishers)
1st A Clements (E&H) 8:57
15th Freya Constance 10:22
20th Livia Belkin 10:43
25th Amie Zheng 11:11

Team:- 1st WG&EL 102 pts, 5th London Heathside 39 pts

U13 Boys (3000m 37 finishers)
1st Filip Kounoupas 11:57 🥇
34th William Edwards 15:44

Team:- 1st SBH 124 pts, 7th London Heathside 41 pts

U13 Girls (3000m 46 finishers)
1st M Kearn George (TVH) 13:40
14th Edith Deakin 14:33
17th Matilda Hinson 14:46
32nd Greta Lawrence 15:44
33rd Stelli Baker-Kokosalah 15:47
44th Sky Murray 18:15

Team:- 1st WG&EL 149 pts, 4th= London Heathside 92 pts, 18th London Heathside B 3pts

Junior Men (4,000m 80 finishers)
1st B Murphy (Herts P) 15:12
9th Charlie Nicolson (U15B) 15:50 (3rd U15B 🥉 )
10th Sam Turner 15:56
25th Dylan Mills 16:56
35th Ennio Kaloukian (U15B) 17:15
38th Tam Mergia 17:33
39th Ephraim Sileshi 17:40
44th Louis Scarfo (U15B) 18:00
45th Isaac Silverstone 18:08
56th Leon Bestmann Calvo 18:39
58th Nathan Grela Bekele (U15B) 18:48
63rd Will Groshong (U15B) 19:01

Team:- 1st WG&EL 306 pts, 4th London Heathside 245 pts, 10th London Heathside B 158 pts, 17th London Heathside C 66 pts

Junior Women (4,000m 55 finishers)
1st J March (U15G) (Barnet) 17:49
10th Lila Blustin (U15G) 18:59 (7th U15G)
11th Kiara Corkin 19:08
12th Lettice Gundry 19:22
13th Margot Hunt (U15G) 19:23
14th Amya Shankardass 19:26
16th Ivy Gray 19:53
27th Sky Parke Antonis (U15G) 20:41
31st Mina Schofield 20:59
34th Rosa Cormacain (U15G) 21:20
42nd Lara Davies (U15G) 22:12
49th Jessica Lappin 23:54
52nd Amba Coleman (U15G) 25:27

Team:- 1st London Heathside 178 pts 🥇 4th London Heathside B 136 pts, 12th London Heathside C 47 pts

Senior Women (7,600m 165 finishers)
1st C Boyd-Squires (VPH&TH) 30:26.6
8th Jessica Prior 32:45.4 A
10th Josie Hinton 33:16.4 A
28th Claire Sng (V40) 34:44.2 A Vet A (6th V40)
29th Genevieve Weston 34:51.1 A
30th Hester Hill 34:52.5 A
41st Monica Newton (V45) 35:23.1 A Vet A
43rd Issy Watkins (U20W) 35:36.77 B (3rd U20W 🥉)
61st Molly Harrison 36:48.4 B
76th Ella Inwald 38:08.3 B
79th Rose Murphy 38:25.9 B
85th Olivia Lukasewich 39:06.11 B
89th Tanya Addison (V50) 39:20.6 B Vet A
110th Annabel Judd (V55) 41:28.9 C Vet A
122nd Caroline White (V65) 43:07.8 C Vet B
129th Jackie Wastell (V60) 43:36.0 C Vet B
133rd Rebecca Marshall (V45) 43:54.5 C Vet B
136th Moya Malkin (V45) 44:07.1 Vet B
145th Kimberli Butler 45:21.0

Team:
Div 1 - 1st VPH&TH 431 pts, 3rd London Heathside 339 Pts 🥉, 9th London Heathside B 140 pts
Div 2:- 1st VPH&TH C 301 pts, 7th London Heathside C 99 Pts
Vet Div 1:- 1st VPH&TH 169 pts, 3rd London Heathside 118 pts 🥉
Vet Div 2:- 1st Ealing Eagles 48pts, 2nd London Heathside 45 pts 🥈

