Elise gets ready to run in Munich for TeamGB; Harry sets new SW League Long Jump record; Sign up for Baltonsborough & Wells road races coming up
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(Elise seen in action last summer when competing for TeamGB u23 team at Talinn, Estonia wearing the number 15)
News this week of one of our top Harriers about to line up for TeamGB at the European Athletics Championships. Wells City Harrier Elise Thorner has been selected to compete for TeamGB at next week’s European Athletics Championships being held in the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany. Age 21, she will compete in the 3000m Steeplechase event alongside two fellow British athletes and the best from across the continent. The heats of the Women’s Steeplechase event take place on the morning of Thursday 18th August with the final on the Saturday 20th evening. Watch for her on TV!
And following on from that great news it’s always interesting to note what happened to some juniors who have moved on from the Harriers – one of Elise’s team mates from the Harrier’s u13/u15 winning teams of 2013-2014 picked up her Commonwealth Games Gold medal on Sunday when she was part of the winning England women’s hockey team – well done Sophie Hamilton of Bruton. Sophie has concentrated on her hockey since 2016 and look where that took her! Photo below shows Sophie leading Elise at one of the tough Gwent XC matches in November 2015.
Meanwhile we had some great performances in Sunday’s South West League match – particularly pleasing to see so many of our Monday training group taking part and achieving personal bests and/or good points for the joint team with Yeovil Olympiads.
As part of the combined team with Yeovil Olympiads the u13 boys, u15 girls & u15 boys were first overall in the match with the u13 girls in 3rd place. We go into the final match with the challenge of toppling League leaders Wimborne AC and finishing ahead of Taunton AC (out of the 13 Clubs that take part in the League).
Remarkably amongst the older Harriers competing there was a new South West League record set by u20 Harry Barton who long-jumped out to 7.24m and accordingly is now ranked 6th nationally. Our thanks as usual to the team managers and officials who give up their time to make sure these events work like clockwork, which is exactly how the Commonwealth Games worked last week.
Success for Wells runners at English Schools; Sophie Nicholls wins Silver medal at Schools Home County International in Belfast ; Wells Senior men win at Parrett Team 10k
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Bronze medal for Elise at Senior National Championships; Good numbers at Harrier training sessions and the latest training schedule for Tuesdays
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21 year old Elise Thorner won her first senior medal when she went toe to toe against the best of the Uk senior women at the National Athletics Championships this past weekend. Competing in the UK Senior Championships for the first time, Elise was running in the 3000m Steeplechase at the Manchester Sports City Arena.
At the Harrier training sessions there are good numbers of junior and senior members attending to be put through their paces with some weeks seeing in excess of 100 taking part across the three evenings (Monday-Wednesday). Read on for news on training and the latest session plan for Tuesday nights.
Junior success at South West Schools T&F - next stop English Schools; & seniors win at Town Trail 10k
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(above: Harriers after the Town Trail MT 10k)
A number of the Harrier juniors were competing this past weekend (18th June) at the SW Schools Track & Field Championships at Exeter with the hope of getting into their County Schools team for the English Schools Championships. Meanwhile, a group of senior Harriers were running hard at the latest of the Somerset Series races last Wednesday (15th June) at the Town Trail 10k race from Kingsbury Episcopi.
Well done to those Harriers who have now got the nod to compete for their County at the English Schools: u15 Tom Webb; u17 Sophie Nicholls; u20 Hannah Blundy; u20 Dan Maydew; u20 Harry Barton; & also to Rosie Park & Andrew Piper who were 1st woman and 1stV50 respectively at the Town Trail Race.
Looking ahead we note that u23Elise Thorner is competing in this weekend's televised UK Athletics Championships, and list out some future T&F, road/multi-terrain and fell races to keep you all busy... Also an invite to those whose sons/daughters have competed at T&F or are competing to put something back into the Club by becoming a qualified official
Baltonsborough 5 mile road race
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