Victory in the Middlesex Youth Athletics League 2018 - fixture 3 - Finsbury Park
Sunday 17th June saw the club host this season’s third Middlesex Youth Athletics League meeting at Finsbury Park. In it’s second season the League grows in popularity and Sunday saw a record 687 performances and 14 meeting records over the action packed afternoon schedule. The league aims to give young athletes from North and West London’s 10 leading athletic clubs a taste of a range of different events with particularly large representations in the U11, U13 and U15 age groups.
As in the previous two fixtures the young Heathsiders excelled with a host of PB’s securing overall victory with a total of 997 points pipping Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers by 4 points. Both the Under 11 Boys and Girls won their age groups as well as the U15 Girls, with 2nd places for both the U13 Girls and Boys. It was a real collaborative effort and thanks goes to all those athletes who took up the challenge of competing in less favoured events to help the team.
With one fixture left on 22nd July at the Allianz Stadium we remain in 3rd position behind Highgate and Shaftesbury BH but have almost halved the gap to the leaders to 176 points.
The current overall league scores are as follows:
Middlesex Youth Athletics League 2018 (after 3 of 4 meetings)
Age Cat Team in 1st Posn. Points LH Postn. Points
U11B London Heathside 357 1st 357
U13B Highgate H 466 2nd 402
U15B Ealing S&M 498 3rd 347
U17M Shaftesbury BH 422 4th 138
U11G London Heathside 324 1st 324
U13G Ealing S&M 421 3rd 409
U15G Highgate H 590 2nd 451
U17W Highgate H 405 3rd 218
Overall Highgate H 2765 3rd 2616
The U11 Boys again won their age group with another collection of superb performances from Benji Bediako who won all three of his individual events: the long jump, the 75m and 800m. In the latter he posted a new PB running down on the last lap Tom Cadwallader (Shaftesbury BH) who had beaten him in the two previous fixtures, this is a developing rivalry to watch. Support was provided by Thomas Morton who finished 3rd and 1st in the respective B races. Debutants Jerome Henry finished 2nd in the Vortex with 32.74m and Alex Konstantaves recorded the 4th fastest time of the day of 11.69 in a non-scoring 75m heat as well as 1st in the B string Long Jump. The boys had enough personnel to finish by running two relay teams with the A team 2nd and B team 6th.
The U11 Girls also finished first with 106 pts, 1 point ahead of Shaftesbury, this is a young team with many U10’s. Strong performances on Sunday included Elkie Baker who ran personal bests in both the 800m and 75m as well as winning the vortex and anchoring the 4x100m to 2nd place. Other contributors included Leila England with PB’s in the 800m and Long Jump and Kiara Corkin who might have slightly paid the price for equalling her PB of 8.10 earlier that morning in the Highbury Fields Junior Park Run. Debutant Avery Hemir-Robinson’s non-scoring 2.86m in the Long Jump was the 4th longest of the day.
A strong representation from the U13 Girls saw them finish 2nd an agonising 4 points behind Ealing S&M. The girls performed exceptionally with a host of PB’s and like the U11 many of the girls are competing for the first time in this age group. Leila Tempesta followed up a PB in the 100m (14.15) with another in the Shot Putt. Issy Watkins also recorded a PB in the 100m before improving her High Jump PB 2cm by jumping 125 cm, she also managed 548 in the 1500m demonstrating her wide ranging athletic ability. Hattie Munday performed solidly in 75m Hurdles, High Jump, and 1500m while Amara Odeogberin achieved personal bests in 1500m, Discus and 70m Hurdles. Debutant Dominion Morakinyo although a non-scorer showed her potential with 14.72 in the 100m and 5.00m in the Shot Putt the 5th longest throw of the day. The team rounded their afternoon off finishing runners up in the 4x100m relay only 0.06 sec behind Ealing, the difference between winning the match and finishing 2nd.
The U13 Boys also finished 2nd this time 7 points behind Highgate. The tone for the afternoon was set by Spike Blake winning the 800m in a PB of 225. But the outstanding contributor was Daniel Robb who improved his PB in the 100m B race by 2 seconds with 13.69 the 2nd fastest time of the day, he followed this with 14.2 in the 75m Hurdles again the 2nd fastest of the day and winning the High Jump with 130 cm breaking his previous PB by a massive 10cm! Elsewhere Thomas Wasserman improved his 100m PB by a second as well as in the Shot Putt in finishing 3rd. Stan Hassan in his 1st competitive High Jump won the B competition with 125 cm. Other point scorers included Henry Pulham and Javahn Robinson. The team finished off with 2nd place in the relay.
