Southern Athletics League Fixture #4 at Ashford

Southern Athletics League Division 2E, Ashford, Kent, 13 Jul 2019

Heathside come out in force for fourth SAL match, and narrowly finished 3rd in the fixture

- report below from Noelle O'Regan

 "Over 30+ Heathsiders enjoyed a summer day in Kent for the penultimate SAL fixture in Ashford on Saturday 13 July, where we faced top of the table Eastbourne, host club Ashford and Cambridge & Coleridge.

Biggest thanks, first and foremost, to all who helped officiate and volunteer: Chris Dissanayake (timekeeping), Jerry Odlin (track judging), plus field team extraordinaire Jacob Howe, Tony Killilea, Kabir Kemp, Chris Vincent, Claudia Backhaus, Seb Takvorian, Rebecca Piggott, Kimon Doulis and Kim Butler.

We excelled on the track, winning the A and B 400, 800, 5000 and steeplechase races for the women and the 400, 1500 and steeplechase races for the men. We absolutely smashed it in the mixed 4x400m relays, winning the A string by 3 seconds and the B string by 44 seconds.

However, the quality that Ashford and Eastbourne had in the field events was a little too much – in the end, we finished 3rd (albeit less than 10 points behind Ashford and only 20 behind Eastbourne – despite being over 100 points ahead of Cambridge)!

Performance of the day goes to Charles Hardy, who, despite also competing in the inter counties championships the following day, ran a 3000 steeplechase PB in a breath-taking 9:38, which qualifies him to enter the English championships later this summer. Big shout outs also to Joel Hawes and Seyfu Jamaal for doing multiple events at the SAL despite competing in the inter counties on Sunday (Seyfu’s 1500m victory by over 30 seconds at the SAL was a particular highlight).

Notable performances on the women’s team included the teenage steeplechase duo Mimi Blake and Rose Garrett, both of whom stepped in last minute to take on – and win – this terrifying race (alongside competing in a host of other events)!

Speaking of teenage talent, the quality and quantity of junior and emerging senior athletes who competed in, and won, multiple events, made Heathside proud. This included Deji Agbede and Ruairi McGonagle winning the men’s A and B 400m, Ella Conlon winning her first ever 400m hurdles race, Anna McAllister winning the high jump B string and Erin Heritage competing in 100 hurdles, shot put and hammer (throwing a much heavier weight than usual for a 15 year old!).

Finally, the most exciting race of the day was between two non-scoring athletes, the master Nathan Cyrus and his student Ajarni Hinds, in a Heathside head-to-head 400m showdown.Everyone thought that Nathan had it in the bag; however, Ajarni stuck close behind and crossed the finish line 5m ahead, taking home the gold, as the lactic sniper took out Nathan in a classic attack. Nathan lived to tell the tale and I’m sure will be back for revenge.

The last fixture this season is Saturday 17th August at Woodford. We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible!"

Team captains: Rich and Noëlle

SAL Division 2E
Meeting 3
Ashford
13th July 2019

1st Eastbourne Rovers AC 224.5 pts
2nd Ashford 216.5 pts
3rd London Heathside 207 pts
4th Cambridge and Coleridge 101 pts

100m
Leon Seale (U17) 11.4 A 2nd
Rufus Tansey (U17) 11.7 B 1st
Joshua Ndionyemma (U17) 11.9 ns
Rufus Tansey (U17) 12.1 ns
Daniel Aka 12.2 ns
Oliver O'Connor (U17) 12.5 ns
Adrian Essex (V60) 14.1 ns

200m
Benjamin Folarin 24.6 A 3rd
Leon Seale dnf B
Rufus Tansey 24.5 ns
Ajarni Hinds 24.4 ns
Oliver O'Connor 25.2 ns

400m
Deji Agbede 52.0 A 1st
Ruairi McGonagle (U17) 54.2 B 1st
Aka Daniel 56.6 ns
Nathan Cyrus 57.5 ns

