Harry Barton selected for TeamGB! Other Harriers get ready for County Championships
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17 year old Harry Barton becomes the 10th Wells City Harrier member to be selected for TeamGB and will compete at 110m Hurdles for the British team this Thursday (19th August) in Manchester at a prestigious international event. Meanwhile, Senior Club coach Jon James has been posting another impressive 5km time to go further ahead in the national rankings for his age group (V55) and a host of Harriers are getting ready for the Somerset County Championships this coming weekend (21st/22nd August).
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Harriers excel during Olympic week! SW League results & Haselbury Trail Race. Final call for County Champs and enter on line for Baltonsborough Road Race
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(above: Harriers give up a night of watching Olympic TV highlights to compete at Haselbury)
No doubt many Harriers, and others, have been watching the excellent TV sports coverage from Tokyo this past few weeks? With a number of new sports to get enthusiastic over and now this week's athletics, it's been quite a feast for the armchair audience. Meanwhile a number of Harriers have continued to compete or train hard this week - some great performances by juniors at last Sunday's South West League match and an enthusiastic group of senior Harriers at the Haselbury Trail Race on Wednesday. Read on also for the links to some road & off-road races coming up....
Harriers of all ages out in force - SW T&F Championships; Parrett Trail Race; Frome Road Races
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(above: Harriers gathered up before the Parrett Trail race)
Wells City Harrier members have again been out competing at a range of athletic disciplines this past week. U18 Harry Barton won gold (again) – this time at the South West Track & Field Championships, whilst the Harrier senior mens team were first at the Parrett 10km Multi-terrain, and a squad of the Club’s runners dominated at the various Frome road races. Club Treasurer Sharon Bowles even found time to run a 100km trail run ‘Race to the Stones’ in the heat over the weekend. Phew! Read on for info on next Wednesday’s (28th July) pub run too.
(below: Harrison Williams finishes in a new pb time at the Frome 5k race)
Elise finishes 8th in Europe, whilst Harry is English Schools Champion and Hannah & Sophie have great runs!
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(Elise, wearing No 15, in the European 3000m Steeplechase - photo by Al)
Wells City Harrier members have been competing at both the National and European level this past week. Whilst some of the junior members were selected for the Somerset Schools team competing at the prestigious English Schools Championships in Manchester, another was part of theTeamGB squad that competed in Estonia. Elise Thorner finished 8th in the 3000m Steeplechase at the European u23 Athletics Championships in Tallinn, whilst Harry Barton is now the English Schools Senior boys Champion for 110m Hurdles. There were also good runs by Hannah Blundy & Sophie Nicholls at the same Championships. Meanwhile Andrew & Gill Tindal had a great weekend competing at the Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon - fabulous hill running! Read on....
Elise flies out with TeamGB to Estonia whilst other Harriers head to Manchester & a host of great performances this past week
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(above - Ollie Frost coming up through the mist at the top of Fan-y-Big in the Brecon Beacons)
Elise Thorner is now in Estonia getting ready for her 3000m Steeplechase event at the European u23 Championships whilst a handful of other Harriers are packing their bags to go as part of the Somerset Schools team to take part in the English Schools Championships. Meanwhile this past weekend has seen a whole host of great performances by Harriers of all ages – 10 to 60+ - in the whole range of athletic disciplines: track & field; road & fell racing; & also junior park-running setting new records!