The U15 Girls won their age group by 7 points over Highgate. The win was built on strong all round performances typified by Nell Swinhoe (3rd) and Mathilda Heath (a new PB by 17 sec) in the 1500m and solid sprinting by Olivia Salagubaite and Lanee Frederick as well as contributions from Fabienne Weston (Hurdles, Javelin and Hammer), Erin Heritage (Hammer and Hurdles) with the afternoon completed by a 2nd place in the 4x100m.
The U15 Boys finished 3rd with several significant PB’s. Rufus Tansey achieved PB’s in both the 100m and 200m while in the 800m Ruairi McGonagle finished 2nd (211) with Jack Davis Black winning the B race (221) and breaking his previous PB by 19 seconds. Team members admirably volunteered to take on the other events with Ruairi improving his PB in the Shot Putt by over 2m finishing 5th and Oliver O’Connor winning the B competition having not thrown competitively since 2016. The 4x100m relay team finished 2nd.
In the U17 Women age group the team finished 3rd with Dora Curtis achieving PB’s in both 100m and 200m while Laura Barbenel finished 3rd and 2nd in the A races. In the 1500m Mia Manttan, the newly crowned U15 Middlesex Schools and County Champion, stepped up an age group to win in 503 a new meeting record, Mimi Blake finished 1st in the B race. The team rounded off finishing 2nd in the 4x100m relay.
The U17 Men finished 4th with a small team, Lemi Mideska and Sid Diamond both achieving PB’s in the 800m and Stan Brown improving his PB in the long Jump by almost 25cm.
Finally as has been said elsewhere many thanks again to the whole team of LH officials, timekeepers, team managers, coaches and volunteers that ensured the day went so successfully.
The results are as follows
U11 Girls finished 2nd with 106 points
75m
Kiara Corkin 12.66 A 5th PB
Elkie Baker 12.26 B 1st PB
Tyler Swaby-Gayle 12.30 ns PB
Suraya Frost 12.33 ns PB
Avery Hemir-Robinson 12.56 ns PB
Leila England 12.94 ns
800m
Kiara Corkin 301.45 A 4th
Elkie Baker 306.77 B 4th PB
Leila England 324.49 ns PB
Long Jump
Kiara Corkin 2.77m A 5th
Leila England 2.51m B 3rd PB
Avery Hemir-Robinson 2.86m ns PB
Vortex
Elkie Baker 22.83m A 1st
Avery Hemir-Robinson 11.32m B 6th PB
4x100m
London Heathside 66.92 2nd
U11 Boys 1st with 130 points
75m
Benji Bediako 11.23 A 1st
Thomas Morton 12.6 B 3rd
Alex Kanstantaves 11.69 ns PB
Jerome Henry 12.96 ns PB
Noah Beckoff 13.08 ns PB
Lucas Hobson 13.45 ns PB
Dylan Hobson 13.83 ns PB
800m
Benji Bediako 234.85 A 1st PB
Tomas Morton 255.52 B 1st PB
Noah Beckoff 257.90 ns PB
Lucas Hobson 314.31 ns PB
Dylan Hobson 319.23 ns PB
Nico Cote 320.33 ns PB
U11B Long Jump
Benjy Bediako 3.75m A 1st
Alex Kanastantaves 3.62m B 1st PB
Adam Nkoso 3.26m ns
Vortex
Jerome Henry 32.74m A 2nd PB
Tomas Morton 11.40m B 5th
Noah Beckoff 19.60m ns PB
Nico Cote 18.54m ns PB
4x100m
London Heathside A 62.52 2nd
London Heathside B 73.43 ns
U13 Girls 2nd with 149 points
100m
Leila Tempesta 14.15 A 2nd PB
Issy Watkins 14.72 B 3rd PB
Dominion Morakinyo 14.72 ns PB
Danae Odeogberin 15.20 ns
Meghan Crill 16.71 ns PB
