TVH Athletes win two Gold, three Silver and a Bronze at BUCS Athletics

The British Universities & Colleges Sport Championships (BUCS) were held in Bedford over three days from Saturday 5th May to Monday 7th May. Once again it proved a success for TVH athletes as the came away with two gold, three silver medals and a bronze medal, plus quite a number of PB’s and SBs.

One of the highlights was the very high quality triple jump competition. In her final BUCS competition, Lia Stephenson produced her best ever jump, going over 13m for the very first time. Lia’s best hop, step and jump to win the silver medal was a brilliant 13.03m!

Having represented England at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, Amar–Mazigh Aichoun was back in action in Bedford competing for his university. Amar had a fantastic competition by winning two medals, gold in the Ambulatory 200m and silver in the 100m to add to his two silver medals from last year.

TVH’s other medalist sin action were two higher competition athletes that will be competing in our UK Women’s Athletics team this summer, Katie Lambert and Kathryn Woodcock. In her first BUCS competition, Katie came away with an excellent silver medal with a very good throw of 56.28m in the hammer. New member, Kathryn, has recovered well from a recent injury and did very well to come away with a bronze medal in the discus with a throw of 45.04m.

There were many other amazing performances, well done to everyone. Full results are listed below.

100m M Para’ 2nd Silver Amar-Mazigh Aichoun T38 11.27

100m M Semi-Final 2 6th Keano Paris-Samuel 11.20

100m M Heat 1 4th Keano Paris-Samuel 11.12

100m M Heat 9 7th Danny Burrowes 11.91

200m Para’ 1st Gold Amar-Mazigh Aichoun T38 24.81 SB

200m M Final 8th Leroy Cain 22.00 SB

200m M Semi-Final 2 5th Keano Paris-Samuel 22.06 SB; 8th Issac Kitchen-Smith 22.55

200m M Semi-Final 3 3rd Leroy Cain 21.70 SB

200m M Heat 1 2nd Isaac Kitchen-Smith 22.43

200m M Heat 6 2nd Keano Paris-Samuel 22.30

200m M Heat 7 1st Leroy Cain 22.14

400m M Heat 4 8th Max Thorp 55.82 PB

800m W Semi-Final 1 5th Izzy Dye 2:13.39 SB

800m W Semi-Final 3 8th Alex Mundell 2:24.01

800m W Heat 1 2nd Katie Olding 2:16.03 SB; 3rd Izzy Dye 2:16.82

800m W Heat 3 5th Alex Mundell 2:21.51 SB

800m M Heat 1 6th Robert Vallance 2:00.68 SB

1500m M Heat 2 8th Oliver Newton 4:04.64 SB

5000m M Final 6th Petros Surafel 14:08.24 SB; 16th Paulos Surafel 14:34.62 SB

5000m W Final 14th Sarah Johnson 18:49.11 SB

High Jump W Final 9th Ella Widdop-Gray 1.63m

High Jump W QB =1st Ella Widdop-Gray 1.66m SB

Pole Vault W B Final 3rd Shannon Connolly 3.20m

Triple Jump W Final 2nd Silver Lia Stephenson 13.03m PB

Triple Jump W QA 2nd Lia Stephenson 11.97m

Discus W Final 3rd Bronze Kathryn Woodcock 45.04m SB; 5th Sophie Mace 44.37m SB

Discus W QA 3rd Sophie Mace (HCA) 42.66m

Discus W QB 2nd Kathryn Woodcock (HCA) 43.92m

Discus M QA 8th Raul Rinken 38.74m

Hammer W Final 2nd Silver Katie Lambert 56.28m SB

Javelin M Final 4th Jack Swain 58.88m

Javelin M QA 3rd Jack Swain 59.40m SB