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23-06-2010 : Athletics News : City Charities athletics match
The end of this year’s season for the UL athletics team was once again marked by the City Athletics Meeting, held as usual at the Willesden Sports Centre, refurbished nicely not too long ago. Unfortunate driving and navigation caused the majority of the team to turn up a little late, which meant we had no time to warm up, and this affected our competitors, especially in the earlier events.

This is an interesting fixture, where we compete not against other universities, or even athletic clubs, but teams such as the London Business Houses, the Civil Services and the Metropolitan Police. The prizes are the Financial Times Shield for the men and the Nuffield Trophy for the women. In previous years, UL and the United Hospitals have fronted separate teams, but this year we were a little short on numbers, so everyone competed under UL.

In the men’s competition, Anthony Mah and Alex Maxwell won the 200m and 400m respectively. Sion Whittaker came a valiant 2nd in the 100m. The field events were also successful, with Adrian Stamp and Sion Whittaker winning the long and triple jumps. Chris Raby came 3rd in the shot. For the past few years, either UL or UH has been the runaway winner of the Financial Times Shield, but this year we had to settle for 3rd. We did very well in the events which we did enter, but hopefully we can get more people to enter next year, especially the longer distance track events, where we had no one compete.

The UL women dominated in nearly all events. In the sprints, there were impressive double golds, with Nicola Lawrence winning both the 100m and 200m, whilst Melissa Tabas won the 400m and 800m. Kelly Thorneycroft was unfortunately disqualified from the 3000m for mp3 use, but she ran the fastest time. Jess Dobney came shortly behind in 2nd. Hayley Comer threw for 2nd place in the shot. Together, our ladies won the impressive Nuffield Trophy, nearly scoring more points than the Police and the Civil Services put together.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who took place. It was a good day, more a relaxed social than a serious competition. Hopefully we can get even more people to compete in this and other competitions next year.
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10-03-2010 : Crosscountry News : Teddy Hall Relays
On Wednesday, UL's runners travelled to Oxford to compete in the annual Teddy Hall Relays. The race starts and finishes on the track where Roger Bannister ran the first ever sub-4 minute mile with the rest of the course heading out through some of the university's historic colleges and boathouses.

Unfortunate circumstances meant we weren't able to field a complete girls team. However, with the UL girls present, running for their respective colleges on the day, we could have been seriously in the mix for the team medals with the 7th, 8th and 17th placed individuals in the overall rankings. This demonstrates the impressive strength of team the club could potentially field.

The men's team placed 13th overall. Thanks must go to Sam O'Neill for stepping in when it was needed and he started proceedings with a 19.25 first leg. Jonny Laybourn followed up with a 20.06, I ran third in 20.01 before handing over to Tom Grimley who brought the team home in 20.57. This was a strong performance given that all the team's members ran other legs on the day for their respective colleges.
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06-03-2010 : Athletics News : ULU Indoor Athletics Championships
For the very first time the University of London Athletics Championships were held indoors, at the fantastic Lee Valley Athletics Centre. As well as individual titles, there was the intercollegiate competition for the UL Trophy, and the medical schools competition for the enormous United Hospitals Shield. This year we were especially lucky to have a special guest in John Parlett, after whom the Parlett Pot is named.
The field events kicked off with the high jump; the women’s event was closely contested, eventually won on countback by Magdelena Szuszkiewicz (King’s) from Suzanne Clifton (Imperial), both clearing an excellent 1.55m. The men’s event was won by Chris Jones of Imperial.
The 1500m provided the first track finals of the day, with a high quality field in both the men’s and women’s races. Both provided close finishes, with Scott Bastek (LSE) taking first place from Imperial’s Sam Murphey with a time of 4.15.3. In the women’s race Kat Lovrantova (LSE) pipped Royal Holloway’s Felicity Elliot to the line to win in 4.58.2. There was a very large field in the 3000m, testament to the depth of distance running at the University of London. Scott Bastek completed a double with an emphatic victory in 9.22.1, followed home by Johnny Laybourn of UCL and Alex Macauley of RUMS. The women’s event was won by a considerable margin by Imperial’s Tamsin Cargill.
UCL achieved a fantastic one-two in the men’s 60m, with Adrian Stamp winning in 7.0s from Pete Edmunds (7.1s). Harriet Shurley of Royal Holloway took the women’s title in 8.0s, which she later backed up with a win in the 60m hurdles (9.4s). The women’s 400m was a tightly contested race, won by Laura Carmichael of UCL from Sian Mitchell (ICSM). In the men’s race Aaron Mason (ICSM) cruised to victory by quite some margin.
The 800m was of extra importance this year, with the great John Parlett attending as a special guest. The men’s winner, and winner of the Parlett Pot, was Tom Beedell (2.03.8), with Sam O’Neil taking second place (2.04.7). The women’s race was won by Sara Luck of King’s College. Sara also took the 200m title, followed home by teammate Devon Kennard to make it a King’s one-two. The men’s 200m title went to Ajay Mohite (Imperial Medics) in what was a very exciting blanket finish. The men’s 60m hurdles provided interesting and somewhat terrifying spectating for the crowd, although King’s Andrew Speldewinde showed his class in this event with a clear victory.
A real stand-out performance was Darren March’s excellent 14.33m in the Men’s Triple Jump. The women’s event was won by Kandi Ejoifor (Imperial Medics) with 10.51m, who afterwards went on to win the women’s Long Jump (4.92m). The men’s Long Jump title went to St. George’s Sion Whittaker. The shot was the last field event of the day, won by Sam Coe (Imperial) in the men’s competition and by Lois Haruna (RUMS) in the women’s.
The competition was rounded off in exciting style with the 4x200m relays, both of which were won by the Imperial Medics team. Whilst their victory was comfortable in the women’s race, the men’s was very close with UCL only just beaten into second place.
The final points score gave an emphatic victory for Imperial in the UL Trophy competition, with 403 points, with Queen Mary’s and St. George’s tying for second place (226 points), King’s in fourth (222), UCL in fifth (158), Royal Holloway in sixth (82) and LSE in seventh (68). The United Hospitals Shield went once again to Imperial College School of Medicine who scored a massive 259 points, with St. George’s a valiant second and RUMS in third. Well done to everyone who took part and big thank you to all the helpers and officials who worked incredibly hard throughout the day. UL athletes can next look forward to the British Universities Indoor Championships coming up this weekend in Sheffield.

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