Senior Men (7600m 398 finishers)
1st J Dee (SBH) 25:33.11
18th Samuel Macaulay 27:36.8 A
26th Tsegay Berhane 28:00.4 A
27th Kader Seyed 28:01.7 A
32nd Tom Aldred (V45) 28:08.3 A Vet A (2nd V45 🥈)
37th Ben Norris 28:37.3 A
43rd Barry Kelly 28:50.7 A
44th William de Cothi 28:53.8 A
49th Matthew Rallison 29:06.7 A
50th Christopher Gracie 29:08.3 B
52nd Scott Coller 29:10.7 B
55th Wayne Morley 29:13.4 B
60th Conor Brown 29:33.1 B
71st Jordan Marshall 30:09.5 B
80th Ewan Gault (V40) 30:32.4 B Vet A
81st George Saint 30:32.64 C
83rd Samuel Lloyd 30:37.1 C
88th Edward Samuel (V45) 30:47.5  C Vet A
91st Arthur Hawkes (U20) 30:55.7 C
138th Oliver Negus 32:25.9 C
149th Justin Badger (V55) 32:40.8 C Vet A
168th Etienne Daries 33:14.9
171st James Dyson 33:20.77
175th Martin Potter (V55) 33:24.39 Vet B
190th Adam Mitchell (V45) 33:57.0 Vet B
194th Mihaly Jeles 34:08.4
196th Angus Goldsmith 34:10.4
203rd Joel Northcott 34.19.9
213th John Sukhdeo 34:46.6
221st Chris Hartley  (V60) 38.58:5 Vet B
224th Kazuya Saito (V40) 35:01.9 Vet B
234th Alfie Denness 35:44.2
238th Andrew Wooding 35:53.2
240th Valentin Valeanu (V45) 35:57.8 Vet C
245th Artie Feeny Willings (U20) 36:04.6
246th Harry Owrid 36:06.9
253rd Liam Hazelton (V40) 36:20.1 Vet C
255th Alfonso Estepa Palacios 36:22.4
260th Rob Shulman (V55) 36:30.9 Vet C
263rd Christopher Greenwood 36:34.4 Vet C
280th Daniel Jonathan 37:10.3
288th Baptiste Laurent (V40) 37:45.1 Vet C
291st Glen Taylor (V45) 37:55.4
339th Antonio Ribeiro (V55) 41:06.4
394th David Walton (V60) 47:57.4

Team:-
Div 1:- 1st Highgate 2001 pts, 3rd London Heathside 1655 pts 🥉 , 8th London Heathside B 907 pts
Div 2:- 1st Eton Manor 1170 pts, 4th London Heathside 861 pts
Vet Div 1:- 1st VPH&TH 450 pts, 2nd London Heathside 384 pts 🥈 , 9th London Heathside B 181 pts
Vet Div 2:- 1st Highgate 334 pts, 11th London Heathside C 116 pts

Final Met League standings

The highlight is the first place won by our junior women. Our senior women took second place (with Rebecca Piggott leading the way with eighth place overall), as did our U11 girls. Our men came third.

Howard Williams Trophy (Seniors)

1st VPH&TH 45 pts

2nd Highgate 43 pts

3rd London Heathside 43 pts

Senior Men

Div1:- 1st Highgate 9585 pts, 3rd London Heathside A 7633 pts, 12th London Heathside B 3627 pts

Div2:- 1st VPH&TH C 6555 pts, 5th London Heathside C 1133 pts

VetM Div 1:- 1st VPH&TH 2348 pts, 2nd London Heathside A 2072 pts, 9th London Heathside B 1190 pts

VetM Div 2:- 1st Highgate 1742 pts, 5th London Heathside C 1133 pts

Senor Women

Div 1:- 1st VPH&TH 2209 pts, 2nd London Heathside A 2003 pts, 10th London Heathside B 1086 pts

Div2:- 1st VPH&TH C 1571 pts, 2nd London Heathside C 1097 pts

VetW Div 1:- 1st VPH&TH 898 pts, 3rd London Heathside A 565 pts

VetW Div 2 :- 1st Hillingdon 358 pts, 4th London Heathside B 188 pts

Howard Williams Trophy (Juniors)

1st WG&EL 88 pts

2nd SBH 77 pts (6 wins)

3rd London Heathside 77 pts (2 wins)

U11 Girls

1st WG&EL 323 pts, 2nd London Heathside 258 pts

U11 Boys 

1st WG&EL 774 pts, 4th London Heathside 450 pts

U13 Girls

1st WG&EL 667 pts, 5th London Heathside 358 pts

U13 Boys

1st SBH 848 pts, 8th London Heathside 347 pts

Junior Women

1st London Heathside 899 pts

Junior Men

1st WG&EL 1728 pts, 5th London Heathside 1384 pts

Top 10 Places

5th Filip Kounoupas Prastalo (U13B)

5th Sam Turner (U17M)

8th Rebecca Piggott (SW).

