2 athletes - 5 medals

Athletics meeting Trafford Open 04.05.2009

Noah & Jonah Saunders competed in the 2nd Trafford Open of the year and collectively received 5 medals.

Noah Saunders U13s

75m - 11.2s 1st place - Gold
150m - 23.0 s 3rd place - bronze
Discus - 10.7m 3rd place - bronze

Jonah Saunders U11s

Discus - 9.20m 2nd place - Silver & Club Record
Shot - 4.40m 2nd place - Silver & PB

Report for Lancashire Championships

Laura Taylor produced the run of her life to win the Lancashire U 13s hurdles title at the weekend and in doing so smash both the Club and the County Championship record.


Laura had only contested the 70 m Hurdles once before but ran confidently in her heat to finish in second place despite hitting a hurdle to qualify for the final. In the final she knew that she would have to run at least half a second faster than her heat to win and this she did and in the process broke the Championship Record. Laura also was close to her best in both the Long Jump and 100m making the finals in these events as well.


Also in the medals was Gary Priestly who had a solid run to finish 3rd in the Senior 5000m.


Full results :-


Seniors – 5000m Gary Priestly 16.00.1 3rd

Under 17 – 800m Zac Howe 2.14.1, 1500m Zac Howe 4.42.6


Under 13 – 100m Laura Taylor 15.0 7th, 800m Pheobe Howe 2.55.3, 1500m Joseph Howe 5.22.1, 70 m Hurdles Laura Taylor 12.6 1st CBP, Long Jump Laura Taylor 3.88 8th

Mid Lancs Blackpool - 18th April 2009

What an opener and what a turn out on a fine sunny day in Blackpool. 25 athletes competed on the day with 7 debut performances.

Highlights of the competition were the achievements of AAA standard by:-


Hannah Storey U15G 100m 13.6s G4
Beth Miller U15G 100m 13.4s G4
Laura Taylor U13G LJ 3.81m G4
Tassia Dacre U13G Javelin 16.67m G4
Gabrielle Whittle U13G 100m 14.2s G3
Gabrielle Whittle U13G 200m 29.7s G3


There were wins by both U13 Relay Teams with times of:-


62s for the girls team. Lucy Keating, Laura Taylor, Gabrielle Whittle and Sophie Williams.
61.7s for the boys team. Nathan Townsend, Noah Saunders, Isaak Dickinson and James Lovell.


After the total tally of points, Horwich Womens team top the table with 115.5 points and the mens team on 105 pts hold 2nd place.

Thanks for all who helped on the day and I look forward to seeing you in Hyndburn on 30th May.


Suzanne Saunders
Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club
Team Manager

Full results

Junior Fell Championship 2009

Junior Fell Championship Best six results from nine races (Scoring 10 points for first in age group down to 1 point for 10^th place)

May 4^th Wray Caton from Wray Nr Lancaster Village Fair and Scarecrows 11.35a.m 1.5 ml

May 9^th Belmont Winter Hill 12.30 p.m

May 31^st Saddleworth Nr Oldham 11.00 a.m

June 4^th Henderson End Rivington 1.9 ml 6.30 p.m

June 20^th Clougha Pike Quernmore Nr Lancaster 2.00 p.m

June 28^th English Junior Championships Patterdale .75 ml (Five Bonus Points for each Horwich Junior) running 1.00 p.m Country Fair at venue

August 5^th Whittle Pike Rossendale 7.00p.m

August 12^th Piilgrims Cross Helmshore 6.30 p.m

August 22^nd Darwen Gala Junior Race 1.00 p.m

I will do my best to get to most of the races listed but if I don’t make it and you do can you forward a result sheet to me and I will produce a championship sheet as the season progresses

We are still meeting at the Arena on a Monday at 6.30 until 7.30 p.m for track work

Tony & Brenda Hesketh tel 01204 668183 or 07973 302432

Junior Athletes of the Month - April 2009

Congratulations to

Girls Yr 3&4

Isobel Dean

Boys Yr 3&4

Callum Gordon

Girls Yr 5&6

Emily Shelmerdine

Boys Yr 5&6

Luke Anderton

Congratulations to all of you for your hard work and effort in training and the great improvement made over the past few weeks.

Kind regards


Mark Dacre

Mike Houghton

Erika Smallridge

Jack Thomas

Rebecca Keating

Horwich RMI Harriers

Wray Caton

An excellent turn out of twelve juniors running at the Wray Caton Fell Race on Monday. We were rewarded with three winners for the first race in the Horwich Junior Fell Championship.

Phoebe Howe won the U/12, brother Joesph won the U/14 and, not to be outdone, Zach Howe won the u/16. This bodes well for the future, and the next race in the Championship, Belmont Winter Hill on the 9th May.

Tony H.

RESULTS.

Report - Horwich RMI Harriers, Young Athletes League Wigan – 3rd May

Horwich RMI Harriers achieved their greatest team success on the Track to date winning the opening fixture of the Young Athletes League and defeating Wigan Harriers in a close fought battle at their Home Track on Sunday. For a club who has only started specialising in Track and Field over the past few years this win was testament to the dedication of the athletes and coaches involved and demonstrates that Horwich RMI is now one of the premier Track and Field clubs in the North.





Leading the way were the U 13s with two athletes in the girls, Laura Taylor and Gabrielle Whittle winning all three of their events, Laura also claimed a club record in the Hurdles whilst Gabrielle was named Club Athlete of the Match for Horwich RMI Women for her Grade 2 performance over 75 m. In the U 13 boys Noah Saunders and James Lovell ensured clean sweeps over 100m and 200m as did Nathan Townsend and Joseph Howe in the 1500m and Thomas Gillett and Izaak Dickinson in the hurdles. For good measure Joseph also won the High Jump.

In the U 15 girls Beth Miller secured two firsts over 100m and 200m whilst in the boys wins were gained by Matthew Ault in the 800m and Shot, Jacob Thornton over 1500m, Shaun Palmer in the hurdles and Adam Taylor in the Hammer.

For the U 17 women Rebecca Atkinson and Laura Tunstall had double victories over 1500m and 3000m and 1500m and Javelin respectively. Laura Bannister won the 300m Hurdles whilst Becky Buchanan and Tiff Dacre were also in winning mood in the Triple Jump and Hammer. In the U 17 Men Ola Abidojun and Dylan Smith had a double first in the 100m and then Dylan teamed up with Lewis Peacock for a repeat double victory in the Long Jump. Finally Jamie Crompton produced the performance of the day over 1500m steeplechase with a grade 1 performance to win Horwich RMI’s Club Man of the match award in a time which takes him to the top of the UK rankings in this event and follows up on his UK leading performance over 1500m, 3.57.3, at the Northern League on the day before

Full results.