800m
Seyfu Jamaal (U20) 2:03.7 A 2nd
Matthew Rallison 2:04.7 B 1st

1500m
Seyfu Jamaal 4:09.4 A 1st
Chris Vincent 4:55.1 B 1st

3000m
Matthew Rallison 9:28.0 A 2nd
Kimono Doulis 9:49.1B 2nd
Oliver O'Connor 10:04.5 ns

110mH
Daniel Aka 20.7 A 4th
Joel Hawes 23.9 B 4th

400mH
Daniel Aka 69.5 A 4th
Joel Hawes 83.78 B 4th

3000mS/C
Charles Hardy 9:38.5 A 1st
Andy Barnes 11:29.7 B 1st

High Jump
Sam Ingram (U17) 1.48m A 4th
Joel Hawes 1.38m B 3rd

Pole Vault
Adrian Essex 1.50m A 4th

Long Jump
Mark Lawrence 5.40m A 4th
Sam Ingram 5.21m B 3rd
Adrian Essex 4.05m ns

Triple Jump
Mark Lawrence 10.59m A 4th
Aka Daniel 10.53m B 2nd
Adrian Essex 7.84m ns

Shot Put
Mark Lawrence 9.78m A 3rd
Nathan Cyrus 8.50m B 3rd

Discus
Mark Lawrence 28.19m A 3rd
Joel Hawes 27.09m B 3rd

Hammer
Joel Hawes 28.37m A 3rd
Mark Lawrence 16.26m B 3rd

Javelin
Seyfu Jamaal 41.86m A 3rd
Nathan Cyrus 39.09m B 3rd
Aka Daniel 23.73m ns

4x100m
London Heathside (Folarin, Tansey, Braithwaite, Agbede) 46.3 2nd

Women

100m
Stephanie Kleynhans 13.4 A 4th
Yanna Raykov 14.5 B 3rd
Anna McAllister 15.3 ns

200m
Stephanie Kleynhans 26.9 A 2nd
Noelle O'Regan 27.5 B 1st

400m
Rosa Serafini 60.9 A 1st
Noelle O'Regan 63.6 B 1st
Naomi Conlon 63.6 ns

800m
Rosa Serafini 2:18.9 A 1st
Rose Garrett (U17) 2:24.2 B 1st

1500m
Mimi Blake 5:03.0 A 2nd
Evangelista Divetain 5:26.7 B 2nd

5000m
Rebecca Piggott 18:15.6 A 1st
Isabel Dickinson 19:33.4 B 1st

100mH
Yanna Raykov 19.6 A 3rd
Erin Heritage (U17) 20.6 B 2nd

400mH
Yanna Raykov 74.7 A 2nd
Ella Conlon 77.7 B 1st

1500mS/C
Rose Garrett 6:05.0 A 1st
Mimi Blake (U17) 6:06.0 B 1st
Kimberli Butler 6:16.5 ns

High Jump
Stephanie Kleynhans 1.48m A 1st
Anna McAllister 1.48m A 1st

Pole Vault
No Competitors

Long Jump
Rose Garrett 4.17m A 3rd
Claudia Backhaus 3.95m B 3rd

Triple Jump
Claudia Backhaus 7.82m A 4th
Helene Kehoe (V50) 5.48m B 3rd

Shot Put
Stephanie Kleynhans 9.62m A 1st
Erin Heritage (U17) 7.39m B 4rd
Helene Kehoe 6.88m ns
Claudia Backhaus 5.37m ns
Kimberli Butler 4.62m ns

Discus
Noelle O'Regan 26.63m A 2nd
Helene Kehoe 14.47m B 4th

Hammer
Noelle O'Regan 22.92m A 2nd
Erin Heritage 14.01m B 4th
Helene Kehoe 12.44m ns

Javelin
Stephanie Kleynhans 22.66m A 4th
Claudia Backhaud 17.30m B 3rd

4x100m
London Heathside (Conlon E, Kleynhans, Conlon N, O'Regan) 52.70 2nd

Mixed

4x400m
London Heathside A (McGonagle, O'Regan, Kleynhans, Agbede) 3:53.7 1st
London Heathside B (Rallison, Conlon E, Conlon N, Jamaal) 4:01 1st