Libby Judd-Hawkes 16.92 ns PB
Allegra 17.07 ns PB
1500m
Hattie Munday 549.25 A 5th
Issy Watkins 548.33 B 4th
Milly Watkins 559.74 ns PB
Libby Judd-Hawkes 634.33 ns PB
Amara Odeogberin 645.24 ns PB
75m Hurdles
Hattie Munday 14.72 A 4th
Amara Odeogberin 16.35 B 3rd PB
Meghan Crill 16.23 ns PB
Lucy Corkin 16.67 ns PB
Allegra 17.80 ns PB
High Jump
Issy Watkins 1.25m A 2nd PB
Hattie Munday 1.20m B 1st
Shot Putt
Leila Tempesta 4.27m A 5th PB
Danae Odeogberin 3.62m B 4th
Dominion Morakinyo 5.00m ns PB
Discus
Amara Odeogberin 8.71m A 6th PB
Rebecca Beliossi 7.55m B 4th PB
4x100m
London Heathside 59.71 2nd
U13 Boys 2nd with 156 points
100m
Thomas Wasserman 14.74 A 5th PB
Daniel Robb 13.69 B 2nd PB
Javahn Robinson 13.92 ns PB
Constantine England 14.86 ns PB
Henry Pulham 14.94 ns PB
800m
Spike Blake 225.81 A 1st PB
Stan Hassan DQ B
Constantine England 254.8 ns PB
Max Deasy 241.92 ns PB
Ivor Joslin 248.1 ns PB
75m Hurdles
Henry Pulham 16.95 A 4th
Daniel Robb 14.20 B 1st PB
High Jump
Daniel Robb 1.30m A 1st PB
Stan Hassan 1.25m B 1st PB
Shot Putt
Thomas Wasserman 5.89m A 3rd PB
Henry Pulham 4.57m B 3rd
Discus
Javahn Robinson 11.79m A 4th
4x100m
London Heathside 57.51 2nd
U15 Girls 1st with 167 points
100m
Olivia Salagubaite 13.46 A 4th
Lanee Frederick 14.26 B 4th PB
Shari Knight 14.90 ns PB
200m
Olivia Salagubaite 28.19 A 3rd
Lanee Frederick 30.44 B 3rd PB
1500m
Nell Swinhoe 511.10 A 3rd
Mathilda Heath 517.17 B 1st PB
Ella O’Flaherty 553.83 ns
Edie Friedlander 553.88 ns PB
75m Hurdles
Erin Heritage 14.99 A 4th PB
Fabienne Weston 17.71 B 2nd PB
Long Jump
Lanee Frederick 4.03m A 4th PB
Shot Putt
No Competitors
Javelin
Fabienne Weston 15.26m A 4th
Hammer
Erin Heritage 17.63m A 3rd
Fabienne Weston 12.60m B 1st PB
4x100m
London Heathside 56.87 2nd
U15 Boys 3rd with 121 points
100m
Rufus Tansey 11.92 A 2nd PB
Benjamin Foldarin 12.57 B 1st PB
Vionne Allen 13.80 ns PB
Etienne Munday 13.90 ns PB
Anthony Oliver 14.17 ns PB
200m
Rufus Tansey 24.97 A 3rd PB
Benjamin Foldarin 26.85 B 1st
800m
Ruairi McGonagle 211.56 A 2nd
Jack Davis-Black 221.54 B 1st PB
Leo Hanson 226.81 ns PB
Shot Putt
Ruairi McGonagle 6.77m A 5th PB
Oliver O’Connor 4.94m B 1st
Long Jump
Etienne Munday 4.50m A 4th
4x100m
London Heathside 52.68 2nd
U17 Women finished 3rd with 100 points
100m
Laura Barbenel 13.54 A 3rd PB
Dora Curtis 14.05 B 3rd PB
200m
Laura Barbenel 28.2 A 2nd PB
Dora Curtis 28.8 B 1st PB
Morgane Bedos 29.8 ns PB
1500m
Mia Manttan 503.43 A 1st New Meeting Record
Mimi Blake 512.84 B 1st
4x100m
London Heathside 55.84 2nd
U17 Men finished 4th with 59 points
200m
Lemi Mideska 26.27 A 4th PB
Stan Brown 30.92 B 2nd PB
800m
Lemi Mideska 212.57 A 5th PB
Sid Diamond 212.46 B 3rd PB
Oliver O’Connor 228.33 ns PB
Lewis Selwyn 233.03 ns PB
Long Jump
Stan Brown 3.76m A 3rd PB
Final Overall Scores
London Heathside 997 pts
Shaftesbury Barnet 993 pts
Ealing S&M 982 pts
Highgate Harriers 891 pts
Barnet & District 611 pts
Cookham 481 pts
Queens Park Harriers 290 pts
Serpentine 266 pts
Enfield & Haringey 250 pts
Trent Park 202 pts