Oxford City Athletic Club

Another magnificent day for Oxford’s boy’s team in the National Young Athletes League, including a remarkable 10 wins and 6 second places in the 12 sprint races, backed up by some powerful  throwing and middle distance running, was only spoiled by the fact that the match was lost to Radley by a mere 9pts. The day began well, with U13 Oliver Hudson getting the first of many first places and PBs for the Oxford team in the 75m hurdles. He was followed by Max Tavinor winning the U15 80mH and Marcus Woodington taking the U17 100mH.

Hannah England was pleased with her performance after helping Great Britain to second place in the European Team Championships in Norway yesterday.

The Oxford City athlete finished second to Ukraine athlete Anna Mishchenko in the 1500m held in Bergen.

But England admitted that things could possibly have been even better had she not been forced to use her sprint finish quite so soon.

“I was a bit far back early on and tried not to panic,” England said.

The age limits for ESAA Cross Country Championships, Track & Field Championships, and Combined Events Championships are:

Junior 13 years and under 15 years of age on 31st August at the end of the current school year
Intermediate 15 years and under 17 years of age on 31st August at the end of the current school year
Senior 17 years and under 19 years of age on 31st August at the end of the current school year

The age limits for ESAA Schools Cup competitions are:

This Association will for the 2009 & 2010 Seasons, use the COMMON STANDARDS SCHEME incorporating the revisions referred to
above. All the applicable Standards are listed in the following pages. Badges will be available for the FOUR Grades in the UNDER
17, UNDER 15 and UNDER 13 AGE GROUPS and THREE Grades in the UNDER 20 AGE GROUP, as defined by UK Athletic Rules.

England learned this week of her call-up to the Great Britain squad for next weekend’s European Team Championships in Bergen, Norway, and celebrated this by clocking the fastest 1500m time of the season by a British athlete so far at an event in Poland on Tuesday night.

England was competing at the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial meeting in Warsaw, where she finished third in a time of 4mins 05.53secs.

The time also met the European Championship qualifying standard, which puts her No 1 in the UK rankings in 2010.

It’s been a superb start to the season for England.

The personal bests came thick and fast on a hot and humid afternoon in Woking. Adam Smith, small of stature but big in personality, led the way with three PBs in the u13 100m (13.9s), Long Jump (4.47m) and Javelin (22.17), setting a standard which saw a total of 28 PBs throughout the boys team.

The Oxford City team journeyed to Swindon for match 3 of the SML this Saturday, managed to find 10 athletes willing to give it their all despite the hot humid conditions. Ashley Johnson kicked off the day with a 2nd place in the long jump, his jump of 6.46m being beaten by a mere 1cm. Tom Downs also achieved a B string 4th with a jump of 5.04m.

Report to follow:-

Please find the OCAC T & F rankings attached  split by Men & Women

Congratulations to the following juniors who achieved PB's in the 1500m at the above competition:-

Beth Hawtin 4:55.49, Lauren Hawtin 4:44.39, Josh Tack 4:32.31