8th Michael Schofield (U11B)

9th Edith Deakin (U13G)

10th Kiara Corkin (U17W)

All 5 Fixtures

Seniors

Barry Kelly

Wayne Morley

Arthur Hawkes (U20M)

Mihaly Jeles

Martin Potter

Justin Badger

James Dyson

Adam Mitchel

Chris Hartley 

Chris Greenwood 

Rosie Hinton

Molly Harrison 

Anna Judd

Juniors

Dominic Jeles (U11B)

William Edwards (U13B)

Ephraim Sileshi (Junior Men)

Edith Deakin (U13G)

Lettice Gundry (Junior Women)

Vets AC and Eastern Masters Champs at Lea Valley, Sunday 9th February

Adrian Day reports that a sextet of Heathsiders avoided the rain and cold by competing across a range of indoor disciplines on Sunday. This event is open to all masters athletes and includes the club championships for Vets AC (London’s regional masters club) and Eastern Masters (which embraces East Anglia); medals are only awarded to club members.

Helen Kehoe made a fine showing in the Shot Put - placing second with a throw of 7.15 meters, whilst Paul Egan made his masters indoor debut in the M40 group with a 60m timed at 8.28s.

Adrian Essex (M70) pulled off his usual trick of competing in different events at the same time. He managed 8.06m in the Shot, came second in the Long Jump with a leap of 3.72m and 3rd in the High Jump clearing 1.15m. Of course that wasn’t enough to keep him occupied so he ran a single lap of the track to boot.

Ivan Ross (M50), Mike Salousti (M60) and Adrian Day (M65) attended from Israel’s masters training group. Ivan broke his season’s target and the club record for the 60m hurdles by dipping under 11secs in a time of 10.98. And Mike’s warm weather training in Cyprus yielded results as he notched season’s bests of 8.93 for the 60m and  29.48 in the 200m.

Adrian Day squeezed in three sprint events over the day. A  time of 66.74 in the 400m delivered a Vets AC gold medal (and was a second faster than at the same event last year) but that effort took its toll on a slow 60m of 9.63 (a Vets bronze) and a 200m time of 30.31, which apparently merited another Vets gold medal.

Next up - the British Masters at the same venue at the end of the month.

England Athletics U15/U17/U20 Indoor Championships, Sheffield, Saturday February 8

Simon Baker reports that there were slightly mixed fortunes of our five young athletes who took part in the English Indoor Championships last weekend in Sheffield.  First of all with qualification standards just making the Championships is an achievement.

In the U17M 200m Mikel Alexander was initially false started but after his coach Israel appealed Mikel was allowed to run a 200m on his own.  In front of a large crowd and in his first national Championships that was a daunting challenge and he recorded a time of 23.67s finishing 18th fastest.

Gabriel Edwards entered the Championships ranked 2nd U15B in the UK but such is the jeopardy of the hurdles he caught the 2nd barrier heavily and was unable to finish.

In the U17M hurdles Malakai negotiated the heats and semi-final safely before running a 8.31 PB in the final to finish 5th.

In the U20 hurdles Trey Corlis and Montana Dennis were both  drawn in Heat 1.  Montana in his first year as an U20 finished 5th while Trey broke his club record with 8.10s just missing out on a place in the final by 0.03s.

Well done to all and I'm sure they will take the experience to come back stronger in the summer.

Results

200m (U17M)

H5 DQ Mikel Alexander 

Re-run Mikel Alexander 23.67s (18th fastest)

60mH (U15B)

H2 DNF Gabriel Edwards 

60mH (U17M)

H3 2nd Malakai David McKenzie Callum 8.37s Q

SF2 3rd Malakai David McKenzie Callum 8.33s Q

Final 5th Malakai David McKenzie Callum 8.31s PB

60mH (U20M)

H1 4th Trey Corlis 8.10s PB NCR (by 0.01s)

H1 5th Montana Dennis 8.54s

Parkruns, February 8 2025

Eighty-eight Heathsiders took part in Parkruns on Saturday. There was just one first place – for Lily Woolcock who ran 19:58 in Catton. Full results here

Report by Gavin Evans with thanks to Simon Baker, Adrian Day and Ken Townson for the pictures.