Four Double Gold winners at County Championships

The TVH young athletes had a successful weekend at Lee Valley on Saturday and Sunday.

Of the four double winners, the most unexpected was under 15 Harvey Kitchen getting to grips with the Long Jump and producing 5.19 one centimetre off his PB and his 80m Hurdles wins. On Saturday Kosana Weir showed an impressive sprint finish to win both the 800m and the 1500m under 17 Women’s titles. Hannah Hall was also a clear winner in the 100m and the 200m. In the under 15 boys shot Jahreem Charles won with an impressive 11.50 and he followed it up with a 35.34 throw to win the Discus.

Having another successful day, working on her speed by doing the 200m and 300m, Charlotte Buckley finished with a full set of medals: 200m 3^rd; 300m 2^nd; 800m 1^st. Under 13 Zakia Mossi showed great potential when easily winning the 800m and a fine turn of speed against much taller girls when coming 4^th in the 100m. Another unexpected winner was under 13 Basil Rock in the 1500, beating a boy who had achieved better results in the cross country season. Other boys in the u13 race were Alfie Turner who finished 5^th and Charlie Rollo, 8^th.

India Weir had little opposition in the 3000m but the battle came from a 3 metre head wind in the back strait. In 2^nd place Verity Walker also paced well to get silver. Another 3000m silver was won by Oliver Weintraub who earlier had run in the 800m as a warm-up, just behind Nicholas Duer who was 6^th. Also in the 800m with Kosana were Alice Harray who did well to win bronze and Amelia Casey was 5^th. Alice was also 4^th in the 1500m.

The Sunday 1500m races were very exciting to watch. The Under 15 girls race was invaded by two girls from Blackheath and after Ava White had led until the bell they produced blistering last laps and left Ava to finish 3^rd. Fine runs by Melina Duer, 5^th and new member Lily Cheshire, 7^th, Niamh Murphy, 10^th and Capucine Rousset 15^th were given full encouragement by the TVH supporters. Again we had plenty to cheer in the under 13 1500m. Kate Price, age 11 was having her first 1500m race and 6^th place was a brilliant start for her. In 9^th place Olivia Colegrave had a very fast finish and Lily Dafter, 10^th also finished fast. Eva-Marie Weintraub was just behind her in 11^th place and Camille Rousset received our encouragement in 12^th place.

Our other under 17 medals were Toni Ademuwagun who won the HJ and Jaye Haley who was 2^nd in the 300m, Charlotte Cooney-Quinn won silver in the 75m hurdles. She was also 7^th in the 800m and Lily Salkeld was 8^th. Lily just missed a medal when she was 4^th in the Long Jump. Lily Dafter was 5^th in the HJ. Malachi Boyce also just missed a medal when he was 4^th in the u17M 100m.

Under 17

100m   W        1, Hannah Hall            12.23               200m   W        1, Hannah Hall                        25.88

200m   W        6 Jaye Haley               27.55               200m   M        4, Malachi Boyce                    23.68

300m   W        2 Jaye Haley               43.63

800m   M        6 Nicholas Duer 2:14.62; 7 Oliver Weintraub 2:20.36

800m   W        1 Kosana Weir 2:30.49; 3 Alice Harray 2:26.04; 5 Amelia Casey 2:28.06

1500m W        1 Kosana Weir 4:55.87; 4 Alice Harray 4:11.87

3000m M        2 Oliver Weintraub 10:16.07

3000m W        1 India Weir 10:19.31; 2 Verity Walker 11:31.07

HJ       M        1 Toni Ademuwagun 1m.70

Under 15

200m   B         6 Harvey Kitchen       25.12   200m G 3, Charlotte Buckley 27.22; 4 Patricia Timbal 30.43

300m   G         2 Charlotte Buckley    41.80

800m   G         1 Charlotte Buckley 2:21.57; 7 Charlotte Cooney-Quinn 2:40.34; 7 Lily Salkeld 2:40.45

1500m G         3 Ava White 5:00.40; 5 Melina Duer 5:17.90; 7 Lily Cheshire 5:24.34;

10 Niamh Murphy 5:28.01; 15 Capucine Rousset 6:17.28

75mH  G         2 Charlotte Cooney-Quinn 16.35.      80mH B          1 Harvey Kitchen 11.81

LJ        B         1 Harvey Kitchen 5.19                                   G         4 Lily Salkeld 3.70

Shot     B         1 Jahreem Charles 11.50                     Discus B         1 Jahreem Charles 35.34

Under 13

100m   B         8 Jude Gunn 15.95                              G         4 Zakia Mossi 13.81

200m   G         Ht Kate Price 31.79;   Ht Eva-Marie Weintraub 32.27

800m   B         Ht Jude Gunn 2:56.94                                    G         1 Zakia Mossi 2:33.97

1500m B         1 Basil Rock 4:54.67; 5 Alfie Turner 5:15.45; 8 Charlie Rollo 5:42.25

            G         6 Kate Price 5:20.06; 9 Olivia Colegrave 5:52.27; 10 Lily Dafter 6:00.49;

                        11 Eva-Marie Weintraub 6:05.57; 12 Camille Rousset 7:08.49

HJ       G         5 Lily Dafter 1.15